Re: [WISPA] Grant

2009-08-13 Thread Tom DeReggi
Travis, You bring up an entirely different topic... Whether its worth it to a small WISP or for any company to accept the money. But the comment I was originally responding to was related to big companies will win the grants. The big companies that win grants will have all the same limitations

Re: [WISPA] Content Filter Suggestion for School

2009-08-13 Thread Israel Lopez-LISTS
OpenDNS works in a pinch. However filters for all of DNS requests originating from one public IP (Students Admins)... you could go Hardware Based Filtering... barracuda and or cymphonix boxes as well. -Israel Scott Carullo wrote: I need a web content filter for K-12 school. Paid

Re: [WISPA] Content Filter Suggestion for School

2009-08-13 Thread Jason Hensley
Sonicwall has some outstanding products as far as an all-in-one appliance for firewall, content filtering, spam, virus, etc etc. I have one in place for a school and our local library. Make sure you get one with enough horse-power. A small school may work fine with a TZ-200 or TZ-190, but you

Re: [WISPA] Content Filter Suggestion for School

2009-08-13 Thread Eje Gustafsson
Got to love it another product with no price on the website.. Looks cool though but I hate having to deal with push sales people just to find a price and then have them call and spam me day in and day out for years to come. So do you know what the product costs? / Eje -Original

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Re: [WISPA] Content Filter Suggestion for School

2009-08-13 Thread Frank Muto
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Re: [WISPA] On-line back-up

2009-08-13 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
We have an online backup program. It hasn't been very popular yet. We also bill per bit. Let them do those huge backups. I make money on them too! grin If they do the backups on MY system they do NOT pay the per bit fees. marlon - Original Message - From: Mike m...@aweiowa.com To:

Re: [WISPA] On-line back-up

2009-08-13 Thread RickG
Yes, I've been saying bandwidth based pricing is the ultimate way to go since 1997. The question is: what is the best easiest way to do it? -RickG On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Marlon K. Schafero...@odessaoffice.com wrote: We have an online backup program.  It hasn't been very popular yet.

Re: [WISPA] On-line back-up

2009-08-13 Thread RickG
On that note, I do percieve you will see more ISP's start their own competitive services like online backup, etc. I wonder if the companies will ever get smart and offer to pay ISP's to install mirrored servers on their network? -RickG On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Marlon K.

Re: [WISPA] On-line back-up

2009-08-13 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
We don't promise the integrity of the data. It's a BACKUP. Chances are slim that we AND they will loose it at the same time though. Our goal is to get a couple of servers built and put a few TB of storage in them. But so far we don't even need gigs of space... shrug marlon - Original

Re: [WISPA] On-line back-up

2009-08-13 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
I've ccd Brandon for you. He set up a system for us. Cost was less than $500 including some customization. It uses netflow data from our routers. This system has been GREAT. marlon - Original Message - From: RickG rgunder...@gmail.com To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent:

Re: [WISPA] Content Filter Suggestion for School

2009-08-13 Thread Randy Cosby
I honestly don't, it's been so long since we got started with them, and we did a 5-year support/update contract last go-around. It's not as cheap as many other solutions out there, but it just plain works and is VERY scalable. One other feature I didn't mention is that we are able to have it

Re: [WISPA] On-line back-up

2009-08-13 Thread Gary Garrett
This is the new Internet 2 model. Using Distributed computing (peer to peer) to cut your bandwidth costs and spread them across the network providers. Now you can distribute electronic files such as movies with no storage or bandwidth or backup costs. When the Product is spread over thousands of

Re: [WISPA] Content Filter Suggestion for School

2009-08-13 Thread Curtis Maurand
I've also used dansguardian. Its free. http://dansguardian.org/ Cheers, Curtis Frank Muto wrote: http://www.opendns.com/solutions/k12/filtering/ Frank Muto Secure Email Plus www.secureemailplus.com - Original Message - From: Israel Lopez-LISTS

Re: [WISPA] Content Filter Suggestion for School

2009-08-13 Thread Adam Kennedy
I second DansGuardian. If you are looking for an easy-to-use configuration tool for it, download/install Webmin (www.webmin.org) then install the DansGuardian webmin module (http://www.sf.net/projects/dgwebminmodule) Adam Kennedy Senior Network Administrator Cyberlink Technologies, Inc. Phone:

[WISPA] Meso West

2009-08-13 Thread Jerry Richardson
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Re: [WISPA] On-line back-up

2009-08-13 Thread Mike
In my heart, I know you are right. The nature of our business is we buy bandwidth wholesale, and then resell it to others who can't afford to buy dedicated bandwidth. We factor an oversubscription rate, and count on bursty, short lived traffic from users that share the bandwidth. If I could

[WISPA] recieve signal loss

2009-08-13 Thread Mark McElvy
I have been battling with one of my AP having receive signals 8-10 db less at the AP than the client. This is a RB532A with SR-2 and 16db 120 deg sector. I replaced the radio, pigtail, cable and the lightning arrestor. I finally pulled out the lightning arrestor and the signal are now mostly

[WISPA] Anyone needing a good network admin / installer / wear any number of hats kind of guy :-)

2009-08-13 Thread Jason Hensley
I have someone looking for a change that would make a great employee for someone. I don't have an opening right now and I don't think he wants to stay in this area anyway. Very flexible on relocation. If you're needing someone, please let me know and I'll put you in touch with him. Offlist

[WISPA] Any VMware resellers/consultants around?

