[WISPA] 2006 Board Election Underway!

2006-02-07 Thread David E. Smith
The 2006 WISPA Board of Directors election is going on right now. Yes, even at this very moment, little vote-tallying fairies are flying around my server room, anxiously awaiting your votes. If you believe you should have received a ballot, but have not yet received one, please email me

[WISPA] RADIUS + StarOS + bandwidth ?

2006-02-15 Thread David E. Smith
After a few really trying days in the office, I've got our shiny new billing system, with integrated RADIUS and possibly a toaster oven, humming along. Now that I've got a fancy computer thingy to keep track of customers, I'd like to automate and centralize a few more things in my network. StarOS

Re: [WISPA] RADIUS + StarOS + bandwidth ?

2006-02-15 Thread David E. Smith
Lonnie Nunweiler wrote: The tag was named, descriptively, for the first application it was intended for. The thing about radius attributes, is they are just a number, and can be used for any purpose, even Hotspot bandwidth control, which the Hotspot Server recognizes and uses. So I can just

Re: [WISPA] Blocking ripe network ip space?

2006-03-06 Thread David E. Smith
Mac Dearman wrote: 90% of spam messages to our network and 99% of the DOS attacks we are suffering are in the IP space of RIPE network and I am considering blocking all IPs from RIPE. What would be the most detrimental affect of this for my clients? other than the obvious no traffic to/from

Re: [WISPA] The Story of Medicine Bow Part 8 of 8 now online

2010-01-27 Thread David E. Smith
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 12:09, Tom DeReggi wirelessn...@rapiddsl.netwrote: We have 2 million subs to prove it. I've heard this number bandied around a lot, including in some WISPA FCC filings. Anyone know the source of the 2 million number? David Smith MVN.net

Re: [WISPA] Follow up article

2010-02-02 Thread David E. Smith
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 12:57, MDK rea...@muddyfrogwater.us wrote: The multi-party systems develop the same problems as two-party systems. The secret would be to replace first-past-the-post voting with something like instant runoff. Good luck explaining that to people that barely can be

Re: [WISPA] Found Great VLAN switch

2010-02-15 Thread David E. Smith
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 13:40, Glenn Kelley gl...@hostmedic.com wrote: I thought the 5424 did not support Jumbo Frames (could be wrong - so kinda asking) It does. Just add a port jumbo-frame to the configuration. David Smith MVN.net

Re: [WISPA] [WISPA Members] Possible way to create a free tool for 477 reporting data at the tract level

2010-02-18 Thread David E. Smith
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 09:54, Scott Reed scottr...@onlyinternet.netwrote: The USC site the Brian found last night does it all. Submit a database, get back a database with your lat, lon, county fips and tract. How accurate is it, though? We actually tried something similar to that, and when

Re: [WISPA] [WISPA Members] Possible way to create a free tool for 477 reporting data at the tract level

2010-02-18 Thread David E. Smith
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:30, Scott Reed scottr...@onlyinternet.netwrote: I am mostly rural with about 370 subs. It hit all but 4 of them that had valid addresses. It showed me 2 that I had mistyped addresses and 2 were the billing not the service address. Weird. Out of curiosity, does

Re: [WISPA] new FCC report out

2010-02-23 Thread David E. Smith
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:56, Patrick Leary ple...@apertonet.com wrote: 29% from fixed wireless. Well, that sure reveals the disconnect between the output data re form 477 filings, though I am much more inclined to weight the end customer surveys than 477 filing numbers (which we all know

Re: [WISPA] Fw: [WISPA Approved Ad] Special offer from Propel Software for WISPAmembers

2010-03-08 Thread David E. Smith
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 13:45, Marlon K. Schafer o...@odessaoffice.comwrote: OK, this looks interesting. It would be nice to drop the amount of data across especially busy parts of the network! Anyone else used this or something similar? This looks a lot like the dialup accelerator software

