[RIPE Atlas Ambassadors] News and Happy Holidays!
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Nishal Goburdhan
nishal at controlfreak.co.za
Fri Dec 25 08:56:26 CET 2015
On 24 Dec 2015, at 16:22, Gil Bahat wrote: > 3. People will chip in if explained that the credits will help our > company > deliver better service to our users. However, the current credit > system > forces me to register it under my name and not theirs. it would be > better > if at registration point, a user could permanently assign credits to a > recipient or group. i’m not sure why this is the case. i have exactly one probe registered in my name, and have distributed a few hundred. it’s easy enough, in an organisation, to have a general alias (eg. ripe-probes at example.isp.com) to which something like the network team/whomever can have access to. presumably this is a trusted group so tracking things like credits usage, etc. is a non-issue? > 4. Building up on the above, perhaps gamification and groups are a > good way > to encourage adoption. Seeing how many credits your group generated > makes > it a bit like a (positive) contest. > 5. I have found trouble with getting coverage for mobile (3G/4G) > networks. > there are very few setups in which these are gateway'd to ethernet. as > a > case in point, we have a USB 3G adaptor as backup in the company and > no one > would mind if it's connected to a probe when it's unused (which is > 99.99% > of the time), but there is no physical port available for this (and > possibly no CDC ethernet driver). another option might be to allow the > probes to interface with mobile phones somehow, which would entail > occasional access to these networks when a paired phone is nearby, but > perhaps it would be better than nothing. my general rule of thumb has been to advise *AGAINST* deployment in mobile networks (or more correctly, against deployment in usage-based-billing networks), unless the organisation/individual understands the costs attached to this. since the majority of mobile accounts are limited to some silly data-cap, after which it becomes exorbitantly expensive, and even a relatively idle probe, can consume up to 2.5GB of data a month. that’s a nasty surprise for someone that wasn’t expecting to see this data usage. ymmv. —n.
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