Re: [WISPA] lots o' lag on Microtik

2009-11-05 Thread Travis Johnson
links. Have you seen anything like this yourself or are you not running v4 yet. lol I just have a problem learning the if it works good leave it alone lesson :) Scott Carullo Brevard Wireless 321-205-1100 x102 From: Travis Johnson t...@ida.net

Re: [WISPA] New link help

2009-11-04 Thread Travis Johnson
What is the distance of the link? What antennas? What wireless cards? Travis Microserv Mike wrote: I just put up a new repeater site today. I am using MT for the P2P. I aligned the dishes by eyeball and a compass bearing, and think I'm close. The signal at both ends is -71 dBm, but am

Re: [WISPA] Backhaul Questions

2009-11-01 Thread Travis Johnson
1:02 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Backhaul Questions Man...what is the EIRP on these links that people are posting high bit rates? As someone else stated, gotta wonder if the FCC won't start getting suspicious at some point. Travis Johnson wrote: 73 miles... and I get 28Mbps t

Re: [WISPA] Backhaul Questions

2009-11-01 Thread Travis Johnson
(and 200 customers) later. Must be that wireless sucks! lol Yeah, the more I think about some kind of sync mechanism the more I like the idea. As long as EVERYONE syncs the same anyway. marlon - Original Message - From: Travis Johnson To: WISPA General List Sent

Re: [WISPA] Backhaul Questions

2009-10-31 Thread Travis Johnson
73 miles... and I get 28Mbps total (14Mbps each direction) using a 20mhz channel. Travis Josh Luthman wrote: Travis is getting 28 megs on a really long backhaul - like 58 miles? You will not see 30. On 10/31/09, Eric Rogers ecrog...@precisionds.com wrote: Ok guys...Looking

Re: [WISPA] Backhaul Questions

2009-10-31 Thread Travis Johnson
Hi, Does the Radwin require dual-polarity antennas? How large of channel size to get the 100Mbps? Travis Microserv 3-dB Networks wrote: Eric, I can only answer the non-MT questions :-) For roughly $3,700 you could get a Radwin 2000 link, which is a quad-band (2.4GHz, 5.2GHz, 5.4GHz,

Re: [WISPA] Link stability

2009-10-26 Thread Travis Johnson
Hi, According to my path calculator, this link should be -55 on each side. Are you sure it was aligned when it was first installed? Travis Microserv Mark McElvy wrote: I have a wireless backhaul link that is not as stable as I would like. It is a 15.5 mile shot that has been up for 3 years.

Re: [WISPA] 1/2 size channels and tx power

2009-10-21 Thread Travis Johnson
Hi, In my experience, when changing from 20mhz to 10mhz channel size, I see a +3db in signal strength on each side of the link. This is with no other changes, we leave all the power settings at default. Travis Microserv Randy Cosby wrote: Just curious about something. If' I'm using an R5H

Re: [WISPA] choice of upstreams

2009-10-21 Thread Travis Johnson
Tom, Can you explain how you tested that Cogent "outperformed" every other provider? The only way I know to test that is to actually have all those providers, running full BGP routes to your router and seeing where the traffic goes. Is that how you tested? Travis Microserv Tom DeReggi

Re: [WISPA] WISP BUY OUT

2009-10-20 Thread Travis Johnson
Reminds me of a guy that put up a "For Sale or Build to Suit" sign on a piece of land next to the piece he owned. He didn't actually own the land, but was trying to pull a fast one... the sign lasted about two weeks before it was ripped down. Anyone can write LOI... they mean absolutely

Re: [WISPA] Keyon Communications

2009-10-20 Thread Travis Johnson
If they will offer you cash (not stock), and it's worth your while, then money is money. :) I think the company itself is in trouble. Their big plan 3 years ago was to do a public offering just like everyone else... so they did it, and got a whole $12 million... not really even worth the time.

