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] is this thing on?

2015-01-02 Thread Ken Hohhof
As a kid in S. America for a couple years, we lived in a house with a wall switch that was marked “ON” and “IS”. Strangely, the IS position turned the light on, and the ON position turned it off. We finally realized the switch was installed upside down, and the markings were in Spanish. From

Re: [AFMUG] OT Movie Review

2015-01-03 Thread Ken Hohhof
don’t think there is 1 movie per month that is worth seeing, LOL From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Ken Hohhof via Af Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2015 11:42 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Movie Review https://www.moviepass.com/ I saw an article that AMC

[AFMUG] zero gravity day tomorrow ...

2015-01-03 Thread Ken Hohhof
... according to the Internets http://www.space.com/28150-zero-gravity-day-hoax.html

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

2015-01-03 Thread Ken Hohhof
Limit per customer. Damn you, Newegg. From: CBB - Jay Fuller Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2015 6:06 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Using HDTV as Web Browser the price is right http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883280900&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-PC&cm

Re: [AFMUG] OT Movie Review

2015-01-04 Thread Ken Hohhof
, "Chuck McCown" wrote: I do dinner and a movie with my wife a couple of times a month. From: Ken Hohhof Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2015 5:01 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Movie Review $6 per person ... more like $11 at the big theaters with stadium seating. M

Re: [AFMUG] OT Movie Review

2015-01-04 Thread Ken Hohhof
thman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Jan 4, 2015 1:31 PM, "Ken Hohhof" wrote: I’m not sure it would be as much fun to be 20 today. To begin with, half the things you did when you were 20 would probably get you arre

Re: [AFMUG] OT Movie Review

2015-01-04 Thread Ken Hohhof
should be avoided... From: Ken Hohhof Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2015 12:14 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Movie Review I was a teenager in the 60’s. Somehow my kids think that time was like an episode of Leave It To Beaver. If they only knew. Of course, I was referring to stuff

Re: [AFMUG] Anyone seen or used this before?

2015-01-04 Thread Ken Hohhof
Ew. From: joseph marsh Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2015 9:34 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Anyone seen or used this before? On Jan 4, 2015 9:32 PM, wrote: Here's a another one On Jan 4, 2015 9:32 PM, "joseph marsh" wrote: Me and my girlfriend seen this at the grocery st

Re: [AFMUG] Anyone seen or used this before?

2015-01-05 Thread Ken Hohhof
That’s what my wife gets, I prefer the original not the variations like honey or brown sugar or onion. If you want that other stuff you can doctor it yourself. From: joseph marsh Sent: Monday, January 05, 2015 9:05 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Anyone seen or used this before? I

Re: [AFMUG] unexplained IPv6 traffic.

2015-01-06 Thread Ken Hohhof
I see link-local addresses and the second one in the list looks like UPnP, not sure about the first one. From: Ty Featherling Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 10:13 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: [AFMUG] unexplained IPv6 traffic. We started getting calls of slow speeds on this tower and found mul

Re: [AFMUG] 24V UPS

2015-01-06 Thread Ken Hohhof
I thought that too, but with a mailserver and PRTG server running Windows for many years, I really do zero tinkering. Nada. Not sure why you would tinker. My main complaint is that WIndows Update tends to need a restart which messes up PRTG graphs, while yum updates typically are hitless. Al

Re: [AFMUG] 24V UPS

2015-01-06 Thread Ken Hohhof
Have you looked at Eltek and Emerson? Although Eltek seems to be oriented around –24 or –48, and not so good for +24. Not familiar with Emerson, Mark Radabaugh has posted they use them. I have an Eltek Micropack –48V system and the web and SNMP capability is excellent. I did have one rectifi

Re: [AFMUG] 24V UPS

2015-01-06 Thread Ken Hohhof
Who priced it for you? A couple years back I did a spreadsheet. Complete –48VDC systems including web/SNMP controller, rectifier modules, LVD, remote battery temperature probe, and circuit breakers but not including batteries came out to: 2 slot 250W: $540 2 slot 500W: $714 4 slot 750W: $91

Re: [AFMUG] 24V UPS

2015-01-06 Thread Ken Hohhof
, Ken Hohhof wrote: Have you looked at Eltek and Emerson? Although Eltek seems to be oriented around –24 or –48, and not so good for +24. Not familiar with Emerson, Mark Radabaugh has posted they use them. I have an Eltek Micropack –48V system and the web and SNMP capability is excellent

