At least he's honest.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -------------------------------------------------- From: "Forbes Mercy" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2010 1:47 PM To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Subject: [WISPA] Oh this business, tell me again why we love it?! > 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: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
