Re: [AFMUG] Tower Rope Suggestions?

My last order was from an arborist supply. Cannot remember or find their info. On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 8:46 PM Chuck McCown wrote: > I just ask the guys at the rock climbing outfitters. They have always > fixed me up with stuff that works well. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Apr 6, 2020, at

Re: [AFMUG] Tower Rope Suggestions?

I just ask the guys at the rock climbing outfitters. They have always fixed me up with stuff that works well. Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 6, 2020, at 8:26 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: > >  > 3/8 kernmantle. We do have some throw bags of lighter “accessory cord”, I > think 7 mm. > > I’m not

Re: [AFMUG] Cambium 60ghz

There was no built in backup. I don't recall the precise pricing, but I remember thinking it was quite reasonable.  I want to say a couple hundred for the client, and the AP was also a matter of hundredsdefinitely under a grand.  The problem is the same problem as all other millimeter

Re: [AFMUG] Cambium 60ghz

You're talking about the V1000/3000/5000 product line? I think they may have mentioned price but I didn't write it down. I have Q32020 written in my notes. My notes say $999 for the 450 Micropop licensed for 20 SMs. I'm thinking they were talking lower than that for the 57-66 GHz stuff but

Re: [AFMUG] Tower Rope Suggestions?

3/8 kernmantle. We do have some throw bags of lighter “accessory cord”, I think 7 mm. I’m not familiar with that brand. When I started out buying rope I bought some “dual braid” and it was bad stuff. I forget the brand, maybe Samson. But it got all kinky. If Mark vouches for that

Re: [AFMUG] Tower Rope Suggestions?

Good suggestion Mark, Thank you. Tushar From: AF [mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com] On Behalf Of Mark Radabaugh Sent: Monday, April 06, 2020 7:51 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Tower Rope Suggestions? I would actually go lower diameter at 3/8”

Re: [AFMUG] Tower Rope Suggestions?

I would actually go lower diameter at 3/8”Unless you are pulling up the tower itself 5000’ is plenty strong and considerably lighter than the 1/2” or the 5/8”. The one you linked to is a good rope. I think we have the 3/8” as our main haul line. We have heavier 1/2" and 5/8” ropes for

[AFMUG] Tower Rope Suggestions?

I am in the market to buy 1200 ft long double braid rope for pulling a load up the tower using capstan etc. Any suggestions on the brand and the size (1/2 or 5/8)? Following?

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Shopping

WalMart nation wide is closing down to one entrance (Grocery Entrance) and only allowing 5 people in per 1000 square feet of floor space in the store. They are also going to be putting directional arrows in all of the aisles to make them one way to try and provide more space for social

Re: [AFMUG] anybody else having Cambium CBRS issues this afternoon?

An engineer from Cambium called me and did a screen share and walked me through the import problem I was having. It worked so it was probably a cockpit error on my part. In the process I learned that you can preapprove the onboarding of the SM before the tech installs it, I guess that was

Re: [AFMUG] SMS Messages

Because obviously you have a cellphone and their phone number is in your Contacts. I'm sure Fortune 500 companies have a cellphone on the receptionist's desk as their main phone. -Original Message- From: AF On Behalf Of Nate Burke Sent: Monday, April 6, 2020 4:31 PM To: Animal Farm

[AFMUG] Cambium 60ghz

I looked through the WISPA Webinar and questions, and I remember getting all these answers, but they must have answered it in the audio part of the presentation because I didn't see them in the slides, or the typed Q/A. When is it coming out? What is the pricing? Does it have a 5ghz backup?

Re: [AFMUG] SMS Messages

Have people forgotten that they can make phone calls from their texting device? Nate Burke wrote: Why do customers send an SMS message to the main office number. But then don't even say who they are? I just got one in, All it says is 'I need to update my credit card' No other info, no

Re: [AFMUG] SMS Messages

Ours can cross match with the number they have in Sonar, and is directed to one of our Slack channels. So yes, it's possible with a bit of 'magic'. But a lot of them don't match so we do get that a lot. Like a canned slash reply of "Hi! Can you give me your account name/number and/or service

[AFMUG] SMS Messages

Why do customers send an SMS message to the main office number. But then don't even say who they are? I just got one in, All it says is 'I need to update my credit card' No other info, no Name, nothing. Do people think SMS is some sort of magic, and we as the internet wizards will

Re: [AFMUG] anybody else having Cambium CBRS issues this afternoon?

