Re: [WISPA] About Hulu and Netflix and youtube...increaseddata delivery is here to stay.

2009-11-15 Thread MDK
LOL!Never tell that to the guy with the stuff you say doesn't exist and 
doing the things you say can't be done, 'cause he's already got it and using 
it.



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From: Michael Baird m...@tc3net.com
Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 9:24 PM
To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
Subject: Re: [WISPA] About Hulu and Netflix and 
youtube...increaseddatadeliveryis here to stay.

 Ubiquity does not have any licensed 3.65 gear for the US, they have
 XR3/Nano3's but they are for overseas customers.

 They have announced they will be coming out with 3.65/900 mhz airmax
 gear 2nd Quarterish next year.

 Regards
 Michael Baird
 UBNT has fully licensed and approved 3.65 gear.
 




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Re: [WISPA] About Hulu and Netflix and youtube...increaseddata delivery is here to stay.

2009-11-15 Thread Mike Hammett
I'm a big 802.11 fan, but I'm thinking Moto 900 is really the only way to go 
until N hits 900 MHz.  Just can't get enough capacity in the air any other 
way.  That said, I don't own any Moto.


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--
From: jp j...@saucer.midcoast.com
Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 12:29 PM
To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
Subject: Re: [WISPA] About Hulu and Netflix and 
youtube...increaseddatadeliveryis here to stay.

 On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:15:41AM -0800, MDK wrote:
 In some places, we do 900 gear, and that's still a $300+ install cost. 
 Or,
 we eat most of it if the customer will pay a year in advance.   900 is
 reserved to the absolutely nothing else will work locations, as it's 
 such
 a finicky and persnickety beast.Channel changes due to weather or
 temperature or humidity changes, and all sorts of other grief, as well,
 including a lot of SR9 failures.   (use xr9's now)

 You're taking the finicky and persnickety approach to 900.

 We don't have that grief with Alvarion/Trango, and Canopy people
 probably don't have the same grief.

 We still reserve 900 as a last option, as it's slower and more expensive
 than line-of-sight options.




 --
 From: jp j...@saucer.midcoast.com
 Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 9:32 AM
 To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] About Hulu and Netflix and youtube... 
 increaseddatadeliveryis here to stay.

  On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 09:17:58AM -0800, MDK wrote:
  I guess you could call me lucky in that I have access to darn good
  rates.
 
  I'm currently at $60/mbit and working to see if my provider will give 
  me
  a
  break for doubling my commit.
 
  Continued business with you should be important. If you offer to pay 
  the
  same and get more bandwidth, that should work for everyone.
 
  We're also looking at deploying either Ubnt's M based equipment or
  someone
  else's if anyone ever comes up with something workable and affordable, 
  as
  an
  addition to our already deployed network.
 
  I've found the rocket5m to work pretty good with 2' dishes for ptp
  links. The speed is real and it runs well. It does needs a minor work
  around in that the automatic distance setting does not work, you need 
  to
  manually set it, plus 15%. I can get 100mbit no problem with 20mhz
  spectrum.
 
  This is serious praise, as I generally prefer midrange or higher end
  stuff like Alvarion, Trango, and I generally have serious reservations
  about the cheap stuff for honest calculated reasons.
 
  We initially had a bandwidth cost of of about $6/customer, it reached 
  a
  low
  of about $3.3 a year or two after starting, and now it's back up to a
  little
  less than $5 / customer. We've raised our rates 50 cents, cut our
  administrative costs by $.70 for most customers by changing to EFT
  payments,
  and now we're trying to figure out how to keep up with our expected 3X
  use
  of data transfer and still keep our bandwidth costs within our planned
  maximum of $8 over the next 3 years.
 
  I've never raised rates in 15 years and use that as a differentiator
  between us and the standard practices of the duopoly cable/telephone
  competition. (We keep rates a little higher to begin with)
 
  We have some strategies to help with this, one of them is to offer a
  premium
  service to residences that has higher than cable or dsl speeds for 
  around
  $225-250 / mo, and it appears we can deliver this to over 90% of our
  service
  area at a moderate investment.
 
  Also, we're liscensing up big time for deploying 3.65 in a PtMP scheme
  over
  a sizeable area, as well.
 
