That competitor is in for a rude awakening, customers whose VoIP calls drop and Roku video freezes consider even a momentary outage or degradation "Unacceptable!" (to quote Beldar): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YUE7LAFrOM
This is not the Internet of a few years ago, where people didn't even notice short outages. -----Original Message----- From: Seth Mattinen Sent: Monday, September 14, 2015 11:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] AF24HD On 9/14/15 09:42, Ken Hohhof wrote: > That’s just crazy, unless you can tolerate outages whenever it rains. > Whatever number you use for rain fade per mile, let’s say 10 dB/mile at > 24 GHz, multiply by 12. No way you are going to get 120 dB fade > margin. The only way would be if your weather is such that it never > rains over more than a very small area at the same time. There's a competitor in my area with outages or degraded service as normal ops (it's a feature not a bug) and their customers largely seem to accept it. ~Seth
