Re: [AFMUG] How do I decide if we need more technicians?

We are currently staffed at 500:1. I think a lot of it has to do with the age of your network (how many CPE conversions you have to do, removals from cancellations, etc) vs a newer company with all new gear and not as much chance for a customer base and equipment to age, move away etc.

Re: [AFMUG] Cambium 450b specifications

t; > > > > Gino A. Villarini > > President > Metro Office Park #18 Suite 304 Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00968 > > > -Original Message- > >From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com <mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com>] On > >Behalf Of Joe Falaschi > &g

Re: [AFMUG] Cambium 450b specifications

. > > Also will 450b SM accept 48v on the POE? > > On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 12:28 PM, Joe Falaschi <listm...@wi.net > <mailto:listm...@wi.net>> wrote: > We’re looking at some questions of why certain links are at certain > modulations (uplink is better than downl

Re: [AFMUG] Cambium 450b specifications

evel? What good is > -67.8dBm if the noise floor is -75dBm? > > Chris Wright > Network Administrator > > > -Original Message- > From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Joe Falaschi > Sent: Friday, July 28, 2017 9:28 AM > To: af@afmug.com > Subject: [AFMUG

[AFMUG] Cambium 450b specifications

2x = -80.5 dBm 4x = -74 dBm 6x = -66.9 dBm 8x = -56 dBm 450i SM RX sensitivity 1x = -85.9 dBm 2x = -81.5 dBm 4x = -75.8 dBm 6x = -69.3 dBm 8x = -61.6 dBm Joe Falaschi e-vergent

Re: [AFMUG] Complaining Employees

We had a guy like this - on paper the most willing to work and a company man through and through. I feel like we were in your same situation though. Eventually he got in a situation where our hand was forced to let him go. Now that it’s happened we have found employees who are much better

Re: [AFMUG] PMP450 ~50mbps cap

on those loaded 450M APs? > > On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 4:02 PM, Joe Falaschi <listm...@wi.net > <mailto:listm...@wi.net>> wrote: > What Chris said. > > Our 450Ms have been a huge game changer for us. We have a tower with 300 > people on it, pretty much all on on

Re: [AFMUG] PMP450 ~50mbps cap

What Chris said. Our 450Ms have been a huge game changer for us. We have a tower with 300 people on it, pretty much all on one side (180 degrees is busy and the other 180 degrees is pretty silent). In the past we’d add an AP to offload capacity and that AP was used up day one. There just

Re: [AFMUG] 450 AP discontinued?

Your second paragraph, that would be awesome. Joe > On May 3, 2017, at 1:39 PM, George Skorup wrote: > > Yes, that's frustrating. ePMP only supports 2.5ms @ 20MHz for timing with > FSK. It's obvious that they don't want to hurt 450 sales, especially now with > the

Re: [AFMUG] Preseem

It does seem pretty interesting. We should know more very soon. In my experience, Gerritt and his team have been very responsive. Joe Falaschi e-vergent > On Apr 19, 2017, at 12:24 PM, Jerry Head <li...@blountbroadband.com> wrote: > > I talked with Gerritt from

Re: [AFMUG] It's heeeeere.... well amost.

They had to change the sync over power method because the old method would not work with the 450m’s much larger power draw and the necessity of gigabit ethernet data rates. Joe > On Mar 1, 2017, at 9:55 AM, Josh Luthman wrote: > > Why in the piss did they

Re: [AFMUG] Siklu Multihaul PTMP 60 ghz

So what did they say? Shipping when? Pricing? Joe > On Feb 24, 2017, at 8:45 AM, Dennis Burgess wrote: > > Yep just had our sales meeting with them  <>J > > > Dennis Burgess – Network Solution Engineer – Consultant > MikroTik Certified Trainer/Consultant >

Re: [AFMUG] Finding Sales People

rom the LEC which is screwing them over with > business pricing for everything and crappy service. Without a business phone > solution, in many cases I don’t think the Internet sale can be made. Unless > you’re looking to be the backup connection. > >   <> > From: Af [m

Re: [AFMUG] Finding Sales People

hout a business phone > solution, in many cases I don’t think the Internet sale can be made. Unless > you’re looking to be the backup connection. > >   <> > From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com <mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com>] On > Behalf Of Joe Falaschi > Sen

Re: [AFMUG] Finding Sales People

Two other things: You/someone should figure out your buyer personas. For us we sell very little Internet Service to retail organizations - especially directly. They all seem to have corporate policies and decisions. The vast majority of our retail sales come in via the CCRs of the world.

