Re: [WISPA] Imagestream (was Vyatta?)

2010-04-16 Thread Brad Belton
own oil that you purchased for a few bucks cheaper and a new air filter.. Doesn't work that way- everyone needs a business model that's profitable. Thanks, ‘S --- Sent mobile (and probably one handed while driving!) On Apr 16, 2010, at 8:50 AM, Brad Belton b...@belwave.com wrote: I may be wrong

Re: [WISPA] Imagestream (was Vyatta?)

2010-04-16 Thread Brad Belton
. Just my 2 cents. / Eje -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Brad Belton Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 11:13 AM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] Imagestream (was Vyatta?) I completely agree if the card installed

Re: [WISPA] Imagestream (was Vyatta?)

2010-04-16 Thread Brad Belton
(US/Can) +1 574-935-8484 x106 (Int'l) -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Brad Belton Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 1:25 PM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] Imagestream (was Vyatta?) The point is If the card

Re: [WISPA] Imagestream (was Vyatta?)

2010-04-16 Thread Brad Belton
Intel Dual Port Pro1000 PCI-X GigE cards will work in a standard 32BIT PCI slot. The Intel Quad Port PCI-X cards will only work in a PCI-X slot. Brad -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Tom Sharples Sent: Friday, April

Re: [WISPA] Vyatta?

2010-04-07 Thread Brad Belton
It all depends on the card as to what a fair price is. We've been buying an Intel based NIC with SFP ports for our MikroTik routers. They come in either PCIx or PCIe form with 2, 4 or 6 port options. They work great. In fact if anyone is interested we currently have a few too many of the PCIe

Re: [WISPA] Replace MT X86 with routerboard?

2010-03-07 Thread Brad Belton
[mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Philip Dorr Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2010 11:26 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Replace MT X86 with routerboard? APC Makes Serial cables for their UPSs. On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Brad Belton b...@belwave.com wrote: Geesh

Re: [WISPA] Replace MT X86 with routerboard?

2010-03-07 Thread Brad Belton
would ever use USB, there's so much more you can do with the smart slot. Kurt Fankhauser WAVELINC P.O. Box 126 Bucyrus, OH 44820 419-562-6405 www.wavelinc.com -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Brad Belton Sent: Saturday

Re: [WISPA] Replace MT X86 with routerboard?

2010-03-06 Thread Brad Belton
Geesh...the RB1100 is a nice step in the right direction, but still no USB port. No USB port - no way to monitor the APC UPS. sigh Best, Brad -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Butch Evans Sent: Saturday, March 06,

Re: [WISPA] Electric Hoist?

2010-03-04 Thread Brad Belton
We looked into this a couple years ago when we faced installing several 4' 6' antennas on top of four water towers. After a hard look at it and even giving a try at raising one 4' antenna ourselves (just to see if we could) we quickly decided it was far more economical to hire a tower crew.

Re: [WISPA] Do yourself a favor

2010-03-04 Thread Brad Belton
Isn't that what the little 10min Lube sticker in the upper left hand corner of your windshield is for? Brad -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Richardson Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 7:06 PM To: WISPA General

Re: [WISPA] Electric Hoist?

2010-03-04 Thread Brad Belton
That's just it. One site to the next could require completely different rigging for success. For example one of the water towers we have is a rounded pumpkin shaped bowl. No way a climber could be out there on the edge because there is no edge! The tower crew fabricated a sled with caster

Re: [WISPA] Fiber Terminations

2010-03-02 Thread Brad Belton
Isn't the trend these days to splice already terminated tails rather than installing connectors? I hear splicing is much faster and touts a less chance of error. At least that's what I learned last time we looked into doing our own fiber terminations... Best, Brad -Original Message-

[WISPA] Looking for MikroTik Routerboard Rack Mount Enclosure...

2010-02-19 Thread Brad Belton
Hello, I think I remember someone posting information on a rack mount case for the RB493. We're looking for a low cost rack mount router and I think someone makes a rack mount enclosure for the RB493. Anyone remember who has these? Thanks! Brad

Re: [WISPA] Looking for MikroTik Routerboard Rack Mount Enclosure...

2010-02-19 Thread Brad Belton
is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” --- Winston Churchill On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Brad Belton b...@belwave.com wrote: Hello, I think I remember someone posting information on a rack mount case for the RB493.  We're looking for a low cost rack

Re: [WISPA] Looking for MikroTik Routerboard Rack Mount Enclosure...