Re: [WISPA] Fw: [WISPA Approved Ad] Special offer from Propel Software for WISPAmembers

2010-03-09 Thread David E. Smith
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 00:18, Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.comwrote: Almost all HTTP content is gzip'ed already. I doubt any compression above that is going to be worth the CPU time cost. Do you have a cite for this? The best things I can find (with a whopping total of two minutes on

Re: [WISPA] Fw: [WISPA Approved Ad] Special offer from Propel Software for WISPAmembers

2010-03-09 Thread David E. Smith
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 19:16, Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.comwrote: Sounds like an HTTP proxy doesn't it? I'm running for the hills!!! ziproxy specifically is exactly that - they even say you have to use it as your proxy, either by configuring your users' PCs accordingly, or with

Re: [WISPA] how to compete with $15 DSL

2010-03-16 Thread David E. Smith
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 07:41, Kurt Fankhauser k...@wavelinc.com wrote: 6 Meg DSL here is around $50/month At home, I have 6Mbps DSL for $35/month. (Yes, I work for a WISP, but still have DSL, because my last three apartments were out of my employer's coverage area due to terrain and trees.)

Re: [WISPA] OT: Barracuda Updates?

2010-03-23 Thread David E. Smith
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 16:04, Gino Villarini g...@aeronetpr.com wrote: Anyone here a reseller of Barracuda for Annual Updates? I believe Mac Dearman still is a Barracuda reseller, as well as a WISPA member. Here's his Web site: http://inetsouth.com/ David Smith MVN.net

Re: [WISPA] [Motorola II] OT: Barracuda Updates?

2010-03-24 Thread David E. Smith
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 13:50, Chuck Hogg ch...@shelbybb.com wrote: While I still have my Barracuda device (600SPF), how many of you are doing PurpleHat? http://www.purplehat.org Other than a site that hasn't been updated in over a year, what am I looking for/at? David Smith MVN.net

Re: [WISPA] census tracts changing?

2010-04-02 Thread David E. Smith
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 16:48, Randy Cosby dco...@infowest.com wrote: Just curious if the census tracts change with the new census this year? Will our data we've compiled for the Form 477 still be valid next go-around? The tracts will change, but not for a while. The Census Bureau has to

Re: [WISPA] Switch recommendations

2010-04-19 Thread David E. Smith
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 17:41, Mike Hammett wispawirel...@ics-il.netwrote: I had a Dell PowerConnect 3048 die on me today... I owned it for probably 6 years and only paid $150 for it. Recommendations for a reasonably priced managed 48 port switch? Doesn't have to be new. Recommendations to

Re: [WISPA] 8 port pci ?

2010-04-19 Thread David E. Smith
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 12:13, Glenn Kelley gl...@hostmedic.com wrote: Does anyone know of an 8 port PCI Express Ethernet card? While we can do some vlanning - there is an express reason asking for this monster. You can't fit more than six ports on the end of a PCI slot - unless someone

Re: [WISPA] Seagate 7200.11 Hard Drives

2010-04-20 Thread David E. Smith
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 09:09, Larry A Weidig lwei...@excel.net wrote: I so wholeheartedly agree on not using Seacrates. It was a sad, sad day when the bought/ruined Maxtor. I've never had anything but bad luck from Maxtor drives going back to the mid-1990s. Yay for anecdotal

Re: [WISPA] removal

2010-05-03 Thread David E. Smith
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 06:59, Al Schneider a...@charlesstreetpartners.comwrote: (nothing) If your goal is to be unsubscribed from this list, the headers of every email contain information on how to do so: List-Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless,

Re: [WISPA] Licensed PMP Gear

2010-05-13 Thread David E. Smith
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:25, Bret Clark bcl...@spectraaccess.com wrote: I must have missed it, but what did the telcos do with the 3.65 range? I dunno whether this was the telcos' doing, or not, but the power rules in 3.65 are silly and counter-intuitive. Basically, your EIRP is limited

Re: [WISPA] Customer Speed Tests

2010-05-13 Thread David E. Smith
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 17:47, Louis Arsenault lo...@ntinet.com wrote: If running on a *nux box this may help. #!/bin/bash cd /speedtest/website/folder/ wget http://files.speedtest.ookla.com/releases/mini.zip Is this basically let's get around the 30-day demo limit by reinstalling every

Re: [WISPA] Trango Apex V1.3.0 Stable Yet?