Re: [WISPA] Gotta Have

2009-10-18 Thread Travis Johnson
These do look great... and I would love to buy them for my installers... but $.50 per connector compared to what I pay now would cost me an extra $200 per month just in connectors. :( Travis Microserv Mike wrote: They DO sell shielded. Part PLT-100020-050 Look further down the list at:

Re: [WISPA] Broadband Internet Access Deemed a Legal Right

2009-10-18 Thread Travis Johnson
Hi, Because you have direct experience, I'm curious if you could share what is different in their lives because they have a 100Mbps connection? What can they do on that connection that they can't do on a 1Mbps connection? How has it changed their lives? Travis Microserv e...@wisp-router.com

Re: [WISPA] MT on Atom

2009-10-15 Thread Travis Johnson
Yes, that unit would work well for a small MT router. Probably about the equivalent of the RB1000 (but only with 2 FE ports). Travis Microserv Nick Olsen wrote: Has anyone tried Mikrotik on a atom board? I noticed this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101262 I

Re: [WISPA] MT on Atom

2009-10-15 Thread Travis Johnson
(Intel brand of both) and an RB1000. I can run some performance tests... what do you want to see? Travis Microserv Butch Evans wrote: On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 13:10 -0600, Travis Johnson wrote: Probably about the equivalent of the RB1000 (but only with 2 FE ports). About

Re: [WISPA] New install driving me crazy....

2009-10-15 Thread Travis Johnson
Marlon, Since when is a -60 too hot of a signal? If you look at the spec sheets for testing on most of the wireless cards, you will see that -60 is their "ideal" signal. Travis Microserv Marlon K. Schafer wrote: Change from b to g or g to be mode. Turn your power WAY down. That's way

Re: [WISPA] American Dollar. Was: Re: Barriers to WISP growth

2009-10-09 Thread Travis Johnson
I've never understood this thinking... who cares if the dollar is "worth less" to the rest of the world? If it will still buy groceries, or pay my power bill, why does it matter? Travis Microserv RickG wrote: "put some money in the bank" The question is: which currency? With the dollar

Re: [WISPA] American Dollar. Was: Re: Barriers to WISP growth

2009-10-09 Thread Travis Johnson
for the China products which means you do too. It's a global economy, not a national. On 10/9/09, Travis Johnson t...@ida.net wrote: I've never understood this thinking... who cares if the dollar is "worth less" to the rest of the world? If it will still buy groceries, or pay my power

Re: [WISPA] American Dollar. Was: Re: Barriers to WISP growth

2009-10-09 Thread Travis Johnson
Ehman From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Travis Johnson Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 8:26 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] American Dollar. Was: Re: Barriers to WISP growth I've never understood this thinking... who cares

Re: [WISPA] American Dollar. Was: Re: Barriers to WISP growth

2009-10-09 Thread Travis Johnson
Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 "When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth." --- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Travis Johnson t...@ida.net wrote:

Re: [WISPA] American Dollar. Was: Re: Barriers to WISP growth

2009-10-09 Thread Travis Johnson
have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth." --- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Travis Johnson t...@ida.net wrote: I understand that so instead of bread costing $2.00 per loaf, it goes up to $2.10.

Re: [WISPA] Bgp and mt

2009-10-05 Thread Travis Johnson
Hi, I alot of providers are no longer even looking at prepends, JSYK. Travis Microserv Jon Auer wrote: The most common method is to prepend your AS number to the path that you announce to the ISP that you want to de-prioritize. You would use set-bgp-prepend on the inbound route filter

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

2009-10-02 Thread Travis Johnson
wrote: On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 19:47 -0600, Travis Johnson wrote: As soon as you can offer 7ms latency to 100 people off the same AP using WiFi based radios, please let me know. I will buy 200 AP's and 5,000 CPE. ;) That kind of density is NOT necessary

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

2009-10-02 Thread Travis Johnson
did. It seems a lot of Canopy operators have the mentality that WiFi sucks -- probably because they too started with it years ago, when it really did suck." And I am buying Canopy AP's and SM's for way less than MSRP WAY LESS. Travis Microserv Butch Evans wrote: On Thu, 2009-10-01 at

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

2009-10-01 Thread Travis Johnson
As soon as you can offer 7ms latency to 100 people off the same AP using WiFi based radios, please let me know. I will buy 200 AP's and 5,000 CPE. ;) Oh, and they need to operate on the same channels within a 5 mile radius. ;) Travis Microserv Jayson Baker wrote: Standard 20MHz channels.

