Re: [WISPA] Youtube

2007-03-21 Thread David E. Smith
George Rogato wrote: I was thinking on a caching server at the noc for my customers to have better response download time. If you're already running a Web cache/proxy, just twiddle the knobs a bit (so that, for *.youtube.com, really big files will be cached) and you should be all set. If you'

Re: [WISPA] P2P Apps Going Legit?

2007-03-20 Thread David E. Smith
Mark Nash wrote: > I had a customer tell me yesterday that he uses his Gnutella program to do > unlimited downloads from a paid site. I've used the Mikrotik routers (p2p > queue set to 64k) to block this and other programs, so it's not working now > for the customer. I want to allow for paid d

Re: [WISPA] Youtube

2007-03-17 Thread David E. Smith
George Rogato wrote: Can youtube be cached? Theoretically, it probably could. There are sites like keepvid.com where you can enter the URL of a video on YouTube (or Google Video, or a bunch of others), they dig through the HTML and the embedded Flash goo, and give you a link to download the .

(Horribly OT) Google AdSense (was: Re: [WISPA] news)

2007-03-09 Thread David E. Smith
George Rogato wrote: > If you want to be at the top of a search result, you pay. At the very > top #1 you pay the most and as you go down the list you pay less. I > believe it's also done on a bid ask type auction type system , or so > I've been told. For the sake of clarity, Google's search resu

Re: [WISPA] Form 477 Due Today

2007-03-01 Thread David E. Smith
Matt Liotta wrote: I'm surprised no one has complained about their use of Microsoft Excel. Form 477 does not work with OpenOffice. They sent me a PDF to fill out instead. Microsoft Office, while not necessarily the best software, is a /de facto/ standard, and keeping a copy around is, I'd argue

Re: [WISPA] Form 477 Due Today

2007-03-01 Thread David E. Smith
Marlon K. Schafer wrote: > I've never signed mine. Just emailed it. Technically, then, it's not considered "filed." You have to either mail or fax the "Certification Statement" (i.e. page 14 of the instructions), in addition to either emailing or snail-mailing a floppy or CD with the spreadsheet.

Re: [WISPA] Anyone Seen AppleTV yet ?

2007-02-28 Thread David E. Smith
Rick Smith wrote: Wonder what kinda bandwidth this will eat up. http://www.apple.com/appletv/ Not much more than what your customers are already using. Basically, it lets you watch purchased content from iTunes on your television. iTunes has sold TV shows for quite a while now. If it tried t

Re: [WISPA] STOOPID linksys / netgear / etc

2007-02-28 Thread David E. Smith
Rick Smith wrote: Can't vendors make it so that whatever you use as the securing KEY can't be contained in the hostname, essid or anywhere else ? Common Sense... I'm sure they could, but as soon as a customer decides this is what they want to do, and can't, angry phone calls will ensue. No

Re: [WISPA] Final Form 477 Consideration

2007-02-27 Thread David E. Smith
Forbes Mercy wrote: > Prior to submitting my 477 today I want to ask you what we are trying to get > out of the report. While I have over 500 wireless customers we sell the > service as 128k even though 90 percent of them get over the 256 the feds ask > about, but that's not what we're selling

Re: [WISPA] Routers

2007-02-07 Thread David E. Smith
Ross Cornett wrote: We have used linksys and netgear and their broadband routers have not held up very well. No matter what brand of router you're talking about, you'll find a number of people who say "wow, that's junk" and an equal number of people that say "wow, that's awesome." With that

Re: [WISPA] Form FCC477

2007-01-25 Thread David E. Smith
Tom DeReggi wrote: Yeah, I think I'll wait to see the results of how the legal battle turns out before I file. The current form is due on March 1st, and the odds of the case being tied up before then are asymptotically close to zero. Besides, you're probably required to file either way. Dav

Re: [WISPA] Pardon the SPAM but..............

2007-01-22 Thread David E. Smith
Rick Harnish wrote: > Go Colts! Wow what a game. Finally Superbowl Bound! I'll never understand how this works. We have a team from Indy and a team from Chicago... ... playing in Florida. I very much prefer the Major League Baseball (and NBA, and NHL, and basically every major sport that isn't

Re: [WISPA] Dual-WAN routers

2007-01-21 Thread David E. Smith
RickG wrote: According to the responses I'm getting is that load sharing wont work. So, why do I find so many article sayign it does such as http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=13103 ? Depends on your definition of load-balancing. Traditionally, that means you can balance traffic

Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Program/Script for Web Server?