Re: [AFMUG] 24V UPS

2015-01-06 Thread Ken Hohhof
think I was over $1,200 for a two slot 48v system. The guy that does the Interstate batteries quoted me on it. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com From: "Ken Hohhof&quo

Re: [AFMUG] 24V UPS

2015-01-06 Thread Ken Hohhof
-/111555844649?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19f93f1a29 From: Ken Hohhof Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 2:17 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 24V UPS Sounds more like MSRP maybe? I will tell you it’s not easy stuff to buy (of course neither is Alpha). I bought it from KGP Logis

[AFMUG] routers get even more ridiculous

2015-01-06 Thread Ken Hohhof
Not that I'd consider a DLink router. But AC3200 is so 2014, now there is (or soon will be) AC5300. http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/01/d-links-new-routers-look-like-sci-fi-robot-insects/

Re: [AFMUG] 1500' tower YouTube video

2015-01-06 Thread Ken Hohhof
Wouldn’t one factor be planning so you were back down before dark? (Unless you plan on base jumping.) From: Mathew Howard Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 4:02 PM To: af Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 1500' tower YouTube video Indeed... I think it'd pretty much take a full day, which I wouldn't mind doi

Re: [AFMUG] double emails

2015-01-06 Thread Ken Hohhof
Not me. You must be special. From: Erich Kaiser Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 4:57 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: [AFMUG] double emails I am getting double emails from afmug now, since this morning...

Re: [AFMUG] double emails

2015-01-06 Thread Ken Hohhof
.. On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: Not me. You must be special. From: Erich Kaiser Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 4:57 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: [AFMUG] double emails I am getting double emails from afmug now, since this morning...

Re: [AFMUG] New WISP

2015-01-06 Thread Ken Hohhof
Not totally joking. Undercapitalization is a major mistake of most startups including WISPs. You need money to make money. Make a month-by-month plan for your first 2 years and do a cashflow spreadsheet. Set targets for how many installs you plan to do each month, how much you revenue you wi

Re: [AFMUG] New WISP

2015-01-06 Thread Ken Hohhof
Oh, and unless computer repair is part of your business, make friends with the local computer shops. Once you determine something is not your problem, you can spend a small amount of time trying to be helpful, but then you need to tell the customer to call the computer guy. Who can charge time

Re: [AFMUG] New WISP

2015-01-06 Thread Ken Hohhof
Plus how do you train an installer if you’ve never done it yourself? Oh, and take pictures. Especially at tower sites, but it doesn’t hurt at customer sites as well. And at tower sites, label everything. From: Jason McKemie Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 7:54 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re

Re: [AFMUG] 1500' tower YouTube video

2015-01-06 Thread Ken Hohhof
37 Troy, OH 45373 On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 5:45 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: Wouldn’t one factor be planning so you were back down before dark? (Unless you plan on base jumping.) From: Mathew Howard Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 4:02 PM To: af S

Re: [AFMUG] New WISP

2015-01-06 Thread Ken Hohhof
Oh, that brings up another point. If at all possible, get your own public IP address space and autonomous system number. And don’t NAT a bunch of customers to one public IP. From: Jerry Richardson Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 8:22 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] New WISP A big

Re: [AFMUG] double emails

2015-01-07 Thread Ken Hohhof
hhtt.. On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: Not me. You must be special. From: Erich Kaiser Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 4:57 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: [AFMUG] double emails I am getting double emails from afmug now, since

Re: [AFMUG] double emails

2015-01-07 Thread Ken Hohhof
FMUG] double emails All I get is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0 bp On 1/6/2015 3:39 PM, Chuck Macenski wrote: Maybe you need to turn off local echo? JJuusstt aa tthhoouugghhtt.. On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Ken Hohhof w

Re: [AFMUG] 24V UPS

2015-01-07 Thread Ken Hohhof
I wish everything would happily run on 29 volts like the Cambium stuff. Phoenix Contact has some DIN rail UPS gear that puts out regulated 24V when on commercial power, but raw battery voltage when on batteries. So what good is that? From: Bill Prince Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 9:51 A

Re: [AFMUG] Mimosa DC PoE injector

2015-01-07 Thread Ken Hohhof
I am doing that with Exalt G2 radios at 2 sites and it has worked fine. If the site is already +24V, I would just use an RSD to upconvert to +48V and be done with it, that’s what I’m doing. If it was a new DC site I might use the 48V Traco UPS and then downconvert, especially if I had stuff th

Re: [AFMUG] [BULK] Re: New WISP

2015-01-07 Thread Ken Hohhof
Haha, watch the movie Moneyball for how to fire someone. From: joseph marsh Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 11:43 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: [BULK] Re: [AFMUG] New WISP +1 On Jan 7, 2015 11:39 AM, "Tyler Treat" wrote: Yes. Wish I would have learned this sooner.

