Re: [WISPA] Report: Broadband stimulus funds won't suffice

2009-12-13 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Took the typing right off of my keyboard Tim. Bravo. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com Tim Sylvester wrote: > Yes, I am amazed. Amazed by the bitching and whining about government on > this list by people who ... > > - sell wireless service using spectrum "owned" by everyone and allocated to > them by

Re: [WISPA] Insurance....

2009-12-09 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I realize that the request went out to stop this thread. However, health care represents more cost to my business than my Internet backbone, so it has quite a bit of bearing on my ability to do business and I consider this to be a good discussion to have. --- Our current health care system i

Re: [WISPA] A Ridiculous Failure of Critical Infrastructure

2009-12-01 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
gt; in their area to interconnect their networks. > > > - > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > > > ---------- > From: "Matt Larsen - Lists" > Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 1:5

Re: [WISPA] A Ridiculous Failure of Critical Infrastructure

2009-12-01 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
; our NOC and on different fiber pairs leaving town. >> >> Qwest had an outage here about 9 months ago that took two of my >> competitors completely down for 5 hours... yet we were completely >> unaffected. :) >> >> Travis >> Microserv >> >> Matt Lar

[WISPA] A Ridiculous Failure of Critical Infrastructure

2009-11-30 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Some kind of combination of failure between Charter and Qwest has left tens of thousands of people in Nebraska without Internet and has disrupted the Internet and phone services for thousands more.Right now, the outage is going on 12 hours and there is no ETA for repair in sight. The wor

Re: [WISPA] 20 mile link

2009-11-30 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Since you are already familiar with StarOS, I'd recommend putting up a couple of X2000 boards with 2' dishes.$225 each for the X2000s and $170 each for the 2' dishes. I have X4000s with 2' dishes shooting 32 miles with no problems, and one 45 mile shot with a 3' on one end and a 2' at th

Re: [WISPA] Ligowave 24ghz Backhaul Radio

2009-11-23 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
ghz Backhaul Radio > > Has it run through heavy rain yet, wonder how much rain affectst the > attenuation. > > On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 12:01 -0700, Matt Larsen - Lists wrote: > > >> Just installed a Ligowave 24ghz unlicensed backhaul radio to take the >> place of

[WISPA] Ligowave 24ghz Backhaul Radio

2009-11-23 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Just installed a Ligowave 24ghz unlicensed backhaul radio to take the place of a 100meg fiber loop. We are going 2.97 miles with the 2' dishes. -65 signal on both sides and it has tested out at 85meg of capacity in both directions. Very happy with it so far. The software and management inte

Re: [WISPA] 10MHz, 5MHz - unstable for voice?

2009-11-22 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
FWIW, I have had oustanding results with 10mhz channels for voice traffic. We are currently moving all of our old 802.11b APs to 10mhz channel ofdm, and the results are great. 2x bandwidth capacity, lower latency and the ability to put up more sectors if needed. Also, VOIP works much bett

[WISPA] Tranzeos Repairs

2009-11-18 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I've spent the last two days going through my "left for dead" pile of Tranzeo CPQ/5a/SL5/SL2 radios in the shop.Out of 41 radios, I have been able to get 35 of them resurrected, which was very surprising. To be fair, about 6 of them didn't appear to have any problems at all, a firmware upda

[WISPA] T1 radios needed

2009-11-16 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Hi all, I have a situation where I need to come up with a couple of links that can do T1 connectivity for a cell phone company. We have tried Moto PTP400 radios with Flanger T1 converters, but they do not work with the cell switches.Does anyone here have a recommendation for links that h

Re: [WISPA] OSPF maximums

2009-10-29 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Using StarOS we have about 480 subnet routes propagating throughout our network. This represents approximately 220 routed devices. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com Dennis Burgess wrote: > I think a good OSPF single area would be around 75 routers. Over that > you get quite a bit of traffic. Not say

[WISPA] [Fwd: Re: [Motorola II] NAT issue with Hotmail/Yahoo/Google]

