Re: [WISPA] Modifications of Parts 2 and 15 of the...

2007-04-26 Thread Lonnie Nunweiler
So once a non standard connector becomes an Industry Standard then you will find it in most supply stores. Also, what sort of supply store? Radio Shack or Electrocomm? Radio Shack might have the N connector, but it is likely suitable for VHF use only. Microwave quality is not mainstream, so doe

[WISPA] need service in Bradenton, Fl

2007-04-26 Thread RickG
Contact me offlist. -RickG -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/

[WISPA] tower

2007-04-26 Thread RickG
I've got six 20' tower sections. Made of solid core round stock. Very heavy. Anyone interested, hit me offlist. -RickG -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/

Re: [WISPA] Modifications of Parts 2 and 15 of the...

2007-04-26 Thread Jack Unger
Here's one definition that the FCC has used for "unique connector". Begin Quote ___ A "unique connector" is one that is not of a standard type found in electronic supply stores. _ End Quote __ jack Lonnie Nunweiler wro

Re: [WISPA] Modifications of Parts 2 and 15 of the, Commission's Rules for unlicensed devices and, equipment approval

2007-04-26 Thread Lonnie Nunweiler
I am still wondering what is meant by "unique" for the connector. I've seen you write that the N connector is NOT allowed. Why is that? Lonnie On 4/26/07, Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Under the normal Part-15 rules, the only devices allowed to have a "non unique"

Re: [WISPA] WISP Peering

2007-04-26 Thread Travis Johnson
Why wouldn't you just put up your own AP's and service the same area rather than give that customer away to the competition? I would spend $5k and put up my own tower before I turn a "potential" customer away to the competition. I've done it many times over the years and it has always paid off

Re: [WISPA] Modifications of Parts 2 and 15 of the, Commission's Rules for unlicensed devices and, equipment approval

2007-04-26 Thread Tim Kerns
Please see inline... - Original Message - From: "Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 6:00 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Modifications of Parts 2 and 15 of the,Commission's Rules for unlicensed devices and, equipment

RE: [WISPA] TTP

2007-04-26 Thread Mike Bushard, Jr
We are using VantagePoint. Mike Bushard, Jr Wisper Wireless Solutions, LLC 320-256-WISP (9477) 320-256-9478 Fax -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter R. Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 5:56 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] TTP

Re: [WISPA] WISP Peering

2007-04-26 Thread Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181
No. I didn't say that. What I said is that we all charge each other the same price for the whole sale access to the network. What each guy charges his customers I have no idea. Don't really care. I'd rather make a couple of bucks on a connection per month and have no support duties than

Re: [WISPA] Modifications of Parts 2 and 15 of the, Commission's Rules for unlicensed devices and, equipment approval

2007-04-26 Thread Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181
Under the normal Part-15 rules, the only devices allowed to have a "non unique" connector are devices labeled for and sold only to "professional installers". The problem is, there isn't really a good explanation of what a part-15 professional installer is. What I've been told by the FCC is t

Re: [WISPA] WISP Peering

2007-04-26 Thread George Rogato
Just dotting the "i" 's and crossing the "t" 's. If you guys all got together and set a price that you each would charge the consumer, then I believe you may have issues. Price fixing. As long as you guys really compete rather than slice up the pie, your probably clear. Marlon K. Schafer (50

Re: [WISPA] LEMMINGS?

2007-04-26 Thread Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181
I'm sure he was drunk when he said it! I'm JUST KIDDING Marlon (509) 982-2181 (408) 907-6910 (Vonage)Consulting services 42846865 (icq)WISP Operator since 1999! [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.odessaoffice.com/w

Re: [WISPA] WISP Peering

2007-04-26 Thread Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181
- Original Message - From: "George Rogato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 6:42 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] WISP Peering Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 wrote: Two of my competitors just sat down for lunch and worked out a network sharing ag

Re: [WISPA] WISP Peering

2007-04-26 Thread George Rogato
Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 wrote: Two of my competitors just sat down for lunch and worked out a network sharing agreement. It's a handshake deal at this point though. Basically we carved up a hilltop laying out coverage zones for each of us, and we set a price for using each other's ap

Re: [WISPA] Was lemmings... now What is WISPA?