Re: [AFMUG] Google Apps for ISP solutions

2015-01-07 Thread Ken Hohhof
But Mike are you talking about your Bruce Wayne identity with the county, or your Batman crime-fighting tower-climbing WISP-running alter ego? When you talk about 2 LDAP servers and $600 worth of voice and $1,500 worth of VPLS, that doesn’t sound like WISP stuff, I’m thinking it’s day job stuff.

Re: [AFMUG] APC Site Wiring Fault

2015-01-07 Thread Ken Hohhof
I had that at one grain handling site and also your fingers would tingle when you touched any of the electrical boxes. It went away when they had the electrician fix the ground. So I’d be at least mildly worried regarding personal safety. Some rural electricians will interchange neutral and g

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

2015-01-07 Thread Ken Hohhof
urday, January 3, 2015, CBB - Jay Fuller wrote: i decided to experiment with that.they only have 44 in stock lol - Original Message - From: Ken Hohhof To: javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','af@afmug.com'); Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2015 6:14 PM

Re: [AFMUG] interesting telrad video

2015-01-08 Thread Ken Hohhof
Painting ASICs as an old, failed approach and FPGAs as the future seems a little strange. From: That One Guy Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2015 9:37 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: [AFMUG] interesting telrad video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzAkMGKT5_M I feel like there might be some koolaid

Re: [AFMUG] APC Site Wiring Fault

2015-01-08 Thread Ken Hohhof
I have 2 sites with rackmount SU-1400-XL and two external Lifeline 8D AGM batteries, works fine, but I am not worrying about calibrating the runtime numbers. From: That One Guy Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2015 9:46 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] APC Site Wiring Fault The only two t

Re: [AFMUG] interesting telrad video

2015-01-08 Thread Ken Hohhof
FPGAs can be reprogrammed. And they, in theory, can do everything an ASIC can do. But ASICs are not able to be changed (at least they could not when I was working with them, that has been a few years ago). From: Ken Hohhof Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2015 8:43 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject

Re: [AFMUG] interesting telrad video

2015-01-08 Thread Ken Hohhof
. But ASICs are not able to be changed (at least they could not when I was working with them, that has been a few years ago). From: Ken Hohhof Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2015 8:43 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] interesting telrad video Painting ASICs as an old, failed

Re: [AFMUG] interesting telrad video

2015-01-08 Thread Ken Hohhof
I have one Purewave basestation, with all Greenpacket CPE. The same migration would probably work for me. Unfortunately in my rural area, I don’t fit the business model for the Telrad product. So while it might be a good migration, putting in yet another expensive WiMAX basestation in a low p

Re: [AFMUG] Cambium support

2015-01-08 Thread Ken Hohhof
I’m imagining Steve’s business cards: Have Dick, Will Travel. No, that would have a different meaning. And Dick for Hire would sound more like an off-duty cop, as in Dick Tracy. English must be a very confusing language for immigrants. Like the sign at the Walgreens up the road: Sale – Tomb

Re: [AFMUG] interesting telrad video

2015-01-08 Thread Ken Hohhof
Many of the systems on the market already run within far less than 10 dB of the Shannon bound, so beware of any coding or modulation methods that claim that much system margin improvement. Obviously there are other techniques like beamforming and MU-MIMO, although I’ve also run into too many ve

[AFMUG] Mikrotik question - SIP helper

2015-01-08 Thread Ken Hohhof
Can anyone explain to me if the Mikrotik SIP helper has any effect if you don't enable NAT? /ip firewall service-port set sip disabled=no I guess the default setting must depend on what ROS version the router started with, I thought it was always off by default. Wrong. But on our tower rout

Re: [AFMUG] dumb curiosity question

2015-01-08 Thread Ken Hohhof
Like in Ukraine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bWOHrT3lBs From: Josh Luthman Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2015 4:00 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] dumb curiosity question Close to an AM tower you'll definitely have a good bit. If there's enough juice to catch grass on fire when y

