Re: [WISPA] Fwd: Short range backhaul

2010-01-30 Thread George Morris
Actually, we do Gino and have never had a problem. The latest generation of MT gear is pretty near bulletproof if deployed properly. I suspect there are quite a few people here that run their businesses on gear that you would turn you nose up at, so your condescension isn't really necessary.

Re: [WISPA] fight over MikroTik certification AGAIN, was Wimax gear

2009-12-30 Thread George Morris
No kidding! It sure would be nice if it stopped, or those involved had the courtesy to mark these toxic threads with a fresh subject line. We've been through an audit with MikroTik gear, passed clear as a bell. My understanding is that FCC rules are very similar to IC rules so modular certs in

Re: [WISPA] Bullet5 was BulletM antennas

2009-12-25 Thread George Morris
connecting a BM5 in client mode to a B5 in AP mode? On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 12:17 AM, George Morris ghmor...@candlelight.cawrote: AirMAX is controlled at the AP end only. The client defaults to non-AirMAX unless it detects an AirMAX AP. Your posted link is about CSMA, not TDMA. George

Re: [WISPA] Bullet5 was BulletM antennas

2009-12-25 Thread George Morris
This is quite confusing that you have no control over AirMAX at the client end. I'm more used to Nstreme where both ends have to be set the same. Saying that, its really cool that you don't have to worry about the client, just shift the AP in and out of AirMAX to suit and the client follows

Re: [WISPA] Bullet5 was BulletM antennas

2009-12-24 Thread George Morris
AirMAX is controlled at the AP end only. The client defaults to non-AirMAX unless it detects an AirMAX AP. Your posted link is about CSMA, not TDMA. George -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of RickG Sent: Thursday, December

Re: [WISPA] Outdoor Rack

2009-12-06 Thread George Morris
Art Kelly at DCI is a good guy. They make all kinds of stuff, including shelters and cabinets for cellcos. Very responsive. Art Kelly DCI Sales Cell 847 840 5520 artkelly-at-divcon.net -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of

Re: [WISPA] health insurance

2009-12-05 Thread George Morris
I think you're absolutely right. We don't see health care costs anywhere on our paperwork up here in the frozen North (yes, it is snowing in the last couple of days). We just pay higher taxes to cover it which is simply a fact of life. Everyone gets a health card that is just a different coloured

Re: [WISPA] 20 mile link

2009-12-04 Thread George Morris
this is a bit off topic but does anyone have the v4.0beta releases anywhere? -Original Message- From: George Morris [mailto:ghmor...@candlelight.ca] Sent: 01 December 2009 15:35 To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] 20 mile link I think the Rockets are going to be great, but right now

Re: [WISPA] 20 mile link

2009-12-04 Thread George Morris
. Thanks George. Was this just in a PTP environment or PTM also? -Original Message- From: George Morris [mailto:ghmor...@candlelight.ca] Sent: 04 December 2009 13:39 To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] 20 mile link We really like beta3. Had some links running 90 days, and it was fast

Re: [WISPA] 20 mile link

2009-12-04 Thread George Morris
guys were able to get on N with these? Randy George Morris wrote: We really like beta3. Had some links running 90 days, and it was fast!! Here is the cheat sheet specifically for beta3. Be careful if you are running something else, the cheat sheet varied a lot. - No WDS - Short preamble

Re: [WISPA] What buffoons..

2009-12-04 Thread George Morris
Good to see you're beating on him Mike. The original post and comments section are here: http://www.fiberevolution.com/2009/12/whats-a-bandwidth-hog-.html#comments Some of the comments are pretty well thought out. George -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org

Re: [WISPA] What buffoons..

2009-12-04 Thread George Morris
.. Eatmoresoap hit the nail on the head! On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 5:56 PM, George Morris ghmor...@candlelight.cawrote: Good to see you're beating on him Mike. The original post and comments section are here: http://www.fiberevolution.com/2009/12/whats-a-bandwidth-hog-.html#comments Some of the comments

Re: [WISPA] 20 mile link

2009-12-01 Thread George Morris
I think the Rockets are going to be great, but right now today the best software is a beta version of 5.1. That pretty much says it all. We have pulled all our MikroTik N links back out. 4.0beta3 was pretty good, but N wireless performance and stability took a real nosedive with the release

Re: [WISPA] FreeBSD hackers.... Needed for WISP related product...