Re: [AFMUG] Finding Sales People

Others have already given you some good points. Getting partners in any definition of the term, IT consultants, building managers, PBX installers, etc is probably a good intermediate step. If you get to the point where you need an employee to be on the payroll, I think you’re going to need to

Re: [AFMUG] Suggestions for work vans

better mileage than our Transit Connects and are hopefully a little tougher. There are some great incentives on the Ram Promaster City vans right now. Joe Falaschi e-vergent > On Oct 4, 2016, at 11:32 AM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: > > I am also looking at Ford Trans

Re: [AFMUG] Trango Licensed Link port cover

e lab or something. Or maybe Erich Kaiser has one. If not, >> then I don't have a clue who else might. >> >> On 9/30/2016 12:37 PM, Joe Falaschi wrote: >> Does anyone have one of these port covers I can buy? Supposedly Trango >> doesn’t have these or make them anymore and of course we lost one. This is >> the square edge version not the curved one. >> >> Joe Falaschi >> e-vergent >> >> >> >> > >

Re: [AFMUG] Trango Licensed Link port cover

30, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com >> <mailto:part15...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> Eye Yi Yi. >> >> >> >> bp >> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> >> >> On 9/30/2016 10:37 AM, Joe Falaschi wrote: >>> Does a

[AFMUG] Trango Licensed Link port cover

Does anyone have one of these port covers I can buy? Supposedly Trango doesn’t have these or make them anymore and of course we lost one. This is the square edge version not the curved one. Joe Falaschi e-vergent

Re: [AFMUG] ePMP beam forming antenna

thers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> > > > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > From: "Joe Falaschi" <listm...@wi.net <mailto:listm...@wi.net>> > To: af@afmug.com &

Re: [AFMUG] ePMP beam forming antenna

think the system can choose from 1 out of 256 ways to form a beam at each time slot. I could have that wrong but I remember it being a larger number than I was expecting. Joe Falaschi e-vergent > On Aug 8, 2016, at 2:58 PM, Mike Hammett <af...@ics-il.net> wrote: > > Worst

Re: [AFMUG] Short fiber trench

We’ve used Toro Dingos with the vibratory plow for small projects like this. It was pretty easy and inexpensive to rent. Joe > On Jul 22, 2016, at 8:02 PM, Jason McKemie > wrote: > > Just trench it yourself if none of the property owners have an issue

Re: [AFMUG] hello cambium

if it's not at the pace we'd all wish for. In full disclosure, we were a beta tester of E2k and are very happy with it's performance so far. Joe Falaschi e-vergent On 6/7/16 10:51 AM, Keefe John wrote: That doesn't seem like that great of an improvement.� Just a little more upload speed

Re: [AFMUG] PMP450 vs. ePMP

a direct comparison between EPMP 1k, 2k and PMP450 though. The 450i has intelligent filtering, as does the EPMP2k. I think the EPMP has a slight leg up at this moment in time due to the beam steering. PMP450m will probably tip the scales again. Joe Falaschi e-vergent > On Jun 3, 2016, at 9

Re: [AFMUG] 9 sectors @ 40*

Have they said when the larger channel sizes are being released? Joe > On Apr 6, 2016, at 6:30 PM, Craig Schmaderer wrote: > > I was thinking of stacking 12 450i aps with 6 60degree abcabc than 6 more > right on top at defdef so example a would be on top of d

Re: [AFMUG] EPMP Logging

Hi Nate. I don’t know the answer to your question, but we have been having GPS issues as well though. We’ve been working with cambium on a few items, I’ll email you privately. We have set the hold over time to 60 minutes and that has mostly masked the issues for us. Has anyone setup EPMP to

Re: [AFMUG] Double Stacking Licensed Radios

We have a few links like this. We just equal cost OSPF the two radios/interfaces. Joe On Mar 31, 2016, at 12:32 PM, Nate Burke wrote: > I know it's been covered before, but I can't seem to find it in the archive. > When you double stack licensed radios that don't have fancy tech built in

Re: [AFMUG] Poor throughput on ePMP AP

of issues trying to track it down. Joe On Mar 11, 2016, at 2:23 PM, Adam Moffett wrote: > Well that's news to me! Holy crap. They should put a warning sticker on that. > > On 3/11/2016 2:20 PM, Joe Falaschi wrote: >> The other thing to keep in mind with the RB2011 is what port things

Re: [AFMUG] Selling Redudant or Backup (Failover) connections

Maybe a cheap plan with usage based billing is the way to hedge against that for plans sold as backup only. We're considering doing something along those lines anyway. Joe On Feb 22, 2016, at 2:37 PM, Josh Luthman wrote: > Charge a normal rate, maybe a bit less to compete. Imagine if you

Re: [AFMUG] OT Apple

I haven't been paying close attention to this but I thought I saw one TV report that said earlier versions of iOS could simply be unlocked. Supposedly Apple has unlocked previous unencrypted phones. That all changed with iOS 9 though because of encryption and that there is no simple unlock

