Hi,
This doesn't really surprise me. I had gotten quotes from them for
transport years ago, and they were always 25% higher than Centurylink
for the exact same service.
At one point, we even purchased bandwidth from them, and it was a
disaster. They were one of four providers we had at the time, and the
problem was they would make BGP changes on their network on almost a
daily basis, which would cause us issues with our other providers. We
only kept their service for a year.
Travis
On 4/23/2016 11:11 AM, Jeremy wrote:
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
<mailto: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
<mailto: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