2010-02-19 Thread Brad Belton
...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Brad Belton Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 3:17 PM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] Looking for MikroTik Routerboard Rack Mount Enclosure... Yep, that's it. I found it at Baltic (overseas), but your StreakWave link

Re: [WISPA] Looking for DragonWave Air-Pair cables and feedback...

2010-02-18 Thread Brad Belton
that is long enough for one side, but I need another cable for the other side. Thanks! Brad Belton BelWave Communications O: 817-737-3124 #101 F: 817-336-7031 -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Randy Cosby Sent: Tuesday

Re: [WISPA] Looking for DragonWave Air-Pair cables and feedback...

2010-02-18 Thread Brad Belton
. You'd need more cable for power. At worst you'll need two separate cables, but it's still workable. Randy On 2/18/2010 11:25 AM, Brad Belton wrote: Before I decide on trying Randy's idea, is there anyone that happens to have a DragonWave Air-Pair outdoor cable they're willing to part

Re: [WISPA] Looking for DragonWave Air-Pair cables and feedback...

2010-02-18 Thread Brad Belton
[mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Brad Belton Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 12:49 PM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] Looking for DragonWave Air-Pair cables and feedback... Correct. I've been reading over the manuals Tom was good enough to send me. Thanks again Tom

Re: [WISPA] WISPA WISP Map

2010-02-18 Thread Brad Belton
Hello Rick, Maybe just running through the WISPA Principle Members list and making sure they are on your map would be a good start? Best, Brad -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Rick Harnish Sent: Thursday, February

Re: [WISPA] Looking for DragonWave Air-Pair cables and feedback...

2010-02-18 Thread Brad Belton
not work. Call tech support to find out for sure. It won't cost you anything and they will know for sure. Or send them an e-mail: supp...@dragonwaveinc.com Good Luck -B- Brad Belton wrote: Correct. I've been reading over the manuals Tom was good enough to send me. Thanks again Tom

Re: [WISPA] Looking for DragonWave Air-Pair cables and feedback...

2010-02-18 Thread Brad Belton
Just FYI...DragonWave Support has contacted me and is already on the case. They promise an answer shortly. Certainly acceptable response time. Kudos to DragonWave! Brad -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Brad Belton

Re: [WISPA] Looking for DragonWave Air-Pair cables and feedback...

2010-02-18 Thread Brad Belton
runs into this issue. Thanks, Brad -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Brad Belton Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 1:51 PM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] Looking for DragonWave Air-Pair cables and feedback

Re: [WISPA] Looking for DragonWave Air-Pair cables and feedback...

2010-02-16 Thread Brad Belton
: Re: [WISPA] Looking for DragonWave Air-Pair cables and feedback... On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 12:32 -0600, Brad Belton wrote: Hello, We've inherited a DragonWave Air-Pair radio set and I'm looking for any feedback from those that have deployed these. The good, bad and ugly. We have a few

Re: [WISPA] Looking for DragonWave Air-Pair cables and feedback...

2010-02-16 Thread Brad Belton
were then able to push power + ethernet up on one cable. On 2/16/2010 6:31 AM, Brad Belton wrote: Hello Kristian, Those connectors are similar to what the Trango Apex uses that are too small for an armored outdoor CAT5 cable. It's a shame the product engineers some manufacturers use/have

Re: [WISPA] Found Great VLAN switch

2010-02-15 Thread Brad Belton
Agreed. The Dell 28xx Series is also great value. They work really well for breaking off VLANs from a RouterBoard where we don't have rack space available to us. We trust our datacenter with stacked 6248 switches. The Dell PoE switches are also great. From a management point of view it's

[WISPA] Looking for DragonWave Air-Pair cables and feedback...

