[RVRC] Internet failure at the Lund residence

[Alexander Sack]

On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Paul Nannery <kc2vrj at gmail.com> wrote:

> she's made her choice scott was explaining that this is not to screw the
> club but something that needs to be done i can not go into details over
> email however she was going way out of her way to keep the cost of this
> down for us. she has done this at great expense to herself it will cost her
> at least after 30 dollars a month attempting to help minimize our cost the
> date given was the date we had to decide whether we wanted to continue to
> have internet or lose it all together as stated in the email from Scott the
> Executive and technical committees decided we will keep the Internet.
>

I am trying to reduce her overall costs too. There are hidden costs to a
business account, like support. How much does she pay now for someone to
come out a look at the site when TV goes out? Is it the same? If its
significantly more, are we going to offset that cost too?  Because if not,
WE SHOULD. I assume we will have to install a firewall to protect her
network as well since she will be on Verizon's static IP block which is
known to get blasted with all kinds of crap which WILL interfere with her
home connection. I just want to make sure we aren't a burden to Susan.

No where I am insinuating anyone is trying to screw anyone. I am not
blaming Scott, I am questioning the reasons for the decision in that email.
I think you would minimally agree that the reasons you are giving me and
the ones in that email are now very different.  :-)

If we want Internet, and we want to honor Verizon's TOS fully (despite the
fact I feel our use case they would accept on a residential line), then we
should get our own connection and not burden Susan's line which is clearly
meant for residential use and not piggy back off of it. That's my 2 cents.
That way our usage doesn't interfere with hers.

You guys have clearly made all the decisions in advance, so that's that. If
an email was sent explaining Susan's issue and its impact to the club, we
could have hashed this all out as a group via this wonderful mailing list
we're all apart of. (otherwise you can change its name to "Gerry's Birthday
Announcements" (I hope Gerry you got a laugh out of that!)).

Its not to second guess every decision you make Paul (since that is what
gets you miffed), its to understand why the recommendation was made and
discuss it as a group. Ultimately, I am fine with what you guys did even
though I think we would have been perfectly fine with a residential account
(since I know at least one person on this list that runs an Asterisk PBX on
their home internet connection with zero issue).

Anyway, please give Susan all the best with her Internet provider
migration, that can always be painful but FIOS is a wonderful service so I
think she made the right decision.

-aps