Re: [AFMUG] kp performance two 5GHz H/V antennas in one radome - review/opinion

, OH 45373 > > On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Joe Falaschi <listm...@wi.net> wrote: > Is anyone using this antenna: > http://www.kpperformance.ca/two-5ghz-hv-antennas-in-one-radome? > > Deployment wise I'm thinking one radio would be an existing UBNT Rocket M and >

Re: [AFMUG] kp performance two 5GHz H/V antennas in one radome - review/opinion

s do. > > http://www.kpperformance.ca/product_documents/get/document/id/145/ > > On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 10:18 AM, Joe Falaschi <listm...@wi.net> wrote: > Is anyone using this antenna: > http://www.kpperformance.ca/two-5ghz-hv-antennas-in-one-radome? > > Deployment wise I'm

[AFMUG] kp performance two 5GHz H/V antennas in one radome - review/opinion

have implemented it with success. Also curious how much channel separation you used? Did you plan any different considering it's the same antenna enclosure vs two separate antennas? The specs say there is 40db of separation between the two radios. Joe Falaschi e-vergent

Re: [AFMUG] location based pricing on website

: With that many sites, you might want to check out COS Systems and their Service Zones program. On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 10:45 PM, Joe Falaschi <listm...@wi.net <mailto:listm...@wi.net>> wrote: Why bother? To me there are a lot of reasons. 1. We cover a lot of ground with 120 to

Re: [AFMUG] location based pricing on website

Broadband website asks for your address before showing prices, but my impression is it goes by zipcode. *From:* Joe Falaschi <mailto:listm...@wi.net> *Sent:* Thursday, February 18, 2016 9:45 PM *To:* af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] location based pricing on

Re: [AFMUG] location based pricing on website

service is $49/mo? What happens when they have a friend in a different service area of yours that gets a different price? They are gonna call and complain. 2 cents -Sean On Thursday, February 18, 2016, Joe Falaschi <listm...@wi.net <mailto:listm...@wi.net>> wrote: Does

Re: [AFMUG] location based pricing on website

Thanks Simon. This is one that I did not find myself. I'll check it out! Joe On 2/18/16 8:17 PM, Simon Westlake wrote: I don't know of anything prebaked, but I'd look at something like http://postgis.net/ On Thursday, February 18, 2016, Joe Falaschi <listm...@wi.net> wrote:

[AFMUG] location based pricing on website

work if done in an iframe. Just curious if anyone has already done this and has any suggestions on word press plugins or google maps libraries. Thanks! Joe Falaschi e-vergent

Re: [AFMUG] CCTV over Canopy 100 series

Years ago we built a small little network to replace the 802.11b 2.4GHz network that was not performing due to noise in 2.4. We used Canopy FSK 5.2GHz software scheduled AP/SMs. I think there were 3 or 4 Axis cameras total on a handful of buildings in a downtown environment. I think you'll

Re: [AFMUG] Cambium 450 Watchdog resets - was: To Cambium With Love- Replace the bad ePMP units.

e one 450i 900 MHz which necessarily is on 14.1, and it does not > appear to be having watchdog resets. Lightly loaded however, just 2 subs. > > > From: Joe Falaschi > Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2016 11:34 AM > To: af@afmug.com > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Cambium 450 Watchd

Re: [AFMUG] OT Space X

Humans think negative more than positive. I saw this yesterday: http://blog.eosworldwide.com/blog/180-rule-creative-problem-solving#axzz3xhrPypBF and it seems to fit... https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wired-success/201406/are-we-hardwired-be-positive-or-negative On Jan 19, 2016, at 9:30

Re: [AFMUG] Mike Hammett needs help.

Mike if you still need any, we have a link in stock in Racine. Joe On 1/11/16 8:19 AM, Super WISP wrote: We have not received our stock yet. */Mark Chamerlik/* Strategic Account Manager-East Coast cid:image001.jpg@01D14A33.56536AF0 630-818-1004 815-822-4490 ma...@wavonline.com

Re: [AFMUG] MDU deployments. Can you make any money on them?

reliable. http://www.c9networks.com/ Joe Falaschi e-vergent On Dec 16, 2015, at 9:21 PM, Keefe John wrote: > What equipment are you using on the coax? > > On 12/16/2015 7:12 PM, George Skorup wrote: >> Yes, most of the time it is in use. Let me rephrase drop ownership. Even if &

Re: [AFMUG] DC Power for Cisco Switch

We just deployed one of these. We plan to convert the whole site to DC but we're not there yet. To get things rolling we just used a 48v power supply we had laying around. I'm not 100% sure if it was an old Dragonwave ps or not. Bayan would have more details. Joe On Nov 12, 2015, at

Re: [AFMUG] $117,000 to install cable internet

what SOME people will do to get internet but I know that is not the norm - most just expect 50M for 19.95 and free install... Joe Falaschi e-vergent On Oct 15, 2015, at 11:31 AM, Mathew Howard wrote: > Yes, Steve's comments were excellent. > > To summarize the whole thing, a couple