2007-01-17 Thread David E. Smith
KyWiFi LLC wrote: The speed test below is way off for me. It is no where close to being accurate. Is there a problem with it or is the server where it's hosted overloaded right now? I installed a copy of it in my office, and got woefully inaccurate numbers too. Being just one router and a co

Re: [WISPA] Most Common Questions for Tech Support Line ?

2007-01-17 Thread David E. Smith
Rick Smith wrote: > If I were to build a "script" for my tech support phone answering, > and share it with you all as an "FAQ", what do you think the most > common questions are, and how are they answered. Keep in mind, > that I'm attempting to write a script, so to speak, for an operator > to pic

Re: [WISPA] ot---Fw: Please note Schafer, Marlon that this is your Final Notice of Domain Extension

2007-01-12 Thread David E. Smith
Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 wrote: > Anhone seen a deal like this before? This looks almost exactly like an email copy of the junk faxes I get about twice a week. They're always for domains we don't own but they're similar to them, and the rates are just shy of insane. Probably safe to ignor

Re: [WISPA] Dual-WAN routers

2007-01-06 Thread David E. Smith
RickG wrote: This is for the end user cpe side. I'd like to see both fail-over and load balancing but fail-over is priority. No need for wireless. I'll look into the microtik. Thanks! -RickG I could never get load balancing and policy routing to work quite right, but it also wasn't a high pri

Re: [WISPA] Dual-WAN routers

2007-01-06 Thread David E. Smith
RickG wrote: Hey, I've been testing Dual-WAN routers. I've used Xincom, Linksys, & D-Link. The Linksys seems to be most reliable because it has a "health check feature". Has anyone out there tried anything else? Are you just looking for redundancy (i.e. automatic failover so if one ISP or con

Re: [WISPA] Radius accounting vs IPflow accounting?

2007-01-05 Thread David E. Smith
rabbtux rabbtux wrote: > I am designing the migration of my network to a MT hotspot solution > for fixed wireless subs. It appears there are two ways to account for > customer bandwidth usage, radius accounting or use IPflow data from MT > routers and a an application like IPTrack to do the accoun

Re: [WISPA] recommendation for Client POE integrated radiofor 802.11b/g

2006-12-29 Thread David E. Smith
Jack Unger wrote: I think that you will find that using an open access point to allow a first-responder (police, fire, etc.) to communicate with the rest of the world would not be considered a crime. Technically, yes, it probably is. No prosecutor in this country would touch it with a ten-fo

Re: [WISPA] Looking for an administrator

2006-12-28 Thread David E. Smith
William.L. Edwards wrote: > Can you tell me if this is the correct list to look for a systems > administrator that is proficient in BSD, voIP, and wireless. If not can you > tell me where would be a good place to start? Thank you in advance. Are you looking to hire one, or do you just have a roman

Re: [WISPA] bits per mbps

2006-12-27 Thread David E. Smith
George Rogato wrote: You know Akamai is also an option. As I recall they require you to have x number of subs and then send you their boxes to be set up on your network. All free. Any idea on how many subs you need before this becomes an option? I've heard that Akamai will do this, and I lov

Re: [WISPA] bits per mbps

2006-12-27 Thread David E. Smith
Jonathan Schmidt wrote: Also, they add significant latency to ordinary traffic (the requested URLs have to be obtained in their entirety first then relayed) and you can't have more than a thousand up to several thousand simultaneous users...maybe not a problem... you can get around that with loa

Re: [WISPA] FreeRadius on Debian

2006-12-26 Thread David E. Smith
Mark McElvy wrote: > Anyone out there that can help me set this up? I am a Windows guy and > have successfully installed Linux several times but have not figured out > how to install FreeRadius successfully. If I had the time I might be > able to do it but I thought it might go faster with a little

Re: [WISPA] bits per mbps

2006-12-22 Thread David E. Smith
Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 wrote: >>> First, I have to figure out how many kbps a gig of download would be. >>> Specifically, I've got a couple of customers doing 50 gigs per month. >>> How many kbps does it take to generate that? >> >> Assuming a month is 30 days (nice round number), 50GB/m

Re: [WISPA] bits per mbps

2006-12-22 Thread David E. Smith
Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 wrote: > First, I have to figure out how many kbps a gig of download would be. > Specifically, I've got a couple of customers doing 50 gigs per month. > How many kbps does it take to generate that? Assuming a month is 30 days (nice round number), 50GB/month is ab

[WISPA] TEST (please ignore)

2006-12-18 Thread David E. Smith
I just twiddled a few knobs on the WISPA mail server. Specifically, I turned it up to eleven. :) (Okay, so it was just routine OS updates, but the above version was funnier. I'm just making sure nothing's broken.) David Smith MVN.net -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscr

Re: [WISPA] A wisp who went a little too far.......

