Or did the site actually fall over?

> On Oct 9, 2020, at 10:25 AM, Matt Hoppes <mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
> I am just kind of curious here if you lost the site why has it been such a 
> disaster getting it back on line? You couldn’t just put new equipment up?
> 
>>> On Oct 9, 2020, at 10:05 AM, David Milholen <dmilho...@wletc.com> wrote:
>>> 
>> 
>> All I can say to that situation is damn.. 
>> 
>> Find new people... sheesh
>> 
>> On 10/9/2020 12:19 AM, Steve Jones wrote:
>>> We lost a primary sight in July during the storms. This is a remote site 
>>> feeding around 80 customers and has been a shitshow getting back online. 
>>> They were patient for a bit. We've hit wall after wall, new lease delays, 
>>> 5ghz interference, multiple licensed links, wrong equipment, new hardware 
>>> failures, electricians running 220 to 110 circuits, contractors wife 
>>> kidnapping a kid, if it could go wrong it did. The town has had meetings 
>>> over this and we last promised to be production ready and problem free 2 
>>> weeks ago. At this point they're shopping our lease probably. We have a 
>>> multi year breakout on the lease and can fix it, but in the interim they'll 
>>> probably colocate a competitor. Honestly, I cant blame them.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Oct 8, 2020, 11:54 PM Darin Steffl <darin.ste...@mnwifi.com> wrote:
>>>> Can you clarify what you mean by "80 customer site loss"?
>>>> 
>>>> Does this mean you'll miss out on potentially 80 new customers or you'll 
>>>> lose 80 current customers if you don't do said work?
>>>> 
>>>> If it's 80 new customers waiting for service, most will wait an extra 2 
>>>> weeks if you explain COVID has taken out a guy. Some may go with a 
>>>> competitor but if they suck, they'll be back to you eventually. We had 
>>>> people wait up to 5 weeks for an install when we were backed up from the 
>>>> COVID rush for service between March-August.
>>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 11:46 PM Steve Jones <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> So, I have a probable covid positive contractor. 
>>>>> I know the answer here, I'm just sounding it out. 
>>>>> I'm behind as fuck with this guys work. I worked with him last weekend, 
>>>>> I've been sick with harvest flu since a couple days before, his daughter 
>>>>> tested positive the next day, his wife and other daughter the day after 
>>>>> that and he got sick wednesday. Everybody is over symptoms (wife and 
>>>>> daughter still have no taste or smell, but that lasts a long time)
>>>>> My harvest flu symptoms havent changed, not worried about me.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hes wanting to catch up behind work saturday. I'm usually very risk 
>>>>> tolerant, and my house has been directly exposed a ton of times, so I 
>>>>> know it's not as easily spread as they say.
>>>>> Its mid harvest, a farmer getting this shit right now could be 
>>>>> devastating.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Its gonna cost us alot if he doesnt get caught up, a substantial amount. 
>>>>> Like 80 customer site loss substantial. We arent big, that's more than 5 
>>>>> percent.
>>>>> 
>>>>> My boss respects me after all these years, if I make a call, knowing the 
>>>>> costs like this, he will back my call, but it burns all those years of 
>>>>> trust.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Theres like a .0001 percent chance he would spread it, zero direct 
>>>>> interaction. But hes present at grain elevators mid harvest. Grain dust 
>>>>> will drop anything airborne like a rock. It takes an exposure to a high 
>>>>> viral count to even get symptomatic.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Tell me I'm wrong to push his work out another week or 2
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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