2007-04-26 Thread Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181
I think there are between 3000 and 6000 wisps. I do NOT think CALEA is a bad thing. Pretty hard to abuse it and there's NO reason for the ability to spy on bad guys to not exist. Lastly, I just can't take it anymore! Some of you guys loose more sleep over the little stuff. I'm FAR more wor

Re: [WISPA] WISP Peering

2007-04-26 Thread Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181
Two of my competitors just sat down for lunch and worked out a network sharing agreement. It's a handshake deal at this point though. Basically we carved up a hilltop laying out coverage zones for each of us, and we set a price for using each other's ap's. Marlon (509) 982-2181 (408) 907-691

Re: [WISPA] Was lemmings... now What is WISPA?

2007-04-26 Thread Peter R.
Again I ask you, how do you do that? How do you get hundreds to write in? You wrote a note that could be massaged and sent to customers. (But then you would start losing customers almost immediately). So people have a starting point. The PR... you suggested that no one could write one... ac

Re: [WISPA] Lemmings - suggestions

2007-04-26 Thread George Rogato
Peter R. wrote: George Rogato wrote: Peter R. wrote: Mr. Hush, Excellent plan. What agenda item will you be working on first? SUGGESTIONS of what to do: we have decided to stage a cyclic disconnect from public Inet in protest. I'm confused... Is he saying to turn the internet off f

Re: [WISPA] LEMMINGS?

2007-04-26 Thread George Rogato
Mark Koskenmaki wrote: No, it means I thumb my nose at them when they come along and tell me I have do something for them...for free. Well I for one don't want to have to pay higher taxes so that the government can pay industry to conform with their requirements. I kinda like user fees mys

Re: [WISPA] Lemmings - suggestions

2007-04-26 Thread Peter R.
George Rogato wrote: Peter R. wrote: Mr. Hush, Excellent plan. What agenda item will you be working on first? SUGGESTIONS of what to do: we have decided to stage a cyclic disconnect from public Inet in protest. I'm confused... Is he saying to turn the internet off for his customers?

Re: [WISPA] Was lemmings... now What is WISPA?

2007-04-26 Thread Matt Liotta
Mark Koskenmaki wrote: Read that document from the FCC again, there's HUGE areas of required compliance that have NOT EVEN BEEN MENTIONED by anything to come from WISPA nor anyone else I've seen, and we have 3 weeks to somehow bridge this gulf, educate everyone, and try some give and take with th

RE: [WISPA] TTP

2007-04-26 Thread Don Renner
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter R. Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 6:56 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] TTP Has anyone spoken with any TTP for CALEA mediation boxes? After re-reading the Cisco CALEA compliance stuff today

[WISPA] TTP

2007-04-26 Thread Peter R.
Has anyone spoken with any TTP for CALEA mediation boxes? After re-reading the Cisco CALEA compliance stuff today, (http://radinfo.blogspot.com/2007/04/calea-tpp.html) I'm beginning to think that you need a box that can massage the data dump and transport it to the LEA. According to Bearhill

Re: [WISPA] LEMMINGS?

2007-04-26 Thread George Rogato
Being from Massachusetts and studying the American Revolution through out my youth, which is one exciting piece of history, Patrick Henry and "Give me Liberty or give me Death" has to be one of the cornerstone of my beliefs. Jeromie Reeves wrote: On 4/26/07, George Rogato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[WISPA] Law Brief on CALEA

2007-04-26 Thread Peter R.
http://www.crblaw.com/news/201369_1kc-5-18-06.pdf (forwarded from Bearhill) -- Regards, Peter Radizeski RAD-INFO, Inc. - NSP Strategist We Help ISPs Connect & Communicate 813.963.5884 http://www.marketingIDEAguy.com -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://

[WISPA] 700 MHz -- FCC -- COMMENTS !

2007-04-26 Thread Smith, Rick
: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070426/wr_nm/fcc_auction_dc Perhaps take the time to comment to the FCC on this docket 4/25/07 FCC Addresses Rules Governing Commercial Wireless and Public Safety Licenses in the 700 MHz Spectrum Band. News Release: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch

Re: [WISPA] Lemmings - suggestions

2007-04-26 Thread George Rogato
Peter R. wrote: Mr. Hush, Excellent plan. What agenda item will you be working on first? SUGGESTIONS of what to do: we have decided to stage a cyclic disconnect from public Inet in protest. I'm confused... Is he saying to turn the internet off for his customers? Is this supposed to have

Re: [WISPA] WISP Peering

2007-04-26 Thread Peter R.
Peering Point? Bandwidth would decrease if a good percentage of the traffic was to each other. Otherwise it is just a routing nightmare. - Peter Jory Privett wrote: I have two PoPs where I have bandwidth for my network. In the same area I know of at least 4 other WISPs that have bandwidth

Re: [WISPA] LEMMINGS?