2010-10-12 Thread David E. Smith
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 19:31, Scott Carullo sc...@brevardwireless.comwrote: What issues? I've been running it on two links for some time now and have noticed anything yet. Maybe I'm not looking hard enough? I don't know what issues specifically Trango was referring to, but while the 1.3.0

Re: [WISPA] Looking for Bandwidth Manager

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

Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik Dude 2GB Limitation

2010-10-19 Thread David E. Smith
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:23, Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.comwrote: This is what I was referring to. I don't want to spend my nights updating Windows. Spending your nights updating FreeBSD or Linux isn't any better. No matter what you're running, it probably will need occasional

Re: [WISPA] ARIN IPv4 resource request

2010-10-20 Thread David E. Smith
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:17, Marlon K. Schafer o...@odessaoffice.comwrote: I guess I should probably go after some ipv6 space too. Just so I have it available for someday if nothing else. You'll need it in the next couple years, and it's effectively free. (ARIN charges you the greater of

[WISPA] P2P/copyright notifications for RLC students

2010-10-22 Thread David E. Smith
I just received three notices of claimed copyright infringement for students at RLC. I've attached them (and named the files after the account IDs responsible). I've reduced these students' accounts to 128kbps for now. Please contact these students and discipline them according to your TOS. The

Re: [WISPA] P2P/copyright notifications for RLC students

2010-10-22 Thread David E. Smith
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 09:28, Scott Carullo sc...@brevardwireless.comwrote: Did you mean to send this to a public list? I would not imagine so... oops Darned auto-complete. Yeah, please ignore that. :) David Smith MVN.net

Re: [WISPA] Can't get my 100MB

2010-10-25 Thread David E. Smith
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 15:37, Forbes Mercy forbes.me...@wabroadband.comwrote: The anatomy of our network is fiber to our head-end, goes to a Charter switch then to our Cisco 2811, then to a gig netgear switch. We're doing our speed tests on a standard browser (Firefox) in a Windows 2003 box

Re: [WISPA] Managed VLAN Switch

2010-11-01 Thread David E. Smith
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 12:50, Matt lm7...@gmail.com wrote: Looking for a manged VLAN switch with ~8 GigE ports. Anyone know of anything? Going to use them along a few hop licensed link. Depending on what features you need, a Dell Powerconnect 2808 may serve nicely. As a bonus, last time I

Re: [WISPA] Copper GigE Distance

2010-11-01 Thread David E. Smith
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 14:54, Matt lm7...@gmail.com wrote: You could push more, but not much bandwidth. We have cat-5 and cat-6 runs going 400+ feet up a tower linked at 100meg. You won’t be able to get a 1000M connection out of it though. THis is for a licensed radio with a GigE POE

Re: [WISPA] netflix/hulu IP's

2010-11-02 Thread David E. Smith
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 11:09, support supp...@nitline.com wrote: has anyone been able to get squid to ease the pain of netflix /hulu /youtube ??? I've played with it in the past, but never could get much out of it. I think there are two reasons for this. First, in my network, the pain is

Re: [WISPA] Change AP

2010-11-04 Thread David E. Smith
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 14:43, ~NGL~ n...@ngl.net wrote: I do not know anything regarding Routerboards, if I use a RB493AH which has 3 mini-pci slots, can I install 3 GZ-902 cards and have 3 900mhz AP's in 1 box? You probably could, but you might not want to. You'd have three APs, all in the

