RE: [WISPA] [Fwd: Illinois' broadband gap squeezes small businessfrom Crain's]

2006-04-18 Thread Charles Wu
FWIW -- there is a WISP in contact with the Lt Governor's Office and Crain's about servicing this customer (they have a tower ~ 4 miles from the physical location) -Charles --- CWLab Technology Architects http://www.cwlab.com -Original Message-

RE: [WISPA] Charles Wu email ?

2006-04-18 Thread Charles Wu
: 'WISPA General List'Subject: [WISPA] Charles Wu email ? Charles whats you email, I lost my drive new laptop Gino A. Villarini [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. tel 787.273.4143 fax 787.273.4145 -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe

RE: [WISPA] Tranzeo BH

2006-04-26 Thread Charles Wu
Title: Message Here isone possible source for the information that you are looking for http://www.cwlab.com/testing_criteria.htm -Charles ---CWLabTechnology Architectshttp://www.cwlab.com -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [WISPA] Pioneering Wi-Fi City Sees Startup Woes

2006-04-27 Thread Charles Wu
Take that article/session with a grain of salt -- as it is being run by an organization that is supported by vendors trying to *sell* the concept of muni-wifi -Charles --- CWLab Technology Architects http://www.cwlab.com -Original Message-

RE: [WISPA] Business Value

2006-04-27 Thread Charles Wu
One thing to remember -- when buying and selling a business (or anything for the matter) there has to be benefits on both sides (e.g., a win-win solution) Just as you are trying to maximize all your time and effort put into your company, the buyer needs to be able to see a light at the end of the

RE: [WISPA] Dial-up provider loses Net access amid fee dispute / Ruling favoring Verizon may hike price of service

2006-05-03 Thread Charles Wu
OMFG stunned silence -Charles --- CWLab Technology Architects http://www.cwlab.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dawn DiPietro Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 6:31 PM To: WISPA General List;

RE: [WISPA] Wimax Hardware for sale?

2006-05-05 Thread Charles Wu
You can do a 5 MHz channel size on an Atheros chip (Off the top of my head, Alvarion Airaya have implemented it so far) -Charles --- CWLab Technology Architects http://www.cwlab.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [WISPA] Save the Internet (Net Neutrality)

2006-05-05 Thread Charles Wu
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Liotta Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 12:28 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Save the Internet (Net Neutrality) It is? IIRC, the tariff price of 1.5 meg DSL from BellSouth is $23.95. -Matt Charles Wu wrote

RE: [WISPA] Save the Internet (Net Neutrality)

2006-05-05 Thread Charles Wu
I was simply responding to your statement regarding just the last mile transport. If you want to include other considerations in the discussion then I don't understand your earlier email. When considering net neutrality and its implications (e.g., allowing the TV company to stream video over

RE: [WISPA] 3650 equipment

2006-05-23 Thread Charles Wu
Read below and you can decide on whether or not you will be breaking the law w/ a 3650 deployment --- To: 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org Cc: isp-wireless@isp-wireless.com; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 6:32 AM Subject: [equipment-l]

RE: [WISPA] 3650 equipment

2006-05-26 Thread Charles Wu
manufacturers I have found is that until there is 3.5ghz or near spectrum available, there will be small and limited deployments of wisp size and not many large scale deployments outside of 2.5ghz or 700 mhz operators. - Jeff On 5/24/06 6:14 AM, Charles Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

RE: [WISPA] 3650 equipment

2006-05-26 Thread Charles Wu
To say the least -- a highly upsetting (to many operators) isse about WiMAX is the fact that not all WiMAX is created equal... Sure, WiMAX talks about QoS, ARQ, encryption, scheduled MACs, etc -- but is it required for base certification today? Hehe -Charles P.S. -- BREAKING NEWS FOR WISP

RE: [WISPA] 3650 equipment

2006-05-26 Thread Charles Wu
/06 6:14 AM, Charles Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All the same time, the industry doesn't bother to fill out their Form 477s also The sad thing is is that there are long term consequences towards flaunting the rules -- namely the fact that you are just reinforcing the ILEC argument

