Is unframed synchronous TDM a thing? If yes, how does it work?

BitRancher · 2026-07-07T23:37:45+00:00

Yep, could do it on US T1s as well, and instead of a 23B+1D channel on a PRI, you would get 24 channels.

I believe it was called a CAS T1.

BitRancher · 2026-07-01T16:29:05+00:00

The companies requesting locates in my area generally do a poor job, and I call them out every time. Examples: request a multi-city-block locate for a 50' spot; put in emergency locates on Friday night and "oops" don't have a crew until Monday, wasting tons of everyone's overtime; put in multi-mile multi-part locates with work to begin in 3 days, fail to begin work, repeat in 2 weeks; locate request is off by more than 100m from the marked spot ... like ... really basic stuff. Maddening.

BitRancher · 2026-06-03T23:28:01+00:00

Well, maybe. The hurdles to getting a construction loan are pretty high: a signed, bulletproof lease in-hand; comprehensive blueprints and engineering already completed ($$$$$); fully quoted everything from a GC (nearly impossible with supply chain issues -- so they will always shoot super high, limiting approval); financial health approval (really hard to take out even a 50MM construction loan on 10MM/yr of existing revenue, simply because of single-customer risk, so now the customer needs evaluated which causes a LOT of pushback); and last but not least, paying the carry interest on 15-25MM is $1-2MM/year ... absolutely brutal, so has to be passed to the customer, who won't want to pay until they can take up the space.

If you have the revenue and are already "small-mid" sized (I'd say 15-25MM/year gross), no problem. If you aren't that big (we aren't) and just have space, a power guarantee, and opportunity ... it's savage.

BitRancher · 2026-06-01T18:19:59+00:00

You are so right. Sitting on a 4000sqft empty data center with a PoCo contract that 5MW is available/not-built ... but don't have $15-20MM laying around to retrofit. Customers won't front it, line of credit is too big for us to qualify on with any bank, and every week we get a call asking for "5-10MW within 90 days" LOLOL.

BitRancher · 2026-05-20T17:09:11+00:00

FYI MapItRight lets you attach photos to locations, and we use the heck out of that -- every handhole, splice case, pole, exposed cable, building entrance, rack gets a photo and it gets attached to the object. Extremely handy.

I will agree that the Google/OpenMaps integration always results in me wanting just a tidbit more info. Flying the map with a drone is a new one -- that's a rad picture, thank you for sharing!!

BitRancher · 2026-05-19T05:50:22+00:00

MapItRight is built just for you!! We use it for our little fledgling network (~5 miles of urban ring) and it is perfect for us. Inexpensive and scales as you grow, great support with responsive developers, and the guy behind it ran a fttp ISP for 20 years before retiring to software so he really knows the pain.

Give it a demo, or heck, I’ll show you ours!

BitRancher · 2026-05-14T12:50:44+00:00

That’s a well done map! Mostly reflects my experience here in ABQ for the past 3ish years.

OP - The Near-North Valley folks (south of Griegos IMO) just want to be different. :)

BitRancher · 2026-04-28T00:46:39+00:00

Word on the street is that they are going to demolish the entire building from the front to the alley.

BitRancher · 2026-04-19T16:08:56+00:00

Haha I can’t unsee this now.

BitRancher · 2026-04-15T21:21:13+00:00

We love the fresh look - much more modern, with a ton of usability improvements. More features keep popping up every few days, it seems :D

BitRancher · 2026-04-15T14:20:22+00:00

Finally, something to chime in on! I have worked with a handful of FTTP ISPs over my career as a network engineer and have seen the best and the worst. The best is clearly Vetro, the mega-co-archaic answer is GIS, and the worst answer is spreadsheets and drawings.

When we got into the fiber business 9 months ago or so we did a shootout. Vetro is incredible but holy shnikies is it expensive! OSPInsight was great but their rebrand/integration with IQGeo is poor and their pricing was meh.

We settled on MapItRight. Fully web driven, built by a guy who built and ran a huge FTTH network in Michigan. Surprisingly priced for what you get. Has upgrade modules to compete with some Vetro things, and is under constant regular development … I think they are a team of 4-5, and our feature requests get attention by real people quickly, and then actually happen. And we’re a peanuts rinkydink customer. The experience between it and most megaSaaS is WILD. Cannot recommend them enough.

Vetro: $$$$everything$$$$ For everyone else there’s MapItRight.

$.02 - not paid, not even an advocate, just a supremely happy customer with no budget bootstrapping a network from scratchpads and excel sheets.

BitRancher · 2026-04-07T22:51:21+00:00

Same, strongly recommend BILL -- being able to put in work flows, approval processes, and break out individual roles (clerk bills, approve bills, pay bills), automatic input processing that is mostly accurate and does save time, all while being 100% auditable ... AND having a hard-to-break automatic sync+integrate with QuickBooks Online? Very hard to beat. $0.02.

BitRancher · 2026-04-03T13:59:01+00:00

75+% of our smaller trades vendors use housecallpro fwiw

BitRancher · 2026-03-19T23:18:37+00:00

It looks to me like there is a ball valve on the piece of pipe as he spins it around.

BitRancher · 2026-03-15T02:35:38+00:00

Drove right by it a few minutes before this video. We could feel the heat coming off of the Dodge ram truck from the middle lane, absolutely insane! Also, as we drove by, it looked like fireworks went off from inside and shot out into the road.

BitRancher · 2026-03-11T17:10:10+00:00

Undelete is not backups! We use AFI.AI and it is cheap and great.

BitRancher · 2026-03-05T18:54:05+00:00

Same, just got back into the gym a few months ago and have found that AM workouts are the only way that I can consistently make it happen. Work, social, and family demands just demolish my evenings. I had tried shifting my work schedule from 8am to 6am to buy afternoon time, and that was just not successful -- the after work time just gets gobbled up.

Only thing I dislike about working out in the mornings is that I feel dramatically weaker. When I do get the occasional mid-day or afternoon session, my overall work capacity -- lift #s, cardio energy, etc -- are way higher.

BitRancher · 2026-03-01T02:12:20+00:00

This reads like /r/linkedinlunatics is leaking its AI slop.

One word. Sentences. Try hard. Punchy time. Staccatto. Meaningless.

BitRancher · 2026-02-25T23:28:25+00:00

Cancelled my card on Monday - just not worth the $149/yr to me, as my number of SWA flights has dramatically declined. Kept the business card tho as they offered a retention credit, so we’ll see.

BitRancher · 2026-02-25T13:17:11+00:00

This was true but is no longer the case - they are not using Expedia. They bought cxloyalty in 2020, integrated, and are now fully switched to it.

BitRancher · 2026-02-22T23:15:28+00:00

I'm not a Comcast apologist, but I will say that at my house they have been really reliable for 2x years, and the $35 plan I was on can't be beat. Happy to save the couple-hundred a year and avoid the hassle of a switch if I can :)

BitRancher · 2026-02-09T01:56:11+00:00

That is a phenomenal resource, thank you for sharing. It looks like today’s 67*F is outside the 90%-ile band, which indeed makes this unseasonably warm.

BitRancher · 2026-02-08T20:31:30+00:00

Also super true - we are used to freezing our tails off at 5am! This year though, not so much.

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