Re: [AFMUG] OT: Using HDTV as Web Browser

2015-01-02 Thread Ken Hohhof
Aren’t there Android powered dongles and boxes for $100 that have HDMI and USB ports for keyboard/mouse? From: Andy Trimmell Sent: Friday, January 02, 2015 3:04 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Using HDTV as Web Browser http://computers.woot.com/?ref=gh_cp_3 From: Af

Re: [AFMUG] the future of being an ISP

2015-01-22 Thread Ken Hohhof
So did all you folks stop worrying about the 5 GHz rules? They are already a done deal, the end of new equipment authorization is coming soon, to be followed by end of sale. Seems like this is as big an issue if not bigger than having to pay into USF which, let's face it, we just turn around

Re: [AFMUG] APC surge protector cages

2015-01-23 Thread Ken Hohhof
http://www.pcnation.com/web/details.asp?item=857497 http://www.pcnation.com/web/details.asp?item=DA3219 From: Paul McCall Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 10:21 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: [AFMUG] APC surge protector cages Does APC not make the 4 port or 20 port cages that hold Chuck’s surge

Re: [AFMUG] WBMFG quality going up! Buy buy buy!

2015-01-23 Thread Ken Hohhof
scared if they see me with holding a power tool. From: Chuck McCown Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 10:46 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] WBMFG quality going up! Buy buy buy! So, would you have to have a t shaped part to go inside and clamp against the back side? From: Ken Hohhof Sent

Re: [AFMUG] UBNT NanoStation MIB

2015-01-23 Thread Ken Hohhof
Stable stable? Reminds me of Stan Stann. (Only Illinois people will get that reference. Stan Stann tower leasing.) If Stan Stann got his own country, would it be Stanstannstan? From: Josh Luthman Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 11:02 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] UBNT NanoStation

Re: [AFMUG] Site Monitor 5 channel PDU voltage?

2015-01-24 Thread Ken Hohhof
But if he’s talking Trango Lynx, probably not floating. From: Daniel White Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2015 11:21 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Site Monitor 5 channel PDU voltage? Depending on the radio it might have a floating ground. Spec sheet might say -48VDC since that is

Re: [AFMUG] Canopy 5.x ghz 450 with KP Omni

2015-01-26 Thread Ken Hohhof
I've had similar results with the KPP and L-Com omnis. Both work but range is underwhelming. KPP supposedly has downtilt but I can't really tell the difference. I don't believe 450 AP will let you get to max regulatory EIRP in 5.7. -Original Message- From: Brian Sullivan Sent:

Re: [AFMUG] Wireshark filter for DDOS attack?

2015-01-26 Thread Ken Hohhof
You may only have 2 minutes. From: James Howard Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 3:44 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Wireshark filter for DDOS attack? Once you’ve identified it, what do you do with it? From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Steve Utick Sent: Monday,

Re: [AFMUG] Sent from Snipping Tool

2015-02-04 Thread Ken Hohhof
CaptureBetter be between mountaintops. Earth curvature + Fresnel clearance = 2100 ft. From: Adam Moffett Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2015 10:38 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Sent from Snipping Tool When they presented the Airfiber 5X did they say 200km range with a straight

Re: [AFMUG] Sent from Snipping Tool

2015-02-04 Thread Ken Hohhof
Normally at that distance using TDD, the xmt/rcv guard time will cut significantly into capacity. It’s like road construction where they turn a mile of 2 way road into a single lane with flaggers at each end. Every time they switch the flow, there is a mile of empty road. From: Josh Luthman

Re: [AFMUG] Rodizio's

2015-02-04 Thread Ken Hohhof
Heard of steak. Is that like herd of cows? From: CBB - Jay Fuller Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2015 9:49 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Rodizio's mike lives a sheltered life.never heard of steak. - Original Message - From: Mike Hammett To: af@afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] Cable reel stand for tower work

2015-02-03 Thread Ken Hohhof
That company’s name is probably holding them back. Also probably lots of people looking for violins and tubas going WTF? From: Chris Herrington Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2015 8:25 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Cable reel stand for tower work I have been handling cable for 30

[AFMUG] OT - manhole explosions

2015-02-03 Thread Ken Hohhof
So is this for real? Hundreds of manhole explosions in New York City due to road salt getting into transformers? My problems suddenly look smaller. http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/fdny-park-slope-manhole-fire-report-explosion-article-1.2100526

Re: [AFMUG] Survay Monkey Should UBNT Make a Radio With AFiber port?