  About a year ago, my biggest competitor began deploying stuff that 
  looks
  identical to mine, though I know that it's Mikrotik inside instead of
  Star-OS.   It's time to make that big step up and be ahead again for a
  while.
 
 
 
  --
  From: Butch Evans but...@butchevans.com
  Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 8:44 PM
  To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
  Subject: Re: [WISPA] About Hulu and Netflix and youtube... increased 
  data
  delivery is here to stay.
 
   At 03:09 PM 11/12/2009, you wrote:
   I've been watching the thread about it with great interest. 
   Partly
   because I was wondering if anyone was going to try my solution,
   which
   is,
   to attempt to be able to deliver the bandwidth to the people who 
   want
   to
   use
   these, and have them work fine.
   
   Please understand, I'm not talking about a prioritizing scheme, 
   which
   puts
   video ahead of surfing, etc.
  
   This is a good point.  The fact is, that a GOOD bandwidth manager 
   will
   allow traffic to flow as fast as possible.  One thing to bear in 
   mind,
   with regard to my QOS system, is that I don't speed limit ANYTHING. 
   I
   simply prioritize 

Re: [WISPA] About Hulu and Netflix and youtube...increaseddata delivery is here to stay.

2009-11-15 Thread Mike Hammett
XR3s can be used in the US, though you have to get the right card.


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From: Ralph ralphli...@bsrg.org
Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 2:34 PM
To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
Cc: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
Subject: Re: [WISPA] About Hulu and Netflix and 
youtube...increaseddatadeliveryis here to stay.

 What ubnt 3.65 are you saying you tried? Afaik ubnt has 3 gig but not
 on US channels. What country are you in?

 On Nov 13, 2009, at 1:15 PM, MDK rea...@muddyfrogwater.us wrote:



 
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Re: [WISPA] About Hulu and Netflix and youtube...increaseddata delivery is here to stay.

2009-11-15 Thread Mike Hammett
*sigh*

http://www.ubnt.com/wiki/index.php/FCC


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From: Michael Baird m...@tc3net.com
Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 11:24 PM
To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
Subject: Re: [WISPA] About Hulu and Netflix and 
youtube...increaseddatadeliveryis here to stay.

 Ubiquity does not have any licensed 3.65 gear for the US, they have
 XR3/Nano3's but they are for overseas customers.

 They have announced they will be coming out with 3.65/900 mhz airmax
 gear 2nd Quarterish next year.

 Regards
 Michael Baird
 UBNT has fully licensed and approved 3.65 gear.



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 From: Ralph ralphli...@bsrg.org
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 To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
 Cc: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] About Hulu and Netflix and 
 youtube...increaseddatadeliveryis here to stay.


 What ubnt 3.65 are you saying you tried? Afaik ubnt has 3 gig but not
 on US channels. What country are you in?

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Re: [WISPA] About Hulu and Netflix and youtube... increaseddata delivery is here to stay.

2009-11-15 Thread Mike Hammett
According to Faisal's calculations the other day, $0.05/GB works out to $23 
and some change per fully utilized mbit/s.  That's actually pretty poor for 
someone with Amazon's scale.  $0.01/GB should still earn a healthy profit 
for someone like that.


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From: Frank Crawford mogoo...@gmx.com
Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 8:42 PM
To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
Subject: Re: [WISPA] About Hulu and Netflix and youtube... 
increaseddatadeliveryis here to stay.

 I want a piece of the 5 cent a Gig bandwidth, if I don't have to carry
 it in a bucket.

 Josh Luthman wrote:
 Ok where's my stupid stick.  Some of these people need to be knocked out.

 I like this post:

 ...and so begins the war...
 between companies like netflix and ISPs. Both making contrary claims on 
 the
 cost of bandwidth.

 Who knows the price of bandwidth (to the last mile) more - ISPs or 
 Netflix?

 Josh Luthman
 Office: 937-552-2340
 Direct: 937-552-2343
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 Suite 1337
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 --- Albert Einstein


 On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Frank Crawford mogoo...@gmx.com wrote:


 http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/105483

 sa...@michianawireless.com wrote:

 Hmm great comcast plans on launching there own on demand service now...

