Re: [WISPA] Employee Incentives

2008-06-06 Thread Brian Rohrbacher
I replied to the members list. Cameron Kilton wrote: Does anybody out there practice this method of encouragement? If so, what are some of the ways you reward your staff? Examples: Installs per week, how many accounts you sold in a month, attendance, etc.. Thanks, Cameron Midcoast Internet

Re: [WISPA] Employee Incentives

2008-06-06 Thread George Rogato
I told my new installer that I hired 4+ years ago that for each 100 new subs we turned on, I'd give him a $1.00 per hour raise. Cameron Kilton wrote: Does anybody out there practice this method of encouragement? If so, what are some of the ways you reward your staff? Examples: Installs per

[WISPA] MMT9000 and Police/Fire Data deployment

2008-06-06 Thread Jeremie Chism
I have a contract to provide data to 185 police cars and 24 fire trucks in our city. We have tested the Vecima LMS8000 series with MMT9000 radios and they have seemed to work. I would like input from anyone who has used this unit or has suggestions about it or other units. They were wanting

[WISPA] FCC chief's free broadband plan delayed

2008-06-06 Thread George Rogato
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080606/ap_on_hi_te/free_broadband WASHINGTON - A plan by the nation's top telecommunications regulator to provide free wireless high-speed Internet service hit a snag this week over concerns about possible interference and a proposed censoring feature that upset

[WISPA] Customer Service

2008-06-06 Thread Patrick Nix Jr.
I'm just curious to get some opinions, how far do you troubleshoot over the phone with a customer before truck roll? Case in point we have a cell that is about 1:45 min from our office one way, we go out yesterday to troubleshoot a connection problem with a single subscriber and after running

Re: [WISPA] Employee Incentives

2008-06-06 Thread Jim Patient
We give our installers one month package rate bonus for any new customers they sell. We also do this for door hanger kids or customers that refer clients. The installer will hang a few door hangers in the area they are in if they have time between installs. If they sign up a $99/mth sub they

Re: [WISPA] MMT9000 and Police/Fire Data deployment

2008-06-06 Thread Butch Evans
On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Jeremie Chism wrote: I have a contract to provide data to 185 police cars and 24 fire trucks in our city. We have tested the Vecima LMS8000 series with MMT9000 radios and they have seemed to work. I would like input from anyone who has used this unit or has suggestions

[WISPA] Maxrad sectors

2008-06-06 Thread Mike Hammett
What is the opinion on the Maxrad WISPerformance Series of sectors? It can't be hard to beat PacWireless, but how far is it from an MTI or RadioWaves? -- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com

Re: [WISPA] Employee Incentives

2008-06-06 Thread George Rogato
Are you using a full time employee to do your installs? We don't hand out extra money, thats what our goal is, make extra money. So naturally after working hard to get that extra money, we keep it :) Around here, we call that extra money Profit :P George Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181

Re: [WISPA] Customer Service

2008-06-06 Thread George Rogato
Not to be long on the subject. I went to a training class many years ago. The theme for the entire weekend: Throwing money at a problem is not the answer. Patrick Nix Jr. wrote: I'm just curious to get some opinions, how far do you troubleshoot over the phone with a customer before truck

[WISPA] JSI LTI Address Change

2008-06-06 Thread Jim Patient
We have a new physical (shipping) address. Please update your records. Both companies. Jeffco SOHO, Inc. http://jeffcosoho.com Link Technologies, Inc. http://linktechs.net New Add'y: 100 Patient Way House Springs, MO, 63051 The billing address stays the same at: PO BX 96 House Springs, MO,

Re: [WISPA] MMT9000 and Police/Fire Data deployment (Butch Evans)

2008-06-06 Thread Jeremie Chism
Only 30-35 police cars are active at any one time. Our plan is 5 sites with 4 90 antennas and a total of 20 LMS8000 radios with total theoretical throughput of 160mb/s(I don't anticipate getting that). They plan to use this network to access data as you suspected like records, plus they will

Re: [WISPA] MMT9000 and Police/Fire Data deployment (Butch Evans)

2008-06-06 Thread Joe Miller
With using this type of radio, what kind of GPS will work with this? Or is this a 3rd party type GPS system? I'm trying to come up with a similar system close to where I'm at and can use any info on this type setup. Best Regards. --- On Fri, 6/6/08, Jeremie Chism [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [WISPA] MMT9000 and Police/Fire Data deployment

2008-06-06 Thread David Hulsebus
I have used WaveRider / Vecima for 6 years and other than reliability of radios probably near 20 % failure rate they work as promised, mobile systems included. Now that 20 % failure includes customers that spilled a pepsi on it, a few lightning strikes nearby that took out ethernet ports, and

Re: [WISPA] Employee Incentives

2008-06-06 Thread Chad Halsted
Sounds like the best idea I've heard. I'd be bustin' my ass to get those next 100 installs done!! Not to mention the wife incentive factor. lol Work harder, get paid more! Simple, yet solid thinking! -Chad On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 8:22 AM, George Rogato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I told my new

[WISPA] Tranzeo Sectors

2008-06-06 Thread Mike Hammett
I heard that Tranzeo sectors are made by MTI. Any truth to this? Are they a completely different antenna, or just a rebadge of one of the MTI's? I'm seeing an antenna by each around $325 - $350... 90*, Horizontal, 5 GHz, 16ish dBi. The MTI would be 3 week shipping from Israel, the Tranzeo

Re: [WISPA] FCC chief's free broadband plan delayed

2008-06-06 Thread reader
General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 7:24 AM Subject: [WISPA] FCC chief's free broadband plan delayed http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080606/ap_on_hi_te/free_broadband WASHINGTON - A plan by the nation's top telecommunications regulator to provide free wireless high-speed

[WISPA] Canopy PTP400 software?

2008-06-06 Thread Jon Langeler
Not sure what Moto's deal with this is but I can't seem to find my most recently purchased PTP ESN #'s and thus download the latest version. If anyone could save me the hassle(and what I swear is a 24hr delayed response on there website!!) and email it offlist that would be greatly

Re: [WISPA] Tranzeo Sectors

2008-06-06 Thread Kurt Fankhauser
I got some 2.4ghz HPOL 120 degree sectors from Tranzeo and with the pattern on these things I'm getting like 180 degree coverage. They seem to be built pretty rugged. A lot better than the hyperlink sector I just bought. Kurt Fankhauser WAVELINC P.O. Box 126 Bucyrus, OH 44820 419-562-6405