[WISPA] MikroTik Consultant

2010-05-26 Thread Blair Davis
Looking for a mikrotik consultant who has worked with Hotspot, User Manager and Authorize.Net I wish to setup a new hotspot system for my campgrounds. Blair West Michigan Wireless ISP WISPA Wants You! Join

Re: [WISPA] Newly open source BitTorrent protocol aims to unclog tubes

2010-05-26 Thread Robert West
I can understand how it would sense network usage on the customer side but how in the heck is the protocol able to sense what the rest of my network is doing? Even with that, I don't see how it will stop sucking capacity when it is still transferring the same amount of data no matter what time of

Re: [WISPA] Nationwide POTs Aggregator

2010-05-26 Thread Jeremie Chism
They have a portal you can use to access all incoming and outgoing faxes. They are stored there for some period of time (not sure how long, I think at least a month). If you try to view the faxes in IE you get an error message. They say they are working on it but it has been going on for

Re: [WISPA] Nationwide POTs Aggregator

2010-05-26 Thread Mike Hammett
I've been trying to get information out of FaxBocchs (or however you spell it) about their coverage, since they pretty much guarantee Faxes will pass over IP. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com On 5/25/2010 7:45 PM, Charles Wu wrote: Does such a thing

Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth

2010-05-26 Thread Marco Coelho
Akami requires you to hit 75 Mb/s of their content before they want to add a server to your noc. mc WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/

Re: [WISPA] Nationwide POTs Aggregator

2010-05-26 Thread Jeremie Chism
I can tell you how it works. To make this answer short.the faxxbochs functions like a receiving fax machine. When you send a fax the faxxbochs generates a dial tone, the fax sends the fax to the the faxxbochs. The faxxbochs converts it to a file and sends it to their fax servers on the

Re: [WISPA] Nationwide POTs Aggregator

2010-05-26 Thread Mike Hammett
Right. I'm trying to get their NPA-NXX coverage, but when they told me my area, they reported NPA-LATA, which is useless. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com On 5/26/2010 9:21 AM, Jeremie Chism wrote: I can tell you how it works. To make this answer

Re: [WISPA] Nationwide POTs Aggregator

2010-05-26 Thread Jeremie Chism
I have a good contact there. Hit me offlist and I will send it to you. Sent from my iPhone On May 26, 2010, at 9:57 AM, Mike Hammett wispawirel...@ics-il.net wrote: Right. I'm trying to get their NPA-NXX coverage, but when they told me my area, they reported NPA-LATA, which is useless.

Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth

2010-05-26 Thread jp
There is no such thing as collisions now on ethernet/fiber as we use switches instead of hubs. Each link is full duplex and capable of handing 100% capacity. However if you basing utilization on 5 minute averages like MRTG, keep in mind that's a 5 minute average and you could be going from

[WISPA] Free Public WiFi

2010-05-26 Thread Steve Barnes
I am embarrassed to ask here but I am going to anyway. I have some customers laptops that have been here lately with the Free Public WiFi ssid on them. I know that this is a Microsoft screw up on the Zero Wireless Connections. I have made the stations so that they can only connect to a AP

Re: [WISPA] Free Public WiFi

2010-05-26 Thread Justin Wilson
http://airheads.arubanetworks.com/article/how-wifi-ad-hoc-networks-are-zombi es-or-free-public-wifi-phenomenon-part-2 To stop WZC from doing this you can either turn it off or set it to only use APs. To turn it off for once and all do a Start - Run and type in services.msc. Once in the services

Re: [WISPA] Free Public WiFi

2010-05-26 Thread Patrick Leary
...a little OT, but, after being party to all the free craziness of Earthlink, etc. just the title Free Public Wi-Fi makes me break out in hives... Patrick Leary Aperto Networks 813.426.4230 mobile -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org

[WISPA] Fast DNS cache

2010-05-26 Thread Mike Hammett
I am setting up some new DNS servers and I'd like to figure out what the quickest caching DNS server is. Google keeps telling me to go to Open DNS. I'm not opposed to them and may use them as either primary or secondary, but I want at least one server within my own network. Recommendations?

