Re: [AFMUG] 60Ghz PtMP, Why Doesn't Everyone Have It?

2017-05-08 Thread Sterling Jacobson
than 802.11ac based radios. On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Sterling Jacobson <sterl...@avative.net<mailto:sterl...@avative.net>> wrote: What am I missing here? Can't Cambium and UBNT and others simply overlay the same radio architecture/software they have developed over a decade, on

Re: [AFMUG] 60Ghz PtMP, Why Doesn't Everyone Have It?

2017-05-08 Thread Sterling Jacobson
not work? On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 3:05 PM, Sterling Jacobson <sterl...@avative.net<mailto:sterl...@avative.net>> wrote: What am I missing here? Can't Cambium and UBNT and others simply overlay the same radio architecture/software they have developed over a decade, on top of a 60GHz r

[AFMUG] 60Ghz PtMP, Why Doesn't Everyone Have It?

2017-05-08 Thread Sterling Jacobson
What am I missing here? Can't Cambium and UBNT and others simply overlay the same radio architecture/software they have developed over a decade, on top of a 60GHz radio instead of 5Ghz? Is there some fundamental problem with using the same PHY later protocols on 60GHz vs 5GHz?

Re: [AFMUG] Putty, is there any better?

2017-05-05 Thread Sterling Jacobson
That sounds like fun. I’m an Overwatch player myself. I used to ladder in HOTS at Platinum level 2v2, but now StarCraft II is pretty much dead to me. UT, that cracks me up. I was the champion at that FPS. And Quake and Doom, lol. From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Chris

Re: [AFMUG] Alpha FXM2000

2017-05-05 Thread Sterling Jacobson
We have a few of those, some of which I’ve gotten off Ebay, and even one locally that I picked up. I wouldn’t say they hum, but maybe I didn’t notice that. There might be something off with yours if it’s really loud while on AC power. You can purchase the harness kits from vendors or Alpha I

[AFMUG] Ceragon Software

2017-09-14 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Anyone have the latest Ceragon update software for the IPC20?

Re: [AFMUG] OT. Is it time to buy UBNT stock?

2017-09-20 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Lol! Were any actual investors complaining about UBNT before the ‘big news’? I didn’t hear of it, but then again, I don’t have stock. From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of CBB - Jay Fuller Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 9:23 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT. Is it

[AFMUG] Ceragon Sucks, VLAN help please

2017-09-20 Thread Sterling Jacobson
I hate Ceragon with a passion. For the life of me I cannot figure out how to configure in-band management on my IP20C that they reset to defaults. Nowhere in the GUI does it have any option for VLAN. My other side has it set up, but going through what I thought was all of the pages I can't

Re: [AFMUG] Speed Tests

2017-09-20 Thread Sterling Jacobson
I’ve gotten about 8-9Gbps on speedtest.net before from my desktop. That was pure routed one hop to my own server. Offnet it was still like 8Gbps to a good local(ish) server, again pure routing. Now I get like 1500Mbps down by about 4600Mbps upload to my own server and others on 10Gbps around

[AFMUG] Ceragon IP20C/820C Config Help

2017-09-20 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Ok, so I think I'm back in business after all the Ceragon shipment crapola. I've got my IP20C radios running and one side is showing around -70/-77 for V/H on XPIC. The other side shows -93 on both, so it's not configured correctly or aimed at all maybe. Was there someone on this list I could

Re: [AFMUG] Ceragon Sucks, VLAN help please

2017-09-20 Thread Sterling Jacobson
I found it finally. I searched Cambium stuff for the answer and that was a lot more helpful. It was buried under a sub menu button under a submenu item. -Original Message- From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Sterling Jacobson Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 2:16 PM

Re: [AFMUG] Gino is OK...network not so much

2017-09-20 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Good to hear that. It sucks, but if the power is mostly down, then at least the customers won’t be complaining as much as they also don’t have power to run their internet locally anyways. From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Josh Baird Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 12:53

Re: [AFMUG] OT. Is it time to buy UBNT stock?

2017-09-19 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Sounds like their numbers don’t add up at all on first take. Just a wild guess, but I’m thinking too much off-shoring of funds. From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Jeremy Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 10:27 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT. Is it time to buy UBNT

[AFMUG] Airfiber 24HD One Chain Bad?