I know, for us it has been a rough transition. We are still trying to figure out if we are glad we moved early, or wish we would have waited.On the one hand, we get increased Tx power, so better signal to customer who weren’t great before, we moved to 20 MHz channels instead of 10 MHz,

Re: [AFMUG] Not saying it's Aliens but...

That's what I am thinking it might be...TxDOT along Interstate or Border Patrol following Rio Grande.. Video taken on New Mexico side. On Mon, Apr 6, 2020, 12:40 PM Robert Andrews wrote: > Looked like a helicopter to me... > > On 04/06/2020 07:44 AM, Jaime Solorza wrote: > > The one skeeming by

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Shopping

Joke On Mon, Apr 6, 2020, 9:40 AM Adam Moffett wrote: > haha, is that a true story or just a joke? > On 4/6/2020 11:24 AM, Jaime Solorza wrote: > > Well there was a line to get into our neighborhood store...a young guy > tries to get to front of line, old lady screaming at him when an old man >

Re: [AFMUG] OT HDMI wireless

I bought a pair at Best Buy. 5GHz HDMI HD wireless...$129.00...work well. On Mon, Apr 6, 2020, 12:30 PM wrote: > I want to take the output of a roku and split it. One for the monitor and > the other into a wireless hdmi extender to a monitor in a different room. > Any recommendations on

Re: [AFMUG] anybody else having Cambium CBRS issues this afternoon?

Probably unrelated, but I have a second ticket in with Cambium because we are unable to import CBRS sectors or SMs into cnMaestro since they went to v14 of the spreadsheet template which must have happened yesterday or today, since I imported a sector on Saturday using v13. Several

Re: [AFMUG] RDOF 25/3 spectrum

The programs I've been involved with did not have anything to do with the FCC.  Sounds like they have more technical competency than some other agenciesand that's a good thing. On 4/6/2020 4:40 PM, Eric Muehleisen wrote: No persistence. We objected and they sent someone out almost

Re: [AFMUG] anybody else having Cambium CBRS issues this afternoon?

We ran into this issue two weeks ago with Google as our SAS. Google had an outage, and cnMaestro lost connectivity. We had a bunch of radios get Suspended, it was a mess. Cambium verified it was the Google outage that caused the issue, but what is interesting about this, is that Evan at

Re: [AFMUG] RDOF 25/3 spectrum

Doesn’t SamKnows use the same MLabs methodology as the Google speedtest? They were working on a whole new method, but their original one seemed very flawed. It used a single TCP thread and avoided the nearest servers, on the premise of keeping ISPs from gaming the system. I have seen some

Re: [AFMUG] RDOF 25/3 spectrum

No persistence. We objected and they sent someone out almost immediately. This was during CAFII. I assume RDOF will be the same. I've yet to hear of anyone actually providing validation testing. I know the FCC has a couple different methods of remote validation but I haven't seen it personally. We

Re: [AFMUG] anybody else having Cambium CBRS issues this afternoon?

I got a response on my ticket with Cambium that Federated had a problem: “Federated Wireless has reported an issue with their SAS connectivity around 13:15 ETD. Federated Wireless has resolved the connectivity issue and is currently investigating the cause of the outage.” Somehow I

Re: [AFMUG] RDOF 25/3 spectrum

I'm glad they came out and checked.  You're probably a more believable witness than some Internet customers are.  How persistent did you have to be to get someone to come out? On 4/6/2020 4:25 PM, Eric Muehleisen wrote: The FCC won't drive around and test themselves, but they will follow you

Re: [AFMUG] RDOF 25/3 spectrum

The FCC won't drive around and test themselves, but they will follow you as you drive around and test. We disputed several locations that had won CAF2 and the FCC sent out two contractors to come out and verify our speeds/claims. We spent 2-3 hours with them one morning testing in various

