Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-29 Thread jp
j...@saucer.midcoast.com Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 2:44 PM To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time? I would suggest trying it on a small project or two first. I've not been satisfied with the normal nanostation gear for urban

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-28 Thread Scott Carullo
What antenna of choice are you using for rockets jp? Scott Carullo Brevard Wireless 321-205-1100 x102 From: jp j...@saucer.midcoast.com Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 2:44 PM To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-21 Thread jp
I would suggest trying it on a small project or two first. I've not been satisfied with the normal nanostation gear for urban/suburban use. The rocketm's have been great for ptp backhaul so far, despite some manual tweeking to override their software's distance ack shortcoming. On Sat, Dec 19,

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-20 Thread Mark Stephenson
. And SNMP has nothing to do with either. Tom S. - Original Message - From: jai...@budget.net To: Tom Sharples ; WISPA General List Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 9:03 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time? Please don't take me wrong

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-20 Thread Tom Sharples
- From: Mark Stephenson m...@countryconnections.net To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2009 4:12 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time? Tom, Do you happen to know what a hardware watchdog timer watches? Perhaps there is something it can watch

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-20 Thread Michael Baird
@wispa.org Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2009 4:12 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time? Tom, Do you happen to know what a hardware watchdog timer watches? Perhaps there is something it can watch like whether or not the device is sending on the Ethernet port or the program

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-20 Thread Tom Sharples
Message - From: Michael Baird m...@tc3net.com To: Tom Sharples tsharp...@qorvus.com; WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2009 11:02 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time? Tom, Try again, Ubiquity AR71xx based stuff (all the M series) supports

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-20 Thread Greg Ihnen
. Tom S. - Original Message - From: Michael Baird m...@tc3net.com To: Tom Sharples tsharp...@qorvus.com; WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2009 11:02 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time? Tom, Try again, Ubiquity AR71xx based

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-20 Thread Josh Luthman
General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2009 11:02 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time? Tom, Try again, Ubiquity AR71xx based stuff (all the M series) supports a hardware watchdog fine. from dmesg via OpenWRT. Atheros AR71xx hardware watchdog driver

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-20 Thread Mark Stephenson
To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2009 4:12 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time? Tom, Do you happen to know what a hardware watchdog timer watches? Perhaps there is something it can watch like whether or not the device is sending

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-20 Thread Robert West
- From: Mark Stephenson m...@countryconnections.net To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2009 4:12 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time? Tom, Do you happen to know what a hardware watchdog timer watches? Perhaps there is something it can

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-20 Thread Robert West
If it has it, it ain't a workin'! Bob- -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Greg Ihnen Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2009 4:26 PM To: Tom Sharples; WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-20 Thread Robert West
, December 20, 2009 4:36 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time? I believe the routerboard watchdogs are hardware. The software resets the hardware timer. If it hits 0 the watchdog reboots. On 12/20/09, Greg Ihnen os10ru...@gmail.com wrote: A hardware watchdog

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-20 Thread Robert West
: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time? Tom, Watchdog timers like you describe are useful, but they tend to be less valuable than they used to be because newer software tends to be multi-threaded instead of single threaded and also the interfaces are smarter and do more processing on their own

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-20 Thread Tom Sharples
- From: Mark Stephenson m...@countryconnections.net To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2009 2:10 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time? Tom, Watchdog timers like you describe are useful, but they tend to be less valuable than they used

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-20 Thread Mark Stephenson
...@countryconnections.net To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2009 4:12 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time? Tom, Do you happen to know what a hardware watchdog timer watches? Perhaps there is something it can watch like whether

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-20 Thread Tom Sharples
: Greg Ihnen os10ru...@gmail.com To: Tom Sharples tsharp...@qorvus.com; WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2009 1:25 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time? A hardware watchdog timer isn't something that's supported. To me that sounds like a software

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-20 Thread Robert West
Not boring at all, Tom. Informative. Bob- -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Tom Sharples Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2009 7:31 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time? At the risk

[WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-19 Thread Mike
I was almost ready to pull the trigger on some Ubiquiti equipment for a new project. The scent of low price is alluring. Then I start reading about connectors pulling out, connectors not soldered on properly, and the wrong boot code on boards. Is it too early? Should I wait a bit before I

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-19 Thread Gino Villarini
...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Mike Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 10:35 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time? I was almost ready to pull the trigger on some Ubiquiti equipment for a new project. The scent of low price is alluring. Then I start reading about

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-19 Thread Robert West
:35 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time? I was almost ready to pull the trigger on some Ubiquiti equipment for a new project. The scent of low price is alluring. Then I start reading about connectors pulling out, connectors not soldered on properly

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-19 Thread jaimie
We use all UBNT and I have been very happy with the equipment. Tower has 2 Rocket M5s With 120 sectors, backhaul is Rocket M5s with the Rocket Dish. CPEs are Nano M5. Durring testing at 4 Miles with CPE to AP I was able to sustain symmetrical speeds of 75M to our test server on the other end

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-19 Thread Robert West
...@budget.net Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 10:26 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time? We use all UBNT and I have been very happy with the equipment. Tower has 2 Rocket M5s With 120 sectors, backhaul is Rocket M5s with the Rocket Dish. CPEs are Nano M5

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-19 Thread Tom Sharples
] On Behalf Of jai...@budget.net Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 10:26 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time? We use all UBNT and I have been very happy with the equipment. Tower has 2 Rocket M5s With 120 sectors, backhaul is Rocket M5s with the Rocket

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-19 Thread Robert West
...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of jai...@budget.net Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 10:26 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time? We use all UBNT and I have been very happy with the equipment. Tower has 2 Rocket M5s With 120 sectors, backhaul is Rocket M5s

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-19 Thread RickG
Same here. For me, I am going to go slowly with a small project. Actually, I just did a small project with UBNT and it went well. So, the next project will be a bit bigger and so on. -RickG On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Mike m...@aweiowa.com wrote: I was almost ready to pull the trigger on

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-19 Thread RickG
with these little issues too. Bob- -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Mike Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 9:35 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time? I was almost ready to pull the trigger

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-19 Thread Mike
@wispa.org Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 7:55 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time? I'm with ya on all that, Jamie. We've had minor issues but I expected things to not be perfect, they never are with version 1.0! The trade off is worth it, for me anyhow. Bob

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-19 Thread Robert West
As in bigger than a Pico? :) Or is that a Bullico? Hmm... -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of RickG Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 7:36 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-19 Thread Tom Sharples
Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 5:40 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time? Thanks Bob, Rick and Tom for your thoughts. My hands itch when I'm uncertain about something. It might just be the dry air. Are the Ubiquity radios more apt to require reboots than some

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-19 Thread jaimie
different because the customer can always reboot the CPE! Tom S. - Original Message - From: Robert West To: ; 'WISPA General List' Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 7:55 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time? I'm with ya on all that, Jamie. We've had minor issues

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-19 Thread RickG
[mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of RickG Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 7:36 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time? Same here. For me, I am going to go slowly with a small project. Actually, I just did a small project with UBNT and it went

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-19 Thread RickG
[mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of jai...@budget.net Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 10:26 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time? We use all UBNT and I have been very happy with the equipment. Tower has 2 Rocket M5s With 120

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-19 Thread Tom Sharples
-boun...@wispa.org [wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of jai...@budget.net Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 10:26 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time? We use all UBNT and I have been very happy with the equipment