2017-10-06 Thread Sterling Jacobson
How do I fix a link where just one chain is bad as shown here? Not quite sure what to make of this.

Re: [AFMUG] Airfiber 24HD One Chain Bad?

2017-10-06 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Not sure why it didn't attach the picture, let me try again. -Original Message- From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Sterling Jacobson Sent: Friday, October 6, 2017 6:29 PM To: 'af@afmug.com' <af@afmug.com> Subject: [AFMUG] Airfiber 24HD One Chain Bad? How do I fix

Re: [AFMUG] Vegas Mass Shooting

2017-10-02 Thread Sterling Jacobson
What about medical history and medicine if any he was on? I’m thinking we should have enough data with about one shooting incident a day in the US now, that would allow us to narrow down on the mental state of these people. Because we can all agree it’s not a normal person that acts on an

[AFMUG] Sonar

2017-10-16 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Taking forever to migrate from Platypus to Sonar. I was told conversion was free, but they didn't tell me I had to do all my own conversion from Plat to Sonar, so in my mind that's not free. I paid Spender Lambert to move some initial data to their format, but I've been on a hold with Sonar

Re: [AFMUG] OT Home Battery Array, Generator and Solar Readiness

2017-08-30 Thread Sterling Jacobson
have all the AC and clothes dryers running at the same time. So $1500 for an inverter. -Original Message- From: Sterling Jacobson Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2017 3:03 PM To: 'af@afmug.com' Subject: [AFMUG] OT Home Battery Array, Generator and Solar Readiness Looks like it’s about $6k plus

[AFMUG] OT Home Battery Array, Generator and Solar Readiness

2017-08-30 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Looks like it’s about $6k plus installation for a TESLA Wall battery. Couldn’t I just get about 10 $165 batteries and put them in an array in my utility room? I’ve got a Generac transfer switch that I haven’t hooked up. Ideally I would like to have ‘clean’ power through some sort of whole home

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Hurricane Irma

2017-09-05 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Maybe you raise your post storm prices by 1000 percent because you need to make a profit and you are a monopoly? From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Steve Jones Sent: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 6:33 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Hurricane Irma Maybe you dont tell

Re: [AFMUG] Ah dudes

2017-09-06 Thread Sterling Jacobson
I’m always temped to write sharpie on things, but then I think to myself, what would the AFMUG group think of me? From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Jaime Solorza Sent: Wednesday, September 6, 2017 10:22 AM To: Animal Farm Subject: [AFMUG] Ah dudes We pride

Re: [AFMUG] Storm recovery in Florida

2017-09-06 Thread Sterling Jacobson
I don't have employees, but I do have a very good contractor that might be able to help out. I would miss him terribly for a week or two, and I don't think he can afford to volunteer. Seems dumb to ask, but would there be compensation for contractors by chance? From: Af

[AFMUG] Airfiber 11FX vs. Ceragon

2017-09-12 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Thanks to Trey for finding and shipping/selling me the part that Ceragon damaged in return shipping! That made it so I could finally remount my radio. They must have defaulted the Ceragon radio because none of my IP/programming in band works and I didn't add the Ethernet for management cable.

Re: [AFMUG] Ben Moore, ubnt, fix your documentation of basic things!

2017-09-28 Thread Sterling Jacobson
I agree, was just looking for that a week ago too. I’m still unclear. My backbone is generally set for 9000+ MTU. Do I need to change my Mikrotik Ethernet ports attached to the Air Fiber units to a specific MTU? From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Eric Kuhnke Sent: Thursday,

[AFMUG] Ceragon/820C XPIC way off?

2017-09-29 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Trying to aim up these pair of radios in XPIC and it looks like I've got a lot of issues. This is just from trying to peak one side today. I'll try more on the other side. But it also appears that I've got a huge difference between the H and V radios in dB. I mean, is a 7dB difference

Re: [AFMUG] Ceragon/820C XPIC way off?