2006-12-16 Thread David E. Smith
fred wrote: Why in the world, I want to know, are organ availability notifications going out via email???!!! Seriously. How fun will it be when they start serving subpeonas and such that way - What I never got that email?? I don't think subpoenas will get there for a while (if ever), because t

Re: [WISPA] A wisp who went a little too far.......

2006-12-16 Thread David E. Smith
George Rogato wrote: According to the government, Fisher admitted he used an administrative password to break into SBT's network on Feb. 28, 2005. Once in the network, he plant malicious code that directed the radio tower computer to cut off Wi-Fi service to the company's users. Remember, be

Re: [WISPA] google ad sense

2006-12-08 Thread David E. Smith
Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 wrote: I have had a google search on our site for years. And an ad sence account almost as long. Did Google AdSense really exist six years ago? :) If you do have an account, and you're just not sure how to get to it, the tiny link under the login form (that

Re: [WISPA] Routed vs bridged (again)...

2006-12-03 Thread David E. Smith
Butch Evans wrote: There are nearly 4000 (unfortunately not all mine :-) 100meg customers on that network. I don't want to argue this point, because I just don't have enough information about the network. I seriously doubt, though, that all those customers are all on a single /20 network (w

Re: [WISPA] Bet they didn't plan this.. LOL

2006-11-27 Thread David E. Smith
George Rogato wrote: Hmm, my page came with yahoo 1st and w3c 2nd. here's what I got: (yahoo being first) Google tries to provide results that will be relevant to their users, and Yahoo! is one of the biggest and most popular sites on the Web. Honestly, it just looks like Google is doing its

Re: [WISPA] Handheld Spectrum analyzer mentioned on list last summer

2006-11-27 Thread David E. Smith
On Mon, November 27, 2006 11:43 am, rabbtux rabbtux wrote: > I recall there was some interest in a German manufactured handheld > spectrum analyzer last summer(cost about 1K). Some on the list were > going to pool their resources to make a overseas order. You're thinking of the Spectran analyzer

Re: [WISPA] DHCP with a twist

2006-11-15 Thread David E. Smith
Sam Tetherow wrote: > Being five days late on this you have probably already solved it, but > just in case Not really, no. :) I'm still in the "planning" phase of this next change in the network. > The CB3 will request a DHCP address with it's MAC address (assuming it > is set to DHCP). When

Re: [WISPA] on call staff

2006-11-10 Thread David E. Smith
George Rogato wrote: I actually give out my cell phone number to my broadband subs so they can call me if they are out. I just recently started doing this. We don't have 24/7 tech support. Gah, not even I got THAT far... A few of our biggest customers have either my cell number, or the lead

Re: [WISPA] on call staff

2006-11-10 Thread David E. Smith
Brian Rohrbacher wrote: > Lets say you have 4 employees. You rotate them 1 week per month of "on > call" duty for off hours. Oh, okay, I get the question. Not applicable, I've been the on-call guy for three and a half years straight. :) David Smith MVN.net -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wisp

Re: [WISPA] DHCP with a twist

2006-11-10 Thread David E. Smith
Pete Davis wrote: > I know a nearby WISP that gives his customers IP space and his CPE space > on the same last 3 octets. Makes figuring out who's CPE belongs to who's > equipmnent much easier: > > For example: Customer addr = 64.123.105.33, CPE addr: 10.123.105.33 > > We keep out CPE private, an

Re: [WISPA] DHCP with a twist

2006-11-10 Thread David E. Smith
Ryan Langseth wrote: > Why not have the AP run a DHCP relay instead of a full server, have > everything relayed to a central server of your choice that way IP > management becomes a one stop shop. Reservations would take care of > setting IPs for specific mac addresses. That one could go either

