I would love to drop that kind of bandwidth in on an on-demand basis. Unfortunately, there aren't (m)any of those venue types in my area.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com On 3/15/2011 8:17 PM, Chris Stradtman wrote: > Hello all, > > This may not be the right place for this query, but if it's not I'm > hoping someone will point me in the correct direction. > > I'm not actually a WISP, however on a regular basis I could use > service from WISPs. > > We do network professional services for tradeshows and other events. > Many times I could really use a wireless backup link to venues that > just have one terrestrial link (or indeed sometimes we could use the > wireless as the primary link). Typically these events need > connectivity for between 2 days and 2 weeks. We're willing to pay for > up to a month's service even if we only need it for 2 days, however > for obvious reasons full year contracts are out of the question. We > typically know months ahead of time where the location is (once and a > great while we will only get 2 weeks warning). Bandwidth demands can > vary between 5M and 1G depending on a lot of factors. > > Typically the information we would get would be something like > > somebuilding > 123 Anywhere Street > sometown, somestate XXXXX > bandwith = 10M burstable to 50M > > for example. > > My question is: Is this an appropriate place to post the requests, or > if not, where could we post requests to get exposure to potentially > interested WISPs?? > > We've found that just doing a web search for WISPs in the area and > repetitive phone calls to yield a close to 0 success rate. I do > understand that not every WISP is going to be interested in this sort > of business. > > Thanks in advance, > > Chris Stradtman > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/