Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik User Meeting

2010-07-30 Thread Josh Luthman
Forgot to mention...the MUM presentations are usually online. Both historically and live (forget the link, just look at the Facebook/Twitter when the even comes around). http://tiktube.com/?video=354 Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373

[WISPA] The Broadband Expo or Wireless Without Limits

2010-07-30 Thread Steve Barnes
I was unable to make the WISPA Regional meeting and was really bummed by that. There are 2 opportunities in November to meet with my peers but I can't do both. The Wireless Without Limits Cruise has major appeal for obvious reason of the cruise. But WISPA is planning to have a tract and

Re: [WISPA] OFFLIST: Re: Mikrotik User Meeting

2010-07-30 Thread Jeff Broadwick
I wonder if it's possible to route any list traffic with OffList or Off List in the header to devnull? Regards, Jeff Jeff Broadwick ImageStream 800-813-5123 x106 (US/Can) +1 574-935-8484 x106 (Int'l) -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org

Re: [WISPA] Monitor / Notify App

2010-07-30 Thread Kosinet Wireless
One week. The problem is, we're not linking from our facility. I'd need to set in a temporary PC to do the monitoring. -G- - Original Message - From: Cameron Crum To: WISPA General List Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 1:04 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Monitor / Notify App How

Re: [WISPA] Monitor / Notify App

2010-07-30 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
In the first couple years of my WISP, I used MultiPing. It can email but not text. It can even fire off processes (I used it to run a script to reboot UPS's or reset Trango's in the early days). It can tell you if the device is totally down or if it has high latency. Easy to configure.

[WISPA] MIMO 5.8 GHz panel antennas?

2010-07-30 Thread Fred R. Goldstein
I wonder if any of you have experience with 5.8 GHz MIMO antennas. I'm trying to design a point-to-point link, about 10 miles, that will carry a high percentage of a whole network's backhaul. So I'd like it to go at about 80 Mbps, MCS 12 in 20 MHz. The UBNT SR71-15 card can plug into a

Re: [WISPA] Monitor / Notify App

2010-07-30 Thread David E. Smith
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 22:46, Dennis Burgess dmburg...@linktechs.netwrote: The dude :) Cheap, FREE! Windows! E-mails, SMS :) I'm getting more and more bitter with The Dude as time goes on. If it would keep running without requiring me to restart it every few days at random, that'd be one

Re: [WISPA] Monitor / Notify App

2010-07-30 Thread Dennis Burgess
We hav'ent had to restart it in months! --- Dennis Burgess, Mikrotik Certified Trainer Link Technologies, Inc -- Mikrotik WISP Support Services Office: 314-735-0270 Website: http://www.linktechs.net http://www.linktechs.net/ LIVE

Re: [WISPA] Monitor / Notify App

2010-07-30 Thread Kosinet Wireless
That looks cool - I just downloaded The Dude software and set it up.Pretty impressed The only problem I've seen so far - There doesn't seem to be anyway to to authenticate to my Mail Server. (But I've only given it 10 minutes of my time) Thanks all, -Gary- - Original Message

Re: [WISPA] Monitor / Notify App

2010-07-30 Thread Dennis Burgess
So far, nope, not a way :( Would think that would be simple to add, but if you can work around that :) --- Dennis Burgess, Mikrotik Certified Trainer Link Technologies, Inc -- Mikrotik WISP Support Services Office: 314-735-0270 Website:

Re: [WISPA] Monitor / Notify App

2010-07-30 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
Can you set up a white list for the IP or the sending email address? - Original Message - From: Kosinet Wireless wirel...@kosinet.com To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 8:13 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Monitor / Notify App That looks cool - I just

Re: [WISPA] Monitor / Notify App

2010-07-30 Thread Dennis Burgess
What i do in most of the servers I manage. Simple enough. --- Dennis Burgess, Mikrotik Certified Trainer Link Technologies, Inc -- Mikrotik WISP Support Services Office: 314-735-0270 Website: http://www.linktechs.net LIVE On-Line Mikrotik

Re: [WISPA] MIMO 5.8 GHz panel antennas?

2010-07-30 Thread Michael Baird
They have a Powerbridge M5 that includes a 25 db MIMO panel. Regards Michael Baird I wonder if any of you have experience with 5.8 GHz MIMO antennas. I'm trying to design a point-to-point link, about 10 miles, that will carry a high percentage of a whole network's backhaul. So I'd like it

Re: [WISPA] MIMO 5.8 GHz panel antennas?