 

 http://www.cedmagazine.com/News-Comcast-On-Demand-Online-live-next-month-111309.aspx
 

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Re: [WISPA] About Hulu and Netflix and youtube...increaseddata delivery is here to stay.

2009-11-14 Thread Leon D. Zetekoff, NCE
The XR3 has FCC compliance.

* Michael Baird wrote, On 11/14/2009 12:24 AM:
 Ubiquity does not have any licensed 3.65 gear for the US, they have 
 XR3/Nano3's but they are for overseas customers.

 They have announced they will be coming out with 3.65/900 mhz airmax 
 gear 2nd Quarterish next year.

 Regards
 Michael Baird
   
 UBNT has fully licensed and approved 3.65 gear.



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 From: Ralph ralphli...@bsrg.org
 Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 12:34 PM
 To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
 Cc: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] About Hulu and Netflix and 
 youtube...increaseddatadeliveryis here to stay.

   
 
 What ubnt 3.65 are you saying you tried? Afaik ubnt has 3 gig but not
 on US channels. What country are you in?

 On Nov 13, 2009, at 1:15 PM, MDK rea...@muddyfrogwater.us wrote:


   




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Re: [WISPA] About Hulu and Netflix and youtube... increaseddata delivery is here to stay.

2009-11-13 Thread MDK
Well, our rates are 38.50 for 2M/2M  and 25.50 for 300kb/300kb   I think I 
have around 10 of the 300kb customers.

We had considered dropping rates, but the analysis last year that showed the 
data use growth convinced us to do otherwise.

I'm glad to hear the the M stuff works well.Our first deployment is 
going to be something other than backhaul in a critical spot.   We made that 
mistake with UBNT's 3.65 and it turned out to be a disaster that ended up 
costing us something like nearly $4k while we kept our old provider and the 
new provider online and waited for replacement hardware and the chance to 
get to our colo site...We then stuck the 3.65 gear into redundant 
locations, and sure enough, all the original shipment has failed.

The replacements have been fine, however.

I don't think there'll be many takers for a 10m pipe at 175 and a 20m pipe 
at 230.However, if we do sell a handful, it will fully fund our much 
larger commit.I'm pondering the notion of putting a gigabye limit on 
those accounts, however.

We're still a cash based company, as in nothing is financed...   Our current 
offer is that standard broadband installs for $165, which includes 3 months 
of service.   That works out to about a $50 install fee.   But we get the 
majority of our costs to install back immediately.Sometimes it's a 
little over, depending on what equipment we have to use.

In some places, we do 900 gear, and that's still a $300+ install cost.   Or, 
we eat most of it if the customer will pay a year in advance.   900 is 
reserved to the absolutely nothing else will work locations, as it's such 
a finicky and persnickety beast.Channel changes due to weather or 
temperature or humidity changes, and all sorts of other grief, as well, 
including a lot of SR9 failures.   (use xr9's now)

We've been doing this since we started and this is actually the first time 
we've been able to actually catch up, in terms of cash flow.   Probably 
because it's been a slow year.Spring was good, which has never happened 
before, but fall was slow, which again, has bucked the trend.

We don't require a long term commitment, we provide low cost pc help and we 
do to you customer service calls to help with routers and stuff gone wrong 
with your pc.Every customer is entitled to at least one call a year at 
no charge.

Yeah, it's an old fashioned way to do business, but I have no idea what 
churn is, either.

I think they mean the guys that died or moved away.   I've lost less than 15 
customers over the 5.5 years I've been in business, the majority of which 
died or moved.

--
From: jp j...@saucer.midcoast.com
Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 9:32 AM
To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
Subject: Re: [WISPA] About Hulu and Netflix and youtube... 
increaseddatadeliveryis here to stay.

 On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 09:17:58AM -0800, MDK wrote:
 I guess you could call me lucky in that I have access to darn good 
 rates.

 I'm currently at $60/mbit and working to see if my provider will give me 
 a
 break for doubling my commit.

 Continued business with you should be important. If you offer to pay the
 same and get more bandwidth, that should work for everyone.

