On 03/15/2011 08:17 PM, Chris Stradtman wrote: > Hello all, > > This may not be the right place for this query, but if it's not I'm > hoping someone will point me in the correct direction. > > I'm not actually a WISP, however on a regular basis I could use > service from WISPs. > > We do network professional services for tradeshows and other events. > Many times I could really use a wireless backup link to venues that > just have one terrestrial link (or indeed sometimes we could use the > wireless as the primary link). Typically these events need > connectivity for between 2 days and 2 weeks. We're willing to pay for > up to a month's service even if we only need it for 2 days, however > for obvious reasons full year contracts are out of the question. We > typically know months ahead of time where the location is (once and a > great while we will only get 2 weeks warning). Bandwidth demands can > vary between 5M and 1G depending on a lot of factors. > > Typically the information we would get would be something like > > somebuilding > 123 Anywhere Street > sometown, somestate XXXXX > bandwith = 10M burstable to 50M > > for example. > > My question is: Is this an appropriate place to post the requests, or > if not, where could we post requests to get exposure to potentially > interested WISPs?? > > We've found that just doing a web search for WISPs in the area and > repetitive phone calls to yield a close to 0 success rate. I do > understand that not every WISP is going to be interested in this sort > of business. Chris, I would guess that many wisps may be interested, but you'd pay a pretty high price for that month of service. Anyway, Rick Harnish has created a national map of WISPA members (not all wisps on this list are WISPA members). rharn...@wispa.org would be a good contact email for him. I have copied him on this email as well, in case he misses it on the list. He can give you the URL, since I can't find it at the moment.
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