Re: [WISPA] Does anybody have any ideas?

2010-04-01 Thread Blake Bowers
70KW linears? I throw the BS flag on that one. 500 miles with no skip? That pesky law of physics throws the BS flag on that one. I would LOVE to see a mobile antenna capable of handling 70KW. Much less the power source, as well as the feedline. Don't take your organs to heaven, heaven

Re: [WISPA] Speaking of Tranzeo......

2010-04-01 Thread Steve Barnes
I bought 40 NS2, 20 NS2 Loco, and 15 Powerstation 17D so far. The UBNT handle multi-path better. The UBNT interface has a problem from time to time. I have more issues with retries and stable connections to Mikrotik in some instances. I have real trouble making UBNT work with StarOS AP's

Re: [WISPA] What Dual Lan Router

2010-04-01 Thread Mark Dueck
I've used ClearOS for a few years and I'm very happy with it. You can add Nics on the fly to add as many as you want. Weights can be assigned per WAN, and fail over happens automatically. Even if you have a client routed over a certain WAN, the client will automatically fail-over to other

Re: [WISPA] Speaking of Tranzeo......

2010-04-01 Thread Jason Hensley
I haven't tried UBNT gear for our CPE's, but I know that about 4 years ago I dumped Tranzeo due to issues with dead CPE's coming to me. I have used the XR3's and they seem to work great. I went to Deliberant for my standard gear and haven't looked back. Deliberant now has a CPE (2Ghz model or

Re: [WISPA] Speaking of Tranzeo......

2010-04-01 Thread Stuart Pierce
Prices are all over the place if you don't mind eBay, but I think the SL2-15's can be had for $125 or less. I've only had maybe 2 in 8 years get water in them, a Q-15 and Q-19. The 15 I drilled a weep hole in the corner, drained dried, and it's up and running today. The 19 was filled over

Re: [WISPA] Speaking of Tranzeo......

2010-04-01 Thread Julius Igugu
How good is the Ethernet surge protection on these new units? I have lost lots of their previous model CPEs due to failed Ethernet ports (some tranzeos and UBNT gear too!). Julius Igugu Webcenta Wireless. On 4/1/2010 1:25 PM, Jason Hensley wrote: I haven't tried UBNT gear for our CPE's, but I

Re: [WISPA] Speaking of Tranzeo......

2010-04-01 Thread Jason Hensley
Other than hard lightning hits (meaning, blew other things in the house too), I haven't had an Ethernet failure on one of these in a LONG time, and really, don't know that I've ever had just an Ethernet failure on one. Tranzeo's we had that way too often - would associate, would just not pass

Re: [WISPA] Speaking of Tranzeo......

2010-04-01 Thread Stuart Pierce
I've used almost everything it seems and I do have UBNT deployed and in the field a number of units. The price is certainly one of the best things. However they do have their idiosyncrasies just like everyone. Right now it seems you have to fudge around with UBNT to get a good stable

Re: [WISPA] Speaking of Tranzeo......

2010-04-01 Thread Harold Bledsoe
We've put in a lot of effort to harden our devices. The result is that we have a very, very low failure rate on the CPE-2 CPE-5 -- a lot lower than the previous Realtek based products. I'm happy to answer any questions. -Hal On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 07:42 -0500, Jason Hensley wrote: Other than

Re: [WISPA] Speaking of Tranzeo......

2010-04-01 Thread Stuart Pierce
I cringe at having the WLAN be a DHCP client, seems like it takes forever to get an ip address hopefully the first time. -- Original Message -- From: Justin Wilson li...@mtin.net Reply-To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010

Re: [WISPA] Speaking of Tranzeo......

2010-04-01 Thread Kurt Fankhauser
Never had a tranzeo ethernet failure as long as the CPE was grounded to a good earth ground, (tv tower) and I used the green ground wire on the POE injector and ground that to the faceplate cover screw on the electric outlet inside customer house. Now if either of those two aren’t grounded then

Re: [WISPA] Speaking of Tranzeo......

2010-04-01 Thread Kosinet Wireless
It was one of those pick something type deals for our expansion. I liked the look / price of the Ubiquity stuff, but hearing complaints about short supply and firmware issues regarding such a new product prompted the decision to go with the Tranzeo stuff. That, and a couple of my closest WISP

Re: [WISPA] Bit Cap Thresholds, etc

2010-04-01 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
- Original Message - From: Jason Wallace supp...@azii.net To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 10:24 AM Subject: [WISPA] Bit Cap Thresholds, etc I have a few questions for those of you who sell bandwidth by the byte: 1. What is the threshold you

Re: [WISPA] What Dual Lan Router

2010-04-01 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
I've moved to the MT 5 port units for that kind of work. Pretty cheap and very very flexible. marlon - Original Message - From: ~NGL~ n...@ngl.net To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 10:33 AM Subject: [WISPA] What Dual Lan Router What Dual Wan

Re: [WISPA] Does anybody have any ideas?

