Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo

2010-01-29 Thread John Thomas
the cost we pay. -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of John Thomas Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 9:44 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo We buy ours through a reseller, and they have quoted us

Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo

2010-01-29 Thread John Thomas
Kinda sounds like a WISP, eh? As long as they aren't overselling it to the point quality suffers, who cares? We had to work at just doing a speed test on our 100 meg connection as most of the servers couldn't do 100 meg up and 100 meg down. We finally were able to do a ftp and get 95 meg/95

Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo

2010-01-29 Thread Glenn Kelley
The best way to test bandwidth is to use simple tools like iPerf. Techs should load iPerf on their laptops as well. Iperf was developed by NLANR/DAST as a modern alternative for measuring maximum TCP and UDP bandwidth performance. Iperf allows the tuning of various parameters and UDP

Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo

2010-01-29 Thread Mike Hammett
of my rambling... - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -- From: John Thomas jtho...@quarnet.com Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 4:59 PM To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Subject: Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth

Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo

2010-01-27 Thread Andy Trimmell
To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo We buy ours through a reseller, and they have quoted us $1000/month for Gig at Hurricane Electric in Fremont CA. John Mike Hammett wrote: I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if GigE connections were under $1 now. I know a couple

Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo

2010-01-27 Thread Mike Hammett
General List wireless@wispa.org Subject: Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo Resellers are a little bit more expensive actually and all of them don't have fiber already ran. It's ridiculous the cost we pay. -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org

Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo

2010-01-27 Thread jp
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 09:42:09AM -0600, Mike Hammett wrote: As Matt Larsen has been talking about, he built out 125 miles of backhaul to connect his network back to civilization. Others have even further to go. - Mike Hammett Looks like we'd have to go across three states to get

Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo

2010-01-27 Thread Mike Hammett
.) - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -- From: jp j...@saucer.midcoast.com Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 9:56 AM To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Subject: Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo On Wed, Jan 27

Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo

2010-01-27 Thread Justin Wilson
Plus they want to oversell this cheap bandwidth. They don¹t want you to max out that Gig circuit. Allows them to oversell their bandwidth that much more. -- John, You are correct, Gig is starting to go for $1-$2 per mb. Not only from Hurricaine, although Hurricaine is clearly a

Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo

2010-01-27 Thread Tom DeReggi
@wispa.org Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 10:56 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 09:42:09AM -0600, Mike Hammett wrote: As Matt Larsen has been talking about, he built out 125 miles of backhaul to connect his network back to civilization. Others have even

Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo

2010-01-27 Thread RickG
...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 1:26 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo Did you mean $9/meg or $0.90/meg? $9/meg isn't much to write home about. ;-) - Mike Hammett Intelligent

Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo

2010-01-26 Thread Justin Wilson
­ Hosting ­ Consulting ­ Tower Climbing From: RickG rgunder...@gmail.com Reply-To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:33:16 -0500 To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Subject: Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo I hear $1500 for a gig! On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:39 PM

Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo

2010-01-26 Thread Mike Hammett
General List wireless@wispa.org; RickG rgunder...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo Yup. If you are at an on-net building you can get it even cheaper. One client is buying for $9 a meg in bulk in Chicago. Their biggest hurdle are peering agreements with the big boys. The ATt¹s

Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo

2010-01-26 Thread Andy Trimmell
] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 1:26 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo Did you mean $9/meg or $0.90/meg? $9/meg isn't much to write home about. ;-) - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com

Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo

2010-01-26 Thread Josh Luthman
Of Mike Hammett Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 1:26 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo Did you mean $9/meg or $0.90/meg? $9/meg isn't much to write home about. ;-) - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com

Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo

2010-01-26 Thread Brad Belton
Luthman Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 2:22 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo Location, location, location... 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

Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo

2010-01-26 Thread Mike Hammett
@wispa.org Subject: Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo 50Mbit for $450 a month isn't bad for a pipe to ATT. We're paying 10x that from ATT right now. $0.90? come on give me a break. If that's possible then we should sue ATT for highway robbery. -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org

Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo

2010-01-26 Thread Philip Dorr
To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Subject: Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo 50Mbit for $450 a month isn't bad for a pipe to ATT. We're paying 10x that from ATT right now. $0.90? come on give me a break. If that's possible then we should sue ATT for highway robbery. -Original

Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo

2010-01-26 Thread John Thomas
should sue ATT for highway robbery. -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 1:26 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo Did you mean $9/meg or $0.90

Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo

2010-01-26 Thread John Thomas
-- From: Andy Trimmell atrimm...@precisionds.com Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 2:20 PM To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Subject: Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo 50Mbit for $450 a month isn't bad for a pipe to ATT. We're paying 10x that from ATT right now

Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo

2010-01-26 Thread Tom DeReggi
into the colo. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: John Thomas jtho...@quarnet.com To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 9:44 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo We buy ours through

Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo

2010-01-25 Thread Justin Wilson
I have seen a network feeding 80 megs of cogent for about 3 months now. No complaints for the users. But this network also has a BGP feed from Tier1. We have servers on a cogent link in downtown Chicago. No problems with them and there are 200+ web-sites hosted on those boxes. --

Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo

2010-01-25 Thread Jon Auer
2nd that. Cogent in Wisconsin has been solid for us for the past two years or so. I have not heard bad things about their network out of Illinois either. Some people have problems with them in other markets. On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Justin Wilson j...@mtin.net wrote:    I have seen a

Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo

2010-01-25 Thread Bret Clark
Had more trouble with our ATT link then our Cogent link...going on two years and only 1 unexpected outage...pays to have BGP! But we do connect to them wirelessly using a Ceragon that runs right to a Colo...so nice to bypass the ILEC's ridiculous prices for fiber!!! Bret Jon Auer wrote:

Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo

2010-01-25 Thread RickG
I hear $1500 for a gig! On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Mike Hammett wispawirel...@ics-il.netwrote: I wish I was a bit closer to a POP to take advantage of it, but my Cogent rep informed me that through the end of the month, they have a promo going $400/100 megabit 1 year contract. Only