[lug] Wireless ISP - Sprint Broadband]

[Kevin Moore]

When I tried to order Sprint Broadband I had the exact opposite experience.
The tech came out to my house (N. Boulder) and did the site survey. After
the survey he said that it would work fine in the winter, but as soon as the
trees leafed out I'd lose connectivity. He told me not to bother unless I
was willing to do some chainsaw landscaping on about 3 of my neighbors
trees, or be locked into a contract that was only good 6 mos. out of the
year....Kevin

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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [lug] Wireless ISP - Sprint Broadband
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 09:04:00 -0600 (MDT)
From: Ian Hall-Beyer <manuka at nerdherd.net>
Reply-To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
To: <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>

On Mon, 14 May 2001, Ferdinand Schmid wrote:

> he told me is that they installed several sites since last November with
> trees between the antenna and their radio tower.  Now as these trees are
> growing leaves they keep getting service calls because of high packet
> loss, which is sometimes also perceived as high latency.

Yes, microwave energy doesn't get through water very well. Leaves tend
to
have rather high water content.

The sprint techs should have realized this when the made those installs,
that the trees would get leafy in the summer - this is a fairly regular
and normal thing for trees to do, after all.

-Ian




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