At least he's honest.

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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com



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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 :)
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
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