Re: [WISPA] Partnership Agreements

2009-10-22 Thread Israel Lopez-LISTS
My rules are:
Make it performance based
Make sure what he is bringing to the table is equitable to the proposed 
share of the company
Try to talk out exit strategy, where you are taking it, how you want to 
go and see if that matches up to what your new partner wants to do.

This all depends on the business structure you have setup (which you 
havent mentioned) but I assume it is an LLC or Corporation for your 
state, make sure it is in writing.

Watch this video if you want: http://vimeo.com/6950199

Good luck.

-Israel

Robert West wrote:
 I've had as few people approach me in the recent past wanting to partner up
 with me and to be honest, I can really use someone to carry half the load.
 I'm leery, however of getting screwed.  (My father was in business for years
 with one partner and after they took on another they all got screwed to the
 point they were out of business)  A requirement of a partner, for me, would
 be someone buying in with enough cash to grow the company to carry the extra
 weight of the new guy.  The ones in the past turned out to be flakes with
 only dollar signs in their eyes.  Not a good fit for me, I'm not about cash
 in my pocket, that comes with doing a good job and someone talking about
 money all the time scares the hell out of me.

  

 I now have a guy who looks good.  Has the assets and interest.  Has 3 small
 towers in parts in his barn, he has a barn converted to an office,
 construction equipment, trailers, etc.  He understands there won't be any
 money flowing in his pocket for probably a year due to the expansion we're
 doing.  He says that's fine.   He also has the billing and general paperwork
 experience and background.  (I absolutely hate dealing with the money and
 paperwork)  Looks good so far.  The construction equipment would be a help,
 no more begging things from farmers and making deals to get a hole dug.  His
 current gig is as an electrical engineer, travels around the world as a
 contractor overseeing the repair and programming of robotics as well as the
 installation of the equipment.  He says he's tired of being gone all the
 time and wants to stay in one area in a field that will be somewhat related
 and complicated enough that he won't get bored.  Hm..

  

 I've been to his home a few times, even put in a private wireless connection
 between him and his neighbor a mile away.  Seems like a decent guy.  

  

 Now he wants to sit down and work things out on paper.  Any advice on things
 to cover my ass on?  Things some of you wished you had down on paper when
 you started out?  I'm not a partner kinda guy, my business plan is always in
 my head, I make much of it up as I go along and I jump in and just do things
 myself so this is new territory.(However, my total lack of organization
 is due to the previously stated operation of the business plan)

  

 I know some will yell to not take on a partner and I'd be one of them,
 believe me.  That's why I've fought them off so long.  But with a larger
 network coming online and eyes for even more expansion, it's looking good to
 me.   (We currently only have a little less than 200 subs but anticipate
 twice if not 3 times that to come online in 2010)   I just don't want to be
 out in the cold or screwed over due to my ability to trust.  I'll never give
 up more than 50%, won't happen, but there are many ways people can screw
 others.  

  

 It all sounds like picking the right person for marriage.  (I have a bad
 track record in that too!!! )  Do ya think maybe him and I should just kinda
 date for awhile before we make the commitment?  What would be considered
 first base in this kind of thing?  Configuring a CPE after a few dates
 then moving on to a customer installation then if it all goes well, take the
 plunge and climb a tower together?

  

 Weird.

  

 Thanks.

  

 Robert West

 Just Micro Digital Services Inc.

 740-335-7020

  



 
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Re: [WISPA] DMCA - copyright infringement

2009-11-10 Thread Israel Lopez-LISTS
AFAIK your assertion that NAT/DHCP - has no way to know is not 
entirely correct.

Just how most Cable companies require you to register the MAC address of 
your modem to tie to your account (DHCP has logs you know), University 
students sign up for dorm internet using their mac address (which they 
sometimes rewrite onto their modem), but someone's name is still on the 
'account.'  This is how I think those 'high exposure' for DMCA 
(especially university) handle DMCA to Violator lookups.

One does not need to open up wireshark and start logging traffic for 
awhile.  Sufficient logs with enough detail (IP  MAC + cross reference 
against account holder)  accurate timestamps should be enough to 
identify who is who at what time without violating your customer's 
privacy of their data.

-I


Jerry Richardson wrote:
 OK so let's play out the scenario.

 Studio wants ISP send a letter to the customer
 ISP is NAT/DHCP - has no way to know
 Studio gets subpoena

 What now? At this point LEA is involved which demands cooperation.
 If the network is open WiFi, then there truly is no way to know.
 If the network is fixed installation, then the ISP could provide the 
 information.

 So assuming it's a fixed installation, the ISP sets up a server with 
 Wireshark or other packet capture and stores that data for1 day, 1 week, 
 1 month? 

 At this point is the ISP breaking any privacy laws of customers that are NOT 
 named in the subpoena? Not if the customer's TOA indicated that their 
 Internet traffic MAY be stored and analyzed under legal request by LEA.


 Mind you this is all hypothetical. I'm just trying to understand the 
 potential impact and exposire on the part of the ISP.




 -Original Message-
 From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On 
 Behalf Of Josh Luthman
 Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 9:48 AM
 To: WISPA General List
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] DMCA - copyright infringement

   
 So what does the law require?
 

 It doesn't.

   
 Is this a case for why providing Internet services without a static public
 
 IP exposed the ISP to legal suit?

 If the law changes and says each customer is required to have a public IP,
 then ISPs need to be provided as such.

 Keep in mind, too, that IPs are dynamic with most ISPs.  Don't forget that
 the I have an open WiFi don't blame me case still works.

