Hiya Jason, First off, get a caching system installed. One of the oldest (and probably best) is Squid running on a linux system.
Next, how many miles will you have to go to get bandwidth in a bigger/cheaper place? How many hops would it take? lets say that you put towers no further than 15 miles apart so you can run AP's at them too. Better yet, find a barn or something similar every 15ish miles.... Here's why I ask. A $20,000 loan of 5 years should run you about $800 per month. Give or take a little. Next, how many subs do you have? I assume you are getting killed on your usage and need another $t-1 that you can't afford. Take the number of subs, divide by 800 and then raise your prices that much. Lets say you have 150 subs, you'll raise prices by roughly $5.00. Tell the subs that you're doing this to get more bandwidth and make their internet run faster. Nearly none of them will bat an eye. combine that with a Squid box and they'll think they died and went to heaven! OR, if it looks like that $20,000 will get you your own backhaul raise the prices and tell folks you are putting in a backup upstream connection, more bandwidth, whatever. And buck up. We didn't start making money till we'd been doing this for about 7 years. Now that I've been in wireless for 10 our income is growing FAST. Each new customer is a lot more of a net revenue than the old ones were. Heck, I've had to pay taxes for 3 years in a row now! yucko! grin marlon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Wallace" <supp...@azii.net> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 3:09 PM Subject: [WISPA] The Bottom Line > Gang, > > I've been working away, keeping my head down and nose to the > grindstone for a while. Last week, I finally looked up and calculated > what my little WISP is making after 5 years of working on it and working > another job (sometimes 2 jobs, one of which is being a youth pastor) for > 60 to 80 hours per week. > > For the time I put into the WISP, I make somewhere between 5 and 6 > dollars per hour. > > My biggest obstacle (and expense) is bandwidth. I am in the high desert > of SE Arizona, and there are $800 T1's. That's all I've found. > > Is there any one out there that knows something I don't about bandwidth > possibilities? Currently, the margin is just too thin. > > Jason > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