2007-04-26 Thread Peter R.
Mark and Mark, Small business over-regulation is a big problem. That is what the SBA's Office of Advocacy is supposed to fight for. But alas with budget cuts and mismanagement, no help there... but you might want to petition them anyway. Bearhill explained that the FCC wanted "the Industry"

Re: [WISPA] Was lemmings... now What is WISPA?

2007-04-26 Thread Mark Koskenmaki
- Original Message - From: "Dawn DiPietro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 1:29 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Was lemmings... now What is WISPA? > Mark, > > Justify it anyway you like. Civil disobedience is not a viable solution. > I don't see a la

Re: [WISPA] Network Monitoring and Graphing

2007-04-26 Thread Jim Stout
I run PRTG Traffic Grapher from Paessler (www.paessler.com) and Servers Alive (www.woodstone.nu/salive/) for notification. They both do notification but I started with Servers Alive because it's freeware and it works. Jim Stout LTO Communications, LLC 15701 Henry Andrews Dr Pleasant Hill, MO

Re: [WISPA] LEMMINGS?

2007-04-26 Thread Mark Koskenmaki
- Original Message - From: "Dawn DiPietro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 1:25 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] LEMMINGS? > Mark, > > So this means you thumb your nose at the FCC when they put regulations > into place? No, it means I thumb my nose a

Re: [WISPA] Was lemmings... now What is WISPA?

2007-04-26 Thread Dawn DiPietro
Mark, Justify it anyway you like. Civil disobedience is not a viable solution. I don't see a large number of people stepping up to the plate and defending your position. Regards, Dawn DiPietro Mark Koskenmaki wrote: Wow. I guess the title really is right. When I participated in the debate

Re: [WISPA] LEMMINGS?

2007-04-26 Thread Dawn DiPietro
Mark, So this means you thumb your nose at the FCC when they put regulations into place? The FCC is not in place to make life easy for you it is there to protect the airwaves from being polluted from every guy that knows something about wireless and slapping computers together. Sorry if this

Re: [WISPA] LEMMINGS?

2007-04-26 Thread Mark Koskenmaki
Here, read this. it's old, but it's EFF's take on CALEA. http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Surveillance/CALEA/ If you take the time and read this through (it's HOURS) http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-06-56A1.pdf You'll notice that the FCC readily admits it cannot resolve the tech

Re: [WISPA] Lemmings - suggestions

2007-04-26 Thread Mark Koskenmaki
- Original Message - From: "Peter R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 12:14 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Lemmings - suggestions > Mr. Hush, > > Excellent plan. What agenda item will you be working on first? > > SUGGESTIONS of what to do: > 1) Inf

RE: [WISPA] LEMMINGS?

2007-04-26 Thread Mark McElvy
I may not agree with everything Mark is saying, but CALEA is more about Gov't control and convenience than our protection. Running a small business is hard enough without being regulated into oblivion. Mark McElvy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Be

RE: [WISPA] WISP Peering

2007-04-26 Thread Brad Belton
This is exactly what we have done. We brought two DS3's out to a rural area and have broken off parts of that bandwidth to other ISPs. In fact as I type we have failed over part of one ISP's network over a geographically diverse third backhaul we have back into town. I believe we extended an o

Re: [WISPA] WISP Peering

2007-04-26 Thread Mark Koskenmaki
At one time, a local operator here in the valley tried to set this up, not with BGP and classic peering, but simple static routing to route just that ISP's clients traffic to them.Thus, traffic bound for each other went through a dedicated pipe. of course, this was simple and cheap, back when

[WISPA] Was lemmings... now What is WISPA?

