So, you get the complaints about slow speed / latency, but you don't have the means to upgrade the satellite or otherwise improve the service... sounds like you'd need to get paid a large amount of money to deal with that and the hit on your reputation.
On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Mike Hammett via Af <af@afmug.com> wrote: > From what I've read in this thread so far is that you pay per day they're > active and they are your customer. You bill the end user. > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> > <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> > <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> > > ------------------------------ > *From: *"Travis Johnson via Af" <af@afmug.com> > *To: *af@afmug.com > *Sent: *Saturday, October 11, 2014 12:10:45 PM > > *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] Introducing a new revenue opportunity for WISPs. > > Who retains the customer? Are you just getting a monthly referral fee, but > the customer is theirs? If so, you are giving up the only thing of value > for your business... the customer. > > When you sell your business, the only thing that matters is your customer > count... why would you give that away to someone else? Build out your > network and keep the customer. > > Travis > > On 10/10/2014 3:04 PM, Kade Sullivan via Af wrote: > > We've been deploying this and it's been as solid as it gets. We were > against it from the start, but after evaluating it, we love it. > > Out of the 35 or so we have installed, I've had to return to less than 5 > of them, and it's been after a very high winds storm to realign a couple > reflectors. Since then they have redesigned the dish and I have not had to > go back to any install since. > > I was right there with you guys and hated sat internet, but after using > this, it's pretty amazing. Every install I get 20 meg on the speed tests, > and the ping is pretty stable. Around 500ms, but the jitter is not very > bad. They have voip that supposedly works pretty well. Not great for > gamers, but works great for people that just want to browse the web, check > email, use ebay, ect. > > It's been a blessing for us. I pretty much dont install 900mhz > customers anymore. > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 3:50 PM, TJ Trout via Af <af@afmug.com> wrote: > >> Exede is a whole new beast, like 20mbps per sub and the sat capacity is >> like 10TB or something crazy >> >> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Chuck McCown via Af <af@afmug.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Last time I checked, they were out of capacity in rural areas. >>> >>> *From:* Chris Wright via Af <af@afmug.com> >>> *Sent:* Friday, October 10, 2014 1:35 PM >>> *To:* af@afmug.com >>> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Introducing a new revenue opportunity for WISPs. >>> >>> >>> Our converted-from-satellite-internet customers are extremely vocal >>> about their disdain for satellite internet. 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