RE: [WISPA] looking for a device
So that's a no then Tom ;) Using various bandwidth test tools (such as the one builtin to Mikrotik) from/to multiple source/destinations you can generate all sorts of traffic profiles. You can decide on the size of the packets, layer 4, direction and even bandwidth so I'd say it's very possible to set-up a test environment that isn't too far of real world. Anyone else tested? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom DeReggi Sent: 14 June 2006 03:13 To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] looking for a device > Anyone compared a routed solution with > a Mikrotik bridged solution for delay/jitter? Good question. But the problem there is creating a real world test environment. Convergence, can be tested somewhat accurately in low network utilization situations. To adequately test Jitter/Delay you really need to load the network, as that is when the jitter and sparatic latency happens. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: "Paul Hendry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'WISPA General List'" Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 9:02 AM Subject: RE: [WISPA] looking for a device > The delay in switching a packet at hardware is less than the delay in > routing a packet at software. This is 1 of the reasons that Cisco created > the G"S"R and why an MPL"S" switched network is fast than a plain routed > network. > > I'm not too interested in convergence times as we only have very minimal > outages so RSTP should suffice. How fast a packet can traverse our network > on the other hand is important so that we can reliably run VoIP and other > delay/jitter sensitive applications. Anyone compared a routed solution > with > a Mikrotik bridged solution for delay/jitter? > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Matt Liotta > Sent: 13 June 2006 13:26 > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] looking for a device > > Paul Hendry wrote: > >>We too have been looking at moving from routed to a switched Mikrotik for >>the core network but the unknown quantity seems to be if there are any >>latency or speed issues related to the move. A "true" switched network is >>faster than a routed network as the switching is done at a hardware level >>but in Mikrotik I believe both switching and routed is done in software. >>What have you seen? >> >> >> > Faster in what way? Certainly, a routed network is going to beat a > switched network in terms of covergence speed. > > -Matt > -- > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.8.3/362 - Release Date: 12/06/2006 > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.8.3/362 - Release Date: 12/06/2006 > > > -- > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.8.4/363 - Release Date: 13/06/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.8.4/363 - Release Date: 13/06/2006 -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
RE: [WISPA] looking for a device
We have Smartbits test gear...great stuff, but the fact is that you really don't "know" how something will perform until you put it on real circuits and connect it up to real gear. You can get a very good idea, particularly if you know how to test, but there is always an element of uncertainty. Jeff Jeff Broadwick ImageStream 800-813-5123 x106 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Hendry Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 3:14 AM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: RE: [WISPA] looking for a device So that's a no then Tom ;) Using various bandwidth test tools (such as the one builtin to Mikrotik) from/to multiple source/destinations you can generate all sorts of traffic profiles. You can decide on the size of the packets, layer 4, direction and even bandwidth so I'd say it's very possible to set-up a test environment that isn't too far of real world. Anyone else tested? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom DeReggi Sent: 14 June 2006 03:13 To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] looking for a device > Anyone compared a routed solution with a Mikrotik bridged solution for > delay/jitter? Good question. But the problem there is creating a real world test environment. Convergence, can be tested somewhat accurately in low network utilization situations. To adequately test Jitter/Delay you really need to load the network, as that is when the jitter and sparatic latency happens. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: "Paul Hendry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'WISPA General List'" Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 9:02 AM Subject: RE: [WISPA] looking for a device > The delay in switching a packet at hardware is less than the delay in > routing a packet at software. This is 1 of the reasons that Cisco created > the G"S"R and why an MPL"S" switched network is fast than a plain routed > network. > > I'm not too interested in convergence times as we only have very minimal > outages so RSTP should suffice. How fast a packet can traverse our network > on the other hand is important so that we can reliably run VoIP and other > delay/jitter sensitive applications. Anyone compared a routed solution > with > a Mikrotik bridged solution for delay/jitter? > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Matt Liotta > Sent: 13 June 2006 13:26 > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] looking for a device > > Paul Hendry wrote: > >>We too have been looking at moving from routed to a switched Mikrotik for >>the core