 Josh Luthman
 Office: 937-552-2340
 Direct: 937-552-2343
 1100 Wayne St
 Suite 1337
 Troy, OH 45373

 The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
 --- Albert Einstein


 On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Jerry Richardson jrichard...@aircloud.com
   
 wrote:
 

   
 good point.

 So what does the law require?

 Is this a case for why providing Internet services without a static public
 IP exposed the ISP to legal suit?



 -Original Message-
 From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
 Behalf Of Josh Luthman
 Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 9:31 AM
 To: WISPA General List
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] DMCA - copyright infringement

 That works for current infringements but what about those last night? last
 week? last month?

 Josh Luthman
 Office: 937-552-2340
 Direct: 937-552-2343
 1100 Wayne St
 Suite 1337
 Troy, OH 45373

 The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
 --- Albert Einstein


 On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Jerry Richardson 
 jrichard...@aircloud.com
 
 wrote:
   
 So if you are running a NAT/DHCP network, how would you find the
   
 offending
 
 customer? We are running static/public so we don't run into this.

 I think the simplest way is to require the studio to provide the IP for
   
 the
 
 server delivering copyrighted information.

 The ISP has to be tracking CPE MACs.

 Use MT's torch or Wireshark to look at connections across the network to
 find the BT server IP. Match the connection to the MAC and there you go.

 Maybe there is an easier way.




 -Original Message-
 From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
 Behalf Of Nick Olsen
 Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 8:11 AM
 To: WISPA General List
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] DMCA - copyright infringement

 Really to cover yourself you would need to know what customer it came
   
 from,
 
 When NAT'ing that's hard to do. So yeah, I would agree you the ISP could
 become the sole person responsible for that unless you can point fingers
   
 at
 
 a customer.

 Nick Olsen
 Brevard Wireless
 (321) 205-1100 x106


 

 From: os10ru...@gmail.com os10ru...@gmail.com
 Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 11:03 AM
 To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] DMCA - copyright infringement

 What are you guys doing who have some/all of your network nat'ed? Seems
 like then more of the burden might fall on you.

 GReg

 On Nov 10, 2009, at 11:20 AM, Adam Goodman wrote:

   
 To me the question is how much 

[WISPA] 10MHz, 5MHz - unstable for voice?

2009-11-22 Thread Israel Lopez-LISTS
Hey All,

I did some field tests (for overseas volunteer project) with some 
Ubituiti gear; Nanostation2  Bullet2HP. 

One thing that was surprising was the performance degradation when 
switching from 20MHz to 10MHz/5MHz.  Our tests were Raw Bandwidth 
Tests(AirOS), Video (VLC UDP Stream), Voice (Trixbox G711 Voice Call), 
and MTR (Latency, Jitter)

I still have data to collect and prepare a report for the tech team, but 
we did notice that when we switched to 10 or 5MHz bandwidth our voice 
calls was greatly degraded. Only one way; from Fixed to Mobile I could 
hear the Fixed station easily.  Mobile to Fixed the voice was choppy.  
We started to get packet loss  massive jitter on 10MHz, just going back 
to 20MHz made the links stable.

Fixed Station: On a mountain side - HPOL 9dBI Omni Directional with a 
Bullet2HP @400mW
Mobile Station: 8km away near large body of water - Bullet2HP @400mW w/ 
24dBi Directional (HPOL Alignment) -70dbm RSSI

Any ideas?  We are planning on using 10MHz channels  H-Pol to combat 
any future spectrum pollution and voice calls over this network is expected.

-Israel



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Re: [WISPA] 10MHz, 5MHz - unstable for voice?

2009-11-22 Thread Israel Lopez-LISTS
@Travis Johnson - Yes Upgraded to newest firmware for the two units

@os10rules - Nope, Fixed was simple AP and Mobile was Station modes

os10ru...@gmail.com wrote:
 Running WDS bridged?

 Greg
 On Nov 22, 2009, at 5:37 PM, Israel Lopez-LISTS wrote:

   
 Hey All,

 I did some field tests (for overseas volunteer project) with some 
 Ubituiti gear; Nanostation2  Bullet2HP. 

 One thing that was surprising was the performance degradation when 
 switching from 20MHz to 10MHz/5MHz.  Our tests were Raw Bandwidth 
 Tests(AirOS), Video (VLC UDP Stream), Voice (Trixbox G711 Voice Call), 
 and MTR (Latency, Jitter)

 I still have data to collect and prepare a report for the tech team, but 
 we did notice that when we switched to 10 or 5MHz bandwidth our voice 
 calls was greatly degraded. Only one way; from Fixed to Mobile I could 
 hear the Fixed station easily.  Mobile to Fixed the voice was choppy.  
 We started to get packet loss  massive jitter on 10MHz, just going back 
 to 20MHz made the links stable.

 Fixed Station: On a mountain side - HPOL 9dBI Omni Directional with a 
 Bullet2HP @400mW
 Mobile Station: 8km away near large body of water - Bullet2HP @400mW w/ 
 24dBi Directional (HPOL Alignment) -70dbm RSSI

 Any ideas?  We are planning on using 10MHz channels  H-Pol to combat 
 any future spectrum pollution and voice calls over this network is expected.

 -Israel


 
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Re: [WISPA] 10MHz, 5MHz - unstable for voice?

2009-11-22 Thread Israel Lopez-LISTS
Its not in the field, but it is sitting here in my bedroom looking cool :).

I was thinking that using the 10/5MHz bandwidth required one to setup 
something else.  I'm not that familiar with the use of half/quarter rate 
channels and how that affects the frame transport/packet size etc,.