 We're also looking at deploying either Ubnt's M based equipment or 
 someone
 else's if anyone ever comes up with something workable and affordable, as 
 an
 addition to our already deployed network.

 I've found the rocket5m to work pretty good with 2' dishes for ptp
 links. The speed is real and it runs well. It does needs a minor work
 around in that the automatic distance setting does not work, you need to
 manually set it, plus 15%. I can get 100mbit no problem with 20mhz
 spectrum.

 This is serious praise, as I generally prefer midrange or higher end
 stuff like Alvarion, Trango, and I generally have serious reservations
 about the cheap stuff for honest calculated reasons.

 We initially had a bandwidth cost of of about $6/customer, it reached a 
 low
 of about $3.3 a year or two after starting, and now it's back up to a 
 little
 less than $5 / customer. We've raised our rates 50 cents, cut our
 administrative costs by $.70 for most customers by changing to EFT 
 payments,
 and now we're trying to figure out how to keep up with our expected 3X 
 use
 of data transfer and still keep our bandwidth costs within our planned
 maximum of $8 over the next 3 years.

 I've never raised rates in 15 years and use that as a differentiator
 between us and the standard practices of the duopoly cable/telephone
 competition. (We keep rates a little higher to begin with)

 We have some strategies to help with this, one of them is to offer a 
 premium
 service to residences that has higher than cable or dsl speeds for around
 $225-250 / mo, and it appears we can deliver this to over 90% of our 
 service
 area at a moderate investment.

 Also, we're liscensing up big time for deploying 3.65 in a PtMP scheme 

Re: [WISPA] About Hulu and Netflix and youtube... increaseddata delivery is here to stay.

2009-11-13 Thread jp
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:15:41AM -0800, MDK wrote:
 In some places, we do 900 gear, and that's still a $300+ install cost.   Or, 
 we eat most of it if the customer will pay a year in advance.   900 is 
 reserved to the absolutely nothing else will work locations, as it's such 
 a finicky and persnickety beast.Channel changes due to weather or 
 temperature or humidity changes, and all sorts of other grief, as well, 
 including a lot of SR9 failures.   (use xr9's now)

You're taking the finicky and persnickety approach to 900.

We don't have that grief with Alvarion/Trango, and Canopy people 
probably don't have the same grief.

We still reserve 900 as a last option, as it's slower and more expensive 
than line-of-sight options.



 
 --
 From: jp j...@saucer.midcoast.com
 Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 9:32 AM
 To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] About Hulu and Netflix and youtube... 
 increaseddatadeliveryis here to stay.
 
  On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 09:17:58AM -0800, MDK wrote:
  I guess you could call me lucky in that I have access to darn good 
  rates.
 
  I'm currently at $60/mbit and working to see if my provider will give me 
  a
  break for doubling my commit.
 
  Continued business with you should be important. If you offer to pay the
  same and get more bandwidth, that should work for everyone.
 
  We're also looking at deploying either Ubnt's M based equipment or 
  someone
  else's if anyone ever comes up with something workable and affordable, as 
  an
  addition to our already deployed network.
 
  I've found the rocket5m to work pretty good with 2' dishes for ptp
  links. The speed is real and it runs well. It does needs a minor work
  around in that the automatic distance setting does not work, you need to
  manually set it, plus 15%. I can get 100mbit no problem with 20mhz
  spectrum.
 
  This is serious praise, as I generally prefer midrange or higher end
  stuff like Alvarion, Trango, and I generally have serious reservations
  about the cheap stuff for honest calculated reasons.
 
  We initially had a bandwidth cost of of about $6/customer, it reached a 
  low
  of about $3.3 a year or two after starting, and now it's back up to a 
  little
  less than $5 / customer. We've raised our rates 50 cents, cut our
  administrative costs by $.70 for most customers by changing to EFT 
  payments,
  and now we're trying to figure out how to keep up with our expected 3X 
  use
  of data transfer and still keep our bandwidth costs within our planned
  maximum of $8 over the next 3 years.
 
  I've never raised rates in 15 years and use that as a differentiator
  between us and the standard practices of the duopoly cable/telephone
  competition. (We keep rates a little higher to begin with)
 
  We have some strategies to help with this, one of them is to offer a 
  premium
  service to residences that has higher than cable or dsl speeds for around
  $225-250 / mo, and it appears we can deliver this to over 90% of our 
  service
  area at a moderate investment.
 
