The valuation of WISP user vs Cell user are a little funky. These
numbers came off the top of my head and may not be anywhere near
resembling reality. I am basing them on what I have made/lost in the
WISP business in the past 5 years, and what I have spent/seen others
spend on cell phone
There is apparently a problem with Atheros based APs and Prism based
clients (Tranzeo CPE200, Seneao CB3Deluxe, others)
We recently upgraded from Prism based APs to SR2 and XR2 APs in several
key locations.
The way it was explained to me is that there is a bug (Atheros AP, Prism
Client) where
I suppose that this is an obvious point here, and your post may have
been made with a shadow of sarcasm, but...
I am not knocking your $5k spent on the commercial and festival
sponsorship, or the $250 for the WISPA membership, but trying to compare
their value is kind of like comparing $0.99
http://itwatchdogs.com/
Exactly what you are describing.
pd
Blake Bowers wrote:
I need a box.
What I want is a 802.11 type box, that has alarm
contacts. When the alarm contact is triggered (N/C N/O)
then it would send an email. The box would probably
have an IP address that would allow it
The $10/mo for web access with Sprint ONLY applies to the use on the
phone. When you plug in the data cable, and use it as a modem, its like
$0.30/kb. Learning that lesson cost me.
The unlimited phone-as-a-modem or data card rate is around $39/mo.
Does anyone know if there are
There is a reg hack to fix that, but the easiest way I have found is to
install or reinstall a browser (thunderbird or opera or whatever). When
it finishes, and launches for the first time, it will ask if its the
default browser, say yes. You can change back to IE or whatever, but the
registry
Ares Ultra costs the customer around $50 from what I hear. It ENCRYPTS
the P2P traffic, and the Mikrotik will NOT recognize it as P2P traffic,
so it will take EVERY AVAILABLE PACKET that your AP can push out. The
way I have dealt with this is to disable the client (at the radio level)
and when
Ares Ultra costs the customer around $50 from what I hear. It ENCRYPTS
the P2P traffic, and the Mikrotik will NOT recognize it as P2P traffic,
so it will take EVERY AVAILABLE PACKET that your AP can push out. The
way I have dealt with this is to disable the client (at the radio level)
and when
My understanding about 60ghz (what I remember reading anyway) is that
its good for 1000mbps data links, but MAX distance of 1Mile, since O2
(Oxygen) resonates at 60ghz. It was originally used for spy satellite to
spy satellite links (in space), since it couldn't conceivably be picked
up by any
I think the Mikrotik hotspot would work well for you. The flexibility is
nice.
You can edit the HTML code. At one location, a hotel, the users click
the link that would be normally for demo available, but it says I
agree to terms and service
The user/pw entries are hidden. The demo is set for
Trendnet has a 5 year warranty. Closer to lifetime than most.
pd
Peter R. wrote:
Who has a lifetime warranty?
KyWiFi LLC wrote:
Yes, I'm serious. Lots of companies offer a lifetime warranty.
If they have a good product, they should stand behind it. If
their product is junk, then...
OSHA (or some big insurance co maybe) recently required that all
harnesses on oil rigs were to be replaced with fireproof ones, at least
for welders.
The yellow nylon ones that are popular with WISPs, etc all showed up on
the used market in big quantity. Many of them with minimal wear or
on a
spam RBL', but the firewall is mainly to benefit the subscribers.
If a customer has gotten this far, he sounds like he has his own NAT
firewall at least, and probably doesn't need your protection at the border.
Pete Davis
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rabbtux rabbtux wrote:
Anyone have suggestions
For the past several years, I have added a second line to my address
when I register my domains. Now, when any mail comes with my name,
street address, then Building 64, Sector 7G and then city,state, then
I know that is is junk mail, and I know where they gleaned my address
from. Its funny to
What I would do: Put in an AP, see who associates. If the leasing
company decides to repo their CPE, let them. The customer will
(hopefully) call you, and you can go out and put in a new CPE. At that
time, the cable will probably still be in place, and you will know that
the CPE will work
operating system than most Linux flavors.
Just my $0.02. Not trying to create a flame war.
