The Animal Farm Users Group consists of Canopy-based WISPs from
around the world who in large part provide high-grade, high-speed
broadband service to areas underserved (or poorly served) by incumbent
wireline service providers (i.e. cable & telco). The group’s
activities are sponsored largely by third-party product vendors Wireless Beehive, Last Mile Gear, PacketFlux, their distributors, and several others.
The mailing list ( af@afmug.com )
has had a couple homes over the years, and has always generated a
healthy amount of traffic with topics ranging from ISP business issues
to project management to network troubleshooting and more.Current list membership exceeds 450 members, with anywhere from 50 to over 300 posts in a given day.
To subscribe, unsubscribe, post or request help, simply send an email in the following format
- List-Post: mailto: af@afmug.com
- List-Help: mailto: af-help@afmug.com
- List-Unsubscribe: mailto: af-unsubscribe@afmug.com
- List-Subscribe: mailto: af-subscribe@afmug.com
Mailing list archives are hosted by Beehive Broadband.The Animal Farm conferences have helped to match names with faces and encourage cooperation on all fronts between list members. It is impossible to measure the amount of assistance, business, and other offlist interaction that has undoubtedly resulted from person-to-person networking fostered by Animal Farm. As many attendees have put it, “This is the show to attend” for Canopy WISPs.
Much credit goes to Motorola’s WiBB team for 1) creating a solid, reliable family of products and 2) recognizing and supporting the grass roots movement that has become Animal Farm.
From the WISPTech Wiki:“Animal Farm is a Motorola Canopy users group. It is not affiliated with Motorola in any official manner. Animal Farm is for users of Motorola Canopy™ equipment to meet and discuss topics of common interest. This is a user driven event, not a vendor driven event. It is also a place for contributors of motorola@afmug.com to meet face to face. …”
