Re: [WISPA] Neighbor Sharing Internet

2011-11-01 Thread MDK
++ -- From: Matt lm7...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 9:56 AM To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Subject: [WISPA] Neighbor Sharing Internet What do you do when you find out that a customer is using a wireless router to share Internet with neighbor and splitting the bill? I am sure

Re: [WISPA] Neighbor Sharing Internet

2011-11-01 Thread Sam Tetherow
++ -- From: Mattlm7...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 9:56 AM To: WISPA General Listwireless@wispa.org Subject: [WISPA] Neighbor Sharing Internet What do you do when you find out that a customer is using a wireless router to share

Re: [WISPA] Neighbor Sharing Internet

2011-11-01 Thread MDK
++ -- From: Mattlm7...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 9:56 AM To: WISPA General Listwireless@wispa.org Subject: [WISPA] Neighbor Sharing Internet What do you do when you find out that a customer is using

Re: [WISPA] Neighbor Sharing Internet

2011-11-01 Thread Justin Wilson
Can you service those other customers? If not, it opens up an opportunity for yet another revenue stream. We call it the network neighborhood. We all have areas which can't be serviced, and the amount of households do not justify putting up your own equipment. This is where you get the

[WISPA] Neighbor Sharing Internet

2011-10-31 Thread Matt
What do you do when you find out that a customer is using a wireless router to share Internet with neighbor and splitting the bill? I am sure there are quite a few doing this but when they out right tell you about it when on a tech call is rare. It is against our TOS. What do others do?

Re: [WISPA] Neighbor Sharing Internet

2011-10-31 Thread Sam Tetherow
Let them know that it is against the TOS of service and if they continue you will disconnect them. On 10/31/11 11:56 AM, Matt wrote: What do you do when you find out that a customer is using a wireless router to share Internet with neighbor and splitting the bill? I am sure there are quite a

Re: [WISPA] Neighbor Sharing Internet

2011-10-31 Thread Cameron Crum
What would you do if you caught someone taking a computer out of your office? On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Sam Tetherow tethe...@shwisp.net wrote: Let them know that it is against the TOS of service and if they continue you will disconnect them. On 10/31/11 11:56 AM, Matt wrote: What

Re: [WISPA] Neighbor Sharing Internet

2011-10-31 Thread Dorn Hetzel
If the combined usage of the two households is well above average, It makes sense to take some kind of action. But, if the combined usage of the two households is in the lower 50%, and as long as you never hear from the non-customer household, and there aren't any problems you have to fix because

Re: [WISPA] Neighbor Sharing Internet

2011-10-31 Thread Chuck Hogg
It's Theft of Service any way you look at it... Tell them to stop doing it or you'll remove the connection. Regards, Chuck On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Dorn Hetzel d...@hetzel.org wrote: If the combined usage of the two households is well above average, It makes sense to take some kind

Re: [WISPA] Neighbor Sharing Internet

2011-10-31 Thread Ben Royer
' household. Thank You, Ben Royer, Operations Supervisor Royell Communications, Inc. -Original Message- From: Chuck Hogg Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 12:27 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Neighbor Sharing Internet It's Theft of Service any way you look at it... Tell them

Re: [WISPA] Neighbor Sharing Internet

2011-10-31 Thread Jim Patient
children's tree! From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Dorn Hetzel Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 12:23 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Neighbor Sharing Internet If the combined usage of the two households is well above average

Re: [WISPA] Neighbor Sharing Internet

2011-10-31 Thread Kevin Sullivan
General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 9:56 AM Subject: [WISPA] Neighbor Sharing Internet What do you do when you find out that a customer is using a wireless router to share Internet with neighbor and splitting the bill? I am sure there are quite a few doing

Re: [WISPA] Neighbor Sharing Internet

2011-10-31 Thread Sam Tetherow
It is more than just usage. Bandwidth is now less than 12% of my monthly operating expense. There is customer service, support infrastructure, tower leases, office lease, billing expense, taxes, regulatory expense, insurance. Even if they are under average on usage, don't call tech support