Re: [AFMUG] How frequently have you had a price increase?

2014-10-07 Thread Graham McIntire via Af
We're in a JAB area as well. Haven't done a single price increase since we
started in 2006, only increased speeds. Our pricing is pretty close to
JAB's, but we don't have any of their hidden fees and equipment rental fee
garbage. Whatever we're doing seems to work, we get floods of their
customers coming our way.

On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Craig Schmaderer via Af 
wrote:

>  We don’t do any contracts, and I have only done one price increase in 12
> years.  About 4 years ago we increased all plans by 3 dollars.  We just did
> the increase and I think about .5% of people called to complain.  20%
> didn’t notice the change but most of them caught it the next month.   Oh,
> we did send out 1 email to all customers before we did it.  We lost 1
> customer out of 600 when we did it.  My advice is if you are going to do
> it, I think that most people won’t say anything if it’s around 1-3 bucks,
> so do 3, I think 4 would still be ok, but I think 5 bucks is where some
> people will get a little more bitchy.
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>
> *Craig R. Schmaderer*
>
> *CEO | Skywave Wireless, Inc.*
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> *Ph: 402-372-1975 <402-372-1975> | Fax: 402-372-1058 <402-372-1058>*
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> *Direct: 402-372-1052 <402-372-1052>*
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> *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *Paul McCall via Af
> *Sent:* Saturday, October 04, 2014 3:00 PM
> *To:* af@afmug.com
> *Subject:* [AFMUG] How frequently have you had a price increase?
>
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> We are thinking of raising our prices on our residential  basic plan.
> Some of our customers have been on the same priced plan for 7 years (or
> more).  Around $ 45 / month for “up to 5Mbit/1Mbit”.  Probably 25% of those
> customers, we are the only “good” source for Internet.  The rest have
> varying levels of DSL or cable options.
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> Thinking of bumping those customers to $ 49.  Maybe a little more, haven’t
> decided.
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> How do you handle price changes and/or on your customers on “rolling
> contracts” ?
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> Paul
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> Paul McCall, Pres.
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> PDMNet / Florida Broadband
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> 658 Old Dixie Highway
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> Vero Beach, FL 32962
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> 772-564-6800 office
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> 772-473-0352 cell
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> www.pdmnet.com
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> pa...@pdmnet.net
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Re: [AFMUG] Cheapest Battery Backup with email notification alert

2014-10-07 Thread Graham McIntire via Af
I have a Tycon web monitor (
http://tyconpower.com/Support/support_TPDIN-Monitor-WEB.htm ) at a site
where I have this same issue -- I never know when the AC is out until the
batteries die. I wrote a custom nagios check that polls for one of the
voltage levels and will trigger an alert if it drops below a voltage
threshhold.

On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 7:52 AM, David via Af  wrote:

>  LOL Ive done that on a couple of really remote sites.
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> On 10/06/2014 04:27 PM, Dennis Burgess via Af wrote:
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>  Drop a MT 750 off the non battery side and drop a ip on it, .. monitor
> that IP, it goes off but not the rest, guess what you are on battery!
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> �
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> Dennis Burgess, CTO, Link Technologies, Inc.
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> den...@linktechs.net � 314-735-0270 � www.linktechs.net
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> �
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> *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com ] *On
> Behalf Of *Rory Conaway via Af
> *Sent:* Monday, October 06, 2014 3:47 PM
> *To:* af@afmug.com
> *Subject:* [AFMUG] Cheapest Battery Backup with email notification alert
>
> �
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> Have some temporary locations that I can�t secure well.
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> �
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> Rory Conaway
> Triad Wireless
> 4226 S. 37th Street
> Phoenix, Az.� 85040
> 602-426-0542
> r...@triadwireless.net
> www.triadwireless.net
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> �
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