2010-07-30 Thread Steve Barnes
http://www.ubnt.com/linkcalculator/ Says that this would be a marginal signal at 10 miles. (16090 meters) for the PowerBridge M5 link margin 14.4 Steve Barnes RC-WiFi Wireless Internet Service -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On

Re: [WISPA] Monitor / Notify App

2010-07-30 Thread Brad Belton
We played with The Dude a few months ago and while we were very impressed with some of the information provided we also saw stability issues. We also really wanted a system that would geo-tag (? Not sure if that's the right term), but that would allow you to zoom in and out on a mapping program.

Re: [WISPA] MIMO 5.8 GHz panel antennas?

2010-07-30 Thread Michael Baird
Yea, it's wrong. Try something besides MCS14 or MCS15 on their calculator, or a better link calculator. I've got NB22's with +25 deployed at 10 miles. Regards Michael Baird http://www.ubnt.com/linkcalculator/ Says that this would be a marginal signal at 10 miles. (16090 meters) for the

Re: [WISPA] MIMO 5.8 GHz panel antennas?

2010-07-30 Thread Fred Goldstein
The trouble with the Powerbridge is that it has the radio built in, and is thus an Ethernet hop away from the switch (probably a Routerboard), and one more active device to manage. Also, since a Ubiquiti card drives the radio, it can only run in Airmax or 802.11 mode, not however the

Re: [WISPA] MIMO 5.8 GHz panel antennas?

2010-07-30 Thread Steve Barnes
Your right if you drop it to a MCS12 is a 28.4 Margin Steve Barnes General Manager PCS-WIN RC-WiFi Wireless Internet Service -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Michael Baird Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 11:59 AM To: WISPA

Re: [WISPA] MIMO 5.8 GHz panel antennas?

2010-07-30 Thread Steve Barnes
So you are wanting a dual pol panel with N male connectors? Steve Barnes RC-WiFi Wireless Internet Service -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Fred Goldstein Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 12:14 PM To: WISPA General List

Re: [WISPA] MIMO 5.8 GHz panel antennas?

2010-07-30 Thread Fred Goldstein
At 7/30/2010 12:21 PM, Steve Barnes wrote: So you are wanting a dual pol panel with N male connectors? Basically, yes, though it doesn't have to be N per se. (I'm not picky, so long as the whole thing is suitable for outdoor use in a seriously rugged climate with lots of lake effect snow.)

Re: [WISPA] MIMO 5.8 GHz panel antennas?

2010-07-30 Thread Faisal Imtiaz
take a look at the Balticnetworks.com the are carrying to going to carry Maxxwave UBTik products appears to be a mounting system for routerboards to fit on the Ubiquiti antennas . and there are others who have deployed the Arc Wireless Dual Polatiry pannel antenna without any

[WISPA] Need a Trango P5055M-EXT single end

2010-07-30 Thread Patrick Shoemaker
I think this is kosher since it's Friday and all... I need a single end of a Trango P5055m. EXT version (connectorized). Not the Atlas 5010m, the TLink45 P5055m. If anyone has one, please email me offlist with a price. Thanks, -- Patrick Shoemaker Vector Data Systems LLC

Re: [WISPA] MIMO 5.8 GHz panel antennas?

2010-07-30 Thread Steve Barnes
Fred have you made a good quality link with Mikrotik using N-MiMo I own a set of MT units with R52HN cards that drove me crazy for about 3 weeks. Never made the MiMo work real well with MT. 2- PacWireless dual pol 2 ft dish with MT a both ends 12 miles. Could make them work as 802.11a but

Re: [WISPA] MIMO 5.8 GHz panel antennas?

