Re: [WISPA] Hotel

2010-03-04 Thread Greg Ihnen
One reason to avoid WDS is to have some redundancy - each AP is an island. If you use WDS and have three AP's (A, B, and C) and they're all wired to the router and one AP goes down you still have all the others working. If you're using WDS and the topology is such that AP A is the only one

Re: [WISPA] logmein.com - hamachi

2010-03-04 Thread Greg Ihnen
I use Witopia's VPN and they let you choose between a couple of common ports (443 and I forget the other). They use common ports in the hopes that nobody is blocking them along the way because if someone blocked those ports it would break something important. Greg On Mar 3, 2010, at 11:15 PM,

Re: [WISPA] Time Warner bandwidth in Central Ohio

2010-03-04 Thread Glenn Kelley
Bob I had looked hard into their aup and tos as I was interested in that service as well... The minute you put anyone else on that service you break them. Be careful placing that on a public list ;-) _ Glenn

Re: [WISPA] Time Warner bandwidth in Central Ohio

2010-03-04 Thread Glenn Kelley
To help place the issue of reselling to rest. If you have a time warner business class (NOT ISP Class) agreement: http://www.twcbc.com/corporate/service_agreement.html 5.0 CUSTOMER OBLIGATIONS. 5.1 Customer’s use of the Service (including all content transmitted via the Service) shall

[WISPA] Palm Beach Gardens, FL

2010-03-04 Thread Dylan Bouterse
Does anybody have access in that area? I have a customer looking for 8-10Mb to a hotel. Prefers wireless as they would like something in place in 2-3 weeks. Will go wireline if it's the only option. Dylan WISPA

Re: [WISPA] Time Warner bandwidth in Central Ohio

2010-03-04 Thread Chuck Hogg
I knew I saw that in there. I thought I remember someone going to jail and/or getting sued by Comcast for doing something similar. Regards, Chuck Hogg Shelby Broadband 502-722-9292 ch...@shelbybb.com http://www.shelbybb.com -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org

Re: [WISPA] Time Warner bandwidth in Central Ohio

2010-03-04 Thread Stuart Pierce
90 a meg -- Original Message -- From: Kurt Fankhauser k...@wavelinc.com Reply-To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 14:25:39 -0500 What is everyone in Central Ohio paying for Time Warner bandwidth weather it be on their Fiber or

Re: [WISPA] Hotel

2010-03-04 Thread Alan Long
We went down the road of having the same ssid on each ap at a hotel were serve. It is 6 floors and we have 18 ap's throughout. Out of those there are only 12 that have hard wire connections(we are unable to run any new cat5), the others link via wds. We try and setup the wds so that the unwired

Re: [WISPA] Hotel

2010-03-04 Thread Robert West
When I set one up, I don't have them in one chain. Normally I would have the gateway in the electrical room and associate APs to the left and to the right and to one upstairs. 3 branches normally. If one section goes down the others can normally be used dep0ending on the signal. But honestly,

Re: [WISPA] Time Warner bandwidth in Central Ohio

2010-03-04 Thread Robert West
I actually sent the same paragraph to our sales person at TW back when I started using them and pointed that out. That's when I insisted that he contact his big shots about it. The answer that came back was that my Internal Business is indeed the reselling of bandwidth thus it was allowed. So I

Re: [WISPA] Mac Dearman

2010-03-04 Thread Mac Dearman
All right Patrick - I resemble that :-) And I am bigger around than ever Walter. Mac -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Patrick Leary Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 2:33 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re:

Re: [WISPA] Time Warner bandwidth in Central Ohio

2010-03-04 Thread Robert West
Okay, found my TW crap. Here's part of what I sent to our salesperson. .I was going over one of the service contracts that I have with Time Warner for one of the hotels I do data services for and I see where it states in paragraph 4, listed as Customer Obligations. Customer agrees not to

[WISPA] Electric Hoist?

2010-03-04 Thread Gino Villarini
I need to Install 2 4' dishes @ 180, Im looking for a place to buy or rent a capstan hoist Any ideas? Gino A. Villarini g...@aeronetpr.com Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. 787.273.4143 WISPA Wants

Re: [WISPA] Electric Hoist?

