That being said -- most of the e-mails I get involved circuits I'm on,
but thanks to rings we don't go down.
On 9/6/19 12:33 PM, Mike Hammett wrote:
Imagine if you sent every customer e-mails about every outage every time
on your network.
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*From: *"Matt Hoppes" <mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net>
*To: *"Adam Moffett" <dmmoff...@gmail.com>, "AnimalFarm Microwave Users
Group" <af@af.afmug.com>
*Sent: *Friday, September 6, 2019 11:31:24 AM
*Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] Fiber
That's what everyone keeps saying.... but my fiber provider sends me
e-mails every other week about pole fires taking out fiber, trees taking
out fiber, wind taking out fiber, etc.
On 9/6/19 12:30 PM, Adam Moffett wrote:
> When it's broken it can be expensive, but frankly it doesn't break that
> often.
> -Adam
>
> On 9/6/2019 12:29 PM, Matt Hoppes wrote:
>> Except the contractor gets paid every time the fiber gets broken.
>>
>> On 9/6/19 12:18 PM, Adam Moffett wrote:
>>> If you've only got 2 or 3 people *total* then you'd be relying on
>>> contractors a lot and basically just being an owner/GC. Your capex
>>> will be higher than with in-house labor, but console yourself with
>>> the idea that the contractor only gets paid once, and you get paid
>>> for 50 years.
>>>
>>> -Adam
>>>
>>>
>>> On 9/6/2019 8:30 AM, Matt Hoppes wrote:
>>>> People ask why I don’t do fiber. The following story pretty much
>>>> sums it up. For those doing fiber, how do you do it with a 2 or 3
>>>> man team? We’d be run ragged. How do you stay sain?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Someone was logging up in Ogdensburg near Joe Hill and took a tree
>>>> down which took another tree down which took another tree down which
>>>> snapped off the side arms of the utility pole taking out the
>>>> powerlines which burned the fiber underneath it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Last night about 11 o’clock I drove up there on my way home and
>>>> found the Crown Castle guys trying to figure out where the fiber
>>>> damage was, I talk to them for a moment and they were like yeah it’s
>>>> like 2500 feet away from here but we can’t figure out where the
>>>> fiber goes, I said follow me, so they got over there and started work.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Zito was already over there fixing their fiber with about 10 guys
>>>> and five trucks.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I just spun back up there and as of this morning they (both
>>>> companies) are still trying to figure out why the fiber is not
working.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Add to this the utility easement is on the side of a mountain and
>>>> not right beside the road. These guys had entire teams and haven’t
>>>> fixed 1,500ft of fiber in 12 hours plus had to wait nearly 7hrs to
>>>> even access the local due to power lines down.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>
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