2009-10-28 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
addresses. I don't know if it can be done on a Mikrotik but I know other firewall/router/NAT devices can create a NAT pool with 100s of IP addresses for clients. Tim -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Matt Larsen -

Re: [WISPA] NAT issue with Hotmail/Yahoo/Google

2009-10-28 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
lic address, I have a few questions: >> >> So, who is going to buy Matt a block of IPs to fix this non-NAT issue? >> I ask, because I do as Matt does and if that is the fix, I need someone >> to buy me a block as well. >> But the issue isn't really NAT, is it? >>

[WISPA] NAT issue with Hotmail/Yahoo/Google

2009-10-28 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
We are having a problem with certain sites that are rejecting our customers because they say the IP address has sent too much traffic over the last 24 hours. This is a problem, as 98% of our customers are behind a single NATted IP address. I am just changing the IP address of the NAT server

[WISPA] Net Neutrality: The Canadians Get it Right!

2009-10-21 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/2714 Lets hope the FCC can make a ruling as balanced and appropriate as this one. Matt Larsen Vistabeam.com WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/

Re: [WISPA] Gotta Have

2009-10-19 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Speaking of multi-tool - these are awesome http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000XU43IC/ref=ox_ya_oh_product If I forget something from the toolbag, this is great. It is also a lot lighter than the traditional old Leathermen, that were so heavy you started to lean to one side. This is ju

[WISPA] DIY Special - Tranzeo shells

2009-10-16 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Hi all, I am upgrading my network to OFDM 10mhz channels and phasing out my 802.11b systems. I have a bunch of older model Tranzeo radios that I am looking to liquidate and wanted to let people on the WISPA lists know about them before I put them on ebay or our upcoming Used Tranzeo site. T

Re: [WISPA] To G or not to G :-)

2009-10-03 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
We are in the process of replacing all of our old 802.11b gear with 802.11g AP/CPE running on 10mhz channels.802.11g on 10mhz channels is a great solution, as it takes up less spectrum, has more interference resistance and delivers about 2x the speeds of standard 802.11b.In my experienc

Re: [WISPA] StarOS Backhaul wont connect???

2009-09-29 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I have a couple of StarOS backhauls that will only work in AP mode in one direction. This is very frustrating, but I have not been able to find a solution to it, so I just deal with it. I'm using firmware 1.3.23b with atheros cards (Mikrotik R52H). Matt Larsen vistabeam.com Butch Evans wro

[WISPA] NAT Limits on StarOS/Mikrotik

2009-09-28 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Hello all, We've been doing some troubleshooting of some occasional issues with NATed customers and started to wonder if we have reached the limits of what we can do with a single NAT server. Right now, I have one NAT server that has two Internet backbone connections coming into it. This ser

[WISPA] Weird Request: Looking for the old YDI 180degree H-pol sectors

2009-08-28 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I have a couple of sites that I need to sectorize and am looking for a couple of 180degree H-pol 2.4ghz sectors.I have a bunch of the old YDI 180degree sector antennas that have been far better than any others that I have used (great f/b ratio and 14db gain), but I'm pretty sure that they a

Re: [WISPA] solar site

2009-08-26 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Here is the graph straight from the charge monitor for our solar panels, to give you an idea what the charging pattern looks like. This is for a pair of 60w panels. http://www.thelar.com/gallery2/v/Wireless/Hogback/graph_image1.png.html Matt Larsen vistabeam.com Christopher Erickson wrote: >

Re: [WISPA] solar site

2009-08-25 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Here is the setup that we recently did for a combination solar/wind powered site. This is a StarOS site, X4000 board with four Mikrotik R52H cards in it. One is 5ghz backhaul, two are for APs and the third card is a spare. 2 60 watt solar panels solar charge controller air-x wind generator

Re: [WISPA] Way to get Census Tract info for address in batch

2009-08-24 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
kup? > > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Matt Larsen - Lists > wrote: > >> Martha Huizenga wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I thought there was a way to get Census Tract info in batch, but the web >>> site I thought I used last