I wonder if it was environment based rather than 
'software/configuration' based.  If I get some time this evening I might 
setup the gear again for more focused testing (Testing in the field with 
volunteers who are cold and hungry dont usually respond well to testing 
plans).

-Israel

os10ru...@gmail.com wrote:
 Just for kicks I'd try WDS bridged. Do you have control from where you're at 
 now? Is the equipment still set up?

 Greg

 On Nov 22, 2009, at 6:02 PM, Israel Lopez-LISTS wrote:

   
 @Travis Johnson - Yes Upgraded to newest firmware for the two units

 @os10rules - Nope, Fixed was simple AP and Mobile was Station modes

 os10ru...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Running WDS bridged?

 Greg
 On Nov 22, 2009, at 5:37 PM, Israel Lopez-LISTS wrote:


   
 Hey All,

 I did some field tests (for overseas volunteer project) with some 
 Ubituiti gear; Nanostation2  Bullet2HP. 

 One thing that was surprising was the performance degradation when 
 switching from 20MHz to 10MHz/5MHz.  Our tests were Raw Bandwidth 
 Tests(AirOS), Video (VLC UDP Stream), Voice (Trixbox G711 Voice Call), 
 and MTR (Latency, Jitter)

 I still have data to collect and prepare a report for the tech team, but 
 we did notice that when we switched to 10 or 5MHz bandwidth our voice 
 calls was greatly degraded. Only one way; from Fixed to Mobile I could 
 hear the Fixed station easily.  Mobile to Fixed the voice was choppy.  
 We started to get packet loss  massive jitter on 10MHz, just going back 
 to 20MHz made the links stable.

 Fixed Station: On a mountain side - HPOL 9dBI Omni Directional with a 
 Bullet2HP @400mW
 Mobile Station: 8km away near large body of water - Bullet2HP @400mW w/ 
 24dBi Directional (HPOL Alignment) -70dbm RSSI

 Any ideas?  We are planning on using 10MHz channels  H-Pol to combat 
 any future spectrum pollution and voice calls over this network is 
 expected.

 -Israel


 
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Re: [WISPA] 10MHz, 5MHz - unstable for voice?

2009-11-22 Thread Israel Lopez-LISTS
I'm gonna have to set up the environment again.  Only thing I cant 
simulate right now is distance.

As long as it wasnt some voodoo config setting that made it work better, 
I might have to play with the Mobile NS2's settings for it to play nicely.

OT:  What is CCQ?

-Israel

Josh Luthman wrote:
 It is very weird isn't it?

 Vi is better the Emacs.

 On 11/22/09, Mike m...@aweiowa.com wrote:
   
 Josh:

 I thought that too.  I have a handful of customers on a 5 MHz
 sector.  Winbox shows this:

 Emacs!


 Mike

 At 07:32 PM 11/22/2009, you wrote:
 
 I believe when you half the channels the rates also get halved - from
 54mbit
 to 27mbit max (that is from 20mhz to 10mhz channels).

 I also can't see why you're voice would be having problems in half or
 quarter channels unless there is a software bug.  It should only improve
 unless you're using all available bandwidth.

 Josh Luthman
 Office: 937-552-2340
 Direct: 937-552-2343
 1100 Wayne St
 Suite 1337
 Troy, OH 45373

 The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
 --- Albert Einstein


 On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Chuck Hogg ch...@shelbybb.com wrote:

   
 First, you should have a better signal than -70 at 5Miles away with a
 24dB/NS2 antenna and a B2HP/9dB omni.  I get 65 or better with a 19dB
 panel.

 Don't forget, 10MHz channel is 1/2 available bandwidth and 5MHz is 1/4
 available bandwidth.  Really, you will get about 7-10MBit aggregate
 (depending on how many customers) on a 5MHz channel connected at 54MBit,
 which requires signals at -74dBm with a good fade margin (10dB).  Also,
 the TX power is significantly less for 54MBps (23dBm) vs 24MBps(28dBm),
 less than half.  Likely, you are connecting at 48MBps or 36Mbps, which
 at that rate your total available real case bandwidth is as little as
 4MBps, while at 20MHz you are at 15+.

 A narrower channel should not affect your transmission, likely will make
 signals better, roughly double (+3dBm) from 20-10, and double from
 10-5(total +6dBm).

 Regards,
 Chuck Hogg
 Shelby Broadband
 502-722-9292
 ch...@shelbybb.com
 http://www.shelbybb.com


 -Original Message-
 From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
 Behalf Of os10ru...@gmail.com
 Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2009 6:20 PM
 To: WISPA General List
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] 10MHz, 5MHz - unstable for voice?

 Well next time definitely bring more food! Beef jerky and granola bars.

 In my testing the narrower channels just made things slower. I was
 testing in a pristine area where there was no other 5.8GHz going on.
 From what I hear if the environment had been polluted performance might
 have actually gone up with the narrower channels.

 From what I've read narrower channels doesn't effect packet size or
 transport. But switching to WDS bridged does.

 Greg
 On Nov 22, 2009, at 6:15 PM, Israel Lopez-LISTS wrote:

 
 Its not in the field, but it is sitting here in my bedroom looking
   
 cool :).
 
 I was thinking that using the 10/5MHz bandwidth required one to setup
 something else.  I'm not that familiar with the use of half/quarter
   
 rate
 
 channels and how that affects the frame transport/packet size etc,.

 I wonder if it was environment based rather than
 'software/configuration' based.  If I get some time this evening I
   
 might
 
 setup the gear again for more focused testing (Testing in the field
   
 with
 
 volunteers who are cold and hungry dont usually respond well to
   
 testing
 
 plans).

