Josh, I love it when they are running a full fledged business but made sure they only paid for the bottom speed and saying they were residential so they could avoid the business rate. Then they call every day if the tower misses more than five pings in an hour and always complain about the speed saying, "you're going to put me out of business". When you offer to upgrade their service to business rate and speed it's a quick, "I'm not paying some artificial price to punish me for doing a few business things at home", riiiiight. What ever happened to 'the cost of running a business?'. Gamers are even more fun; they live four hops and 20 miles out of town and call if their ping times go below 20ms, "hey I'm in a battle with some guys in Seattle and I need to be as fast as them". My answer, 'move to Seattle they have FIOS there, this is rural wireless booooy!' My favorite call of all time? A tower went down and a guy called yelling, "I can't get my porn!" :-)
Forbes ps: Oh I just found the downside of the cheap price of Ubiquiti, my competitor can now afford more AP's and promptly rented the tower right next to mine and pointed a high gain 90 degree antenna right at my tower. Love the ethics in this business, if you can't get em with good service, destroy their signal with interference. This is the same competitor who used to run 24 db 2.4GHZ grids every 10 degrees all with amps just to cause havoc, how do we get any sleep or keep from crossing the line and stoop to his low level? On 3/27/2010 9:05 AM, Josh Luthman wrote: > Don't we all know that feeling... > > I remember climbing 300' when it was below freezing, 30mph winds and > the snow was more wet then anything. Before I climbed one of the > customers said "You're killing my business". Mind you he has had no > issues outside of this instance, 6 months since we bought the network. > Half way up I just kept reciting that laughing at how ridiculous the > situation was - I'm way above the ground freezing my ass off to fix > just a few customers and they were that grateful. Gotta love it :) > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