[WISPA] DHCP with a twist

2006-11-09 Thread David E. Smith
As part of the ongoing (does it ever stop?) efforts to make a Better Network, I've finally started using private subnets where appropriate. I'd love to be able to better automate some parts of my network, though, and I'm not sure how to do both of 'em at the same time. (Right now, substantially ou

Re: [WISPA] So, ya'll wondered who'd be the first to comment

2006-11-08 Thread David E. Smith
Rick Smith wrote: A general thanks out there to all that voted. All 40% of us. The other 60 ought to be ashamed. Does it still count if everyone I voted for lost? (lolbertarian) David Smith MVN.net -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/ma

Re: [WISPA] Client loss during longer AP outagage[late nite AP service window]

2006-11-08 Thread David E. Smith
rabbtux rabbtux wrote: Of the 25 subs, 4 or 5 CPEs did not re-associate with the AP. All was cleared up when customers called & were instructed to recycle power to outdoor CPEs. This situation happened to 3 different types of CPEs that we have in the field for this AP. I don't think that's

Re: [WISPA] on call staff

2006-11-08 Thread David E. Smith
Travis Johnson wrote: That's not legal (at least not in Idaho). Someone on salary still can only work 40 hours per week unless they are a "manager", meaning they have 3 people "under" them, or they are a "professional" position (lawyer, doctor, etc.). My business card says "Network Administr

Re: [WISPA] on call staff

2006-11-08 Thread David E. Smith
chris cooper wrote: How do the rest of you compensate tech staff for on call duties? We have an on call tech that monitors network remotely throughout weekend and is responsible for rolling to tower/major customer in case of outage. Put 'em on salary, that way you can work them as much as you

Re: [WISPA] Low power Ethernet Switch

2006-11-02 Thread David E. Smith
D. Ryan Spott wrote: Looking for a VERY low wattage 12 or 24 volt switch. Does anyone have any recommendations? I need it for a remote tower running 12 and 24 volt solar. No, but I'll see your question and raise you another question. Anyone have any recommendations on (if this even exists)

Re: [WISPA] OT: sendmail question

2006-10-30 Thread David E. Smith
N White wrote: lolz. ;-) I guess anything is better than Sendmail. Right? I'd rather rebuild my whole wireless network with RFC2549 gear than use Sendmail. ;) http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2549.html David Smith MVN.net -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://

Re: [WISPA] OT: sendmail question

2006-10-30 Thread David E. Smith
On Mon, October 30, 2006 3:41 pm, N White wrote: > I suggest the following. I never liked Sendmail all that much You misspelled 'www.postfix.org' :) David Smith MVN.net -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives

Re: [WISPA] "The Gremlin," redux

2006-10-28 Thread David E. Smith
Mac Dearman wrote: I tend to believe you will find your answer on your network -vs- "big bad leak" somewhere and the only real suggestion I can offer you would be to do what we do here when we start having weird issues [ snip: Mac's good advice on how to track down broadcast storms and other

Re: [WISPA] "The Gremlin," redux

2006-10-27 Thread David E. Smith
On Fri, October 27, 2006 3:11 pm, Eric Merkel wrote: > 1) Turning off inter-BSS Relay Already done, on most towers. (We do have a couple of towers where one business, with two locations, wants to do VPN-type stuff between 'em.) > 2) We block all the typical MS ports(135-139) which broadcast all

Re: [WISPA] "The Gremlin," redux

2006-10-27 Thread David E. Smith
On Fri, October 27, 2006 1:07 pm, Eric Merkel wrote: > We have a similar situation happening mainly on one tower of ours. > Basicially it is a StarOS V2 on WRAP boards setup using Prism cards > for the AP's. We have 4 90* horizontal sectors. Hm. A few months back, we converted the last of our tow

Re: [WISPA] "The Gremlin," redux

2006-10-27 Thread David E. Smith
Jack Unger wrote: > If it's true that there's a giant "something" that's spewing noise, you > can use a spectrum analyzer and try to identify the noise "signature", > then triangulate. If it would just stay broken for a couple hours, I'd love to do that. Sadly, this problem usually just shows up

Re: [WISPA] "The Gremlin," redux

2006-10-27 Thread David E. Smith
Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 wrote: > Scriv needs to hire a good consultant to come check things out! > big grin Know any? :D The hard part there would be that it's not, in any way, predictable. We've gone several weeks at a time without this problem appearing, and had days where it showed u