Re: [WISPA] Way to get Census Tract info for address in batch

2009-08-24 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Martha Huizenga wrote: > Hi, > > I thought there was a way to get Census Tract info in batch, but the web > site I thought I used last time gives me Lat and Long. Can anyone > suggest a free site? > > Thanks! > > Martha > I don't know of any free sites that will do a batch of addresses, some

[WISPA] We've got Cash for Clunkers - how about Dollars for Dialup

2009-08-19 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
My suggestion for Phase II of the Broadband Stimulus Program: http://tinyurl.com/kmd4hn Other potential program titles: Money for Modems? Bucks for Broadband? Wampum for Wireless? Any other ideas? Matt Larsen vistabeam.com --

[WISPA] Lightning 1, Bullet 0

2009-07-23 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
For your vicarious enjoyment of nature vs. Ubiquiti products http://www.thelar.com/gallery2/v/Wireless/Miscellaneous/ Won't be doing an RMA on this unit. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com WISPA Wants You! Join today!

[WISPA] Crazy Weather

2009-06-10 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Storm #2 rolling in today We've already had three tornado warnings and at least one on the ground within three miles of my house. Amazingly enough - nothing is down other than one site that had a brief power outage. New 9 mile 19ghz link on 2' dishes faded from -48 to -70 for a while and

Re: [WISPA] Cell phone with wifi?

2009-05-26 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I bought my E71 unlocked and it is an awesome phone. It even went through a complete washer/dryer cycle with my laundry and came out just fine (after it dried out for a few hours). I have mine setup with my office Asterisk server so that it will try my SIP extension first, then the cell phone

[WISPA] weHAVEbroadband.com

2009-05-13 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I got tired of seeing this weneedbroadband.com website coming up over and over on Twitter and in press releases, especially since so many of the places on their map already have access to WISPs. So I registered http://www.wehavebroadband.com/ and pointed it to the WISP Directory. Tell your fr

Re: [WISPA] Hidden Node symptoms, and best practice with RTS/CTS solution?

2009-05-11 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Routing will help considerably, and also coming with reasonable bandwidth control plans for all of the customers, enforced at the AP. I can get 40-50 people on an 802.11b AP with mostly 384k and 640k bandwidth packages.These are also bursted, and half speed on the upload, so on a download

Re: [WISPA] Response to the FCC Regarding Form 477

2009-05-06 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
not handle the >> addresses we feed makes the progress harder and slow. >> >> /Eje >> Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile >> >> -Original Message- >> From: Matt Larsen - Lists >> >> Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 10:49:41 >> To: WISPA General List

[WISPA] Response to the FCC Regarding Form 477

2009-05-06 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I thought I would share this email that I just sent to the FCC regarding the Form 477 report. I am late filing this report because we don't have accurate data and thought that my reasons why were worth sharing with my colleagues. I support what the FCC is trying to do with Form477, but was not

[WISPA] Looking for P-COM DS3 radios

2009-04-22 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Hello, I just got access to a few towers that had working 18ghz and 23ghz P-Com links on them at a point in the nearby past. I have the dishes that were used for these links as well, but the Pcom radios were 4 and 8 T1 models. My understanding is that I can re-use the dishes with DS3 or OC3

Re: [WISPA] tranzeo 900mhz ?

2009-04-17 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
> Bucyrus, OH 44820 > 419-562-6405 > www.wavelinc.com > > > > -Original Message- > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On > Behalf Of Matt Larsen - Lists > Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 10:35 AM > To: WISPA General List > S

Re: [WISPA] After hour call handling?

2009-04-17 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
These guys have been outstanding for us: http://kitsupport.com/ We forward our tech support calls to them between 5pm-8am and they have done a great job. All calls that they receive come back into our Freeside system as a work ticket with all the details on the calls they have taken and our

Re: [WISPA] tranzeo 900mhz ?