2015-02-03 Thread Ken Hohhof
). - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com From: Ken Hohhof af...@kwisp.com To: af@afmug.com Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 10:48:29 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Survay Monkey Should UBNT Make

Re: [AFMUG] Net Neutrality - CNN front page

2015-02-03 Thread Ken Hohhof
I assume you’re joking. But I’ll bet 24.9M / 2.9M with no USF taxes would be an attractive offer to customers! From: Kurt Fankhauser Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2015 9:09 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Net Neutrality - CNN front page thats the way i am interpretting it, does that

Re: [AFMUG] confirmed.....900 mhz 450 coming

2015-02-04 Thread Ken Hohhof
Telrad LTE in 3.65, Wimax in TVWS. Do you have personal experience with either or both of these? From: Mike Hammett Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2015 12:18 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] confirmed.900 mhz 450 coming Both options I mentioned do sync. - Mike Hammett

Re: [AFMUG] 900 MHz 450....

2015-02-04 Thread Ken Hohhof
In fairness, some WISPs have consistently said they are deep in trees and 900 MHz spectrum is clean for them and also their customer base doesn’t need to stream 4K, they just want more throughput than 900 FSK will give them. Via wider channels, higher modulation, or magic. I know many of us

Re: [AFMUG] Sterling's tour

2015-02-02 Thread Ken Hohhof
I find the whole Uber vs taxi thing interesting from the common carrier standpoint. Given that some people want to reclassify us as common carriers. I keep seeing that Uber rates customers as well as drivers, and if you as a customer get poor ratings from Uber drivers, you may be standing

Re: [AFMUG] FW: Introducing airFiber X

2015-02-02 Thread Ken Hohhof
So will airFiber X be a disruptively priced FPGA based radio? Or an AC chip based radio with gigabit throughput? What does Ubiquiti want that brand to mean? Custom design? Or throughput similar to fiber? From: Josh Reynolds Sent: Monday, February 02, 2015 5:02 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject:

Re: [AFMUG] FW: Introducing airFiber X

2015-02-02 Thread Ken Hohhof
The $399 price point doesn’t matter so much if you couple it to $4000 worth of antennas. From: cstann...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, February 02, 2015 5:12 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] FW: Introducing airFiber X I'm guessing AF5 chipset with the same 2-antenna support, some kind of

[AFMUG] OT - Korea needs Fry Sauce

2015-02-02 Thread Ken Hohhof
look at the photo http://www.eater.com/2013/2/28/6474149/mcdonalds-korea-kicks-out-kids-for-ordering-250-worth-of-french-fries

Re: [AFMUG] Survay Monkey Should UBNT Make a Radio With AFiber port?

2015-02-02 Thread Ken Hohhof
Why do you say no more ESD issues? (I think you really mean lightning issues, I don’t buy this wind blowing across the plastic nonsense.) A lot of the time when radios get zapped, it’s the power circuitry that’s damaged. You are still powering the radio over copper. Until you figure out how

Re: [AFMUG] VOIP for 40 locations?

2015-02-06 Thread Ken Hohhof
Do all 40 locations have your Internet? From: Steve Discher Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 8:34 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] VOIP for 40 locations? You don't event need a T1. Use asterisk as the pbx and a sip trunk and pay by the minute. Use any ata at the customer site and your

Re: [AFMUG] Modem over ethernet ?

2015-02-07 Thread Ken Hohhof
Call BB Electronics (www.bbelec.com) and talk to an applications engineer, see if they have a solution for that. From: Jaime Solorza Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2015 7:47 AM To: Animal Farm Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Modem over ethernet ? Moxa makes an Ethernet extender over all kinds of wire.