[WISPA] "The Gremlin," redux

2006-10-27 Thread David E. Smith
This problem was mentioned back in May (see http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/2006-May/025354.html ) but it's still here, and I thought it might be worthwhile to bounce it off folks again, to see if anyone has any new insights. Occasionally, completely at random, many of our 2.4GHz APs sta

Re: [WISPA] ? Web Developer Guru's

2006-10-26 Thread David E. Smith
On Thu, October 26, 2006 10:26 am, Brian Rohrbacher wrote: > After the customer hits submit I want 2 things to happen. Those both seem relatively easy. What kind of programming environment (i.e. language) is the current application written in? David Smith MVN.net -- WISPA Wireless List: wirel

Re: [WISPA] TEST

2006-10-25 Thread David E. Smith
Butch Evans wrote: > Subject: TEST Failed! David Smith MVN.net -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/

Re: [WISPA] Free Faxes?

2006-10-25 Thread David E. Smith
Brian Rohrbacher wrote: What is the best way to fax over broadband? And can it be done (send/receive) for free? Your best bet is probably eFax (efax.com). Their free service will let you receive, but not send, a few pages of faxes per month. Sending faxes requires one of their paid packages,

Re: [WISPA] 60GHz radio trial

2006-10-25 Thread David E. Smith
Harold Bledsoe wrote: > Now, to business. I need someone to do a 3-month trial with a pair of > 60GHz, 100Mbps full-duplex radios (PtP). I need the link to be <500m. > This is a 3-month trial and you are required to give feedback (and > return the units or buy them) at the end of the trial. The

Re: [WISPA] Trying to block Stock Spam

2006-10-17 Thread David E. Smith
rwf wrote: How does postini filter the graphical spam? I can't speak for Postini, but Barracuda Networks' "Spam Firewall" (I hate that name) recently added OCR features. Basically, they "read" the graphics, which amuses me. It wouldn't surprise me if Postini were doing something similar.

Re: [WISPA] Are these good or bad Alvarion VL statistics...

2006-10-10 Thread David E. Smith
Brad Belton wrote: Is there a way to lock in a modulation rate at the lowest setting...say maybe 6MB in an effort to give the VL a chance in a noisy environment? There is, but I don't remember how to do it from the command line :( With Breezeconfig, click on the "Performance" tab, set Maximum

Re: [WISPA] Are these good or bad Alvarion VL statistics...

2006-10-10 Thread David E. Smith
Brad Belton wrote: I'm at the SU side and the SU shows "Five Green LEDs". In fact the SU shows "Five Green LEDs" even if we swing the antenna a few degrees left - right - up or down. We really have no idea what our RSSI is, but we've made our best judgment splitting the difference between the l

Re: [WISPA] Re: Outsourced installations (KyWiFi LLC)

2006-10-08 Thread David E. Smith
Blair Davis wrote: I would not even consider charging for a site survey. Way too many possibilitys for bad press. I simply consider it a cost of doing business. Rarely do we have someone decline service if it can be done at our $199/$299 install rate. I have declines on the $799+ installs,

Re: [WISPA] Current Bandwidth Prices?

2006-09-26 Thread David E. Smith
KyWiFi LLC wrote: > One provider's quote difference between 10Mbps and 20Mbps was $400. > Is this typical, do fiber prices really drop off like this once you purchase > more than 10Mbps? >From the numbers I've seen, that's fairly common. Most of the cost is fixed regardless; if you want, say, 10M

Re: [WISPA] asset mgmt

2006-09-26 Thread David E. Smith
chris cooper wrote: > Im sure some of you have many devices to manage/track. What packages > are people using for asset management? We've tried a couple "off the shelf" inventory systems, but most of them are too complicated in all the wrong places. The problem is, of course, that they try to do

Re: [WISPA] ARIN IP Application

2006-09-25 Thread David E. Smith
On Mon, September 25, 2006 1:30 pm, Tom DeReggi wrote: > I thought a /20 was the minimum allocation. > Also not sure that it would be cost justified for IP blocks smaller than > /19 > all things considered. >From the ARIN NRPM (abridged): You can't multihome unless you have at least a /24, but AR