2009-04-17 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Unfortunately, that will not work. I have been trying to get Tranzeos to work with StarOS (and Mikrotik) for a while and have not been able to make it happen. I have even taken the Tranzeos apart and put the cards into the other radios and did not get it to work. I did take the cards out of

Re: [WISPA] High Throughput Licensed vs. Unlicensed

2009-04-10 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Jeff, I think you have made a fine point. I realized about a year ago that with the cost of licensed links coming down, there wasn't a lot of reason to look at the high-end UL radios anymore.When a StarOS or MT setup will deliver 30-50meg of FD throughput at a very low cost, the next logi

[WISPA] Bad Geocoding Data

2009-04-06 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
This article in the LA Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-geocoding-errors5-2009apr05,0,5966285.story This documents the reasoning for why I have not completed my Form 477 data yet. Nearly 40% of my customer base will have to be re-coded for the Form 47 because the geocoding datab

Re: [WISPA] Resurrect old Microwave paths back to cheaper bandwidth?

2009-04-02 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I've got gear on several of these towers in my area.Most are built like a brick sh**house. American Tower wanted to do an engineering study before they would let us put equipment on one of these, and I just laughed. You could drive a pickup up the side of the tower - I'm pretty sure tha

Re: [WISPA] Using Tranzeo as CPE for rural community

2009-04-01 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
A few responses here: 1) You don't have to use Tranzeo APs with Tranzeo CPEs.The new Tranzeo APs (EN-500 series) does have a lot more management features than the older Tranzeo units (TR-6000, TR-5a). You can also use StarOS or Mikrotik APs and have all the centralized management and adv

Re: [WISPA] 4.9 Full Duplex

2009-03-28 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
StarOS will do 4.9ghz FD no problem. The X4000 and X2000 units can both do this. They are FCC approved, although someone would probably argue that they may not be approved with all of the 4.9ghz antennas. I know it works, and we use it combined with Tranzeo 4.9 CPE radios for our local city

Re: [WISPA] OT: Hot Spot boxes

2009-03-26 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Mark Nash wrote: > Has anyone used the hotspot features in StarOS? > > Mark Nash > UnwiredWest > 78 Centennial Loop > Suite E > Eugene, OR 97401 > 541-998- > 541-998-5599 fax > http://www.unwiredwest.com > - Original Message - > From: "Scott Carullo" > To: ; "WISPA General List" > Se

Re: [WISPA] speaking of ARIN (form 477 comments)

2009-03-21 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I have decided that the FCC will get my Form 477 when I get around to it. I'm not dropping everything in a mad scramble to fill out the information. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com Dylan Bouterse wrote: > I had the same problem! How can they have some of the error checking > they have, and not acce

Re: [WISPA] OFFLIST Re: radio mobile

2009-03-10 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Wasn't "Blett Grass" involved in this thread somehow? (trying to bypass the universal mailling list spam filter with my misspelling :^) Larsen Bob Moldashel wrote: > Too many witnesses > > I wonder what ever happened to Mr. Farber.. > > -B- > > > Rick Harnish wrote: > >> I remember

Re: [WISPA] Knowing when to stop doing installs yourself, they are for the young

2009-03-05 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
One of my phone techs thought that he could go out and do local service calls when the phones weren't busy. This guy is pretty big - probably about 350 or so at the time and not the most nimble person in the world. He stopped by the customer's house and went to look at his router, which was

Re: [WISPA] WISPA Newspaper Article

2009-02-23 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
article? > Knowing this could help others to gain access to this positive press. > Congrats, > Scriv > > > On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Matt Larsen - Lists > wrote: > >> Its only the Scottsbluff StarHerald, but this was a nice write-up anyway >> >

[WISPA] WISPA Newspaper Article

2009-02-22 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Its only the Scottsbluff StarHerald, but this was a nice write-up anyway http://www.starherald.com/articles/2009/02/22/news/local_news/doc49a0d84daaead679125026.txt Matt Larsen vistabeam.com WISPA Wants You! J

Re: [WISPA] Mesh just for kicks

2009-02-17 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Don't drink the Mikrotik kool-aid just yet. You should probably give some consideration to StarOS. StarOS has an excellent industry standard mesh routing protocol built in - OLSR - and the popular X4000 platform is very low cost (~$350 or so in a four radio configuration). I tried Mikroti