2010-03-04 Thread Robert West
I made mine from a cable winch. Removed the cable, put some rosin on the hub, wrapped the rope around it 3 times and worked like a charm. Just had to have a person on the ground pull the slack off the hub so the rope wouldn't foul. 100 bucks from TSC. Specs say not to run it more than 5

Re: [WISPA] Electric Hoist?

2010-03-04 Thread Brad Belton
We looked into this a couple years ago when we faced installing several 4' 6' antennas on top of four water towers. After a hard look at it and even giving a try at raising one 4' antenna ourselves (just to see if we could) we quickly decided it was far more economical to hire a tower crew.

[WISPA] Prefab Tower Foundations

2010-03-04 Thread Lists
A few months back there was a tread about this, but I can't seem to locate it. It is about a company that is manufacturing prefab foundations for tower sites. Anyone have a link or experience? Thanks! Victoria Proffer - President/CEO StLouisBroadband.com http://stlbroadband.com/

Re: [WISPA] Mac Dearman

2010-03-04 Thread Patrick Leary
Just glad to know you are around. Hey, that's works as a pun. Patrick Leary Aperto Networks 813.426.4230 mobile -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Mac Dearman Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 7:01 AM To: 'WISPA General

Re: [WISPA] Rope for sale

2010-03-04 Thread Scott Reed
Is everything you have twisted, or do you have some braided? Blake Bowers wrote: Don't take your organs to heaven, heaven knows we need them down here! Be an organ donor, sign your donor card today. - Original Message - From: Steve Barnes st...@pcswin.com To: WISPA General List

Re: [WISPA] Rope for sale

2010-03-04 Thread Blake Bowers
Everything I have is exactly what is in the pictures, save for the color difference. Don't take your organs to heaven, heaven knows we need them down here! Be an organ donor, sign your donor card today. - Original Message - From: Scott Reed scottr...@onlyinternet.net To: WISPA General

Re: [WISPA] Time Warner bandwidth in Central Ohio

2010-03-04 Thread Glenn Kelley
Gotcha... I when I read it was for backup bandwidth thought - h that is kinda nice... for the datacenter - not the wisp stuff I would love to have a backup link that only cost $89 even just for our own use... but they frowned on that... Mid Ohio region even... :-/

Re: [WISPA] Prefab Tower Foundations

2010-03-04 Thread lakeland
Really? Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Lists li...@stlbroadband.com Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 10:02:33 To: 'WISPA General List'wireless@wispa.org Subject: [WISPA] Prefab Tower Foundations

Re: [WISPA] Prefab Tower Foundations

2010-03-04 Thread Josh Luthman
Doesn't appear you got the message... It was asked A few months back there was a tread about this, but I can't seem to locate it. It is about a company that is manufacturing prefab foundations for tower sites. Anyone have a link or experience? Thanks! Victoria Proffer - President/CEO

Re: [WISPA] Prefab Tower Foundations

2010-03-04 Thread St. Louis Broadband
I found it: http://www.oldcastleprecast.com/products/Documents/CellBlocks.pdf V -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Josh Luthman Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 10:52 AM To: lakel...@gbcx.net; WISPA General List Subject: Re:

[WISPA] 477 data uses/sharing

2010-03-04 Thread jp
Some more insight into allowed uses and sharing for 477 data. -Jason - Forwarded message from Lindley, Phil phil.lind...@maine.gov - X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.0-rc1 (2009-12-22) on saucer.midcoast.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.0 required=5.8

[WISPA] Ubiquity AirMax - rehashed?

2010-03-04 Thread Jerry Richardson
Can I get some feedback on those using AirMax procucts? We've use the NS2's in situations where we there are not many clients and the CPE's can all hear each which seems seems to work well. The form factor, design, price, and performance combination of the M series hard to ignore and if it

Re: [WISPA] Networking question

2010-03-04 Thread Jon Auer
Your old provider may be trying to have the gateway for your new IPs on their router instead of routing them to your router. IE, your old setup probably looked like this: Provider router-/30-Your router-/24 for your customers. New setup would be: Provider router-/24-Your router(NAT)-different

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquity AirMax - rehashed?

2010-03-04 Thread Michael Baird
I have one airmax tower deployment, so far so good, I'm not using the dual chain sectors yet though. I plan on migrating from my Tranzeo-120-Horizontals/bulletM to Ubiquity 120/Mimo/RocketM2 this weekend though and I'll know more. We have deployed a mixture of BulletM's and Nano2M's in the

Re: [WISPA] [Motorola II] Ubiquity AirMax - rehashed?