2010-02-15 Thread Brad Belton
Hello, We've inherited a DragonWave Air-Pair radio set and I'm looking for any feedback from those that have deployed these. The good, bad and ugly. We'll probably need new cable sets for each end as well, so to any DragonWave vendors on the list please feel free to send me an email with prices

Re: [WISPA] Fwd: (PR) New Lanner Enterprise-Class Net work Appliance Maximizes Ethernet Port Density and Netwo rk Bandwidth by Utilizing the Intel® Xeon® Pro cessor C5500 Series and Intel® 3420 Chipse

2010-02-11 Thread Brad Belton
That is pretty cool! Wonder what the price is? Wonder if you can load MT on itlol Best, Brad -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Gino Villarini Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 4:44 AM To: motor...@afmug.com;

Re: [WISPA] 11Ghz BH comparison-

2010-02-11 Thread Brad Belton
Randy makes a couple points that I concur with. The Apex fiber weather port is for the birds (IMO), but we like that Trango opted for a SFP port rather than forcing you to choose Single-Mode or Multi-Mode at the time of order like BridgeWave does. Ethernet weather ports work OK, but again not

Re: [WISPA] Common Carrier or what: The FCC's role in regulationof net-neutrality

2010-02-05 Thread Brad Belton
of the largest success stories for America. And government assistance (such as FHA loan) was one of the answers to when the private sector was not willing to solve the problem on their own. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband Brad Belton wrote: Jack, Your police

Re: [WISPA] Common Carrier or what: The FCC's role in regulationofnet-neutrality

2010-02-05 Thread Brad Belton
Brad Belton wrote: Jack, Your police analogy is flawed. While it may take a larger police force to serve and insure the safety of a larger population it does not take a larger government body with increased invasion of those people's lives to govern effectively. A larger

Re: [WISPA] Common Carrier or what: The FCC's role in regulation of net-neutrality

2010-02-05 Thread Brad Belton
commonly polarized and I guarantee you we wouldn't be pouring billions every month down useless well. Just my crazy thoughts. Bob- -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Brad Belton Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 10

Re: [WISPA] Common Carrier or what: The FCC's role inregulationof net-neutrality

2010-02-05 Thread Brad Belton
the private sector was not willing to solve the problem on their own. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband Brad Belton wrote: Jack, Your police analogy is flawed. While it may take a larger police force to serve and insure the safety of a larger

Re: [WISPA] Common Carrier or what: TheFCC'sroleinregulationofnet-neutrality

2010-02-05 Thread Brad Belton
: The FCC's role inregulationofnet-neutrality On Feb 5, 2010, at 10:06 AM, Brad Belton wrote: The underlying point still holds true; big government imposing rules on lenders forcing them to lend to those that wouldn't have normally qualified. No, it in fact does not hold true. Since CRA

Re: [WISPA] Common Carrier or what: The FCC's role in regulation of net-neutrality

2010-02-04 Thread Brad Belton
The fundamental difference that Jack fails to recognize is if a bank (or organization other than the government) does treat you unfairly you have recourse. If your own government treats you unfairly, you have little to no recourse. Yes, we can all only hope the majority of Americans will

Re: [WISPA] Common Carrier or what: The FCC's role in regulation of net-neutrality

2010-02-04 Thread Brad Belton
to the community instead of being used in an irresponsible fashion and/or used against the best interests of the community. Best, jack Brad Belton wrote: The fundamental difference that Jack fails to recognize is if a bank (or organization other than the government) does treat you unfairly

Re: [WISPA] Common Carrier or what: The FCC's role in regulation of net-neutrality

2010-02-04 Thread Brad Belton
. jack Brad Belton wrote: Jack, I completely disagree with the notion that America has to become smaller to have a smaller less invasive government! It is a socialist mentality to think that only government can grow America or help Americans. America achieved its success by people utilizing

Re: [WISPA] Semi-OT: Mobile phone platform questions

2010-02-03 Thread Brad Belton
I used to remote desktop from my Sprint Touch phone (and earlier models too). However, a year or more ago I saw one of the guys here running remote desktop on his iPhone and was blown away how much better it worked than my HTC Touch. I punted the Touch for an iPhone and couldn't be happier with

Re: [WISPA] Follow up article

2010-02-02 Thread Brad Belton
If you don't vote than what makes you think you deserve to be heard here or anywhere for that matter? Get informed vote. It does make a difference. Best, Brad -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Josh Luthman Sent:

Re: [WISPA] Follow up article

2010-02-02 Thread Brad Belton
There's nothing wrong with the two party system. The problem is the people that are in the two party system. Vote the career politicians out of office. This goes for both parties...in fact I view many of the incumbent Republicans in a dimmer light than the Democrats. Any Republican that

Re: [WISPA] Follow up article

2010-02-02 Thread Brad Belton
Both candidates were arguably the worst in American history. It says a lot about you to admit you voted for Obama. I know people that for a fact voted for Obama, but now deny it. We need to punt McCain out of office right along with Harry, Nancy and Obama...just to name a few. Brad

