Re: [WISPA] UBNT repeater

2010-10-15 Thread Fred Moyer
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Jerry Richardson jrichard...@aircloud.com wrote: But I think that there is a version of openwrt or ddwrt for ubnt ns2? Any of the Atheros specific firmware images for OpenWRT or DD-WRT should load on the ns2. I think this is what you would need:

Re: [WISPA] Looking for Bandwidth Manager

2010-10-15 Thread Scott Reed
Forbes, just be careful, here. ALL equipment exhibits some sort of goofiness when it hits its limit. If the processor can not handle the load, bad things happen. If it runs out of memory, it does goofy things. Whether it is an MT or Cisco, it will fail at some level of loading. The

Re: [WISPA] Looking for Bandwidth Manager

2010-10-15 Thread Mike Hammett
You're leaving Mikrotik, but... All of my bandwidth management is done at the tower and is performed by Mikrotik. The non-customer facing routers don't do anything but route, though will eventually adopt Butch's QoS I'm sure. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions

Re: [WISPA] Looking for Bandwidth Manager

2010-10-15 Thread Mike Hammett
I think it feels like you're walking into the wolves' den because everyone else has such excellent experiences with Mikrotik routing. I can assure you that it's not the load alone that's making Mikrotik flake out. I'm not going to pretend I know your network size or capacity requirements,

Re: [WISPA] WISPA Ex Parte Filing from yesterday

2010-10-15 Thread Mike Hammett
Seems like an overly pompous response to an overtly obvious statement. No site we'll do is transmit only or receive only. All will do 2 way communications, though Brian's suggestions would have transmit only and receive only radios. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions

Re: [WISPA] Looking for Bandwidth Manager

2010-10-15 Thread Fred Goldstein
At 10/15/2010 07:45 AM, MikeH wrote: I think it feels like you're walking into the wolves' den because everyone else has such excellent experiences with Mikrotik routing. I can assure you that it's not the load alone that's making Mikrotik flake out. I'm not going to pretend I know your

Re: [WISPA] Looking for Bandwidth Manager

2010-10-15 Thread Stuart Pierce
Well I really don't feel good saying TrafficXpress or whatever their latest incarnation is from Logisense, but see if that is something that you can use. -- Original Message -- From: Forbes Mercy forbes.me...@wabroadband.com Reply-To: WISPA General List

Re: [WISPA] Looking for Bandwidth Manager

2010-10-15 Thread support
NETEQ or PFSense On 10/15/2010 10:34 AM, Stuart Pierce wrote: Well I really don't feel good saying TrafficXpress or whatever their latest incarnation is from Logisense, but see if that is something that you can use. -- Original Message -- From:

Re: [WISPA] Looking for Bandwidth Manager

2010-10-15 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
Dennis has been around for a very long time. http://www.etinc.com/ marlon - Original Message - From: Forbes Mercy forbes.me...@wabroadband.com To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 3:15 PM Subject: [WISPA] Looking for Bandwidth Manager In my

Re: [WISPA] Looking for Bandwidth Manager

2010-10-15 Thread Travis Johnson
Run... run far far away... We ran an ETINC box for many years, until we couldn't take his support and attitude any longer... or his nazi licensing system. Travis Microserv On 10/15/2010 10:36 AM, Marlon K. Schafer wrote: Dennis has been around for a very long time. http://www.etinc.com/

Re: [WISPA] WISPA Ex Parte Filing from yesterday

2010-10-15 Thread Matt Jenkins
Brian, I really like your idea for a full duplex system. Your example does not appear to have much foliage and has rather high density. I feel that TVWS should be used primarily for the low density with lots of foliage. High density areas like that could very easily be serviced with higher

Re: [WISPA] Looking for Bandwidth Manager

2010-10-15 Thread David E. Smith
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:36, Marlon K. Schafer o...@odessaoffice.comwrote: Dennis has been around for a very long time. http://www.etinc.com/ I remember owning one of these, a long time ago. We had to pull it not because of any issues with the software, but because of (indirect) hardware

Re: [WISPA] WISPA Ex Parte Filing from yesterday

2010-10-15 Thread Brian Webster
Matt, What do you have your availability percentages set at in your network properties of Radio Mobile? For any tree class going above 180 or 200% tells me you have something set wrong in the RF tool somewhere else. The examples I posted are actually in fairly dense forested

