Re: [AFMUG] math is fun?

2025-03-22 Thread Ken Hohhof
Personally, I agree with your advice to customers. Supposedly it’s a way to connect devices to WiFi without entering (or knowing) the WiFi password. Some annoying devices like cheap printers almost force you to use WPS. From: AF On Behalf Of Adam Moffett Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2025 4

[AFMUG] math is fun?

2025-03-22 Thread Ken Hohhof
OK, 74 years on this planet and 1 brain aneurysm have taken their toll and I can't do math in my head like I used to. (Ask me how I know "person, man, woman, camera, TV" isn't an IQ test). But I still find this a fun math problem, and the math is actually pretty basic. I wonder how many kids

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

2025-03-22 Thread Chuck McCown
I have not found permitting, engineering or fees to be all the expensive as long as you are not dealing with federal lands. Most cities are very reasonable. -Original Message- From: AF [mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com] On Behalf Of Mark Radabaugh Sent: Friday, March 21, 2025 5:54 PM To

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

2025-03-22 Thread Ken Hohhof
As I see various crews trench and bore sometimes multiple times per year in the same ROW, I wonder at what point is there just no room left for more duct? Is it like space junk, the number of outages keeps increasing because the ROW is so crowded that despite best efforts a boring crew cuts exi

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

2025-03-22 Thread Adam Moffett
$15-20/splice was normal in the past. Volume went way up, and the contractors are in high demand. An NY specific issue that compounded the problem was a new rule that you have to pay prevailing wage anytime you're doing work in a ROW where a permit was required. That drove up even the non-PW

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

2025-03-22 Thread Adam Moffett
Yeah, city and county permits aren't usually bad. People mean different things when they say "permit", though. The elco technically is licensing us to make an attachment to a pole, but people often call it a "pole permit". We have to complete all the make ready before we're licensed to attach

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

2025-03-22 Thread Chuck McCown
I learned my lesson on make ready years ago, so I am 100% underground now. And frankly, I only splice what I need on the large count cables. We splice them ourselves so not much cost there. I have never seen $41/burn before. Most of the time when we were burning for money we were happy to ge

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

2025-03-22 Thread Chuck McCown
Microtrenching is much faster and cheaper than HDD. From: AF [mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com] On Behalf Of Adam Moffett Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2025 12:57 PM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' Subject: Re: [AFMUG] BEAD $15-20/splice was normal in the past. Volume went way up, and

Re: [AFMUG] math is fun?

2025-03-22 Thread Adam Moffett
I never looked into how WPS was supposed to work. I pushed the button once and the Internet broke. I went into the router and reset the WPA key and went about my business. I advised all customers that the WPS button breaks everything and please never touch it. What were you supposed to do with

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

2025-03-22 Thread Chuck
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