Re: [WISPA] Captive Portals

2010-02-02 Thread Brad Belton
Talk to Eje at www.wisp-router.com Brad -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Carl Shivers Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 2:56 PM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: [WISPA] Captive Portals We are setting up a WiFi zone

Re: [WISPA] Short range backhaul

2010-01-30 Thread Brad Belton
Depends on what flavor of fiber you need (SM - MM) and if you want/need their AES256/FIPS encryption or not. If the link is truly across the street than a BridgeWave 60GHz link would be a good fit for a FDX GigE pipe. Too much farther than that (depending on the region you plan to deploy) you'll

Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo

2010-01-26 Thread Brad Belton
Lol...took the words right off of my keyboard! Only three things matter on what pretty much anything will cost you: (1) Location (2) Location (3) Location Best, Brad -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Josh

Re: [WISPA] bandwidth testing at 1-2 Gb/s

2010-01-19 Thread Brad Belton
We have multiple GigE feeds coming into our network in geographically diverse locations, so we are able to run GigE bandwidth tests through the Internet between different routers/upstream carriers. Finding an Internet Speed Test site that is capable of much more than a couple hundred MB is

Re: [WISPA] Trango APEX firmware question

2010-01-14 Thread Brad Belton
I agree that Trango needs a change log. I thought they had one, but can't seem to find it right now. We recently upgraded an Apex18 and an Apex11 with v122 firmware. The reason the Apex18 was upgraded was because it would just stop passing data even though the rssi, BER, MSE and link lock

Re: [WISPA] Trango APEX firmware question

2010-01-14 Thread Brad Belton
Of David E. Smith Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 10:07 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Trango APEX firmware question On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 08:50, Brad Belton b...@belwave.com wrote: The reason the Apex18 was upgraded was because it would just stop passing data even though the rssi

Re: [WISPA] Trango Apex Fiber port

2010-01-13 Thread Brad Belton
Correct, but flipping the antenna to the other side of the pole is NOT always an option. Best, Brad -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of can...@believewireless.net Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 6:40 AM To: WISPA

Re: [WISPA] Trango Apex Fiber port

2010-01-13 Thread Brad Belton
] On Behalf Of Brad Belton Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 7:30 AM To: can...@believewireless.net; 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] Trango Apex Fiber port Correct, but flipping the antenna to the other side of the pole is NOT always an option. Best, Brad -Original Message- From

Re: [WISPA] FW: [fispa-members] FW: Branch Locations

2010-01-13 Thread Brad Belton
The Dallas location is no problem for us. Send me Scott's email off list and we'll contact him. Thanks, Brad -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Broadwick Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 3:09 PM To: 'WISPA General

Re: [WISPA] Trango Apex Fiber port

2010-01-12 Thread Brad Belton
Fortunately all our Apex installations have had relatively short cable runs, so haven't used the fiber port yet. I agree the execution of this port is poor at best. I really don't care for the copper Ethernet ports either as they do not have a large enough opening for the shielded outdoor cable

Re: [WISPA] Trango Apex Fiber port

2010-01-12 Thread Brad Belton
DeReggi RapidDSL Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: Brad Belton b...@belwave.com To: 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 11:41 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Trango Apex Fiber port Fortunately all our Apex

Re: [WISPA] Network Gigabit Switch Recommendations

2010-01-12 Thread Brad Belton
Agreed, the Dell switches we've deployed have been flawless and are a great value. Dell has been very good to us, so I'm a little biased. Best, Brad -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of RickG Sent: Tuesday, January 12,

Re: [WISPA] Trango Apex Fiber port

2010-01-12 Thread Brad Belton
Tom, I give...but only because I just don't have nearly the amount of free time to ramble as you apparently do. We'll just have to agree to disagree. Best, Brad -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Tom DeReggi Sent:

Re: [WISPA] Why the telco's will never be true competitors to us

2010-01-11 Thread Brad Belton
Agreed, Patrick. As a business only provider many of our customers that bring in a 10-50-100Mbps or higher microwave connection in from us are doing so to complement their existing fiber connection(s). As time progresses some of those customers end up favoring our microwave connection over

Re: [WISPA] TrangoLink45 Link Problem

2010-01-08 Thread Brad Belton
Only a -61 at 2 miles? What antennas and at what power level? Brad -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Scott Reed Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 8:14 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] TrangoLink45 Link Problem I