2009-12-01 Thread George Morris
I think it's a fairly big project, although a lot of the fine work has been done. I started drooling when reading the paper a few weeks ago. It would be a kicker to have an open-source multi-platform TDMA implementation. UBNT has encouraged open source firmware on their platforms for a long time,

Re: [WISPA] Dual Pol Grid Parabolic

2009-11-25 Thread George Morris
We have two 120s up so far. One thing to watch is they have quite a flat 'pancake' so vertical aiming is important. They also have 2* of electrical downtilt built in to the 19 and 20 dB, and 4* built in to the lower gain sectors. A few people have been bitten by the downtilt who didn't realize

Re: [WISPA] Dual Pol Grid Parabolic

2009-11-25 Thread George Morris
. I read a post from one guy who had to actually do an uptilt due to the downtilt of the thing. Are you seeing any improvement over what you were using before? -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of George Morris Sent

Re: [WISPA] Dual Pol Grid Parabolic

2009-11-25 Thread George Morris
differences are before putting more jack in the 19's. Makes sense to me. Are you doing 2.4 or 5? -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of George Morris Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 9:29 AM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re

Re: [WISPA] Dual Pol Grid Parabolic

2009-11-25 Thread George Morris
We consider the 120s to be equivalent to 'conventional' 90s and plan accordingly. I don't like the -6dB rating, it gives a false impression. George -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Robert West Sent: Wednesday,

Re: [WISPA] 802.3af POE to Passive POE

2009-11-25 Thread George Morris
Yes, you can. Ubiquiti has such a device. It takes 802.3af from a switch, and converts it to 16V regular passive PoE at the top of the tower. http://www.ubnt.com/products/8023af.php http://ubnt.com/downloads/instant8023af.pdf George -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org

Re: [WISPA] 5.6 GHZ?

2009-11-20 Thread George Morris
Its part of 5.4. In Canada, you have to stay out of 5600-5650 due to weather radar, suspect the US may be much the same... George -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Forbes Mercy Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 6:22 PM To:

Re: [WISPA] Need a new AP

2009-11-19 Thread George Morris
Mike put up a bit of info about what's on the way in 5.1 on DSLR. Appears we are getting close to seeing a beta. Features that are in 5.1: - DynamicACK is rewritten with many improvements. - Full 802.11abg support - Full Encryption support (WEP, WPA/WPA2 AES/TKIP ect) - ACK Removal for Point

Re: [WISPA] X86 low power board w/3 or more ethernet

2009-11-18 Thread George Morris
We've had excellent results with these. Cheap, powerful and reliable. George -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Tom Sharples Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 8:00 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] X86 low

Re: [WISPA] MikroTik N- 52 Mbits in a 20MHz channel

2009-11-15 Thread George Morris
Quite similar to the Pac dishes, although the mounts/hardware may be a little more robust. We are particularly impressed with the dual-pol performance. Seems like cross-pol isolation is pretty good. A bit less impressed with the RPSMA connectors, but we bought a bunch of LMR-240 pigtails to get

Re: [WISPA] Anyone else wish for this?

2009-11-15 Thread George Morris
A 411AH with a built-in N radio in a nice plastic case would be great! George -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Josh Luthman Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 10:15 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Anyone

Re: [WISPA] 100Mbps over 10 miles

2009-11-14 Thread George Morris
I'm with you on this. We have 30 mile links running 40MHz channels half-duplex with Nstreme on 411AH/XR-5s that run a rock solid 65Mbits TCP and 75Mbits UDP. That's without Nstreme dual, just regular old Nstreme half duplex. Getting closer brings the speeds up quite a bit. We saw some stunning

Re: [WISPA] MikroTik configuration for 65 Mbits TCP, was 100Mbps over 10 miles

2009-11-14 Thread George Morris
-Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Josh Luthman Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2009 10:31 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] 100Mbps over 10 miles I believe you but I want to know how to do it :) On 11/14/09, George Morris