Re: [WISPA] Maxrad adjustable sector antennas

2009-09-20 Thread Travis Johnson
Where are you buying them? Jayson Baker wrote: 2GHz or 5GHz? We used the 5GHz adjustable's years ago, and their performance was awesome. Just bought some of the 2GHz version to do some testing with. Not sure on those yet. Jayson On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Randy Cosby

Re: [WISPA] DragonWave Quantum

2009-09-14 Thread Travis Johnson
And yet, still no RSSI display on the radio itself :( Travis Microserv 3-dB Networks wrote: The product is overall a major improvement on the Horizon Duo... I think Dragonwave really hit it out of the park here (and since they build all of their own radios unlike most other

Re: [WISPA] backhaul choices

2009-09-14 Thread Travis Johnson
Which would mean that MT is FCC certified. The box would be running MT, regardless of the card, box, antenna, etc. Travis Microserv ralph wrote: Pretty broad statement: MT is FCC Certified :) Yes, I believe the wireless cards themselves might be- but even if they are, that does not an FCC

Re: [WISPA] Fw: [TowerTalk] Tower Vandalism

2009-09-07 Thread Travis Johnson
make holes in them. .45 caliber holes, 12 gauge holes, 20 gauge holes... whats mine is mine. Travis Johnson wrote: In my area... yes. Several Fish Game officers have been shot by hunters when they get caught poaching in the middle of nowhere. People get clubb

Re: [WISPA] Fw: [TowerTalk] Tower Vandalism

2009-09-07 Thread Travis Johnson
m trying to bring my tower down, I will make holes in them. .45 caliber holes, 12 gauge holes, 20 gauge holes... whats mine is mine. Travis Johnson wrote: In my area... yes. Several Fish Game officers have been shot by hunters when they get caught poaching in the middle of nowhere. People

Re: [WISPA] Fw: [TowerTalk] Tower Vandalism

2009-09-06 Thread Travis Johnson
. Travis Microserv Mike Hammett wrote: Yes, because most people are afraid of getting caught for doing anything bad. What are they going to do, shoot you? - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com From: Travis Johnson Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 10

Re: [WISPA] Fw: [TowerTalk] Tower Vandalism

2009-09-05 Thread Travis Johnson
So I'm curious what one would do if you saw someone there to "take down" your tower? Are you really going to drive there and confront someone that doesn't give a crap about doing illegal activities? Travis Microserv Jayson Baker wrote: The fixed cameras were about $30/ea. The composite

Re: [WISPA] FCC Says Fixed Wireless Only Delivers 1 Mbps

2009-08-27 Thread Travis Johnson
Ya... me too... I offer "up to 100Mbps download by 1500Mbps upload". :) Gotta love "up to" services. Next time you are in Walmart buying milk, see if you can buy "up to" a gallon. ;) Travis Microserv Jason Hensley wrote: I do - up to 10meg for residential where I got 5Ghz LOS.

Re: [WISPA] Gettin sick of Microtik

2009-08-24 Thread Travis Johnson
Sounds like you have one or more infected customers that are flooding the AP. Also, 120 customers is not acceptable for a Mikrotik AP. We keep our MT AP's under 50 people (and try to stay around 30). Also, you can easily "copy and paste" from one board to another. You do an "export" from the

Re: [WISPA] Changing cards in Mikrotik

2009-08-24 Thread Travis Johnson
I could be wrong, but even being "self-employed", you are still subject to the OSHA rules. You don't need worker's comp insurance, but I think you still have to follow the OSHA guidelines. Travis Microserv Robert West wrote: Boy, that goes without saying on my send! Not only for the

Re: [WISPA] Handheld GPS recommendations, anyone?

2009-08-23 Thread Travis Johnson
I ran GBBS on my Apple ][+ (that I still have)... and also Proving Grounds (DD based) on that system as well. Travis Microserv Blair Davis wrote: I ran my BBS on an Atari 800 Robert West wrote: Sheesh! I ran Fidonet for a time then moved up to PCBoard with 4 nodes.

Re: [WISPA] Bullet M5 HP

2009-08-18 Thread Travis Johnson
So it's not even going to work as well as a Mikrotik system with "Disable CSMA" turned on... Travis Microserv Gino Villarini wrote: bit more info on the airmax protocol fro ubiquiti: Yes AirMax is the TDMA/Polling aspect of the software/hardware. This can be shut off. The backoff rules

Re: [WISPA] Bullet M5 HP

2009-08-18 Thread Travis Johnson
I'm going to call BS here... (1) You don't really have a "noisy" environment if you are able to run a basic Powerstation AP with 100 subs and have it work at all. We are on towers on hilltops that have over 120 antennas (dishes, sectors, omnis) within a 500ft radius from our tower. (2) You