  Also, we're liscensing up big time for deploying 3.65 in a PtMP scheme 
  over
  a sizeable area, as well.
 
  About a year ago, my biggest competitor began deploying stuff that looks
  identical to mine, though I know that it's Mikrotik inside instead of
  Star-OS.   It's time to make that big step up and be ahead again for a
  while.
 
 
 
  --
  From: Butch Evans but...@butchevans.com
  Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 8:44 PM
  To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
  Subject: Re: [WISPA] About Hulu and Netflix and youtube... increased data
  delivery is here to stay.
 
   At 03:09 PM 11/12/2009, you wrote:
   I've been watching the thread about it with great interest.Partly
   because I was wondering if anyone was going to try my solution, 
   which
   is,
   to attempt to be able to deliver the bandwidth to the people who want 
   to
   use
   these, and have them work fine.
   
   Please understand, I'm not talking about a prioritizing scheme, which
   puts
   video ahead of surfing, etc.
  
   This is a good point.  The fact is, that a GOOD bandwidth manager will
   allow traffic to flow as fast as possible.  One thing to bear in mind,
   with regard to my QOS system, is that I don't speed limit ANYTHING.  I
   simply prioritize traffic so that the time sensitive stuff gets out
   first.  There is no reason to limit even P2P if there is available
   bandwidth.  Every class that I give that covers QOS, I restate this one
   maxim:  QOS is not simply LIMITING bandwidth.  Rather, QOS is about
   MANAGING the available bandwidth resources.  There is an important
   distinction there that your comments don't take into account.
  
   We're thinking about how we're going to meet the demands of the near
   future... not managing a shortage of bandwidth delivery.
  
   Even with sufficient bandwidth 

Re: [WISPA] About Hulu and Netflix and youtube... increaseddata delivery is here to stay.

2009-11-13 Thread 3-dB Networks
I'd agree... 900MHz is in general a little bit more black magic because it
is non line of site usually... but comparing Canopy 900MHz and SR9/XR9
900MHz seems to be two different worlds.

For equipment, you can do less than $300 per client for Canopy 900MHz...
although AP's will be more than the M-tik AP's

Daniel White
3-dB Networks
http://www.3dbnetworks.com


-Original Message-
From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
Behalf Of jp
Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 11:30 AM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] About Hulu and Netflix and youtube... increaseddata
delivery is here to stay.

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:15:41AM -0800, MDK wrote:
 In some places, we do 900 gear, and that's still a $300+ install cost.
Or, 
 we eat most of it if the customer will pay a year in advance.   900 is 
 reserved to the absolutely nothing else will work locations, as it's
such 
 a finicky and persnickety beast.Channel changes due to weather or 
 temperature or humidity changes, and all sorts of other grief, as well, 
 including a lot of SR9 failures.   (use xr9's now)

You're taking the finicky and persnickety approach to 900.

We don't have that grief with Alvarion/Trango, and Canopy people 
probably don't have the same grief.

We still reserve 900 as a last option, as it's slower and more expensive 
than line-of-sight options.



 
 --
 From: jp j...@saucer.midcoast.com
 Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 9:32 AM
 To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] About Hulu and Netflix and youtube...
increaseddatadeliveryis here to stay.
 
  On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 09:17:58AM -0800, MDK wrote:
  I guess you could call me lucky in that I have access to darn good 
  rates.
 
  I'm currently at $60/mbit and working to see if my provider will give
me 
  a
  break for doubling my commit.
 
  Continued business with you should be important. If you offer to pay the
  same and get more bandwidth, that should work for everyone.
 
  We're also looking at deploying either Ubnt's M based equipment or 
  someone
  else's if anyone ever comes up with something workable and affordable,
as 
  an
  addition to our already deployed network.
 
  I've found the rocket5m to work pretty good with 2' dishes for ptp
  links. The speed is real and it runs well. It does needs a minor work
  around in that the automatic distance setting does not work, you need to
  manually set it, plus 15%. I can get 100mbit no problem with 20mhz
  spectrum.
 