Re: [WISPA] Fast DNS cache

2010-05-26 Thread David E. Smith
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:40, Mike Hammett wispawirel...@ics-il.net wrote: I am setting up some new DNS servers and I'd like to figure out what the quickest caching DNS server is.  Google keeps telling me to go to Open DNS.  I'm not opposed to them and may use them as either primary or

Re: [WISPA] Fast DNS cache

2010-05-26 Thread Jerry Richardson
I can't believe how fast the google servers are. -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of David E. Smith Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 9:48 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Fast DNS cache On Wed, May 26, 2010 at

[WISPA] WISPA Regional Meeting Registration Site

2010-05-26 Thread Rick Harnish
I have just taken the Registration page live for the WISPA Regional Meeting in St. Louis on July 21st and 22nd. I will update the show schedule as more details are known.http://wispaslrm.eventbrite.com http://wispaslrm.eventbrite.com Thanks, Rick Harnish President WISPA

Re: [WISPA] Fast DNS cache

2010-05-26 Thread Travis Johnson
Not faster than having your own servers on your own network... ;) Travis Microserv Jerry Richardson wrote: I can't believe how fast the google servers are. -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of David E. Smith Sent:

Re: [WISPA] Fast DNS cache

2010-05-26 Thread Kevin Neal
Centos + Unbound is what I'm using at one location. -Kevin On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Travis Johnson t...@ida.net wrote: Not faster than having your own servers on your own network... ;) Travis Microserv Jerry Richardson wrote: I can't believe how fast the google servers are.

Re: [WISPA] Fast DNS cache

2010-05-26 Thread Jerry Richardson
That is true. I can live with it though ;-) Ping statistics for 8.8.8.8: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 3ms, Maximum = 4ms, Average = 3ms -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org

Re: [WISPA] Fast DNS cache

2010-05-26 Thread Greg Ihnen
That's ping time not dns resolution time, but I guess it at least says something about their connection. On May 26, 2010, at 12:35 PM, Jerry Richardson wrote: That is true. I can live with it though ;-) Ping statistics for 8.8.8.8: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),

Re: [WISPA] Fast DNS cache

2010-05-26 Thread Travis Johnson
So, at 0ms does that mean I'm in the Matrix? :) Ping statistics for 69.20.128.5: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 1ms, Average = 0ms Travis Microserv Jerry Richardson wrote: That is true. I can

Re: [WISPA] Free Public WiFi

2010-05-26 Thread Robert West
For fun I name all the private wifi routers to an SSID of Virus. The attempts to connect have dropped considerably. -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Patrick Leary Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 12:24 PM To: WISPA

Re: [WISPA] Fast DNS cache

2010-05-26 Thread Jerry Richardson
You are THE ONE! -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Travis Johnson Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 10:09 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Fast DNS cache So, at 0ms does that mean I'm in the Matrix? :) Ping

Re: [WISPA] Fast DNS cache

2010-05-26 Thread Greg Ihnen
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/IP/DNSTester.aspx Greg On May 26, 2010, at 12:38 PM, Travis Johnson wrote: So, at 0ms does that mean I'm in the Matrix? :) Ping statistics for 69.20.128.5: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:

[WISPA] Mikrotik routing/queing problem

2010-05-26 Thread Kevin Sullivan
I think I have found a legitimate bug. I'm running an RB1000 that we put in service about 2 weeks ago (it replaced another RB1000 that was having similar problems). Here is what is going on: Linux router A - [ether1] RB1000 [ether3] --- Linux router B The RB1000 above is

Re: [WISPA] Fast DNS cache

2010-05-26 Thread Jerry Richardson
From our NOC. First query=309ms. Cached=7ms dig afmug.com @8.8.8.8 ;; Query time: 309 msec ;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8) ;; WHEN: Wed May 26 10:09:45 2010 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 43 dig afmug.com @8.8.8.8 ;; Query time: 7 msec ;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8) ;; WHEN: Wed May 26 10:10:06 2010 ;; MSG