Re: [AFMUG] This Is Your FCC on Drugs

2015-02-07 Thread Ken Hohhof
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=this+is+your+fcc+on+drugs click on link in search results From: Rory Conaway Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2015 10:13 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] This Is Your FCC on Drugs Cant’ get into it without a Wall Street Journal Subscription. Rory From: Af

Re: [AFMUG] Everyone.Net

2015-02-03 Thread Ken Hohhof
You must be mistaken. Their website says proven 99.99% service reliability. You can't put something on the Internet if it isn't true. -Original Message- From: Travis Johnson Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2015 10:24 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Everyone.Net We ran our own

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Wired Articles Today

2015-02-03 Thread Ken Hohhof
That along with the latest more powerful Pi and PRTG free version now allowing up to 30 sensors, might make it attractive to put PRTG remote probes all over the network, with just one main probe running on an actual computer. So instead of just graphing ping times from my NOC to everywhere, I

Re: [AFMUG] streaming video

2015-02-05 Thread Ken Hohhof
Worlds like “unlimited” may not have the usual meaning to mobile carriers. Oops, it looks like you hit the un-limit. From: CBB - Jay Fuller Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2015 12:08 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] streaming video Unlimited...but that wasn't the point :). Is a 10

Re: [AFMUG] Net neutrality

2015-02-05 Thread Ken Hohhof
But the only permanent part of this I see is being reclassified as a utility. Everything else including forbearing from most of the bad stuff is totally up to change, with very little upside and tons of downside. It would be different if this was proposed legislation, it wouldn't be

Re: [AFMUG] AF rumored 450 ap lite...

2015-02-05 Thread Ken Hohhof
They did that with 100 series, I still have one of those APs out there. I have a fair number of 450 APs with less than 10 SMs. They probably will eventually have more. But in the meantime, I could be spending that money on SMs. And then a license upgrade later. It is a zero sum game, we

Re: [AFMUG] Shout out to the mfg crew!

2015-02-06 Thread Ken Hohhof
The progress of commercial 802.11ad products is disappointing. I’m imagining the high tech luxury house of the future having a central 10 gig fiber hub with a 2.4/5/60 GHz AP in the ceiling of every room, plus aluminum foil backed insulation in all the outside walls to block interference from

Re: [AFMUG] Testing M900 Rocket

2015-02-07 Thread Ken Hohhof
The way single pol Yagis and VHF TV antennas got clogged with ice and snow in our recent 20 inch snowfall, I have to think those dual pol Yagis would be problematic. Not in your area though, I assume. It does look like a plastic tube of appropriate diameter could be slipped over it as a

Re: [AFMUG] VOIP for 40 locations?

2015-02-07 Thread Ken Hohhof
To simulate the hunt group feature, you will probably have to use a ring group or follow-me. From: Bruce Robertson Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2015 3:43 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] VOIP for 40 locations? I'm fond of voip.ms. No minimums, about $1/mo for each DID, and about a

Re: [AFMUG] Recommended OMNI for a 58430 AP

2015-02-07 Thread Ken Hohhof
He is talking about 430 which may go a bit farther, although now with MIMO-A mode they are about equal. Part of the problem is the 450 AP won’t let you set the xmt power for max allowable EIRP with a low gain antenna. To maximize distance, I might use 450 instead of 430, and a 10 MHz channel

Re: [AFMUG] Alpha FXM2000 UPS

2015-02-03 Thread Ken Hohhof
I seem to remember there was a sale sometime last year, at least that’s what the Power Tel website was saying. From: Jason McKemie Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2015 1:37 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Alpha FXM2000 UPS I think Ken found a one - off screaming deal on them a while

Re: [AFMUG] holy crap...

2015-01-15 Thread Ken Hohhof
Maybe we need a fake ISIS tweet telling all jihadists to do this. From: Josh Luthman Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 10:29 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] holy crap... Darwinism. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Jan

Re: [AFMUG] Licensed backhaul pricing - still ridiculous

2015-01-15 Thread Ken Hohhof
All good points, not sure they address Erich’s issue of needing more bandwidth per link without multiple antennas per link on the tower. I think he’s saying an IP20 class radio is too expensive, and over the next few years lots of us are going to need that kind of radio. From: Mike Hammett

Re: [AFMUG] IP20c 4x4 MIMO? Confused

2015-01-14 Thread Ken Hohhof
Didn't you have a chart? Was it on coffee mugs or t shirts or something, or were those requests from the peanut gallery? Somehow there's a chart for that doesn't have the same zing as there's an app for that. -Original Message- From: Daniel White Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Re: [AFMUG] Licensed backhaul pricing - still ridiculous

2015-01-15 Thread Ken Hohhof
The scary thing to think of however is that the big boys may push hard to kick us out of these bands entirely (which they're already toying around with on 5Ghz). Aren't we already kind of dead man walking in 5 GHz, hoping for a reprieve before our execution date? Pending some kind of industry

Re: [AFMUG] holy crap...