Pete Davis
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Tom DeReggi wrote:
Butch,
Not to start a debate on whats best, but for informative reasons...
Why do people that prefer FreeBSD prefer FreeBSD?
Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL Wireless, Inc
:17 -0600, Pete Davis wrote:
I think I can answer why I like freebsd.
Stability.
Uptime for months at a time. Most of the problems that I have had with
my Freebsd servers have been when I was doing something stupid that I
now know better.
Ditto
Also, it may be used completely free of charge, even
I deployed a WRAP 2C with a Sr5 and Prism2511mp, 18VDC POE, and I had a
constant problem with it rebooting until I replaced the WRAP with a
Routerboard 532A. I put the little MiniPCI riser card thing on it, and
put 2x Prism2511's, 1x SR5 and 1x Sr2. Its been running pretty reliably
since then.
the fruit, but it became my fruit win it landed in my yard.
pd
Scott Reed wrote:
Ah, but it does cost me the monthly fee. And if you use it, it is
because I paid the fee, not you. There, seems to me it is theft, you
are using what I paid for without paying.
Pete Davis wrote:
I suppose that the only
The legality and ethics of using an open access point is questionable,
but there is a liability issue as well. In most of the areas that I
cover with my network, there is a strong signal with SSID of NoDial.
Connecting to this will get you a DHCP address even, without a WEP or
other encryption
don't
do that, but I am sure that people have done that for years. I have
never even heard of anyone getting in trouble for it. (war driving or
grape sampling). I suppose that if you got greedy with either one, you
would get your hand slapped.
Pete Davis
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Rick Smith wrote:
ah yes, but t
be awesome.
If I could sort by comment, then finding smith, bob then finding
smith, bob - bridge to see if either/both have an active lease would
be MUCH easier, and make life much better for my staff.
Pete Davis
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Butch Evans wrote:
I'd like to throw this out for the weekend. I want
.
Yeah, nice idea. Kind of like a IEAK for RouterOS. (Internet Explorer
Administration Kit allows for ISP or Corporate browser customization for
Internet Explorer deployment). It would almost have to be an
offline/offsite configuration building/editing utility to do all of that.
Pete Davis
and authentication, and only uses the 5.x.x.x subnet for
VPN'ing.
Pete Davis
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Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 wrote:
Hi All,
A few years back, there was a program called Blab-it. It was a private
chat system. I have a couple of corporate customers that are interested
in a Yahoo or MSN
Okay, lets say that the pay-per-email program costs $0.02 to send a
message. $0.01 goes to the domain registration owner of the receiving
domain, and $0.01 goes to the recipient. That 100,000,000 Spam messages
that my Barracuda blocked would be worth $1M, if I had let them go
through in that
by an independent security agency,
and while they did find some problems with insecure user passwords, the
wireless lan was found to be fully HIPPA safe. Doctors use the wireless
on their laptops to do their thing in the hospital, and it all seems to
work fine.
Pete Davis
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John Scrivner
What I have seen is that if you ping google.com, your results will vary
based on your DNS server. The results (especially the order) seem to
vary slightly between
72.14.203.104 (www.google.com) [returns yahoo.com]
64.233.167.99 (www.google.com) [www returns w3.org] and
72.14.203.99
I am not sure what difference the marketing perspective would make for
B or G. If a laptop of a hotel guest is G, it will certainly work on a B
network. You can, market it as 802.11G compatible I guess. From a
technical standpoint, unless the hotel guests need to share more than
6Mbps or so,
I know a nearby WISP that gives his customers IP space and his CPE space
on the same last 3 octets. Makes figuring out who's CPE belongs to who's
equipmnent much easier:
For example: Customer addr = 64.123.105.33, CPE addr: 10.123.105.33
We keep out CPE private, and customer addr public, but
tell all of the callers that
it will be back up by 4:00p, and my phone doesn't ring. This concept has
been working actually rather well.
Pete Davis
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George Rogato wrote:
Not applicable, I've been the on-call guy for three and a half years
straight. :)
David Smith
MVN.net
I see these on gates, especially where there are oilfields on the site,
and several companies need access. Never seen a whole chain made from
locks, though.
