I took the survey and a couple of things didn't quite fit for us. On the outages. We have a lot of tower sites and 4 different upstream connections. There is always some kind of trouble somewhere on the network. But the whole network has almost never gone down and never for very long.
Power outages are rare and usually shorter than our batteries will hold us online for. Every few years a longer one hits us but we usually are able to get generator power in place. You also asked a question about how much internet we've sold to our consumers. I assume you are looking for "over subscription" numbers. I wasn't sure how to answer that. We sell a best effort service. Our customers aren't promised anything in excess of what our incoming capacity is. But often my network will deliver more capacity than we even have coming into a community. So the overall customer capacity is every high above what our incoming capacity is. laters, marlon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shaddi Hasan" <sha...@cs.berkeley.edu> To: <r...@ashtonbrooke.com> Cc: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 9:35 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] UC Berkeley study on WISPs I'd be happy to do so; after I've compiled all the results I'll put together a report to send out to WISPA. Thanks! Shaddi On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Brough Turner <broughtur...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Shaddi, > > As an additional inducement, you might offer to send copies of whatever > paper or report comes out of your research. I know I'd be interested in > reading such a report > > Thanks, > > Brough > > > > Brough Turner > > netBlazr Inc. – Free your Broadband! > > Website | Google+ | Twitter | LinkedIn | Facebook | Blog | netBlazr Inc. > > > > > On 5/30/12 12:15 PM, Shaddi Hasan wrote: > > tl;dr: Please take my survey about WISPs! It's quick and anonymous; > you'll help science, and you might win a $100 Amazon gift card! SURVEY > LINK ---> http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu/drupal/wisp-study > > Hello! > > My name is Shaddi, and I'm a graduate student at UC Berkeley in the > TIER research group (http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu). > > We're conducting a research study on the network management practices > and challenges faced by WISPs. Our study's goal is to develop an > understanding of the network management practices and challenges of > WISPs in order to guide research towards making WISPs simpler to > manage. > > Our study has two parts. The first is a survey (which should take > about 5-10 minutes). Every question in our survey is optional, and > best estimates are fine. After completing the survey, you may > volunteer to participate in a completely optional follow-up phone > interview, which should take 30-45 minutes. > > After completing the survey, you may provide your email address to be > entered into a drawing for one of three $100 Amazon.com gift cards. > Those who complete a follow-up interview will be entered into a > separate drawing for one of two additional $100 Amazon.com gift cards. > > Here's what I promise: > 1) This survey is completely anonymous, though if you choose to > provide your name and/or your organization's name, I won't share it > with anyone. > 2) If I publish data from this study, I will only report aggregate > statistics. > 3) I will only share the raw data from the study with my research > advisor, Prof. Eric Brewer. > > Here's the link to the survey: > http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu/drupal/wisp-study > > If you have any questions, feel free to contact me either directly or > on-list. > > Thanks! > Shaddi > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > Wireless@wispa.org > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > > > -- > > Thanks, > > Brough > > > > Brough Turner > > netBlazr Inc. – Free your Broadband! > > Mobile: 617-285-0433 Skype: brough > > netBlazr Inc. | Google+ | Twitter | LinkedIn | Facebook | Blog | Personal > website > > _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list Wireless@wispa.org http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list Wireless@wispa.org http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
