Re: [WISPA] ethernet and towers with FM transmitters

2012-02-29 Thread Matt Hoppes
+1 on ferrits. On Feb 28, 2012, at 22:23, Joe Fiero joe1...@optonline.net wrote: Tim, I have had 100% success by using a good quality shielded cable and following a strict bonding regiment. Bonding the antenna, radio, mast and cable to the tower at the top is imperative, as is the same

Re: [WISPA] New employee quiz

2012-02-29 Thread Matt Hoppes
I always liked situational troubleshooting ones because I use a subnet calculator :P On Feb 28, 2012, at 23:37, Simon Westlake si...@powercode.com wrote: Well, I think some of the ones I mentioned are alright. It depends if you're hiring tech support or a network engineer but for mid-level

Re: [WISPA] New employee quiz

2012-02-29 Thread Simon Westlake
Yeah, and that's the thing I don't like about very specific questions because, honestly, who cares if you do as long as you understand the concept. If I'd say to someone 'what's the subnet mask for a /25' or something like that and they answered 'I don't remember off the top of my head but I

Re: [WISPA] New employee quiz

2012-02-29 Thread Josh Luthman
With the power of Google and those skills I totally agree as well. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Feb 29, 2012 9:34 AM, Simon Westlake si...@powercode.com wrote: Yeah, and that's the thing I don't like about very specific

Re: [WISPA] ethernet and towers with FM transmitters

2012-02-29 Thread Marlon K. Schafer (509-982-2181)
This problem is a bitch. We're on a station that's only 20k watts and Ethernet issues are severe. We finally had pretty good luck by moving the radios down and running high grade coax to the antennas. We also run metal shielded cat5 with the proper ends. Finally I installed ferrite beads on

Re: [WISPA] PPPoE and home router question

2012-02-29 Thread Marco Coelho
Netgear routers seem to provide the most stable connection in our experience. Always make sure the firmware is up to date. On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Andy Trimmell atrimm...@precisionds.comwrote: We use Cisco E1000 E1200 WRT54g. We also found out that WRT110 120 and 300 320 do not pass

Re: [WISPA] ethernet and towers with FM transmitters

2012-02-29 Thread Justin Wilson
The biggest thing I stress with any FM tower is to get an experienced FM tower climber crew to give your their opinion on the tower before installing any equipment on it. Too many times I have seen an FM tower with poor grounds, missing grounds, improperly installed hardline, etc. Many

Re: [WISPA] ethernet and towers with FM transmitters

2012-02-29 Thread Matt Hoppes
We are on a toewer near an AM tower I named Sparky because of the RF burns I got terminating the cat5. -- Matt Hoppes Director of Information Technology Indigo Wireless 1 (570) 723-7312 Justin Wilson li...@mtin.net wrote: The biggest thing I stress with any FM tower is to get an

Re: [WISPA] ethernet and towers with FM transmitters

2012-02-29 Thread Ben West
Might anyone have a recommendation for a cheap supplier of ferrite beads large enough to fit thick STP, e.g. like Ubiquiti tough cable? -- Ben West http://gowasabi.net b...@gowasabi.net ___ Wireless mailing list Wireless@wispa.org

Re: [WISPA] ethernet and towers with FM transmitters

2012-02-29 Thread Greg Ihnen
Something I've heard talked about in ham/engineering circles is don't have cable runs that are near a half wavelength or multiple half wavelengths of the frequency that's giving you trouble. It's a last ditch effort but it might be worth thinking about. Ferrites are great. When you put them

Re: [WISPA] ethernet and towers with FM transmitters

2012-02-29 Thread Josh Luthman
I know this fits Mohawk direct burial cable but it didn't solve my ethernet problems on an FM tower. http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Fair-Rite/0431164181/?qs=sGAEpiMZZMukHu%252bjC5l7Yer6NHO3r2EH2hq2kvibEAY%3D Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337

Re: [WISPA] ethernet and towers with FM transmitters

2012-02-29 Thread Fred Goldstein
At 2/29/2012 02:44 PM, Matt Hoppes wrote: We are on a toewer near an AM tower I named Sparky because of the RF burns I got terminating the cat5. -- An AM tower is supposed to be hot, since the tower is the antenna. An FM or TV tower is supposed to be a grounded support structure for the actual

Re: [WISPA] ethernet and towers with FM transmitters

2012-02-29 Thread Larry Weidig
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Re: [WISPA] ethernet and towers with FM transmitters

2012-02-29 Thread Eric Tykwinski
Monoprice has them, don't know exactly how cheap compared to others they are though: http://www.monoprice.com/products/subdepartment.asp?c_id=102 http://www.monoprice.com/products/subdepartment.asp?c_id=102cp_id=10240cs _id=1024011 cp_id=10240cs_id=1024011 Sincerely, Eric Tykwinski

Re: [WISPA] ethernet and towers with FM transmitters

2012-02-29 Thread Matt Hoppes
Yes.. I'd never mount to an AM tower but we were next to one on an FM tower. Matt Hoppes Director of Information Technology Indigo Wireless +1 (570) 723-7312 On 2/29/12 2:58 PM, Fred Goldstein wrote: At 2/29/2012 02:44 PM, Matt Hoppes wrote: We are on a toewer near an AM tower I named Sparky

Re: [WISPA] ethernet and towers with FM transmitters

2012-02-29 Thread Marlon K. Schafer (509-982-2181)
Dexter Magnetics 847-956-1140 0431164181 Those are big enough to wrap the cat5 through 3 times. marlon - Original Message - From: Ben West To: WISPA General List Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 11:58 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] ethernet and towers with FM transmitters

Re: [WISPA] transparent caching solution w/TPROXY

2012-02-29 Thread Matt
I'll check out those other caching solutions. I was going through the ryohnosuke.com website, it's in Spanish (Via google translate). The main company referred me to him to coordinate since he speaks English. To get it setup in the Mikrotik it took a couple of mangle prerouting rules and a

Re: [WISPA] Excede (viasat-1) Satalitte Internet

2012-02-29 Thread Daniel White
It still has exceedingly bad latency just like any other satellite service, but the capacity figures are true (at least until those spot beams become more saturated) Also watch out for the bandwidth caps, and contract terms. I'm not sure I would use Skype or Vonage on a service like that.

Re: [WISPA] Excede (viasat-1) Satalitte Internet

2012-02-29 Thread Greg Ihnen
I'm not familiar with them but that service has got to have bandwidth caps like DirecWay. Also it's hard to believe that Skype and Vonage would work well because they must be over-sold (high contention ratio) at that price. Greg On Feb 29, 2012, at 8:58 PM, ~NGL~ wrote: Anyone run into Excede