RE: [WISPA] 3650 equipment

2006-05-26 Thread Charles Wu
to be a shared license program. IMHO, that means that you will only have to contend with other operators as opposed to every consumer with a laptop. -Matt Charles Wu wrote: W/out a license, 3.6 is going to work just as *bad* You really need 700 (or a 1 GHz band) to really get mobility / portability

RE: [WISPA] 3650 equipment

2006-05-27 Thread Charles Wu
reality and utility of the band in a licensed versus unlicensed allocation. That is why I support essentially splitting the band. Patrick Leary AVP Marketing Alvarion, Inc. o: 650.314.2628 c: 760.580.0080 Vonage: 650.641.1243 -Original Message- From: Charles Wu [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [WISPA] This is HUGE!

2006-05-30 Thread Charles Wu
Some interesting statistics -- 30% of the WISPs who attended our last WiNOG claimed on their surveys they had been in the wireless business for more than 5 years and had more than 1k wireless CPE deployed in the field Less than 10% of them claimed to be pure-play license-exempt fixed wireless

RE: [WISPA] This is HUGE!

2006-05-30 Thread Charles Wu
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 3:35 PM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: RE: [WISPA] This is HUGE! Patrick -Original Message- From: Charles Wu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 1:34 PM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: RE: [WISPA] This is HUGE! Some interesting

RE: [WISPA] This is HUGE!

2006-05-30 Thread Charles Wu
million in gear last year alone In the total combined market we still lead, but for sure the real test comes when all major TEMs field their own 802.16e-2005. Patrick Leary AVP Marketing Alvarion, Inc. o: 650.314.2628 c: 760.580.0080 Vonage: 650.641.1243 -Original Message- From: Charles

RE: [WISPA] looking for a device

2006-06-08 Thread Charles Wu
Hi Matt, To throw in a dose of realism -- even if you roll your own Mikrotik solution - it will most likely cost you more than the $300-600 / unit budget that you have (and you get ZERO support =) Example RB532A: $185 SR5: $105 SR2: $105 All that is is a board and 2 radio cards -- then you

RE: [WISPA] looking for a device

2006-06-08 Thread Charles Wu
http://www.cwlab.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Liotta Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 2:20 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] looking for a device -Matt Charles Wu wrote: Hi Matt, To throw in a dose of realism

RE: [WISPA] Wireless ?

2006-06-09 Thread Charles Wu
19807 Catawba Ave. Cornelius, NC 28031 Boun Senekham (CTI Sales Rep) actually lives in Cornelius, NC -- maybe he might know someone? -Charles --- CWLab Technology Architects http://www.cwlab.com -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org

RE: [WISPA] Good news on the wimax unlicensed front

2006-06-09 Thread Charles Wu
Jeffrey Thomas = Jeff Booher Jeffrey Thomas Booher actually -Charles --- CWLab Technology Architects http://www.cwlab.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JohnnyO Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006

RE: [WISPA] looking for a device

2006-06-09 Thread Charles Wu
I think Jon is asking about the double VLAN -- or a q in q implementation It's extremely useful for creating virtual bridged customer networks -Charles --- CWLab Technology Architects http://www.cwlab.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [WISPA] OT: about 70Mbps for under $6K

2006-06-15 Thread Charles Wu
Hi Patrick, For clarification purposes -- 70 Mbps is achievable only in Turbo mode (40 Mhz channel sizes) correct? Also -- will it support a slim 5 or 10 Mhz channel mode? -Charles --- CWLab Technology Architects http://www.cwlab.com -Original

RE: [WISPA] Dual WAN Routers

2006-06-19 Thread Charles Wu
Title: Message are you planning on getting your customer an AS running BGP? if not -- and you're willing to roll up your sleaves a bit, you can "hack it" w/ some Mikrotik scripting (In my ISP days, one of my customers back in 2002/2003, Larry Yunker actually, was doing this b/n our

