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stamina is an opinionated wrapper around tenacity, so either works great

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 smal…

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 operat…

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 …

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 …

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. Her…

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 home…

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, Centu…

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 t…

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 m…

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 th…

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 avai…

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…

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 …

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 …

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 roa…

Unfortunately not in this batch--mainly because of travel and regulatory differences.

Hey, we're Ben and Adam, the founders of Necto ( https://nectolab.io ). We're enabling local entrepreneurs to start their own Internet Service Providers by providing network engine…

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 …

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?

Definitely! I'll shoot you an email.

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/ ). …

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 unreach…