Re: [WISPA] Customer Routers

2012-04-27 Thread Chadd Thompson
Same here, We have dozens of them out in the field and I have one that we use with no issues. The only issue I have seen at all was with a Kindle that would drop every time the WPA2 key would refresh. So I am not sure if this was a kindle issue or MT issue. Chadd _ From:

Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik RB411

2011-02-05 Thread Chadd Thompson
How cold are you talking? -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Matt Larsen - Lists Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 12:42 PM To: Mikrotik discussions; WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] Mikrotik RB411 I just wanted to take

Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik RB411

2011-02-05 Thread Chadd Thompson
Same here. Lightning takes out Ethernet sometimes but other than that they have been solid for us. -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Goldberg Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 2:02 PM To: WISPA General List Cc: WISPA

Re: [WISPA] Platypus Pricing Change / Free version

2011-01-29 Thread Chadd Thompson
Chuck, I think I asked you this when we spoke on the phone a while back but do you have Plat tied back into your network through radius? Or were you waiting for V7 to come out? _ From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Chuck Hogg Sent:

Re: [WISPA] IPPay Code 012 Declines

2011-01-20 Thread Chadd Thompson
We haven't seen any declines through IP pay here but we use k-billing for credit card and virtual terminal for our ACH recurring payments. It seems kind of fishy that you can process them with VT but not your normal billing software. On a side note Virtual terminal does have recurring billing set

Re: [WISPA] ARC-VS5818SV1 Antenna

2011-01-04 Thread Chadd Thompson
As noisy as 2.4 is anymore I don't see how you could run both chains to begin with. I never realized that you couldn't turn one off. It does seem like a glaring issue to me. -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Robert West

Re: [WISPA] Wow- and how stimulus works

2010-12-24 Thread Chadd Thompson
Bingo! _ From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Robert West Sent: Friday, December 24, 2010 9:55 PM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] Wow- and how stimulus works Actually, the reality is, all the cash gets spent at Wal-Mart

Re: [WISPA] Flaky connection

2010-12-18 Thread Chadd Thompson
My first guess would be local noise on the CPE end. Second would be a hardware issue. _ From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Scott Reed Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2010 7:47 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Flaky connection

Re: [WISPA] DSL BGP

2010-12-01 Thread Chadd Thompson
I am far from a Mikrotik guru but from what I know you would need to assign private IP's to your network to be able to do this as a fail over or as load balancing without BGP. I don't know of any DSL providers who will do BGP. Chadd -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org

Re: [WISPA] iBoot

2010-02-08 Thread Chadd Thompson
I used a few of these several years ago out of necessity back when I was using buggy trango Link 10's that had a time based luckup problem. Well they worked pretty good for a while but I noticed that they kept stealing the IP address of the server that I was pinging for the keep alive ping and

Re: [WISPA] stimulus announcements thus far

2009-12-17 Thread Chadd Thompson
Just curious but how will this work out for you guys in the end? Is it going to just give you guys access to middle mile facilities or is it going to give you access to wholesale fiber to the home? The way I see it is in our area if the rural areas ever get FTH most of us out here are done

Re: [WISPA] Credit Card Processors

2009-12-12 Thread Chadd Thompson
We use IP pay as well. -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Robert West Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 1:37 PM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] Credit Card Processors Sounds like an overwhelming consensus

Re: [WISPA] FreeBSD hackers.... Needed for WISP related product...