  This is serious praise, as I generally prefer midrange or higher end
  stuff like Alvarion, Trango, and I generally have serious reservations
  about the cheap stuff for honest calculated reasons.
 
  We initially had a bandwidth cost of of about $6/customer, it reached a

  low
  of about $3.3 a year or two after starting, and now it's back up to a 
  little
  less than $5 / customer. We've raised our rates 50 cents, cut our
  administrative costs by $.70 for most customers by changing to EFT 
  payments,
  and now we're trying to figure out how to keep up with our expected 3X 
  use
  of data transfer and still keep our bandwidth costs within our planned
  maximum of $8 over the next 3 years.
 
  I've never raised rates in 15 years and use that as a differentiator
  between us and the standard practices of the duopoly cable/telephone
  competition. (We keep rates a little higher to begin with)
 
  We have some strategies to help with this, one of them is to offer a 
  premium
  service to residences that has higher than cable or dsl speeds for
around
  $225-250 / mo, and it appears we can deliver this to over 90% of our 
  service
  area at a moderate investment.
 
  Also, we're liscensing up big time for deploying 3.65 in a PtMP scheme 
  over
  a sizeable area, as well.
 
  About a year ago, my biggest competitor began deploying stuff that
looks
  identical to mine, though I know that it's Mikrotik inside instead of
  Star-OS.   It's time to make that big step up and be ahead again for a
  while.
 
 
 
  --
  From: Butch Evans but...@butchevans.com
  Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 8:44 PM
  To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
  Subject: Re: [WISPA] About Hulu and Netflix and youtube... increased
data
  delivery is here to stay.
 
   At 03:09 PM 11/12/2009, you wrote:
   I've been watching the thread about it with great interest.
Partly
   because I was wondering if anyone was going to try my solution, 
   which
   is,
   to attempt to be able to deliver the bandwidth to the people who
want 
   to
   use
   these, and have them work fine.
   
   Please understand, I'm not talking about a prioritizing scheme,
which
   puts
   video ahead of surfing, etc.
  
   This is a good point.  The fact is, that a GOOD bandwidth manager
will
   allow traffic to flow as fast as possible.  One thing to bear in
mind,
   with regard to my QOS system, 

Re: [WISPA] About Hulu and Netflix and youtube... increaseddata delivery is here to stay.

2009-11-13 Thread Andy Trimmell
We're currently in major talks also for metered service. It's only about
1-2% that will even be affected but that 1-2% is using about 70-120gb
per month of download data PER customer.

-Original Message-
From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
Behalf Of Mac Dearman
Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 1:45 PM
To: 'WISPA General List'
Subject: Re: [WISPA] About Hulu and Netflix and youtube... increaseddata
delivery is here to stay.

The truth of the matter is this: 

We are all selling bandwidth for a living. The more I sale - the more I
make. I don't want to short anyone and I like the hogs on my service
and
cater to these folks since I make more money per month off these folks.
If
you aren't metering and charging by the gig - - you will miss the boat
since you must actually have an all you can eat buffet for $35.00  - - -
Good luck!


Mac





 -Original Message-
 From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org]
On
 Behalf Of MDK
 Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 3:09 PM
 To: WISPA General List
 Subject: [WISPA] About Hulu and Netflix and youtube... increased data
 delivery is here to stay.
 
 I've been watching the thread about it with great interest.Partly
 because I was wondering if anyone was going to try my solution,
which
 is,
 to attempt to be able to deliver the bandwidth to the people who want
 to use
 these, and have them work fine.
 
 Please understand, I'm not talking about a prioritizing scheme, which
 puts
 video ahead of surfing, etc.
 
 I'm just talking about how we're going to keep up with the future...
 In
 2004 when I started, we used between 1 and and 1.5 gigs of data per
 customer
 per month. The last time I measured it, which was a year ago,  we
 were
 up to more than 7.
 
 We're thinking about how we're going to meet the demands of the near
 future... not managing a shortage of bandwidth delivery.  I'm nowhere
 near
 as leveraged as some of my competitors in terms of oversubscription,
 but
 that's not an excuse.
 
 I'm thinking of planning on a future delivery of 4 to 6 meg per
 customer,
 oversubscribed to around 4 to 6 to one.
 