2010-04-01 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
- Original Message - From: Justin Wilson li...@mtin.net To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org; Forbes Mercy forbes.me...@wabroadband.com Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 11:01 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Does anybody have any ideas? All sites have good, clean power? Do the logs

Re: [WISPA] Speaking of Tranzeo......

2010-04-01 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
I've never had any luck with Tranzeo AP's. Not bad for REALLY low volume stuff, maybe. I use mostly MT ap's and haven't looked back. Either xr2 or the new Readylink radios in them. We've got hundreds of tranzeo client radios out there. I'm still buying new ones. They work great.

Re: [WISPA] Speaking of Tranzeo......

2010-04-01 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
I've seen that happen a few times, pretty rare though. Now the AP's on the other hand. marlon - Original Message - From: Justin Wilson li...@mtin.net To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 12:37 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Speaking of Tranzeo..

Re: [WISPA] Speaking of Tranzeo......

2010-04-01 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
I've had to move a lot of the pre v3 devices off of router mode. The router in them can't keep up with the newer browsers when they open 800 connections at once. Or if there are two or three people in the house at once. Symptoms were strange things like, google would work great, face book

Re: [WISPA] Speaking of Tranzeo......

2010-04-01 Thread Justin Wilson
IMHO router OS 4.x is still quite broken when it comes to wireless stuff anyway. -- Justin Wilson j...@mtin.net http://www.mtin.net/blog Wisp Consulting ­ Tower Climbing ­ Network Support From: Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.com Reply-To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Date: Thu,

Re: [WISPA] Does anybody have any ideas?

2010-04-01 Thread Mike Hammett
I had that happen on an RB493. I got tired of it and replaced it with an RB493AH. I opened up the 493 and saw some physical damage on the board, of unknown origin. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com --

Re: [WISPA] What Dual Lan Router

2010-04-01 Thread ~NGL~
Exactly what model do you use? Thanx NGL -- From: Marlon K. Schafer o...@odessaoffice.com Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 6:35 AM To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Subject: Re: [WISPA] What Dual Lan Router I've moved to the MT 5 port units

Re: [WISPA] Speaking of Tranzeo......

2010-04-01 Thread Kosinet Wireless
Tried the Hotfix firmware 4.0.5 - No improvement. Does anyone have the older 3.x firmware they can send me? The Radio is a TR-SL2-15. I can't find anywhere to download the real old firmware. Thanks, Gary.

Re: [WISPA] Speaking of Tranzeo......

2010-04-01 Thread ~NGL~
Is it the same as the TR 902 Series? NGL -- From: Kosinet Wireless wirel...@kosinet.com Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 8:23 AM To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Subject: Re: [WISPA] Speaking of Tranzeo.. Tried the Hotfix firmware 4.0.5

Re: [WISPA] Speaking of Tranzeo......

2010-04-01 Thread Mark Dueck
I do believe that it's the same as the older CPQ's. I could send it to you if you need it. On 04/01/2010 10:01 AM, ~NGL~ wrote: Is it the same as the TR 902 Series? NGL -- From: Kosinet Wireless wirel...@kosinet.com Sent: Thursday, April 01,

[WISPA] Blocking UDP traffic

2010-04-01 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
While working on our bandwidth monitoring system, we noticed a lot of strange traffic that had no apparent route through our system, but was coming across the wire between our core router and our NAT router. The traffic would be destined for addresses like '192.168.0.10', '192.168.4.5' and

Re: [WISPA] ubnt bridging

2010-04-01 Thread RickG
I had a similar situation recently that I never figured out. WRAP/StarOS on a tower and for some reason the CM9 radio card would no longer connect to the source for backhaul. So, I added a BM5 in bridge mode to the ethernet port. All the clients on the StarOS/WRAP worked great but I could no

[WISPA] April Fools!