RE: [WISPA] Dual WAN Routers

2006-06-19 Thread Charles Wu
Title: Message it's a bit more complicated than OSPF if you're trying to backup ANOTHER provider's connection (assuming separate ASes, etc) -Charles P.S. -- ASes = Plural for Autonamous Systems, not that other dirty word =/ ---CWLabTechnology

RE: [WISPA] frame size and fps - was OT: about 70Mbps for under $ 6K

2006-06-21 Thread Charles Wu
thers; or a real DIY: build it from bare hardware and FreeBSD/Linux with WiFi drivers or whatever... but as this thread came from "vendor products" I thought it worth chipping in - just my £0.01's worth. Regards Stephen CableFree Solutions www.cablefreesolutions.com --

RE: [WISPA] frame size and fps - was OT: about 70Mbps for under $ 6K

2006-06-22 Thread Charles Wu
Title: Message Screenshot of NMS from full-speed lab testing, 83Mbps UDP traffic with ~20% CPU loadhttp://www.cablefreesolutions.com/radio/HPR%20lab%20testing%20UDP.pngScreenshot of NMS from full-speed lab testing, 74Mbps TCP/IP traffic with ~20% CPU

RE: [WISPA] frame size and fps - was OT: about 70Mbps for under $ 6K

2006-06-22 Thread Charles Wu
/Linux with WiFi drivers or whatever... but as this thread came from vendor products I thought it worth chipping in - just my £0.01's worth. Regards Stephen CableFree Solutions www.cablefreesolutions.com -Original Message- From: Charles Wu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 June 2006 20

RE: [WISPA] frame size and fps - was OT: about 70Mbps for under $ 6K

2006-06-23 Thread Charles Wu
or products" I thought it worth chipping in - just my £0.01's worth. Regards Stephen CableFree Solutions www.cablefreesolutions.com -Original Message- From: Charles Wu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 June 2006 20:15 To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: RE: [WISPA] frame size and fps

RE: [WISPA] frame size and fps - was OT: about 70Mbps for under $ 6K

2006-06-26 Thread Charles Wu
ireless, IncIntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband ----- Original Message - From: Charles Wu To: 'WISPA General List' Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 11:56 AM Subject: RE: [WISPA] frame size and fps - was OT: about 70Mbps for under $ 6K Hi Travis,

RE: [WISPA] 18Ghz through power lines?

2006-06-27 Thread Charles Wu
It generally isn't an issue I'd be more worried about windmills -Charles --- CWLab Technology Architects http://www.cwlab.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Muehleisen Sent: Tuesday, June

RE: [WISPA] www.fon.com - a threat to us all? - back to net neutrality

2006-06-28 Thread Charles Wu
Title: Message out of curiosity (would like input from the pro net neutral people) -- would blocking something like FON constitute a violation of net neutrality? -Charles ---CWLabTechnology Architectshttp://www.cwlab.com -Original

RE: [WISPA] $100 CPE?

2006-06-28 Thread Charles Wu
And don't forget that it's WiFi vs. a proprietary engineered outdoor WISP protocol -Charles --- CWLab Technology Architects http://www.cwlab.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Travis Johnson

RE: [WISPA] $100 CPE?

2006-06-28 Thread Charles Wu
Morella Demarc Technology Group, A Wireless Solution Provider Office: 207-667-7583 Fax: 207-433-1008 http://www.demarctech.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Wu Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 10:32 AM To: 'WISPA General List

RE: [WISPA] EarthLink Unwires Anaheim, Announces Wholesale Program

2006-06-30 Thread Charles Wu
a whole 49 square feet, eh ? Real hard. :) Some interesting thoughts for Friday I forget the exact numbers, but Tropos recommends something like 20 APs / square mile to get 95% coverage at b/g rates 49 square miles = 49*20 ~ 960 Aps Part# MTR-52103000-500AA is a 500 pack of HotZone Aps on

RE: [WISPA] EarthLink Unwires Anaheim, Announces Wholesale Program

2006-07-03 Thread Charles Wu
- Original Message - From: Charles Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 1:43 PM Subject: RE: [WISPA] EarthLink Unwires Anaheim, Announces Wholesale Program a whole 49 square feet, eh ? Real hard. :) Some interesting thoughts