Re: [WISPA] StarOS/Valemount

2009-02-08 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Winbox is okay, but it doesn't do much that the StarOS ssh interface doesn't do, and that includes the Torch functionality. The StarOS "Beacon" functionality has the ability to track all TCP connections, simliar to Torch, so that functionality is there as well. I would probably lean toward

Re: [WISPA] StarOS/Valemount

2009-02-06 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
From a vendor perspective, Eje is right. StarOS has gone through a lot of weird stages that lead to alienation of their vendors, and ended up settling on a situation where it has a limited number of vendors. From an operators perspective, the software is fantastic. The wireless drivers

Re: [WISPA] Mapping Effort. If you can't donate $$, donate time

2009-02-05 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
! Matt Larsen mlar...@inventivemedia.net Matt Larsen - Lists wrote: > Hello Brian, > > Thank you for your efforts to help us with the mapping and taking the > time to make sure that all of the WISPs in Michigan have their coverage > areas listed on the WirelessMapping map. I woul

Re: [WISPA] Mapping Effort. If you can't donate $$, donate time

2009-02-05 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Hello Brian, Thank you for your efforts to help us with the mapping and taking the time to make sure that all of the WISPs in Michigan have their coverage areas listed on the WirelessMapping map. I would encourage you (if you have another couple of hours to spend) to send me the list of zip co

Re: [WISPA] UBNT Bullet5 review...

2009-01-22 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Preparing to launch the Holy War Hand Grenade.:^) On the AF09 wireless, I am just following the terms you gave me as a "typical example of 802.11 not scaling". If there is only one access point for 50 users, then yes - cap it at 1Mbps. How much do temporary users need? If they needed

Re: [WISPA] UBNT Bullet5 review...

2009-01-22 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Canopy vs. 802.11... things are not always as they > seem. I know of a large Canopy operator that is buying radios for $160 > each. ;) > > And, we have Trango AP's that only deliver 5Mbps total with 128 > clients and we deliver 4ms latency to every single client. > > Travi

Re: [WISPA] UBNT Bullet5 review...

2009-01-21 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Sorry Travis, but you are dead wrong about 802.11 not being able to scale beyond 20 users, especially with 802.11a. I explained how it can be done to you before and I have consulting clients with 10,000 plus users on their 802.11 based networks scaling right up to the same size as any Canopy

Re: [WISPA] 5 gig omni's?

2009-01-19 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
The TerraWave antenna looks exactly like the PacWireless model. Perhaps it is manufactured in the same place in China, but is sold under a different brand name? Matt Larsen vistabeam.com Tom DeReggi wrote: > Good question...We searched for a long time to find good 5.X wide band > omnis. Some

[WISPA] Looking for used Tranzeo 900 Series radios

2009-01-13 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Hi there, If you have some of the old Tranzeo 900 series radios that you are no longer using or would like to get rid of, let me know. I have a project I'm working on and I'd like to come up with 5-10 of them. Thanks! Matt Larsen vistabeam.com -

[WISPA] Mac Dearman

2009-01-11 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Our good friend and fellow WISP operator Mac Dearman is in the hospital after suffering chest pains on Saturday. It was determined that he did have a heart attack and he will be undergoing further tests tomorrow at the hospital in Shreveport. Please send your thoughts and prayers to Mac and

Re: [WISPA] 5.8GHz Backhaul Radio Recommendations

2009-01-09 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I just lent a pair of Bullet5 units to a friend who is planning to replace some old upconverted Alvarion BH units on a 26 mile link with 2' dishes. That should be an interesting test. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com Matt wrote: >> Andrews Antenna P3F-52-NXA >> >> 5.8GHz backhaul radio died today b

Re: [WISPA] Typical Sector count

2009-01-08 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
We've been doing 3x120 in 2.4ghz and 5ghz. Using StarOS on the X4000 boards, it is right around $1000 for a three sector setup, and that includes the AP and antennas. Mounting hardware and labor varies according to the type of installation. If it is a rooftop or other structure that doesn't

Re: [WISPA] Worthless hardware list from stupid companies willing to sell junk to us.

