Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-19 Thread Tom Sharples
A software watchdog timer is not the same thing as a hardware watchdog timer. And SNMP has nothing to do with either. Tom S. - Original Message - From: jai...@budget.net To: Tom Sharples ; WISPA General List Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 9:03 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ubiq

Re: [WISPA] public subnet

2009-12-19 Thread RickG
Ya, and further proof it should work is that it works at my office on the same tower. I cant blame their cisco because I bypassed it with my laptop. No proxy server. Everything goes through the RB450G. So, the only differences are the WRAP on the tower and the CPE. I'll try the CPE next. Will advis

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-19 Thread RickG
To be fair, the only issues I've had is with NIB units. Once the unit is installed and working, they've been very stable. -RickG On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Mike wrote: > Thanks Bob, Rick and Tom for your thoughts. > > My hands itch when I'm uncertain about something. It might just be > th

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-19 Thread RickG
lol! I'd say "you know what I meant" but then that would defeat the purpose :) On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Robert West wrote: > As in bigger than a Pico? :) > > Or is that a Bullico? Hmm... > > > > -Original Message- > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun.

Re: [WISPA] Snake Oil or Real?

2009-12-19 Thread Josh Luthman
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Re: [WISPA] public subnet

2009-12-19 Thread Jeromie Reeves
Unless there is a rouge NAT statement someplace, I do not see anything specific that would be causing this (as described) What about a proxy server ? Are all connections heading out the NAT IP or only HTTP? On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 4:40 AM, RickG wrote: > The thing is they had a bridge from the o

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-19 Thread jaimie
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12Well Please don't take me wrong on this but your statement (b) bothers me. You are either running a very old version of Air OS or you have no clue what your talking about. UBNT has support for SNMP which I use to monitor not only uptime

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-19 Thread Tom Sharples
We use the pcengines Alix board and usually Wistron or Ubiquiti miniPCI radios. Generally that has been an extremely stable and reliable combination. Tom S. - Original Message - From: "Mike" To: "Tom Sharples" ; "WISPA General List" Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 5:40 PM Subject:

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-19 Thread Josh Luthman
NS2s have been pretty good to me. I've read about issues with the newer product line, but not tried them myself. On 12/19/09, Philip Dorr wrote: > The rocket dish looks identical to a Pac wireless two foot dish > painted white with a drain hole pre-drilled in the mounting ring and > RP-SMA conne

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-19 Thread Philip Dorr
The rocket dish looks identical to a Pac wireless two foot dish painted white with a drain hole pre-drilled in the mounting ring and RP-SMA connectors on the fed horn; Even the same ray dome fits it. On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Robert West wrote: > I haven't had issues with reboots on the r

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-19 Thread Robert West
I haven't had issues with reboots on the rockets but the bonus with them is they have a reset button on the PoE down on the ground for when I try something stupid from the ground and I screw it up... I was very glad to see that. But yeah, you should feel okay about the Rockets and the sectors

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-19 Thread Robert West
As in bigger than a Pico? :) Or is that a Bullico? Hmm... -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of RickG Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 7:36 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime t

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-19 Thread Mike
Thanks Bob, Rick and Tom for your thoughts. My hands itch when I'm uncertain about something. It might just be the dry air. Are the Ubiquity radios more apt to require reboots than some of the other mainstream CPE? Seems to be a common thread here. I am most interested in the rocket stuff, a

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-19 Thread RickG
Speaking of firmware, has anyone tried DD-WRT on a UBNT? -RickG On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Robert West wrote: > Mike, > > The Bullets with the loose lan connectors was supposed to be a problem in > the first few production runs of the new ones so that problem hopefully is > gone. UBNT is

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-19 Thread RickG
Same here. For me, I am going to go slowly with a small project. Actually, I just did a small project with UBNT and it went well. So, the next project will be a bit bigger and so on. -RickG On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Mike wrote: > I was almost ready to pull the trigger on some Ubiquiti equ

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-19 Thread Robert West
Absolutely true. They are trained in the art of the "Magic Reboot". -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Tom Sharples Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 3:25 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-19 Thread Tom Sharples
My biggest concern with these units is (a) lack of mechanical robustness - little plastic bits leak or break off quite easily and (b) lack of a hardware watchdog timer which personally I think is essential esp. when you're using "development stage" firmware. We did most of the work to port our

[WISPA] Snake Oil or Real?

2009-12-19 Thread Robert West
Saw this on TowerTalk, had me scratching my head.Anyone familiar with these antennas or is this the next WiFi+ B.S.? http://www.rfdesignline.com/howto/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=F1SQHL23DOWTN QE1GHPCKHWATMY32JVN?articleID=222001586 Robert West Just Micro Digital Services In

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-19 Thread Robert West
I'm with ya on all that, Jamie. We've had minor issues but I expected things to not be perfect, they never are with version 1.0! The trade off is worth it, for me anyhow. Bob- -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of jai...@bu

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-19 Thread jaimie
We use all UBNT and I have been very happy with the equipment. Tower has 2 Rocket M5s With 120 sectors, backhaul is Rocket M5s with the Rocket Dish. CPEs are Nano M5. Durring testing at 4 Miles with CPE to AP I was able to sustain symmetrical speeds of 75M to our test server on the other end o

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-19 Thread Robert West
Mike, The Bullets with the loose lan connectors was supposed to be a problem in the first few production runs of the new ones so that problem hopefully is gone. UBNT is taking care of the ones with the bad solder jobs but it's still a pain in the butt to ship and wait for the returns. I'd feel s

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-19 Thread Gino Villarini
We have used the "old" nano stations for customer owned ptp links, so far so good. But we have not use them for our own network Gino A. Villarini g...@aeronetpr.com Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. 787.273.4143 -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...

[WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-19 Thread Mike
I was almost ready to pull the trigger on some Ubiquiti equipment for a new project. The scent of low price is alluring. Then I start reading about connectors pulling out, connectors not soldered on properly, and the wrong boot code on boards. Is it too early? Should I wait a bit before I di

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti Bullet2

2009-12-19 Thread Robert West
And then a mistake can easily be made! Good product though, I wonder how many were flash wrong by the "new" employee? :) -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Philip Dorr Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 9:40 PM To: WISPA

Re: [WISPA] public subnet

2009-12-19 Thread RickG
The thing is they had a bridge from the other tower and it was working. The only thing thats changed is the tower. RIP is on RB450G and WRAP's. Dont know about Cisco as it is the customers and I dont have control. They also have ICMP turned off amongst other things. Should I still see it? Yes, NAT