Re: [AFMUG] Powerline adapters

2020-11-25 Thread Mike Meluskey
Netgear and TP-Link work much better than the Mikrotik device. On 25 Nov 2020, at 15:15, Steve Jones wrote: It would be on the same phase since its on the output of the APC, I just dont know if the apc output will impact it. Ive heard all kinds of things some that it uses just the ground,

Re: [AFMUG] WISPs & Covid at 8 months and counting

2020-10-26 Thread Mike Meluskey
Father-in-Law is an MD in the Lubbock, TX area. Their hospitals are full. On 26 Oct 2020, at 15:20, Matt Hoppes wrote: Hold on. Reading your email I am getting conflicting information. You said that this seems like it’s a joke but then also that you’ve moved everyone who can remote. I

Re: [AFMUG] Ot: politics: news/pundits in the middle

2020-10-23 Thread Mike Meluskey
Molten Salt Reactor: https://www.forbes.com/sites/llewellynking/2020/10/13/new-design-molten-salt-reactor-is-cheaper-to-run-consumes-nuclear-waste/amp/ On 23 Oct 2020, at 12:48, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: Niagra falls gets turned off and on for the tourists. Perhaps they could do Yellowstone the

Re: [AFMUG] New IPs

2020-09-05 Thread Mike Meluskey
https://auctions.ipv4.global/ On 5 Sep 2020, at 15:30, Chuck McCown wrote: > What is a c block going for these days? > > Sent from my iPhone > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] Buying and selling ISP’s

2020-08-23 Thread Mike Meluskey
Everyone should listen to Chuck re: all subjects of this entire thread. The replace bologna with Spam thread….not so much. On 23 Aug 2020, at 12:35, Chuck McCown wrote: I will never give employees ownership again. Has a couple really bad experiences with that. Sent from my iPhone On Aug

Re: [AFMUG] Sync 2.5 and 5.0 MS Frames Cambium

2020-08-18 Thread Mike Meluskey
Soon come, late this year are 1st quarter next year On 18 Aug 2020, at 14:30, Kurt Fankhauser wrote: i don't think 450 will do 40mhz and 5ms frames, could be wrong... On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 12:50 PM Matt Hopkins wrote: 450m does do 5ms as well. They added it around 16.1 I think. On

Re: [AFMUG] Poor Dishes on a Tower

2020-08-12 Thread Mike Meluskey
Yes, but when you look this good, who cares ;-) On 12 Aug 2020, at 14:03, James Howard wrote: Were those the ones that were famous (infamous?) for always leaving an oil spot everywhere they stopped? From: AF On Behalf Of Mike Meluskey Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2020 12:41 PM To: AnimalFarm

Re: [AFMUG] Poor Dishes on a Tower

2020-08-12 Thread Mike Meluskey
73 Jag E-Type convertible….because everyone needs 12 cylinders. Of course it works better when the timing chain doesn’t break…..or the valve seat falls out of the aluminum cylinder head….or the 1st generation Lucus electronic ignition doesn’t fail…..or the….. On 12 Aug 2020, at 12:59,

Re: [AFMUG] OT: ideas?

2020-08-06 Thread Mike Meluskey
content, look for stuff without the OT. This list is an expense for me personally. I don’t benefit financially other than to occasionally hawk my goods. Did this answer the question? From: Mike Meluskey Sent: Thursday, August 6, 2020 3:18 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re

Re: [AFMUG] OT: ideas?

2020-08-06 Thread Mike Meluskey
Chuck, are you going to continue to allow political rants? If so, I will unsubscribe. Don’t need this crap from either side. Mike Meluskey On 6 Aug 2020, at 17:06, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: Yeah, he is a charter member. From: Steve Jones Sent: Thursday, August 6, 2020 2:57 PM To: AnimalFarm

Re: [AFMUG] PMP 450 Mid gain distance in 5ghz vs. 450b High gain SM.

2020-06-02 Thread Mike Meluskey
2 miles is our general rule of thumb for installing mid-gain vs high-gain…..there are exceptions based on interference On 2 Jun 2020, at 12:49, Sam Lambie wrote: Who here uses both and do you have a basic distance cap on using the midgain SM's? The installers are looking for a basic

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Windy City Facebook KTSM live at 7:00 PM tonight..

2020-05-01 Thread Mike Meluskey
I’ll pile on. GREAT STUFF! I love old Chicago. Brian, subscribe to Daniel Rodriguez’s YouTube channel to get more of their music. On 1 May 2020, at 11:40, Brian Webster wrote: Great stuff I really enjoy bands with horn sections. Chicago and Earth Wind and Fire always did a nice job

Re: [AFMUG] 5.9 extension?

2020-04-14 Thread Mike Meluskey
And they are beautiful! 8x8 MIMO for our 450m’s On 14 Apr 2020, at 6:25, Mark Radabaugh wrote: The STA’s for the original applicants were granted with the original letter and could be used with notification to the other license holders in the state. A condition of the grant was that you had

Re: [AFMUG] 5.9 FCC Form 601/STA?