Re: [AFMUG] 24V UPS

2015-01-11 Thread Ken Hohhof
I remember when booking hotel rooms in Wash. DC being told to always ask for the government rate, without actually saying you were a government employee. I wonder if you could just ask vendors for the JAB price. From: Jason McKemie Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2015 11:06 PM To: af@afmug.com Subj

Re: [AFMUG] BCP38

2015-01-12 Thread Ken Hohhof
Yeah, I’m missing what the big deal is here. If you’re talking about your border router to your upstream, why would you allow outbound traffic with source IPs outside your IP blocks? Allow your IPs, block the rest. If you’re talking about other routers within your network and are wanting to s

Re: [AFMUG] BCP38

2015-01-12 Thread Ken Hohhof
– www.linktechs.net From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Ken Hohhof Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 10:55 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] BCP38 Yeah, I’m missing what the big deal is here. If you’re talking about your border router to your upstream, why would you allow

Re: [AFMUG] BCP38

2015-01-12 Thread Ken Hohhof
early days, folks could announce “all your internets are mine” and take down everything. From: Ken Hohhof Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 11:07 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] BCP38 Depends on what you mean by “any prefixes learned by the bgp peers”. I think most upstreams would manually

Re: [AFMUG] WTB: Accu-Aim Adapter

2015-01-12 Thread Ken Hohhof
Have Chuck email you the .stl file and print it on a 3D printer. Or use drone delivery from one tower to the other. Having things fabricated and shipped is so 2014. From: Erich Kaiser Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 1:27 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] WTB: Accu-Aim Adapter Just have Wa

Re: [AFMUG] List issue

2015-01-12 Thread Ken Hohhof
I resubscribed to the afmug list with a dedicated email address. If I forget and post from my main email address, that’s what happens, it silently disappears. Of course, if I reply to a post, my email client automatically uses the correct From address. So first thing I would check is whether

Re: [AFMUG] Mounting 2.4 ePMP with dishes

2015-01-12 Thread Ken Hohhof
Direct TV suppliers sell support strut kits but for 2” J-pipes which are now standard in the sat TV industry. I have bought struts for 1.66” J-pipes from AI Satellite but they are annoying to install, they don’t pivot in the right places to line up right. I wish the WISP industry would go to 2

Re: [AFMUG] List issue

2015-01-12 Thread Ken Hohhof
I don’t follow what you mean by DMARC-compliant. I thought DMARC was a way for a domain owner to specify what to do if an email purporting to be from that domain fails DKIM or SPF checks. Were you sending from your own domain, and if so, what DMARC policy is specified in your DNS records? Or

Re: [AFMUG] Leasing vs Bank Loan

2015-01-13 Thread Ken Hohhof
I find equipment leases are like marriages for some people. You start out all optimistic about the future, with this shiny new equipment to play with. But 3 years later it feels so good to make the last payment and get your freedom back. Then in a year or two, you do it all over again. From:

Re: [AFMUG] WiFi for restaurant

2015-01-13 Thread Ken Hohhof
I wonder how long before we start seeing stickers identifying those things that still work when “the cloud” is down. Maybe an emergency kit of “cloud free” tools for after the apocalypse. From: Mike Hammett Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 11:19 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] WiFi for

Re: [AFMUG] [BULK] Re: WiFi for restaurant

2015-01-13 Thread Ken Hohhof
mmett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com From: "Ken Hohhof" To: af@afmug.com Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 11:35:37 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] WiFi for restaurant I wonder how long

[AFMUG] soldering temperature for repair work

2015-01-13 Thread Ken Hohhof
I pulled out an old Weller WTCPT soldering iron, the type where the tip controls the temperature, not the one with a digital readout, and was trying to change out some components on a MIkrotik board. The tip was a 700 degree 1/16" tip. I haven't done much soldering since the world went lead fr

Re: [AFMUG] soldering temperature for repair work

2015-01-13 Thread Ken Hohhof
big time. I add some 63/37 lead solder to the connection prior to using solder wick then it works. 700 degrees should work. I would re solder with the good stuff. -Original Message- From: Ken Hohhof Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 3:41 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: [AFMUG

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, 2

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 the

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. Movin

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, 2

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. Is

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: Thur

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 Se

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 1

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 p

Re: [AFMUG] holy crap...

2015-01-15 Thread Ken Hohhof
bly take a bomb along for good measure and start wrecking all our towers. On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Ken Hohhof 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

Re: [AFMUG] holy crap...

