[WISPA] reduced signals

2008-10-12 Thread Mark McElvy
I have a site running a MT BH and AP. The BH is a RB411/sr5/rootennae and the AP is a RB433/XR2/9db omni w/ v3.10. This setup has been up and running about 6 months. Last Tuesday we had thunder storms run through and I woke uo tp a dead tower. Turned out that the BH power supply died, great, easy

Re: [WISPA] reduced signals

2008-10-12 Thread Mac Dearman
Mark, It sounds like water in the coax/jumper or your pigtail (from radio to N fitting) is bad. If you reused the pigtail and it was hit by lightening/static discharge it may be fried as well. I have seen times where they weren't seated well on the radio and cause them to act up too. While you

Re: [WISPA] any got this Tranzeo antenna in stock?

2008-10-12 Thread Mike Hammett
Tranzeo said it's a rebranded MTI. DoubleRadius said they order it from their PacWireless distributor. I didn't gamble and just went with a true MTI. -- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -- From: Ralph

Re: [WISPA] OT Network Question

2008-10-12 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
Um, we need more info than that Bob. What are you wondering about? - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 10:51 AM Subject: [WISPA] OT Network Question I am not a net guy so here is probably a quick easy

[WISPA] OT. Network Question

2008-10-12 Thread lakeland
It was just brought to my attention that I omitted an important piece of my question last night. Let's try it again... If two switches on the same network HAVE THE SAME IP, will it effect network traffc??? Bob Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

Re: [WISPA] OT. Network Question

2008-10-12 Thread Travis Johnson
No. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was just brought to my attention that I omitted an important piece of my question last night. Let's try it again... If two switches on the same network HAVE THE SAME IP, will it effect network traffc??? Bob Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

[WISPA] referral programs

2008-10-12 Thread Travis Johnson
Hi, I'd like to hear about any referral programs that anyone has implemented that seem to be working well. I heard about one a few months ago that I thought was very interesting: For every customer that signs up and is installed, the referring customer gets a month free. The real deal is

Re: [WISPA] referral programs

2008-10-12 Thread Tom DeReggi
One potential scare I'd see is... What would be the reason for need reaching or keeping 5 referrals? Would it because some of the 5 cancelled before 5 was reached? What if the customer kept referring more than 5, but kept not reaching it? You'd have to disclose to the referring client that your

Re: [WISPA] referral programs

2008-10-12 Thread Travis Johnson
Tom, The whole idea of the program is to make it attractive enough that the local media picks up on it, but that 99% of the people won't really ever achieve it. If you only give a year for 5 referrals, basically you are giving them 2 months for each referral, which is pretty much nothing

Re: [WISPA] referral programs

2008-10-12 Thread Tom DeReggi
Travis, I get your point about giving away something valuable enough, to get attention, and get people to get to work to start quickly referring. I agree, giving lifetime service away in trade for 5x referrals is a winner. Giving away 20% of capacity or revenue is something we already justify

Re: [WISPA] referral programs

2008-10-12 Thread RickG
Travis, I thought it was you who once told me never give anything away for free. I've been sticking to that as best as possible with my company and whenever I stray from it I get bit each time. I find that the only people who truly appreciate our service are the ones who pay. In fact, the more

Re: [WISPA] referral programs

2008-10-12 Thread Travis Johnson
Rick, It probably was me that said "never give anything away for free"... because then there is no value in it to the customer. However, I think there is value in this type of a referral system. You are basically having all your existing customers act as salespeople. And really you are