with a phone call that you did not wish to have your lines changed unless someone spoke with you and you gave verbal permission to change a service. Somewhat like opting out of being slammed. Could be incorrect but after being slammed once, I think this was how I dealt with it. The worst part is that you never really know you have been slammed till you get your bill and the other company has charges on it. But when the slammers are the big guys like AT&T, what can you do?
I work for a company that sell wireless LANs. I the past 9 months, over 75 percent of our sales calls have been from ISPs implementing wireless LAN technology to deliver internet services to customers. Unfortunately, most of them know little about the technology and are not interested in engineering a wireless network that delivers a constant bandwidth with high reliability. Most seem to want to only be able to deliver something faster than dialup and then don't car if they have to flood the spectrum with enough RF to bake a potato at 500 yards! The three unliscend bands are around 915 MHz, 2.4 GHz, and 5.8 GHz. THe 915 band has become so flooded with RF due to overlap by the paging towers that it is considered no longer reliable (at least by us, we tend to be more conservative). The advent of the 802.11b compatible 11 Mb cards abd caused a HUGE explosion in the amount of 2.4 GHz equipment out there. My humble opinion is that a few years down the road, the end user look up his ISP's number on his Bluetooth enabled PalmPilot, will call his ISP on his 2.4 GHz phone, and complain that his 2.4 GHz internet connection does't work worth a damn. The use of frequency hopping allows a network to be designed so that it can handle the interference better but there are distance limitation and (until very recently) bandwidth limitations. . The 5.8 GHz band is fairly open and there are several standards in the works that will open it up to high bandwidth, low cost products but right now there aren't too many out there. The distance limitations hurt too.
Sorry for rambling. I just don't think that creating a city-wide 2.4 GHz network (I am assuming here, don't know if that is what they really are doing at consume.net) is really possible due to the sheer amount of 2.4 GHz equipement that is going to be around in a few years. The FCC never really intended for the wireless LAN equipment to be so prevalent in the world of ISPs, IMHO. It's great indoors and for bridging LAN's but the more people put it out there, the more interference we are all going to have to deal with eventually.
If you are really interested in the wireless ISP arena, check out the archives at isp-planet.com. They have a wireless mailing list and there is a lot of info there. You could also check out wispa.org.
Just my thoughts as a frustrated salesperson/tech support guy.
To do that, when you have mediocre skills and limited intelligence, you must find your niche. Katz does this by being the loudest voice in the heard.
I would be cautious about saying someone had limited intelligence and mediocre skills if I couldn't correctly spell "herd". Good points though.
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with a phone call that you did not wish to have your lines changed unless someone spoke with you and you gave verbal permission to change a service. Somewhat like opting out of being slammed. Could be incorrect but after being slammed once, I think this was how I dealt with it. The worst part is that you never really know you have been slammed till you get your bill and the other company has charges on it. But when the slammers are the big guys like AT&T, what can you do?
I work for a company that sell wireless LANs. I the past 9 months, over 75 percent of our sales calls have been from ISPs implementing wireless LAN technology to deliver internet services to customers. Unfortunately, most of them know little about the technology and are not interested in engineering a wireless network that delivers a constant bandwidth with high reliability. Most seem to want to only be able to deliver something faster than dialup and then don't car if they have to flood the spectrum with enough RF to bake a potato at 500 yards! The three unliscend bands are around 915 MHz, 2.4 GHz, and 5.8 GHz. THe 915 band has become so flooded with RF due to overlap by the paging towers that it is considered no longer reliable (at least by us, we tend to be more conservative). The advent of the 802.11b compatible 11 Mb cards abd caused a HUGE explosion in the amount of 2.4 GHz equipment out there. My humble opinion is that a few years down the road, the end user look up his ISP's number on his Bluetooth enabled PalmPilot, will call his ISP on his 2.4 GHz phone, and complain that his 2.4 GHz internet connection does't work worth a damn. The use of frequency hopping allows a network to be designed so that it can handle the interference better but there are distance limitation and (until very recently) bandwidth limitations. . The 5.8 GHz band is fairly open and there are several standards in the works that will open it up to high bandwidth, low cost products but right now there aren't too many out there. The distance limitations hurt too. Sorry for rambling. I just don't think that creating a city-wide 2.4 GHz network (I am assuming here, don't know if that is what they really are doing at consume.net) is really possible due to the sheer amount of 2.4 GHz equipement that is going to be around in a few years. The FCC never really intended for the wireless LAN equipment to be so prevalent in the world of ISPs, IMHO. It's great indoors and for bridging LAN's but the more people put it out there, the more interference we are all going to have to deal with eventually. If you are really interested in the wireless ISP arena, check out the archives at isp-planet.com. They have a wireless mailing list and there is a lot of info there. You could also check out wispa.org. Just my thoughts as a frustrated salesperson/tech support guy.
To do that, when you have mediocre skills and limited intelligence, you must find your niche. Katz does this by being the loudest voice in the heard.
I would be cautious about saying someone had limited intelligence and mediocre skills if I couldn't correctly spell "herd". Good points though.