Re: [WISPA] ARIN IP Application

2006-09-25 Thread David E. Smith
Carl A Jeptha wrote: We, upstream and ourselves, want the capability to use whoever we want (multihomed) for our connection. For you, that could be a problem. If you're only using 30 or so IP addresses, you probably won't be able to independently multihome. (Most Tier 1 ISPs won't accept or p

Re: [WISPA] ARIN IP Application

2006-09-25 Thread David E. Smith
Carl A Jeptha wrote: (32 IPs) That is what we need right now. But we need even more to go forward and we need to know we can have it. Assuming your upstream is competent, and that they are efficiently using their existing IP allocations (ARIN usually defines "efficiently" as "more than 80%

Re: [WISPA] ARIN IP Application

2006-09-24 Thread David E. Smith
Carl A Jeptha wrote: We ourselves, right now need 32. And no, we are not multi-homed. 32, as in a total of 32 IP addresses? If that's the case, they shouldn't need to involve ARIN at all. They should just SWIP that little teensy allocation out of their own space to you. (ARIN usually doesn

Re: [WISPA] ARIN IP Application

2006-09-23 Thread David E. Smith
Carl A Jeptha wrote: My upstream is trying to obtain a set of ip numbers to use between ourselves, but ARIN is rejecting the application because they feel that we do not require or have use for our own ip numbers. If you're trying to get the IPs for your network, you should probably apply dir

Re: [WISPA] PTP Link Recommendations

2006-09-21 Thread David E. Smith
On Thu, September 21, 2006 3:09 pm, Travis Johnson wrote: > What are your signal levels on each side (the actual RSSI using the > management program)? I'd have to drive over to one end (or the other) to look, but IIRC, on that longer link, it shows a signal of about -40 or so. The link may actua

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

2006-09-21 Thread David E. Smith
Patrick Leary wrote: > Here are the net rates per mod for VL: > > Avg Avg >FTPLayer 2 > Modulation 1 4.96 5.56 > Modulation 2 7.28 8.16 > Modulation 3 9.911.10 > Modulation 4 14.35 16.09 > Modulation 5 19.38 21.73 > Modulation 6 26.7

Re: [WISPA] PTP Link Recommendations

2006-09-21 Thread David E. Smith
Travis Johnson wrote: > P-com 38ghz with DS3 to ethernet converters. 1ms ping times, 45Mbps > full-duplex > (90Mbps total). Total equipment cost less than $3,000. Check on ebay. As long as it doesn't rain. :) Seriously, I've got two pair of these, and while they're rock-solid most of the time,

Re: [WISPA] FCC wireless auction raises almost $13.9 bln

2006-09-19 Thread David E. Smith
Larry Yunker wrote: I'd be interested to know what sort of equipment you find for use in that band. As I understand it, 10Mhz is for base-to-mobile and the other 10Mhz is for mobile-to-base. That is a much different model than most license-exempt equipment. Fine, so maybe the hardware we'll

Re: [WISPA] Weather Watcher Request

2006-09-19 Thread David E. Smith
Scott Reed wrote: All the discussion has been good, but I would like to get back to the original question. The Watcher is looking at a park and connect, not mobile application. So, let's assume my network will support him connecting to any POP. Any suggestions how to bill a customer that is

Re: [WISPA] Weather Watcher Request

2006-09-18 Thread David E. Smith
On Mon, September 18, 2006 5:28 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Two questions. What is RDC? Is the data rate for the Sprint card high > enough to download color weather radar images quickly? I'd assume RDC is Remote Desktop, Windows' answer to PC Anywhere and VNC. And the Sprint cards are, I'm to

Re: [WISPA] Preferred Netflow collector/analyzer?

2006-09-18 Thread David E. Smith
Sam Tetherow wrote: I am running about 10 gig/month in data and currently haven't deleted anything since I started in May. It looks like you can get about a 4.5:1 compression on the data using bzip2 though so I would be looking at a little over 2G/month compressed data For the last four hou

Re: [WISPA] Weather Watcher Request

2006-09-18 Thread David E. Smith
Scott Reed wrote: > I have had a request for service from our local SkyWarn volunteer watcher. > He > needs service in his vehicle during potetial storms so he can see the radar > while watching the sky. Does anyone provide similar service? If so, how do > you > charge for installation, ser

Re: [WISPA] Preferred Netflow collector/analyzer?

