[TriLUG] Re: need an employee --- scratch that -- need a businesspartner

OlsonE at aosa.army.mil OlsonE at aosa.army.mil
Thu Apr 5 17:05:05 EDT 2007


My 2c on this. 

Our place installed cable modems in everyone's place, and they were
locked into using those. Well, they're terrible (the cable modems), and
they gave us 384/128 for bandwidth... which 99% of the time you're luck
to get 128k. 

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Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Re: need an employee --- scratch that -- need a
businesspartner

Greg Brown wrote:
> A note about the apartment complexes (condos) I referred to that a few

> people have brought up:  In both the cases I mentioned the property 
> management company is footing the ENTIRE bill for ALL units - i.e. 
> this is not a "per unit adoption cost of $13/month".  All 320 units in

> the first case and 45 in the second will paid for in a single bill 
> each month by the property management company to the company 
> contracted for the work.  Crazy sounding I know, but this is the way 
> coastal rental facilities are going these days.


Smart move.

When I lived in an apartment in Hillsborough, they did something like
this for cable TV.  They paid a flat rate to Time Warner.  I paid my
landlord like $12 a month for cable TV.  Insanely good deal for me, and
Time Warner got a big fat check every month for the whole complex
regardless of how many tenants subscribed.

As cheap as it was they could have just jacked the rent up $10-$15 and
advertised free cable.

High density housing these days should be pre-wired for broadband.  High
speed mesh on the property (100Mbps or more between units) and variable
level outbound bandwidth based on tiered bandwidth caps regulated at the
router.  Here in the U.S. we're sort of behind the curve compared to
many other nations.
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