[WISPA] Antenna Performance

2009-06-28 Thread Michael Baird
I picked up a Teletronics 15-124 19db horizontal antenna for testing and deployed it in place of a Tranzeo 16db Horizontal (TilTek?), using same pigtail and radio. With the clients on this sector, the AP side is the same, but the CPE receive side seems to have suffered with this larger

[WISPA] CO local loop distance calculation tool - use to help price any T1 replacement business

2009-06-28 Thread Brian Webster
Just thought I would pass along a piece of software I found that lets you input an address and calculate the local loop distance to the CO. If you know what the Telco is charging for local loop, you can better understand the competition's price when you try and sell T1 replacement business.

Re: [WISPA] CO local loop distance calculation tool - use to help price any T1 replacement business

2009-06-28 Thread Robert West
Whoa! I used to use that thing everyday when I was an install manager at Quest. Forgot all about it. It was a handy item while trying to locate alternate facilities and routes. Was a good program back in the 90's and I would guess it's better now. Good find! -Original Message-

[WISPA] Antenna Recommendations

2009-06-28 Thread Robert West
I'm in need to replace some older Omni antennas, 2.4 and 5.8, to connect to a Mikrotik 600a. Running the R52H cards for both bands with a dish for the 5.8 backhaul.. I'm not in the mood to experiment with the unknown, any recommendations on what is working for you? And what doesn't! Land is

Re: [WISPA] Anyone have NS2 in stock?

2009-06-28 Thread Jeremy Parr
2009/6/26 Charles Wyble char...@thewybles.com: I'm hearing to avoid the ns2 and go with the ps2/5. Less issues. What do folks say? I've been putting some decent load in both a hotspot and point to point configuration configuration. It's worked flawlessly so far. I'm planning to do some

Re: [WISPA] Anyone have NS2 in stock?

2009-06-28 Thread Tom Sharples
Basic issue with the ubnt integrated units is that the firmware is still a bit flakey, altho they are working on it and it's getting better: http://www.ubnt.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10438 and there's no internal hardware watchdog to rescue the system after a firmware lockup. It can take

Re: [WISPA] Anyone have NS2 in stock?

2009-06-28 Thread os10rules
Are you using the latest firmware? On Jun 28, 2009, at 3:26 PM, Jeremy Parr wrote: 2009/6/26 Charles Wyble char...@thewybles.com: I'm hearing to avoid the ns2 and go with the ps2/5. Less issues. What do folks say? I've been putting some decent load in both a hotspot and point to point

Re: [WISPA] Anyone have NS2 in stock?

2009-06-28 Thread os10rules
That link is old but your point is still quite valid. Version 3.4 final has been released and it's been working fine for me. It resolved all my issues. Greg On Jun 28, 2009, at 3:56 PM, Tom Sharples wrote: Basic issue with the ubnt integrated units is that the firmware is still a bit

Re: [WISPA] Anyone have NS2 in stock?

2009-06-28 Thread Charles Wyble
It has been running flawlessly for me, for a few months straight. With the 2.2 firmware. I upgraded to the latest stock fw last night, then reflashed with openwrt. Tom Sharples wrote: Basic issue with the ubnt integrated units is that the firmware is still a bit flakey, altho they are

Re: [WISPA] Antenna Performance

2009-06-28 Thread Eje Gustafsson
First thing that comes to my mind reading your post is that you installed a higher gain antenna which means your vertical beam is going to be narrower (sometimes higher gain is not always better). Being that you installed the antenna with the same down tilt angle your missing the mark because you

Re: [WISPA] Antenna Performance

2009-06-28 Thread Michael Baird
Not ,the same downtilt angle, same percentage as the old one. The previous antenna was a Tranzeo 16db w/6 degree vertical, the Teletronics 19db has a 8 degree vertical actually larger VB then the 16db at 6. They are both at .3 degrees downtilt. The only reason I mention the VSWR is because the

Re: [WISPA] OT, pesky email stuff

2009-06-28 Thread Tom DeReggi
I've heard this type arguement for years, and I don;t thinl people really get what its all really about In the ISP business there are two type of providers 1) Ones that take responsibilty and go beyond the call of duty to help their customers. That is called customers servic, support,

Re: [WISPA] OT, pesky email stuff

2009-06-28 Thread Robert West
We still help all of our customers when their calls no matter who they use for email for whatever. My point was that since we stopped hosting email, out trouble tickets went way down because now that they mostly use the web based mail, the problem being with their home PC pretty much goes away.

Re: [WISPA] OT, pesky email stuff

2009-06-28 Thread David
We have been using policyd for a while in conjunction with redirecting all outbound port 25 traffic to our smtp server. Works great. David -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Jon Auer Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 9:48

Re: [WISPA] OT, pesky email stuff

2009-06-28 Thread Tom DeReggi
Rob, That makes sense to me. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: Robert West robert.w...@just-micro.com To: 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 5:59 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] OT, pesky email

Re: [WISPA] OT, pesky email stuff

2009-06-28 Thread Tom DeReggi
redirecting all outbound port 25 traffic to our smtp server Doesn't that create a lot of extra work for you, or problems for your clients? For example, when they use their office server mail from home, or an Internet born Email service such as from their Web site provider (usually with smtp

Re: [WISPA] Antenna Recommendations

2009-06-28 Thread RickG
How far do you need to go? -RickG On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Robert Westrobert.w...@just-micro.com wrote: I'm in need to replace some older Omni antennas, 2.4 and 5.8, to connect to a Mikrotik 600a.  Running the R52H cards for both bands with a dish for the 5.8 backhaul..  I'm not in the

Re: [WISPA] OT, pesky email stuff

2009-06-28 Thread David
We have only had a couple of customers with problems with this and have excluded them from the rule. On the other side we have stopped many customers virus infected computers from doing much damage and as a result our smtp server never gets black listed anymore. The amount of time we spend on