2007-04-26 Thread Mark Koskenmaki
Wow. I guess the title really is right. When I participated in the debates about who was a WISP, and who could join WISPA, we were very broad, and included community networks, free networks, big and small operators.. including the guy who is just a "hobby" type network operator, but provides co

Re: [WISPA] Outdoor rated cable

2007-04-26 Thread Sam Tetherow
I get mine from either ElectroComm or Wisp-Router for about $100/1000'. The biggest problem I have had for the past 12-18 months is finding people with stuff in stock when I need it. Sam Tetherow Sandhills Wireless Mike Hammett wrote: I last asked a couple years ago. What does everyo

Re: [WISPA] WISP Peering

2007-04-26 Thread Travis Johnson
There are many issues involved... we used to peer with one of our competitors in the area. It worked pretty well, but honestly wasn't worth the extra time and efforts for what it actually saved in bandwidth, etc. Now, if you could find a neutral location to bring in a bigger pipe, and then ev

Re: [WISPA] WISP Peering

2007-04-26 Thread Felix A. Lopez
Is the issue one of cost where the WISP "A" does not have budget for additonal servers/network analytics tools, hardware infrastructure? What problem are you trying to solve? Felix --- Jeromie Reeves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You would classically arrange a peering agreement. > You hand eac

Re: [WISPA] LEMMINGS?

2007-04-26 Thread Jeromie Reeves
Steve, well you did get me thinking about him (and my best remembered quote from him). On 4/26/07, Peter R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's more likely that you would get 100 maximum to say I can't comply, since most won't want to make themselves known. And those 100 would be contacted. Cripe

Re: [WISPA] WISP Peering

2007-04-26 Thread Travis Johnson
My personal concern would be turning over my IP block to my competition. They would have to have enough control to allow BGP routes from their upstream. Technically they could misconfigure a router accidentally and take your entire network down. :( Travis Microserv Mike Hammett wrote: If they

Re: [WISPA] WISP Peering

2007-04-26 Thread Jeromie Reeves
You would classically arrange a peering agreement. You hand each other a equal amount of capacity (say 1mbit) and a BGP table. You each use the link like another upstream provider, balancing routes vs capacity vs (what ever else you want). Some peerages have a set cost per bit transfered and the g

[WISPA] Outdoor rated cable

2007-04-26 Thread Mike Hammett
I last asked a couple years ago. What does everyone recommend for sources of outdoor rated non-burial cable for installations? - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mail

Re: [WISPA] Lemmings - suggestions

2007-04-26 Thread Peter R.
Mr. Hush, Excellent plan. What agenda item will you be working on first? SUGGESTIONS of what to do: 1) Inform the AP / UPI that as an industry group, we have decided to stage a cyclic disconnect from public Inet in protest. Any volunteers to write and distribute this Press Release? 2) As a

Re: [WISPA] LEMMINGS?

2007-04-26 Thread Peter R.
It's more likely that you would get 100 maximum to say I can't comply, since most won't want to make themselves known. And those 100 would be contacted. Cripes only a few hundred filled out the 477... you think a few thousand would light a bonfire? Mark Koskenmaki wrote: I think Steve's p

Re: [WISPA] WISP Peering

2007-04-26 Thread Jory Privett
I have two PoPs where I have bandwidth for my network. In the same area I know of at least 4 other WISPs that have bandwidth also. I was just wanting to establish a link to one or more of them and start routing (BGP most likely) and pass traffic over each others network. This would allow eac

Re: [WISPA] WISP Peering

2007-04-26 Thread Mike Hammett
If they're network peering, they'd be connecting each other's networks together to exchange local traffic that way. They could also have an alliance where if someone's Internet feeds go out, they use another WISP's Internet feed until restoration. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Sol

RE: [WISPA] Network Monitoring and Graphing

2007-04-26 Thread Russ Kreigh
We primarily use: Whats Up Gold Premium v11 Solarwinds Orion Cacti Visualpulse For anyone who is looking at monitoring infrastructure and their individual customers, I would strongly suggest taking a look at AdRem NetCrunch. The new version (v11) of WhatsUp Gold has really come around, it's f

Re: [WISPA] WISP Peering

2007-04-26 Thread Dawn DiPietro
Jory, I am not sure what you are trying to do with the other WISP's in your area. Can you a little more clear on what you are thinking of? Regards, Dawn DiPietro Jory Privett wrote: There are several WISP in my area I was wanting to talk to some of them about bandwidth peering. I know that

Re: [WISPA] LEMMINGS?