network but the unknown quantity seems to be if there are any >>latency or speed issues related to the move. A "true" switched network is >>faster than a routed network as the switching is done at a hardware level >>but in Mikrotik I believe both switching and routed is done in software. >>What have you seen? >> >> >> > Faster in what way? Certainly, a routed network is going to beat a > switched network in terms of covergence speed. > > -Matt > -- > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.8.3/362 - Release Date: 12/06/2006 > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.8.3/362 - Release Date: 12/06/2006 > > > -- > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.8.4/363 - Release Date: 13/06/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.8.4/363 - Release Date: 13/06/2006 -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] looking for a device
Tom DeReggi wrote: Answer #1: Thats debatable. Do you not recall year 2000. 26 of the largest 29 telecom companies filed for Bankruptcy. Name brand ment bankrupt. Even for Cisco! Lets not forget who the largest investor was in Cogent, now Cisco's owned network. Back then folks were building companies with different understandings of the market than today; name brand gear had nothing to do with it. Certainly, plenty of open source companies didn't make it either. There is some irony here. I'm happy with Cogent. I put my confidence in Cogent a soley Cisco Name Brand equipment network. Well for my backbone that is. Even though I religious have chosen a proprietary modification of Open Source on our local transport network. But Cogent's bankruptcy was highly due to not being able to afford their own Cisco equipment. So moral of this story... USe Cisco when someone else pays for it, so they go bankrupt and not you. That isn't the moral of the story; its not even a good story. Cogent was recently trading at a new 52-week high until they decided to raise 93 million on a stock offering. I invested in Cogent when they were trading in the low $4s and sold around $10. I am quite happy with my return on investment. Would I be able to say that about your company? Don't answer that. Investors look for companies that have a real opportunity to gain significant market share due to a competitive advantage. However, these same investors want to limit their risk by making sure the company in question doesn't risk too much. That means if you are going to be different than other telecom companies then pick and choose carefully what standards you follow and where you innovate. Answer #2: Because people that can afford name brand have capitol and funding. And logically companies that have adequate capitol and funding often do better than companies that do not. The missing peice of this puzzle is How well would a company with equivellent funding and capitol do if they chose Open Source instead? I'd argue they'd be a stunning success. The only difference is that they would be more likely to invest more in their employees than in their equipment vendors. Possibly encourage migratation to an employee owned company, or where the wealth got spread more evenly between the participants. No serious VC would invest in a telecom company that didn't use name brand gear for their network. It doesn't make any sense to do so. All in all the gear may be the same, but why take the extra risk. When it comes right down to it, name brand gear isn't that much more expensive. You should be able to make a business using name brand gear just fine. I think you missed the boat on this topic. Large companies (well funded and capitolized) could do well with Open Source, because they are more likely to reach the economic proportion (growth) to spread the high cost of maintenance and software development between many subscibers. The providers that suffer from Open Source sometimes are the smaller ISPs. The reason is they under estimate the time involved in Open Source, and do not have enough scale (subscribers or revenue) to justify the costs of addative development. Your last statement is the reason to avoid anything that is not your core competency. I have decades of software development experience, but we pay software vendors for things like CRM, accounting, case management, etc. Just because I could spend the time building software that would likely be better and cheaper than what we are using doesn't mean I should. My time is better spent building our business. Network gear, radio gear, software, etc are all just means to an end. We are in the business of selling a service; not building products. -Matt -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
[WISPA] Neat Antenna Source - High Gain 5ghz Omnis
Title: Neat Antenna Source - High Gain 5ghz Omnis A BUNCH of us have been asking for higher gain omnis for the 5ghz range. Looks like our wishes have been answered. http://www.asiarf.com/Product/rfproduc/omniantenna.html Not sure on pricing but may be worth looking into - they've got 15dBi Omnis in all of the 5ghz ranges ! YES ! JohnnyO -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
[WISPA] Looking for Service - Vider, TX
I have a customer looking for service in Vider, TX. If you can supply service to that area, please contact me off-list. - Cliff -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] looking for a device
