RMU fixed wireless is largely dead. I tried picking it up when they had a crisis outage, but we didn't get anything settled.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Hohhof" <af...@kwisp.com> To: af@afmug.com Sent: Monday, October 31, 2016 11:45:29 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Ammon City fiber Municipal utilities are probably best off deploying fiber because it fits their model of infrastructure that you can install and forget for 20+ years. Something I think they tend to miss when they install fixed wireless is the network upgrade you have to do every 3-5 years. A lot of us are probably on our 3rd or 4th forklift upgrade at some towers. http://www.rmu.net/divisions/communications/services/wireless-broadband-internet Hmmmm, I can leave dialup in the dust, if I can just find a computer running Windows 95/98/ME/XP. -----Original Message----- From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Chuck McCown Sent: Monday, October 31, 2016 11:27 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Ammon City fiber No doubt all the muni-wifi projects failed. -----Original Message----- From: fiber...@mail.com Sent: Monday, October 31, 2016 10:23 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Ammon City fiber Lewis Bergman wrote: > I rail against these types of projects not because they typically > fail, which they do, That's the second time you make that claim. Could you please back this up with some sources? Could you also shine some light on those federal bailout programs you say are paying for all the failures? > Let the free market system take care of everything else. How about them that the free market does not serve? You make a coherent argument about municipalities focusing on core services, but it does not address them that are left out in the cold. Jared