2009-11-30 Thread Chadd Thompson
How is Nstreme working now days? I have not tried it on anything except PTP for a few years now. The last time I tried it on an AP it was pretty rough. Latency was very unstable and throughput wasn't all that great. I had read that there was a new version in the test package a while back but never

Re: [WISPA] speaking of ARIN

2009-03-18 Thread Chadd Thompson
] speaking of ARIN They're close to 1/2 that now. Rk On 3/17/2009 8:22 PM, Chadd Thompson wrote: Here are some quotes that I received a while back from ATT for a partial DS3. 10mb: $4300 20mb: $4788 30mb: $5300

Re: [WISPA] speaking of ARIN

2009-03-17 Thread Chadd Thompson
Here are some quotes that I received a while back from ATT for a partial DS3. 10mb: $4300 20mb: $4788 30mb: $5300 -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org]on Behalf Of Mike Hammett Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 1:33 PM To: WISPA General List

Re: [WISPA] speaking of ARIN

2009-03-17 Thread Chadd Thompson
of ARIN Of course, they'll bill you 10 times that and never fix their billing issues! -RickG On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Chadd Thompson chad...@msn.com wrote: Here are some quotes that I received a while back from ATT for a partial DS3. 10mb: $4300 20mb: $4788 30mb: $5300

Re: [WISPA] Insurance

2009-02-17 Thread Chadd Thompson
I have not heard anything from Chubb indicating this. Are they not taking new customers or getting rid of existing ones also? -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org]on Behalf Of Forbes Mercy Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 3:43 PM To: WISPA

RE: [WISPA] strange connectivity issues

2007-05-25 Thread Chadd Thompson
Marlon, Sound like you covered all your bases here but here is my .02 worth. I have had issues like this in the past and it has always been related to one of three things. 1. If it is a new hookup from dialup or SAT usually it is some sort of a proxy issue, either proxy is enabled in

RE: [WISPA] Credit Card Processing

2007-05-22 Thread Chadd Thompson
Doesn't paypal charge a pretty hefty transaction fee when accepting payments with this type of account? Thanks, Chadd -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ralph Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 9:10 AM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: RE:

RE: [WISPA] What is WISPA? was Promotion of services on-list

2007-05-18 Thread Chadd Thompson
for our industry and what the value is for me to join. I am not saying WISPA is not doing or has not done anything for our industry. I just need some help understanding. Thanks, Chadd Thompson -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo

RE: [WISPA] What is WISPA? was Promotion of services on-list

2007-05-18 Thread Chadd Thompson
questions about how the ORG operates on a day to day basis, how decisions are made, where does the average joe fit in, etc etc. Thanks, Chadd Thompson -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org

RE: [WISPA] What is WISPA? was Promotion of services on-list

2007-05-17 Thread Chadd Thompson
crap like this comes up and makes me wonder if it is a good investment. Talk of free listserver members being freeloaders and not supporting the org is sure as hell not a good way to drive up membership. Thanks, Chadd Thompson -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe

RE: [WISPA] Mikrotik Hotspot Setup

2007-05-01 Thread Chadd Thompson
You want to help the guy or poke him with a stick? :O) Chadd -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dawn DiPietro Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 8:22 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik Hotspot Setup Ty, I assume

RE: [WISPA] Mikrotik Hotspot Setup

2007-05-01 Thread Chadd Thompson
I kind of thought the same thing, but thought he may be poking fun at him or something. I have been planning on joining WISPA this year once I can scrape up the $$ to do it but with the recent bashing of certified/non-certified solutions I am not sure it is where I want to spend

RE: [WISPA] Trango 900

2007-04-13 Thread Chadd Thompson
Sounds about right, the other thing with higher noise levels is that you will have packet loss. You can still have good throughput but you will have packet loss. Chadd -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Smith, Rick Sent: Friday, April

RE: [WISPA] Trango 900

2007-04-13 Thread Chadd Thompson
requires the packets to be retransmitted which takes up additional timeslots which leads to a lowering of the overall throughput capacity because some of the throughput-carrying timeslots are used up by the retransmissions and therefore aren't available to transport throughput ... Chadd Thompson

RE: [WISPA] 900 MHz Help

2007-04-08 Thread Chadd Thompson
My advise is to stay away from it if you can. The noise in most areas is horrible, and I have not seen any gear yet that can deal with it. I have some customers running on it still but any chance I get I take users off 900 and put them on 2.4 or 5.8. The equipment is expensive the antennas are