Sure switched is faster than routed, if you have a 100 mbps cat5 or 1 gbps fibre network. If you have a radio based network then routing or switching will be about the same speed. Our routed performance is actually slightly higher than our bridged performance. Lonnie On 6/13/06, Paul Hendry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The delay in switching a packet at hardware is less than the delay in routing a packet at software. This is 1 of the reasons that Cisco created the G"S"R and why an MPL"S" switched network is fast than a plain routed network. I'm not too interested in convergence times as we only have very minimal outages so RSTP should suffice. How fast a packet can traverse our network on the other hand is important so that we can reliably run VoIP and other delay/jitter sensitive applications. Anyone compared a routed solution with a Mikrotik bridged solution for delay/jitter? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Liotta Sent: 13 June 2006 13:26 To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] looking for a device Paul Hendry wrote: >We too have been looking at moving from routed to a switched Mikrotik for >the core network but the unknown quantity seems to be if there are any >latency or speed issues related to the move. A "true" switched network is >faster than a routed network as the switching is done at a hardware level >but in Mikrotik I believe both switching and routed is done in software. >What have you seen? > > > Faster in what way? Certainly, a routed network is going to beat a switched network in terms of covergence speed. -Matt -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.8.3/362 - Release Date: 12/06/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.8.3/362 - Release Date: 12/06/2006 -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- Lonnie Nunweiler Valemount Networks Corporation http://www.star-os.com/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
RE: [WISPA] Looking for Service - Vider, TX
Title: Message Vidor ? How large is this monthly account ? If it's worthwhile - I have a tower in that area we could slap service up on. JohnnyO -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cliff LeboeufSent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 8:56 AMTo: WISPA General ListSubject: [WISPA] Looking for Service - Vider, TX I have a customer looking for service in Vider, TX. If you can supply service to that area, please contact me off-list. - Cliff -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
RE: [WISPA] Looking for Service - Vider, TX
Title: Message JohnnyO, what part of ‘off-list’ do you not understand :) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JohnnyO Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 9:27 AM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: RE: [WISPA] Looking for Service - Vider, TX Vidor ? How large is this monthly account ? If it's worthwhile - I have a tower in that area we could slap service up on. JohnnyO -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cliff Leboeuf Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 8:56 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] Looking for Service - Vider, TX I have a customer looking for service in Vider, TX. If you can supply service to that area, please contact me off-list. - Cliff -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
RE: [WISPA] Looking for Service - Vider, TX
Title: Message BTW…They have their own tower. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JohnnyO Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 9:27 AM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: RE: [WISPA] Looking for Service - Vider, TX Vidor ? How large is this monthly account ? If it's worthwhile - I have a tower in that area we could slap service up on. JohnnyO -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cliff Leboeuf Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 8:56 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] Looking for Service - Vider, TX I have a customer looking for service in Vider, TX. If you can supply service to that area, please contact me off-list. - Cliff -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
RE: [WISPA] Looking for Service - Vider, TX
Title: Message Sorry man - my gardending chemicals are getting to me this morning :) Must be soaking through my skin and hitting whatever brain I have left ! DOH ! -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cliff LeboeufSent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 10:07 AMTo: WISPA General ListSubject: RE: [WISPA] Looking for Service - Vider, TX JohnnyO, what part of ‘off-list’ do you not understand :) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JohnnyOSent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 9:27 AMTo: 'WISPA General List'Subject: RE: [WISPA] Looking for Service - Vider, TX Vidor ? How large is this monthly account ? If it's worthwhile - I have a tower in that area we could slap service up on. JohnnyO -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cliff LeboeufSent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 8:56 AMTo: WISPA General ListSubject: [WISPA] Looking for Service - Vider, TX I have a customer looking for service in Vider, TX. If you can supply service to that area, please contact me off-list. - Cliff -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] Neat Antenna Source - High Gain 5ghz Omnis
They spammed me just hours ago. JohnnyO wrote: A BUNCH of us have been asking for higher gain omnis for the 5ghz range. Looks like our wishes have been answered. _http://www.asiarf.com/Product/rfproduc/omniantenna.html_Not sure on pricing but may be worth looking into - they've got 15dBi Omnis in all of the 5ghz ranges ! YES ! Johnny0 -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: Wierd ... was [WISPA] 3650 equipment