 What is everyone else planning?
 
 
 
 
 

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Re: [WISPA] About Hulu and Netflix and youtube... increaseddata delivery is here to stay.

2009-11-13 Thread Ralph
What ubnt 3.65 are you saying you tried? Afaik ubnt has 3 gig but not  
on US channels. What country are you in?

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Re: [WISPA] About Hulu and Netflix and youtube... increaseddata delivery is here to stay.

2009-11-13 Thread Josh Luthman
Not sure what US channels are but the xr3 has three channels/sizes within
the US spectrum.

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 What ubnt 3.65 are you saying you tried? Afaik ubnt has 3 gig but not
 on US channels. What country are you in?

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Re: [WISPA] About Hulu and Netflix and youtube... increaseddata delivery is here to stay.

2009-11-13 Thread sales
Hmm great comcast plans on launching there own on demand service now...

http://www.cedmagazine.com/News-Comcast-On-Demand-Online-live-next-month-111309.aspx;

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Re: [WISPA] About Hulu and Netflix and youtube... increaseddata delivery is here to stay.

2009-11-13 Thread Frank Crawford
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/105483

sa...@michianawireless.com wrote:
 Hmm great comcast plans on launching there own on demand service now...

 http://www.cedmagazine.com/News-Comcast-On-Demand-Online-live-next-month-111309.aspx;

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Re: [WISPA] About Hulu and Netflix and youtube... increaseddata delivery is here to stay.

2009-11-13 Thread Josh Luthman
Ok where's my stupid stick.  Some of these people need to be knocked out.

I like this post:

...and so begins the war...
between companies like netflix and ISPs. Both making contrary claims on the
cost of bandwidth.

Who knows the price of bandwidth (to the last mile) more - ISPs or Netflix?

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On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Frank Crawford mogoo...@gmx.com wrote:

 http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/105483

 sa...@michianawireless.com wrote:
  Hmm great comcast plans on launching there own on demand service now...
 
  
 http://www.cedmagazine.com/News-Comcast-On-Demand-Online-live-next-month-111309.aspx
 
 
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Re: [WISPA] About Hulu and Netflix and youtube... increaseddata delivery is here to stay.

2009-11-13 Thread Frank Crawford
I want a piece of the 5 cent a Gig bandwidth, if I don't have to carry 
it in a bucket.

Josh Luthman wrote:
 Ok where's my stupid stick.  Some of these people need to be knocked out.

 I like this post:

 ...and so begins the war...
 between companies like netflix and ISPs. Both making contrary claims on the
 cost of bandwidth.

 Who knows the price of bandwidth (to the last mile) more - ISPs or Netflix?

 Josh Luthman
 Office: 937-552-2340
 Direct: 937-552-2343
 1100 Wayne St
 Suite 1337
 Troy, OH 45373

 The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
 --- Albert Einstein


 On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Frank Crawford mogoo...@gmx.com wrote:

   
 http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/105483

 sa...@michianawireless.com wrote:
 
 Hmm great comcast plans on launching there own on demand service now...

 
   
 http://www.cedmagazine.com/News-Comcast-On-Demand-Online-live-next-month-111309.aspx
 
 
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 Michiana Wireless



   
 
 
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Re: [WISPA] About Hulu and Netflix and youtube...increaseddata delivery is here to stay.

2009-11-13 Thread MDK
UBNT has fully licensed and approved 3.65 gear.



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To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
Cc: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
Subject: Re: [WISPA] About Hulu and Netflix and 
youtube...increaseddatadeliveryis here to stay.

 What ubnt 3.65 are you saying you tried? Afaik ubnt has 3 gig but not
 on US channels. What country are you in?

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Re: [WISPA] About Hulu and Netflix and youtube...increaseddata delivery is here to stay.

2009-11-13 Thread Michael Baird
Ubiquity does not have any licensed 3.65 gear for the US, they have 
XR3/Nano3's but they are for overseas customers.

They have announced they will be coming out with 3.65/900 mhz airmax 
gear 2nd Quarterish next year.

Regards
Michael Baird
 UBNT has fully licensed and approved 3.65 gear.



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