RE: [WISPA] 900 radio

2006-07-12 Thread Charles Wu
More importantly -- from a cochannel and receiver sensitivity perspective -- FH doesn't get the processing gain benefits of spread spectrum -Charles --- CWLab Technology Architects http://www.cwlab.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [WISPA] 900 radio

2006-07-13 Thread Charles Wu
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Butch Evans Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 6:24 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: RE: [WISPA] 900 radio On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Charles Wu wrote: More importantly -- from a cochannel and receiver sensitivity perspective -- FH doesn't get

RE: [WISPA] Help Needed PtP Links

2006-07-13 Thread Charles Wu
Hi Patrick How did you guys measure throughput? TCP / UDP / Smartbits? Inquiring minds would like to know -Charles --- CWLab Technology Architects http://www.cwlab.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

RE: [WISPA] 6 gig license

2006-07-19 Thread Charles Wu
1. yes 2. Part 101 (Same as 11, 18, 23) 3. yes --- CWLab Technology Architects http://www.cwlab.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of George Rogato Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 10:34 PM To: WISPA

RE: [WISPA] 6 gig license

2006-07-19 Thread Charles Wu
Check out: http://www.shorecliffcommunications.com/magazine/volume.asp?Vol=39story=365 -Charles P.S. -- we also do frequency coordination --- CWLab Technology Architects http://www.cwlab.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [WISPA] Sparkplug scales with broadband wireless buzz

2006-07-24 Thread Charles Wu
I personally know them, and FWIW there's a lot of bark there... -Charles --- WiNOG Wireless Roadshows Coming to a City Near You http://www.winog.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter R.

RE: [WISPA] frame size and fps - Mikrotik large packets

2006-07-26 Thread Charles Wu
thatdefinition would include Alvarion. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: Charles Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 3:15 PM Subject: RE: [WISPA] frame size and fps

RE: [WISPA] Sedona, AZ

2006-07-28 Thread Charles Wu
Title: Message sure ping me offlist -Charles ---WiNOG Wireless RoadshowsComing to a City Near Youhttp://www.winog.com -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of chris cooperSent: Friday,

[WISPA] This is pretty big - Dick Durbin Bill for Rural High Speed Access

2006-08-07 Thread Charles Wu
DURBIN INTRODUCES BILL TO ENCOURAGE HIGH SPEED INTERNET ACCESS IN RURAL AREAS Friday, August 4, 2006 [WASHINGTON, DC] - U.S Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) says a national policy is needed to accelerate the deployment of broadband internet service to rural areas so that every American can have

RE: [WISPA] RB 532

2006-08-08 Thread Charles Wu
Title: Message no ---WiNOG Wireless RoadshowsComing to a City Near Youhttp://www.winog.com -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of chris cooperSent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 8:55 AMTo:

RE: [WISPA] RB 532

2006-08-08 Thread Charles Wu
Net- Fixed Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: Charles Wu To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; 'WISPA General List' Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 10:07 AM Subject: RE: [WIS

RE: [WISPA] Routerboard 532 and NStreme2

2006-08-12 Thread Charles Wu
Title: Message 20 mhz channel: TCP : 35 Mbps UDP: 28 Mbps ( weird, usually is the opposite ) Gino, Keep in mind -- if you check the Atheros "advanced feature" checkbox -- you are turning on "super-a/g" functionality Going back to your testing methodology (which you haven't elaborated

RE: [WISPA] Bragging on Mikrotik

2006-09-07 Thread Charles Wu
Jon, Trapeze Networks (http://www.trapezenetworks.com) has a solution that works with 3rd party Aps and allows for seamless roaming / mobility across VLANs / broadcast domains Did you forget everything you learned a few weeks ago? wink -Charles --- WiNOG

RE: [WISPA] 300Mbps Wireless

2006-09-11 Thread Charles Wu
Orthogon/Motorola 300 is 300 aggregate (and that's air rate - if you measure throughput w/ 1500mtu TCP packets, you're at about 260-280 Mb) And to get that speed - it requires the requisite SNR to support 256QAM modulation on BOTH HV within a 30 MHz channel -Charles