2017-09-29 Thread Sterling Jacobson
i, Sep 29, 2017 at 12:24 PM, Sterling Jacobson <sterl...@avative.net<mailto:sterl...@avative.net>> wrote: Trying to aim up these pair of radios in XPIC and it looks like I've got a lot of issues. This is just from trying to peak one side today. I'll try more on the other side. B

[AFMUG] Brown-outs, Power fluctuations lock up Mikrotik CRS units

2017-08-23 Thread Sterling Jacobson
I get power glitches from time to time in our city and it never fails to cause one or more of our CRS units to glitch. They appear powered and running, but SFP+ modules don't communicate until a power cycle. Anyone else see this? And generally, I don't understand how variations in 110v AC get

Re: [AFMUG] Brown-outs, Power fluctuations lock up Mikrotik CRS units

2017-08-23 Thread Sterling Jacobson
. These are almost all on Traco 48v power supplies plus a 48 to 24 converter. So I have a second layer of conversion between the device and the power. That's just an observation and I don't know that it ought to make a difference. -- Original Message -- From: "Sterling Jacobson&qu

Re: [AFMUG] Brown-outs, Power fluctuations lock up Mikrotik CRS units

2017-08-23 Thread Sterling Jacobson
: www.towercoverage.com Office: 314-735-0270 E-Mail: dmburg...@linktechs.net -Original Message- From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Sterling Jacobson Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 12:40 PM To: 'af@afmug.com' <af@afmug.com> Subject: [AFMUG] Brown-outs, Power fluctuations l

Re: [AFMUG] Planet

2017-08-24 Thread Sterling Jacobson
That does look interesting. I could use that instead of a UPS at MDU houses. Would be nice to connect to a battery system and have it also monitor the local Mikrotik transceiver. Would definitely solve my recent problems one way or another with power brownouts causing my gear to freeze SFP+

Re: [AFMUG] Planet

2017-08-24 Thread Sterling Jacobson
I’ve heard good things about their hardened gear. But I’m currently trying my hardest to get five of their switches refunded or credited. They are the 48 port SFP four port SFP+ switches, I don’t know the model number off hand, it’s large. But they were DEFINITELY NOT rated for use in a rack,

Re: [AFMUG] Planet

2017-08-24 Thread Sterling Jacobson
/24/2017 3:38 PM, Sterling Jacobson wrote: I’ve heard good things about their hardened gear. But I’m currently trying my hardest to get five of their switches refunded or credited. They are the 48 port SFP four port SFP+ switches, I don’t know the model number off hand, it’s large. But they were

Re: [AFMUG] Outdoor Enclosure Setup

2017-08-25 Thread Sterling Jacobson
ct: Re: [AFMUG] Outdoor Enclosure Setup https://www.streakwave.com/Itemdesc.asp?ic=ENC%2DST%2D24x24x16=0 From: Af <af-boun...@afmug.com<mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com>> on behalf of Sterling Jacobson <sterl...@avative.net<mailto:sterl...@avative.net&g

[AFMUG] Outdoor Enclosure Setup

2017-08-25 Thread Sterling Jacobson
I've got a WISP client that wants to mount a large enclosure outside his house for 'the usual'. I'm a bit out of practice on these, but I remember getting a largish 3' x 3' x 18" or something similar metal box for this type of thing. And mounting a shelf and some fans and creating venting on

[AFMUG] Ubiquiti Compatible POE/Arrest/Surge solution

2017-08-26 Thread Sterling Jacobson
What's the current options for bringing in 8-12 Ethernet lines on POE for lightning arrest. Something compact that could fit in a cabinet/box. I think there was a DIN solution, or rack mount POE/Arrestor 1U unit maybe? Probably not a POE switch, though that would be nice, sounds like it would

Re: [AFMUG] Brown-outs, Power fluctuations lock up Mikrotik CRS units

2017-08-23 Thread Sterling Jacobson
krotik >CRS units > >>Glitches could come in through the ethernet side too. >> >>-Original Message- From: Sterling Jacobson >>Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 11:59 AM >>To: af@afmug.com >>Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Brown-outs,Power fluctuations lock up Mikrot

Re: [AFMUG] Ceragon AGAIN, help please!