Re: [WISPA] Bullet M5 HP

2009-08-18 Thread Travis Johnson
ve you had a chance to test some MT MIMO gear out there yet? Scott Carullo Brevard Wireless 321-205-1100 x102 Original Message From: "Travis Johnson" t...@ida.net Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 9:27 PM To: "WISPA General List" wireless@wispa.org Sub

Re: [WISPA] Badly need 2 Bullet5M's

2009-08-08 Thread Travis Johnson
You badly need two radios that aren't even on the market yet? What would you have done 30 days ago? Travis Microserv os10ru...@gmail.com wrote: I badly need two Bullet5M's. If anyone has two to sell or knows who has them to ship Monday please hit me off list. Thanks! Greg

Re: [WISPA] Badly need 2 Bullet5M's

2009-08-08 Thread Travis Johnson
: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of os10ru...@gmail.com Sent: Saturday, August 08, 2009 11:50 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Badly need 2 Bullet5M's I would have still badly needed them. : - ) Greg On Aug 8, 2009, at 11:15 AM, Travis Johnson

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti Bullet 5M

2009-08-06 Thread Travis Johnson
Hi, Unless they are doing something in hardware, they will NOT be able to duplicate Canopy polling in software. It just can't be done. Mikrotik has tried (and come very close), but there is only so much you can do in software. Travis Microserv Michael Baird wrote: Yes, they are being

Re: [WISPA] Defective Microtik

2009-08-03 Thread Travis Johnson
It does no good to run shielded cable if you aren't using shielded RJ-45 ends as well. ;) Travis Microserv Josh Luthman wrote: You lost me - drain wire? Soldered onto a plastic rj45? Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 "When

Re: [WISPA] Defective Microtik

2009-08-03 Thread Travis Johnson
Yes, but in most shielded cable we get, the drain wire is just a bare, silver wire inside the cover like that one. If you aren't grounding that, you aren't really doing anything but wasting money on cable... :( Travis Josh Luthman wrote: *Face plant* Never heard of those before... I'm

Re: [WISPA] 5.8 Distance

2009-07-31 Thread Travis Johnson
We have 29 mile ptmp links that will deliver 6Mbps x 3Mbps without a problem. Travis Microserv Marlon K. Schafer wrote: 17dB 120* sector? That's way too high of a gain. The vertical on that can't be much more than what, 4 or 5*? When the noise is low I can pull 2+ megs at 18

Re: [WISPA] Are customers increasingly clueless? Or is it gettingbetter?

2009-07-31 Thread Travis Johnson
Technically, yes, this was your fault. The customer is paying YOU for service... not qwest. If you can't provide the service (regardless of the reason), then it's your fault. In our regional area, the ABC affiliate stopped selling to DISH Network last year over the contract price. So if you

Re: [WISPA] Canopy Distance

2009-07-30 Thread Travis Johnson
30 miles is the maximum setting in any Canopy AP... they won't connect past 30 miles (assuming enough signal, etc.). Travis Jason Wallace wrote: Any chance it could do 30 to 40 miles from ap to cpe with that setup? Jason Gino Villarini wrote: Charles Actually now it's FCC

Re: [WISPA] Nice unit for POP Router / Appliance

2009-07-28 Thread Travis Johnson
But can't you still buy two RB1000's for the same price as the PowerRouter? Travis Microserv Josh Luthman wrote: Well coming from the rb1000 I would suggest Butch/PoweRouter's x86 box. 7 gigabit Intel NICs, each on their own PCIe bus, room for a CF card and I believe an ATA port. The

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti Bullet5-HP

2009-07-25 Thread Travis Johnson
Hi, I received a couple of test Bullet5-M radios on Friday. I played with them for about 15 minutes today, and here's the first bench test: 20mhz channel -60 signal 55Mbps of actual UDP throughput Very impressive. They are getting almost double what every other 802.11 based radio system is

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti Bullet5-HP

2009-07-22 Thread Travis Johnson
Let us know how it goes... we have about 80 MT ptp links and love them (from 1/4 mile to 73 miles). We have never had a problem with ACK timing, small or large packet issues, etc. I would like to know throughput using only a 20mhz channel, too. Travis Microserv Robert West wrote: Has anyone

Re: [WISPA] Dual Nstreme using XR3

2009-07-18 Thread Travis Johnson
will perform better, but this is strongly traffic pattern dependent. Rubens On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Travis Johnson t...@ida.net wrote: There is only room for a single 20mhz channel using 3.65ghz. About 30Mbps is the max you are going to get. Travis Microserv my_em...@webjogger.net