Funny.
pd
Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 wrote:
One of my tower sites has this chain on the main gate. It's always
fun to remember
I like this statement from the DBOSS manual:
Automated assignment of static IP to customer's PCs and
gateways
Some network applications or services require the assignment of a
static IP
address. Voice Over IP (VOIP) is probably the most notable of such.
Normally,
the assignment of a static IP
, or whatever.
Pete Davis
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Sam Tetherow wrote:
The cell phone analogy is a bit off target though, unless you want to
charge the recipient of the cell call.
The peering wars pretty much died in 95 when the fledgling internet
business wouldn't tolerate it then. I highly doubt that it would put
I can't see charging for a failed site survey, but we do turn down
customers that we know that we cannot reach. If we fail 3 customers on
Pebble Ridge Drive, then customer numbers 4 and 5 probably won't get a
truck roll, but the HOA in the area might get a call to see if we can
put in an AP on
We have a friend who is an installer for Dish and Directv. Over half of
his installs don't require the new arm that ships (existing mast, pole
mount, or whatever), so every few weeks he brings us a couple of boxes
of them.
Before, he was tossing them. I would find an installer and offer to
but this method has been in place for years and works very
well. The employees love it and the unions hate it. It insures that the
new guy in training gets up to speed in a reasonable time or washes
out. The guy who has been there for 10 years can handle 10 $4 units/hr
can make decent money.
Pete Davis
charge whatever
he wants, and keep it, and put in as many custom cable runs and
terminations as they can sell. We just start picking up the monthly
billing.
Those are good relationships to have.
Pete Davis
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chris cooper wrote:
Im sure this has been
covered before
at
every guy ring. Its holding up a 19 basket grid antenna and a 17db
pacwireless sector. We have enough customers on it to justify a real
rohn25 tower on the ground now.
Pete Davis
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Mark Koskenmaki wrote:
I'm interested in what people would suggest using to reach 60 to 80 feet
above
Sorry for the cross-post. Having not really been following the whole
Neutrality Debate, this clarified some stuff for me. I hope you enjoy it.
Copied from: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20060622.html
June 22, 2006
Net Neutered:
Why don't they tell us ending Net Neutrality might kill
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Sorry for the cross-post. Having not really been following
The only Wisp I ever heard of in Wyoming is Brett Glass, and the only
place I see his posts are on isp-wireless list. I have no idea about
Wyoming geography.
pd
Matt Larsen - Lists wrote:
Shot in the dark, but if there are any providers out there that can
hit these places, I am a customer
. Either way,
putting it off to the local ISP to keep records seems far fetched.
Pete Davis
NoDial.net
Mac Dearman wrote:
You have enough clients that it would bankrupt you to build a server to log
your HTTP SMTP traffic? I don't think it would be that difficult or
expensive, but agree
Pete Davis wrote:
Here is an example of a ROI period ending.
I put in a $500/mo T1 and rent a $100/mo tower space. My fixed costs
are $600/mo
I put in a $1000 AP and router, and buy 100 $200 CPE. I am now $21000
in the hole.
Each customer is paying me $50/mo. ($5000/mo total)
My ROI is 5
.
1: Time is money, so don't waste time or money.
2. Don't cut corners.
3. Don't piss off the customers.
Pete Davis
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Travis Johnson wrote:
Tom,
There is no such thing as average profit per sub after ROI period.
Let me give an example:
I lease all my CPE
He must share a t1 with 12 other tenants and its barely faster than dialup?
If I had to buy a t1 for every 12 broadband subscribers, I would go
broke! Someone needs to manage that t1 or clean viruses on 13 computers,
or something..
pd
John Scrivner wrote:
Can someone in the Chicago area
I have been told that the new WR CCU is POE-able. I don't know about
Trango either.
pd
chris cooper wrote:
WR. Ive never used the Trango 900 Mhz. WR needs a POE CCU. Not sure
if Trango has that option or not.
c
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Since the original post listed using CM9's, its possible that Antenna
A/Antenna B selection is incorrect.