RE: [WISPA] 900 MHz Help

2007-04-08 Thread Chadd Thompson
Im experience it depends on what you consider works. If you consider being able to transfer a decent amount of data with 5% packet loss working then yeah it works, if you have anything that is latency sensitive then no it doesn't work well in noisy environments. Our area is noisy on both H and V

RE: [WISPA] Moisture Ingress

2007-03-16 Thread Chadd Thompson
Scriv, I use the tape-tape-tape method. First I wrap the connection very tight with a high quality electrical tape like 3M super88, then I wrap a layer of self sealing rubber tape 3M brand also, then a final layer of 3M super88. You need to make sure your wraps are tight. Also make sure

RE: [WISPA] Moisture Ingress

2007-03-16 Thread Chadd Thompson
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chadd Thompson Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 9:45 AM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: RE: [WISPA] Moisture Ingress Scriv, I use the tape-tape-tape method. First I wrap the connection very tight with a high

RE: [WISPA] TV white spaces

2007-02-08 Thread Chadd Thompson
, it's max eirp is 4 watts. 36dB laters, marlon - Original Message - From: Chadd Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 10:00 PM Subject: RE: [WISPA] TV white spaces Sorry, The signal was in the -70's

RE: [WISPA] TV white spaces

2007-02-07 Thread Chadd Thompson
Yes 36 dBm. Thanks, Chadd -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dylan Oliver Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 12:00 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] TV white spaces Am I missing something, or is 36 dBm EIRP our limit?

RE: [WISPA] TV white spaces

2007-02-07 Thread Chadd Thompson
Sorry, The signal was in the -70's not right at -70. It was mid to upper -70's from what I figured up they were putting out around 43dBm EIRP. I could also see the SSID of the AP so I know what town it was located in and it was/is a sectorized POP that would be around 30dBm radio input to a

RE: [WISPA] TV white spaces

2007-02-06 Thread Chadd Thompson
In our area So IL/metro St.Louis there are some large guys who are in no way shape or form legal, over power limits and the whole 9 yards. I can see other WISP Omni POP's with signal levels in the -70's from over 20 miles away using a 9dBi on my end, figure up what the EIRP on that is. The one in

RE: [WISPA] $20 'naked' DSL

2007-01-29 Thread Chadd Thompson
Almost makes you want to close the doors on the rural market and let the FCC/Gov fund/force ATT or whoever to provide service in these underserved areas. It is going to get to the point where we are only going to be able to compete in areas where DSL/Cable is not available. I am not sure about

RE: [WISPA] Strange network issues crosspost

2006-12-20 Thread Chadd Thompson
the number of MAC addresses seen by the Trangos. This fixed the problem. Todd Barber Skylink Broadband Internet [EMAIL PROTECTED] 970-454-9499 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chadd Thompson Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 4:00 PM

[WISPA] Strange network issues crosspost

2006-12-19 Thread Chadd Thompson
Sorry to cross post this guys but I am looking for suggestions and wasn't sure if everyone is on both lists. I have been having an intermittent problem the last few days. A few of my AP's and CPE's will stop responding. These are a mixture of brands, Trango, MT, Brilan, they are on different

RE: [WISPA] Strange network issues crosspost

2006-12-19 Thread Chadd Thompson
] On Behalf Of Chadd Thompson Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 4:00 PM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: [WISPA] Strange network issues crosspost Sorry to cross post this guys but I am looking for suggestions and wasn't sure if everyone is on both lists. I have been having an intermittent

RE: [WISPA] Strange network issues crosspost

2006-12-19 Thread Chadd Thompson
Mac, Is this a trango command? I don't remember there being an arp command in the link10's Thanks, Chadd -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mac Dearman Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 9:09 PM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject:

[WISPA] OT: sendmail question

2006-10-30 Thread Chadd Thompson
Does anyone know if it is possible if you are hosting multiple domains on a single Sendmail server if you can restrict what local users can send and receive mail to a particular domain instead of everyone on the box being able to send and receive from all the domains being hosted? For example,

RE: [WISPA] OT: sendmail question

2006-10-30 Thread Chadd Thompson
Won't that still allow the user to receive mail for every domain on the server unless you go in for every user and specifically deny that particular address? Say you wanted bob to only be able to receive mail on yoyo.com and not yingyang.com or jacks.com. I would have to put entries in the

RE: [WISPA] 900 mhz AMS system

2006-08-17 Thread Chadd Thompson
Yeah more power will fix it.. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marlon K. Schafer Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 11:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] 900 mhz AMS system Get them a bigger antenna at that

[WISPA] VOIP consultants?