Re: [WISPA] Dual Nstreme using XR3

2009-07-18 Thread Travis Johnson
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Travis Johnson t...@ida.net wrote: 6ft and 2ft RickG wrote: Travis, what type of antennas do you have on this link? -RickG On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Travis Johnsont...@ida.net t...@ida.net wrote: I have a 73 mile

Re: [WISPA] Question re: WISP for sale

2009-07-17 Thread Travis Johnson
3x gross annual was a very nice number... but not realistic any longer. 1.5x is the last number I heard for an actual sale that went through. Travis Josh Luthman wrote: One way I have heard it done: Take the annual gross revenue, times it by 3 (three years gross revenue) and that's the

Re: [WISPA] Dual Nstreme using XR3

2009-07-17 Thread Travis Johnson
There is only room for a single 20mhz channel using 3.65ghz. About 30Mbps is the max you are going to get. Travis Microserv my_em...@webjogger.net wrote: I was wondering if anyone has setup a Mikrotik Dual Nstreme link using the Ubiquiti XR3 (3.65GHz) cards? I have a PTP link setup

Re: [WISPA] Dual Nstreme using XR3

2009-07-17 Thread Travis Johnson
channel versus 2 10 MHz channels, TDD x FDD. My guess: TDD wil work better for short distances due to ACK timing, FDD for larger distance will perform better, but this is strongly traffic pattern dependent. Rubens On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Travis Johnson t...@ida.net wrote

Re: [WISPA] Re-evaluating our anti-spam solution

2009-07-13 Thread Travis Johnson
The difference with Postini compared to an in-house box is Postini stops the incoming SPAM before it uses any bandwidth on our backbone. Last time I checked (over a year ago), it was saving us 3-4Mbps of traffic (24x7). I would guess now it's closer to 7-10Mbps of incoming SPAM flow that never

Re: [WISPA] URGENT need contact for Mikrotik Parts near southwest Ohio

2009-07-12 Thread Travis Johnson
Josh, You may want to consider having "spares" of this equipment on hand for future problems. We keep enough spares to replace an entire tower (licensed backhaul, AP's, UPS, rebooters, etc.) in our tower truck, and we still have enough extra stuff at the office for more repairs if needed.

Re: [WISPA] URGENT need contact for Mikrotik Parts near southwest Ohio

2009-07-12 Thread Travis Johnson
I understand, and I've been there before... however, now when we buy anything (new router, core switch, backhaul, etc.) we always buy a "spare" as part of the purchase price. If we can't afford the spare, we don't buy the original part. Travis Microserv Josh Luthman wrote: In a perfect

Re: [WISPA] Opinions on LingoWave LW-PTP-5-23

2009-07-08 Thread Travis Johnson
That would be using two R52 cards on each side (so 80mhz of channel total). Using MT, the most I have seen using 40mhz channel size is 60Mbps. Travis Microserv Josh Luthman wrote: FWIW someone in the "School needs 100mbps" thread mentioned they use 433 and R52 to get 80-90 megs using

Re: [WISPA] Opinions on LingoWave LW-PTP-5-23

2009-07-08 Thread Travis Johnson
st be the truth." --- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Travis Johnson t...@ida.net wrote: That would be using two R52 cards on each side (so 80mhz of channel total). Using MT, the most I have seen using 40mhz channel size is 60Mbps. Travis Microserv Josh Luthman

Re: [WISPA] 3.65ghz antennas

2009-07-08 Thread Travis Johnson
Hi, I have about 10 of the ARC wireless 3.65ghz 18db panels installed. All of them are within the path calcs (and the last point to point link was actually 6db better than the path calc). What are the specs of the radio card, distance, etc.? Travis Microserv rea...@muddyfrogwater.us wrote:

Re: [WISPA] Routerboard 333 vs 433

2009-07-08 Thread Travis Johnson
The 333 boards are crap. We installed about 15 of them before we realized all the problems (overheating, flaky ethernet, etc.). We have over 1,000 of the RB411's installed and they work great. Travis Microserv Blair Davis wrote: anybody got any real world experience of the performance

Re: [WISPA] 3.65ghz antennas

2009-07-08 Thread Travis Johnson
, but if memory serves it is about 5 or 6 db, and I've been to both ends and aimed, reaimed, etc. All the stuff, including piggy's are new... insert witty tagline here - Original Message - From: "Travis Johnson" t...@ida.net To: "WIS