2015-01-15 Thread Ken Hohhof
e and start wrecking all our towers. On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Ken Hohhof 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] holy crap... Darwinism.

[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] 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 pri

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

2015-01-15 Thread Ken Hohhof
15, 2015 at 7:56 PM, Ken Hohhof 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. It appears t

Re: [AFMUG] Licensed backhaul pricing - still ridiculous

2015-01-15 Thread Ken Hohhof
e as without that fanciness. Roadmap to 10G via licensed, anyone? - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -------- From: "Ken Hohhof" To: af@afmug.com Sent: Thursday, Januar

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
recking all our towers. On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Ken Hohhof 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: [A

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 th

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 Sub

Re: [AFMUG] System Release 13.3 available

2015-01-16 Thread Ken Hohhof
Broadcasting) 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. Installers will ki

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 that

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

2015-01-16 Thread Ken Hohhof
From: "Ken Hohhof" 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 widt

Re: [AFMUG] System Release 13.3 available

2015-01-16 Thread Ken Hohhof
-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Jon Bruce 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 t

Re: [AFMUG] holy crap...

2015-01-16 Thread Ken Hohhof
Jan 16, 2015 at 8:37 AM, Ken Hohhof 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. In fact, if we had snakes, that would proba

Re: [AFMUG] Keystone Cover

2015-01-16 Thread Ken Hohhof
Like this? http://store.stsi.com/cjd5e88tbu.html From: Mathew Howard Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 11:20 AM To: af Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Keystone Cover There are small surface mount boxes that a keystone jack will snap into... like this: http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=105&cp_id=10517&

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 h

Re: [AFMUG] holy crap...

2015-01-16 Thread Ken Hohhof
of us 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 On 1/16/2015 12:48 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: Sure it wasn’t a muskrat? From: Bill Princ

Re: [AFMUG] System Release 13.3 available

2015-01-16 Thread Ken Hohhof
sh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Jon Bruce wrote: How do I convince my installers to use the tone and stop calling the NOC for numbers over the phone? On

Re: [AFMUG] OT - RadioSprint? SprintShack?

2015-01-16 Thread Ken Hohhof
: Jaime Solorza Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 6:44 PM To: Animal Farm Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT - RadioSprint? SprintShack? Doesn't Mr. Chuck have a few in his portfolio? Jaime Solorza On Jan 15, 2015 5:18 PM, "Bill Prince" wrote: Next Shack On Thu, Jan 15, 2015

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
, OH 45373 On Jan 16, 2015 7:27 PM, "Ken Hohhof" 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 Radio Shac

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] 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 [mailto:af-boun...@af

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: http://community.cambiumnetworks.com/bstrc49894/attachments/bstrc49

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

2015-01-19 Thread Ken Hohhof
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 ? In 6 GHz, is 60 really 60, or is it 30+30 contiguous?

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

2015-01-19 Thread Ken Hohhof
#x27;t passed traffic over it... On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Dan Petermann 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 wrote: What kind of problems, and what model? The G2 links we put in just

Re: [AFMUG] Laying your own fiber?

2015-01-19 Thread Ken Hohhof
I don't see how these are cable companies at all. They don't install cable in the public right of way. Broadcast TV doesn't need a franchise agreement or pay franchise fees, nor does satellite TV. I think you are confusing OTT content providers with cable companies, the latter have physical

Re: [AFMUG] EPMP Minimum System Specs

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 a

Re: [AFMUG] EPMP Minimum System Specs

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. Browser

Re: [AFMUG] EPMP Minimum System Specs

2015-01-20 Thread Ken Hohhof
Good job of merging 2 threads! You win one free Internet! From: Chuck McCown Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 12:48 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] EPMP Minimum System Specs Yeah but you bought the advantage GUI license, right? From: Sean Heskett Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 11:4

Re: [AFMUG] EPMP Minimum System Specs

2015-01-20 Thread Ken Hohhof
What browser are those of you who aren't seeing lag using? On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote: Good job of merging 2 threads! You win one free Internet! From: Chuck McCown Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 12:48 PM To: af@afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] Bigger batteries for Smart UPS

2015-01-20 Thread Ken Hohhof
I don’t have specific numbers for you, but I have observed that family gets pretty inefficient if you run it way below rated capacity. You seem to hit a wall as you drop the load, like 200 watts for 4 hours, 100 watts for 4 hours, 50 watts for 4 hours, no watts for 4 hours. Especially if you a

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