Re: [WISPA] Fast DNS cache

2010-05-26 Thread Chris Gotstein
I can beat that :) dig afmug.com ;; Query time: 3 msec ;; SERVER: 66.96.96.10#53(66.96.96.10) ;; WHEN: Wed May 26 12:21:22 2010 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 95 That's an unbound server running on FreeBSD. Chris Gotstein, Sr Network Engineer, UP Logon/Computer Connection UP

Re: [WISPA] Free Public WiFi

2010-05-26 Thread Patrick Leary
That's hilarious. Genius is found in simplicity. Patrick Leary Aperto Networks 813.426.4230 mobile -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Robert West Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 10:10 AM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject:

Re: [WISPA] Urgently need 2 Zx SFP's

2010-05-26 Thread Clint Ricker
Some switches don't work well with copper SFPs because they draw more power. On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Brad Belton b...@belwave.com wrote: To be a bit more specific, we haven't had any issues with our generic fiber SX, LX and ZX SFPs, but the copper GigE SFPs do not seem to work.  It's

Re: [WISPA] Fast DNS cache

2010-05-26 Thread Tom DeReggi
Not necessarilly. There are two points for bottle necks. One is the time it takes to respond to an inquirey from your end user, for cached content. That can be related to distance to the end user, processsing power/load. The second is time to resolve DNS info and populate your cache, when a

Re: [WISPA] Free Public WiFi

2010-05-26 Thread Rubens Kuhl
Making images appear upside-down is more fun: http://www.ex-parrot.com/pete/upside-down-ternet.html Rubens On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Robert West robert.w...@just-micro.com wrote: For fun I name all the private wifi routers to an SSID of Virus.  The attempts to connect have dropped

Re: [WISPA] Free Public WiFi

2010-05-26 Thread Robert West
The genius of that is indescribable. It's one thing to fight them off but to simply allow them access then to mess with them. Priceless. -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Rubens Kuhl Sent: Wednesday, May 26,

Re: [WISPA] Free Public WiFi

2010-05-26 Thread Randy Cosby
Someone needs to build that into the Mikrotik. On 5/26/2010 11:53 AM, Robert West wrote: The genius of that is indescribable. It's one thing to fight them off but to simply allow them access then to mess with them. Priceless. -Original Message- From:

Re: [WISPA] Fast DNS cache

2010-05-26 Thread Mike Hammett
http://code.google.com/p/namebench/ http://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com On 5/26/2010 12:12 PM, Greg Ihnen wrote: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/IP/DNSTester.aspx Greg On May 26, 2010, at 12:38 PM, Travis Johnson

[WISPA] Ligo Wave

2010-05-26 Thread Steve Barnes
Looking at pros and Cons of the LigoWave 5GHz PTP MiMo Units. I have a price of $1200 /end compared to $2100 /end for RADWIN 2000c. RADWIN is solid and a good unit. But saving $1800 on a single link is a extra vacation. Steve Barnes Manager PCS-WIN RC-WiFi Wireless Internet Service

Re: [WISPA] Fast DNS cache

2010-05-26 Thread Jon Auer
Another unbound user! high five! But... I can beat that :) Querying Unbound on Solaris 10/Sparc, across cisco sup720 router. (0.700ms pings to DNS server) ;; Query time: 1 msec ;; SERVER: 209.242.224.245#53(209.242.224.245) ;; WHEN: Wed May 26 13:50:31 2010 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 95 On Wed, May 26,

Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik routing/queing problem

2010-05-26 Thread Greg Ihnen
What version of RouterOS are you running? Greg On May 26, 2010, at 12:46 PM, Kevin Sullivan wrote: I think I have found a legitimate bug. I'm running an RB1000 that we put in service about 2 weeks ago (it replaced another RB1000 that was having similar problems). Here is what is going

Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik routing/queing problem

2010-05-26 Thread Josh Luthman
Also what firmware (sys routerboar pr)? 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 Wed, May 26, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Greg Ihnen

Re: [WISPA] Fast DNS cache

2010-05-26 Thread Jon Auer
For what its worth, Google namebench ( http://code.google.com/p/namebench/ ) showed that our caching DNS servers were faster than Google's public ones or OpenDNS. Guess our users keep the cache warm. I'd encourage everyone to run namebench and tune up their DNS servers or select the fastest ones.