2017-08-17 Thread Sterling Jacobson
ecessary to the overall mounting? > >-----Original Message- From: Sterling Jacobson >Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2017 10:24 AM >To: af@afmug.com >Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Ceragon AGAIN, help please! > >Here is the bent mount. > >If I can get a replacement part, I guess I'm g

Re: [AFMUG] Serverplus/powercode users, OT

2017-08-31 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Not surprising, but sad to hear things haven’t changed one bit with ServerPlus in the years since I swore I would never use them again, lol! From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Steve Jones Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2017 8:45 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG]

[AFMUG] BLM Info

2017-10-10 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Are renters/users of BLM land for radio towers a matter of public record? I would like to get a list of companies and contact information for sites and site leases near my own tower.

Re: [AFMUG] Sonar

2017-10-17 Thread Sterling Jacobson
ime checking for sanity. They expect us to do all that. It seems that most software companies expect their customers to have a whole team of people doing what seems to be the software companies job. Not saying Sonar fits the description, just that that seems to be the rule not the excepti

Re: [AFMUG] PPS limits

2017-11-14 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Most standard routers would die on that much pps of that size. If you look on routerboard.com at the mikrotik stuff, they have charts at the bottom of most of their gear that show how much traffic they can move given the packet size and pps and Mbps etc. Compare that with the CPU and you can

Re: [AFMUG] OT HDD lessons

2017-12-19 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Lol! From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of ch...@wbmfg.com Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2017 8:33 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: [AFMUG] OT HDD lessons Learn when to stop boring: https://facebook.com/streetfx/videos/10160258906695112/

Re: [AFMUG] Fiber media converters

2017-12-19 Thread Sterling Jacobson
No to hijack, but are there any simple or managed media converters from SFP+ 10Gbps SMF to Ethernet/Copper 2.5 and 5Gbps or even 10Gbps over Cat6? -Original Message- From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Jay Weekley Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2017 3:58 PM To: af@afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] 4k tv

2017-11-20 Thread Sterling Jacobson
I have a 65” and sit about 12 feet away. You can tell the 4k content difference from 1080p, it’s a nice upgrade, but not something you really miss if it’s not there. I think you see it a lot more if you project like 120” screen and are 14 feet away. That’s where it starts to really come out,

Re: [AFMUG] Boring under 20ft of concrete

2017-11-03 Thread Sterling Jacobson
If it means anything to anyone about this, Comcast contractors are now installing their Comcast conduit all through my neighborhood right now. They appear to be using those pumping/rocket type system to install the conduit under long runs of concrete driveways. Takes them about an hour each

Re: [AFMUG] Facebook Ireland IP flooding traffic

2017-11-07 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Also Brett, you might want to keep in mind geo-location for your IPv4 space. If the subnet you are using is still showing on some geo services as another state or country weird things can happen with CDN routing etc. From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Brett A Mansfield Sent:

Re: [AFMUG] IPArchitechs

2017-11-09 Thread Sterling Jacobson
-Original Message- From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com<mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com>] On Behalf Of Sterling Jacobson Sent: Tuesday, August 8, 2017 12:45 PM To: 'af@afmug.com<mailto:af@afmug.com>' <af@afmug.com<mailto:af@afmug.com>> Subject: [AFMUG] IPArchitechs That compan

Re: [AFMUG] Facebook Ireland IP flooding traffic

2017-11-08 Thread Sterling Jacobson
nobody on my new subnet can load ksl.com<http://ksl.com> either. That seems to be the only url to have this issue so far. Thank you, Brett A Mansfield On Nov 7, 2017, at 7:22 PM, Sterling Jacobson <sterl...@avative.net<mailto:sterl...@avative.net>> wrote: Also Brett, you might wa

Re: [AFMUG] Blocked by the major streaming providers after getting new subnet

2017-11-08 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Vudu is the worst. Again, see if the renting company will help you deal with it. But essentially you have to just call support on each one and get through to someone that knows WTH is going on. And, have customers contact support and explain that they don't live in a different country and

Re: [AFMUG] voip

2017-11-08 Thread Sterling Jacobson
I don’t have staff for that, so I don’t do it. We did have good success with it years ago having it in house, but we also had larger business clients with 100’s of phone lines on it. From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Dave Sent: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 7:30 AM To: Animal

