Good point. And more options also. Rory
From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mathew Howard Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2017 12:59 PM To: af <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Considerations for upgrading passed SAF Lumina link The other side of it is, that over the last few years radios have gotten a lot faster and cheaper. If you buy something that's just good enough for a few years, by the time you need to upgrade, there's a good chance you'll be able to get something a lot better than what's available now, and for less money. On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 2:32 PM, Mike Hammett <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: If the build was more speculative or grew way more than anticipated, buying the expensive radio first would have been risky. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions<http://www.ics-il.com/> [http://www.ics-il.com/images/fbicon.png]<https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL>[http://www.ics-il.com/images/googleicon.png]<https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb>[http://www.ics-il.com/images/linkedinicon.png]<https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions>[http://www.ics-il.com/images/twittericon.png]<https://twitter.com/ICSIL> Midwest Internet Exchange<http://www.midwest-ix.com/> [http://www.ics-il.com/images/fbicon.png]<https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix>[http://www.ics-il.com/images/linkedinicon.png]<https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange>[http://www.ics-il.com/images/twittericon.png]<https://twitter.com/mdwestix> The Brothers WISP<http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> [http://www.ics-il.com/images/fbicon.png]<https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp>[http://www.ics-il.com/images/youtubeicon.png] <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> ________________________________ From: "Seth Mattinen" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2017 2:26:04 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Considerations for upgrading passed SAF Lumina link On 10/28/17 09:23, Mike Hammett wrote: > Rory has an excellent point. If the cheap radio get the revenue flowing, > you can go back a year or two later and put in the radio you really wanted. I do it the opposite way: buy once, not twice or three times. That way I save time and money over the long term instead of constantly having to upgrade.