2007-04-26 Thread Dawn DiPietro
Mark, At this point you are beating a dead horse. We know how you feel about the government and following the laws put in place for your protection. But to be honest with you this is getting old. We need to change the focus of this conversation on how to comply with these rules not how much we

Re: [WISPA] LEMMINGS?

2007-04-26 Thread Steve
Precisely.. Misquote was intentional.;) Patrick Henry never would have said such diabolical words. Just wanted to get the gears turning for those who remember what Patrick /really/ said! -- Jeromie Reeves wrote: > On 4/26/07, George Rogato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Jeromie Reeves wrote: >

Re: [WISPA] Network Monitoring and Graphing

2007-04-26 Thread Sam Tetherow
David E. Smith wrote: Jory Privett wrote: I am looking some a software package that does network monitoring and graphing. WhatsUp will do the monitoring and notifications, but at least the version I've got doesn't do graphing. (In all fairness, it's an older version, and MRTG does grap

Re: [WISPA] LEMMINGS?

2007-04-26 Thread Mark Koskenmaki
I think Steve's point was to contrast Patrick Henry's determination with some people's attitude that resistance is futile. Frankly, I think EVERY WISP should file that they are NOT compliant and have no prospect of being. The FCC would simply be snowed under attempting to deal with HUNDREDS OR T

[WISPA] WISP Peering

2007-04-26 Thread Jory Privett
There are several WISP in my area I was wanting to talk to some of them about bandwidth peering. I know that most will not want anything to do with it since they refuse to co-operate in any other way but I wanted to make the effort. Has anyone else done this type of thing? What paperwork nee

Re: [WISPA] LEMMINGS?

2007-04-26 Thread Jeromie Reeves
On 4/26/07, George Rogato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jeromie Reeves wrote: > On 4/19/07, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> as Patrick Henry once said >> >> "Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated." >> > > Who is Patrick Henry?? > Didn't Patrick Henry say Give me liberty or give me de

Re: [WISPA] CALEA Costs-Shifting Relief

2007-04-26 Thread Mark Koskenmaki
- Original Message - From: "George Rogato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 11:43 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] CALEA Costs-Shifting Relief > On one of the documents that I've rad that maybe is not that public, > they have taken into consideration t

[WISPA] Lemmings Followup

2007-04-26 Thread maybemenot
Mr. Koskenmaki, I am sorry to see that you felt a flame was directed upon you. Personally, I take the reference to Tim May as an undeserved complement. But Tim's works do pre-date a lot of the younger crowd. BTW, Tim's manifesto is well worthy of the few minutes of time it will take anyone int

Re: [WISPA] LEMMINGS?

2007-04-26 Thread George Rogato
Jeromie Reeves wrote: On 4/19/07, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: as Patrick Henry once said "Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated." Who is Patrick Henry?? Didn't Patrick Henry say Give me liberty or give me death? -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscri

Re: [WISPA] CALEA Costs-Shifting Relief

2007-04-26 Thread George Rogato
On one of the documents that I've rad that maybe is not that public, they have taken into consideration that some isp's can not afford to impliment calea and they have a solution for that. Dawn DiPietro wrote: Peter, Thank you for posting this information. Since there is a $5000 applicatio

Re: [WISPA] CALEA Costs-Shifting Relief

2007-04-26 Thread Mark Koskenmaki
I'm a bit confused, because I thougth the FCC specifically stated that there is no longer any funds, nor are any applications under those sections accepted anymore. http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-06-56A1.pdf Relevant paragraph: 2. More generally, we herein specify mechanis

Re: [WISPA] Modifications of Parts 2 and 15 of the ,Commission’s Rules for unlicensed devices and,equ ipment approval

2007-04-26 Thread Doug Ratcliffe
But why not get a SBC certified as a motherboard, like a MSI, Asus, etc? The power supply (DC 12V) is already certified most of the time, and the case itself, how many times have you seen a Foxconn or Antec case with no power supply have a sticker on it in the first place? So SBC=motherboard,

Re: [WISPA] Modifications of Parts 2 and 15 of the ,Commission’s Rules for unlicensed devices and,equ ipment approval

2007-04-26 Thread Mark Koskenmaki
- Original Message - From: "Scott Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 9:22 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Modifications of Parts 2 and 15 of the,Commission’s Rules for unlicensed devices and,equipment approval > Actually, the SBC is never an inten

Re: [WISPA] LEMMINGS?