Re: [AFMUG] RDOF 25/3 spectrum

The company owner/administrator talking to the government either believes the incorrect assumptions or is wholly committed to the lie.  So they confidently report that they're delivering 25 Meg like they're supposed to.  Evidence to the contrary is a fluke or an error.  The FCC isn't going to

Re: [AFMUG] OT HDMI wireless

We did not have an ethernet jack where we put our TV in he AV room (too lazy I guess), so I got one of the newer HomePlug devices and run ethernet that way. I had been doing it through a wireless adapter, but the distance to the WiFi AP was a little longer than I

Re: [AFMUG] anybody else having Cambium CBRS issues this afternoon?

Having issues here in CO. Seems to have stabilized for now. On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 12:34 PM Ken Hohhof wrote: > I have multiple sectors apparently having SAS heartbeat timeouts and > getting their grants terminated. Which is bad, bad, bad, because customers > go down when that happens. > > >

Re: [AFMUG] OT HDMI wireless

Hmmm... From: Bill Prince Sent: Monday, April 6, 2020 1:50 PM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT HDMI wireless If it is HomePlug AV2 or higher, it will do close to gigabit speeds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HomePlug bp On 4/6/2020 12:41 PM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: I guess

Re: [AFMUG] OT HDMI wireless

If it is HomePlug AV2 or higher, it will do close to gigabit speeds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HomePlug bp On 4/6/2020 12:41 PM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: I guess what I should have said, they are not Layer 1.  

Re: [AFMUG] OT HDMI wireless

Sorry. They are layer 1. They are invisible; they don't have an IP address or anything. bp On 4/6/2020 12:41 PM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: I guess what I should have said, they are not Layer 1.   So they

Re: [AFMUG] RDOF 25/3 spectrum

But seemingly, if everyone’s lying, won’t the FCC/etc. come down hard in response? Example A: 477’s, where many I’ve seen have a fabrication factor, sometimes a very high one. > On Apr 6, 2020, at 12:13 PM, Adam Moffett wrote: > > I've seen a number of grant funding proposals based on 25M and

Re: [AFMUG] OT HDMI wireless

I guess what I should have said, they are not Layer 1. So they are some speed of Layer 2 which may or may not work with HDMI over ethernet. From: Bill Prince Sent: Monday, April 6, 2020 1:38 PM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT HDMI wireless All the ones I know of are

Re: [AFMUG] OT HDMI wireless

All the ones I know of are transparent layer 2. bp On 4/6/2020 12:36 PM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: Not sure.  I think they are Layer 3 devices are they not?  

Re: [AFMUG] OT HDMI wireless

Not sure. I think they are Layer 3 devices are they not? From: Bill Prince Sent: Monday, April 6, 2020 1:09 PM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT HDMI wireless Would a power line adapter do the trick? bp On 4/6/2020 12:04 PM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: I am thinking of a monitor

Re: [AFMUG] anybody else having Cambium CBRS issues this afternoon?

Cloud is only as good as the people designing the application and infrastructure to live on the cloud. I think we have seen this over and over with vendors, especially Baicells. On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 3:34 PM Seth Mattinen wrote: > On 4/6/20 12:24, Matt Hoppes wrote: > > Didn’t I say this

Re: [AFMUG] anybody else having Cambium CBRS issues this afternoon?

On 4/6/20 12:24, Matt Hoppes wrote: Didn’t I say this would happen? And I was a shored by the vendors, the SAS providers, and everyone else that this wouldn’t happen. Here we are not even really into full production and a provider is down and people have customers down because the grounds

Re: [AFMUG] anybody else having Cambium CBRS issues this afternoon?

Didn’t I say this would happen? And I was a shored by the vendors, the SAS providers, and everyone else that this wouldn’t happen. Here we are not even really into full production and a provider is down and people have customers down because the grounds don’t last more than five minutes.

