Re: [WISPA] monitoring product (was Re: Ubiquiti Beta 5.2.4 Released)

2010-04-12 Thread jp
I dont' graph temp/humidity at my towers. I do graph it for my detatched garage and datacenter though. (The most important locations) I have a little atom PC running centos, 1-wire temp/humidity sensor from www.hobby-boards.com, owfs, mrtg, apache. It also has rsync and a 2tb drive for offsite

Re: [WISPA] monitoring product (was Re: Ubiquiti Beta 5.2.4 Released)

2010-04-12 Thread Patrick Shoemaker
I'm pretty sure that Matt was talking about *RF spectrum* weather information here. I've thought about this a few times too- would be an extremely useful product. Even more useful if it had enough intelligence to learn the TDD patterns of the owner's equipment, and listen during the guard

Re: [WISPA] ubnt bridging

2010-04-12 Thread Cameron Kilton
Are the Access point and the Station set to WDS. Ubnt recommends this for the units to be a full transparent bridge. We had a similar issue and this fixed it for us. -Cameron Thanks, Cameron Kilton Project Manager Midcoast Internet Solutions http://www.midcoast.com c...@midcoast.com (207)

Re: [WISPA] connected nation mapping data

2010-04-12 Thread Tom DeReggi
BTOP Mapping grants given to States are Federal initiatives. The states have to answer and report to the Feds on their progress. Basically they will report to the Feds, who they contacted, and who provided info and who didn't. The State mappers have little authority to do anything about

Re: [WISPA] monitoring product (was Re: Ubiquiti Beta 5.2.4 Released)

2010-04-12 Thread Kristian Hoffmann
The RouterOS v4 with the R52n has a spectrum analyzer mode (similar to Orthogon and others). With one of those on your tower either with an omni or a directional antenna and rotor, or both, you could do some pretty interesting things. If MT has the ability to read the analyzer output with their

Re: [WISPA] monitoring product (was Re: Ubiquiti Beta 5.2.4 Released)

2010-04-12 Thread Josh Luthman
Document it well =) Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” --- Winston Churchill On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Kristian Hoffmann

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti Beta 5.2.4 Released

2010-04-12 Thread Steve Barnes
I have not played with the M series yet. Will the 5.8 units analyze 2.4 as well? Steve Barnes RC-WiFi Wireless Internet Service -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Robert West Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 8:21 AM To:

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti Beta 5.2.4 Released

2010-04-12 Thread Philip Dorr
No, and the 2.4GHz cannot and will not analyze 5.8GHz On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Steve Barnes st...@pcswin.com wrote: I have not played with the M series yet.  Will the 5.8 units analyze 2.4 as well? Steve Barnes RC-WiFi Wireless Internet Service -Original Message- From:

Re: [WISPA] connected nation mapping data

2010-04-12 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I was on a conference call with the State of Nebraska broadband mapping contractors and the Public Service Commission this morning and came away with a bad feeling. Based on the Form477 data, and the PSC's broadband provider registration information, there are 283 broadband providers in the

Re: [WISPA] connected nation mapping data

2010-04-12 Thread Jack Unger
It would be good to see some type of documentation that the data contractors and the PSC are telling the truth about the NTIA mandating that they collect such detailed data. Matt Larsen - Lists wrote: I was on a conference call with the State of Nebraska broadband mapping contractors and

Re: [WISPA] ubnt bridging

2010-04-12 Thread Greg Ihnen
If a UBNT radio is used solely as an AP (not bridged to another unit) would turning WDS on or off have any effect on the handling of data? Greg On Apr 12, 2010, at 11:44 AM, Cameron Kilton wrote: Are the Access point and the Station set to WDS. Ubnt recommends this for the units to be a

Re: [WISPA] connected nation mapping data

2010-04-12 Thread Scott Reed
I agree. Can someone point to where the NTIA has published the requirements? Jack Unger wrote: It would be good to see some type of documentation that the data contractors and the PSC are telling the truth about the NTIA mandating that they collect such detailed data. Matt Larsen - Lists

Re: [WISPA] ubnt bridging

2010-04-12 Thread Josh Luthman
Depends if the station/CPE was using WDS. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” --- Winston Churchill On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Greg Ihnen

Re: [WISPA] connected nation mapping data

2010-04-12 Thread jp
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 11:51:34AM -0600, Matt Larsen - Lists wrote: I was on a conference call with the State of Nebraska broadband mapping contractors and the Public Service Commission this morning and came away with a bad feeling. Based on the Form477 data, and the PSC's broadband

