Sounds like you're new here.  You want some more of these asinine calls?
Technology is getting so much better by the day and people are getting
inversely proportionally dumberer.

I tell them it may work, but I really would expect it does not.  The only
way we'd do it is to service the building itself and run a line.

On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 12:11 PM Nate Burke <n...@blastcomm.com> wrote:

> Usually the incidents are not this close, but when they're on top of
> each other it just makes me angry.  Just because you refuse to
> understand it, doesn't make it magic.
>
> Rural customer wants our internet. ok, no problem, we do that all the
> time.  The ONLY reason they want the connection from us, is so they can
> put RING cameras in their steel barn 300' away from the house, and the
> kid at best buy told them it would be fine because you just plug them in
> and they connect to the wifi.
>
> One of our property managers who we have several connections to her
> buildings wants to put 30 cameras in at 2 MDU buildings in an office
> park.  Both their camera vendor and Comcast assured her that it would
> only require a connection in one of the FACP rooms, and that the other
> building 400' away, with the FACP Room on the opposite end of the
> building would be able to 'ping off it' just fine.  I know comcast
> advertises their new wifi as Magic, but I don't think even it could do
> that.
>
>
> Am I the bad guy for dashing their hopes and dreams?  I consider it
> 'managing expectations'  like 'If your computer can't print to your
> printer, getting our connection instead of a hotspot isn't going to help
> that'
>
>
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