2009-01-07 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I don't know why Tranzeo has had so many problems with their 2.4ghz CPEs, but there is a pretty well defined history of issues with them. However, I have a couple of their 5ghz APs and about ten of their 900mhz APs, and they have never had any problems. One of my 5ghz APs has 90+ subs on it.

Re: [WISPA] WISP Directory - please register

2008-12-12 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Message- > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On > Behalf Of Matt Larsen - Lists > Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 2:14 AM > To: WISPA General List; Motorola Canopy User Group; w...@wispa.org > Subject: [WISPA] WISP Directory - please register >

[WISPA] WISP Directory - please register

2008-12-11 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Inventive Media would like to formally announce the unveiling of the WISP Directory 2.0 at http://www.wispdirectory.com/ - now with zip code search, ratings, reviews and WISP Technology used by each WISP. Inventive Media has put a few hundred hours into revising the directory, weeding out dead

Re: [WISPA] Where is StarOS?

2008-12-10 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
One of the nice parts about StarOS is that the scripting format is the same as the linux packages that they load to perform those functions - so if you want to learn how to do fancy cbq scripts, just look for the many available linux docs that describe how to use iptables and you are set. Sam

[WISPA] Where is StarOS?

2008-12-08 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I put myself in as being Tranzeo based, as that is the heavy majority of my CPE radios, although I have a fair amount of Ubiquiti, Telex, HighGain and a smattering of Mikrotik CPE as well. Chuck started the survey, and as a Canopy user he is more used to the idea of everything coming from the

Re: [WISPA] Client Speeds

2008-12-06 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I know of quite a few non Canopy networks. Among my consulting clients, neighbors and other associates, I know of Rapid Communications - 2000+ StarOS/Tranzeo R-Com - 4000+ StarOS/Tranzeo/Trango/Deliberant Action Communications - 4000+ Cisco (they have a little bit of Canopy) OIBW - 2500+

Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik issues

2008-11-12 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I'm curious to hear why the client's VPN wouldn't work. I haven't had any problem with client VPN units working through StarOS. Might be a network design issue rather than anything to do with StarOS. I would strongly suggest switching to a StarOS board with V3 and atheros chipset cards. I

[WISPA] Mikrotik CPU graphing

2008-11-11 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Hello all, I'm trying to figure out how to track CPU load and PPS on our Mikrotik core router. Is there a simple guide for tracking this with MRTG/RRD somewhere out there? I"m not having much luck finding it. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com --

Re: [WISPA] heavy usage customers

2008-11-02 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I'm with Travis on this, with the exception of using StarOS instead of Mikrotik. It is nice to have a set of standard, mature tools such as radius, cbq/iptable rules and standard, non-vendor specific hardware to work with instead of having to use a limited, proprietary system limited to a sin

Re: [WISPA] Damn, Ubiquiti

2008-10-22 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I am having great luck with the Nanostation5 radios. The NS2 radios have a terrible antenna, so I'm sticking to Tranzeos for 2.4ghz use. I'd love to see an NS9 at some point. The new products look interesting, but if they are like other Ubiquity "new product releases" - they are vaporware

[WISPA] Anyone have Tranzeo 900mhz radios?

2008-10-03 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Hi all, I am looking to order about 10 Tranzeo 902-11 radios. Our main supplier is backordered on them and I have a backlog of installs, so anyone who can ship radios on Monday, please contact me. Thanks! Matt Larsen vistabeam.com --

Re: [WISPA] Network Monitor

2008-08-01 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
The ability to push configs out from a central location is really a nice feature of Nagios/Cacti/MRTG. I also use Big Brother to monitor customer connections, and it is nice to have something that automatically pushes the configurations out whenever we make a change in the billing system - ke

[WISPA] Interesting Link...