Re: [WISPA] Licensed 11ghz Hops

2010-11-04 Thread David E. Smith
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 16:20, Matt lm7...@gmail.com wrote: We are looking at upgrading our network and adding a handful(7) 11ghz licensed hops. What gear out there can use both horizontal and vertical at once to increase throughput? We are currently considering Exalt. Short coming of 11

Re: [WISPA] Content Filter

2010-11-08 Thread David E. Smith
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 17:49, Scott Vander Dussen sc...@velociter.netwrote: Recommendations on content filtering software? I’m aware of OpenDNS, thanks.. That's a bit vague. Are you looking for something to sell to residential customers so they can try to keep their kids from looking at

Re: [WISPA] Linux PPP connections

2010-11-11 Thread David E. Smith
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:52, Cameron Crum cc...@wispmon.com wrote: I curious if any out there have established PPTP connections between a linux box and MT routers and been able to ping things on the other side. If I establish a connection with my Windows machine, all is nice. I get the ip

Re: [WISPA] Linux PPP connections

2010-11-11 Thread David E. Smith
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:00, Cameron Crum cc...@wispmon.com wrote: I disable the option in my windows pptp sessions, and yes I do NOT want to use the remote end as the gateway. It is for a particular purpose. How do I configure linux to update the routes? Is that something I need to specify

Re: [WISPA] Linux PPP connections

2010-11-11 Thread David E. Smith
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:20, Cameron Crum cc...@wispmon.com wrote: On Windows I do not add routes. It seems to handle it for me. I'll try adding the routes on linux and see what happens. The main problem with that is I never know exactly which private subnets I'll need. I guess I can add

Re: [WISPA] Equipment list?

2010-11-23 Thread David E. Smith
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 09:47, Jason Hensley ja...@jaggartech.com wrote: I don't see one at WISPA.  Is there an active equipment (buying / selling) list anywhere? The WISPA Classifieds are the closest thing to that I can think of right off. David Smith MVN.net

[WISPA] If you like pictures of towers... [OT?]

2010-11-29 Thread David E. Smith
I didn't know someone made a whole calendar of these. Why settle for motivational phrases or scantily-clad women, when you could have pictures of towers? http://www.fybush.com/calendar.html (A couple larger/better pictures from the calendar itself at

Re: [WISPA] OT Laptops....

2010-12-01 Thread David E. Smith
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 21:11, bmoldas...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone have a source for new netbooks or small laptops with Win XP operating system?  Looking for something sub $600.  Using it strictly for programming equipment and running diagnostics.  Not doing anything CPU intensive.

Re: [WISPA] What happens when you build a wireless internet system and give service away? Look at this example.....

2010-12-06 Thread David E. Smith
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 10:46, Brian Webster bwebs...@wirelessmapping.com wrote: For a period of almost two years the city of Philadelphia had free Wi-Fi access on the network EarthLink built. I had the opportunity to look at adoption rates for broadband in that city after this was available.

Re: [WISPA] WISPA Member WIKI Site

2010-12-06 Thread David E. Smith
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 13:03, Christopher Hair wirele...@ntinet.com wrote: How do I obtain a UN/PW for the WISPA Member WIKI Site. Your username and password will be the same as the one you use for other WISPA member resources (like the billing system). If you've lost those credentials, email

Re: [WISPA] Automated Hotspot

2010-12-08 Thread David E. Smith
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 16:41, Jeromie Reeves jree...@18-30chat.net wrote: What are you using for automated hotspot user generation and billing? I have had my own scripts for user generation but still needed to do billing. I am looking at various 'cafe' and hotspot setups but some want $50/mo,

Re: [WISPA] Jumbo Frames

2010-12-15 Thread David E. Smith
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:30, RickG rgunder...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I havent analysed it yet but with all the facebook uploads, online backups, and email attachedments going on I wonder if that is the case? First, by very large files I'm thinking tens of terabytes. Second, there's only a

Re: [WISPA] Email Accounts

2010-12-16 Thread David E. Smith
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 16:03, Matt lm7...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.ikano.com/vendor/googleapps-key-features_vendor.asp .35 cents a user a month. $4.20 a user per year. I am hearing to switch to google all my users must change there SMTP and POP3 settings to point at google. Ugh, not

Re: [WISPA] Verizon Network Extender

2010-12-16 Thread David E. Smith
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 11:28, Matt lm7...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone using one of these? What are actual bandwidth requirements and usage? Are you referring to this? http://support.vzw.com/information/network_extender.html I've not used that one, but I've used a similar device from Sprint.

