You guys have it all wrong IMO and should be counting your blessings that $1000 T1's still exist out there. Those are the areas a WISP can excel by offering a better valued service. Once all the $1000 T1's go away so will the little guys...YOU!
Location - Location - Location Absolutely location makes a difference in bandwidth cost regardless of who is providing service. If not, you're saying providing service to your neighbor is the same as providing service to a friend in another county. What about your tower, additional radios, additional infrastructure support costs that you will incur to provide this service to Uncle Jeb's farm in the middle of nowhere? Does it really cost you the same to provide service in both these examples? I think not. There is no benefit being the first in the race to $0.00...enjoy the fact there are hundreds if not thousands of markets across America where WISPs are needed because of the $1000k T1. Best, Brad -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert West Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 11:28 PM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] Akamai / other caching servers You got that right. Location, location, location............ "We'll screw you for all we can get unless you can get it cheaper" kinda BS. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scottie Arnett Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 12:07 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Akamai / other caching servers CHEAP is territorial ----- Original Message ----- From: "Travis Johnson" <[email protected]> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 6:09 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Akamai / other caching servers > Been there, done ALL of that. Not worth the headaches. Bandwidth is > CHEAP now... time is still the most valuable thing in this business... > > I can spend hours messing, tweaking, fighting, adjusting, etc. a cache > proxy, or in that same amount of time I can go install a business > connection for $500/month and pay for ANY additional bandwidth it may > save me. And I can do this every day. :) > > Travis > Microserv > > > On 9/1/2010 2:29 PM, Blake Covarrubias wrote: >> On Sep 1, 2010, at 5:14 AM, Travis Johnson wrote: >> >>> Yes, but the bandwidth savings are not worth the headaches (another box >>> or two to maintain, some sites don't like to be cached, customer support >>> calls, web sites blocking a certain IP address because ALL the traffic >>> from your network is coming from the cache server IP, etc.). >> Its possible to prevent Squid from caching certain sites. Just create an >> ACL to deny caching them. Still too much to maintain? Deny caching all >> content by default, then create an ACL which only allows caching of sites >> you choose. >> >> If you don't want your proxy requests sourced from a single IP then use >> TProxy (http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/Tproxy4). With this your >> proxy can be fully transparent appearing as if the requests were sourced >> directly from a client instead of your Squid box. >> >> Get a Cisco router and redirect traffic to Squid using WCCP. If your >> Squid box dies the router automatically stops redirecting the traffic, >> and your users continue to surf the web normally. >> >> -- >> Blake Covarrubias >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- >> 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! 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