Re: [WISPA] Ubnt vs Moto vs ... your brand

2010-04-14 Thread Jeff Ehman
We have seen a lot of this actually. For small trailer parks or neighborhood blocks that can't see a tower. Basically, have a Moto SM go to a rooftop that can reach the AP and then put a NS2 behind it pointing in the direction of a group of houses that you normally can't see. Put the NS2 in A

Re: [WISPA] how to protect your kids

2010-04-14 Thread Robert West
You got it! But hey, I was the same way back in the day but then it was red boxing and phone hacking. (Ohio Bell made regular calls to my mother requesting her to have me take whatever it was off the line. My nemesis at the phone company eventually became a good friend when I got older) If th

Re: [WISPA] Mobile or Temporary Internet?

2010-04-14 Thread Robert West
When you say no coverage, are you meaning there is NO internet access there or that you have no coverage yourself with wireless? If internet is indeed available there via a wire, then the rest is easy. -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.or

Re: [WISPA] Mobile or Temporary Internet?

2010-04-14 Thread Josh Luthman
Satellite at 5mbps? Not going to happen. Mobile cards will be quicker but very area dependant. On 4/14/10, Charles Hooper wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to provide wireless Internet to a local festival this summer. > My plan is to set up temporary APs as there isn't any coverage in that > area

Re: [WISPA] Ubnt vs Moto vs ... your brand

2010-04-14 Thread Travis Johnson
No. It is impossible to get the same number of subs on a polling MAC (UBNT, Trango) as with Canopy. The reason is that Canopy does their scheduling in hardware, not software. Mikrotik attempted to make their system handle more than 30 subs by improving the polling code, but they said it was as

Re: [WISPA] how to protect your kids

2010-04-14 Thread Philip Dorr
Those kids will then install Ubuntu using Wubi (if they have admin rights), have the back-door bios passwords somewhere, or start charring around a HDD and screwdriver. On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 8:03 AM, Robert West wrote: > Around here there are some kids with live linux on key drives they boot in

Re: [WISPA] Experiences with State Broadband Mapping Agencies

2010-04-14 Thread Robert West
Here's one... Dawn Clark, Project Coordinator Connected Nation, Inc. dcl...@connectednation.org Cell: 270.791.3308 Direct: 270.846.7622 -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Rick Harnish Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 201

Re: [WISPA] Mobile or Temporary Internet?

2010-04-14 Thread Robert West
If it's a festival, the shop owners benefit from such a thing and there is probably a committee that would do the footwork for you. Talk to the festival committee. Shouldn't take much of anything to do what you're trying to accomplish. Bob- -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wis

Re: [WISPA] how to protect your kids

2010-04-14 Thread Robert West
Around here there are some kids with live linux on key drives they boot into to keep things private. Set your boot order to not have USB or CD in the boot order and put an admin password on the bios. Bob- -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wi

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti AirOS Comparison

2010-04-14 Thread Michael Baird
Have you posted this on the Ubiquiti forums? The developers will work with you to determine the issue you are seeing, will make the product better for all of us. Regards Michael Baird > Upgraded the AP and all CPE to Beta 5 this morning and latency still > sucks. Signal is a -57 on one side and

Re: [WISPA] Experiences with State Broadband Mapping Agencies

2010-04-14 Thread Rick Harnish
Brian, Correction, I do not know which ones have asked for customer addresses specifically. Sorry about the quick submit button. Rick Brian, I am aware of the following: . Ohio Contact: ConnectOhio Sweet, Dave [dsw...@connectohio.org] . Mic

Re: [WISPA] how to protect your kids

2010-04-14 Thread Robert West
YES! I've told many, many people.. If you want to keep your kids safe, no laptops, desktops that can't be lugged around and keep them all in a central, common area in the home. We have a computer repair business so we see everything. And I mean EVERYTHING! What is the number one favorite a

Re: [WISPA] Experiences with State Broadband Mapping Agencies

2010-04-14 Thread Rick Harnish
Brian, I am aware of the following: . Ohio Contact: ConnectOhio Sweet, Dave [dsw...@connectohio.org] . Michigan Contact: ConnectMichigan Terry Holmes [te...@tholmes.net] . Oregon Contact: Brian Scaffidi [brian.scaff...@broadmap.com] . Pennsylvania C

Re: [WISPA] how to protect your kids

2010-04-14 Thread Jeremie Chism
I have also used opendns for personal home use and for a corporate customer that wanted control over their Internet. It is solid and does what you need it to do. Sent from my iPhone On Apr 14, 2010, at 7:28 AM, Steve Barnes wrote: > Marlon, this is a topic that I speak on in local churches,

[WISPA] Mobile or Temporary Internet?

2010-04-14 Thread Charles Hooper
Hello, I'm trying to provide wireless Internet to a local festival this summer. My plan is to set up temporary APs as there isn't any coverage in that area already. I don't have any towers in the area (or any at all) so my thoughts are that I would have to talk some local building owners into

Re: [WISPA] how to protect your kids

2010-04-14 Thread Robert West
I tried to help a customer get Yahoo to delete her email account and it took us almost an entire year to get some action. No, they wouldn't delete it, they would only LOCK it. And that, sadly enough, took a letter from her attorney. As I've heard many times, there is no delete button on the inte

Re: [WISPA] how to protect your kids

2010-04-14 Thread Steve Barnes
Forgot to mention (like Victoria said) KeyLogger best I've found http://www.covenanteyes.com/ but it's not free. It can be put on a PC and the user never knows that its on there you just get an email as to what that pc did. Still wont stop the Zune. Steve Barnes RC-WiFi Wireless Internet Serv

Re: [WISPA] how to protect your kids

2010-04-14 Thread Jeff Broadwick
We use Bluecoat K9 and are very happy with it so far. My 14 and 13 year olds have Facebook accounts...under the condition that my wife and I are friended and have their passwords so that we can log in as them at any time. I found out that my son had a Google mail account a while back that he did

Re: [WISPA] how to protect your kids

2010-04-14 Thread St. Louis Broadband
Hey marlon, Sigh...mine is finally 18! However, I totally understand the situation and had to cope with it myself. I employed a key logger. ~V~ -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Marlon K. Schafer Sent: Wednesday, April 14,

[WISPA] Experiences with State Broadband Mapping Agencies

2010-04-14 Thread Brian Webster
To All; My contact at the NTIA has asked me to provide a list of the states who have been asking WISP's to provide a list of the customer addresses. I know a few of you have mentioned this but I wasn't keeping track. Could you post or send me your experiences and I will forward tha

Re: [WISPA] how to protect your kids

2010-04-14 Thread Steve Barnes
Marlon, this is a topic that I speak on in local churches, Kiwanis, and such. There are free apps like getk9.com that is completely free and locks down a PC's browsing. Then you can use user account controls in windows vista and Win7 to keep them from over-ridding your settings. But none of th

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti AirOS Comparison

2010-04-14 Thread can...@believewireless.net
Upgraded the AP and all CPE to Beta 5 this morning and latency still sucks. Signal is a -57 on one side and -59 on the other. Every one of our VoIP customers on this tower is complaining. <> WISPA Wants You! Join to

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