Re: [WISPA] Routerboard 333 vs 433

2009-07-08 Thread Travis Johnson
If I call, the RB600 boots in about 6 seconds from the time the power is applied to the time you get the beeps. We had a link that one of the boards was bad, and was rebooting 4 or 5 times a day, but we never noticed it because it would reboot so fast... Travis Microserv Josh Luthman wrote:

Re: [WISPA] Radio Seperation

2009-06-15 Thread Travis Johnson
Is this just on a single AP you are seeing this problem? We have seen blown radio cards display a 20db difference on just one side of the link. Replacing the card has always fixed the problem. Travis Microserv Michael Baird wrote: Gino, 145', 15 degree VB, 7.7/7.8 puts my -3d at ~5

Re: [WISPA] Radio Seperation

2009-06-15 Thread Travis Johnson
Hi, I have to agree with Gino here... even at 7 degree downtilt, you are cutting it very close. You may want to try 5 degrees on just one sector and see if that helps. Travis Michael Baird wrote: Gino, wisp-router.com, would the downtilt affect the AP RSSI level? Antenna Height ft

Re: [WISPA] Need some quick trango help

2009-06-12 Thread Travis Johnson
Replace the radio and see what it does. That's the easiest way to see what the problem is. Travis Marlon K. Schafer wrote: Hi All, Got a strange one here. I have a 5830 AP with 4 customers on it. 3 have no complaints, 1 gets 300 to 400k downloads and 1000 to 3000 uploads. All links

Re: [WISPA] 3.65 Wimax

2009-06-05 Thread Travis Johnson
eless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Travis Johnson Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 1:33 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] 3.65 Wimax Hi, We have two small 3.65 repeaters (serving only other small WiPOPs). The 3.65 does work, but our experience was t

Re: [WISPA] Quesiton on Funding / Financing / Capital Availability

2009-06-04 Thread Travis Johnson
Yup... us too but now it's "I had to fold my online Poker hand because my connection went down... I lost $1,000." Travis Microserv Charles Wu wrote: Yep, me too. Right out of the starting gates over 10 years ago, straight with S-Corp. Too much stupid s**t too be sued over by

Re: [WISPA] OT: Cisco 7200 Gigabit Ethernet Cards?

2009-06-04 Thread Travis Johnson
I have about 80 Cisco 2900 and 3500 switches servicing our fiber ring. Most of them are 5+ years old and were purchased used on ebay for $400, and some are older. Some of these have "uptimes" of over 4 years right now. :) Cisco hardware just works. It's expensive, and the software can be

Re: [WISPA] Quesiton on Funding / Financing / Capital Availability

2009-06-02 Thread Travis Johnson
suit these days too. marlon - Original Message - From: Travis Johnson To: WISPA General List Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 9:53 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Quesiton on Funding / Financing / Capital Availability Huh? We incorporated in 1997 and I think total cost was less

Re: [WISPA] OT: Printers

2009-06-01 Thread Travis Johnson
I can tell you right now that the HP5M/N was not $300 nine years ago... probably closer to $2,000 brand new. Travis Microserv jp wrote: That's close to my home volume for laser. I've had an hp5m/n laser for 9 years at home. It was probably $300 when I bought it. I put toner in it about

Re: [WISPA] equipment cooling?

2009-06-01 Thread Travis Johnson
I would think all of that equipment could sit in a closet in a normal office environment and be just fine (even the PC based firewall). You are really generating very little heat with only 3-4 devices. Travis Microserv RickG wrote: I finally have new fiber on order and getting rid of the T1's

Re: [WISPA] 3.65 Wimax

2009-06-01 Thread Travis Johnson
available. Travis Microserv RickG wrote: What kind of throughout are you getting on 3.65? -RickG On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 1:33 AM, Travis Johnson t...@ida.net wrote: Hi, We have two small 3.65 repeaters (serving only other small WiPOPs). The 3.65 does work, but our experience was that it did

Re: [WISPA] 3.65 Wimax

2009-05-31 Thread Travis Johnson
Hi, We have two small 3.65 repeaters (serving only other small WiPOPs). The 3.65 does work, but our experience was that it did not do any better in NLOS than 2.4ghz would already do (when comparing the same type of radio systems). There are several other radio features and tricks that the