2010-04-01 Thread RickG
http://techcrunch.com/april-fools-shenanigans/ On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Rogelio scubac...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Justin Wilson li...@mtin.net wrote:    You can use connect lists in Mikrotik to force clients to connect at minimum levels. This way you don’t

Re: [WISPA] Bit Cap Thresholds, etc

2010-04-01 Thread RickG
Marlon, Out of curiosity, do you know your total capacity available to each of your subs? Can they ALL actually get 10gigs/month if they ALL tried to do it? To be honest, I have not taken the time to figure out this number for my network which is part of the reason I shy away from going to by the

[WISPA] Google

2010-04-01 Thread RickG
Interesting: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/think-big-with-gig-our-experimental.html I wonder if there would be anything to gain by working with them? Assuming they would work with a WISP. WISPA Wants You!

Re: [WISPA] Google

2010-04-01 Thread Josh Luthman
Do you realize that was almost two months ago? There was a big discussion about it here I believe. 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

Re: [WISPA] Speaking of Tranzeo......

2010-04-01 Thread Kurt Fankhauser
You need to have firmware version 5.0.4 The early hotfix did not fix the problems. I have tried everything back to 3.6.7 and they all have problems in router mode. HOWEVER, 5.0.4 fixed the router-mode problem. I can not stress enough how you need to be running 5.0.4. I am running a CPQ

Re: [WISPA] Speaking of Tranzeo......

2010-04-01 Thread Josh Luthman
He didn't even say YMMV! 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 Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 12:21 AM, Kurt Fankhauser

Re: [WISPA] Speaking of Tranzeo......

2010-04-01 Thread RickG
Same experience here although having good results migrating to UBNT. Still miss the Tranzeo units at times though! On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Kurt Fankhauser k...@wavelinc.com wrote: I have 350+ Tranzeo CPE's in the field. Love em, The AP's are good too, pretty much set and forget, but I

Re: [WISPA] Speaking of Tranzeo......

2010-04-01 Thread RickG
If any trees are in the Fresnel zone, I get better results with Tranzeo. Otherwise, Ubiquity is very easy to install (less parts) and it has an easy to get to RESET SWITCH! Oh, and I love the POE units - no more accidental pulled the plug out by the customer. On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Josh

Re: [WISPA] Speaking of Tranzeo......

2010-04-01 Thread RickG
Re: Web interface - use Firefox. IE doesnt work well with UBNT for some reason. 2010/4/1 Justin Wilson li...@mtin.net:    Have several POPs with Ubiquity on them.   Only thing I have found so far are:    1.Web Interface seems flaky at times.  Several clients simply stop responding to web

Re: [WISPA] Speaking of Tranzeo......

2010-04-01 Thread RickG
Strange. I mostly have StarOS/WRAP (v2) and no issues with UBNT or anything else I've tried. What version are you running? On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Steve Barnes st...@pcswin.com wrote: I bought 40 NS2, 20 NS2 Loco, and 15 Powerstation 17D so far.  The UBNT handle multi-path better.  The

Re: [WISPA] Speaking of Tranzeo......

2010-04-01 Thread RickG
Dont say smartbridge - give me a headache! Took 2 called the doctor in the morning. He said dont use smartbridge :) *center pin negative? On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Stuart Pierce spie...@avolve.net wrote: Prices are all over the place if you don't mind eBay, but I think the SL2-15's can

Re: [WISPA] Speaking of Tranzeo......

2010-04-01 Thread Kurt Fankhauser
I actually love how the Tranzeo doesn't have a reset switch, I'm the only person that knows the password so all of those deployed units are only useful to me, to everyone else their just paperweights. Kurt Fankhauser WAVELINC P.O. Box 126 Bucyrus, OH 44820 419-562-6405 www.wavelinc.com

Re: [WISPA] Google

2010-04-01 Thread RickG
Um, April Fools only I'm, the fool! I must of missed it. I'll look in the archives. Thanks! On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.com wrote: Do you realize that was almost two months ago? There was a big discussion about it here I believe. Josh Luthman

Re: [WISPA] Google

2010-04-01 Thread Josh Luthman
Hey if you see every major news article and read every thread on this mailing list...you need some professional help! 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

Re: [WISPA] Speaking of Tranzeo......

2010-04-01 Thread RickG
Kurt, I can come up there and convert your paperweights to workable radio any day of the week :) -RickG On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Kurt Fankhauser k...@wavelinc.com wrote: I actually love how the Tranzeo doesn't have a reset switch, I'm the only person that knows the password so all of

Re: [WISPA] Google

2010-04-01 Thread RickG
Already needed that! On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 12:48 AM, Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.com wrote: Hey if you see every major news article and read every thread on this mailing list...you need some professional help! Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St