Re: [WISPA] TrangoLink45 Link Problem

2010-01-08 Thread Brad Belton
Link Problem Auto power adjust is set to -60, I think, so it is right on. Brad Belton wrote: Only a -61 at 2 miles? What antennas and at what power level? Brad -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Scott Reed Sent

Re: [WISPA] StarOS Operator gets Stimulus Funding

2010-01-08 Thread Brad Belton
) then they probably shouldn't be in business in the first place. If you can't show a profit and make a business work, getting a loan isn't going to fix that problem. Travis Microserv Brad Belton wrote: That's part of the problem I have with these government handout programs. If you can't qualify

Re: [WISPA] StarOS Operator gets Stimulus Funding

2010-01-07 Thread Brad Belton
That's part of the problem I have with these government handout programs. If you can't qualify for a loan through conventional means then why should the taxpayer be put on the hook? Brad -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of

Re: [WISPA] ATT and T-Mobile Complete Network Upgrades

2010-01-06 Thread Brad Belton
My iPhone is also jailbroken...tethered to a notebook I see 2Mbps+ down, but uploads can vary from 80Kbps-200Kbps up. I use remote desktop while on the road or out in the field throughout DFW and North Texas and both ATT and my old Sprint Data card work very well. Best, Brad -Original

Re: [WISPA] Wimax gear

2009-12-30 Thread Brad Belton
I was close to buying a GL550 the other day. Dave Ramsey drives one, so it must be fiscally ok, right? Brad -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Matt Larsen - Lists Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 3:42 PM To: WISPA

Re: [WISPA] Merry Christmas, everyone.

2009-12-25 Thread Brad Belton
A, right..Jack is a Democratic not a Democrat. Next we'll be told a Jackass is actually an Arabian. geesh Only real typo I see is the reference to the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2009.shouldn't that read 2010? Merry Christmas! Brad From:

Re: [WISPA] Report: Broadband stimulus funds won't suffice

2009-12-14 Thread Brad Belton
...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Chuck Bartosch Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 12:00 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Report: Broadband stimulus funds won't suffice On Dec 13, 2009, at 8:42 PM, Brad Belton wrote: No, what's really amazing is people think

Re: [WISPA] Report: Broadband stimulus funds won't suffice

2009-12-13 Thread Brad Belton
No, what's really amazing is people think the Government pays for these services from a bottomless pot of money. When in fact that pot of money is funded dearly with the blood, sweat and tears from you, me and the rest of the USA citizens. The only positive in all this is Americans are starting

Re: [WISPA] Insurance thread- Matt and the rest

2009-12-09 Thread Brad Belton
Matt's not in the business anymore? News to me. I thought he was with Rapid or Ring something or another? Not anymore? If true, that really is interesting... Brad -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of rwf Sent:

Re: [WISPA] Insurance....

2009-12-08 Thread Brad Belton
Sure sign of a person losing his argument...personal attacks. Brad -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Matt Liotta Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 10:08 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Insurance On

Re: [WISPA] Insurance....

2009-12-08 Thread Brad Belton
Agreed. Tort reform will help save healthcare costs and enable more doctors to practice their trade. My doctor just shut down his practice of 20-30 years and let his entire staff go due to the cost of business growing out of control. Brad -Original Message- From:

Re: [WISPA] OT: health insurance

2009-12-07 Thread Brad Belton
made a trip to the emergency room a few years ago. I was charged $10 for 1 Tylenol. So something smells awful fishy here. Scottie -- Original Message -- From: Brad Belton b...@belwave.com Reply-To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Date: Sun, 6 Dec

Re: [WISPA] health insurance

2009-12-07 Thread Brad Belton
to any business. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -- From: Brad Belton b...@belwave.com Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2009 10:26 PM To: 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org Subject: Re: [WISPA] health

Re: [WISPA] health insurance

2009-12-07 Thread Brad Belton
-- From: Brad Belton b...@belwave.com Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2009 10:26 PM To: 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org Subject: Re: [WISPA] health insurance The auto insurance vs. health insurance comparison is a flawed argument. The government doesn't

Re: [WISPA] health insurance

2009-12-07 Thread Brad Belton
] health insurance On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 10:57, Brad Belton b...@belwave.com wrote: While I haven't read the entire 2000+ page proposed bill I apparently have read more of it than you. Clearly not, or else you'd know that the fine actually is just a tax penalty, and that the current draft

Re: [WISPA] Insurance....