2008-07-28 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
http://gigaom.com/2008/07/28/the-brookings-plan-for-rural-broadband/ WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wi

Re: [WISPA] Nanostations

2008-07-24 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Hi Chuck, Need to put the new AirOS 3.0 firmware on the NS5s and they will work as expected. Matt Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CHUCK PROFITO wrote: > Has anyone on the list noticed on the 5.x nanos, that when selecting 10 Mhz > channels, that they only line up in the center of the channel, not lik

Re: [WISPA] Just what we need.

2008-07-22 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I don't usually agree with Mark's viewpoints, but I agree with this one 100%. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Marlon, my friend, that is the wrong viewpoint. > > This is the RIGHT one... > > "Imagine the sales I could make if the taxpayers weren't subsidizing > CenturyTel."

Re: [WISPA] Nanostations - question

2008-07-20 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Here are a few reasons to buy the Tranzeo 1) 3 year warranty 2) Available stock - tried to buy a lot of Nanostations lately?Good luck getting them consistently. 3) Tranzeo design has been through a few winters and hot summers. There are already some questions about the durability of

Re: [WISPA] Nanostations

2008-07-20 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Never really had a major problem with this. Just keep P2P apps limited at the core router, no intercell relay and connection limits per customer. It would be nice if there was a polling implementation that could be easily implemented with standards-based equipment instead of proprietary gear.

Re: [WISPA] Nanostations

2008-07-20 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
for a system that will scale to larger number >>> of clients. I have Trango AP's that will only do 5Mbps total >>> bandwidth, yet we have loaded them up to their max clients (128) and >>> have no issues. Latency is less than 5ms to any clie

Re: [WISPA] Nanostations

2008-07-20 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
y > is at least 10x bigger than StarOS... it would make more sense for > Ubiquiti to load Mikrotik on the Nano's... ;) > > Travis > Microserv > > > Matt Larsen - Lists wrote: >> Travis Johnson wrote: >> >>> Matt, >>> >>> I agree

Re: [WISPA] Nanostations

2008-07-20 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
ht now today. :) > Or Nanostation-SOS - a Nano running StarOS. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com > Travis > Microserv > > Matt Larsen - Lists wrote: >> Hi Travis, >> >> I'm with you - the Nanostations are a pretty amazing product. I've >> been deploying

Re: [WISPA] top 10 benefits of Wimax in 3.65ghz - my 2 cents

2008-07-19 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Hi Travis, I'm with you - the Nanostations are a pretty amazing product. I've been deploying Nanostations on 10mhz channels in 2.4 and 5ghz with StarOS access points and the performance/interference resistance is pretty amazing at ANY price point. I could say the same thing for the newer T

Re: [WISPA] Any thoughts on a decent cache server

2008-07-11 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
You can build a good squid box with lots of memory and fast hard drives and get good results. The squid setup is also nearly infinitely tunable, as opposed to the ones in Mikrotik and StarOS which have a pretty vanilla configuration. Being able to tune the cache parameters helps a lot, alon

Re: [WISPA] water in feed horn

2008-07-09 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Check the feedhorn for cracks. We have had a few PacWireless units (dishes and grids) that were damaged by hail or dropping ice and developed hairline cracks that caused them to stop working in wet weather. Matt Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurt Fankhauser wrote: > Anyone ever have any water get

[WISPA] WISPA Board Elections

2008-06-18 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Just a reminder - the WISPA Board Elections will be starting on Monday, June 23rd. Any WISPA member who wants to vote in the election has to be paid in full before the date of the election. If you are behind on your dues, please get them caught up. I have just sent out invoices for everyo

[WISPA] OSPF on StarOS

2008-05-28 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Very valuable advice for any of you who are using OSPF on StarOS Make sure that any of your point-to-point wireless links have the statement "ip ospf network point-to-point" in each of your wireless interface definitions, otherwise you are going to see the StarOS OSPF act completely random

Re: [WISPA] Uh-Oh, " they are ready to discipline Internet service providers"

2008-02-26 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
The real problem is the number of connections. One client opening up 300-400 connections is going to cause all kinds of problems. Being able to limit connections is a pretty important item to be able to handle on a wireless network. Matt Larsen Vistabeam.com Mike Hammett wrote: > and I for

