Those actually exist. Some people (about the same percentage of people that are NBA or NFL players) actually make millions playing video games.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Radabaugh" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, September 14, 2015 1:40:32 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] AF24HD Last week we start getting angry twitter posts from a customer but no matching name. About the same time a tower site goes down. Start investigating the outage and find >100Mbps flooding the tower from a DOS attack. Track down the IP/Customer it’s aimed at. Hey, wait a minute, isn’t that the guy complaining on twitter? Oh yeah. Claims to be a professional call of duty player who gets paid. Really? Mark On Sep 14, 2015, at 1:07 PM, Ken Hohhof < [email protected] > wrote: 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