This happens to me every so often; usually just 3 or 4 emails at a time. This was just a bigger jolt of it. Jason David E. Smith wrote: John Scrivner wrote: It is not a clock issue. All the messages that were sent with old dates were already delivered previously. These are duplicate messages. Hm. Hmmm (digs around through mail server logs) Well, the old posts from three weeks ago and the new posts from today have different Message-IDs, so at least it ain't my fault. :) David Smith Semi-Unofficial WISPA Web Tinker MVN.net -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: Wierd ... was [WISPA] 3650 equipment
Lets do the Time Warp Again! Its just a jump to the left -Michael Gino A. Villarini wrote: I ogt them too... Gino A. Villarini [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. tel 787.273.4143 fax 787.273.4145 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rich Comroe Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 11:21 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Wierd ... was [WISPA] 3650 equipment My appologies to the list. I'd added a couple cents to a thread that had ended weeks ago. Wierd, but my email client just pulled about 30 emails today on these old threads as if they were new. I'm reading along ... and this thread looks familiar ... and only after sending a reply to one of them did I notice Patrick had penned that mail back on May 26th. Wierder yet is that I'd completely failed to notice that the 30 or so old emails were almost all old posts from Patrick that were several weeks old, with a couple from Brad that were about a week old. Don't know if the server hosting my mailbox did a drive restore that ressurected old mail or whether anyone else got a copies of old mail too. Has this ever happened to anyone else? With dozens of email arrivals on the thread "3650 equipment" and "This is HUGE!" I thought that these topics had reborn again! :-) My mistake. Rich - Original Message - From: "Rich Comroe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 7:33 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] 3650 equipment -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
RE: Wierd ... was [WISPA] 3650 equipment
Unfortunately I know that song. Dustin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Watson Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 12:49 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: Wierd ... was [WISPA] 3650 equipment Lets do the Time Warp Again! Its just a jump to the left -Michael Gino A. Villarini wrote: > I ogt them too... > > Gino A. Villarini > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. > tel 787.273.4143 fax 787.273.4145 > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Rich Comroe > Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 11:21 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Wierd ... was [WISPA] 3650 equipment > > My appologies to the list. > > I'd added a couple cents to a thread that had ended weeks ago. Wierd, but > my email client just pulled about 30 emails today on these old threads as if > > they were new. I'm reading along ... and this thread looks familiar ... and > > only after sending a reply to one of them did I notice Patrick had penned > that mail back on May 26th. Wierder yet is that I'd completely failed to > notice that the 30 or so old emails were almost all old posts from Patrick > that were several weeks old, with a couple from Brad that were about a week > old. Don't know if the server hosting my mailbox did a drive restore that > ressurected old mail or whether anyone else got a copies of old mail too. > Has this ever happened to anyone else? > > With dozens of email arrivals on the thread "3650 equipment" and "This is > HUGE!" I thought that these topics had reborn again! :-) My mistake. > > Rich > > - Original Message - > From: "Rich Comroe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "WISPA General List" > Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 7:33 PM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] 3650 equipment > > > -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
RE: [WISPA] Neat Antenna Source - High Gain 5ghz Omnis
Title: Neat Antenna Source - High Gain 5ghz Omnis I like the mounting system – “Hanged on Pole”! From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JohnnyO Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 8:33 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] Neat Antenna Source - High Gain 5ghz Omnis Importance: High A BUNCH of us have been asking for higher gain omnis for the 5ghz range. Looks like our wishes have been answered. http://www.asiarf.com/Product/rfproduc/omniantenna.html Not sure on pricing but may be worth looking into - they've got 15dBi Omnis in all of the 5ghz ranges ! YES ! JohnnyO -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] looking for a device