2010-03-04 Thread Jayson Baker
We use a lot of Loco2's - as you mention, they work great. We're starting to deploy a lot of AirMax 5GHz stuff - it works even better. We regularly see customers getting speedtest of 80Mbps (down and up). Latency is good. We're in a very heavily crowded 5GHz area, and it doesn't seem to affect

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquity AirMax - rehashed?

2010-03-04 Thread Jerry Richardson
Don't you lose the benefits of MIMO using the Bullet M and/or NS-L (one antenna)? -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Michael Baird Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 9:57 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA]

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquity AirMax - rehashed?

2010-03-04 Thread Josh Luthman
MIMO I think assumes two chains, two antennas. Still, 802.11n in one 20mhz single channel,chain (should be) better then 802.11a or g in one 20 mhz channel. Is that not right? Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 “Success is not final,

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquity AirMax - rehashed?

2010-03-04 Thread Mike Hammett
Indeed - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -- From: Jerry Richardson jrichard...@aircloud.com Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 11:56 AM To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ubiquity

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquity AirMax - rehashed?

2010-03-04 Thread Michael Baird
Jerry, Yes, although we aren't using NS2-loco's on the airmax deployment, only BulletM's w/panel or grid and Nanostation 2 M's, per availability. That's why I said I'm looking forward to having the dual chains with the MIMO sectors into the future (they weren't available when we built this

Re: [WISPA] Hotel

2010-03-04 Thread RickG
How about doing the same with your towers? -RickG On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 1:00 AM, Robert West robert.w...@just-micro.com wrote: I've always used WDS and the same SSIDs in the hotels.  Never had an issue with it. Bob- -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org

Re: [WISPA] [Motorola II] Ubiquity AirMax - rehashed?

2010-03-04 Thread Jerry Richardson
80Mbps? I'd settle for 1/4 of that. Mind if I pick your brain a bit? - How many AP's on the tower? - RocketM AP's? - Antenna on the AP? - AP channel width? - Distance to nearest CPE - Distance to furthest CPE? - CPE device and antenna? - Average latency under load? thanks From:

Re: [WISPA] Time Warner bandwidth in Central Ohio

2010-03-04 Thread Greg Ihnen
To me the word internal sounds like office/management use. I would assume your external business is that which involves the public. Greg On Mar 4, 2010, at 10:23 AM, Robert West wrote: I actually sent the same paragraph to our sales person at TW back when I started using them and pointed

Re: [WISPA] 477 data uses/sharing

2010-03-04 Thread Brian Webster
Jason, What the state is saying is that as an operator within the State you are also required to file a report with them in addition to the FCC form 477. They can use the data they collect but they do not have access to the official FCC 477 database. Thank You, Brian Webster 214

[WISPA] Ubiquity Pico2HP.

2010-03-04 Thread Scottie Arnett
Can the Ubiquity Pico2HP be used as a SM or is it only an AP? The doc's do not say for sure. TIA, Scottie Wireless High Speed Broadband service from Info-Ed, Inc. as low as $30.00/mth. Check out www.info-ed.com/wireless.html for information.

[WISPA] Tower light power

2010-03-04 Thread Mike Hammett
How often is the power delivered to the tower for the lights NOT 120 vAC? - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquity Pico2HP.

2010-03-04 Thread Eje Gustafsson
Either or. Any of the Ubiquiti products can be used as a CPE or a AP don't matter no price difference or different specific hardware to function as a CPE (what canopy call SM) or a AP. / Eje WISP-Router, Inc. Follow us on twitter.com/wisprouter -Original Message- From:

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquity Pico2HP.

2010-03-04 Thread Josh Luthman
I'm thinking that every 802.11 device can be an AP or CPE. Pretty sure Tranzeo can. I know Engenius can. MT semi-can (requires lvl 4 to do ptmp). Ruckus/Cisco probably can't. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 “Success is not final,

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquity Pico2HP.

2010-03-04 Thread Jerry Richardson
Eje, Got an ETA on Powerbridges? -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Eje Gustafsson Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 12:13 PM To: sarn...@info-ed.com; 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ubiquity Pico2HP. Either or.

