RE: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

2006-01-09 Thread G.Villarini
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Wu Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 10:49 PM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: RE: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices Hey Charles ... long time no see ... any winog on 2006 ? Hi Gino Been Extremely Busy: http://www.winog.com/austin_2006/kaili_wu.jpg Now

Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

2005-12-14 Thread Mac Dearman
Brian, I have a site that been up for a couple years here http://www.wisp-coop.com/ Take a look see and I will forward you the admin password if you want to use it Mac Dearman Maximum Access, LLC. www.inetsouth.com www.radioresponse.org (Katrina relief efforts) 318-728-8600 - Rayville

Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

2005-12-14 Thread Mac Dearman
I guess I should have read the complete thread before making my last post :-) Mac Dearman Maximum Access, LLC. www.inetsouth.com www.radioresponse.org (Katrina relief efforts) 318-728-8600 - Rayville 318-728-9600 318-376-2562 - cell Mac Dearman wrote: Brian, I have a site that been up

RE: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

2005-12-13 Thread Don Renner
office 812-936-2006fax 812-521-1876cell -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Rohrbacher Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 12:10 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices I'll make some calls

RE: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

2005-12-13 Thread Ron Wallace
Now there's an optimistic view, thanks Charles. But sometimes true, Original message Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 20:25:36 -0600 From: Charles Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org snip You

Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

2005-12-13 Thread Ron Wallace
Go for it Brian, Doesn't matter what others think, if we can save some money, good. Ron Wallace Original message Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:58:47 -0500 From: Brian Rohrbacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices To: WISPA General List wireless

Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

2005-12-13 Thread Ron Wallace
: Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Basically what I propose (in a nutshell) is going to a the distrobuters and saying this. I have ten or twenty or whatever WISPs and we all want to buy ten units of *insert brand here* and have them all shipped

Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

2005-12-13 Thread A. Huppenthal
frankly, if I'm buying them for 50% off, I'll buy a spare for every 50 units I buy. failure rate on moto's is about 1 in 100 Travis Johnson wrote: And, the other issue is the purchase will be made in the group name, so how do you handle warranty issues? Travis Microserv Charles Wu wrote:

Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

2005-12-13 Thread A. Huppenthal
Warranty? what warranty? Do you all really have warranty problems. Switch vendors. :-) Moto doesn't have a warranty program. They die, you throw them away. Returning them to my x-distributor resulted in the same thing. They lost the returns. Screw it. Buy cheap and manage your own warranty. If

Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

2005-12-13 Thread A. Huppenthal
Like I said 1 to 100 failures. Usually we drop them from a roof, or run one over.. Often times they still work, but often they don't Its a piece of plastic housing with a single board inside. You can get a replacement case for $15 as I recall. Nice to have a few around for demo to customers.

Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

2005-12-13 Thread A. Huppenthal
I like the 100 pack - but Mote sometimes gives away a couple of backhuals with a 500 pack and other promos.. They change from time to time, whomever wants to run with it will have to make some calls. once we go underground on this deal, we can have a couple of teleconferences, and I'll cough

Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

2005-12-13 Thread A. Huppenthal
: Charles Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 9:25 PM Subject: RE: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices snip You would think it would work that way, but Volume Buying ends up eating the organization and the organization

Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

2005-12-13 Thread A. Huppenthal
- From: Charles Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 9:25 PM Subject: RE: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices snip You would think it would work that way, but Volume Buying ends up eating the organization

Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

2005-12-13 Thread A. Huppenthal
]; 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 9:25 PM Subject: RE: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices snip You would think it would work that way, but Volume Buying ends up eating the organization and the organization becomes caught up in being a volume club. /snip We

Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

2005-12-13 Thread Brian Rohrbacher
I believe we can make it happen. Pretty much, few of us will go in and buy together. Probably going to just be a small group to stay under moto's radar. Enough to get a 100 pack at a time. A. Huppenthal wrote: I like the 100 pack - but Mote sometimes gives away a couple of backhuals with

Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

2005-12-13 Thread Brian Rohrbacher
Message - From: Charles Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 9:25 PM Subject: RE: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices snip You would think it would work that way, but Volume Buying ends up eating the organization

Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

2005-12-13 Thread Brian Rohrbacher
Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: Charles Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 9:25 PM Subject: RE: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices snip You would think it would work that way, but Volume Buying ends

RE: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

2005-12-13 Thread Charles Wu
I know you don't support the idea of group buys. It's not that I don't support the concept, truthfully, I could care less whether you buy your gear from a distributor, reseller, or direct from the manufacturer I have just seen it implemented (rather unsuccessfully) many times by ISPs such as

Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

2005-12-13 Thread Brian Rohrbacher
I'm getting a lot of interest off list on the group idea. Can anyone (principal member) set up a mail server for use to talk about this. ASAP! Thanks Brian Charles Wu wrote: I know you don't support the idea of group buys. It's not that I don't support the concept,

RE: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

2005-12-13 Thread Charles Wu
Brian, I commend you on taking the initiative and (hopefully) proving my naysaying wrong However, waving my magic wand (or maybe I'm just full of @[EMAIL PROTECTED]), I predict the following 2 outcomes will occur: 1. Brian will not be able to get enough interest / coordination / payment for the

Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

2005-12-13 Thread A. Huppenthal
What club are you talking about Charles? I predict you'll be asking Brian to participate in the next buy Charles. :-) Charles Wu wrote: Brian, I commend you on taking the initiative and (hopefully) proving my naysaying wrong However, waving my magic wand (or maybe I'm just full of @[EMAIL

Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

2005-12-13 Thread A. Huppenthal
Yes, (joke) let's assure ourselves that all things are motivated by increasing one individual's bank account vs. the group's membership's benefits. Part of the reason I'm not participating in Part 15 et.al. is that the organizers of any membership benefit have to do so with the assumption that

Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

2005-12-13 Thread Brian Rohrbacher
That would be great. People are asking me about 5.2, 5.7, 2.4, as well as 900. I just want 900 for now. If we get a place to talk about it, someone else can coordinate the same with each product. A. Huppenthal wrote: Brian, I'll see if can do this shortly. -Alex Brian Rohrbacher wrote:

Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

2005-12-13 Thread A. Huppenthal
You should be getting a notice of the mailing list creation. Will walk through the list manager steps and get you the listmanger's account information. Will be using rfarc.org as the base address - a local non-profit ham radio domain that has private list features. Let's see how it goes.

Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

2005-12-13 Thread A. Huppenthal
I like the recent post about monitors too. Frankly the BND stuff for $500 is good, but I'd use at least twice as much of it :-) if it were $250. ha! I sent you a note directly, I'll hang in there for a while tonight to get the listserver doing precisely what it should. Brian Rohrbacher

Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

2005-12-13 Thread Brian Rohrbacher
Your a good man. A. Huppenthal wrote: I like the recent post about monitors too. Frankly the BND stuff for $500 is good, but I'd use at least twice as much of it :-) if it were $250. ha! I sent you a note directly, I'll hang in there for a while tonight to get the listserver doing

Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

2005-12-13 Thread A. Huppenthal
The list server is running, Brian is working on the final setup / config. Sorry, its I thought I could do it in just an hour, but I've never set this software up before so it took 2 hours. I'm guessing the list will be up and running. Any suggestions on how we can confirm that the person

RE: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

2005-12-12 Thread G.Villarini
:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'WISPA General List' Subject: RE: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices snip You would think it would work that way, but Volume Buying ends up eating the organization and the organization becomes caught up in being a volume club. /snip We all know that there's more

Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

2005-12-12 Thread Travis Johnson
And, the other issue is the purchase will be made in the group name, so how do you handle warranty issues? Travis Microserv Charles Wu wrote: snip You would think it would work that way, but Volume Buying ends up eating the organization and the organization becomes caught up in being a

Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

2005-12-12 Thread Brian Rohrbacher
I have never done a group buy, but this is how I would approach it. First step. Principal Members only. You want a deal, fork over 200 some bucks and support the industry. Second step. Find 10 people who want ten units. (500 if possible, but prolly 100 pack to start) Third step. Go to

Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

2005-12-12 Thread Brian Rohrbacher
Well, I'm not a Canopy user, but am close to making the leap. (would have done it long time ago if gear was a reasonable price) Whoever buys the gear. Group name or Joe Blow. Attention Canopy users how are warranty issues handled? If I buy gear on ebay can I send it into Moto for

Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

2005-12-12 Thread Tom DeReggi
Subject: RE: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices snip You would think it would work that way, but Volume Buying ends up eating the organization and the organization becomes caught up in being a volume club. /snip We all know that there's more to a WISP than just putting up an AP and getting a T1 line

Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

2005-12-12 Thread Travis Johnson
. Well said. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: Charles Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 9:25 PM Subject: RE: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy

Re: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices

2005-12-12 Thread Brian Rohrbacher
@wispa.org Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 9:25 PM Subject: RE: [WISPA] INSURANCE NOW canopy prices snip You would think it would work that way, but Volume Buying ends up eating the organization and the organization becomes caught up in being a volume club. /snip We all know that there's more