Yes the answer is not. But the question is one of great interest to me, and I'm interested in learning from others experience on the topic. ON our network our biggest focus right now is to improve the methods to shorten time and improve acracy of diagnosing performance issue on a network. We have great tools that help us find problems that other ISPs often don;t even realize exist becauyse they have limited their abilty to test their network based on how they designed it. But it takes us way to long to conclusivelly come up with a diagnosis because their are so many possible places where failures could occurs to contribute to degregation. I'm not talking about major failures. I'm talking about reported problems like... Intermittent disconnects. Intermittent VOIP quality performance. Etc. (I am NOT saying that we have an overly large amount of problems, I'm just saying a large numbner of people report problems because networking is complicated and end users are under trained.). 95% of the time we can clear our name and prove that causes were related to issues off of our network. But it can take a lot of tiem to prove it. And if you don;t prove it, how do you know your network really is operating correctly. So how does this problem apply to this thread?... Well, if I simplify my network, there will be fewer things to look at in the diagnosis process. What simplications can be made, without compromising performance or abilty to trouble shoot the network conclusively? These questions need to be asked when considering routing versus bridged. Do you consider the needs of your prospective clients, or your needs to better offer your core services? All things to be considered. Right now we are both 100% routed and 95% VLANed. It gives us a lot of power and security features. But I tell you it is a super management headache. I'm looking for ways to simplify. Do I go more towards Layer2 or more towards Layer3? Thats a question I'm looking at hard right now. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: "Paul Hendry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'WISPA General List'" Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 3:14 AM Subject: RE: [WISPA] looking for a device So that's a no then Tom ;) Using various bandwidth test tools (such as the one builtin to Mikrotik) from/to multiple source/destinations you can generate all sorts of traffic profiles. You can decide on the size of the packets, layer 4, direction and even bandwidth so I'd say it's very possible to set-up a test environment that isn't too far of real world. Anyone else tested? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom DeReggi Sent: 14 June 2006 03:13 To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] looking for a device Anyone compared a routed solution with a Mikrotik bridged solution for delay/jitter? Good question. But the problem there is creating a real world test environment. Convergence, can be tested somewhat accurately in low network utilization situations. To adequately test Jitter/Delay you really need to load the network, as that is when the jitter and sparatic latency happens. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: "Paul Hendry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'WISPA General List'" Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 9:02 AM Subject: RE: [WISPA] looking for a device The delay in switching a packet at hardware is less than the delay in routing a packet at software. This is 1 of the reasons that Cisco created the G"S"R and why an MPL"S" switched network is fast than a plain routed network. I'm not too interested in convergence times as we only have very minimal outages so RSTP should suffice. How fast a packet can traverse our network on the other hand is important so that we can reliably run VoIP and other delay/jitter sensitive applications. Anyone compared a routed solution with a Mikrotik bridged solution for delay/jitter? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Liotta Sent: 13 June 2006 13:26 To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] looking for a device Paul Hendry wrote: We too have been looking at moving from routed to a switched Mikrotik for the core network but the unknown quantity seems to be if there are any latency or speed issues related to the move. A "true" switched network is faster than a routed network as the switching is done at a hardware level but in Mikrotik I believe both switching and routed is done in software. What have you seen? Faster in what way? Certainly, a routed network is going to beat a switched network in terms of covergence speed. -Matt -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- No virus found in this incoming m
[WISPA] sorry, we had a funky server issue...
...that for some reason re-sent massive batches of messages already sent a few weeks back. I apologize for all the confusion. Patrick Leary AVP Marketing Alvarion, Inc. o: 650.314.2628 c: 760.580.0080 Vonage: 650.641.1243 -Original Message- From: David E. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 10:13 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: Wierd ... was [WISPA] 3650 equipment John Scrivner wrote: > It is not a clock issue. All the messages that were sent with old dates > were already delivered previously. These are duplicate messages. Hm. Hmmm (digs around through mail server logs) Well, the old posts from three weeks ago and the new posts from today have different Message-IDs, so at least it ain't my fault. :) David Smith Semi-Unofficial WISPA Web Tinker MVN.net -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ * This footnote confirms that this email message has been scanned by PineApp Mail-SeCure for the presence of malicious code, vandals & computer viruses (191). * This footnote confirms that this email message has been scanned by PineApp Mail-SeCure for the presence of malicious code, vandals & computer viruses(43). -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
[WISPA] Cat 5 grounding
Hi- Can anyone tell me the best way to ground shielded Cat 5 cable? Thanks, Chris -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/