Re: [AFMUG] Viable/buyable unlicensed 60GHz 1Gbps PtMP

2017-11-01 Thread Sterling Jacobson
for 60 GHz but I have not seen any. Tons of this kind of thing from Mot and Cambium over the years. From: Sterling Jacobson Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2017 4:13 PM To: af@afmug.com<mailto:af@afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Viable/buyable unlicensed 60GHz 1Gbps PtMP Local WISPs have trie

Re: [AFMUG] Boring under 20ft of concrete

2017-11-03 Thread Sterling Jacobson
[mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Jason McKemie Sent: Friday, November 3, 2017 12:38 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Boring under 20ft of concrete What kind of equipment are they using for this? On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 1:19 PM, Sterling Jacobson <sterl...@avative.net<mailto

Re: [AFMUG] Residential router recommendation.

2017-12-02 Thread Sterling Jacobson
My main recommendations now are Asus and Netgear Nighthawk (NOT regular Netgear, those suck). I don't provide routers to our customers, so I'm thinking we now have hundreds of either brand/line of these routers and they seem to be the least failure prone. -Original Message- From: Af

Re: [AFMUG] Jeff Evans query?

2017-12-05 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Have you tried Amazon for distribution? I have no idea how that works, but I do notice a large variety of odd things now available via amazon, some with free 2-day shipping. Honestly, the distro model is dead except the large players like Amazon now, and good riddance. At least Amazon can

Re: [AFMUG] Ceragon/820C XPIC way off?

2017-10-21 Thread Sterling Jacobson
is that?? -Original Message- From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Sterling Jacobson Sent: Friday, September 29, 2017 11:25 AM To: 'af@afmug.com' <af@afmug.com> Subject: [AFMUG] Ceragon/820C XPIC way off? Trying to aim up these pair of radios in XPIC and it looks like I'

Re: [AFMUG] Ceragon/820C XPIC way off?

2017-10-21 Thread Sterling Jacobson
uess. How do I change the TX/RX range for each of my Ceragon radios, and how expensive is that?? -Original Message- From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com<mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com>] On Behalf Of Sterling Jacobson Sent: Friday, September 29, 2017 11:25 AM To: 'af@afmug.com<mail

[AFMUG] Ceragon

2017-10-30 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Is there a market for used Ceragon 11GHz radios? I need to "swap" my radio set in the 11GHz range to match my licensed range. So I need the 'lower' band range and I need the 'higher' band range in the 11GHz. My antennas and OMT etc are all good to go, just the radios are not in the range I

Re: [AFMUG] Ceragon

2017-10-30 Thread Sterling Jacobson
mine, or vice versa? -Original Message- From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Sterling Jacobson Sent: Monday, October 30, 2017 2:25 PM To: 'af@afmug.com' <af@afmug.com> Subject: [AFMUG] Ceragon Is there a market for used Ceragon 11GHz radios? I need to "swap&qu

[AFMUG] DHCP Server Redundancy Survey

2017-10-31 Thread Sterling Jacobson
I want to do a more flexible/standard setup for my DHCP handouts. I hand out public IPv4 and IPv6 dual stack to each customer router from two main routers on my network. Is it best to create two redundant DHCP servers instead and use DHCP Relay on-net to them? And how is everyone doing that?

Re: [AFMUG] Viable/buyable unlicensed 60GHz 1Gbps PtMP

2017-10-31 Thread Sterling Jacobson
. On Tuesday, October 31, 2017, Jeff Broadwick - Lists <jeffl...@att.net<mailto:jeffl...@att.net>> wrote: Siklu and Ignite.Net. Jeff Broadwick CTIconnect 312-205-2519 Office 574-220-7826 Cell jbroadw...@cticonnect.com<javascript:;> > On Oct 31, 2017, at 5:58 PM, Sterling Jacobson &g

[AFMUG] Viable/buyable unlicensed 60GHz 1Gbps PtMP

2017-10-31 Thread Sterling Jacobson
It sounds like there isn't any available/viable 60GHz PtMP product yet. Any ideas on who is going to bring out the first readily available 1Gbps PtMP product that actually works?