Re: [WISPA] Open Meeting Statements - Preserving the Open Internet: Commissioner's Comments

2010-12-21 Thread David E. Smith
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 14:21, Rick Harnish rharn...@wispa.org wrote: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/index.do?document=303746 Any analysis yet on whether WISPA got part of what it was asking for? I've skimmed those notes, and aside from one brief mention by Commissioner McDowell I

Re: [WISPA] Flexible rules promised for wireless

2010-12-21 Thread David E. Smith
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 15:08, MDK rea...@muddyfrogwater.us wrote: So, I disagree with his premise, and his argument about the premise, that wired telephony is a natural monopoly, and I'm not allowed to say so? If you claim telephony isn't a natural monopoly, by the definition of that

Re: [WISPA] Hotel Redirect

2011-01-06 Thread David E. Smith
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 13:31, Nick Olsen n...@flhsi.com wrote: That would work for some of them, In this case, The hotel management company has a page that the hotel must redirect to. They get fined if it doesn't redirect to the companies specific page. I'm thinking maybe load it in a frame,

Re: [WISPA] Hotel Redirect

2011-01-06 Thread David E. Smith
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 13:45, Robert West robert.w...@just-micro.comwrote: The problem that I was seeing was that there are many wireless devices now that don’t have any “screen” to see a login button. Game systems being the first on my mind. In hotels, some guests bring their kids game

Re: [WISPA] Hotel Redirect

2011-01-06 Thread David E. Smith
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 14:20, Nick Olsen n...@flhsi.com wrote: Normally Hotspot works with a I accept button on a page, As thats what we have done in the past. I don't mind getting a call when a user has a tivo/gamesystem/* that can't login as they can read me the mac and I can bypass it.

Re: [WISPA] Households and population passed by the WISP industry..... over 76 Million households

2011-01-13 Thread David E. Smith
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 22:43, Brian Webster bwebs...@wirelessmapping.comwrote: A week or so ago, I ran a study of the population and households passed by principal WISPA members. Tonight I ran the numbers based on the whole national WISP coverage map you all contributed to over the last

Re: [WISPA] idea to slow the pain of netflix

2011-01-18 Thread David E. Smith
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:01, support supp...@nitline.com wrote: has anyone ever tried to partner with blockbuster You still have a Blockbuster nearby? There's not one within thirty miles of me; the last one closed a couple years ago. There's one video rental store in town, and I can't

Re: [WISPA] idea to slow the pain of netflix

2011-01-18 Thread David E. Smith
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:25, Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.comwrote: Redbox is at Walmart and McDonald's. I'm guessing all of them, but could be wrong. Many, but certainly not all. There are three McD's near here, only one of which has a Redbox. (Though two of the bigger grocery

Re: [WISPA] [Ubnt_users] NS5 issues?

2011-01-18 Thread David E. Smith
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 16:45, Forbes Mercy forbes.me...@wabroadband.comwrote: If you haven't seen Ubiquiti has released the non-beta 5.3 firmware 7782 for it's M series equipment. What's the best source for updated documentation and explanation? This firmware has some new checkboxes that

Re: [WISPA] Autoreply: Re: OT: Eqypt Has Been Disconnected from the Internet

2011-01-28 Thread David E. Smith
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 15:06, cshiv...@aristotle.net wrote: (using a broken auto-responder) I've removed this address from this list. Rejoice! David Smith MVN.net WISPA Wants You! Join today!