2006-09-18 Thread David E. Smith
Sam Tetherow wrote: > I use nfcapd (part of nfdump) to capture the data, and have been using a > few of my own scripts to process the data. Not doing anything fancy > right now, just extracting data by IP address so I can graph user usage. Ooh, that tickles my shell scripting fancy. ;) How much

[WISPA] Preferred Netflow collector/analyzer?

2006-09-18 Thread David E. Smith
As part of a wholly unrelated network tweak, I now have a Mikrotik box in a perfect place to snoop on my whole network, and seeing that RouterOS 2.9 supports Cisco NetFlow, the gears started turning... I'd like recommendations on Netflow collectors and analyzers. I played briefly with nTop, the pa

Re: [WISPA] Anyone wwant to SUBSIDIZE AT&T with FREE bandwidth?

2006-09-12 Thread David E. Smith
George Rogato wrote: > http://today.reuters.com/news/articlebusiness.aspx?type=ousiv&storyID=2006-09-12T052710Z_01_N11192322_RTRIDST_0_BUSINESSPRO-TELECOMS-ATT-TV-DC.XML&from=business For those who can't psychically divine article content from URLs, the article is about a service through which a

Re: [WISPA] ot? New pc card slot in laptop

2006-09-07 Thread David E. Smith
Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 wrote: > It also has no PCMCIA slot! > It's got a slot that's the right size but the connections inside the > slot are all wrong. That's probably an ExpressCard slot. Welcome to the bleeding edge. :) > I need to find an external wireless card that I can hook a c

Re: [WISPA] Managing CPE in routed network

2006-08-28 Thread David E. Smith
Lonnie Nunweiler wrote: > We are building an AP unit for the middle and we figured that BGP was > for the edge with several outlets where you would typically have a > larger server. Darn, I was actually thinking about using iBGP and private ASNs on a bunch of towers. More reliable than RIP, easier

Re: [WISPA] Managing CPE in routed network

2006-08-23 Thread David E. Smith
Lonnie Nunweiler wrote: > We support RIP, OSPF and OLSR Mesh, with mesh being the one we like the > best. Verging horribly off-topic for this, but out of curiosity, why did you remove BGP support from V3? David Smith MVN.net -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: htt

Re: [WISPA] WHY?

2006-08-23 Thread David E. Smith
John Scrivner wrote: > I think most people here track who has what address. Otherwise how could > you possibly run your network? What they likely do not do is keep logs > of who had what address three years ago. Y'know, boss, I could add that to our in-house IP tracking system if you like. :) Si

Re: [WISPA] Managing CPE in routed network

2006-08-22 Thread David E. Smith
Jason Hensley wrote: > I'm really going to need to have a routed network. You're probably right there. Our legacy bridged network still causes the occasional weird problem, because of all the MACs flying around three counties. > My biggest question is, how do you manage your CPE remotely in a ro

Re: [WISPA] Sometimes you just need to know you know

2006-08-22 Thread David E. Smith
>> I just didn't realize that her old IMAC couldn't sustain more than 80KB/sec >> downloads.No kidding. The hard drive thrashed visciously and that's all >> it could do. No, you see, the problem isn't that it's an iMac, the problem is that it's still running MacOS. I've got an old Revision A

Re: [WISPA] Re: [Ham-80211] Which PDA to buy as a WiFi Finder?

2006-08-14 Thread David E. Smith
On Mon, August 14, 2006 10:48 am, Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 wrote: > I don't know if it'll work on a pda but this program is very helpful. I > use it quite a bit. Won't show non wifi systems, but it sounds like > that's all you need it to do. Best one out there. Most wireless ISPs I > k

Re: [WISPA] Web site update

2006-08-08 Thread David E. Smith
Matt Larsen - Lists wrote: > Thanks for the heads up on the link. The signup page is hosted in a > different location, so I am forwarding the information to the correct > place to get it fixed. >> This link from the sign-up page is broken: [ snip: really long URL ] Should be better now. (Hey M

Re: [WISPA] Web site update

2006-08-07 Thread David E. Smith
Butch Evans wrote: > I noticed that, too, but didn't know that "wonky" was a word and didn't > know how to describe it. lol. Yup. "Wonky" is a highly technical term. :D David Smith MVN.net -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinf

Re: [WISPA] Web site update

2006-08-07 Thread David E. Smith
>> http://www.wispa.org/ It looks like there's some wonky vhosting going on - while all the links work, they all point to www.invmedia.com, not www.wispa.org. (Also, the signup form doesn't need to have the /wispa-newacct.html part -- just http://signup.wispa.org/ works, and it looks a bit neater