2009-08-13 Thread David E. Smith
If you're a WISPA member, and also a VMware reseller or consultant, please contact me /offlist /- I may be able to throw a little business your way. David Smith MVN.net WISPA Wants You! Join today!

Re: [WISPA] Anyone needing a good network admin / installer / wear any number of hats kind of guy :-)

2009-08-13 Thread Randy Cosby
Where is he now? Jason Hensley wrote: I have someone looking for a change that would make a great employee for someone. I don't have an opening right now and I don't think he wants to stay in this area anyway. Very flexible on relocation. If you're needing someone, please let me know and

Re: [WISPA] recieve signal loss

2009-08-13 Thread Scott Reed
The center pin on one of the connectors is shorter than it should be, is a possibility. I have seen this more than once. The pin is almost long enough to touch but not tightly. When there is an active signal, i.e., the radio, there must be enough capacitance coupling to broadcast, but the mV

Re: [WISPA] Anyone needing a good network admin / installer / wear any number of hats kind of guy :-)

2009-08-13 Thread Martha Huizenga
And how much does he cost? Martha Huizenga DC Access, LLC 202-546-5898 */Friendly, Local, Affordable, Internet!/**/ Connecting the Capitol Hill Community/* Randy Cosby wrote: Where is he now? Jason Hensley wrote: I have someone looking for a change that would make a great employee for

Re: [WISPA] Anyone needing a good network admin / installer / wear any number of hats kind of guy :-)

2009-08-13 Thread Jason Hensley
Thanks to all that have replied. I'll pass info along to each of you soon. -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Jason Hensley Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 2:13 PM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: [WISPA] Anyone needing

Re: [WISPA] recieve signal loss

2009-08-13 Thread Chuck Hogg
SR2's have a problem with loosing the receive (happens over time, don't know how to explain it). I have had this on multiple occasions (30+) and is the reason we do not use them any longer. XR2's are typically the same price and do not have this problem, and the R52H is just slightly lower in

Re: [WISPA] Content Filter Suggestion for School

2009-08-13 Thread os10rules
I had some very bad experiences with SonicWall and their service/ support. For one thing their basic content filter package was useless because it did not block proxy sites. They expected us to pay hundreds more a year for their premium filter package just to get the functionality of their

Re: [WISPA] Anyone needing a good network admin / installer / wear any number of hats kind of guy :-)

2009-08-13 Thread Brian Rohrbacher
I would like some info as well Jason Hensley wrote: Thanks to all that have replied. I'll pass info along to each of you soon. -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Jason Hensley Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 2:13

Re: [WISPA] Content Filter Suggestion for School

2009-08-13 Thread Israel Lopez-LISTS
I have to agree. It seem that these hardware boxes that try to do 'all in one' services (Routing, NAT, Firewall, AV, Content-Filtering, Spam)... seem to fall on their face. I know of a consultant buddy of mine who implemented it, and hated every second of it. He is still cursing at it when

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

2009-08-13 Thread John Thomas
Ryan, when you agree to offer service, that becomes your responsibility, and when someone is paying for it, they have a reasonable expectation of the service they are paying for. With that said, is it crazy expensive to get a 2 x T-1 where you are? Maybe a T-3 is stupid expensive, but if you

Re: [WISPA] Small auto start generator

2009-08-13 Thread John Thomas
Is this some place you could put some batteries and a solar panel or small windmill? John Jerry Richardson wrote: Thank you, That is very good advice. After some research, I'm leaning toward a UPS. A pair of good AGM batteries and charge controller will cost less and be far less

Re: [WISPA] Small auto start generator

2009-08-13 Thread John Thomas
Unless your equipment is tolerant of voltage swings, you will still probably want a DC-DC regulator, but that will likely be more efficient than a 12/24volt to 120 volt inverter. John Leon D. Zetekoff, NCE wrote: Hi Guys...I'd steer away from inverters since they soak up a lot of power.

Re: [WISPA] On-line back-up

2009-08-13 Thread Scottie Arnett
I have been saying bandwidth pricing is the way to go since I first read Marlon's articles on wireless access way before 1997, probably around 2001 when I was still only providing Dial-Up and dreaming about wireless. I mean bandwidth pricing on everything, transfer would pretty much sum it all

Re: [WISPA] On-line back-up

2009-08-13 Thread RickG
Scottie, I obviously agree with you. Curious though - why would you say there was a need for bandwidth based pricing before 1997? The was very little broadband then and bandwidth was not an issue. Busy signals on modem pools were. On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Scottie

Re: [WISPA] On-line back-up

2009-08-13 Thread John Thomas
Are you willing to setup a server for their backups? For home users, Mozy charges $4.95 per month. If you setup your own backup server, you would have the initial expense of a server with big drive space, but you could charge $4.95 and at least save money on your upstream bandwidth. John Mike