RE: [WISPA] Alvarion VL Fixes Problems with Backhaul Links

2006-09-21 Thread Charles Wu
snip What I'm learning is that as my business grows, the abilty to change and move (channel options) is becoming less important that the abilty to effectively battle it out. The reason is that if every time I hiot noise, I move away from the channel, eventually others take those channels.,

RE: [WISPA] vendor specs

2006-09-23 Thread Charles Wu
If you're serving the residential market, and price is the big concern, it's worth noting that Canopy has a $40 / customer residential rebate program that's been going on for almost 2 years now It's also worth noting with Canopy that you need to add ~$10 / unit for power supplies (they are sold

RE: [WISPA] vendor specs

2006-09-23 Thread Charles Wu
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Wu Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2006 10:19 AM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: RE: [WISPA] vendor specs If you're serving the residential market, and price is the big concern, it's worth noting that Canopy has a $40 / customer

RE: [WISPA] vendor specs

2006-09-23 Thread Charles Wu
Keep in mind...although, as techies, we love to get into a my @[EMAIL PROTECTED] is bigger/better then yours debate, the simple fact is that there's no magic bullet solution that will make your WISP succeed. Heck, the ones that I see fail or stagnate are generally the ones who spend all their

RE: [WISPA] vendor specs

2006-09-23 Thread Charles Wu
Matt, You guys are argueing about irrelevant topics If memory serves me correctly, you provide non-oversubscribed wireless DIA (leased line replacement) for SMB/Enterprises in a Tier1/2 urban market and sell for $200-400 (if not higher) ARPU Travis provides massively oversubscribed residential

RE: Motorola membership (Re: [WISPA] vendor specs -- Jon)

2006-09-29 Thread Charles Wu
As one of Canopy's largest ACSPs in the US, I know all the people at Canopy We have been talking about WISPA -- and are putting something together for a sponsorship Stay tuned... -Charles --- Operating Manager - CTI I'm back... WiNOG Wireless Roadshows

RE: [WISPA] WDS PtMP

2006-10-08 Thread Charles Wu
2) My primary goal in the original post was to learn the difference between Wifi Station/client and Wifi WDS at the protocol level on how the protocol makes communications. For example, can they both do CTS/RTS? Unless the WDS protocol is fully understood, its not possible to design networks

RE: [WISPA] Covad Expands Broadband Wireless Network With DataFloAcquisition

2006-10-13 Thread Charles Wu
I love this... [quote] Broadband wireless allows the company to provide higher-capacity services. It can offer 100mbps on unlicensed band and 10mbps on licensed bands - speeds unavailable with DSL. Broadband wireless also enables [/quote] -Charles ---

RE: [WISPA] Covad Expands Broadband Wireless NetworkWithDataFloAcquisition

2006-10-15 Thread Charles Wu
because they were failing and got a good deal, or because they were flourishing? Tom DeReggi RapidDSL Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: Charles Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org Sent: Friday

RE: [WISPA] Covad ExpandsBroadband WirelessNetworkWithDataFloAcquisition

2006-10-16 Thread Charles Wu
Of course, the market is currently valuing such companies at 3x revenue on stock deals. But, minority stock in a privately held company (or even many public OTC companies) is generally worthless -Charles --- WiNOG Wireless Roadshows Coming to a City Near

RE: [WISPA] Good Tower Climbers / Installers Needed

2006-10-18 Thread Charles Wu
There's a company http://www.krugercomm.com that might be able to help you They specialize in LA work w/ broadband (better than you're average tower monkey...) -Charles --- WiNOG Wireless Roadshows Coming to a City Near You http://www.winog.com

RE: [WISPA] Good Tower Climbers / Installers Needed

2006-10-18 Thread Charles Wu
Jay's great - known him for almost 4 years now...but I thought he wasn't climbing anymore (or only climbing the towers he owns) -Charles --- WiNOG Wireless Roadshows Coming to a City Near You http://www.winog.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [WISPA] Cooperative import buying.