Re: [AFMUG] RDOF 25/3 spectrum

I've seen a number of grant funding proposals based on 25M and 100M speeds. In general what they do is lie.  Or they're wrong. First you use the capacity planning tool provided the manufacturer and remember that you can populate the values however you want to.  Your prediction doesn't have to

Re: [AFMUG] OT HDMI wireless

Would a power line adapter do the trick? bp On 4/6/2020 12:04 PM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: I am thinking of a monitor in the bathroom so my wife doesn’t have to pause Homeland for me.

Re: [AFMUG] OT HDMI wireless

The problem with multiple Roku devices is that there will be a buffer delay in each device resulting in echos or worse. I have individual rokus on my TVs as well so I can show all the same or all different depending on what is going on. On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 2:01 PM Ken Hohhof wrote: > That

Re: [AFMUG] anybody else having Cambium CBRS issues this afternoon?

Mark @ Amplex said he has problems with CNM + Federated. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 2:34 PM Ken Hohhof wrote: > I have multiple sectors apparently having SAS heartbeat timeouts and > getting their

Re: [AFMUG] OT HDMI wireless

I am thinking of a monitor in the bathroom so my wife doesn’t have to pause Homeland for me. I have one bathroom near our theater room that does have a cat5 based hdmi splitter monitor. Works well. But the upstairs one has no cat5 in the walls and I am way too lazy to attempt to fish an

Re: [AFMUG] OT HDMI wireless

I wish I had CAT5 to the remote location. It will have to be wireless. From: Cameron Crum Sent: Monday, April 6, 2020 12:58 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT HDMI wireless I use this one at both my house and my office. It works very well.

Re: [AFMUG] OT HDMI wireless

That would actually be useful for the people who have Fox News on 5 screens in the house so they can walk from room to room without missing a word. Yes, you can buy 5 Rokus, but it takes 5x the Internet bandwidth to essentially replicate broadcast TV. It kind of creeps me out to have Sean

Re: [AFMUG] OT HDMI wireless

Here is the x4 https://www.amazon.com/Monoprice-Amplifier-Splitter-Complete-Solution/dp/B00845RYP2/ref=sr_1_8?dchild=1=blackbird+hdmi+splitter=1586199520=8-8 It's really X5 as there is an hdmi pass through and 4 cat-6 extenders. On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 1:58 PM Cameron Crum wrote: > I use

Re: [AFMUG] OT HDMI wireless

I use this one at both my house and my office. It works very well. https://www.amazon.com/Monoprice-Blackbird-Splitter-Extender-Receivers/dp/B06XKX9NR6/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1=blackbird+hdmi+splitter=1586199429=8-4 I think they make a 4 channel one as well if you don't need 8. Cameron On Mon, Apr

Re: [AFMUG] OT HDMI wireless

I've used this for a few years. Input is a Pi and output is two TVs. https://www.amazon.com/HDMI-Mini-Splitter-1X2-Supports/dp/B016A8NEJY Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 2:48 PM wrote: > I want the two

Re: [AFMUG] OT HDMI wireless

I want the two monitors to be in sync. From: Joe Novak Sent: Monday, April 6, 2020 12:43 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT HDMI wireless It sounds simpler to buy another roku, to be honest. It'll probably cost you more in splitting equipment then it's worth,

Re: [AFMUG] Texans begin hoarding chickens during pandemic

I saw a study at a university that correlated Politicians with natural, convincing liars in high school and it was overwhelmingly true... On 04/06/2020 08:59 AM, Adam Moffett wrote: They forage for extra protein (bugs) or so I'm told. I presume if they ranged a large enough area they could

Re: [AFMUG] Not saying it's Aliens but...

Did you say there was an airport behind that ridge of mountains? Depending on the time of day, it could have been a weird reflection on a slow moving aircraft. Maybe a helicopter? bp On 4/6/2020 7:44 AM, Jaime Solorza wrote:

Re: [AFMUG] OT HDMI wireless

It sounds simpler to buy another roku, to be honest. It'll probably cost you more in splitting equipment then it's worth, unless you really have to have it running off a single roku. HDMI has the digital handshake for copyright protection, as a general rule it makes it very expensive to split it.

Re: [AFMUG] Not saying it's Aliens but...

