If every user used 5Gig up and 5 gigs down
- - that would just be a good idle speed J
.
I’m over geared, over hyped, over
worked and under paid in N. Louisiana.
The truth is I only have 2 businesses that
use over 5 gigs per month and on occasions I have a P2P user that will exceed
that amount. Most of the time it’s a new user and they go crazy getting
music..etc When the new wears off they all settle down to between .5gigs
and 2 gig transfer total for the month. I do have quite a few businesses
that we sell dedicated bandwidth to and we don’t count their data transfer
- - although it is shamefully little ;+) when I do look.
Mac
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Travis Johnson
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 1:56
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Subject: Re: [WISPA] Fw: Wireless
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Mac,
So if every user on your network did 5Gig of transfer per month, your network
would be OK? ;)
Travis
Microserv
Mac Dearman wrote:
This
very thing is why I implemented a 5Gig rule up/down aggregate for the month
written in my TOS with a $10.00 per Gig over the limit charge. There is
no way possible to keep someone from sharing (although that too is prohibited
by my TOS) their connection today with NAT and if you catch them what are
you going to do? Prosecute them? Kick a monthly paying sub off your network? I
found that just writing that little “gotcha” in my TOS works best
for us. Bring on the $5.00 routers!! I sale bandwidth for a living and
the more I sell the more I make. I am the last one in the world who thinks we
ought to limit the amount of up/download data transfer!!
Anyone know where I can in line to buy
about a thousand of those $5.00 routers? I’ll bet I can resell them for
$80.00 <very evil grin & conniving look>
Mac
Yeah, I saw that...everyone should take a
good look at their Terms of Service...
Jeff
Broadwick
ImageStream
800-813-5123 x106
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
On Behalf Of Marlon K. Schafer
(509) 982-2181
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 11:09
AM
To: [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [WISPA] Fw: Wireless In Washington
For those that still think the all
you can eat option is a good one :-)
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This guy needs to get a job from
FON… http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,200989,00.html
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Wi-Fi
Company to Sell Routers for Five Dollars
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Monday, June 26, 2006
LONDON
— FON, a Spanish start-up on an ambitious crusade to turn
home Wi-Fi
connections into wireless "hotspots" for nearby users, is set to
unveil on Monday a plan to hand out 1 million wireless routers
for just $5 apiece.
FON, which aims to
create a network of home users and small businesses to resell wireless
access to passersby, said on Sunday it will subsidize $60 Cisco (CSCO)
Linksys or Buffalo
routers for $5 in the United States or 5 euros
in Europe.
Routers are small
boxes users connect to cable or telephone Internet connections to broadcast
wireless signals to nearby devices, inside a home, business or surrounding
neighborhood.
Juergen Urbanski,
North American general manager, said FON, which in February raised $21.7
million from backers, including the founders of Google (GOOG)
and Skype,
is looking to turn the brand-name equipment into what it calls "social
routers."
The goal of the
Madrid-based company is to build block-by-block networks of shared wireless
connections around the globe, turning local Wi-Fi users into an army of
"foneros" — its term for people who share wireless access.
As the company's name
implies, FON aims to provide wireless Internet access not just to computer
users but also for mobile phones and the latest portable gaming devices as
they roam.
(Story
continues below)
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From: Kevin Owen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 11:05
AM
To: 'Mike Hall'
Subject: FW: Wireless In Washington
Hiya,
Comments below.
Marlon
(509)
982-2181
Equipment sales
(408) 907-6910
(Vonage)
Consulting services
42846865
(icq)
And I run my own wisp!
64.146.146.12 (net meeting)
www.odessaoffice.com/wireless
www.odessaoffice.com/marlon/cam
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From: webmaster
To: omimo
Cc: Marlon Schafer
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 3:27 PM
Subject: Re: Wireless In Washington
I have forwarded your inquiry for reply.
Mary
----- Original Message -----
From: omimo
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 2:49 PM
Subject: Wireless In Washington
Hi,
I was really encouraged by your experiences starting up a wireless network
service.
I'm about to move to a house near Uniontown WA.
mks: Cool. You'll like it
there.
I am sad because I have to give up my connection that I 'borrow' from my
landlord thanks to a small repeater sitting on his kitchen windowsill and a
converted steel salad bowl with my D-Link USB unit attached. Range: 150 yards
with 56Mbps to his home network.
mks: Grin
I was so proud of that hack.
mks: Big grin!
My new place is about 8km from one of the local providers antenna's and 13km
from anther one. The provider is First Step Internet out of Moscow, ID.
mks: Coolness. I know those
guys. Good people. Great network. I've cc'd Kevin from fsr
for you.
They have a 1.5 mbps connection for $35/month but want me to use their Trango
5.3/5.8GHz antenna and a modem of their own spec that they want to sell to me.
In addition to a $600 setup fee.
mks: Hmmmm. You sure that's
the going deal for a residential connection? Sounds like a business one
to me. Still pretty cheap though, have you ever paid for a connection to
the telco? My last t-1 had a $500 install fee plus $500 per month and a
36 month contract. I just upgraded to a 10 meg fiber link that whacked my
$5000.00 in install fees! sigh
There has got to be a way I can make this happen (and share it with my
neighbors hopefully) in spite of the tech support spiel "we usually don't
allow personal equipment to connect due to variable quality of consumer
products".
mks: That's almost exactly the same
language we use. We'd also not let you "share" with your
neighbors. That's really not sharing, it's stealing. When you buy a
connection it's for YOUR use not everyone elses. We pay for your access
based on what you do, if you do too far above the average (as you would when
"sharing") we lose money on the account. Lose too much money
and no one will get service.
mks: The way that *we* manage that
is to charge a per bit fee. You get a gig of data with your monthly
account. After that you have to buy the extra gigs you use. And
we're very expensive for overages. We do not allow you to run servers
either. Even on the business accounts, if you want to host email, put it
on our servers, then it's our fault when it gets hacked into and generates an
extra couple of thousand in upstream bills on month!
The house has a couple of new, and currently redundant, dishnetwork dishes with
three feedhorns, couldn't I use these somehow?
mks: Nope. I guess you
*could* but it would be more trouble than it would be worth. In the end
it would cost you more money than doing it right.
I sure hope you have some advice.
mks: I sure hope you liked my advice!