Re: [WISPA] ubnt bridging

2010-04-12 Thread Greg Ihnen
If the only clients are laptops (no WDS) to a Bullet or NS2 would WDS being on offer anything? Thanks! Greg On Apr 12, 2010, at 1:53 PM, Josh Luthman wrote: Depends if the station/CPE was using WDS. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy,

Re: [WISPA] ubnt bridging

2010-04-12 Thread Josh Luthman
Usually adds trouble in that case. I have had good luck NATing at the bullet/NS2 devices. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” --- Winston Churchill

Re: [WISPA] connected nation mapping data

2010-04-12 Thread Scott Reed
I don't normally respond to myself, but this is too good. First site I found after Google on NTIA Mapping says: /Nationwide Field-Survey is Required to Assure Accuracy of Coverage Data --Provider Data is not Accurate --FCC Data is at Census Tract Level --State Mapping Programs Data is Not at

Re: [WISPA] connected nation mapping data

2010-04-12 Thread Tom DeReggi
NDA should be enough protection to ensure the safety of our proprietary information Thats the funny part. They have an NDA!. What good is the NDA, if you are agreeing to give them information that is intended and will be released to the public on a public web site? What else is there to keep

Re: [WISPA] connected nation mapping data

2010-04-12 Thread Brian Webster
Matt and anyone else who talks to the state level mapping organizations: The next time you talk to these people you might ask them to provide you with the names, resumes, and qualifications of the staff that would be running your coverage maps if you were to provide all of the tower data they are

Re: [WISPA] connected nation mapping data

2010-04-12 Thread David Hannum
I believe the folks doing the mapping (at least a significant part of it) for Connected Nation are Chip Spann, Layne Wagner and John Determan. All three of these men have significant RF and WISP background. Not sure if they are actually engineers' but probablly 30-40 years combined wireless

Re: [WISPA] connected nation mapping data

2010-04-12 Thread Brian Webster
Well that is a little more comforting. They don't need to be Engineers because there is no formal degree for wireless engineers in the US. Electrical Engineers only get about two weeks antenna theory when it comes to wireless. If these three are really on staff, they are not doing a very good job

Re: [WISPA] connected nation mapping data

2010-04-12 Thread Tom DeReggi
I thought I'd add Why should we assume that the State's objectives will always be to get accurate coverage maps? Sure States with higher percentage of unserved areas would benefit from accurately showing userved areas. But what about the other more served states? Wouldn't they benefit by

Re: [WISPA] connected nation mapping data

2010-04-12 Thread chris cooper
NOFA for this grant can be found here: http://broadbandusa.gov/info_lib.htm This covers the data they are looking for. Chris Cooper Intelliwave -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Scott Reed Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010

Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste

2010-04-12 Thread Tracy Tippett
You know that only the most motivated and intelligent people head for government service jobs - Right? --Original Mail-- From: Marco Coelho coelh...@gmail.com To: spie...@avolve.net, WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:23:29 -0500 Subject: Re: [WISPA]

Re: [WISPA] ubnt bridging

2010-04-12 Thread RickG
Sicne the AP's are WRAPs and dont do WDS (that I know of) I ended up swapping out the WRAP with a BM2. Works great now! On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Cameron Kilton c...@midcoast.com wrote: Are the Access point and the Station set to WDS. Ubnt recommends this for the units to be a full

Re: [WISPA] ubnt bridging

2010-04-12 Thread RickG
It wasnt. On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.com wrote: Depends if the station/CPE was using WDS. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the

Re: [WISPA] connected nation mapping data

2010-04-12 Thread RickG
They can pry the info from my cold, dead, brain! On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Tom DeReggi wirelessn...@rapiddsl.net wrote: NDA should be enough protection to ensure the safety of our proprietary information Thats the funny part. They have an NDA!. What good is the NDA, if you are

Re: [WISPA] connected nation mapping data

2010-04-12 Thread RickG
Tom, As always you ask great questions. I'd love to see the answer! On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Tom DeReggi wirelessn...@rapiddsl.net wrote:  I thought I'd add Why should we assume that the State's objectives will always be to get accurate coverage maps? Sure States with higher

Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste

2010-04-12 Thread MDK
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[WISPA] Ubiquiti AirOS Comparison

2010-04-12 Thread Jeremy Parr
Just for fun AP1000Ubiqiuti KN TurboCellAirOS 1992 2009 Polling MAC Yes Yes Radius MAC Auth Yes