Looked like a helicopter to me... On 04/06/2020 07:44 AM, Jaime Solorza wrote: The one skeeming by mountain is the one which caught my attention...the bug was just that ...a bug...I will post a picture from daylight later today On Sun, Apr 5, 2020, 11:04 PM Adam Moffett

[AFMUG] anybody else having Cambium CBRS issues this afternoon?

I have multiple sectors apparently having SAS heartbeat timeouts and getting their grants terminated. Which is bad, bad, bad, because customers go down when that happens. Separate but unrelated, I am having problems with v14 of the import spreadsheet template they just released, two error

[AFMUG] OT HDMI wireless

I want to take the output of a roku and split it. One for the monitor and the other into a wireless hdmi extender to a monitor in a different room. Any recommendations on wireless HDMI gear or splitters?-- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com

[AFMUG] RDOF 25/3 spectrum

So if I understand we’ll have to provide 25/3 to ALL locations that receive RDOF funding? If so, how would that happen without the 6GHz that isn’t out yet and won’t be by the time this round funds? -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] Texans begin hoarding chickens during pandemic

Feral chickens. Feral roosters can be dangerous. From: Lewis Bergman Sent: Monday, April 6, 2020 11:16 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Texans begin hoarding chickens during pandemic A half dozen checkens could forage the back yard of a 1/2 acre fine I think. I

Re: [AFMUG] Texans begin hoarding chickens during pandemic

i had yard chickens for a while. theyll eat everything, i particularly enjoyed feeding them chicken. I really wanted to get a rooster and hatch one of the chicks to feed to its mother. they ate pretty much every bug on my property, hung out in my tree and on the garage roof, but other than

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Shopping

Im only going grocery shopping once per week if we have to. Is every place out of chicken thighs? On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 10:40 AM Adam Moffett wrote: > haha, is that a true story or just a joke? > On 4/6/2020 11:24 AM, Jaime Solorza wrote: > > Well there was a line to get into our neighborhood

Re: [AFMUG] Texans begin hoarding chickens during pandemic

A half dozen checkens could forage the back yard of a 1/2 acre fine I think. I have lived around them before, I just think most that are buying them have no idea what they are getting into. I predict massive chicken flocks roaming the streets in a few weeks...until they are made into chicken

Re: [AFMUG] $3.5 million PPE deal in McDonalds parking lot

It's getting ridiculous. On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 11:59 AM wrote: > I got my photo taken by someone this morning. Doing a pre construction > walk through in SLC on a Verizon job. Myself and my guys were there with > their PPE, I even had a mask on. One of the UofU guys came over and said >

Re: [AFMUG] $3.5 million PPE deal in McDonalds parking lot

I got my photo taken by someone this morning. Doing a pre construction walk through in SLC on a Verizon job. Myself and my guys were there with their PPE, I even had a mask on. One of the UofU guys came over and said that someone was taking our photo and that we might want to distance a bit

[AFMUG] Ubnt AC Prism connectorized SM's

What model are people using to add higher gain dishes to CPE? i.e 2 foot dish and Bullet AC? Prism AC basestation? Something else that I haven't seen? -- -- *Sam Lambie* Taosnet Wireless Tech. 575-758-7598 Office www.Taosnet.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] Texans begin hoarding chickens during pandemic

They forage for extra protein (bugs) or so I'm told.  I presume if they ranged a large enough area they could live on just forage, but wouldn't they be leaner if they spent all day running around looking for seeds and bugs? I do enjoy the politician analogy.  IMO, the underlying drawback of

Re: [AFMUG] Texans begin hoarding chickens during pandemic

A couple of our neighbors raise chickens. They buy female chicks 2 dozen at a time. They tell me 2 dozen is the minimum order from the outlets they use. They come overnight in a box, and they usually throw in 2 or 3 extra to cover any shipping deaths and the

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Shopping

haha, is that a true story or just a joke? On 4/6/2020 11:24 AM, Jaime Solorza wrote: Well there was a line to get into our neighborhood store...a young guy tries to get to front of line, old lady screaming at him when an old man hits him with his cane!   The kid yells at them...if you don't