2007-04-26 Thread Jeromie Reeves
On 4/19/07, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: as Patrick Henry once said "Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated." Who is Patrick Henry?? Seriously tho, I do not remember that being a quote from him but from Patrick Stewart. I happen to like: "The liberties of a people never were,

Re: [WISPA] Modifications of Parts 2 and 15 of the, Commission's Rules for unlicensed devices and, equipment approval

2007-04-26 Thread Lonnie Nunweiler
Most SBC units use Linux which is also used with some PDA's, laptops and desktop systems. Most laptops can be classed as a SBC since they have what they need on a single board. Many SBC gear makes use of expansion connectors, based on the PCI or mini PCI standard, making them similar to many desk

Re: [WISPA] Modifications of Part s 2 and 15 of the,Commission’s Rules for unlicensed devices and,equipment approval

2007-04-26 Thread Dawn DiPietro
Scott, The wireless card and antenna has to be present to be certified with the SBC. Without the card and the antenna the SBC cannot be certified as a system. If we would get an SBC certified bare as a base unit then we could use it with various cards in whatever enclosure we want to use. A

Re: [WISPA] LEMMINGS?

2007-04-26 Thread Mark Koskenmaki
- Original Message - From: "David E. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 9:10 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] LEMMINGS? > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Another two cents that may or may not be worth ANYTHING at all. > > Hi, Mark's sock puppet w

Re: [WISPA] CALEA Costs-Shifting Relief

2007-04-26 Thread Dawn DiPietro
Peter, Thank you for posting this information. Since there is a $5000 application fee and that the provider has to prove that they have tried to comply I doubt the providers that scream the loudest will even take this information seriously and discount it like everything else we have heard ab

Re: [WISPA] Modifications of Part s 2 and 15 of the,Commission’s Rules for unlicensed devices and,equipment approval

2007-04-26 Thread Scott Reed
Actually, the SBC is never an intentional radiator. The added card is. As I read, and Tim says the same thing in a later post, we need the SBCs certified the same as laptops. Certified as non-intentional radiators that accept intential radiators that are certified. Isn't that what the presen

Re: [WISPA] LEMMINGS?

2007-04-26 Thread David E. Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Another two cents that may or may not be worth ANYTHING at all. Hi, Mark's sock puppet who writes like Tim May. > Members really perceive it will foster increased > national security. Anyone who believes that is, at best, delusional. I assume most o

[WISPA] CALEA Costs-Shifting Relief

2007-04-26 Thread Peter R.
*Section 109(b)(1) Petitions for Cost-Shifting Relief* CALEA section 109(b) permits a “telecommunications carrier,” as that term is defined by CALEA, to file a petition with the FCC and an application with the Department of Justice (DOJ) to request that DOJ pay the costs of the carrier’s CALEA

Re: [WISPA] Modifications of Parts 2 and 15 of the, Commission's Rules for unlicensed devices and, equipment approval

2007-04-26 Thread Lonnie Nunweiler
I saw nothing about an N connector being disallowed. It simply says that the connector(s) must be unique, and my contention is that an N connector is just as unique as a U.FL or RP-SMA. Once something becomes an Industry Standard it sort of loses its uniqueness. Since every system must have an

Re: [WISPA] LEMMINGS?

2007-04-26 Thread Peter R.
BTW, I never said not to fight it. I think that a majority of people want to comply and that should be the short term aim. Fighting it should have been done earlier, but can certainly be done now (or after May 14). It will just be harder. I would suggest those that want to fight should cont

Re: [WISPA] Modifications of Parts 2 and 15 of the, Commission's Rules for unlicensed devices and, equipment approval

2007-04-26 Thread Tim Kerns
- Original Message - From: "Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181> This new ruling is clearly aimed at the Dells, HPs, Toshibas etc. of the world. Not at us. If you can find a source at the FCC that'll say otherwise I'd LOVE to hear from them. 90% of the networks out there have changed

Re: [WISPA] Network Monitoring and Graphing

2007-04-26 Thread David E. Smith
Jory Privett wrote: > I am looking some a software package that does network monitoring and > graphing. WhatsUp will do the monitoring and notifications, but at least the version I've got doesn't do graphing. (In all fairness, it's an older version, and MRTG does graphing just fine.) Nagios works

