People never cease to amaze me... I get bored playing call of duty
myself... I can't imagine paying to watch someone else pay.

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Mike Hammett <af...@ics-il.net> wrote:

> Madison Square Garden was recently sold out floor to ceiling for video
> game tournaments where people got paid big money to play.
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> Mike Hammett
> Intelligent Computing Solutions
> http://www.ics-il.com
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> *From: *"Mathew Howard" <mhoward...@gmail.com>
> *To: *"af" <af@afmug.com>
> *Sent: *Monday, September 14, 2015 1:46:25 PM
> *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] AF24HD
>
> How, and why does one get paid for playing Call of duty?
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> On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Mark Radabaugh <m...@amplex.net> wrote:
>
>> Last week we start getting angry twitter posts from a customer but no
>> matching name.
>>
>> About the same time a tower site goes down.   Start investigating the
>> outage and find >100Mbps flooding the tower from a DOS attack.   Track down
>> the IP/Customer it’s aimed at.  Hey, wait a minute, isn’t that the guy
>> complaining on twitter?   Oh yeah.   Claims to be a professional call of
>> duty player who gets paid.   Really?
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> On Sep 14, 2015, at 1:07 PM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote:
>>
>> That competitor is in for a rude awakening, customers whose VoIP calls
>> drop and Roku video freezes consider even a momentary outage or degradation
>> "Unacceptable!" (to quote Beldar):
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YUE7LAFrOM
>>
>> This is not the Internet of a few years ago, where people didn't even
>> notice short outages.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Seth Mattinen
>> Sent: Monday, September 14, 2015 11:58 AM
>> To: af@afmug.com
>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] AF24HD
>>
>> On 9/14/15 09:42, Ken Hohhof wrote:
>> > That’s just crazy, unless you can tolerate outages whenever it rains.
>> > Whatever number you use for rain fade per mile, let’s say 10 dB/mile at
>> > 24 GHz, multiply by 12.  No way you are going to get 120 dB fade
>> > margin.  The only way would be if your weather is such that it never
>> > rains over more than a very small area at the same time.
>>
>>
>> There's a competitor in my area with outages or degraded service as
>> normal ops (it's a feature not a bug) and their customers largely seem
>> to accept it.
>>
>> ~Seth
>>
>>
>>
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