Re: [AFMUG] Texans begin hoarding chickens during pandemic

I guess feeding them is cheap, literally “chicken feed”. Maybe people see chickens pecking at the ground and assume they eat dirt. Cracked corn is indeed cheap. Whenever I go to Farm or RuralKing, they have lots of bags of chicken feed, so chickens must be popular. I remember when my

Re: [AFMUG] Fiber Up Tower

Not all only the ones that are more West facing on a mt side. The lightning there can be very impacting. The ones that have back up gennys do just fine during storms because most of the time the power is broken due to a fuse or breaker somewhere down the line. The others that have no genny and

Re: [AFMUG] Out of band access best practices

I use the portal provided by Epcom...works great for me. . On Mon, Apr 6, 2020, 5:52 AM TJ Trout wrote: > if you're going to do cameras you probably going to have to use a cloud > video service to be able to access the NVR behind the cell nat > > On Sun, Apr 5, 2020, 7:45 PM Jaime Solorza >

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Shopping

Well there was a line to get into our neighborhood store...a young guy tries to get to front of line, old lady screaming at him when an old man hits him with his cane! The kid yells at them...if you don't let me through I can't open the store!! On Mon, Apr 6, 2020, 9:03 AM Ken Hohhof wrote: >

Re: [AFMUG] Texans begin hoarding chickens during pandemic

I just keep throwing the chicken guts toward the neighbors hen house. One of these days I’ll get that pack of coyotes to kill that damn rooster. Mark > On Apr 6, 2020, at 10:58 AM, Steven Kenney wrote: > > They don't live that long too so you only get eggs for a year or so.. so you > need

Re: [AFMUG] Not saying it's Aliens but...

+1 We see things like that on our IR cameras. Bugs, moths, bats, and the like. bp On 4/6/2020 3:06 AM, Forrest Christian (List Account) wrote: Wimps.  I can't tell you how many bottle rockets I launched when I was younger by

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Shopping

I went at 6am this morning and it was fairly quiet. The grocery stores by us mostly have "senior hours" the first 1 or 2 hours after opening. You see some people who are clearly not seniors but not many people seem motivated to grocery shop that early. A few days ago I was concerned that

Re: [AFMUG] Texans begin hoarding chickens during pandemic

They don't live that long too so you only get eggs for a year or so.. so you need roosters and if you have roosters you can have fertilized eggs... and loud and annoying noises ! We have rules in our town you can't have roosters because the noise bothers neighbors. Texas on the other hand

Re: [AFMUG] Texans begin hoarding chickens during pandemic

Yep...and worse...the smell of chicken shit On Sun, Apr 5, 2020, 10:52 PM Lewis Bergman wrote: > I wonder if they understand what it takes to raise a chicken so it will > lay eggs. Where are they going to house them, what are they going to feed > them? So Stupid. > > On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at

Re: [AFMUG] Not saying it's Aliens but...

The one skeeming by mountain is the one which caught my attention...the bug was just that ...a bug...I will post a picture from daylight later today On Sun, Apr 5, 2020, 11:04 PM Adam Moffett wrote: > My cousins used to have bottle rocket battles. They'd saw the top off of > a wiffle ball bat

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Shopping

Better question is who puts chocolate pie on their actual list? Isn't that the kind of thing you buy on a whim and feel guilty about? On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 9:08 AM Adam Moffett wrote: > If I go to the local grocery store a half hour after opening or half > hour before closing then I'm just

[AFMUG] $3.5 million PPE deal in McDonalds parking lot

So this is how states buy masks these days. Normally I'd say it's just corrupt Illinois politics, but apparently this is the new normal. https://chicago.suntimes.com/coronavirus/2020/4/3/21207488/coronavirus-illin ois-medical-supplies-wild-west Reportedly the caper where the New England

[AFMUG] OT: Shopping

If I go to the local grocery store a half hour after opening or half hour before closing then I'm just about the only one there. At opening time there are always several people waiting for the doors to open.  Any other time there seems to be a steady flow of people in and out so these are my