2009-12-07 Thread Brad Belton
Great post! clap - clap - clap Brad -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of MDK Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 4:43 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] Insurance As business people, we should be looking at

Re: [WISPA] Insurance....

2009-12-07 Thread Brad Belton
No kidding. No profits no medical advancements. Where do people go when they seek the best doctors and health system in the world? America. Brad -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Josh Luthman Sent: Monday, December 07,

Re: [WISPA] Insurance....

2009-12-07 Thread Brad Belton
Wow...speechless. I suggest you visit Cuba for all your health care needs. You won't and you know it. Brad -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Robert West Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 9:22 PM To: 'WISPA General List'

Re: [WISPA] Insurance....

2009-12-07 Thread Brad Belton
Well, that does explain a lot. Thank you for your honesty. Brad -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of David E. Smith Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 10:22 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Insurance On Mon,

Re: [WISPA] health insurance

2009-12-06 Thread Brad Belton
The auto insurance vs. health insurance comparison is a flawed argument. The government doesn't force you to buy auto insurance if you don't need it. The government won't fine you and ultimately put you in jail for not buying auto insurance from them if you don't need it. Our government is

Re: [WISPA] health insurance

2009-12-06 Thread Brad Belton
] health insurance I was going to say that and completely agree :) On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Brad Belton b...@belwave.com wrote: The auto insurance vs. health insurance comparison is a flawed argument. The government doesn't force you to buy auto insurance if you don't need it. The government

Re: [WISPA] health insurance

2009-12-06 Thread Brad Belton
I have the utmost respect for our first responders and volunteers like Ryan, but even the best of intentions can result in extreme waste and undue cost. Here is a local story I stumbled across the other day. Larry happens to be someone I know and a WISP. While his care flight experience was

Re: [WISPA] health insurance

2009-12-06 Thread Brad Belton
The answer to your first question is our government currently limits where insurance companies can offer their coverage. Open up the entire country to all health insurance companies and you'll see competition increase and prices decrease. This is economics 101, but our elected officials can't

Re: [WISPA] health insurance

2009-12-06 Thread Brad Belton
Vote 'em out! I'm speaking of any representative regardless of party affiliation that has voted for government run health care. They clearly aren't listening to the people they represent. Look closely at the incumbent's voting record and listen to the challenger's ideas during the primaries.

Re: [WISPA] FCC plans to turn over private data to aid broadband stimulus.

2009-12-03 Thread Brad Belton
I agree with Rick, Chuck and Travis thus far. Nothing is free and unfortunately the cancer our government has spawned is spreading into our industry right along with autos, banks, health care, etc, etc. That is clearly why this is on topic. Government doesn't create anything much less create

Re: [WISPA] 20 mile link

2009-12-02 Thread Brad Belton
] On Behalf Of Brad Belton Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 11:38 PM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] 20 mile link A relatively nifty new monitoring service out there also has a great path profile tool built-in. The person that is developing the product is a long time wireless operator, so he

Re: [WISPA] 20 mile link

2009-12-02 Thread Brad Belton
Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Brad Belton Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 11:38 PM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] 20 mile link A relatively nifty new monitoring service out there also has a great path profile tool built

[WISPA] Large Monitors with high resolution for Mapping Programs...

2009-12-02 Thread Brad Belton
://www.ics-il.com -- From: Brad Belton b...@belwave.com Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 10:23 AM To: 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org Subject: Re: [WISPA] 20 mile link Funny you mention this...yes, viewing RadioMobile or Wispmon on my twin

Re: [WISPA] Large Monitors with high resolution for Mapping Programs...

2009-12-02 Thread Brad Belton
:53 AM, Brad Belton b...@belwave.com wrote: Agreed, resolution is key for me too. I keep the right monitor open with Wispmon or RadioMobile running or sometimes I just have six or more Winbox windows open on it monitoring client routers etc... I don't know what I'd do without the desktop

Re: [WISPA] Large Monitors with high resolution for Mapping Programs...

2009-12-02 Thread Brad Belton
to monitor at a glance critical systems without having to use up more of my primary PC's desktop (tri monitor setup)... Picture attached - we usually have a number of telemetry monitoring applications up... On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Brad Belton b...@belwave.com wrote: Agreed, resolution is key

Re: [WISPA] Large Monitors with high resolution for Mapping Programs...

