Imagine if you sent every customer e-mails about every outage every time on your network.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Hoppes" <mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net> To: "Adam Moffett" <dmmoff...@gmail.com>, "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <af@af.afmug.com> Sent: Friday, September 6, 2019 11:31:24 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Fiber That's what everyone keeps saying.... but my fiber provider sends me e-mails every other week about pole fires taking out fiber, trees taking out fiber, wind taking out fiber, etc. On 9/6/19 12:30 PM, Adam Moffett wrote: > When it's broken it can be expensive, but frankly it doesn't break that > often. > -Adam > > On 9/6/2019 12:29 PM, Matt Hoppes wrote: >> Except the contractor gets paid every time the fiber gets broken. >> >> On 9/6/19 12:18 PM, Adam Moffett wrote: >>> If you've only got 2 or 3 people *total* then you'd be relying on >>> contractors a lot and basically just being an owner/GC. Your capex >>> will be higher than with in-house labor, but console yourself with >>> the idea that the contractor only gets paid once, and you get paid >>> for 50 years. >>> >>> -Adam >>> >>> >>> On 9/6/2019 8:30 AM, Matt Hoppes wrote: >>>> People ask why I don’t do fiber. The following story pretty much >>>> sums it up. For those doing fiber, how do you do it with a 2 or 3 >>>> man team? We’d be run ragged. How do you stay sain? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Someone was logging up in Ogdensburg near Joe Hill and took a tree >>>> down which took another tree down which took another tree down which >>>> snapped off the side arms of the utility pole taking out the >>>> powerlines which burned the fiber underneath it. >>>> >>>> >>>> Last night about 11 o’clock I drove up there on my way home and >>>> found the Crown Castle guys trying to figure out where the fiber >>>> damage was, I talk to them for a moment and they were like yeah it’s >>>> like 2500 feet away from here but we can’t figure out where the >>>> fiber goes, I said follow me, so they got over there and started work. >>>> >>>> >>>> Zito was already over there fixing their fiber with about 10 guys >>>> and five trucks. >>>> >>>> >>>> I just spun back up there and as of this morning they (both >>>> companies) are still trying to figure out why the fiber is not working. >>>> >>>> >>>> Add to this the utility easement is on the side of a mountain and >>>> not right beside the road. These guys had entire teams and haven’t >>>> fixed 1,500ft of fiber in 12 hours plus had to wait nearly 7hrs to >>>> even access the local due to power lines down. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> > -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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