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquity Pico2HP.

2010-03-04 Thread Josh Luthman
Pretty sure they're there... http://twitter.com/wisprouter Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” --- Winston Churchill On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 3:24

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquity Pico2HP.

2010-03-04 Thread Eje Gustafsson
Ahh no Powerbridges yet. Got no ETA really yet on those even. Not even gotten a Datasheet for it and don't look like Ubiquiti even released the datasheet for it eiter. The new stuff the announced earlier this week supposed to be available in China towards the end of this month so don't expect any

Re: [WISPA] Electric Hoist?

2010-03-04 Thread Mike
I have one of these: http://portablewinch.com/ I use it for all kinds of things. It needs to pull straight on, not overhead, so your first pulley needs to be straight on from the unit. I have moved, pulled, recovered some remarkable things with that unit. I even have the skidding cone too to

Re: [WISPA] signal too hot!

2010-03-04 Thread Paul Gerstenberger
We're just starting with WiFi using a Wavion AP and Nanostation CPE, now encountering the quirks. We're having this issue at some sites. Is the only solution to introduce attenuation? I just installed an NS2 at my house which is about a half mile from the AP. With everything at default

Re: [WISPA] Electric Hoist?

2010-03-04 Thread chris cooper
http://www.hoistsdirect.com/MY-TE%20Hoist.htm We have one of the 300 models. Works great Chris Cooper Intelliwave I need to Install 2 4' dishes @ 180, Im looking for a place to buy or rent a capstan hoist Any ideas? Gino A. Villarini g...@aeronetpr.com Aeronet Wireless

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquity AirMax - rehashed?

2010-03-04 Thread MDK
I just put in (24 hours in use) a P2P backhaul from my provider. Using 2 solid dual pol dishes and a 20 mhz channel over 11 miles, I can't swamp the link with a 50 mbit transfer. It is sitting on a channel that my star-os backhaul would not use effectively due to interference, and where my

Re: [WISPA] Electric Hoist?

2010-03-04 Thread lakeland
I agree with Brad. Lifting a 4' dish is like lifting a 13 sq ft piece of plywood. Be careful. You need to tag this load about 150+ feet from the base of the tower to protect other equipment on the tower and your antenna. Very unpredictable if not rigged right. -B- Sent from my Verizon

Re: [WISPA] Electric Hoist?

2010-03-04 Thread Gino Villarini
Bob, thanks for the advice, care to share a few rigging tips? Gino A. Villarini g...@aeronetpr.com Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. 787.273.4143 -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of lakel...@gbcx.net Sent: Thursday, March

Re: [WISPA] signal too hot!

2010-03-04 Thread Ryan Ghering
With all the ubnt gear you can lower the power level via web interface, we do this often on our gear to provide rock solid links. Ryan On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Paul Gerstenberger pa...@hrec.coop wrote: We're just starting with WiFi using a Wavion AP and Nanostation CPE, now

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquity Pico2HP.

2010-03-04 Thread ralphlists
I know the regular Pico2 can. I have an HP also and do not remember seetting it not have the CPE setting as well -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Scottie Arnett Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 2:34 PM To:

Re: [WISPA] signal too hot!

2010-03-04 Thread Scott Reed
On any gear I try to get the levels to around -65 and very close both directions. Things just seem to work better that way. I have also found on most of the Ubiquity SR and XR cards that setting the power to 2 points less than max works better than at max no matter what the signal level. Ryan

Re: [WISPA] signal too hot!

2010-03-04 Thread Justin Wilson
My theory on this is you are not pushing the card to the max. Kind of like not driving a car flat out 100 percent of the time. --- Justin Wilson j...@mtin.net On Mar 4, 2010, at 7:06 PM, Scott Reed scottr...@onlyinternet.net wrote: On any gear I try to get the levels to around -65 and very

[WISPA] TV broadcasters await FCC’s National B roadband Plan

2010-03-04 Thread Jack Unger
http://broadcastengineering.com/news/tv-broadcasters-await-fcc-0304/ -- Jack Unger - President, Ask-Wi.Com, Inc. Network Design - Technical Training - Technical Writing Serving the Broadband Wireless, Networking and Telecom Communities since 1993 www.ask-wi.com 818-227-4220

Re: [WISPA] signal too hot!