2010-07-30 Thread Josh Luthman
Mikrotik N has been disappointing to many. Has anyone had good results? On Jul 30, 2010 1:08 PM, Steve Barnes st...@pcswin.com wrote: Fred have you made a good quality link with Mikrotik using N-MiMo I own a set of MT units with R52HN cards that drove me crazy for about 3 weeks. Never made the

Re: [WISPA] Monitor / Notify App

2010-07-30 Thread Mike
It can text too. For instance, my text email address is 2397706...@vtext.com. -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Mark Nash - Lists Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 10:01 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Monitor /

Re: [WISPA] USF Reform Bill Introduced - The most compelling reason to document and map your network coverage ever

2010-07-30 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
Scottie, There just weren't enough of us to stop things like that from happening. It's a chicken and egg thing. It takes members to get things done. Some don't want to join until we can point to positive results. I guess it's a matter of how far in the future do you want to look? If you

Re: [WISPA] Monitor / Notify App

2010-07-30 Thread Josh Luthman
I used ATT text emails for years and it worked mostly. I just switched to Verizon last week but it send to be fine. On Jul 30, 2010 1:33 PM, Mike m...@aweiowa.com wrote: It can text too. For instance, my text email address is 2397706...@vtext.com. -Original Message- From:

[WISPA] Fw: [WISPA CALEA Questions] [CALEA] CALEA Question

2010-07-30 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
signatureFor those asking about the recent FCC statement that broadband is now defined as 4/1 meg. and how that relates (if at all) to CALEA requirements. The answer to that question is below. In a nutshell, it doesn't change anything because the new definition only applies to reported

[WISPA] State Facilitators Needed

2010-07-30 Thread Rick Harnish
I would like to ask for volunteers from each State to facilitate further WISPA reach on a more local level. As you may or may not know, each state has a WISPA listserv, such as te...@wispa.org. You can subscribe to these lists if you operate a WISP in that state or if you are a college professor

Re: [WISPA] Generators

2010-07-30 Thread jp
If you go propane/NG upsize quite a bit to have smooth power. Diesel's torque makes for smoother power output undering changing loads. Diesel can run full rated load of datacenter load. I went diesel (Cummins/Onan) for my datacenter. I put the generator inside to prevent winter fuel gelling,

Re: [WISPA] Generators

2010-07-30 Thread Greg Ihnen
A couple of things I added to our generator here (110KVA Perkins turbo diesel) which have really made life easier are a Murphy LM2000 Oil Level Maintainer http://www.fwmurphy.com/product_search/?p=lm2000 and a ControlByWeb X301 controller http://www.controlbyweb.com/x301/. I'm not sure if the

Re: [WISPA] Generators

2010-07-30 Thread Jonathan Schmidt
I'm concerned with Diesel. My first Mercedes Diesel quit when the fuel tank turned into a blob of algae. I had never heard of anything eating that stuff but a pilot friend in the Air Force said his plane had become clogged with algae. He told me to put in a quart of high detergent 10W-40 in

Re: [WISPA] Generators

2010-07-30 Thread Greg Ihnen
There are professional treatments. I've not tried any but in googling for oil additives for other issues (stuck rings/excessive blowby) and I came across them. Greg On Jul 30, 2010, at 6:09 PM, Jonathan Schmidt wrote: I'm concerned with Diesel. My first Mercedes Diesel quit when the fuel

Re: [WISPA] [WISPA Members] Health Insurance

2010-07-30 Thread Roger Howard
It seemed to me like when I was paying for health insurance for my family it was a huge waste of money. I'm from England. In England, if you buy insurance for something it covers you. Over here in the US it always seems to cover you UP TO a certain dollar amount, IF the wind is blowing in the

Re: [WISPA] [WISPA Members] Health Insurance

2010-07-30 Thread Faisal Imtiaz
That is very interesting... it is the first time I am hearing as such... Our experience has been on the contrary... Without the insurance company's pre-netogitated discounts, it is impossible to get a reasonable bill.. more like.. They stick to you as a cash paying customer.. Faisal Imtiaz

Re: [WISPA] [WISPA Members] Health Insurance

2010-07-30 Thread Blake Bowers
We are cash pay. Regular DR visits are half of what the quoted rate is. Hospital is pretty much the same way. Don't take your organs to heaven, heaven knows we need them down here! Be an organ donor, sign your donor card today. - Original Message - From: Faisal Imtiaz

Re: [WISPA] [WISPA Members] Health Insurance

2010-07-30 Thread Faisal Imtiaz
With Doctor's private practice yes, they do that.. from Insurance Companies they only get about 20% to 30% of the standard rate.. It is the hospitals which have been the issue... they claim that their medicare payments are based on a discount schedule of the Standard Rate Interesting to