2006-10-25 Thread Charles Wu
Does Judd Dare do this kind of stuff? -Charles --- WiNOG Wireless Roadshows Coming to a City Near You http://www.winog.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Koskenmaki Sent: Wednesday,

RE: [WISPA] Alvarion's BreezeMAX Now Enables Primary Voi ce Services over WiMAX

2006-10-30 Thread Charles Wu
Too bad that announcement is only applicable to about 5 people in the North American WISP market VL != BreezeMAX -Charles --- WiNOG Wireless Roadshows Coming to a City Near You http://www.winog.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [WISPA] Alvarion's BreezeMAX Now Enables Primary Voice Servicesover WiMAX

2006-10-30 Thread Charles Wu
Markets Alvarion, Inc. o: 650.314.2628 c: 760.580.0080 Vonage: 650.641.1243 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Wu Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 2:01 PM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: RE: [WISPA] Alvarion's

RE: [WISPA] FREE OSS and Billing Software for WiSPS - Leasing CPE

2006-11-05 Thread Charles Wu
snip I'm on the upper end of their 250-CPE mark and will pay $250 per month with (most likely) no $$$ up front. Then I will pay $500 per month for the 251st-500th CPEs. I am going to try this out on a 1-year contract. It's worth that much to me just to see if it will work out for my

[WISPA] Bob M - Are you there?

2006-11-05 Thread Charles Wu
Title: Message I'm going to be in the NYC area this week -- would love to finally meet you -Charles Ping me w/ your contact info ---WiNOG Wireless RoadshowsComing to a City Near Youhttp://www.winog.com -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org

RE: [WISPA] Bob M - Are you there?

2006-11-05 Thread Charles Wu
Title: Message Unfortunately, I won't be but Michael (from my company) will be going -- hit him up -- drinks / food are on us =) Michael Cochrane 630-675-9125 (c) -Charles ---WiNOG Wireless RoadshowsComing to a City Near Youhttp://www.winog.com

RE: [WISPA] 900MHz Omni and gain

2006-11-07 Thread Charles Wu
Performance wise, the best omnis we've found on the market are the BIG H-Pol Omnis from MTI Wireless Edge 11 dBi -- but at 10'+ tall and 2.5' wide @ $1k+, they can be a tough pill to swallow -Charles --- WiNOG Wireless Roadshows Coming to a City Near You

RE: [WISPA] 900MHz Omni and gain

2006-11-07 Thread Charles Wu
The Pacific Wireless horizontal omni is a good choice however, they are about $900 each. Yes and no MTI Omnis don't cost that much more and have 2 extra dB of gain -- and remember, in 900 MHz, each extra dB of gain equates to approximately 1' worth of additional antenna at the subscriber =)

RE: [WISPA] Re: Anyone using Exalt radios????

2006-11-15 Thread Charles Wu
Maybe I'm missing something -- but w/ LICENSED Dragonwave 50 Mb radios as low as $8-9k / link, unless you're going to shoot 15+ miles (which isn't really possible w/ the amount of spectrum utilized) why would you even bother messing around w/ such a high-priced unlicensed radio? -Charles P.S. --

RE: [WISPA] Re: Anyone using Exalt radios????

2006-11-15 Thread Charles Wu
Corp. tel 787.273.4143 fax 787.273.4145 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Wu Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 12:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'WISPA General List' Subject: RE: [WISPA] Re: Anyone using Exalt radios Maybe I'm

RE: [WISPA] Re: Anyone using Exalt radios????

2006-11-15 Thread Charles Wu
, November 15, 2006 12:15 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Re: Anyone using Exalt radios Charles Wu wrote: You would have to get in touch w/ a Dragonwave Distributor =) -Charles --- Dragonwave Distributor who supports WISPA Does your company also take care of the license search

[WISPA] Old News -- but can someone patent a mesh network

2006-11-16 Thread Charles Wu
http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/view_press_release.php?rID=9156 Their patent reads as follows US Patent No 6,249,516 B1 WIRELESS NETWORK GATEAWY AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SAME A wireless network system includes a server having a server controller and a server radio modem, and a number of

RE: [WISPA] Re: Anyone using Exalt radios????

