So you're saying you need to put a shovel to chop up the snakes in the work truck too? Geez, this things getting full =)
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 "When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth." --- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:42 AM, RickG <rgunder...@gmail.com> wrote: > I had a similar incident with the previous wisp I owned in Palm Beach: > Customer called with outage so I went to their location to find a > crane lifting a large load in front of their radio. Worse yet, the > crew was taking lunch and left it right in the way. > My favorite outage happened just the other day. One of my towers went > completely out. This tower has always been sensitive to power outages > during electrical storms but there were none in the area. The > equipment is located in a shed so I went in, first eyeballing the > shelf where the equipment is which had no lights - so next I looked > down at the power plug and saw a rather large snake wrapped around > the cord which was now unplugged! > -RickG > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 7:53 PM, Lists<li...@stlbroadband.com> wrote: > > LOL. > > I had several support calls today. I tried to trouble shoot, but not the > > usual problems. > > My Dude Server started pinging away today and sending messages to my > > Blackberry around noon. Customers were going down left and right. No > > storms in the area, the AP was up and running, no obvious problems. So > we > > jumped into the jeep and headed for the highrise that this AP was on > which > > several businesses connect to. All the while customers connecting and > > disconnecting. > > Upon approaching the end of our 57 mile drive we see the highrise looming > in > > the background with a 200'+ crane standing in front of our radio lifting > an > > AC off the roof. I was relieved, but a bit upset with the property > > management. > > Just goes to show you, every support call can be the unexpected. > > > > Victoria Proffer > > CEO > > StLouisBroadband.com > > ShowMeBroadband.com > > 314.974.5600 > > SBA Certified WOSB > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On > > Behalf Of Rick Harnish > > Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 6:31 PM > > To: 'WISPA General List' > > Subject: [WISPA] Crazy Weather > > > > This isn't weather related, but we had an interesting tech call the other > > day. > > > > > > > > The customer said he had Dark Internet, the technician, curious to why he > > called it Dark Internet asked what he meant. He said he only has > Internet > > when it is dark out. Well, this call was made during the day and > obviously > > his Internet was not working at the time. The technician could not see > the > > client radio from the AP so he had him check the power supply and POE. > The > > customer said it was plugged into the wall but there was no light on the > > POE. While troubleshooting, the customer said I can't see what I am > doing, > > I need to turn on the lights. Miraculously, when he turned on the light > > switch, the POE light came on and his Internet service started working > > again. > > > > > > > > Imagine that! > > > > > > > > Rick Harnish > > > > > > > > From: motorola-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:motorola-boun...@wispa.org] On > > Behalf Of Ken Hohhof > > Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 6:27 PM > > To: Motorola Canopy User Group > > Subject: Re: [Motorola II] Crazy Weather > > > > > > > > This has been the wettest spring in memory here west of Chicago. Some of > > the farmers still have not been able to work their fields because they > are > > too wet. That makes them over a month late to plant, it's getting to > where > > it will be too late to plant anything in those fields. Not the usual > crops > > of field or soybeans. They are starting to talk sweet corn or limas. I > > guess they could always plant hay. Our biggest business customer is a > > fertilizer dealer and they don't know day to day what things will be > like, > > if it rains the farmers don't spread fertilizer, if it is dry for a > couple > > days then they can't handle all the orders. They do all the custom > > fertilizer mixing via VPN to a central application server. I was just > out > > to a location where their PIX501 stopped talking to the Canopy SM, I > finally > > had to put a switch inbetween. Not a negotiation problem, just plain > > strange. > > > > > > > > Unfortunately lightning and tornados are not limited to spring. The last > > few years we have been hit in June/July, even a really bad lightning > storm > > at Christmas time. We have had tornados and microbursts that have picked > up > > silos and dropped them on the opposite side of a barn. > > > > > > > > The storm a couple days ago I had one customer router blow, and one old > > Tranzeo radio. > > > > > > > > I also had a customer call today because they went to Florida for the > month > > of March, they have been back since the beginning of April, and their > > Internet has not worked since then. I actually left a phone message for > > them in April, they are an older couple anb honestly I was worried they > had > > died or something. Oddly, another Tranzeo customer. All they had to do > was > > power cycle the radio. But waiting 2.5 months before calling? > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: Steve D <mailto:bigd...@gmail.com> > > > > To: Motorola Canopy <mailto:motor...@wispa.org> User Group > > > > Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 5:10 PM > > > > Subject: Re: [Motorola II] Crazy Weather > > > > > > > > As I was reading this very thread, the first big boom of thunder of the > year > > shook my office! > > > > -Steve D > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Dylan Bouterse <dy...@corp.power1.com> > > wrote: > > > > That sounds like an average afternoon here in Central Florida. We dread > "the > > season". Fortunately today has been rather calm..so far. > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida#Climate > > > > "Florida's nickname is the "Sunshine State", but severe weather is a > common > > occurrence in the state. Central Florida is known as the lightning > capital > > of the United States, as it experiences more lightning strikes than > anywhere > > else in the country." > > > > L > > > > Dylan > > > > From: motorola-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:motorola-boun...@wispa.org] On > > Behalf Of Doug Clark > > Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 5:52 PM > > To: Motorola Canopy User Group > > Subject: Re: [Motorola II] Crazy Weather > > > > > > > > > > Its been thunderstorms and massive rain here, I have been fielding non > stop > > calls > > > > with blown routers and ethernet cards :o( > > > > > > > > -------Original Message------- > > > > > > > > From: Matt Larsen - Lists <mailto:li...@manageisp.com> > > > > Date: 6/10/2009 3:44:24 PM > > > > To: WISPA General List <mailto:wireless@wispa.org> ; Motorola Canopy > > <mailto:motor...@wispa.org> User Group; w...@part-15.org > > > > Subject: [Motorola II] Crazy Weather > > > > > > > > Storm #2 rolling in today.... > > > > > > > > We've already had three tornado warnings and at least one on the ground > > > > within three miles of my house. Amazingly enough - nothing is down > > > > other than one site that had a brief power outage. New 9 mile 19ghz > > > > link on 2' dishes faded from -48 to -70 for a while and then came back > > > > within a few minutes. Seems like we have had rain and lightning almost > > > > every night for the last two weeks. I can't help but feel that we are > > > > very fortunate that we have only had to replace a couple of radio units > > > > since it all started. > > > > > > > > This is the most rain we have gotten here in probably ten years or so. > > > > Anyone else seeing weird weather so far this year? > > > > > > > > Matt Larsen > > > > vistabeam.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > > Version: 8.5.339 / Virus Database: 270.12.60/2166 - Release Date: > 06/10/09 > > 05:52:00 > > > > > > > > > > -- > > -Steve D > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > > Version: 8.5.339 / Virus Database: 270.12.61/2167 - Release Date: > 06/10/09 > > 18:30:00 > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ---- > > WISPA Wants You! 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