Re: [WISPA] Autoreply: Re: OT: Eqypt Has Been Disconnected from the Internet

2011-01-28 Thread David E. Smith
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 15:22, Nick lists-wi...@atomsplash.com wrote: Wow. That was stressful. Eh, we all make silly mistakes sometimes. Good thing electrons are cheap (WISPA gets a bulk discount). David Smith MVN.net

Re: [WISPA] Rackmount Mikrotik

2011-01-31 Thread David E. Smith
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 09:47, Jeremy Parr jeremyp...@gmail.com wrote: I'm in the market for a rackmount MT device. Don't care how many ports (as long as it is two or more), just need something that can rack mount. Internal power supply preferred, as well as front to back or side to side

Re: [WISPA] Rackmount Mikrotik

2011-01-31 Thread David E. Smith
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:39, Jeremy Parr jeremyp...@gmail.com wrote: My complaint is specifically about the airflow design in the 1U case. Rackmount devices cool front to back in a data world, side to side in a voice world. Designing a device that tries to push air out the top, where there

Re: [WISPA] Tranzeo and Ubnt

2011-02-01 Thread David E. Smith
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 22:08, RickG rgunder...@gmail.com wrote: legally? If you turn the transmit power down, probably. Heck, the Bullet 2M makes it easy, with a Obey Regulatory Rules checkbox (just type in the antenna gain, and it sets the radio power accordingly). David Smith MVN.net

Re: [WISPA] Internet Runs Out Of IP Addresses

2011-02-08 Thread David E. Smith
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 12:14, Mike Hammett wispawirel...@ics-il.net wrote: It is my understanding that many organizations held large allocations before the RIRs were formed. I wouldn't expect those allocations to be held to ARIN rules. They're not. If you follow ARIN politics, there's

Re: [WISPA] RouterBoard 1100 Simple Queues

2011-02-15 Thread David E. Smith
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 16:55, Jenco Wireless bradhagst...@gmail.comwrote: Anyone having an issue with simple queues not working (version 4.15) - maybe RB-1100 related?? I recently picked up an RB1100, with RouterOS 4.16, and seem to be having the same sort of problem. My weird fancy PCQ

Re: [WISPA] RouterBoard 1100 Simple Queues

2011-02-15 Thread David E. Smith
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 21:15, Blair Davis the...@wmwisp.net wrote: ROS 4.13 and later seem to not update the queue's properly in winbox... In my testing, it seems that the queue's are working, just they never seem to move in winbox... No, I'm referring to an instance where the queue

Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Hog or Hippo ?

2011-02-16 Thread David E. Smith
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 15:35, Stuart Pierce spie...@avolve.net wrote: What do you do with a client that uses 65gigs in 42 days ? To top it off they are late payers and complain a little and always use the excuse they have to talk to their son in Iraq early in the morning. We only allow 20

Re: [WISPA] MT Q's at Edge

2011-02-21 Thread David E. Smith
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 16:21, Scott Piehn li...@jcwifi.com wrote: We currently Q each customer at the tower. I am looking at my edge router trying to figure out who is using what Should I just create an unlimited simple Q for each IP or is there a more efficient way. I want to still do

Re: [WISPA] 5 GHz FCC Webinar for WISP Community

2011-02-28 Thread David E. Smith
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 20:43, Jack Unger jun...@ask-wi.com wrote: We're talking with the FCC about having them do a 5 GHz webinar for the WISP community to address issues like: Please make sure this addresses the whole of 5GHz, not just that little mystery space in 5.4-5.6. To this day, I'm

Re: [WISPA] Ignore: Test delivery delay

2011-02-28 Thread David E. Smith
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 12:54, Jerry Richardson jrichard...@aircloud.comwrote: Sent 10:53 In what time zone? :) (Serious answer: our mail filters have been backlogged most of the day, thanks to an Irish spammer with far too much time on his hands. The queues are clearing.) David Smith

