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by montasaurus 2y ago
stamina is an opinionated wrapper around tenacity, so either works great
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How I Build(montasaurus.com)
41 points by montasaurus 2y ago|2 comments
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Show HN: Is it Hate? – Try to detect hateful memes(isithate.com)
2 points by montasaurus 6y ago|1 comments
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by montasaurus 8y ago
Thank you. How many neighbors are you thinking? It really depends on how many buildings they are in / how far apart they are, and what percentage use you as their provider. At smaller scales, it's much better to have an "in&q
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by montasaurus 8y ago
Sonic has a fantastic privacy policy. For comparison, we follow all the same tenets and believe that both contractual and technical safeguards are the best way to ensure our operators do as well. We should definitely be more public about th
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by montasaurus 8y ago
I saw a demo of this in Oakland a few months ago. I thought it was super interesting, especially the way they're extending routing concepts. It feels like a very elegant technical solution.
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by montasaurus 8y ago
I don't think of it as a question of fortitude as much as opportunity cost. We're looking for operators that would be successful running other types of businesses instead. We want them to choose the ISP business over one that they
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by montasaurus 8y ago
Getting good terms from an ILEC that you're directly competing with will be difficult. We advocate building your own last mile infrastructure where possible to get around that. Here in SF, we're using fixed wireless to do that.
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by montasaurus 8y ago
We use fixed wireless for our last mile (60GHz and 5.8GHz in SF). We haven't been reliant on Local Exchanges. We'd typically be selling to residential end users (single family homes and/or MDUs).
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by montasaurus 8y ago
Thanks! Going through Comcast / AT&T isn't the only path to the internet, plenty of other companies sell the backhaul services that we need--Hurricane Electric, Zayo, Cogent, CenturyLink, etc.. Monitoring traffic and throttlin
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by montasaurus 8y ago
We monitor your infrastructure (out of band, where possible) and let you know when things go wrong and how to fix it. When the fixing requires physical intervention, we guide you through that. Similarly for installations, where we teach you
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by montasaurus 8y ago
It makes sense for a wide range of densities. Getting MDUs is really nice, because your marginal cost to serve another customer in the building is really low. Downside is that it may be more competitive. Rural areas present a different busi
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by montasaurus 8y ago
It's largely an infrastructure business at the end of the day, and not without its challenges. The real problem is that there are people willing to take on these challenges, but they get stuck as early as the "get an uplink"
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by montasaurus 8y ago
We've been able to source enough IPv4s for our needs so far, but we don't expect that to last forever. ARIN is cutting off the allocations, but there are still a decent amount available for lease.
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by montasaurus 8y ago
When someone resets their router, it clears the auth details and their internet stops working. With DHCP, it'll "just work" when the device comes back up. You just need to be a bit smart about figuring out which device belong
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by montasaurus 8y ago
Working on all the networking & routing was definitely the most fun part for me. Unfortunately, not everyone finds it nearly as interesting. We just don't feel that a distaste for the OSI model should preclude someone from running
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by montasaurus 8y ago
We definitely want to make sure that nobody's left high and dry in any set of circumstances. Obviously, we hope to happily partner with our operators indefinitely, but we wouldn't ask someone to commit their capital and ask their
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by montasaurus 8y ago
Very cool program, thanks! There are a few programs (both public and private) that will provide funding for starting ISPs. It really shows that access to capital isn't the main roadblock people face when starting ISPs. Or rather, that
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by montasaurus 8y ago
Unfortunately not in this batch--mainly because of travel and regulatory differences.
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Launch HN: Necto (YC W18) – ISP Starter Kit
404 points by montasaurus 8y ago|78 comments
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by montasaurus 8y ago
We service some "DSL dead zones" like that...it's crazy to see the prices people are forced into paying. We had one customer that was paying over $100/mo for low single digit Mbps before they switched.
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by montasaurus 8y ago
Thankfully it's gotten a lot better since then. The RF tech has improved dramatically and bulk bandwidth costs are much more reasonable. Is it Proxim?
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by montasaurus 8y ago
Definitely! I'll shoot you an email.
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by montasaurus 8y ago
Peering exchanges are great, and a more cost-effective way of reaching other participant networks vs paying for transit. Our local exchange is called SFMIX ( https://sfmix.org/ ). They're a great and under-appreciated gr
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by montasaurus 8y ago
The fact that you can reach almost any IP address is kind of a small miracle when you start digging into it. There are a bunch of interesting examples of addresses becoming unreachable or sent to the wrong destination, both accidentally and
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by montasaurus 8y ago
This is a great guide--I highly recommend reading it if you're interested in the space. We met Graham (the author) and he really knows his stuff.
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by montasaurus 8y ago
That gets into a really interesting aspect of how the internet works. It's not really one entity, the way people sometimes think about it. In reality, it's a bunch of interconnected networks owned by different people like you ment
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by montasaurus 8y ago
It looks like that 10-K is for Sonic the fast food chain. I believe Sonic the ISP is still a private company.
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by montasaurus 8y ago
We have an ISP in San Francisco and it really is a great business. Lots of long lasting recurring revenue and very low recurring costs--bandwidth is actually one of our smallest expenses. The biggest hurdle is really tapping in to the triba
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by montasaurus 10y ago
Blackcomb Software | San Francisco, CA | Full Time | ONSITE Hey, my name's Adam and I'm looking for help creating the next generation of field service management software. We started inside an air conditioning company in Sarasota,

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