2006-11-16 Thread Charles Wu
So is it safe to say that one could get one of those $9k Dragon Wave links licensed and ready to go for $12.5 - $15k? It really depends on dish size and licensing situation For example, licensing for a government entity (county, school, etc) is on a different schedule (costs about $1k) vs.

RE: [WISPA] ETINC - Thoughts / Comments

2006-11-17 Thread Charles Wu
to the customer (at each Mikrotik around the network) and were able to eliminate a point of failure on the network. Travis Microserv Charles Wu wrote: Wanted to get people's opinion of ETINC It's been some time since Dennis has publically flogged anyone ducking but curious about product performance

RE: [WISPA] Wireless Security biting you in the ass?

2006-11-27 Thread Charles Wu
I can expand on this, but would that be considered a vendor pitch ? (discussion will include product capabilities, etc) -Charles --- WiNOG Wireless Roadshows Coming to a City Near You http://www.winog.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [WISPA] Motor controlled rotating poles

2006-11-30 Thread Charles Wu
Tom, Contact me offlist -- I know someone who can probably help you (he does custom work for University astronomy arrays) Cheap is a relative term =/ -Charles --- WiNOG Wireless Roadshows Coming to a City Near You http://www.winog.com -Original

RE: [WISPA] What the heck chews up 100mhz of 5.8ghz?!?

2006-11-30 Thread Charles Wu
Not that this is a good practice...but Wmux radios are extremely sensative to interference on the Rx size (a wiff of anything takes it down) Figure out the Tx/Rx spread (may be 5.3 GHz on that particular site), and shut them down on the Rx side -- maybe then they'll talk =) -Charles P.S. -- if

RE: [WISPA] Winter Cleaning

2006-11-30 Thread Charles Wu
I have the following Alvarion equipment that needs a home (all unopened new in box) Q3 AUE-NI-900 Q13 SU-I-D-900 Anyone interested? -Charles --- WiNOG Wireless Roadshows Coming to a City Near You http://www.winog.com -- WISPA Wireless List:

RE: [WISPA] 900 Mhz Mikrotik SR9 Clients

2006-12-02 Thread Charles Wu
Hi Patrick, What basis do you have for the claim that an Alvarion network will fetch a higher price than a Canopy network? Some analysis of historical sell prices? I'd be interested to see it. Can't resist... It's mainly due to the current Canopy gear trade-out promo Buy an Alvarion network,

RE: [WISPA] Fcc Freq Search

2006-12-02 Thread Charles Wu
Is there a FCC search where I can imput a freq range and get all the licensees from a particular State ? Including the Regional and National Licensees that fall on that freq and state range ? Yes and no 1. All the information is publically available 2. As much as we'd wish it to be, it's not

RE: [WISPA] 900 Mhz Mikrotik SR9 Clients

2006-12-02 Thread Charles Wu
Ferrite beads help but do not solve the issue -Charles --- WiNOG Wireless Roadshows Coming to a City Near You http://www.winog.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Travis Johnson Sent: Saturday,

RE: [WISPA] Industry failings

2006-12-06 Thread Charles Wu
One thing that you must understand, this is a completely different type of business model The Winstar/FiberTower/etc model is wall street play; keep in mind, while the business may fail miserably, it's worth noting that the original founders / VCs generally end up doing quite well Case in point,

RE: [WISPA] Need recommendations for a licensed backhaul link

2006-12-06 Thread Charles Wu
Brad, Distance is all dependent on rain zone (and in more arrid climates, like Colorado, higher frequencies may perform better due to better multipathing properties) -- ask Travis J -- he's got 18 GHz doing 15+ miles w/ awesome reliability (keep in mind, Pocatello, ID is basically a desert from a

RE: [WISPA] Welcome Imagestream - WISPA's Newest Vendor Member!