 -Israel

 os10ru...@gmail.com wrote:
   
 Just for kicks I'd try WDS bridged. Do you have control from where
 
 you're at now? Is the equipment still set up?
 
 Greg

 On Nov 22, 2009, at 6:02 PM, Israel Lopez-LISTS wrote:


 
 @Travis Johnson - Yes Upgraded to newest firmware for the two units

 @os10rules - Nope, Fixed was simple AP and Mobile was Station modes

 os10ru...@gmail.com wrote:

   
 Running WDS bridged?

 Greg
 On Nov 22, 2009, at 5:37 PM, Israel Lopez-LISTS wrote:



 
 Hey All,

 I did some field tests (for overseas volunteer project) with some
 Ubituiti gear; Nanostation2  Bullet2HP.

 One thing that was surprising was the performance degradation when
   
 switching from 20MHz to 10MHz/5MHz.  Our tests were Raw Bandwidth
 Tests(AirOS), Video (VLC UDP Stream), Voice (Trixbox G711 Voice
   
 Call),
 
 and MTR (Latency, Jitter)

 I still have data to collect and prepare a report for the tech
   
 team, but
 
 we did notice that when we switched to 10 or 5MHz bandwidth our
   
 voice
 
 calls was greatly degraded. Only one way; from Fixed to Mobile I
   
 could
 
 hear the Fixed station easily.  Mobile to Fixed the voice was
   
 choppy.
 
 We started to get packet loss

Re: [WISPA] 10MHz, 5MHz - unstable for voice?

2009-11-22 Thread Israel Lopez-LISTS
I think what he is trying to say that given a noise pattern on your 
2.4ISM band, a 20MHz signal may be in that noise about lets say 25% of 
your bandwidth footprint.  If you decide to drop down to 5MHz and move 
your center frequency right onto that noise then you might have just put 
yourself right on top of the noise. It would seem more susceptible to 
the noise even if you have the power to get over it.

In my case; I'm replacing a network that is a 40MHz 802.11G WDS network 
that works 'decently' 800kbps-3mbps if you have a good day, an 100kbps 
on a bad day.  It makes sense when we dropped down to a 20MHz channel 
that the performance dropped.  *There are other problems that we are 
addressing, thermal resets, no QoS, no firmware upgrades, cheap 
equipment, bad design etc,.*  This is in Honduras.

We noted other ISM2.4 users at around 3km away using a 9dBi omni vpol 
using WiSPY 2.4x approximately -81 to -78 dbm in some spots on the 
2.4Band.  HPOL made it much quieter.

-Israel

Mike wrote:
 I should think the opposite is true.  Halve the signal, improve 
 signal to noise 3 dB.  Half it again and the improvement is 6 dB 
 signal to noise.  Should give you way more margin.  My tests prove that out.


 At 08:44 PM 11/22/2009, you wrote:
   
 IIRC, 5MHz and 10MHz is more sucepstible to interference than 20MHz.

 On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Israel Lopez-LISTS 
 ilopezli...@sandboxitsolutions.com wrote:

 
 I'm gonna have to set up the environment again.  Only thing I cant
 simulate right now is distance.

 As long as it wasnt some voodoo config setting that made it work better,
 I might have to play with the Mobile NS2's settings for it to play nicely.

 OT:  What is CCQ?

 -Israel

 Josh Luthman wrote:
   
 It is very weird isn't it?

 Vi is better the Emacs.

 On 11/22/09, Mike m...@aweiowa.com wrote:

 
 Josh:

 I thought that too.  I have a handful of customers on a 5 MHz
 sector.  Winbox shows this:

 Emacs!


 Mike

 At 07:32 PM 11/22/2009, you wrote:

   
 I believe when you half the channels the rates also get halved - from
 54mbit
 to 27mbit max (that is from 20mhz to 10mhz channels).

 I also can't see why you're voice would be having problems in half or
 quarter channels unless there is a software bug.  It should only
 
 improve
   
 unless you're using all available bandwidth.

 Josh Luthman
 Office: 937-552-2340
 Direct: 937-552-2343
 1100 Wayne St
 Suite 1337
 Troy, OH 45373

 The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
 --- Albert Einstein


 On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Chuck Hogg ch...@shelbybb.com
 
 wrote:
   
 
 First, you should have a better signal than -70 at 5Miles away with a
 24dB/NS2 antenna and a B2HP/9dB omni.  I get 65 or better with a 19dB
 panel.

 Don't forget, 10MHz channel is 1/2 available bandwidth and 5MHz is 1/4
 available bandwidth.  Really, you will get about 7-10MBit aggregate
 (depending on how many customers) on a 5MHz channel connected at
   
 54MBit,
   
 which requires signals at -74dBm with a good fade margin (10dB).
   
  Also,
   
 the TX power is significantly less for 54MBps (23dBm) vs
   
 24MBps(28dBm),
   
 less than half.  Likely, you are connecting at 48MBps or 36Mbps, which
 at that rate your total available real case bandwidth is as little
   
 as
   
 4MBps, while at 20MHz you are at 15+.

 A narrower channel should not affect your transmission, likely will
   
 make
   
 signals better, roughly double (+3dBm) from 20-10, and double from
 10-5(total +6dBm).

 Regards,
 Chuck Hogg
 Shelby Broadband
 502-722-9292
 ch...@shelbybb.com
 http://www.shelbybb.com


 -Original Message-
 From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org]
   
 On
   
 Behalf Of os10ru...@gmail.com
 Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2009 6:20 PM
 To: WISPA General List
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] 10MHz, 5MHz - unstable for voice?

 Well next time definitely bring more food! Beef jerky and granola
   
 bars.
   
 In my testing the narrower channels just made things slower. I was
 testing in a pristine area where there was no other 5.8GHz going on.
 From what I hear if the environment had been polluted performance
   
 might
   
 have actually gone up with the narrower channels.

 From what I've read narrower channels doesn't effect packet size or
 transport. But switching to WDS bridged does.

 Greg
 On Nov 22, 2009, at 6:15 PM, Israel Lopez-LISTS wrote:


   
 Its not in the field, but it is sitting here in my bedroom looking

 
 cool :).

   
 I was thinking that using the 10/5MHz bandwidth required one to setup
 something else.  I'm not that familiar with the use of half/quarter

 
 rate

   
 channels and how that affects the frame transport/packet size etc,.

 I wonder

Re: [WISPA] 10MHz, 5MHz - unstable for voice?

2009-11-23 Thread Israel Lopez-LISTS
No.  I didn't upgrade firmware on Saturday.  I checked firmware on 
Friday and upgraded the units.  Files used are:

NanoStation2-v3.5.build4494.bin
Bullet2HP-v3.5.build4494.bin

I'm gonna go setup the gear this afternoon.


Robert West wrote:
 Newest as in the firmware that came out on Saturday?

 -Original Message-
 From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
 Behalf Of Israel Lopez-LISTS
 Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2009 6:02 PM
 To: WISPA General List
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] 10MHz, 5MHz - unstable for voice?

 @Travis Johnson - Yes Upgraded to newest firmware for the two units

 @os10rules - Nope, Fixed was simple AP and Mobile was Station modes

 os10ru...@gmail.com wrote:
   
 Running WDS bridged?

 Greg
 On Nov 22, 2009, at 5:37 PM, Israel Lopez-LISTS wrote:

   
 
 Hey All,

 I did some field tests (for overseas volunteer project) with some 
 Ubituiti gear; Nanostation2  Bullet2HP. 

 One thing that was surprising was the performance degradation when 
 switching from 20MHz to 10MHz/5MHz.  Our tests were Raw Bandwidth 
 Tests(AirOS), Video (VLC UDP Stream), Voice (Trixbox G711 Voice Call), 
 and MTR (Latency, Jitter)

 I still have data to collect and prepare a report for the tech team, but 
 we did notice that when we switched to 10 or 5MHz bandwidth our voice 
 calls was greatly degraded. Only one way; from Fixed to Mobile I could 
 hear the Fixed station easily.  Mobile to Fixed the voice was choppy.  
 We started to get packet loss  massive jitter on 10MHz, just going back 
 to 20MHz made the links stable.

 Fixed Station: On a mountain side - HPOL 9dBI Omni Directional with a 
 Bullet2HP @400mW
 Mobile Station: 8km away near large body of water - Bullet2HP @400mW w/ 
 24dBi Directional (HPOL Alignment) -70dbm RSSI

 Any ideas?  We are planning on using 10MHz channels  H-Pol to combat 
 any future spectrum pollution and voice calls over this network is
   
 expected.
   
 -Israel



   
 
 
   
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Re: [WISPA] OT, help with mapping stuff

2009-12-11 Thread Israel Lopez-LISTS
 From attending an OpenStreetMap lecture, I recommend GPS Babel. 
http://www.gpsbabel.org/

Going to Google Earth (KML/KMZ) is a good idea.

-Izzy

Marlon K. Schafer wrote:
 Hi All,

 I'm working on a trail system for our local Chamber of Commerce.  We know 
 the routes to be used etc.

 I've got a Garmin Etrex Summit and we've used that with TopoUSA to map the 
 routes.  I can't seem to figure out how to get that data into a format that 
 others can use to download into their own GPS units and come out here to 
 follow our routes.

 Ideally I'd like to find a way to get the GPS data off of the GPS unit and 
 upload that to a file that others could import into their own GPS, Google 
 maps, TopoUSA or whatever.

 Or, I could draw out the routes on Google maps, but I don't know how to do 
 that or to export that data to something others could download.

 Anyone here good with such projects?

 thanks!
 marlon



 
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[WISPA] Tower Climbing Safety Classes

2009-01-28 Thread Israel Lopez - Lists
Hello There,

I'm looking for some basic tower climbing safety courses.  I found one 
online, directed by ComTrain.  
http://comtrainusa.com/courses-available/certification-courses/basic-2-days-mainmenu-27
  
But I would like to see what else is out there.

Anyone know of similar companies/courses available?  Preferably in 
California.

Thank you kindly.

-Israel



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Re: [WISPA] Miami Vendor

2009-05-31 Thread Israel Lopez-LISTS
Hey All,

Im looking for a reputable Miami 2.4Ghz/5.8Ghz ISM unlicensed vendor.  
Probably going to get some radios + antennas.  Online would be good, but 
not required.

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Re: [WISPA] Project Management Software - Online

2009-06-15 Thread Israel Lopez-LISTS
I'm currently running a test project with Basecamp, been so far impressed.

http://www.basecamphq.com/

-Israel


Gino Villarini wrote:
 Anyone with a recomendation ?
  

 Gino A. Villarini 
 g...@aeronetpr.com 
 Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. 
 tel  787.273.4143   fax   787.273.4145 

  


 
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Re: [WISPA] Radio Seperation

2009-06-18 Thread Israel Lopez-LISTS
Whats your life expectancy on those polyphasers?  Their website states 
they are good for multiple strikes, but just wondering about the 
durability. etc,.

-Israel

David Hulsebus wrote:
 Same here, Polyphasers. No more gas tubes. I hate getting a call that I 
 have to climb a water tank because a storm knocked out a gas cartridge.



 Kurt Fankhauser wrote:
   
 That’s why I quit buying lightning arrestors with gas tubes in them. Too
 much worrying if the gas tube was blown or not, so I started buying
 polyphaser's and never looked back

 Kurt Fankhauser
 WAVELINC
 P.O. Box 126
 Bucyrus, OH 44820
 419-562-6405
 www.wavelinc.com
  
  
 -Original Message-
 From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
 Behalf Of David Hulsebus
 Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 11:45 AM
 To: WISPA General List
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] Radio Seperation

 I've had the quarter waves that take multiple strikes go partially out 
 in the past. Gas tubes have just blown.

 Dave

 RickG wrote:
   
 
 On that note. Can lightning protectors go partially bad or are they like a
 fuse and either work or not?
 -RickG

 On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Marlon K. Schafer
 
   
 o...@odessaoffice.comwrote:
   
 
   
 
   
 Even so, the performance should be the same both ways, not tx vs. rx.

 I still think he needs to look at the lightning arrestors.  Not sure how
 they could make a difference but that's the one thing that's unknown to
   
 
 me.
   
 
 marlon

  - Original Message -
  From: Travis Johnson
  To: WISPA General List
  Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 12:05 PM
  Subject: Re: [WISPA] Radio Seperation


  Hi,

  I have to agree with Gino here... even at 7 degree downtilt, you are
 cutting it very close. You may want to try 5 degrees on just one sector
   
 
 and
   
 
 see if that helps.

  Travis


  Michael Baird wrote:
 Gino, wisp-router.com, would the downtilt affect the AP RSSI level?

 Antenna Height
ft
 Downtilt Angle
°
 Vertical Beamwidth
°
 Results
 Inner -3dB Radius   0.1 Miles
 Sweet spot  0.2 Miles
 Outer -3dB Radius   5.24Miles


 I told him 7.8, but I'm sure he didn't get dead on, just the best he
 could with his inclinometer.

 Regards
 Michael Baird
  Where are you running the calcs? I use
 http://www.wirelessconnections.net/calcs/AntDowntiltCalc.as

 With your input, I get main lobe 0.2 miles / -3db @ 7

 Gino A. Villarini
 g...@aeronetpr.com
 Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp.
 tel  787.273.4143   fax   787.273.4145

 -Original Message-
 From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
 Behalf Of Michael Baird
 Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 1:51 PM
 To: WISPA General List
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] Radio Seperation

 Gino,

 145', 15 degree VB, 7.7/7.8 puts my -3d at ~5 miles. If my downtilt was
 wrong, I would think it would impact the receive on my CPE's, much more
 then on the tower AP's, maybe that's a poor assumption on my part
 though.

 Regards
 Michael Baird

I think your downtilt is too much, whats your area and tower height?
 The beamwidth of the maxrad sector?


 Gino A. Villarini
 g...@aeronetpr.com
 Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp.
 tel  787.273.4143   fax   787.273.4145

 -Original Message-
 From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org]
 On Behalf Of Michael Baird
 Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 1:29 PM
 To: WISPA General List
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] Radio Seperation

 My sector's are Maxrad adjustable sector's horizontally polarized,
 adjusted to 120/13db, at 7.7 - 7.8 downtilt, trying to cover a 5 mile
 radius.
 Radios, are Ubiquity 400mw radio's, I've turned down to 23/200mw.
 CPE's, are Ubiquity PS2, same radio at 400mw, Horizontal antenna at 18


dbi.

 RSSI at the CPE is great, RSSI at the AP is poor often different by
 16-20 db.

 I also mentioned the RFLinx Qwave lightning arrestors, this is the
 first tower we've used them on.

 Regards
 Michael Baird



  I don't think that this would be an antenna location issue.

 What antennas did you use and where are they pointed?

 Also, what output are the radios?  If you use 600mw radios on the ap
 side and 100 mw radios on the rx side it'll make a difference.

 Also, having LOW power at the tx is almost always a good idea,
 especially when colocated like this.  I usually only run 15 to 17dB
 at




  the ap's.  Most of my sectors are 13dB.  Yeah, I have customers at
   
 
 18
   
 
miles with multi meg RELIABLE service this way.  There are other
 customers at much shorter ranges that don't get reliable service, but


that's caused by other issues :-).


  We run most of our cpe at pretty high power these days due to the
 need




  to blow through the overpowered competition or just over all noise


levels.


  Anyway, what gain are the antennas and where are they pointed?  How
 much downtilt 

[WISPA] SNMP Counters Available from Radios

2009-07-04 Thread Israel Lopez-LISTS
Hey All,

I just had a thought re: 900 Mhz across water thread.  Which radio 
vendors(models) have SNMP support for counters like SNR, Noise, RSSI, 
Radio Errors etc,.  Most ive found only show Linux interface statistics, 
rather than the radio characteristics. Or did you roll your own scripts 
to scrape data from Telnet/HTTP interfaces into your RRDTool systems 
(Cacti, STG, etc,.)

I'm thinking about 2.4Ghz equipment.

Have a good 4th of July! Slap those burgers and dogs on the grill!

-Israel



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[WISPA] NTIA Seeks Volunteers to Review Broadband Applications

2009-07-09 Thread Israel Lopez-LISTS
Did you guys hear about this?
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070909-ntia-seeks-volunteers-to-review.html?page=1

Some people think its scary, but I think if done with enough guidance 
Volunteer Reviewers could cull a lot of crap out of this program 
applications.

-Israel



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Re: [WISPA] http://www.ilient.com/

2009-07-12 Thread Israel Lopez-LISTS
As an aside, Kayako Support Suite is pretty good, used it at a few 
places and implemented at the last place I worked at.

http://www.kayako.com/solutions/supportsuite/
http://www.kayako.com/purchasing/pricing.php

Ryan Ghering wrote:
 I found it a week or so ago and have started to test it out in our office
 and its pretty sweet. I've got a price quote in for a full version myself.
 Will be interesting to find out what its gona cost.

 Ryan

 On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 5:21 PM, RickG rgunder...@gmail.com wrote:

   
 That covers 100 customers. I'm wondering what the cost for more is.
 Thanks! -RickG

 On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Ryan Gheringrgher...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 http://www.sysaid.com/free-help-desk-software.htm

 There is the free edition..

 On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:55 PM, RickG rgunder...@gmail.com wrote:

   
 Actually, more helpful would be their prciing :)
 -RickG

 On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Jerry
 Richardsonjrichard...@aircloud.com wrote:
 
 thought this might be useful for some.



   
 
 
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Re: [WISPA] Lightning 1, Bullet 0

2009-07-23 Thread Israel Lopez-LISTS
No lightning protection on the little guy?  I imagine not since they 
were cheap.

-IL

Matt Larsen - Lists wrote:
 For your vicarious enjoyment of nature vs. Ubiquiti products

 http://www.thelar.com/gallery2/v/Wireless/Miscellaneous/

 Won't be doing an RMA on this unit.

 Matt Larsen
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Re: [WISPA] Content Filter Suggestion for School

2009-08-13 Thread Israel Lopez-LISTS
OpenDNS works in a pinch.

However filters for all of DNS requests originating from one public IP 
(Students  Admins)... you could go Hardware Based Filtering... 
barracuda and or cymphonix boxes as well.

-Israel

Scott Carullo wrote:
 I need a web content filter for K-12 school.  Paid Subscription ok.

 Please let me know what good products there are for this requirement.  Need 
 asap.  Thanks...

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Re: [WISPA] Content Filter Suggestion for School

2009-08-13 Thread Israel Lopez-LISTS
I have to agree.  It seem that these hardware boxes that try to do 'all 
in one' services (Routing, NAT, Firewall, AV, Content-Filtering, 
Spam)... seem to fall on their face.  I know of a consultant buddy of 
mine who implemented it, and hated every second of it.  He is still 
cursing at it when it fails (AD Connector stops working requiring manual 
resets of the box, etc,).

-IL

os10ru...@gmail.com wrote:
 I had some very bad experiences with SonicWall and their service/ 
 support. For one thing their basic content filter package was useless  
 because it did not block proxy sites. They expected us to pay hundreds  
 more a year for their premium filter package just to get the  
 functionality of their basic package to work. Discussions with  
 customer service/tech support fell on deaf ears. There were heated  
 discussions on the forum (everyone was fed up with SonicWall) but  
 SonicWall wouldn't budge. We got a little response from them when I  
 suggested to the forum that perhaps this topic would be a good start  
 for a class action lawsuit. I was using one of their lowest end  
 products at the time so maybe they give better support for their  
 higher end products. However I would never use SonicWall again.  
 There's many other competitors out there. There's a few products which  
 I don't recall the name of but they're specifically geared to  
 scholastic/library settings.

 For our filtering needs we switched to Untangle. Another we used and  
 liked was Astaro.

 Greg

 On Aug 13, 2009, at 7:31 AM, Jason Hensley wrote:

   
 Sonicwall has some outstanding products as far as an all-in-one  
 appliance
 for firewall, content filtering, spam, virus, etc etc.  I have one  
 in place
 for a school and our local library.  Make sure you get one with enough
 horse-power.  A small school may work fine with a TZ-200 or TZ-190,  
 but you
 get very large, and you will quickly end up needing more than that.

 Be glad to quote you out one if you needed.


 -Original Message-
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 Behalf Of Scott Carullo
 Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 10:35 PM
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 Subject: [WISPA] Content Filter Suggestion for School


 I need a web content filter for K-12 school.  Paid Subscription ok.

 Please let me know what good products there are for this  
 requirement.  Need
 asap.  Thanks...

 Scott Carullo
 Brevard Wireless
 321-205-1100 x102



 
 
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Re: [WISPA] Client Internet Filtering Upgrade - WAS: Content Filter Suggestion for School

2009-08-14 Thread Israel Lopez-LISTS
FYI.. Not every site will want to have the same filter settings.  Since 
you can define multiple networks in OpenDNS, the IP will have to 
originate from that network to get a specific set of content-filtering. 
If the request originates from the local DNS server, then you've just 
inadvertently applied those settings to everyone who might query that 
DNS server.

So you would have to force these 'filtered' networks to only request DNS 
from OpenDNS servers, and make sure each client has a public IP.

-IL

Josh Luthman wrote:
 I just thought about how to get around this and I wanted to share my
 thoughts.  If a location needs this filtering and you use opendns you'll
 want to drop all forwarded DNS traffic.  Force everyone to use an internal
 DNS server which in turn looks up via OpenDNS.

 Josh Luthman
 Office: 937-552-2340
 Direct: 937-552-2343
 1100 Wayne St
 Suite 1337
 Troy, OH 45373

 When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however
 improbable, must be the truth.
 --- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


 On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Jason Hensley ja...@jaggartech.com wrote:

   
 On this same subject, anyone offering upgrades for filtered Internet
 service to their clients?  Anyone using OpenDNS to do this?