Re: [WISPA] Quesiton on Funding / Financing / Capital Availability

2009-05-26 Thread Travis Johnson
Because one of the questions on any financial application is "how long have you been incorporated?". If you wait until you decide you may need to be, then yes they are going to want personal guarantees when the answer to the question is "1 year" instead of "5 years". And I didn't say becoming

Re: [WISPA] Court: No exclusive cable rights in apartments

2009-05-26 Thread Travis Johnson
Wow this just opened up every single MTU in the nation as a potential customer for everyone on this list... and the building is already cabled with coax... just need to find some cheap head-end units to feed internet over the coax. :) Travis Microserv Scottie Arnett wrote:

Re: [WISPA] Quesiton on Funding / Financing / Capital Availability

2009-05-25 Thread Travis Johnson
o stay cash-flow positive. I have seen several companies die because they became cash rich, but still could not cover the debt. Travis Johnson wrote: The banks can sell a car with little effort. They already have relationships with dealers and auctions. And often, if the c

Re: [WISPA] Quesiton on Funding / Financing / Capital Availability

2009-05-25 Thread Travis Johnson
Huh? We incorporated in 1997 and I think total cost was less than $500. How do you ever expect to get away from having to do personal guarantees if you don't operate like a "real" business? Travis Microserv Marlon K. Schafer wrote: One more thing. I don't agree with your definitions per

Re: [WISPA] Quesiton on Funding / Financing / Capital Availability

2009-05-23 Thread Travis Johnson
, the opposite of a car, non-liquidatable, does the lender really benefit by leasing it instead of lending for it? Tom DeReggi RapidDSL Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: Travis Johnson To: WISPA General List Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 6

Re: [WISPA] Quesiton on Funding / Financing / Capital Availability

2009-05-23 Thread Travis Johnson
sh flow positive. Granted, my WISP is a lot smaller than many that post here and our growth rate is small, but some of that is managing growth to stay cash-flow positive. I have seen several companies die because they became cash rich, but still could not cover the debt. Travis Johnson wrote

Re: [WISPA] Quesiton on Funding / Financing / Capital Availability

2009-05-22 Thread Travis Johnson
We are still leasing, but also #3 applies as well... but we are putting the cash flow money into other things... like real estate, that is dirt cheap right now... ;) Travis Microserv Charles Wu wrote: Lease, lease, lease. Agreed that leasing is a great option, but in

Re: [WISPA] Quesiton on Funding / Financing / Capital Availability

2009-05-22 Thread Travis Johnson
The banks can sell a car with little effort. They already have relationships with dealers and auctions. And often, if the consumer's credit is questionable, the dealer will guarantee to take the car back if the loan defaults. Who is going to buy a $10,000 radio that has been repo'd? Even for

Re: [WISPA] One connection bandwidth=x / 2 commections bandwidth=2x why?

2009-05-11 Thread Travis Johnson
Saw peaks up to 680KB/sec using Firefox. Travis Microserv Scott Carullo wrote: Yes lots of them, from different internet connections as well. Focusing on customers from BHN connecting to our TW Telecom fiber circuit. Have not been able to do enough testing outside our network though

Re: [WISPA] What do you charge for a wireless router setup?

2009-05-05 Thread Travis Johnson
We provide a wireless router for free as part of the install. We started doing that over 5 years ago. We also setup all their computers (either cable or wireless) for free (except the cost of the wireless USB adapters). That's what makes us different than the cableco or telco. :) Travis

Re: [WISPA] is this router overloaded? SOLVED

2009-05-01 Thread Travis Johnson
We run Nstreme on all of our backhauls (over 60 of them) without a problem. I can easily move 30Mbps across RB532 boards using 20mhz channel size. Travis Microserv Kurt Fankhauser wrote: 3.15 - No wireless test Kurt Fankhauser WAVELINC P.O. Box 126 Bucyrus, OH 44820 419-562-6405

Re: [WISPA] Nifty Outdoor Switch..

2009-04-27 Thread Travis Johnson
And all this for only $19.95 if you call now Gino Villarini wrote: AC or DC option would be great, just add a rj45 port to inject GPS sync from a 3rd party device for Canopy POE sync Ohh nad make it modular, so you can add 6 dual port at a time , up to 24 POE devices Gino A.

Re: [WISPA] Nifty Outdoor Switch..

2009-04-26 Thread Travis Johnson
Looks cool... except it won't work with Canopy devices because they aren't standard PoE... unless I missed something? Travis Microserv Gino Villarini wrote: Found this nice outdoor switch, multi power POE capable Nice for small pops anyone used it?