Re: [WISPA] Ligo Wave

2010-05-26 Thread Justin Wilson
Have deployed 5 of the Mimo ligowave units. Not impressed when comparing to what they say. Havign said that I am impressed with what they can do. I have not checked lately. Are they FCC Certified? -- Justin Wilson j...@mtin.net http://www.mtin.net/blog Wisp Consulting ­ Tower Climbing ­

Re: [WISPA] Fast DNS cache

2010-05-26 Thread Chris Gotstein
Dang, time to tweak! Chris Gotstein, Sr Network Engineer, UP Logon/Computer Connection UP http://uplogon.com | +1 906 774 4847 | ch...@uplogon.com On 5/26/2010 1:53 PM, Jon Auer wrote: Another unbound user! high five! But... I can beat that :) Querying Unbound on

Re: [WISPA] Ligo Wave

2010-05-26 Thread Harold Bledsoe
Hi Justin, Check with Ligowave support (supp...@ligowave.com) and get an updated fw image. It improves the performance quite a bit especially in noisy environments. And yes they are certified. -Hal On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 15:39 -0400, Justin Wilson wrote: Have deployed 5 of the Mimo ligowave

Re: [WISPA] Free Public WiFi

2010-05-26 Thread RickG
Try Free Porn and see how many connect! On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Robert West robert.w...@just-micro.com wrote: For fun I name all the private wifi routers to an SSID of Virus.  The attempts to connect have dropped considerably. -Original Message- From:

Re: [WISPA] Article in a farm magazine

2010-05-26 Thread Robert West
Interesting. I've sold quite a lot of the old Nano2s to farmers for the same reason. Sometimes over the counter as retail and others where we go out to put in the private link for them One thing all the farmers want is internet in the barn! Bob- -Original Message- From:

Re: [WISPA] Free Public WiFi

2010-05-26 Thread Greg Ihnen
Aren't the two synonymous? Greg On May 26, 2010, at 8:29 PM, RickG wrote: Try Free Porn and see how many connect! On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Robert West robert.w...@just-micro.com wrote: For fun I name all the private wifi routers to an SSID of Virus. The attempts to connect have

Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik routing/queing problem

2010-05-26 Thread RickG
I havent seen that on my RB1000. Do you have the ports locked down to a set rate? On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Kevin Sullivan kevin.sulli...@alyrica.net wrote:  I think I have found a legitimate bug.  I'm running an RB1000 that we put in service about 2 weeks ago (it replaced another RB1000

Re: [WISPA] Free Public WiFi

2010-05-26 Thread RickG
I woudlnt know but some say it costs to get the good stuff. On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 9:40 PM, Greg Ihnen os10ru...@gmail.com wrote: Aren't the two synonymous? Greg On May 26, 2010, at 8:29 PM, RickG wrote: Try Free Porn and see how many connect! On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Robert

Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik routing/queing problem

2010-05-26 Thread Kevin Sullivan
4.9 - Original Message - From: Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.com To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 12:18 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik routing/queing problem Also what firmware (sys routerboar pr)? Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340

Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik routing/queing problem

2010-05-26 Thread Kevin Sullivan
No, it's a gig link, set to auto neg. Kevin - Original Message - From: RickG rgunder...@gmail.com To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 6:55 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik routing/queing problem I havent seen that on my RB1000. Do you have the ports

Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik routing/queing problem

2010-05-26 Thread Josh Luthman
Check that again... [jluth...@jmlhomerouter] sys resour pr uptime: 1w6d11h14m7s version: 4.9 free-memory: 15668kB total-memory: 29944kB cpu: MIPS 24K V7.4 cpu-count: 1 cpu-frequency: