Gotcha. So why not explain that to them. Maybe they’d be interested in helping to subsidize the tower upgrade?
> On Nov 17, 2019, at 11:23 AM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > > Here’s that barn from Google Earth. > > But the point is they wanted a higher speed plan than we can offer from that > particular tower, which is an old legacy micropop and not fed with licensed > backhaul, the reason being they want to stream tons of video because that’s > what they are used to on fiber at their old house. > > The other 2 towers which are major towers in our network with licensed > backhaul and lots of APs including 450m and both 5 and 3.65 GHz at one of > them, cannot even see their barn. They are close enough, but their ground > elevation is 100 ft lower than surrounding terrain and there are lots of > trees both on their property and on higher ground in between. > > > From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Robert > Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2019 9:56 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] tired of entitled streamers > > Ummm, a roof that is partially falling down, yeah, maybe a brace for a tower > but not something I would hang gear on and worry about how to get power to... > was there an "LOL" missing? > > On 11/17/19 7:49 AM, Matt Hoppes wrote: > How is that totally blocked? I can see the roof and a food portion of it? > > On Nov 17, 2019, at 10:43 AM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > > Actually it’s more the people on low ground with big trees 360 degrees that > don’t have LOS to anything. If they want to build a 100 ft tower, we can get > them service. So you could call it a last mile problem, but not in the sense > you probably mean it. More of a chainsaw problem. > > They just took for granted that Metronet was nice enough to run fiber down > the street where they used to live, but I’ll bet there were more than 2 > houses per mile there. At their new house they have well and septic and a > propane tank, maybe they also need to pay for satellite TV and learn to > program the DVR. The elderly couple they bought the house from probably > didn’t need superfast Internet. > > Example, the photo I’m attaching. Of the telephoto photos from all 3 of our > nearby towers, this is the only thing we could see. Their house is totally > blocked, because they are on low ground surrounded by trees. This is the > peak of an old 40 ft barn with a steep roof that has huge holes that have > fallen in only the top of the barn roof is visible in the photo). > > They can see the southern sky and could get Hughesnet. Or wait for LEO > service. Or for the government to pay for fiber. > > > From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Mike Hammett > Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2019 8:52 AM > To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] tired of entitled streamers > > Where is your pain point? Last mile, middle mile, something else? > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > > Midwest Internet Exchange > > The Brothers WISP > > > > From: "Ken Hohhof" <[email protected]> > To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2019 11:31:12 AM > Subject: [AFMUG] tired of entitled streamers > > Anybody else losing their patience with streamers? > > The people who just moved from somewhere they had gigabit fiber to the middle > of nowhere in a low spot surrounded by tons of trees, and say they stream all > their TV on 3-4 screens at the same time. > > I want to yell at them, if you had affordable blazing fast Internet, and it’s > that important to you, why did you move? And if you had to move, why didn’t > you move to a nice suburb with fiber or at least cable? And why do you have > to stream everything? You could get satellite TV. Yes, it’s expensive, get > over it. You could put up a TV antenna. You could get DVDs by mail. Or if > moving to the country was so important, you could go out on the ATV or horse > or snowmobile, or go hunting, or feed the chickens and mini goats. If > they’re streaming all the time, I have to suspect the reason for moving to > Green Acres was to save on property taxes, and the reason for streaming is to > avoid paying $200/month to DirecTV or DISH. > > It’s gotten so bad, a significant number of prospective customers say they > only want Internet to stream, anything else they can do on their phone. And > when a streaming subscription is sub $10 (or free with Amazon Prime), they’re > thinking Internet is like shipping, it shouldn’t cost more than the item > being delivered. > > I know, “OK boomer”. > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > <barn.jpg> > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > > <barn2.jpg> > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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