Re: [WISPA] How many of you actually use your own service -- Part 2!

2007-04-10 Thread George Rogato
Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 wrote: 2. If so, how do you charge them for using your services? mks: No, it's free to them. They have to buy their own radio but service is free to them. It's one of the bennies of working here. Other than working for me it's probably the only one :-)

Re: [WISPA] How many of you actually use your own service -- Part 2!

2007-04-10 Thread Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181
- Original Message - From: "Cliff Leboeuf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "WISPA General List" Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 6:31 AM Subject: RE: [WISPA] How many of you actually use your own service -- Part 2! Of you that have emplo

Re: [WISPA] How many of you actually use your own service?

2007-04-10 Thread Tom DeReggi
in our product, and yes we use our own service. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: "Peter R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 5:46 AM Subjec

RE: [WISPA] How many of you actually use your own service -- Part 2!

2007-04-10 Thread Eje Gustafsson
cases they generally use Cox getting 6Mbit service. / Eje > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Cliff Leboeuf > Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 08:31 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; WISPA General List > Subject: RE: [WISPA] How m

Re: [WISPA] How many of you actually use your own service -- Part 2!

2007-04-10 Thread George Rogato
Tuesday, April 10, 2007 5:45 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] How many of you actually use your own service? Most (if not all) of your employees should use your service as well. It's called drinking the kool-aid. FYI... Coke, Pepsi, Miller and Bud require that each employees&#x

RE: [WISPA] How many of you actually use your own service -- Part 2!

2007-04-10 Thread Cliff Leboeuf
bility for the networks maintenance (clerical, sales, etc.) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter R. Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 5:45 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] How many of you actually use your own service? Most (

Re: [WISPA] How many of you actually use your own service?

2007-04-10 Thread Tim Wolfe
;WISPA General List" Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 11:47 AM Subject: [WISPA] How many of you actually use your own service? I always tell my clients that I use my own service and that I will usually know before they do that things are slow or not working because my family will call me MUCH f

Re: [WISPA] How many of you actually use your own service?

2007-04-10 Thread Peter R.
Put it under a family member name or create a new LLC like Qworst Service LLC. David E. Smith wrote: George Rogato wrote: I have wanted to buy charter and qwest connections, just to experience their network and see what the billing looks like. Only problem is, if I was to buy their service

Re: [WISPA] How many of you actually use your own service?

2007-04-10 Thread Peter R.
Most (if not all) of your employees should use your service as well. It's called drinking the kool-aid. FYI... Coke, Pepsi, Miller and Bud require that each employees' household only drink their kool-aid. In NC, a Coke driver was fired for having lunch at a restaurant that only sold Pepsi. In T

Re: [WISPA] How many of you actually use your own service?

2007-04-10 Thread Clint Ricker
le system that will allow me to set up a hotspot anywhere. marlon - Original Message - From: "Ryan Spott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 11:47 AM Subject: [WISPA] How many of you actually use your own service? >I alwa

Re: [WISPA] How many of you actually use your own service?

2007-04-09 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
trailer. I'll make that a mobile system that will allow me to set up a hotspot anywhere. marlon - Original Message - From: "Ryan Spott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 11:47 AM Subject: [WISPA] How many of you a

Re: [WISPA] How many of you actually use your own service?

2007-04-09 Thread Travis Johnson
Yes... I agree... I have a dedicated connection from our main NOC to my house... 20Mbps+... :) However, we also have a CableOne connection at our office for testing connectivity, speed tests, etc. It comes in handy. We also "remote" monitor our main backbone routers using this connection... so

Re: [WISPA] How many of you actually use your own service?

2007-04-09 Thread David E. Smith
George Rogato wrote: I have wanted to buy charter and qwest connections, just to experience their network and see what the billing looks like. Only problem is, if I was to buy their services, they would start telling everyone I use their service and not mine. Having something like this is help

Re: [WISPA] How many of you actually use your own service?

2007-04-09 Thread George Rogato
The most fun I have is using my own connection. I always want to make it better and drool over how fast it is. Sort of like a gear head of broadband But it doesn't really tell me how well the rest of the network is. For that we monitor the network to keep us posted of any issues, we use nagios

Re: [WISPA] How many of you actually use your own service?

2007-04-09 Thread Travis Johnson
Dave - Original Message - From: "Mark Nash" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 5:36 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] How many of you actually use your own service? Agreed. I was the first customer on my service, too...only game in town, now Qw

Re: [WISPA] How many of you actually use your own service?

2007-04-09 Thread Lonnie Nunweiler
We use our own service which supplies just over 250 users spanning 120 km of the Robson Valley in BC. I cannot stress enough how important that is to be able to see problems immediately and not just be taking calls to describe the situation. We are more fortunate than most in that we also write

Re: [WISPA] How many of you actually use your own service?

2007-04-09 Thread David Sovereen
: "WISPA General List" Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 5:36 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] How many of you actually use your own service? Agreed. I was the first customer on my service, too...only game in town, now Qwest and Comcast. I think it is an advantage to experience your own product, ju

Re: [WISPA] How many of you actually use your own service?

2007-04-09 Thread Mark Nash
ral List" Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 2:23 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] How many of you actually use your own service? I was customer number 1 on my network. I still use my own connection to my home. One of my ex-employees used to tell me he liked the fact that I "ate my own dogfood&q

Re: [WISPA] How many of you actually use your own service?

2007-04-09 Thread John Scrivner
I was customer number 1 on my network. I still use my own connection to my home. One of my ex-employees used to tell me he liked the fact that I "ate my own dogfood". I always thought that was a humorous metaphor. I think it is good to use your own service so you can see what the service is li

Re: [WISPA] How many of you actually use your own service?

2007-04-09 Thread Blair Davis
Well, the reason I built my network was to GET an internet connection... Ryan Spott wrote: I always tell my clients that I use my own service and that I will usually know before they do that things are slow or not working because my family will call me MUCH faster than any client. This buil

Re: [WISPA] How many of you actually use your own service?

2007-04-09 Thread Mark Nash
To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 11:47 AM Subject: [WISPA] How many of you actually use your own service? > I always tell my clients that I use my own service and that I will > usually know before they do that things are slow or not working > because

[WISPA] How many of you actually use your own service?

2007-04-09 Thread Ryan Spott
I always tell my clients that I use my own service and that I will usually know before they do that things are slow or not working because my family will call me MUCH faster than any client. This builds trust with my clients. ... Recently I was emailed by another WISP in my area and I noticed