2015-01-15 Thread Ken Hohhof
for good measure and start wrecking all our towers. On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Ken Hohhof af...@kwisp.com wrote: Maybe we need a fake ISIS tweet telling all jihadists to do this. From: Josh Luthman Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 10:29 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG

[AFMUG] OT - RadioSprint? SprintShack?

2015-01-15 Thread Ken Hohhof
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-15/radioshack-said-in-talks-to-sell-stores-to-sprint-in-bankruptcy.html

Re: [AFMUG] Licensed backhaul pricing - still ridiculous

2015-01-15 Thread Ken Hohhof
. Roadmap to 10G via licensed, anyone? - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com From: Ken Hohhof af...@kwisp.com To: af@afmug.com Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 8:41:42 AM

Re: [AFMUG] Licensed backhaul pricing - still ridiculous

2015-01-15 Thread Ken Hohhof
within less than 1 dB of the Shannon bound. From: Ken Hohhof Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 11:04 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Licensed backhaul pricing - still ridiculous If I remember correctly, uncoded QAM is about 8 dB from the Shannon bound. Most licensed radios include

Re: [AFMUG] holy crap...

2015-01-16 Thread Ken Hohhof
: No... they'd probably take a bomb along for good measure and start wrecking all our towers. On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Ken Hohhof af...@kwisp.com wrote: Maybe we need a fake ISIS tweet telling all jihadists to do this. From: Josh Luthman Sent: Thursday

Re: [AFMUG] best sync settings for 5ghz fsk, 450 ptp and 450pmp

2015-01-16 Thread Ken Hohhof
I don’t know if it’s best, but where we have FSK colocated with 450, we have these settings: FSK: 75%, 10 miles, 2 slots 450: 83%, 10 miles, 2 slots Once the FSK is all gone, we would probably change the 450 to our usual setting of 75% and 8 slots. For simplicity, we didn’t want to change

Re: [AFMUG] System Release 13.3 available

2015-01-16 Thread Ken Hohhof
That’s the way I read the release notes as well. Could someone from Cambium please clarify? I agree, it true, that’s a show stopper. Installers will kill me if we have to go back to reading numbers over the phone. From: Mark Radabaugh Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 12:03 PM To: af@afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] System Release 13.3 available

2015-01-16 Thread Ken Hohhof
Broadcasting) geo...@cbcast.com wrote: I'm lost.. or slow. They took the alignment tone out or what? On 1/16/2015 12:26 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: That’s the way I read the release notes as well. Could someone from Cambium please clarify? I agree, it true, that’s a show stopper

Re: [AFMUG] 6 or 11ghz best option for higher capacity ?

2015-01-16 Thread Ken Hohhof
I would first talk to your frequency coordinator about what FCC channel widths can be licensed in what bands. I’m not sure 40 MHz channels exist in 6 GHz, and I believe you’ll find an 80 MHz channel width means you need to license 2 adjacent channels. There is no benefit to having a radio

Re: [AFMUG] 6 or 11ghz best option for higher capacity ?

2015-01-16 Thread Ken Hohhof
From: Ken Hohhof af...@kwisp.com To: af@afmug.com Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 1:18:19 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 6 or 11ghz best option for higher capacity ? I would first talk to your frequency coordinator about what FCC channel widths

Re: [AFMUG] System Release 13.3 available

2015-01-16 Thread Ken Hohhof
St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Jon Bruce jbruce-af...@ptpbroadband.com wrote: How do I convince my installers to use the tone and stop calling the NOC for numbers over the phone? On 1/16/2015 1:26 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: That’s the way I read

Re: [AFMUG] holy crap...