2006-08-17 Thread Chadd Thompson
Anyone know of any VOIP consultants? -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.1/421 - Release Date: 8/16/2006 -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe:

RE: [WISPA] Tower contract / Revenue Share / Discounted Services

2006-08-14 Thread Chadd Thompson
Title: Tower contract / Revenue Share / Discounted Services The problem with this in our area is that generally they want more per month for rental that we would generate for subs off a tower. They think we are similar to cell companies and have deep pockets, not realizing that we may only

RE: [WISPA] [Fwd: Durbin introduces bill to encouragehighspeedinternet access in rural areas]

2006-08-08 Thread Chadd Thompson
IMO they need to start giving money to the end users to pay for hookup and installation. Stop paying to expand WISP's networks and give the money where it is needed, if you want a bigger network pay for it out of your own pocket. In IL I doubt you could drive from Chicago to St.Louis and not be

RE: [WISPA] 900MHz Systems

2006-02-20 Thread Chadd Thompson
FYI the moto price is for the light version of client, Limited to 512K throughput. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Bushard, Jr Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 9:10 AM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: RE: [WISPA] 900MHz Systems What

RE: [WISPA] My Towers Need More CPU - suggestions?

2006-01-31 Thread Chadd Thompson
Matt, Thanks for the information. Have you used this sort of setup in an outdoor environment? If so did you have to control the temp for it to work ok? Thanks, Chadd -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Larsen - Lists Sent:

RE: [WISPA] Canopy Lite

2006-01-30 Thread Chadd Thompson
From what I have read they are not fully upgradeable because there are some hardware differences between the light and the normal units. I also remember reading that you have to have the advantage AP to use the light versions of SU's. Chadd -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[WISPA] FM tower co-location

2006-01-24 Thread Chadd Thompson
Curious if anyone here has co-located on an FM tower? If so care to share your experiences? Thanks, Chadd -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.22/238 - Release Date: 1/23/2006 -- WISPA Wireless List:

RE: [WISPA] Interested in your experience..

2006-01-19 Thread Chadd Thompson
We have a lot of fence rows in this area so 900 is going to be a necessary evil like it or not. I tried using 5.7 Trango for a few installs early on and just couldn't get any range out of it in this area, and the noise floor is fairly high in 5.x around here. It seems like more and more people

RE: [WISPA] TRANGO!!

2006-01-18 Thread Chadd Thompson
So who is going to beta test these bad boys? I already took my turn with the link 10's and T900's -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larry A Weidig Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 1:13 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: RE: [WISPA] TRANGO!!

RE: [WISPA] TRANGO- changes history

2006-01-18 Thread Chadd Thompson
I am probably far more cynical than most but I really hope that Trango has made a turn around as a company with the latest round of changes. I tend to remember the bad things more than the good. WARNING this is a list of the BAD things!! Good things are at the bottom... I remember purchasing

RE: [WISPA] Attempted hack, what would you do?

2006-01-12 Thread Chadd Thompson
Happens every day on our network. I get about 500 to 1000 hits a day on our servers/router logs of ppl port scanning and or running log in scripts trying to crack a username/pass. I have only turned a few in to thier ISP's abuse address and never heard anything from it except for a canned message

RE: [WISPA] Canopy buying group prices

2005-12-13 Thread Chadd Thompson
Where are you getting those prices and in what quantities? Thanks, Chadd From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Travis Johnson Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 12:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Canopy buying group