the site that fed this site actually fell over, doesnt exist any more, it is the site that brought our preferred upstream on network, so weve been running only on our second upstream, which, of course we saturated when we went into permanent failover, had to upgrade that circuit.. We had service "restored" within a couple of days, but it was crummy performance on the available path in 5ghz. We went from a single hop to 3 hops to this site. We had to close on leases to start PCNs to verify equipment. Equipment orders got rushed and there were some issues with hardware. We ran into antenna shortages. Ran into a landlord getting nervous when he saw how big 3 foot antennas look. issues with contractors. Issues with staff availability. Issues with electricians. just cluster after cluster. Had a brand new 11ghz radio randomly die the other night. multiple short outages putting equipment into the mix as it arrives.
I cancelled the guy, got my dad to come help me this weekend as much as we can. Its too much risk during harvest. 2 guys with COPD should be able to get a lot done in grain dust lol, really though, the old man will get this all done with me. If they did shop our lease and we have to colocate, we have a few years to be off the site, we will recover any lost ground I hope. Most of these customers have been given a month or two or three of free service for all the interruptions and capacity issues. this covid shit is getting ridiculous, but at least my preferred contractor is immune now so wont need to worry about that On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 9:27 AM Matt Hoppes < mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net> wrote: > 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> AF mailing list >>> AF@af.afmug.com >>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>> >> >> >> -- >> Darin Steffl >> Minnesota WiFi >> www.mnwifi.com >> 507-634-WiFi >> Like us on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/minnesotawifi> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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