2015-01-16 Thread Ken Hohhof
evil possums. On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 8:37 AM, Ken Hohhof af...@kwisp.com wrote: Damn, you reminded me, I have a battery box I need to open up because I’ve seen mice going in and out. I was not looking forward to that, probably why it slipped my mind. At least it’s not snakes

Re: [AFMUG] Tower monitoring

2015-01-16 Thread Ken Hohhof
Jay uses WEB600. From: Erich Kaiser Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 2:54 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: [AFMUG] Tower monitoring Looking for tower monitoring, with 4 dry contacts, ethernet connectivity and built-in alerting, any solutions, besides ITWatchdogs? Low cost.

Re: [AFMUG] Old Canopy Dishes

2015-01-16 Thread Ken Hohhof
There was some discussion that because of the way the metalization was done inside the old fiberglass 27RD dishes, it would not work with dual polarization. I'm pretty sure we must have changed out some FSK for 450 though on the old fiberglass dishes by now and have not seen that problem. I

Re: [AFMUG] holy crap...

2015-01-16 Thread Ken Hohhof
were jumping around like some Charlie Chaplin movie. One of us hit her with a shovel killed her. It was laughable after it was over; but not during. My adrenaline level was on 11. bp part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com On 1/16/2015 12:48 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: Sure it wasn’t a muskrat? From

Re: [AFMUG] System Release 13.3 available

2015-01-16 Thread Ken Hohhof
for numbers over the phone? On 1/16/2015 1:26 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: That’s the way I read the release notes as well. Could someone from Cambium please clarify? I agree, it true, that’s a show stopper. Installers will kill me if we have to go back to reading

Re: [AFMUG] OT - RadioSprint? SprintShack?

2015-01-16 Thread Ken Hohhof
:48 PM, Ken Hohhof af...@kwisp.com wrote: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-15/radioshack-said-in-talks-to-sell-stores-to-sprint-in-bankruptcy.html -- -- bp part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com

Re: [AFMUG] Old Canopy Dishes

2015-01-16 Thread Ken Hohhof
Dan, are you seeing this at both ends? In my case with the FW mismatch, it was only at the SM. -Original Message- From: Dan Petermann Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 2:41 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Old Canopy Dishes we are seeing some locations with signal strength ratios

Re: [AFMUG] OT - RadioSprint? SprintShack?

2015-01-16 Thread Ken Hohhof
1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Jan 16, 2015 7:27 PM, Ken Hohhof af...@kwisp.com wrote: It also sounds like the deal would just be to lease some of the the store locations to be closed. I originally heard the story on the radio, and they made it sound like Sprint was actually buying Electrode Hut

Re: [AFMUG] OT - RadioSprint? SprintShack?

2015-01-16 Thread Ken Hohhof
weren’t that bad back in the day. From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Ken Hohhof Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 9:35 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT - RadioSprint? SprintShack? Not Heathkit. Knight Kit? Realistic? They got Knight Kits when Tandy purchased

Re: [AFMUG] EPMP Minimum System Specs rant

2015-01-20 Thread Ken Hohhof
Nate’s question to Cambium was what minimum specs are needed for ePMP field techs. Note everyone sends their field techs out with i7 laptops, given that compact size, long battery life, durability and cost are a consideration. It would be nice to know what factors affect the GUI speed.

Re: [AFMUG] EPMP Minimum System Specs rant

2015-01-20 Thread Ken Hohhof
Sounds like HTML5 is the new Java? Platform independent and dog slow? Actually, it's pretty amazing that any webpage could take that long to load. What the hell is going on behind the scenes? Are they pushing a complex client side app out to the browser for every page? At that point, might

Re: [AFMUG] CBRS license cost

2015-01-21 Thread Ken Hohhof
No idea, but I hope the cost per year per census tract for a PAL will be low enough to afford but high enough to discourage squatting. I also wonder how they will deal with geographically adjacent licenses, obviously radio waves don't stop at the edge of a census tract. I assume if someone

Re: [AFMUG] CBRS license cost

2015-01-21 Thread Ken Hohhof
That's kind of disappointing. Do you know what mechanisms they plan on putting in place to keep the big carriers from just snapping it all up and warehousing it? I guess that would still mean we could use it as general access as long as they are just squatting on it and not deploying anything

Re: [AFMUG] EPMP Minimum System Specs rant

2015-01-21 Thread Ken Hohhof
I wonder what the source code looks like for an HTML5 “hello world” page. It’s kind of shocking how fast a straight HTML/CSS page with no bloat comes up. It used to be Google too great pride in how fast their results appeared in your browser, consistently under a second. Now even Google