2020-04-09 Thread Mike Meluskey
We have been invoiced $70 by the FCC. This is for the STA we applied for as a WISPA group effort led by Steve Coran. On 9 Apr 2020, at 17:08, Kurt Fankhauser wrote: Why would the FCC issue a press release saying they were going to do something and then not follow through with it? On Thu,

Re: [AFMUG] Cambium 60ghz

2020-04-08 Thread Mike Meluskey
Or buy some Ignitenet…..it just works. On 8 Apr 2020, at 19:39, Ken Hohhof wrote: Q3 2020. Apply the fudge factor of your choice. Maybe email Allen Yu and ask when they will be available for preorder. Maybe get in on a beta? One of the products they said was pushed out a few months due

Re: [AFMUG] [ External ] Feeling a little sad...

2020-04-03 Thread Mike Meluskey
Had that argument today….my tower manager wants to buy 5 more 450i AP’s. I’m like, that horse has seen better days…..let’s buy 5 more 450m’s and use them to upgrade 5 heavily (40+ customers) loaded 450i’s, and enjoy the all the goodness that comes from the marriage of Orthogon and Canopy. And

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Covid19 contribution

2020-03-23 Thread Mike Meluskey
We just bought a bunch of tightly woven Neck Gaiter Buffs, which are sun protection sleeves

Re: [AFMUG] OT shall we start a pool

2020-02-29 Thread Mike Meluskey
2% tax rate on capital gains, 4% in income tax: https://www.usvieda.org/ On 29 Feb 2020, at 13:39, Robert Andrews wrote: If you could do that you would start a fund and have everybody _else's_ money to be playing with, 20% tax rate and be living on an island stocked to the gills... On

Re: [AFMUG] OT comics

2020-02-24 Thread Mike Meluskey
Technically I’m a Boomer too. Here’s one of my favorites: https://dilbert.com/strip/2020-02-23 On 24 Feb 2020, at 18:04, Bill Prince wrote: We were getting a couple of daily papers until about 8-10 months ago. We gave up because they couldn't seem to deliver it reliably, and it was just

Re: [AFMUG] .6 KM shot with 1G Full Duplex

2020-02-24 Thread Mike Meluskey
SIAE 80HDX is working well for us. Up to 10Gbps full duplex. On 24 Feb 2020, at 10:27, Lewis Bergman wrote: > What are the current recommendations for something like this. I see Cambium > has something that looks like it will work but their product selector > returns no matches . > > Ubiquiti

Re: [AFMUG] [WISPA Members] BaiCells Class Action Investigation

2020-02-13 Thread Mike Meluskey
Cambium 450m > On Feb 13, 2020, at 5:13 PM, Tyson Burris wrote: > > Maybe not a complete apples to apples comparison > > How many of you here recall when the Cambium investors purchased the Canopy > and Ortho divisions from Motorola? > What was one of the first things promised at the new

Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik 60 ghz Wireless Wire Performance.

2020-02-05 Thread Mike Meluskey
We have Ignitenet 60Ghz PTP links working up to 1 mile. On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 4:24 PM Robert Andrews wrote: > We had them running at 800 meters and they were very touchy on alignment > and tended to go up and down a bit on speeds but went to top speeds with > a reboot. Benchmarked as

Re: [AFMUG] Generator advice..

2020-01-31 Thread Mike Meluskey
We were buying Hardy Diesel, with Perkins engines. Permanent. Two at our main hub tower. On 31 Jan 2020, at 11:14, Nate Burke wrote: What brand Diesel generator are you using? Are they permanent or portable? On 1/31/2020 2:51 AM, Mike Meluskey wrote: In the islands we get lots of power

Re: [AFMUG] Generator advice..

2020-01-31 Thread Mike Meluskey
In the islands we get lots of power outages. Our go-to generator for a site like you described is a 12.5kw diesel generator. Diesel is much easier to re-fuel after a disaster (ie. Cat5 Hurricane). I became an expert at re-fueling, oil changes, priming, clogged fuel filters, etc. after

Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti AF-11x licensed links

2020-01-08 Thread Mike Meluskey
. On Wednesday, January 8, 2020, Mike Meluskey wrote: We are very impressed with SIAE Alfo Plus 11 and 18Ghz links with 80Mhz dual-pol channels. Getting 1.4Gbps of throughput. On 8 Jan 2020, at 19:52, Ken Hohhof wrote: Mark is right, I was being nice. As far as advance replacement, I believe

Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti AF-11x licensed links

2020-01-08 Thread Mike Meluskey
We are very impressed with SIAE Alfo Plus 11 and 18Ghz links with 80Mhz dual-pol channels. Getting 1.4Gbps of throughput. On 8 Jan 2020, at 19:52, Ken Hohhof wrote: Mark is right, I was being nice. As far as advance replacement, I believe there is an additional warranty you can purchase

Re: [AFMUG] Ignitenet Metrolinq 60ghz

2019-12-02 Thread Mike Meluskey
We have over 100 customers/sites connected using Ignitenet. It works. Reliability has been impressive. As has been stated, Mounting is important. On 2 Dec 2019, at 20:19, Dev wrote: They’re surprisingly good, we were pleasantly shocked. We have a 35cm link running 1300 meters at -57dBm which

Re: [AFMUG] email client

2019-09-18 Thread Mike Meluskey
for my Apple MacBook I use MailMate https://freron.com/ On 17 Sep 2019, at 21:52, Ken Hohhof wrote: > Do any of you have an email client you recommend to people who don't buy > Outlook? I checked out the Mail app in Windows 10, and IMHO, it really > sucks, I wouldn't recommend it to anybody.