2009-12-02 Thread Brad Belton
resolution for Mapping Programs... Brad, Are you actively using wispmon? Feedback? Gino A. Villarini g...@aeronetpr.com Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. 787.273.4143 -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Brad Belton Sent: Wednesday

Re: [WISPA] Large Monitors with high resolution forMapping Programs...

2009-12-02 Thread Brad Belton
...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Brad Belton Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 1:31 PM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] Large Monitors with high resolution forMapping Programs... Yes and no. We have a few sites added and are evaluating it. It really is impressive and again the reason I brought

Re: [WISPA] A Ridiculous Failure of Critical Infrastructure

2009-12-01 Thread Brad Belton
Timing of this Failure of Critical Infrastructure seems suspect to Charter's bankruptcy. All existing outstanding shares have been cancelled. I wonder if Paul Allen somehow left Qwest holding the bag like he did the rest of his shareholders...just a thought.

Re: [WISPA] 20 mile link

2009-12-01 Thread Brad Belton
A relatively nifty new monitoring service out there also has a great path profile tool built-in. The person that is developing the product is a long time wireless operator, so he has a very good feel for what our industry needs. www.wispmon.com I've been a RadioMobile user for years now, but

Re: [WISPA] Ligowave 24ghz Backhaul Radio

2009-11-23 Thread Brad Belton
I can tell you that in our neck of the woods a -65 at 3miles using 24GHz wouldn't last long! $8K! Really? Sounds awful high for an 85Mbps OFDM radio set... Best, Brad -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Bret Clark

Re: [WISPA] Ligowave 24ghz Backhaul Radio

2009-11-23 Thread Brad Belton
We have a Ceragon 23Ghz OC3 link up that is power leveled to -50 with 10db of power at .15 mile using a 1' antenna and 2' antenna. The link has ATPC and uses it...that should give you an idea how quickly 23-24GHz will fade in some parts of the country! lol Best, Brad -Original

Re: [WISPA] Ligowave 24ghz Backhaul Radio

2009-11-23 Thread Brad Belton
. 787.273.4143 -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Brad Belton Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 3:26 PM To: bcl...@spectraaccess.com; 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ligowave 24ghz Backhaul Radio I can tell you that in our

Re: [WISPA] Ligowave 24ghz Backhaul Radio

2009-11-23 Thread Brad Belton
much are the Apex units? Chris -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Brad Belton Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 2:56 PM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ligowave 24ghz Backhaul Radio I've never seen the Ligo 24Ghz

Re: [WISPA] T1 radios needed

2009-11-16 Thread Brad Belton
http://www.rad.com/3-2527/Wireless_Multiplexers/ Best, Brad -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Matt Larsen - Lists Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 5:31 PM To: WISPA General List; Motorola Canopy User Group Subject:

Re: [WISPA] Metered Billing

2009-11-15 Thread Brad Belton
Agreed. Those that are just now catching up with their list reading should start with the most recent posts and read backwards if they feel inclined to do so. Brad -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of e...@wisp-router.com

Re: [WISPA] 100Mbps over 10 miles

2009-11-13 Thread Brad Belton
We really need more information in order to make any specific recommendations. Interface type required and quantity. Rain zone the link is going to be deployed in. All indoor design, split IDU/ODU or all outdoor design preference. Required/desired availability. Antenna size limitations.

Re: [WISPA] Small Managed Switches

2009-11-12 Thread Brad Belton
Agreed! We could use 12 or 24 ports too! It would need to have a fast CPU and at least one USB port. Brad -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Jayson Baker Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 10:45 PM To:

Re: [WISPA] Small Managed Switches

2009-11-12 Thread Brad Belton
We use the Dell 2816 for small VLAN implementations and the Dell 6248 for more demanding needs. Both have worked flawlessly with MikroTik VLAN. Best, Brad -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Joe Miller Sent: Thursday,

Re: [WISPA] Dual Band Sectors

2009-11-04 Thread Brad Belton
While we've never used this particular RadioWaves antenna I do know you get what you pay for. I would imagine street price for this antenna would be between $900 - $1000. Considering what some towers charge per antenna the ROI for this antenna could be pretty quick! Best, Brad

Re: [WISPA] OT Question....

2009-10-30 Thread Brad Belton
I still gotta side with Marlon on this one...cleaning ladies WILL cause CRC errors. This is networking 101 Bob, I'm disappointed in you...sigh Best, Brad -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Bob Moldashel Sent: Friday,

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