Re: [WISPA] Clearwire being sued for poor service, ETFs

2009-04-23 Thread Travis Johnson
Yup and the next one (not as big as Clearwire) is BridgeMaxx, also called Digital Bridge Communications. They blew through investor money like it was falling from the sky... spending almost $1,000,000 just on the infrastructure equipment (backhauls, AP's, routers, etc.) to cover a city of

Re: [WISPA] Clearwire being sued for poor service, ETFs

2009-04-23 Thread Travis Johnson
at 5:11 PM, Travis Johnson t...@ida.net wrote: Yup and the next one (not as big as Clearwire) is BridgeMaxx, also called Digital Bridge Communications. They blew through investor money like it was falling from the sky... spending almost $1,000,000 just on the infrastructure equipment

Re: [WISPA] Clearwire being sued for poor service, ETFs

2009-04-23 Thread Travis Johnson
$100, it should be, how many of those 50,000 will their network and market competition allow them to serve? Tom DeReggi RapidDSL Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: Travis Johnson To: sc...@brevardwireless.com ; WISPA General

Re: [WISPA] Question about BGP + Mikrotik

2009-04-18 Thread Travis Johnson
Make sure your MT router has at least 512MB of RAM (1GB preferred) and tell your upstreams to start sending full routes. That's it. Travis Microserv Gino Villarini wrote: List Im running 3.15 on our Core Router to our upstream, I have 3 circuits running BGP to the same provider. Im only

Re: [WISPA] High Throughput Licensed vs. Unlicensed - change oftopic -- customers / AP

2009-04-12 Thread Travis Johnson
ss-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Travis Johnson Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 12:11 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] High Throughput Licensed vs. Unlicensed - change of topic -- customers / AP Hi, I think that's maybe a little high... we have a

Re: [WISPA] High Throughput Licensed vs. Unlicensed - changeoftopic -- customers / AP

2009-04-12 Thread Travis Johnson
Wireless (321) 205-1100 x102 On Apr 12, 2009, at 9:55 PM, Travis Johnson t...@ida.net wrote: Tom, I think you are missing a BIG key that many ISP's (starting clear back in the dial-up days) have missed. The best mix, use of resources, and profitability comes from having high ARPU

Re: [WISPA] Fwd: Fiber cut in SF area

2009-04-11 Thread Travis Johnson
I would imagine trying to do any kind of wireless, even licensed, could be very difficult in the LA / SF / SJ areas Travis Gino Villarini wrote: Someone should be using this example in a way to push wireless as a 2nd option for bup and redundancy Gino Sent from my Motorola

Re: [WISPA] Off Topic // Looking for Vehicle Advertising Ideas

2009-04-11 Thread Travis Johnson
Hi, Just take your company logo down to your local sign shop and tell them you want to put vinyl lettering on your vehicles. They can take digital pictures of the vehicle, then place the logo and whatever writing (website, phone, etc) on the vehicle and you can look at it, make changes, and

Re: [WISPA] High Throughput Licensed vs. Unlicensed

2009-04-10 Thread Travis Johnson
I agree... I would probably purchase a few of the PTP600 radio sets if they were priced more in-line with current offerings of the licensed products. :) Travis Microserv Tom DeReggi wrote: Which is why Moto/Ortho needs to look at lowering their price of PTP600, and making it back on

Re: [WISPA] High Throughput Licensed vs. Unlicensed - change of topic -- customers / AP

2009-04-10 Thread Travis Johnson
Hi, I think that's maybe a little high... we have a Canopy AP right now with 100 users on it... about 10% business and 90% residential and it's probably bringing in about $3,500 / month. We will probably load it up to about 120 users total, at which point it will be around $4,000 / month.

Re: [WISPA] whats your longest uptime?

2009-04-09 Thread Travis Johnson
We had a Trango 5830AP that had an uptime of over 578 days just a few days ago... but then we rebooted it. :( Travis Microserv David E. Smith wrote: Travis Johnson wrote: Tower mounted AP = 500+ days. Customer prem switch = 5+ years. Tower router = 321 days Sadly

Re: [WISPA] 10 GigE

2009-04-09 Thread Travis Johnson
Ya... I'm not sure an X86 based system is going to handle 10 GigE x 4 you are probably looking at Cisco, etc. where the switching can happen in dedicated hardware rather than software. Travis Microserv George Rogato wrote: Question that comes to mind, What size processor or machine

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