Re: [AFMUG] Fiber Up Tower

This is a type A cable. Now imagine this was just a flat ribbon fiber and you bent it in a U without twisting the ribbon placing both MPOs on top of each other. Both Keys would be UP and fibers would be straight through. If you then took two identical cassettes and plugged them in, pairs would

Re: [AFMUG] Fiber Up Tower

I just drew it out and checked my last order - all type A. On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 8:31 AM Carl Peterson wrote: > I'm confusing myself. Let me pull up a diagram. > > > On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 8:29 AM Josh Baird wrote: > >> Got it, thanks for the hand holding. :) >> >> On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at

Re: [AFMUG] Fiber Up Tower

I'm confusing myself. Let me pull up a diagram. On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 8:29 AM Josh Baird wrote: > Got it, thanks for the hand holding. :) > > On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 9:27 AM Carl Peterson > wrote: > >> Type A Female to Female cable. >> Type A cassettes on BOTH ends. (Male pins in the

Re: [AFMUG] Fiber Up Tower

hold on- A is key up to key down. You want the keys the same so you want a Type B cable. On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 8:26 AM Carl Peterson wrote: > Type A Female to Female cable. > Type A cassettes on BOTH ends. (Male pins in the cassettes which is > default for FS and most cassettes) > > That's

Re: [AFMUG] Fiber Up Tower

Got it, thanks for the hand holding. :) On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 9:27 AM Carl Peterson wrote: > Type A Female to Female cable. > Type A cassettes on BOTH ends. (Male pins in the cassettes which is > default for FS and most cassettes) > > That's it. > > Not rocket science. > > On Mon, Apr 6,

Re: [AFMUG] Fiber Up Tower

Type A Female to Female cable. Type A cassettes on BOTH ends. (Male pins in the cassettes which is default for FS and most cassettes) That's it. Not rocket science. On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 8:23 AM Josh Baird wrote: > So - I don't think it's possible to use BiDI when using the cassettes as >

Re: [AFMUG] Fiber Up Tower

Yes, exactly. If you are doing BiDi, you want straight through. Not that cross pair won't work, but fiber 1 on one end won't match up with 1 on the other etc. If you use all straight through cables, cassettes etc everything works. They did the same thing to me on my first order so I have one

Re: [AFMUG] Fiber Up Tower

So - I don't think it's possible to use BiDI when using the cassettes as recommended by FS.. but I'm still trying to wrap my head around it. They recommended this: * https://www.fs.com/products/70220.html (12fiber, MTP female on both ends, Type "A" polarity) *

Re: [AFMUG] ePMP Speed Tests

FWIW I'd say we're at 99% success with link tests. Maybe an error here or there that I can't recall, but otherwise it's massively reliable. On the flip side the Ubnt test wouldn't work if either side was up for too long, so maybe I got used to that and anything that worked when I asked it to is

Re: [AFMUG] Fiber Up Tower

Carl, FS is recommending that I choose "Type C Cross-Pair" for polarity when ordering the MPT trunk cable. Are you saying this is incorrect and I should choose "Type A Straight Thru"? Thanks, Josh On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 11:48 AM Carl Peterson wrote: > I'd recommend using SCA cassettes and

Re: [AFMUG] Not saying it's Aliens but...

I’m more intrigued by the bright light that is flying across the mountain ridge. Seems too bright for a airplane not flying toward the camera. > On Apr 5, 2020, at 10:52 PM, Jaime Solorza wrote: > > On Sunday evenings I check all the cameras I support...this video is from a > PTZ camera at

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if you're going to do cameras you probably going to have to use a cloud video service to be able to access the NVR behind the cell nat On Sun, Apr 5, 2020, 7:45 PM Jaime Solorza wrote: > Hikvision NVR, One PTZ and three fixed...all IP > > On Sun, Apr 5, 2020, 8:22 PM wrote: > >> Not bad if you

Re: [AFMUG] Not saying it's Aliens but...

Wimps. I can't tell you how many bottle rockets I launched when I was younger by holding the stick loosely in one hand and lighting it with a lighter in the other one. Ala.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPDZcdofOk8 You also could just buy the packs at the small town grocery store. Still