Re: [WISPA] MT vs StarOS

2008-02-08 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
the same distance, you are only getting 30Mbps. > Why is there a 50% loss when doing full-duplex? > > Also, are you testing with TCP or UDP? > > Travis > Microserv > > Matt Larsen - Lists wrote: >> OK, here are some real world examples: >> >> 5.3ghz

Re: [WISPA] MT vs StarOS

2008-02-07 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
OK, here are some real world examples: 5.3ghz 40mhz channel, 8.5 miles. WAR4/CM9 attached to 29db PacWireless Antennas.50meg one way. 5.7ghz 20mhz channel, 10 miles.WAR2/CM9 attached to 29db PacWireless Antennas. 45meg one way (CPU maxes out on WAR2s) 5.7ghz 10mhz channel, 42 miles

Re: [WISPA] Tornado

2008-02-07 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
At least is wasn't your main tower!That sucks! Matt Larsen vistabeam.com David E. Smith wrote: > Okay, less FEMA politics and more disaster pictures. > > http://images.bureau42.com/sa/blrv08/SANY0837.JPG > > (This was from Tuesday evening. We were nowhere near any tornadoes, as far as > I k

Re: [WISPA] MT vs StarOS

2008-02-06 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Check on the Valemount site and look for the X-4000. It is under $400 and has four radios and pigtails in it. Performance is equal to or better than the WAR4s or RB333s. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com Kurt Fankhauser wrote: > Interesting, I was hoping to switch a few towers over from War4 Metro

[WISPA] StarOS and VOIP

2008-02-06 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I thought I might pass on a piece of information I recently found out about StarOS networks. At the StarOS training session last month, they mentioned that the newer Version3 firmware automatically prioritizes VOIP traffic as long as the correct TOS bit is set. That made it a lot easier to

Re: [WISPA] 900 Mhz recommendation

2008-02-06 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I have had excellent results with the Tranzeo units. I didn't have any experience with their older ones, but I do know that we can install customers in NLOS situations and get good performance even with the 5mhz channel sizes. I would highly recommend them. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com chris

[WISPA] Looking for short licensed link

2008-01-15 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Hi all, I am looking for a licensed link to replace a fiber connection. I am currently paying for a 100meg fiber connection between two of my towers and would like to replace it with my own infrastructure. I own the towers on both sides, there is plenty of LOS and the link distance is 2.9 m

[WISPA] Lucaya X-4000 radios

2008-01-04 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Hi all, I did some performance testing yesterday with the new X-4000 radio units from Lucaya and wanted to share the results. These are the new four radio access point/client/backhaul units from Valemount Networks (the authors of StarOS). The latest versions of the firmware now support fu

Re: [WISPA] Freeside + QuickBooks

2007-12-27 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Just use QuickBooks to do your regular bookkeeping, and Freeside to handle the Accounts Receivable from your ISP customers. Everyday, we input all of our payments into Freeside, then add up the deposit and put the total deposit into QuickBooks under "Freeside Deposits". This system has work

Re: [WISPA] FDX Wireless

2007-12-23 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
StarOS V3 does true FDX with dual cards. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com Mike Hammett wrote: Other than N-Streme 2, what out there is true FDX and not just HDX with 50/50 balancing? - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ---

Re: [WISPA] PHP Helpdesk

2007-12-19 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Freeside with built in RT Ticket system. RT is also available as a standalone application, and works well. We use it to keep track of installs, deinstalls, service calls, maintenance work and a few other things as well. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com Ty Carter wrote: Platypus w/ wombat (

Re: [WISPA] Vuze / Comcast / Peer to Peer / FCC

2007-11-20 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
George, Comcast's customers are the ones paying for access to the Comcast network. If a Comcast customer wants to use Vuze, he should be able to because he is ALREADY PAYING FOR THE RIGHT TO USE THE NETWORK. This idea of content providers being "parasites" on networks is a total load of

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