Re: [WISPA] FW: [Wisp] ByLaws Committee Members Demographics

2011-03-01 Thread David E. Smith
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 08:55, Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.comwrote: I'm still waiting for someone to invent sarcasm font. http://mashable.com/2010/01/15/sarcmark/ David Smith http://mashable.com/2010/01/15/sarcmark/ MVN.net

Re: [WISPA] OVPN Question

2011-03-14 Thread David E. Smith
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 16:59, Scott Reed sr...@nwwnet.net wrote: I am missing something obvious. I need an ovpn tunnel that is a bridge between 2 customer sites. I need it so a wire at location A can have an address in the network at location B. I am missing something simple. How would

Re: [WISPA] IPPay and Emerald v4.5

2011-03-15 Thread David E. Smith
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:35, Scottie Arnett sarn...@info-ed.com wrote: Hey guys, Do any of you use IEA Software's Emerald v4.5 and successfully integrated IPPay? I know IPPay integrates with Emerald v5, but I am still using v4.5 because there is really no reason to upgrade it. It is a

Re: [WISPA] OpenSource Email Server platform

2011-03-28 Thread David E. Smith
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 17:04, Matt lm7...@gmail.com wrote: Do you have the ability to do multiple domains with the Google platform? We also offer hosting services that need email. To do the switch to Gmail I believe you must change all client SMTP and POP3 server settings. Yuk. Also,

Re: [WISPA] OpenSource Email Server platform

2011-03-30 Thread David E. Smith
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 12:47, Cameron Kilton c...@midcoast.com wrote: We have over 7400 email boxes. At $0.35 each that is almost $2,600/month or $31,200/year. That is a large expense for email. That's large enough, that it's almost certainly more cost-effective to do it in-house. If I were

Re: [WISPA] Ethernet Cable for FM Tower Install

2011-04-13 Thread David E. Smith
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 08:35, can...@believewireless.net p...@believewireless.net wrote: We are mounting close to a 50kW FM antenna and want to use heavy, double shielded cable for the runs to the APs since we've seen issues in the past. Fiber up the tower but will need 3-4 ft jumpers to

Re: [WISPA] Dennis's Router OS Book.

2011-04-26 Thread David E. Smith
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 08:44, Tom DeReggi wirelessn...@rapiddsl.netwrote: I just bought a copy of Dennis Burgess's Learn Router OS Book. I have to say, I felt it was very well written and laid out intuitively. For those that haven't seen it, and have new techs needing to be introduced to

Re: [WISPA] My day is now dedicated to UBB research. You should too.

2011-05-02 Thread David E. Smith
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 17:32, Marco Coelho coelh...@gmail.com wrote: Has anybody worked on allowing streaming video up to lets say 10 Mb total transfer, then knocking THAT stream down to a slow rate? I tried something like that a while back - we got so very many angry phone calls that the

Re: [WISPA] Staff Apparel

2011-05-18 Thread David E. Smith
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 13:54, Steve Barnes st...@pcswin.com wrote: I have found this to be an issue. All the retail shops want to do a min or 12 like shirts. Basically I have 4 staff that are everywhere from size small to 4X with me doing different names and different colors and different

Re: [WISPA] Tranzeo TR5A Tx power

2011-05-20 Thread David E. Smith
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 13:13, Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.comwrote: What I did with Ubnt is set it to station and look for ssid oisjdofijsodijfosijdofijsfd So YOU'RE the one connecting to my home network! :) Even with a gibberish SSID, the radio will still be active. With Ubiquiti

Re: [WISPA] Tranzeo TR5A Tx power

2011-05-20 Thread David E. Smith
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 13:35, Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.comwrote: Why would the radio ever be transmitting if it's in station mode? I thought it only listened this way (and should replicate across Tranzeo, other 802.11 product, etc). I honestly thought that even unconnected

[WISPA] Friday funny: 5 Reasons Internet Access in America is a Disaster

2011-06-10 Thread David E. Smith
Actually, it's only kinda funny, because it's true. Warning: naughty language. http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-reasons-internet-access-in-america-disaster/ David Smith MVN.net WISPA Wants You! Join today!