Re: [AFMUG] CBRS license cost

2015-01-21 Thread Ken Hohhof
this significantly in use outside of venues... small cell stuff. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com From: Ken Hohhof af...@kwisp.com To: af@afmug.com Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 12

Re: [AFMUG] EPMP Minimum System Specs rant

2015-01-21 Thread Ken Hohhof
LOL, you said “desktop”. That’s so cute, in a 1999 kind of way. I think you mean “homescreen”. Or do you store your documents in that picture of a file cabinet, and use the little animated dog and paper clip when you need help? OMG, I’ll bet you say “click” instead of “tap” and “swipe”.

Re: [AFMUG] Business Radio Licensing?

2015-01-21 Thread Ken Hohhof
But to their credit, they are usually right that you forgot to file the form Tim referenced. So while it is kind of a scam, get thee hence forthwith to the FCC website and file your construction notice. The license should state the filing deadline, it’s fairly generous, like 12 or 18 months,

Re: [AFMUG] [SPAM] Re: RF frequency mapping program ?

2015-01-21 Thread Ken Hohhof
Yes, I’ve always found when I’m working on fixing a technical problem, someone shouting that I’m a bumbling idiot puts me in a better mood and makes the job go faster. At least you posted on DSL Reports where it will get lost in a million other posts calling ISPs bumbling idiots, since that’s

Re: [AFMUG] Bigger batteries for Smart UPS

2015-01-20 Thread Ken Hohhof
. Should I just load up on some decent size wet cell and wire them up? Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Jan 20, 2015 3:32 PM, Ken Hohhof af...@kwisp.com wrote: I don’t have specific numbers for you, but I have observed

Re: [AFMUG] Canopy to Epmp migration path adapter?

2015-01-21 Thread Ken Hohhof
For the KP dishes, have you checked with them, I’ll bet you could just buy new holders. I would still count on touching up the alignment, at least the vertical. From: Bill Prince Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 2:11 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Canopy to Epmp migration path

Re: [AFMUG] Canopy to Epmp migration path adapter?

2015-01-21 Thread Ken Hohhof
We regularly see posts from executives at Convergence, including at the time ePMP was introduced, none of whom are Charles. I think Charles returned to his home planet, and is now rooming with Elvis. From: Josh Luthman Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 8:42 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re:

Re: [AFMUG] Canopy to Epmp migration path adapter?

2015-01-21 Thread Ken Hohhof
dishes… the common denominator is the SM form factor! Gino A. Villarini President Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. www.aeronetpr.com @aeronetpr From: Ken Hohhof af...@kwisp.com Reply-To: af@afmug.com af@afmug.com Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 at 4:25 PM To: af@afmug.com af@afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] which case works with the rb850?

2015-01-17 Thread Ken Hohhof
I assume he means an 850Gx2, which is in stock at resellers, and claims to fit in the same case as a 450/450G. From: Mike Hammett Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2015 12:33 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] which case works with the rb850? Wherever you source your other Mikrotik products?

Re: [AFMUG] Strange CTM/CMM behavior

2015-01-19 Thread Ken Hohhof
You could check here for GPS testing advisories: http://www.faasafety.gov/SPANS/notices_public.aspx From: Gabriel Pike Sent: Monday, January 19, 2015 8:09 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Strange CTM/CMM behavior No. I am in a rural area of Michigan. From: Af

Re: [AFMUG] 6 or 11ghz best option for higher capacity ?

2015-01-19 Thread Ken Hohhof
to clear a channel, it isn’t going to be available on the orthogonal polarization. From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Ken Hohhof Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 2:59 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 6 or 11ghz best option for higher capacity

Re: [AFMUG] 6 or 11ghz best option for higher capacity ?

2015-01-19 Thread Ken Hohhof
it... On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Dan Petermann d...@wyoming.com wrote: I’m curious also. I have 13 ExtremeAir links, and a few G2 and ExploreAir. On Jan 19, 2015, at 12:15 PM, Ken Hohhof af...@kwisp.com wrote: What kind of problems, and what model? The G2 links we put in just

Re: [AFMUG] 450 colo'd with FSK

2015-01-19 Thread Ken Hohhof
You need to use the frame calculator, the timing parameters like downlink percent will be different between FSK and OFDM to get them to line up. Doing a quick search at the Cambium website, I think this is the document you want:

Re: [AFMUG] holy crap...

