SNMP needs to die, but our industry isn't ready for it.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Moffett" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, April 7, 2017 3:00:54 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 3.65 Wimax We have something like 20% of our Wimax customers converted to LTE. Throughput is better in most cases. Latency is about half. nLOS success is usually similar to Wimax, but we've had a few surprises. Some CPE actually got worse, but they were generally fixable with antenna adjustment. Apparently due to layer1 differences they may respond differently to nearby objects. One specific thing i can think of is if you have the CPE mounted on the side of the house such that it looks the long way down the house.....Wimax doesn't seem to care about having the house next to your path, but LTE did not like that (SNR went from 25 to 5 in one such case). In another case, the path turned out to be just barely through dirt. It was clipping the edge of the hill. Wimax worked with a marginally acceptable signal, but LTE had no connection at all. I think that was the only one we lost.....and really with dirt in the way I'm sure we would have eventually had a problem with the Wimax too. I like Telrad's Breezeview software. They're going to add some TR-69 support in the next release so Breezeview can be the configuration server for your CPE, and I'm really looking forward to that. My only complaint is that there are still some bugs that I can't live with. It has been getting better with each software release, so I feel like we're getting closer to victory. I really really wish the Telrad equipment supported SNMP. I understand the technical benefits of NetConf and TR-69, but SNMP software is cheap/free whereas right now software for TR-69 and NetConf are both $$$. Ultimately I think they're on a path to getting us good data via Breezeview, which will collect a blend of data from the Base Station and the CPE, and what we're paying for Breezeview is not as much as we would pay for a TR-69 ACS and an NMS supporting NetConf. I still wish there was SNMP....but I think we'll get along with Breezeview. The LTE only UE (Telrad 8000) is better than any of the Wimax CPE I've seen...and somehow it's also cheaper. Anyway, LTE is a viable alternative to Wimax. You will pay more for it than you did for Wimax regardless of who the vendor is. There is also a learning curve....there's a different set of terminology for everything and more acronyms than you can shake a stick at. ------ Original Message ------ From: "SmarterBroadband" < [email protected] > To: [email protected] Sent: 4/7/2017 3:09:47 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 3.65 Wimax Like you we use Telrad WiMAX. It has been good for us. We will also transition to LTE soon. From: Af [mailto: [email protected] ] On Behalf Of Adam Moffett Sent: Friday, April 7, 2017 11:14 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 3.65 Wimax We still have it, yes. Transitioning to LTE. If you like-hated wimax, then you'll like-hate LTE even more. If you loved Wimax, then I don't think we can be friends. ------ Original Message ------ From: "Philip Rankin" < [email protected] > To: "af" < [email protected] > Sent: 4/7/2017 1:56:26 PM Subject: [AFMUG] 3.65 Wimax <blockquote> Is anyone still operating 3.65 Wimax? Has any other technology/wireless protocol come along that can compete with Wimax's superior nLos capability? At any other bands? I have no interest in 900. Thanks in advance for any feedback! -- Philip J. Rankin Wireless Telecommunications Services PO Box 24 Pittsburg, KS 66762 </blockquote>