2006-12-15 Thread Charles Wu
Aren't the current WISP dues like $250 ish / year? (that really isn't that much) --- WiNOG Wireless Roadshows Coming to a City Near You http://www.winog.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter

RE: [WISPA] 25 pr Outdoor cat5

2006-12-15 Thread Charles Wu
I've got a roll of it I'll give you REAL cheap (it's been sitting in the warehouse for over a year now) -Charles --- WiNOG Wireless Roadshows Coming to a City Near You http://www.winog.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [WISPA] salary

2006-12-16 Thread Charles Wu
snip Zero. When the CEO is also the primary investor, and the company is an S-corp or LLC, why pay payroll tax, when you can just take a repayment of loan? The salary of the CEO can be meaningless unless also disclosed wether they have an equity position or not, and of what caliber. /snip B/c

RE: [WISPA] building out

2006-12-19 Thread Charles Wu
The problem with the philosophy of building out is that you never make any money... Don't just take orders -- learn to actually sell -Charles --- WiNOG Wireless Roadshows Coming to a City Near You http://www.winog.com -Original Message- From:

RE: [WISPA] building out

2006-12-21 Thread Charles Wu
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Wu Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 9:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'WISPA General List' Subject: RE: [WISPA] building out snip Profile your best clients. Pick out who you want your clients to be. Research them. Be in front of them. Sell

RE: [WISPA] Lucent MC pigtails - OFFLIST

2006-12-21 Thread Charles Wu
Hi Blair, I got a bunch that I'll cut you a deal on -- how many do you need? -Charles --- WiNOG Wireless Roadshows Coming to a City Near You http://www.winog.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: [WISPA] Alvarion Comnet Radios have arrived - regarding interference - Part 1

2006-12-28 Thread Charles Wu
I go to see Mickey Mouse for a few days and look where this thread has gone...wow So, my 2 cents... One of the largest concerns in the license-exempt world is the question of a system's interference robustness. However, before we can get into further detail on the pros and cons of Alvarion VL

RE: [WISPA] Canopy actual throughput

2007-01-04 Thread Charles Wu
Hi, those of you who use Canopy 900: what is the actual throughput you've gotten to the CPE? 4Mbps or less? Has anyone run a bandwidth test while passing traffic simultaneously in both directions (such as with Qcheck)? Thanks a lot. If you have adequate SNR to be able to associate

[WISPA] Test

2007-03-23 Thread Charles Wu
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RE: [WISPA] 6 Ghz Questions

2007-10-14 Thread Charles Wu
1. yes 2. licenses are done on a per-site basis...since you are moving the site, it would be treated as a new license (there is a possibility that you could claim rounding error for the path move, but I would imagine it is more than likely that a tower large enough to hold solid parabolic 6'

RE: [WISPA] 6 Ghz Questions

2007-10-14 Thread Charles Wu
Regarding the 6 GHz license, you could just recoordinate on that frequency...the only person who would object would be the license holder, who shouldn't if you're buying the radios / license from them =) -Charles -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

RE: Alvarion (was Re: [WISPA] RF propagation map: WiFi vs WiMax?)

2007-10-14 Thread Charles Wu
Patrick, It is my understanding that there isn't a 3.5 GHz profile for 802.16e... -Charles ** Join us at the WISPA Reception at 6:30 PM on October the 16th 2007 at ISPCON ** ** ISPCON Fall 2007 - October 16-18 -

[WISPA] CTI is hiring -- Infrastructure Sales Group

2007-10-14 Thread Charles Wu
CTI enables wireless broadband by providing wholesale infrastructure connectivity solutions for network operators in rural and underserved niche markets. More than just product, CTI solutions incorporate a full array of engineering, implementation, logistics, financing and technical support

RE: [WISPA] Emergency request for a RB532

2007-10-15 Thread Charles Wu
Hi Ryan, I could ship you a board (RB532 or RB532A) tomorrow morning... -Charles -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of D. Ryan Spott Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 8:23 PM To: WISPA General List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WISPA] Emergency

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