Pete Davis
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is it possible the u.fl connectors have come loose? I have had a few issues w/
the u.fl connection coming slightly loose during
Joshua M. Andrews wrote:
Cliff:
Thank you for the information. The areas of DSL are very spotty and
cable is very inexpensive and unreliable. Many people are upset at
both situations. DSL is offered for about $30 per month with purchase
of a DSL modem at around $50 or so and a 1 year
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Joshua M. Andrews wrote:
Cliff:
Thank you for the information. The areas of DSL are very spotty and
cable is very inexpensive
http://www.handybackup.com/
Cheap. $30 to $55 depending on plugins needed. Free trial available.
Easy to use. Drop/Drag/Schedule
Flexible. Will back up to CDRW, network shares, second hard drives, FTP
shares, whatever.
Brian Rohrbacher wrote:
I have a sub with an external hard drive but he
outsource the installation ($125 to
contractor), and I put it in myself, and collect the $150 setup + 1st
month service and put in a $120 CPE.
Pete Davis
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Joshua M. Andrews wrote:
I'm about to get my first WISP up and running but the major factor
that's holding me back is the initial cost
I thought Alvarion was Wimax, or wimax-able, or wimax compatible, or
software-flashable to wimax. Wimax-ilicious, or something.
pd
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George
From what we have seen most of the unlicensed WIMAX will come into its own
in the first half of 2007. The limitation for low cost
, it NOW costs us under $200
cash out of pocket to add a new client, and adds only about $7/mo to the
bottom line recurring costs, and $48 (average) monthly gross revenue.
Our second 300 subscribers will be MUCH cheaper and easier to add than
the 1st 300.
Pete Davis
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Mark Nash wrote
they haven't called.
Pete Davis
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Brian Rohrbacher wrote:
My opinion.
FYI For those of you who remember this..
I am still fighting them. They disputed my dispute. LOL Who do they
think they are to take my money and not send the product? Anyway, I
will not give up
it gets back to the core router to filter. Port filtering in
the CPE is a nice capability to have, IMO. These ports blocked don't
effect PPPOE connections, but its nice NOT to see every user's shared
printer on the WAN.
Pete Davis
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consolidation similar to the 250 phone
companies that all became ATT in the first part of the 1900's. They all
were either bought up or squashed by the competition. Maybe we won't all
end up like that. Hard to say.
Pete Davis
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chris cooper wrote:
Not to shoot myself in the foot here
Tom DeReggi wrote:
The only exception to this is the FREE Net / Muni Net. Big ventures
need big companies and big pockets. MOst likely that problem will take
care of itself. First, consumers hate marketing and SPAM. Do you think
they are going to embrase the solution that guarantees they are
. Pretty
impressive for $76.
http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pwcnt/en/pwcnt_27xx_specs.pdf
http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/pwcnt_2708?c=uscs=04l=ens=bsd
Pete Davis
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John J. Thomas wrote:
Where are these being used? If it is at the customer
to get a 2 crimp install done with just two ends with cheap crimpers.
Pete Davis
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Mark Koskenmaki wrote:
The local electronics store sold me a pair of crimpers that listed for
$55, but since the package was trashed, he gave me $10 off. Boy, I have
never regretted it. No more
like this one:
http://www.cablesnmor.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPRODProdID=272 or
even the $25 ones Radioshack sells.
Pete Davis
NoDial.net
Marlon K. Schafer wrote:
dude!
We're working on getting people to fill out the fcc forms. We're
hunting for new spectrum (current fight is for unused
I have bought those before. They are kind of a cool novelty, but they
don't add THAT much reliability/speed/ease of use/etc IMO.
pd
Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 wrote:
That's it. Thanks!
Do you really pay $.60 per connector??? Maybe it's not as nice of a
tool as I thought
http://www.wired.com/news/columns/1,70241-0.html
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that a Waverider 900mhz Access point
(CCU) is only good for 2mbps total network throughput, and 1.5mbps to
any one client.
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Kurt Fankhauser wrote:
Something needs to be done about this 900mhz pricing, at these prices
I can justify setting up more 2.4ghz to get
a
ccu to them. We have found the 1.5 claim virtually impossible to
sustain. It makes the business model unsound as well.
chris
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Back to backk on a pole might be a problem. Are the antennas at least
6' apart from each other? (horizontally or vertically?) Physical
separation may not be an issue until the subscriber numbers go up, but
it be a problem.