Re: [WISPA] Trango Delimna

2006-08-03 Thread David E. Smith
Tom DeReggi wrote: > [System Up Time] 686 day(s) 16:07:36 Don't bother to upgrade your firmware, unless there's some massive problem that the new firmware will address. That's generally my rule, at least. I'll do upgrades for security purposes on our servers, but wireless gear rarely gets upgrad

[WISPA] New FCC Form 477 is up

2006-07-13 Thread David E. Smith
I remember what a bleepstorm this was a few months back, so I'm afraid to say it, but what the heck. The new FCC Form 477, due on September 1st for the first half of this year, is now available at the usual place ( http://www.fcc.gov/formpage.html ) Remember that, as of the March 2006 filing, all

Re: [WISPA] 900 radio

2006-07-12 Thread David E. Smith
Mac Dearman wrote: > We are trying to get a "Wireless Woodstock" reunion out here for Labor Day. Will there be free Wi-Fi? Sorry, it was just too easy. David Smith MVN.net -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archiv

Re: [WISPA] Nortel Box for Failover Broadband Connection

2006-07-11 Thread David E. Smith
Dylan Oliver wrote: > What's the model number? It says "Contivity 100" on the front, and "II-100S" on the bottom. It's all confusing and stuff. :( I already don't like it, just because I think this is the first time I've ever had to register on a manufacturer's Web site just to download a manual.

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

2006-06-28 Thread David E. Smith
Dylan Oliver wrote: > http://en.fon.com/biz/isps_friends.php. > > (i) have a FON Social Router or a router that is compatible with the FON > Software and (ii) have a contract with an ISP that permits the FONero to > share bandwidth. And how many of your customers actually read all the fine print

[WISPA] Talking Point: Broadband, the phone company, and a lot of money

2006-06-20 Thread David E. Smith
This is turning out to be a fun little read: http://www.newnetworks.com/broadbandscandals.htm (there's a link on that page to download their 400-page PDF book, free "this week only," after that it's $20) This book alleges that over the past twenty years, the various RBOCs have essentially scammed

Re: Wierd ... was [WISPA] 3650 equipment

2006-06-13 Thread David E. Smith
John Scrivner wrote: > It is not a clock issue. All the messages that were sent with old dates > were already delivered previously. These are duplicate messages. Hm. Hmmm (digs around through mail server logs) Well, the old posts from three weeks ago and the new posts from today have differe

Re: Wierd ... was [WISPA] 3650 equipment

2006-06-13 Thread David E. Smith
Gino A. Villarini wrote: > I ogt them too... I peeked at the headers (sorry, that's my schtick) and while the Date: header said "three weeks ago," they were only sent today. I'm guessing Patrick just has a computer with a really squirrely clock. David Smith MVN.net -- WISPA Wireless List: wirele

Re: [WISPA] This is HUGE!

2006-06-13 Thread David E. Smith
Patrick Leary wrote: > Indeed, and the Pew study is very credible, well circulated on the Hill, and > used frequently as source material for other briefings and other reports. > > Just because something is widely circulated among influential people doesn't make it correct. I do firmly believe

Re: [WISPA] looking for a device

2006-06-09 Thread David E. Smith
John Scrivner wrote: > Can anyone describe any functional and/or technical differences between > VLANs and say MPLS or Mikrotik's EoIP? It sounds to me like all three > are functional equivalents of each other. Please correct me if this is > an incorrect assumption. I have Googled it so spare me t

Re: [WISPA] Why's WISPA silent about this?

2006-06-04 Thread David E. Smith
Mark Koskenmaki wrote: > Why aren't we fighting tooth and nail to stop this kinda stuff? > > Personally, I'm counting on it, so I can get the company to buy me that multi-terabyte NAS I've always wanted. I'm running out of disk space at home to store all my pr0n. David Smith MVN.net -- WISPA W

Re: [WISPA] Dual Port Router's?

2006-06-02 Thread David E. Smith
Bo Hamilton wrote: > Hello everyone! I have a client who will be using my service as backup to > their T1. I looking for a nice Dual WAN port router this is not too > expensive. Something in the range of 200 to 300 $. If you just want "something you can plug two Internet connections into," that

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