[WISPA] Wireless mesh in the trees?

[Mike Hammett]

I am re-posting this from a CLEC related list by a man whose CLEC 
knowledge I really respect.  Hopefully he joins the list.


I wonder what experiences any wireless ISPs on the list have with radios 
that work underneath the foliage canopy.  I'm looking at a site where 
the houses are mostly surrounded by tall trees, and where a multi-hop 
mesh looks like the most practical way to deal with the terrain for 
backhaul.  (It's still "unserved" for good reason.  Good on the demand 
side, though.)  This sounds like 900 MHz is ideal, but are there any 
decent mesh products (not single-frequency digipeaters) that have a 900 
MHz access radio?  Ye Olde Canopy looks to be getting long of tooth, but 
is there a better alternative?   Thanks.

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[WISPA] OT: Political Letters regarding your server

[Chuck Hogg]

Have any of you written political letters in regards to your service?  

 

For example, if a government entity does not want to work with you, but
will work with ATT/Nextel/T-Mobile for access space on the water
towers...

 

I'm trying to increase the density of coverage in specific areas, but
essentially walk into brick walls when working with some small
townships.  The commissioners and mayors are mostly retired, and can get
service with the local Cable or Phone company, but they only serve maybe
75% of the residents.

 

I'm planning to blast an email to all current and past people who have
had our service, along with a letter to all of those that wanted our
service but could not get it.  Just to let them know why we can't reach
certain areas, and why in some areas the service levels offered are only
our basic levels (density per AP is too high to offer higher plans).  In
addition to that, I was planning to include contact information for
EVERY commissioner.  In addition to that I was planning to run a half
page Advertisement in the local newspaper.  I wanted to outline the
denials from each commissioner as well...so that in the future election
(very soon), it may have an impact.

 

Any ideas?

 

 

Regards,

Chuck Hogg

Shelby Broadband
502-722-9292
ch...@shelbybb.com  

http://www.shelbybb.com  

 




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Re: [WISPA] Fast DNS cache

[Mike Hammett]

I have setup Unbound with DNSSEC.  Oddly enough, both NameBench and DNS 
Benchmark report my Windows DNS server as faster than Unbound, while 
Unbound is faster than my previous BIND setup.

DNS Benchmark consistently rates my local servers faster than anything 
else on the Internet, while NameBench reported most of its public 
servers as faster than mine.  Ideas as to why?  I didn't check to see if 
there were any overlaps in the public DNS servers they used.  Too many 
IPs to compare.

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Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com



On 5/26/2010 11:40 AM, Mike Hammett wrote:
> I am setting up some new DNS servers and I'd like to figure out what the
> quickest caching DNS server is.  Google keeps telling me to go to Open
> DNS.  I'm not opposed to them and may use them as either primary or
> secondary, but I want at least one server within my own network.
>
> Recommendations?
>
> Separately, I will be setting up a resolving server for my own stuff.
>
>



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Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik PtPP Sample Script, Anyone?

[Robert West]

Thanks, Butch.  I'm sure it will be.  I found a lot of incomplete and
inconsistent info on doing the config and nothing seemed to work.  I'd trust
your 35 cents on the subject over the rest of what I've seen.  Just the arp
explanation is a big help.

Bob-



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From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
Behalf Of Butch Evans
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 4:09 AM
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Subject: Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik PtPP Sample Script, Anyone?

On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 00:09 -0500, Butch Evans wrote: 
> I can see that I need to finish my blog article on proxy arp...Here's 
> a (very quick) summary:

http://blog.butchevans.com/2010/06/when-and-why-proxy-arp/

A little more detailed explanation.  Hope it's of use.  

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Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik PtPP Sample Script, Anyone?

[Butch Evans]

On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 00:09 -0500, Butch Evans wrote: 
> I can see that I need to finish my blog article on proxy arp...Here's a
> (very quick) summary:

http://blog.butchevans.com/2010/06/when-and-why-proxy-arp/

A little more detailed explanation.  Hope it's of use.  

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* http://www.butchevans.com/* Network Engineering  *
* http://store.wispgear.net/* Wired or Wireless Networks   *
* http://blog.butchevans.com/   * ImageStream, Mikrotik and MORE!  *





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