Was it Gabe Gomez that turned you down initially?
I am guessing they don’t like WISPS because they compete with their owners.
From: Jeremy
Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2016 11:21 AM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Hotel Wifi
They tried to hand us off to CentraCom, who has agreements in place to resell
on their fiber network. However, they weren't willing to do it at the same
price that we initially discussed with Syringa (before they found out that we
were a WISP). They even offered the bandwidth to CentraCom at a lower rate
than what they offered it to us. Apparently they felt that the risk was too
high doing business with a WISP so they would rather take less money from
someone else and let them do business with us. Either way, a default on the
agreement would lead to a loss of that income for their business. The entire
experience was a run-around waste of time. I feel that they acted extremely
unprofessional. Maybe we can approach them again when they change their
company policies. Meanwhile, we will continue buying bandwidth from their
competitors.
On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Mike Hammett <af...@ics-il.net> wrote:
Maybe get it through Indatel instead?
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
Midwest Internet Exchange
The Brothers WISP
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From: "Jeremy" <jeremysmi...@gmail.com>
To: af@afmug.com
Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2016 12:11:07 PM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Hotel Wifi
I spoke with their CEO, and they refuse to do business with WISPs. They said
that "they had been burned by a few of them". I went to the top looking for
answers. They still service businesses, and surely they "have been burned by a
few of them" as well. He said that the failure rate was a bit higher with
WISPs than businesses in general so they swore them off completely. I offered
to be a personal guarantor and my credit score is around 840. They still
wouldn't do business with me. After negotiating with the CEO I got them to
come to an agreement, $30K NRC up front. There is already a conduit to the
hand hole in front of my building where their fiber is. Needless to say, we
passed on the offer. Syringa doesn't seem to understand how business
agreements work. When they fail, there is recourse available. I wish they
would change their policies and do business with WISPs. I'd be happy to open
up my books to them and show them how wildly successful we are. They have
three redundant paths out of my valley and would be a great addition to our
network. They also have fiber sitting ten feet from like three of our towers.
Too bad....
On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 9:53 PM, Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuh...@gmail.com> wrote:
As a dark fiber operator (and WDM/transport provider for ISPs) Syringa is a
pretty cool idea. It was founded by a bunch of small copper dialtone LECs (non
Bell system) that each have a tiny portion of the Idaho market. Idaho has a lot
of small telephone companies the size of Beehive or smaller that serve a few
thousand houses.
Starting 15+ years ago, none of them individually had enough money to run
dark fiber around Idaho, but together they could do it...
http://www.syringanetworks.net/about/history/
http://www.syringanetworks.net/resources/our_network/
On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 8:12 PM, Travis Johnson <t...@ida.net> wrote:
Hi,
I'm staying at a hotel in Sun Valley, Idaho this weekend. This is the
speedtest results from their free WiFi. Pretty damn impressive considering this
is running the test on a six year old laptop with a basic Wifi chipset.
Travis