Pete Davis
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Brian Rohrbacher wrote:
Here is what I use
is trying to do.
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Marlon K. Schafer wrote:
Hi All,
I have a need for remote temp units. I'd prefer one that would email
in the case of an out of range condition. These will be used in homes
so no need for really extreme stuff.
Yes I'll google too. Just wondering what people are using and what
they like
A friend of mine, Gerry Cullen owns this business:
http://www.itwatchdogs.com/
I haven't seen one since the beta unit he gave me, but it worked
nicely. I should probably buy some more for my remote locations.
pd
Marlon K. Schafer wrote:
Hi All,
I have a need for remote temp units. I'd
for myself, but the return on a $10k (or $20k) deployment could
be several years in a market that small.
Anyone else doing anything like this?
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the
profits for myself, but the return on a $10k (or $20k) deployment
could
be several years in a market that small.
Anyone else doing anything like this?
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broadcast a secondary SSID, or does it switch
between the two rapidly, kind of like a poor man's Time Division
Multiplexing.
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sales line to yours, but
Pete Davis
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John Scrivner wrote:
Short of frustrating potential customers I cannot fathom what positive
effect this process has. Please enlighten me how this is a good thing
to do.
Scriv
Kurt Fankhauser wrote:
I do that too, 3 competitors have towers
With all of the current 900mhz AP's and CPE out there currently a
closed/proprietary system (not an 802.x open standard) for the
handshaking, security, ack/nack, etc, I am curious if/how Mikrotik,
StarOS, Windows, or whoever will talk to them. Has all of that
programming been worked out? They
I think the Limited Business Interruption is where if the company makes
10k/mo, and you are down for a month because of a fire, lightning, etc,
the policy pays you $10k. The Fungi Limited Business Interruption, is
posibly an exclusion or an inclusion in the event that you have mold in
your
s probably cheap for this company.
Just incase I have missed something... has anyone actually shipped a
Wimax compliant product? Is the Wimax standard been ratified? I kind of
tuned out the hype about a year ago, and havent really been following
it.
Pete Davis
NoDial.net
George wrote:
Congradts
to
Butch Evans wrote:
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Pete Davis. NoDial.net wrote:
What the heck is this?? Is anyone else out there partnering with
these spammers? I replied and told them that we don't do business
I did not get an email like that (or the Barracuda caught it).
Please post a name
be contacting them.
According to their website, they help kill viruses and spyware by
delivering filtered ads. Can anyone tell me if these guys are legit.
The whole thing seems goofy to me. Am I missing something?
Pete Davis
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100 degree + days in South Texas without any
problem. I don't think I have had any fail due to heat or cold. It got
down to the teens last winter.
Pete Davis
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Brian Rohrbacher wrote:
Pete,
Will you list out all the parts and prices of this 200mw CPE? Is this
outdoor, POE
I got them from wisp-router.com but I don't think they carry them anymore.
pd
Dylan Oliver wrote:
Pete,
Where do you buy these EZ-Y bridges?
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Dylan Oliver wrote:
Speaking of Senao ... I just ran across some really nasty reviews of
the nl-3054 CB3+. My client wants to share a cable connection at one
house with two others with LOS and within 100ft. Sounds easy enough,
but those reviews (worst product
-Grounded, the
static discharge from a nearby lightning will often leave the 2511 radio
card [inside the 2611 bridge] in a in-sensitive state.
I learned that the hard way.
Pete Davis
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Jason wrote:
Guys ( gals),
Has anyone worked with the Senao 2611 Deluxe Plus/Rootenna combo?
How
I had the same thing recently. I raised the rootenna above the TV
antenna, and the white dots went away.
Pete Davis
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Scott Reed wrote:
OK, I have dealt with TV interference before, but this one has me
stumped. Installed customer 4 weeks ago. All is fine. Over last
week, signal
The high latency of satelite based internet makes it un-friendly for
VOIP, VPN, online gaming, etc.
The slow upload speed that is usually offered doesn't make it very
friendly for much else.
I have considered getting one to redirect P2P traffic to in order to
free up T1's.
Pete Davis
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