[WISPA] Changing Signal Strength

2007-11-10 Thread Scott Reed
For the past week and a half, I have had a strange phenomenon going on that I can not explain. I am hoping someone here can. I have a couple of APs that have been exhibiting this, on that is doing it right now. The one that is having problems is an RB333 with an SR9 card. Normally the AP

Re: [WISPA] Changing Signal Strength

2007-11-10 Thread Mike Hammett
Would that be temperature inversion? - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com - Original Message - From: Scott Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 5:47 AM Subject: [WISPA] Changing Signal

[WISPA] Alvarion VL TRUTH

2007-11-10 Thread Smith, Rick
I need to hear from a WISP that's BOUGHT and USES Alvarion VL equipment. I need to hear real world pricing info, quantities, etc. If anyone can hit me off list, I'd like to throw a few emails back and forth. I'm wondering if my little town coverage project, which was going to be all cheap wifi

Re: [WISPA] Changing Signal Strength

2007-11-10 Thread Jason
Does it happen in the morning when there is dew? Could you be getting water in the lmrX00 at the AP or something? Is there some daily pattern? Jason Scott Reed wrote: For the past week and a half, I have had a strange phenomenon going on that I can not explain. I am hoping someone here

Re: [WISPA] Alvarion VL TRUTH

2007-11-10 Thread Mike Hammett
I'm looking at the same. I have an email in to Patrick, so we'll see what he has to say. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com - Original Message - From: Smith, Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [WISPA] Changing Signal Strength

2007-11-10 Thread Scott Reed
Well, not really a pattern, but I know 2 mornings this week it was bad at 6:00AM and working at 8:00AM. No dew this week. Frost, but no dew. We certainly tried to ensure all connectors were sealed. I do have a climber going up that tower late in the week. I will have him check the

Re: [WISPA] Changing Signal Strength

2007-11-10 Thread Tom DeReggi
I have found two things that can contribute to Drastic RSSI degregation to be... 1. Interference (in-band or out-of-band) 2. Water in Cable. Our standard proceedure now is... Go onsite, Insert NEW LMR cable and Bandpass Filter at AP, and see if a change occurs. Of course also the obvious,

Re: [WISPA] Re: [WISP] San Diego Fire affects WISP

2007-11-10 Thread Tom DeReggi
OUCH! My hearts with you. Hopefully you have good insurance and understanding customers. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: Marlon K. Schafer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: WISPA General List

[WISPA] Buyouts

2007-11-10 Thread Mike Hammett
To those of you that have bought other WISPs: How long after the purchase of that other WISP were you able to keep them on their existing pricing? How likely (with adequate service level) were customers to stay? I'm eyeing the purchase of another WISP, but their plans cost more than mine.

Re: [WISPA] Buyouts

2007-11-10 Thread Travis Johnson
Why not keep both company names and pricing? Then if a customer is upset with one company, they can switch to the other and you still keep them. ;) Travis Microserv Mike Hammett wrote: To those of you that have bought other WISPs: How long after the purchase of that other WISP were you able

Re: [WISPA] Buyouts

2007-11-10 Thread Mike Hammett
Well, with the one that I'm eyeing, it would just be their wireless operations. They do many other services. I doubt I could still use their name. Others, yes, I could do that. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com - Original Message - From:

Re: [WISPA] Buyouts

2007-11-10 Thread Tom DeReggi
Mike, Tough problem. But my take on it would be... Why do you have to offer all customers the same price? We have custom pricing. Customers see our lower priced advertised prices all the time. I just tell them straight up the situation. I tell them that that area is more costly to service. I

Re: [WISPA] Alvarion VL TRUTH

2007-11-10 Thread Joe Miller
Rick, Although I didn't buy the VL radios, I deployed them for Northop Grumman ship systems here in MS. We were using Cisco 1310's before that. The Cisco's were good, but didn't help when the gantry cranes were moving around. After installing the Alvarion radios, cranes were no longer an

Re: [WISPA] Changing Signal Strength

2007-11-10 Thread lakeland
Rip the weatherproofing off the connectors and open them up. The complaint you state is consistent with moisture in the connections. When the moisture freezes between the connections the ice crystals form and decrease the connectivity. Moisture may also be in the antennas or it may have wicked

[WISPA] Skypilot

2007-11-10 Thread dougr
I haven't heard much about Skypilot out there on WISPA. I'm considering an equipment upgrade soon, and I did get ONE real world WISP last year who was using it with very good success who loves it. The idea of adding bandwidth with another gateway, etc. But how much bandwidth in a given area can

Re: [WISPA] Changing Signal Strength

2007-11-10 Thread Scott Reed
I will have him do that when he is up there late this week. Thanks for the suggestions. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rip the weatherproofing off the connectors and open them up. The complaint you state is consistent with moisture in the connections. When the moisture freezes between the

Re: [WISPA] Buyouts

2007-11-10 Thread Mike Hammett
True... - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 2:10 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Buyouts Start a new company and roll their

RE: [WISPA] Alvarion VL TRUTH

2007-11-10 Thread Mike Bushard, Jr
We have some VL in the air, real noisy area. We had to run 10Mhz channels on H-POL, so we see 11-12Mbps net TCP throughput. We run VOIP on it also, Works very well. I think we paid somewhere around 4000 per AU, and 399 per SU-A-5.8-6-BD-VL hardware Rev E. I honestly like it better than Canopy. We

[WISPA] RE: [WISP] Alvarion VL TRUTH

2007-11-10 Thread CHUCK M
ANY TIME you want to chat.. we use, deploy, and stand behind the VL product line Chuck Moses 16922 Airport Blvd # 17 Mojave CA 93501 661 824 3431 X 201 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Smith, Rick Sent: November 10, 2007 6:55 AM