Re: [WISPA] Competitor at -40

2009-10-14 Thread Mike
There was discussion regarding this system a few days ago. It has absolutely wrecked havoc on 900 MHz in many rural areas. It really is gee whiz technology however/ At 07:41 PM 10/13/2009, you wrote: >How many of you have run across the John Deere RTK GPS Repeaters? those are >really fun too.

Re: [WISPA] billable fee schedule

2009-10-14 Thread Mike
Actually, since they are a cellular company and can have unlimited bandwidth, they are faster right now. That will change as they build out. The customer money stays local instead of going out of town when they "shop" with me. I write a weekly column for the paper so am well known in the area

Re: [WISPA] Competitor at -40

2009-10-14 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
Heya Jeremy, Use a known gain antenna (I don't know what the ns2 is), get to where you are looking right into the main beam of their antenna exactly 1 mile (or two or whatever, but an exact distance in even miles) away. Send me the rssi value and I'll run the calcs to figure out what their eir

Re: [WISPA] customer information

2009-10-14 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
I've run into that problem before. I explained to them that the average cell site does 10s of thousands of dollars per month in revenue. Yet my average tower only does a thousand or two. I also took the time to go to a city council meeting and answer any questions about my income and net rev

Re: [WISPA] billable fee schedule

2009-10-14 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
- Original Message - From: "Mike" To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 8:25 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] billable fee schedule > Sorry Marlon; you'll have to show me. Not only is there no burial > depth requirement for limited energy circuits, such as telephone, and >

Re: [WISPA] Competitor at -40

2009-10-14 Thread Robert West
I'm installing an AP soon on a grain leg that has one of those on it. What type of problems have you seen with them? First one I ever have come across, had to ask farmer boy what the heck it was. Bob- -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.or

Re: [WISPA] billable fee schedule

2009-10-14 Thread Robert West
We're in Southern Ohio and I've always put low voltage cable just under the sod. Time Warner does the same, they use a small slitter that slits the sod and runs the cable just under it for running to homes with underground utilities. We have no gophers, just ground hogs but still haven't had any

Re: [WISPA] billable fee schedule

2009-10-14 Thread RickG
It sounds like you are a "character"! I'm glad your marketing and service efforts are paying off. I actually have had much the same results. Good work and Thanks! -RickG On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 7:25 AM, Mike wrote: > Actually, since they are a cellular company and can have unlimited > bandwidth,

Re: [WISPA] billable fee schedule

2009-10-14 Thread RickG
OK, back to my original question: Does anyone have a fee schedule for their installer/repair subcontractors? I'm trying to cover every possible scenario. Here is what I've put together: Subcontractor Fee Schedule $75 – Standard installation of KyWiFi customer premises equipment according to manufa

Re: [WISPA] billable fee schedule

2009-10-14 Thread Blair Davis
Unless you are paying mileage or providing a vehicle, some of those #'s are too low. When I was a contractor, I would not drive to a site for less than $15 within a 25 mile radius of the shop. RickG wrote: OK, back to my original question: Does anyone have a fee schedule for their installe

Re: [WISPA] FreeRadius / Accounting data

2009-10-14 Thread Nick Huanca
http://projects.asn.pl/ara/ Not the "best" product out there and a little outdated but worked for us in the past. --Nick On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Mark McElvy wrote: > I am running FreeRadius and FreeSide usinf PPPoE. Freeside currently > does not give me the reports I need for my acco

Re: [WISPA] billable fee schedule

2009-10-14 Thread John Vogel
I think most of the items you are proposing to pay less than $30 dollars for are too cheap. I wouldn't want to do those things for those amounts. Especially if I have to drive to the customer's home to do them. John RickG wrote: > OK, back to my original question: Does anyone have a fee schedule

Re: [WISPA] billable fee schedule

2009-10-14 Thread RickG
Some of the rates I posted assumed the installer was already on site for an installation. I'm just need to consider trouble calls so I revised the schedule below. I used to give $25 per service call but the problem I ran into was that they would go out to a customer's find nothing or perhaps someth