Re: [WISPA] Looking for Bandwidth Manager

2010-10-15 Thread Forbes Mercy
The response to my request has been overwhelming, this morning it was amazing, response after great response. Because of the strong insistence that Mikrotik is so great we are trying to make it work. Dennis helped a lot by setting up remote sys log using software we already have. We are

Re: [WISPA] saturate frequency

2010-10-15 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
Yeah, that was my first thought. The only reason to do this is to cause problems for someone. Do NOT go that route Scott. It's always the second one in a fight that gets into the most trouble. Get a hold of a spectrum analyzer, document what's being done and then sue their tails off. The

Re: [WISPA] Looking for Bandwidth Manager

2010-10-15 Thread Larry A Weidig
I am in 100% agreement with Travis on this. We had the EXACT same experience. * Larry A. Weidig (lwei...@excel.net) * Excel.Net,Inc. - http://www.excel.net/ * (920) 452-0455 - Sheboygan/Plymouth area * (888) 489-9995 - Other areas, toll-free -Original Message- From:

Re: [WISPA] Looking for Bandwidth Manager

2010-10-15 Thread Mark Nash
I can respect your frustration, Forbes. Some may remember a thread that I brought up Is RIP Stable because our network engineer swore up down that RIP was flaky between two sites and the upstream router was dropping all the routes to this site every few minutes etc etc etc yada yada yada blah

Re: [WISPA] Looking for Bandwidth Manager

2010-10-15 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
Yeah, his attitude has cost him a LOT of business over the years. He and I had a number of long talks about that quite some time back and it seemed like he was getting better. How long has it been since you've worked with him? BTW, according to his site, a license for his software is only $500

Re: [WISPA] Looking for Bandwidth Manager

2010-10-15 Thread Ryan Ghering
I agree, when I first came to work for my current employer he had etinc bandwidth managers.. We ended up calling him the bandwidth nazi.. he was horrible to deal with and thought that everyone was stupid and treated you that way.. Ryan On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Travis Johnson

Re: [WISPA] Looking for Bandwidth Manager

2010-10-15 Thread Jeff Broadwick - Lists
No Bandwidth Management for you.2 weeks! _ From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Travis Johnson Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 12:47 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Looking for Bandwidth Manager Run... run far far

[WISPA] Speaking of cool amps

2010-10-15 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
http://www.shireeninc.com/amplifiers-24-2watt-outdoor.html hehehehe marlon WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/

Re: [WISPA] Speaking of cool amps

2010-10-15 Thread Fred Goldstein
At 10/15/2010 03:54 PM, MarlonS wrote: http://www.shireeninc.com/amplifiers-24-2watt-outdoor.html hehehehe Hey, watt's a 4-watt amp [pun intended] among friends? Oddly enough, I probably could use these legally, since they all hit amateur frequencies as well as ISM frequencies. They might be

Re: [WISPA] Speaking of cool amps

2010-10-15 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
They've been cracking down on our business too. And that's a good thing as far as I'm concerned. Hi powered systems cause a lot of trouble in nearly any case. I had to laugh at the earlier example turning out to be hyperlink amps! We hear that name so seldom anymore I thought they'd finally

Re: [WISPA] Speaking of cool amps

2010-10-15 Thread Faisal Imtiaz
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Re: [WISPA] Speaking of cool amps

2010-10-15 Thread RickG
This reminds me of the old CB amplifier business, which the FCC eventually cracked down upon. You mean they tried cracking down upon. CB's are still land of the wild west. When is the last time you heard someone getting a penalty for an over-amp'ed CB? Reminds me of handgun laws cracking down

Re: [WISPA] Looking for Bandwidth Manager

2010-10-15 Thread Dan Ferguson
We had an ETINC box as well, I second what Travis says. Except it was actually worse than Travis describes. Avoid at all costs. - Dan On 10/15/2010 8:47 AM, Travis Johnson wrote: Run... run far far away... We ran an ETINC box for many years, until we couldn't take his support and

Re: [WISPA] Looking for Bandwidth Manager

2010-10-15 Thread Glenn Kelley
I cannot imagine how someone can charge what this guy does for a basic front end to pf in bsd. You could hire someone to write something for much less ... amazing vyatta does bandwidth shaping in their paid product - but in my humble opinion - it is lacking big time. pfsense does it - as

Re: [WISPA] Speaking of cool amps

2010-10-15 Thread Robert West
I used to live in Anytown. It sucked. From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of RickG Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 8:38 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Speaking of cool amps This reminds me of the old CB amplifier business,