Re: [AFMUG] Ceragon

2017-10-30 Thread Sterling Jacobson
:17 PM, Sterling Jacobson <sterl...@avative.net> wrote: > > My model number is IP-20C-HP-11-500-7W13-H-ESX and L-ESX. > > I can't even find the model number on the Ceragon web site. > > What is the difference between my radio and the one listed that is: > I

Re: [AFMUG] FS.com switches

2018-05-17 Thread Sterling Jacobson
I’m not sure, but the hardware looks similar to other ‘vendors’ switches. Pretty soon it won’t matter, they will all be SDN. From: Af On Behalf Of Adam Moffett Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2018 12:29 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: [AFMUG] FS.com switches Is Fs.com the OEM for

Re: [AFMUG] Fiber Mapping - 2018

2018-06-06 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Sounds interesting. What I really want, if it exists, is a full layer system. Such that I can enter my GIS info for conduit and conduit capacity and used capacity on the physical level, then the fiber type/count in each section by geo on top of that, then the splice points/case map and power

Re: [AFMUG] Fiber Mapping - 2018

2018-06-06 Thread Sterling Jacobson
What kind of costs are we talking about? We’ve got lines on GE and hand drawn maps and spreadsheets of info along with stuff in several peoples heads that need to be put into a system soon. And limited time/budget to allocate to this, so it has to be an awesome intuitive product with great

Re: [AFMUG] FCC Enforcement Action

2018-05-02 Thread Sterling Jacobson
This all sounds very familiar. Our fine was $20k I think. Ours was a UBNT card that we had a label for, placed on the outside, but they thought it was interfering. In our case the FCC agents came, had us turn it off, and there was still a problem. So it wasn't us, it was Utah Broadband and

[AFMUG] Sonar Migration from Platypus

2018-01-10 Thread Sterling Jacobson
So here is a current update on my months long progress moving from Platypus to Sonar. It's not automatic by any means. Data import is taking a long time and its painful and costs a lot extra. I'm having to manually correct/add accounts to Sonar with rate group changes, address validations

Re: [AFMUG] Sonar Migration from Platypus

2018-01-10 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Message -- From: "Sterling Jacobson" <sterl...@avative.net> To: "af@afmug.com" <af@afmug.com> Sent: 1/10/2018 2:51:58 PM Subject: [AFMUG] Sonar Migration from Platypus >So here is a current update on my months long progress moving from >Platypus to Son

Re: [AFMUG] Sonar Migration from Platypus

2018-01-15 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Platypus I’m curious, why change. I really like Plat and it does everything I need. Phil On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 1:52 PM Sterling Jacobson <sterl...@avative.net<mailto:sterl...@avative.net>> wrote: So here is a current update on my months long progress moving from Platypus to

Re: [AFMUG] OT: USB backup drive

2018-01-19 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Ditto. I keep all my 'files' on one of the cloud services, mostly OneDrive right now -Original Message- From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of ch...@wbmfg.com Sent: Friday, January 19, 2018 11:59 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: USB backup drive Cloud.

Re: [AFMUG] OT 844E routers

2018-01-17 Thread Sterling Jacobson
That sucks. Was in the same boat last year with Mikrotik RB260GS units for about a month, real panic attack. I actually had to order some for more $$ off of eBay and Amazon. Good luck! From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Chuck McCown Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 2:33 PM

Re: [AFMUG] Sonar Migration from Platypus

2018-01-12 Thread Sterling Jacobson
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Re: [AFMUG] Sonar Migration from Platypus

2018-01-11 Thread Sterling Jacobson
notification or link asking them to re-create that info or make new credentials based off their account email address. What a cluster F I’m going to cry From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Sterling Jacobson Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2018 9:38 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG

Re: [AFMUG] Sonar Migration from Platypus

2018-01-11 Thread Sterling Jacobson
say you were doing it wrong or anything. -- Original Message -- From: "Sterling Jacobson" <sterl...@avative.net<mailto:sterl...@avative.net>> To: "af@afmug.com<mailto:af@afmug.com>" <af@afmug.com<mailto:af@afmug.com>> Sent: 1/10/2018 3

Re: [AFMUG] Sonar Migration from Platypus

2018-01-11 Thread Sterling Jacobson
from Platypus If you were able to transfer it over, that means it was either (A) not encrypted to being with, or (B) was decrypted upon export. Either way it would have transferred via cleartext. *shrug* On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 11:16 PM, Sterling Jacobson <sterl...@avative.net> wrote: >

Re: [AFMUG] Sonar Migration from Platypus

2018-01-11 Thread Sterling Jacobson
encryption. On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 10:47 PM, Sterling Jacobson <sterl...@avative.net> wrote: > It gets worse. > > > > I wasn’t aware that ALL of my customers are now going to have to > re-create their account login credentials because they don’t carry over from > Plat. &g

[AFMUG] Force10 Guru

2018-02-01 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Anyone out there a Force10 switch IOS guru? I need to hire/retain someone that knows these units better than I do, lol! I'm talking the older 'pre-Dell' hardware.

Re: [AFMUG] Failover / Recovery Time Testing?

2018-01-29 Thread Sterling Jacobson
I think also you could do something similar with floodping? I used to use that a lot on wireless connections to test consistency (with Mikrotik on each end) From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Christopher Gray Sent: Monday, January 29, 2018 5:08 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re:

Re: [AFMUG] Content filtering - Trustwave

2018-02-08 Thread Sterling Jacobson
What should really happen law wise, is that the state (Utah in this case) approve a group of content filtering companies for end users. Then mandate AT MOST that the ISP allow/offer at least one of those up to customers as a certified filtering option. Again, not mandatory, but as viable

Re: [AFMUG] Content filtering - Trustwave

2018-02-08 Thread Sterling Jacobson
that try this stuff are usually the ones that end up being freaks or porn addicts. Public institutions, schools, libraries, etc. yeah, filter away. That's standard here in KIllinois, too. On 2/8/2018 11:31 AM, Sterling Jacobson wrote: What should really happen law wise, is that the state (Utah

Re: [AFMUG] OT Porn ..... (filtering)

2018-02-06 Thread Sterling Jacobson
I like those comments. Went they first passed a form of this, I asked their task group to send me "the list". They couldn't do it, and therefore it was not enforceable. I'm thinking again, unless a state provides "the list", they can't force an ISP to do anything about it. Plus it's entirely

Re: [AFMUG] New Server Hardware

2018-02-06 Thread Sterling Jacobson
I like Dells, but I have HP's because of the excess/price on eBay. You are saying HP doesn't support like Dell? I can believe that. -Original Message- From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Faisal Imtiaz Sent: Tuesday, February 6, 2018 1:14 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re:

Re: [AFMUG] ISP in a box

2018-02-12 Thread Sterling Jacobson
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Re: [AFMUG] ISP in a box

2018-02-12 Thread Sterling Jacobson
I think that was me you asked about those three items. AND we still use 8.8.8.8 DNS resolvers. I know, it’s bad, but one of my upstreams is directly on Google CDN so it ‘applies’. I do like redundancy though. So if you use one CCR, get two of them for your project, they are relatively cheap.

Re: [AFMUG] UPS

2018-02-21 Thread Sterling Jacobson
been using APC BG500 for small sites. Lithium-ion battery. Has ethernet built in, you can remotely switch a couple of ports and off load some ports if on battery. Adam -Original Message- From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Sterling Jacobson Sent: Wednesday, February 21

[AFMUG] UPS

2018-02-21 Thread Sterling Jacobson
I use Alpha FXM1100 for my fiber cabinets and four external batteries. I need something a bit less for a smaller wall mount cabinet. What are people using now days for small WISP cabinet UPS? I need to power maybe a couple of 11W routers/switches and maybe 3-6 radios at around 10W peak each.

[AFMUG] FS Planet GS-5220-46S2C4X Managed network switch - Used, 1U 48 Port SFP 4 Port SFP+

2018-02-16 Thread Sterling Jacobson
I've got five (5) relatively new Planet 48 Port SFP 4 port SFP+ switches for $890.00 each if anyone wants them. They need to be in a good temperature-controlled environment though, temp swings make them angry. That's why I swapped them out and have them available. Just email me off list.

Re: [AFMUG] Serverplus

2018-03-11 Thread Sterling Jacobson
They are working well for us, and I have a horrible generic support DT, lol! I have had zero complaints from my customers so far this year, so I think they are doing well. The only feedback I’ve had is customers hear our company name pronounced five different ways, even though the DT instructs

[AFMUG] Sonar Billing Portal

2018-02-27 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Again, I'm completely flummoxed by Sonar. Apparently their customer portal isn't really a part of their system. Any Sonar customer has to purchase and maintain their own linux system to host the web/portal system. Then that ties into their main system BUT isn't immediately synched up with

Re: [AFMUG] It's on

2018-03-08 Thread Sterling Jacobson
That sounds awesome! I'm marking that on my calendar right now for myself and some of my people, lol From: Af On Behalf Of Chuck McCown Sent: Thursday, March 8, 2018 11:29 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: [AFMUG] It's on June 12 & 13 AnimalFarm I even have vendors tracking

Re: [AFMUG] It's on

2018-03-08 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Sure, ok. Put me down for something I guess. From: Af <af-boun...@afmug.com> On Behalf Of Chuck McCown Sent: Thursday, March 8, 2018 11:41 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] It's on You get to present! From: Sterling Jacobson Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2018 11:35 AM To: af@afm

[AFMUG] Mikrotik OSPF Refresher

2018-04-11 Thread Sterling Jacobson
I've got all sorts of conflicting entries now in my CCR for OSPF. Some I have all interfaces manually registered, is that supposed to be there? Some networks are specific IP's, some are /24 net wide, some have some public IP client space I'm routing internally, some externally. I think after a

Re: [AFMUG] Switch Storm Control

2018-04-17 Thread Sterling Jacobson
can't exempt arp and dhcp, you need to think about the ramifications where a low level broadcast storm saturates the setting you have set and prevents arp and dhcp from working On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 3:49 PM, Sterling Jacobson <sterl...@avative.net<mailto:sterl...@avative.net>> wrote:

[AFMUG] Switch Storm Control

2018-04-16 Thread Sterling Jacobson
What are you guys using as a 'standard' for packets per second storm control on your switches/devices? I can limit broadcast, multicast and unknown unicast type packets Is 100pps too low? Would this be based on say a /24 network arping and DHCP request type traffic?

[AFMUG] FCC USF and 499 Filing

2018-04-24 Thread Sterling Jacobson
So now I'm digging to this more to make sure I'm on the right track. ALL broadband/internet ISP providers are now classified Telecommunications providers and must file FCC 499a or 499q and pay USF if not de-minimus? Is this where we all stand now?

Re: [AFMUG] FCC USF and 499 Filing

2018-04-24 Thread Sterling Jacobson
, at 9:31 PM, Sterling Jacobson <sterl...@avative.net<mailto:sterl...@avative.net>> wrote: Ok, sorry, so I've been extremely busy this year and missed the fact that the FCC once again re-classified us in January 2018 as a Service Provider instead of a Telecommunications Provider. Th

Re: [AFMUG] FCC USF and 499 Filing

2018-04-24 Thread Sterling Jacobson
internet, not VoIP/Telephone services. Is that correct? -Original Message- From: Af <af-boun...@afmug.com> On Behalf Of Sterling Jacobson Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2018 6:47 PM To: 'af@afmug.com' <af@afmug.com> Subject: [AFMUG] FCC USF and 499 Filing So now I'm digging to this

Re: [AFMUG] Switch Storm Control

2018-04-17 Thread Sterling Jacobson
If you are doing fiber with active ethernet, why not just run QinQ with a CVLAN for each port and an SVLAN back to wherever? On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 4:40 PM, Dave <dmilho...@wletc.com<mailto:dmilho...@wletc.com>> wrote: OMG! what a broadcast nightmare :) On 04/17/2018 11:49 AM, Sterling Ja

Re: [AFMUG] COW trailer - looking to rent or buy

2018-03-03 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Riders of Rohan UNITE! From: Af On Behalf Of Brett A Mansfield Sent: Friday, March 2, 2018 11:42 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] COW trailer - looking to rent or buy Stupid autocorrect. Thank you, Brett A Mansfield On Mar 2, 2018, at 9:04 PM, TJ Trout

Re: [AFMUG] Sonar Billing Portal

2018-02-27 Thread Sterling Jacobson
support team, it will be a quick and painless process. On 2/27/2018 5:55 PM, Sterling Jacobson wrote: The problem with wiping is that I’m not guaranteed the same IP address. There is a lot tied to that IP address now. A and name records, email server records to allow relay, firewall config

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