Re: [WISPA] Nearly 200 Mbit MikroTik link, was 100Mbps over 10 miles

2009-11-14 Thread George Morris
ch...@shelbybb.com http://www.shelbybb.com -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of George Morris Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2009 11:21 AM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] Nearly 200 Mbit MikroTik link, was 100Mbps

Re: [WISPA] 100Mbps over 10 miles

2009-11-13 Thread George Morris
It sure is. If ya got the bucks, Exalt or Dragonwave would be my first choices. -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Richardson Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 8:04 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA]

Re: [WISPA] Nano Sation 2

2009-11-12 Thread George Morris
Good thing its not the Nano Station 5Ms, you would still be waiting for the firmware upgrade to actually be able to use them long after the boat finally arrives once the pirates finally let it go. Seems like promises, promises for now. George Morris Candlelight 866-924-0530 Direct

Re: [WISPA] Metered Billing

2009-11-09 Thread George Morris
are you in George? marlon - Original Message - From: George Morris ghmor...@candlelight.ca To: 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 1:08 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Metered Billing Amen. It would be a very handy thing to maintain that list of speedtest servers

Re: [WISPA] Metered Billing

2009-11-08 Thread George Morris
Rick, there is a heck of a range of technology out there as you know. Anything from the old Alvarion hoppers to the new stuff using N from Ubiquiti and Mikrotik + dog. It isn't the same game anymore, provided you can get your Internet pipe(s) at a reasonable price. Guaranteed bandwidth from a

Re: [WISPA] Metered Billing

2009-11-08 Thread George Morris
and will represent an ROI. Yes, bandwidth is coming down ever so slowly (here anyways). So, what your saying is that the new equipment + lower bandwidth costs will handle all of our future needs? On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 1:37 PM, George Morris ghmor...@candlelight.cawrote: Rick, there is a heck

Re: [WISPA] Metered Billing

2009-11-08 Thread George Morris
Amen. It would be a very handy thing to maintain that list of speedtest servers centrally somewhere, perhaps within WISPA. We don't belong to WISPA because its FCC centric which really doesn't help us much. Much of the dues go to getting the FCC to move in a given direction which isn't of much

Re: [WISPA] Metered Billing

2009-11-08 Thread George Morris
, at 4:08 PM, George Morris ghmor...@candlelight.ca wrote: Amen. It would be a very handy thing to maintain that list of speedtest servers centrally somewhere, perhaps within WISPA. We don't belong to WISPA because its FCC centric which really doesn't help us much. Much of the dues go

Re: [WISPA] Metered Billing

2009-11-07 Thread George Morris
Rick, I don't think its up to Netflix to pay us. They in turn would have to raise their prices which would further complicate things. We need to make sure we get a fair price from our customers that reflects our costs and hopefully profits. So the customer pays Netflix and us for the movie they

Re: [WISPA] Metered Billing

2009-11-07 Thread George Morris
Rick, did you have a self-serve portal where your customers could check ongoing usage? We are implementing IPtrack, same as Marlon. Brandon will build a self-service portal for us. We are also going to implement something called 'Moonlighting', where we don't count bandwidth from Midnight to 6am

Re: [WISPA] Metered Billing

2009-11-07 Thread George Morris
Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. --- Albert Einstein On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 2:38 PM, George Morris ghmor...@candlelight.cawrote: Rick, did you have a self-serve portal where

Re: [WISPA] Metered Billing

2009-11-07 Thread George Morris
7, 2009 at 2:34 PM, George Morris ghmor...@candlelight.cawrote: Rick, I don't think its up to Netflix to pay us. They in turn would have to raise their prices which would further complicate things. We need to make sure we get a fair price from our customers that reflects our costs

Re: [WISPA] Metered Billing

2009-11-07 Thread George Morris
, OH 45373 The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. --- Albert Einstein On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 2:58 PM, George Morris ghmor...@candlelight.cawrote: That's interesting. So in theory we could just script a 'flicker' at the APs at Midnight, and another 'flicker' at 6am

Re: [WISPA] Metered Billing

2009-11-07 Thread George Morris
at $3500/month. It was an easy sell. There are a lot of great thinkers on this list. They'll help keep you clean :) -RickG On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 3:17 PM, George Morris ghmor...@candlelight.cawrote: Very good point Josh, it would be unfortunately to have a pro-consumer initiative backfire because