2015-01-15 Thread Ken Hohhof
: No... they'd probably take a bomb along for good measure and start wrecking all our towers. On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Ken Hohhof af...@kwisp.com wrote: Maybe we need a fake ISIS tweet telling all jihadists to do this. From: Josh Luthman Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 10

Re: [AFMUG] Power AF24 with GIGE-POE-APC - 24v-48v DC-DC

2015-01-15 Thread Ken Hohhof
I just bite the bullet and use a Mean Well RSD 200W unit, it’s overkill, and not DIN rail, but it works good. The other solution that comes to mind is a 24V to 24V converter with isolated output, then stack the output on the existing 24V. It appears that Sola makes one, or there’s this very

Re: [AFMUG] Licensed backhaul pricing - still ridiculous

2015-01-14 Thread Ken Hohhof
Now I read an Ars article pointing to this PAC saying Comcast/NBC is colluding with Obama: http://static1.squarespace.com/static/53039c35e4b00ab5492b3143/t/54b58381e4b0fe684b26127f/1421181825846/NBC+Press+Conservative+War+Chest+Rallies+NBC+Affiliates.pdf I can’t tell news from satire anymore.

Re: [AFMUG] my first epmp - Questions

2015-01-14 Thread Ken Hohhof
It looks like $70 MSRP for the APC version, $60 for the standalone version, street price on both below $40. If you think those are too expensive, price out Transtector ALPU or Cambium LPU, well over $100, and those are just surge suppressors. From: Mathew Howard Sent: Wednesday, January 14,

Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Queue type question

2015-01-14 Thread Ken Hohhof
So when rate hits limit, you want to buffer up packets and increase latency, rather than drop packets? I can tell you for sure don’t use RED, which is based on increased probability of packet drop as buffer fills. The D stands for drop. But eventually you have to drop packets, what choice is

Re: [AFMUG] the future of being an ISP

2015-01-22 Thread Ken Hohhof
. The problem is that the rules were like using a hammer to break an egg. Rory From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Ken Hohhof Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 8:28 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] the future of being an ISP My worry would be that manufacturers decide

Re: [AFMUG] 450 Mounting Brackets

2015-01-22 Thread Ken Hohhof
If you are buying the sector antennas from KPP, they will also sell you the 450 AP mounting bracket: http://www.kpperformance.ca/mti-wireless-antenna-mount-mt-120018-a although I suspect they are Chinese MTI knockoffs. Detail not as sharp in the cast parts, and covered with some sort of oil,

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Clearwire

2015-01-22 Thread Ken Hohhof
Searching on eBay, it looks like a lot of the CPE was Motorola. From: Josh Luthman Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 3:29 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Clearwire Wimax. It was the competitor to LTE. Sprint vs Verizon. Guess who won =P Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Clearwire

2015-01-22 Thread Ken Hohhof
Didn’t Motorola buy NextNet? Wait, is that where the 320 came from? From: TJ Trout Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 3:37 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Clearwire Old ones were next net On Jan 22, 2015 1:36 PM, Ken Hohhof af...@kwisp.com wrote: Searching on eBay, it looks

Re: [AFMUG] the future of being an ISP

2015-01-22 Thread Ken Hohhof
://www.delmarvawifi.com cell (410) 708-1937 -Original Message- From: Ken Hohhof mailto:af...@kwisp.com Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 9:28am To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] the future of being an ISP So did all you folks stop worrying about the 5 GHz rules

Re: [AFMUG] Epmp newbee

2015-01-22 Thread Ken Hohhof
Lots of 2.4 stuff (whole farm WiFi) sold in the back of farm magazines. From: Craig House Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 8:24 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Epmp newbee Cant use 5Ghz All my BH links are in 5ghz and I cant get though trees with 5ghz. 90% of my customer base is

Re: [AFMUG] WBMFG quality going up! Buy buy buy!

