Re: [WISPA] Service Offerings, By Speed or All You Can Eat? Was: Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-25 Thread Travis Johnson
the worst with this. Answering the phone is the next issue of course... :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Tom DeReggi Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 11:04 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Service Offerings,By Speed or

RE: [WISPA] Service Offerings, By Speed or All You Can Eat? Was: Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-25 Thread Jeff Broadwick
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom DeReggi Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 11:04 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Service Offerings,By Speed or All You Can Eat? Was: Advanced Bandwidth Management >> Charter cable is doing 10 meg down/1 meg up in some markets for l

Re: [WISPA] Service Offerings, By Speed or All You Can Eat? Was: Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-25 Thread Tom DeReggi
Charter cable is doing 10 meg down/1 meg up in some markets for like $99 per month, how can you compete with that? Don't sell bandwidth! I tell all my customers, bandwidth is cheap, and thats just a small percentage of the costs in a Broadband bundle. What I'm really selling them is a Stan

Re: [WISPA] Service Offerings, By Speed or All You Can Eat? Was: Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-25 Thread RickG
bject: Re: [WISPA] Service Offerings, By Speed or All You Can Eat? Was: Advanced Bandwidth Management > >No... I don't think that model works... because Joe Surfer sees how fast >this last movie downloaded and decides to grab 3 more while he's at it... >The mode

Re: [WISPA] Service Offerings, By Speed or All You Can Eat? Was: Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-25 Thread Travis Johnson
A] Service Offerings, By Speed or All You Can Eat? Was: Advanced Bandwidth Management No... I don't think that model works... because Joe Surfer sees how fast this last movie downloaded and decides to grab 3 more while he's at it... The model of "the customer will use what they ar

Re: [WISPA] Service Offerings, By Speed or All You Can Eat? Was: Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-25 Thread KyWiFi LLC
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Re: [WISPA] Service Offerings, By Speed or All You Can Eat? Was: Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-25 Thread John J. Thomas
some markets for like $99 per month, how can you compete with that? John >-Original Message- >From: Travis Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 07:59 PM >To: 'WISPA General List' >Subject: Re: [WISPA] Service Offerings, By

Re: [WISPA] Service Offerings, By Speed or All You Can Eat? Was: Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-24 Thread John Scrivner
I have a funny story to share which is along these lines. My son is in college now at U of I in a fraternity. (President of his Frat I might add!) When he was in high school he would use our wireless connection at home to download using Bit Torrent and other P2P packages. At that time we had n

Re: [WISPA] Service Offerings, By Speed or All You Can Eat? Was: Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-24 Thread RickG
Ya, thats my gut feeling and why I havent done it. Thanks! On 1/24/07, Travis Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: No... I don't think that model works... because Joe Surfer sees how fast this last movie downloaded and decides to grab 3 more while he's at it... The model of "the customer will use

Re: [WISPA] Service Offerings, By Speed or All You Can Eat? Was: Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-24 Thread Travis Johnson
No... I don't think that model works... because Joe Surfer sees how fast this last movie downloaded and decides to grab 3 more while he's at it... The model of "the customer will use what they are going to use and then get off" is not true... imagine if Joe Surfer figures out he can download the

RE: [WISPA] Service Offerings, By Speed or All You Can Eat? Was: Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-24 Thread Brad Belton
Holy cow! Stepped away from the 'puter for a bit and see that everyone's beating up on poor 'ol Matt for making a perfectly correct statement! No surprise as to some of the people commenting here that largely promote "best effort" gear, but others that have commented should know better. Rick, yo