Re: [WISPA] Choosing core router for small - medium WISP

2011-07-06 Thread David E. Smith
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 09:52, Roman consulttele...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to ask for help of wireless community. We have to choose supplier of core router for our WISP projects. I know technical characteristics and price for core routers from Cisco - 7200 and 7600 series. Although these

Re: [WISPA] OT: Cleared the Gmail account

2011-07-11 Thread David E. Smith
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:28, Jerry Richardson jrichard...@aircloud.comwrote: FYI, deleted all of my @afmug and @wispa messages and got back 3GB of storage. ** I thought the whole point of a Gmail account is that you'd never run out of space and have to worry about such things :)

Re: [WISPA] The Legislative Situation Is Dire

2011-07-20 Thread David E. Smith
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 14:32, Mike Hammett wispawirel...@ics-il.netwrote: ** I think people are saying the government needs to stop helping everyone. Some people are saying that, others are saying that the help needs to be spread around a bit more fairly (for some value of fair). David

Re: [WISPA] Rack Mount POE Injector

2011-09-15 Thread David E. Smith
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 17:38, Matt lm7...@gmail.com wrote: Looking for a rack mount POE injector that supports Ubiquiti at 24 volts.  Anyone know of anything?  Would like around 16 ports. The Tycon midspan injectors work fine. Here's a link to a 16-port one:

Re: [WISPA] Bridge Table on Switch

2011-10-18 Thread David E. Smith
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 15:51, Matt lm7...@gmail.com wrote: Typically on a switch how long will it cache a MAC address bridge entry after the last time it is used? Depends very much on the switch, but 'one minute' seems to be a common default for managed switches. David Smith MVN.net

Re: [WISPA] Boost Your WiFi Signal Using Only a Beer Can

2011-10-25 Thread David E. Smith
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 14:14, Aaron D. Osgood aosg...@streamline-solutions.net wrote: I have received several requests from customers who are looking for some sort of WiFi signal booster that attached to their laptop's USB and enhances reception through their internal WiFi radio (sort of an

Re: [WISPA] Net Neutrality

2011-10-28 Thread David E. Smith
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 09:19, Tony Iacopi t...@razzolink.com wrote: Unfortunately I would love to agree with Matt and the fact that I paid for the network so I should be able to do what I want with it, however, the way it is currently written, if you provide internet service (which I believe

Re: [WISPA] How to control your mikrotik zombies ;)

2011-11-02 Thread David E. Smith
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 10:54, Jim Patient jpati...@linktechs.net wrote: We have a free pushscript program that lets you send out scripts to all or selected routers. Saves time in sending global changes etc. http://linktechs.net/scriptpush1.asp For that matter, if you're comfortable with

Re: [WISPA] UBNT sectors 120s, 90s, or 60s?

2011-11-04 Thread David E. Smith
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 11:15, Fred Goldstein fgoldst...@ionary.com wrote: (top posted) Often that works, Sam. When it's a simple dialogue over one issue, then sure, top posting works. Where insertion-posting works better is when replying to individual paragraphs or sections separately. I

Re: [WISPA] Internet Censorship

2011-11-17 Thread David E. Smith
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 16:12, Butch Evans but...@butchevans.com wrote: My take is that piracy should be punishable by jail time. Yikes. I think we'll have to agree-to-disagree here (biting tongue so hard it's bleeding). David Smith MVN.net

Re: [WISPA] Wireless for America?

2011-12-05 Thread David E. Smith
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 08:04, rwf ralphli...@bsrg.org wrote: Their about us is STILL Lorem Ipsum. More people need to use SLipsum (slipsum.com, NSFW for language). David Smith MVN.net WISPA Wants You! Join

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