Re: [AFMUG] OT Back pain

2019-08-24 Thread Mike Meluskey
losing weight can also help On 24 Aug 2019, at 13:16, Mike Hammett wrote: I've heard that a lot of that can be caused by weak\strained muscles and that full-body exercise helps with all kinds of random pains, especially in the back. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions

Re: [AFMUG] Winter solstice is now during Juneuary

2019-06-21 Thread Mike Meluskey
Its hot and steamy in the islands…….wish I was in Steamboat. On 21 Jun 2019, at 16:11, Sean Heskett wrote: > ![](cid:16b7ba9d7bdcb2c705b1) > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] Winds did a number on this AirFiber..

2019-04-10 Thread Mike Meluskey
We had a bunch hit with 165+ mph winds in Hurricanes Irma and Maria. Almost none lost their plastic covers. Almost all got wet and stopped working. On 10 Apr 2019, at 19:02, Jaime Solorza wrote: > Gusts hit 65 mph.. > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com >

Re: [AFMUG] GoT Streaming

2019-04-08 Thread Mike Meluskey
Same time as Broadcast. Expect a huge spike Sunday evening. Sundays are already our peak usage night. On 8 Apr 2019, at 9:51, Nate Burke wrote: I think next Sunday is the big day, Do the episodes get released on the streaming platform at the same time as they Broadcast? Just wondering if

Re: [AFMUG] OT Project Management Software

2019-03-29 Thread Mike Meluskey
Here is a Gantt chart tool for Trello that I like: https://gantt-chart.com/ On 29 Mar 2019, at 12:09, Sterling Jacobson wrote: I'm looking as well so let me know if you find something you like. Gantt features also preferable. I'm migrating my teams to Slack which has worked well, and I'm

Re: [AFMUG] mac books

2019-03-28 Thread Mike Meluskey
I took mine to the Apple Store at Caesars Palace Forum during Wispapalooza. Had an expanding battery pop open the bottom of the laptop. $200 for a new battery and board, good as new. He might want to try an Apple Store to see if they can repair it. On 28 Mar 2019, at 17:31, Sam Lambie

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Google fiber bailing on Louisville

2019-02-09 Thread Mike Meluskey
Microtrenching can now go 16” deep: https://www.ditchwitch.com/trenchers/micro/mt16 On 9 Feb 2019, at 16:50, Mike Hammett wrote: Nanotrenching (2"). Their microtrenching (6") is working out well for them. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The

Re: [AFMUG] OT new web site

2018-12-23 Thread Mike Meluskey
Canada should elect Tony Beets Prime Minister: http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/gold-rush/photos/tony-beets-quotes/ On 22 Dec 2018, at 19:46, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: My wife barely tolerates my Gold Rush addiction. From: can...@believewireless.net Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2018 3:55 PM To:

Re: [AFMUG] Managed whole house mesh wifi

2018-12-21 Thread Mike Meluskey
Mikrotik just came out with a Powerline adaptor: https://mikrotik.com/product/pwr_line_ap_us_plug#fndtn-gallery That should give us the visibility we all want in Powerline wifi Mike Meluskey Broadband VI On 21 Dec 2018, at 20:15, Chuck McCown wrote: Why coax and not cat5 cameras? Sent from

Re: [AFMUG] AF subscription notification

2018-09-17 Thread Mike Meluskey
> Midwest Internet Exchange > > The Brothers WISP > > > > > ----- Original Message - > > From: "Mike Meluskey" > To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" > Sent: Monday, September 17, 2018 6:34:13 PM > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] AF subscrip

Re: [AFMUG] AF subscription notification

2018-09-17 Thread Mike Meluskey
I was one of Ubiquiti’s first customers, their SR wireless cards that plugged into MT RB532. The lawsuit combined with the AF24’s 95% failure rate in the Hurricanes (compared to the 0% failure of Ceragon IP-20 and 5% Cambium 450m) have put Ubiquiti on our former vendor list. On 17 Sep 2018,

Re: [AFMUG] 10 GHz backhauls

2018-06-15 Thread Mike Meluskey via AF
Yes they do. Just went live yesterday with SIAE 80HDX radios 3Gbps on 500mhz channel Will run 10Gbps on a 2000mhz channel, we don’t need that much on this link, so we are at 500Mhz On 15 Jun 2018, at 12:50, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: I guess I should have said: 10 Gbps backhauls. Do they exist?