Re: [AFMUG] Cambium 450i

+1 on the dynamic filtering. We have yet to really realize how helpful it is or not but from what we're told it should help tremendously on the upload if the AP is in a high noise environment. Joe On Oct 6, 2015, at 1:48 PM, Daniel White wrote: > Exactly. > > At some point I’m sure the

Re: [AFMUG] Canopy 13.4 Watchdog Reset

they won't reboot? We are using CMM Micros. Agreed that isn't helpful just curious. We tried upgrading to 13.4 but had trouble with the upgrade. We ended up stranding a few SMs and needing to roll a truck to a handful of customers. We're back to 13.2 now. Joe Falaschi e-vergent On 8/28/15 9

Re: [AFMUG] Ridiculous SLA request

to something you can't back up. That said it's kind of treat others how you want to be treated. Maybe some items can be negotiated like the no/late payment terms and if the service fails x number of times in a one year period they can cancel vs one 4 hour nightmare. Joe Falaschi e-vergent On 8/28

Re: [AFMUG] ePMP and/or 50kw FM stations

are using as a BH to another site and it is working great. So, your situation may work out ok. FYI, we have the radio station turn the transmit power down each time we climb. They don't like to do that during the morning and evening drive time. Joe Falaschi e-vergent On 7/22/15 6:15 PM

Re: [AFMUG] vivint

I heard they were using this in 28GHz for BH to their micro sites: http://cbnl.com/vectastar-gigabit-highlights Joe Falaschi e-vergent On May 21, 2015, at 1:29 PM, Sterling Jacobson wrote: I think they are sometimes 5Ghz and sometimes something else on the houses. The backhauls appear

Re: [AFMUG] Odd looking tower

Is it sitting in a culvert? That doesn't seem ideal. Joe Falaschi e-vergent On May 13, 2015, at 2:11 PM, Adam Moffett wrote: There's a little national weather service tower near my old office that's about that sizesome of the instruments look the same too. but the weather

Re: [AFMUG] VoIP

if the handsets were double. We're just starting to keep better track of stuff like this but we're at about 50% of business accounts wanting bundled voice and the competition's quote has it so ours has to as well. Joe Falaschi e-vergent On 4/6/15 10:31 PM, George Skorup (Cyber Broadcasting) wrote

Re: [AFMUG] VoIP

hardware. So far that has proven true. The Netsapiens platform has been pretty nice though. Joe Falaschi e-vergent On 4/6/15 8:17 PM, Keefe John wrote: What are people using for their multi-tenant voip platform? On 4/6/2015 6:12 PM, Bruce Robertson wrote: I use voip.ms. Love 'em. On 04/06/2015

Re: [AFMUG] Cheapest J Arm Source

We started out buying a pallet (100 units) from http://securalign.com/product/mounting-arms/ At the time it was around $6.50 per unit, but now it looks like it might be a little more. We negotiated a similar deal with Skywalker but for a lower quantity. We just pickup from their Wisconsin

Re: [AFMUG] level 1 telco training

complex stuff these days. Joe Falaschi e-vergent On Mar 17, 2015, at 10:13 AM, That One Guy wrote: So the boss wants me to provide training to the mopes for level 1 techs dealing with telco stuff. Primarily for when replacing existing PBX systems with VOIP systems and still using POTS

Re: [AFMUG] level 1 telco training

books helped me get more out of my staff anyway. As Keefe just said, we are now using Top Grading as well since Nathan recommended it a few shows ago. Also Traction is good stuff as well. Joe Falaschi e-vergent On Mar 17, 2015, at 10:27 AM, That One Guy wrote: sadly, it is what

Re: [AFMUG] Balting Networks selling AF5 for $850

bandwidth out of them then the Rocket we currently have deployed but I'm not holding my breath for full modulation. Why do you say you're looking for FW to make them useful? What do we need to be aware of? Joe Falaschi e-vergent broadband On 12/24/14, 3:08 PM, cjwstudios via Af wrote: I bought

Re: [AFMUG] cheap computer phone support

believe they make a best effort to help the customer. I do not know about them handing calls over to another company though. Do you pay more for that additional level of service? Nobody has tried to up sell me. Joe Falaschi e-vergent broadband On 12/24/14, 3:23 PM, Mike Hammett via Af wrote

Re: [AFMUG] procera results

Fankhauser Wavelinc Communications P.O. Box 126 Bucyrus, OH 44820 http://www.wavelinc.com tel. 419-562-6405 fax. 419-617-0110 On Nov 12, 2014, at 9:28 AM, Joe Falaschi via Af af@afmug.com wrote: That is one of my concerns with this solution. Google already encrypts a fair amount of traffic