[WISPA] Antenna

2008-03-20 Thread Larry A Weidig
Has anybody ever seen part of an antenna fail. We have a 3 sector site and it seems like about 60 degrees of one of the antennas is failing based on plotting customer sites. Signal to noise in their section have dropped about 10dB (it is a 15dBi antenna), yet other customers on the same

Re: [WISPA] FW: Red Work Binder: Emergency use only!

2008-03-20 Thread Mac Dearman
All you guys with fancy spancy binders. I carry a pint of Black label Jack Daniels in my back pocket (feels nice in there) and a tanker for refills in the hotel room! - -- ahhh memories!!! Cliff - you ought to be ashamed making these guys think you actually have a binder like that - -I know

Re: [WISPA] ISPCON

2008-03-20 Thread Mac Dearman
I agree with Chuck - - the ability to sit down and converse with others in the industry is worth the $700.00 alone. I learn more from sitting and talking with other operators than anything else. The sharing of ideas (and drinks) of the way others do things has been a great investment of time for

Re: [WISPA] FCC Approves New Broadband Mapping Plan

2008-03-20 Thread John Valenti
Does this mean our 477 forms are going to be more complicated? Will we need to figure out the correct census tract for each of our customers? And I looked up the tract that I live in (quickly, at http:// factfinder.census.gov/servlet/AGSGeoAddressServlet ). It seems to be tract #314.01,

Re: [WISPA] FCC Approves New Broadband Mapping Plan

2008-03-20 Thread Rick Harnish
John, I just pulled that off the FCC Newsletter today. You know as much as I do at this time. I thought everyone would be interested in knowing what is probably coming. Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Valenti Sent:

Re: [WISPA] Intel-based 4-port Fast Ethernet Card - StarOS

2008-03-20 Thread Mike Hammett
I don't know to what extent, but at least some of MT's routing previously was open source based, but I believe in 3.0, the open source parts were replaced by Mikrotik coded parts. -- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com - Original Message -

Re: [WISPA] Intel-based 4-port Fast Ethernet Card - StarOS

2008-03-20 Thread Tom DeReggi
I'm not apposed to a software manufacturers writing their own code. Ultimately it empowers them to make possitive change. The question is.. What's been done to verify compatibilty and reliabilty of it? Is the user going to be the guinea pig? Even Zebra, not maintained for 5 years has a huge

Re: [WISPA] FCC Approves New Broadband Mapping Plan

2008-03-20 Thread Mike Hammett
http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/AGSGeoAddressServlet?_lang=en_programYear=50_treeId=420 That's a better address, I hope. Go to the FactFinder site and click on the search address link on the left side. I'm in tract 15. There appears to be at least 4 tracts in my zip code, maybe 8. I

Re: [WISPA] Intel-based 4-port Fast Ethernet Card - StarOS

2008-03-20 Thread Tom DeReggi
Actually, What I'd be more interested in is... Why did they make the decission to build there own? When there was something already out there satisfactory that could be used? What problems did they have with the common Open source versions, that justified a huge development effort to rebuild

Re: [WISPA] FCC Approves New Broadband Mapping Plan

2008-03-20 Thread Brian Webster
If this gets to be a big problem I can come up with an easy solution to batch process your customer list. I would do this for WISPA Paid members so this would be another good reason to join. Thank You, Brian Webster www.wirelessmapping.com http://www.wirelessmapping.com -Original

Re: [WISPA] FCC Approves New Broadband Mapping Plan

2008-03-20 Thread John Scrivner
Things like this are a great way to show off what you can and will do for WISPs. Thank you Brian. John Scrivner On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Brian Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If this gets to be a big problem I can come up with an easy solution to batch process your customer list. I