2015-01-22 Thread Ken Hohhof
at 7:26 PM, Ken Hohhof af...@kwisp.com wrote: How about MTOW or pipe-to-pipe-clamp variants to attach to the L and U channels we find on some grain legs, both vertical and horizontal, could also be used to attach pipes to various handrails. From: Josh Luthman Sent: Thursday, January 22

Re: [AFMUG] Higher Gain 5g Dual-Pol Omnis

2015-01-22 Thread Ken Hohhof
. www.aeronetpr.com @aeronetpr From: Ken Hohhof af...@kwisp.com Reply-To: af@afmug.com af@afmug.com Date: Thursday, January 22, 2015 at 1:58 PM To: af@afmug.com af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Higher Gain 5g Dual-Pol Omnis I have 2 towers with 450 and an omni for that reason. At the lower

Re: [AFMUG] EPMP Minimum System Specs rant

2015-01-20 Thread Ken Hohhof
is everyone using when they see lag? What browser are those of you who aren't seeing lag using? On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Ken Hohhof af...@kwisp.com wrote: Good job of merging 2 threads! You win one free Internet! From: Chuck McCown Sent: Tuesday, January 20

Re: [AFMUG] Licensed backhaul pricing - still ridiculous

2015-01-15 Thread Ken Hohhof
License keys sound like a good idea, but my experience is buy them up front, or you will end up kicking yourself over “today I could buy a whole new radio for the cost of the upgrade key”. If it’s too expensive with full keys, it’s probably too expensive period. From: Daniel White Sent:

Re: [AFMUG] [BULK] Re: 1 Gigabit Licensed Link

2015-01-14 Thread Ken Hohhof
Just don’t make a habit of saying things that are demonstrably false, or you will be forced to run for public office. From: Daniel White Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 12:23 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: [BULK] Re: [AFMUG] 1 Gigabit Licensed Link Too much work and not enough sleep.

Re: [AFMUG] Power AF24 with GIGE-POE-APC - 24v-48v DC-DC

2015-01-15 Thread Ken Hohhof
, 2015 at 7:56 PM, Ken Hohhof af...@kwisp.com wrote: I just bite the bullet and use a Mean Well RSD 200W unit, it’s overkill, and not DIN rail, but it works good. The other solution that comes to mind is a 24V to 24V converter with isolated output, then stack the output on the existing 24V

Re: [AFMUG] Higher Gain 5g Dual-Pol Omnis

2015-01-22 Thread Ken Hohhof
I think that’s unlikely. The highest you usually see in a 90 degree sector is maybe 17-18 dBi. What you gain in horizontal coverage, you give up in either gain or vertical beamwidth, and you really don’t want narrower vertical than the 17 dBi sectors. So for 4x the horizontal coverage, you

Re: [AFMUG] OT: I don't want to be this installer!

2015-01-22 Thread Ken Hohhof
Seriously, Siklu posted this? What were they thinking? Can’t tell what he is standing on, but it looks like he should have fall protection as well. From: Gino Villarini Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 10:46 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: [AFMUG] OT: I don't want to be this installer! The guy

Re: [AFMUG] [WISPA Members] the future of being an ISP

2015-01-22 Thread Ken Hohhof
You mean the FCC vote on Feb. 26? That’s a privately circulated draft. I don’t think the public gets to see it beforehand. Maybe Steve Coran knows more. Or do you mean the Thune-Upton draft legislation?

Re: [AFMUG] the future of being an ISP

2015-01-22 Thread Ken Hohhof
under the influence of lobbyists. From: Cameron Crum Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 11:26 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] the future of being an ISP If ISPs have to collect, does that mean they are also eligible for subsidies? On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 8:28 AM, Ken Hohhof af

Re: [AFMUG] Higher Gain 5g Dual-Pol Omnis

2015-01-22 Thread Ken Hohhof
with 15 customers on a tower... John Woodfield Delmarva WiFi http://www.delmarvawifi.com cell (410) 708-1937 -Original Message- From: Ken Hohhof af...@kwisp.com Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 12:08pm To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Higher Gain 5g Dual-Pol Omnis I think

Re: [AFMUG] Net neutrality

2015-02-11 Thread Ken Hohhof
Block legal content? No. -Original Message- From: Brett A Mansfield Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 10:52 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Net neutrality I was kind of wondering another thing about this proposal. I know it will make it so we cannot have fast and slow

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