Ummm, a roof that is partially falling down, yeah, maybe a brace for a
tower but not something I would hang gear on and worry about how to get
power to... was there an "LOL" missing?
On 11/17/19 7:49 AM, Matt Hoppes wrote:
How is that totally blocked? I can see the roof and a food portion of it?
On Nov 17, 2019, at 10:43 AM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com
<mailto:af...@kwisp.com>> wrote:
Actually it’s more the people on low ground with big trees 360
degrees that don’t have LOS to anything. If they want to build a 100
ft tower, we can get them service. So you could call it a last mile
problem, but not in the sense you probably mean it. More of a
chainsaw problem.
They just took for granted that Metronet was nice enough to run fiber
down the street where they used to live, but I’ll bet there were more
than 2 houses per mile there. At their new house they have well and
septic and a propane tank, maybe they also need to pay for satellite
TV and learn to program the DVR. The elderly couple they bought the
house from probably didn’t need superfast Internet.
Example, the photo I’m attaching. Of the telephoto photos from all 3
of our nearby towers, this is the only thing we could see. Their
house is totally blocked, because they are on low ground surrounded
by trees. This is the peak of an old 40 ft barn with a steep roof
that has huge holes that have fallen in only the top of the barn roof
is visible in the photo).
They can see the southern sky and could get Hughesnet. Or wait for
LEO service. Or for the government to pay for fiber.
*From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com <mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com>>
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*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] tired of entitled streamers
Where is your pain point? Last mile, middle mile, something else?
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*From: *"Ken Hohhof" <af...@kwisp.com <mailto:af...@kwisp.com>>
*To: *"AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <af@af.afmug.com
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*Sent: *Saturday, November 16, 2019 11:31:12 AM
*Subject: *[AFMUG] tired of entitled streamers
Anybody else losing their patience with streamers?
The people who just moved from somewhere they had gigabit fiber to
the middle of nowhere in a low spot surrounded by tons of trees, and
say they stream all their TV on 3-4 screens at the same time.
I want to yell at them, if you had affordable blazing fast Internet,
and it’s that important to you, why did you move? And if you had to
move, why didn’t you move to a nice suburb with fiber or at least
cable? And why do you have to stream everything? You could get
satellite TV. Yes, it’s expensive, get over it. You could put up a
TV antenna. You could get DVDs by mail. Or if moving to the country
was so important, you could go out on the ATV or horse or snowmobile,
or go hunting, or feed the chickens and mini goats. If they’re
streaming all the time, I have to suspect the reason for moving to
Green Acres was to save on property taxes, and the reason for
streaming is to avoid paying $200/month to DirecTV or DISH.
It’s gotten so bad, a significant number of prospective customers
say they only want Internet to stream, anything else they can do on
their phone. And when a streaming subscription is sub $10 (or free
with Amazon Prime), they’re thinking Internet is like shipping, it
shouldn’t cost more than the item being delivered.
I know, “OK boomer”.
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