Re: [AFMUG] Hotel Wifi

2016-04-24 Thread TJ Burbank
Chuck McCown" <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: Scott went somewhere else about 6 months or a year ago. *From:* Jeremy <jeremysmi...@gmail.com> *Sent:* Saturday, April 23, 2016 9:18 PM *To:* af@afmug.com *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Hotel Wifi No, it was Scott. Sounds like we dodged a bullet

Re: [AFMUG] Hotel Wifi

2016-04-23 Thread Chuck McCown
Scott went somewhere else about 6 months or a year ago. From: Jeremy Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2016 9:18 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Hotel Wifi No, it was Scott. Sounds like we dodged a bullet anyway. I feel better about the rejection after hearing that story Travis

Re: [AFMUG] Hotel Wifi

2016-04-23 Thread Jeremy
they compete with their > owners. > > *From:* Jeremy <jeremysmi...@gmail.com> > *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 o

Re: [AFMUG] Hotel Wifi

2016-04-23 Thread Travis Johnson
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

Re: [AFMUG] Hotel Wifi

2016-04-23 Thread chuck
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

Re: [AFMUG] Hotel Wifi

2016-04-23 Thread Josh Luthman
lt;https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> >> <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> >> The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> >> <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> >> >> >> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7

Re: [AFMUG] Hotel Wifi

2016-04-23 Thread Jeremy
xchange> > <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> > The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> > > > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > ------ > *From: *&

Re: [AFMUG] Hotel Wifi

2016-04-23 Thread Mike Hammett
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&quo

Re: [AFMUG] Hotel Wifi

2016-04-23 Thread Jeremy
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

Re: [AFMUG] Hotel Wifi

2016-04-21 Thread Eric Kuhnke
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

Re: [AFMUG] Hotel Wifi

2016-04-21 Thread Jaime Solorza
Doesnt Larsen cover that area?