[WISPA] 700

2007-04-26 Thread Peter R.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission decided on Wednesday to seek more public comment on how the sale of valuable wireless airwaves will work, a move that could delay the start of the auction. Read the rest here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070426/wr_nm/fcc_auction_dc Perhaps take the

Re: [WISPA] Modifications of Parts 2 and 15 of the, Commission's Rules for unlicensed devices and, equipment approval

2007-04-26 Thread Tim Kerns
Marlon, What does The "professional installation" provision of Section 15.203 say? and how does this change things? I thought the "professional installation" only meant that the installer had the knowledge and was allowed by the FCC to determine what antenna and xmitter could work together w

Re: [WISPA] LEMMINGS?

2007-04-26 Thread Steve
as Patrick Henry once said "Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated." -- Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 wrote: > All nicely stated. > > So, what do you think we should be DOING? > > Marlon > (509) 982-2181 > (408) 907-6910 (Vonage)Consulting services > 42846865 (icq)

Re: [WISPA] Re: Network Monitoring and Graphing

2007-04-26 Thread Jason Bunyea
We use groundwork also. On 4/26/07, Justin S. Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We use a combo of: Cacti GroundWork (http://www.groundworkopensource.com/products/) And [EMAIL PROTECTED] Justin -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/li

Re: [WISPA] Modifications of Parts 2 and 15 of the,C ommission's Rules for unlicensed devices and, equipment approval

2007-04-26 Thread Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181
I certainly DO want to mix and match. Hell, it's going on all over anywhere, they're gonna have to legalize it sooner or later anyway. The mix and match "thing" is way beyond anyone's ability to enforce it anymore. However, it's still the law and shouldn't be done. This is the specific c

Re: [WISPA] FCC Admits Mistakes In Measuring Broadband Competition

2007-04-26 Thread Dawn DiPietro
John, The FCC should not have to bribe Wireless Providers for this information. If Wireless Providers are serious about playing in this field then they should fill out the proper paperwork they are asked to file. If not then they will have to pay the price of not being looked as serious playe

[WISPA] Re: Network Monitoring and Graphing

2007-04-26 Thread Justin S. Wilson
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Re: [WISPA] LEMMINGS?

2007-04-26 Thread Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181
All nicely stated. So, what do you think we should be DOING? Marlon (509) 982-2181 (408) 907-6910 (Vonage)Consulting services 42846865 (icq)WISP Operator since 1999! [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.odessaoffice.com/wireless www.odessaoffice.com/marlo

Re: [WISPA] Modifications of Part s 2 and 15 of the,Commission’s Rules for unlicensed devices and,equipment approval

2007-04-26 Thread Dawn DiPietro
Scott, The SBC would not be a transmitter without the mPCI wireless card now would it. The SBC would be the host device. Regards, Dawn DiPietro Scott Reed wrote: Right, for the transmitter. That is the mPCI card that goes in the laptop. I am talking about the laptop itself. Laptop = SBC =

Re: [WISPA] LEMMINGS?

2007-04-26 Thread Steve
For your info, It is very easy to encrypt. there are plenty of easy to use tools for using impossible to break encryption. if you can use hotmail, you can use hushmail. The fact is that in my conversation with people I have discovered that they just don't care to encrypt.. "I don't have anything

Re: [WISPA] LEMMINGS? - Libraries

2007-04-26 Thread Peter R.
About libraries and CALEA: When the FCC extended CALEA to all facilities-based broadband Internet access providers in September 2005, it deemed it not to be in the public interest at that time to extend CALEA to libraries “that acquire broadband Internet access service from a facilities-based pr

Re: [WISPA] LEMMINGS?

2007-04-26 Thread Peter R.
Two quick thoughts: 1) If it was so easy to encrypt, more would do so. These things are to catch the mastermind genius, which thankfully are few and far between, but to catch the idiots. And most people are surrounded by idiots. Why even... never mind. If encryption was easy, PGP would be univ

Re: [WISPA] Modifications of Parts 2 and 15 of the, Commission's Rules for unlicensed devices and,equipment approval

2007-04-26 Thread Scott Reed
Right. And my point is, they should be easy to get certified. How do we get the various SBC vendors we use to get their boards certified as non-intentional radiators that can hold intentionally radiating modules? ralph wrote: Laptop=Legal FCC Certified Computing Device SBC=not WRAP=not RB=no