2010-03-04 Thread Forbes Mercy
Better yet turn down the AP if all your CPE's are hot. You'd be surprised that a -85 becomes a -72 because it's not multipathing anymore with the lower AP signal and the hot signals are more in line. Plus if you turn the CPE down too far from remote they you lose connection and have to make

[WISPA] Do yourself a favor

2010-03-04 Thread Forbes Mercy
I just want to share this with you, right now when you finish reading this put down the keyboard, walk outside and check the oil levels in all of your fleet. I kept threatening to get a truck serviced and kept procrastinating, today it ran out of oil and froze up. Perfectly good truck -

[WISPA] Mobile TV - It's not just iPods anymore

2010-03-04 Thread Jack Unger
http://broadcastengineering.com/news/new-mobile-dtv-marketplace-glimpse-first-commercially-consumer-receivers-0304/ -- Jack Unger - President, Ask-Wi.Com, Inc. Network Design - Technical Training - Technical Writing Serving the Broadband Wireless, Networking and Telecom Communities since 1993

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquity Pico2HP.

2010-03-04 Thread Forbes Mercy
If you really want to know first hand information on Ubiquiti you should join a forum at ubnt.com, most things on here are conjecture. On 3/4/2010 1:03 PM, Eje Gustafsson wrote: Ahh no Powerbridges yet. Got no ETA really yet on those even. Not even gotten a Datasheet for it and don't look like

Re: [WISPA] Do yourself a favor

2010-03-04 Thread Jerry Richardson
That sucks. thanks for the reminder. -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Forbes Mercy Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 4:33 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] Do yourself a favor I just want to share this with you,

Re: [WISPA] Do yourself a favor

2010-03-04 Thread Brad Belton
Isn't that what the little 10min Lube sticker in the upper left hand corner of your windshield is for? Brad -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Richardson Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 7:06 PM To: WISPA General

Re: [WISPA] Do yourself a favor

2010-03-04 Thread Josh Luthman
That sucks :( I'm getting my oil changed and washtomorrow already! On 3/4/10, Jerry Richardson jrichard...@aircloud.com wrote: That sucks. thanks for the reminder. -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Forbes Mercy

Re: [WISPA] Do yourself a favor

2010-03-04 Thread Josh Luthman
There is a GPS service a guy in Idaho uses that notifys you when you've hit the mile mark (depending on your type of truck/oil). But I'm low tech like you, the sticker :) On 3/4/10, Brad Belton b...@belwave.com wrote: Isn't that what the little 10min Lube sticker in the upper left hand corner

Re: [WISPA] Electric Hoist?

2010-03-04 Thread Brad Belton
That's just it. One site to the next could require completely different rigging for success. For example one of the water towers we have is a rounded pumpkin shaped bowl. No way a climber could be out there on the edge because there is no edge! The tower crew fabricated a sled with caster

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquity Pico2HP.

2010-03-04 Thread Eje Gustafsson
Not sure if I should take offense to this or not. I assume you are aware what conjecture is and that the statement about unproven proposition is not directly related to my e-mail? Because if it is then you need to withdraw this statement. As you might be aware WISP-Router whom I represent is one

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquity Pico2HP.

2010-03-04 Thread Scottie Arnett
Eje, Did you get my off-list email about POE surge protection on Canopy earlier today? If not, shoot me a direct email, please. Scottie -- Original Message -- From: Eje Gustafsson e...@wisp-router.com Reply-To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Date:

[WISPA] Valdosta GA

2010-03-04 Thread ralphlists
Looking for a fellow WISP there to handle some installs for me. Ralph Brightlan.net WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquity Pico2HP.

2010-03-04 Thread RickG
LOL, I'd trust Eje's info over some of the things I've seen in the forum :) -RickG On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Eje Gustafsson e...@wisp-router.com wrote: Not sure if I should take offense to this or not. I assume you are aware what conjecture is and that the statement about unproven

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquity Pico2HP.

2010-03-04 Thread RickG
Speaking of Pico - I get better performance with the low powered version that the HP! -RickG On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Eje Gustafsson e...@wisp-router.com wrote: Either or. Any of the Ubiquiti products can be used as a CPE or a AP don't matter no price difference or different specific