 -Original Message-
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 Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 1:29 PM
 To: sc...@brevardwireless.com; WISPA General List
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] Content Filter Suggestion for School

 OpenDNS is approved for this...best thing is it is free.

 Cameron

 Scott Carullo wrote:
 
 I need a web content filter for K-12 school.  Paid Subscription ok.

 Please let me know what good products there are for this requirement.
   
 Need
 
 asap.  Thanks...

 Scott Carullo
 Brevard Wireless
 321-205-1100 x102




   
 
 
 
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Re: [WISPA] AM radio tower

2009-09-08 Thread Israel Lopez-LISTS
Michael,

If you get any responses off-list, I would be happy to hear.  I have a 
similar situation, but down in Honduras.  I posted nearly an exact 
question to yours, and the consensus was.

1) Install Noise Suppression, and Shielded Twisted Pair
2) Install only when the Tower is unpowered

In my situation we want to use the 1KW AM Radio because of how tall the 
tower is, our stuff is 2.4 as well but we plan on 5.8 soon.

-Israel

Michael Baird wrote:
 *I've recently been approached about expanding our service to an AM 
 tower. We would be using 2.4 gear, what kind of problems would I need to 
 watch out for when deploying on an AM tower. They said it was 
 broadcasting at 1KW and the entire tower is hot. It is in a really good 
 area, is a nice tower and the price is minimal, but I want to avoid as 
 many service problems as possible by knowing what I'm getting into 
 beforehand.

 Regards
 Michael Baird
 *


 
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Re: [WISPA] Link Planning Software

2009-09-23 Thread Israel Lopez-LISTS
Hi Shaddi,

You know what would be cool.  Is a few things

* Use the features of Radio Mobile as a basis for radio-propogation
  o SRTM3 Terrain Mapping
  o Flexible Radio Network Topology (VoiceNet, Master/Slave, etc,.)
  o Point to point link analysis
  o Visual Coverage
  o Might be pie in the sky, but at least a good direction
feature wise, implementation is up to you.
* ANND... Add some wiki style features like a database of Radios,
  Antennas
  o Radios
+ Spectrum
+ Power
+ Sensitivity
+ etc,.
  o Antennas
+ Gain
+ Panel Type
+ Images?
+ Antenna Spread (Polar map)

But I think the easiest thing for you would be to start with the SRTM3 
dataset, see if you can render that into a browser so people could do 
basic LOS functionality. The added plus for us (US being an NGO doing 
field installations) would adding extra data points to the terrain data 
to get a more accurate reading.  (Some areas only get 90m resolution 'i 
think' and the USA gets 30m resolution.)  So if we could load GPS trails 
that would show us the difference between SRTM and the GPS readings we 
could do better simulations.

Thats my 2c in the pot.

-Israel

Shaddi Hasan wrote:
 Howdy WISPA!

 Just joined today but wanted to chime in -- some students here at UNC Chapel
 Hill are working on a browser-based link planning tool as a semester
 project. It will be released as open-source at the end of the semester, so
 we'd like it to be useful not only for our projects but for the community at
 large. While primarily geared towards community wireless projects, it'd be
 great if it could be useful for the professional WISP community. So, if you
 have any feedback on what features you'd like to see in such a tool, lessons
 you all have learned that should be incorporated into its design, or the
 concept generally, please contact me.

 To the OP, check back in December and we might have something to offer you!

 Shaddi

 On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Robert West 
 robert.w...@just-micro.comwrote:

   
 What are you folks using to verify the viability of a link before you plan
 the build?  I've tried using Radio Mobile but I'll be darned if I can't get
 that thing to work even with the step by step instructions.  I've been
 finding myself just plotting elevations all the way along the link in
 Google
 Earth.  Sucks.

 Anyone using a good software app that will plot the links and give me the
 easy thumbs up or thumbs down?

 Sorry to be a pain with all these questions.  It's been too hectic and I
 just don't have the time to sit for 2 days evaluating crap software.  I'd
 rather be told what's good by real users.

 Thanks.



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Re: [WISPA] Link Planning Software

2009-09-23 Thread Israel Lopez-LISTS
Actually...

If you have the lastest radio mobile it is able to automatically pull 
down the SRTM3 files.

What I did in one case where I didnt have the SRTM file, and I was going 
to be out in the field I downloaded the files by hand from this site. 
http://dds.cr.usgs.gov/srtm/version2_1/SRTM3/North_America/ OR from Nasa 
Direct.
And (unzipped) put them in a directory for radio mobile (Same directory 
as described in the map properties window)



And actually I just re-ran my radiomobile program, and its automatically 
grabbing the SRTM Data (140 sets to be exact)
This is what I have setup for my 'internet options'


Im running version 9.8.1


Robert West wrote:
 Okay, I went through it here and getting the terrain maps is indeed the
 place where I give up.  Anyone have a good step by step to get the map in
 the thing??


 I totally believe the 4 hour thing.  My issue is, every hour...  Are you
 STILL up?!


 -Original Message-
 From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
 Behalf Of Jerry Richardson
 Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 6:47 PM
 To: WISPA General List
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] Link Planning Software

 It takes 4hrs in the idle of the night with zero interruptions. Once you do
 that it will gel.

 Jerry Richardson
 airCloud Communications
 Sent Mobile (Probably one handed)

 
 From: Robert West robert.w...@just-micro.com
 Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 3:19 PM
 To: 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] Link Planning Software

 You know, I haven't a clue!  It looks simple, heck yes!  Everyone says it's
 easy but I'll be darned if I can't get anything out of it.  Now you also
 have to understand, when I try to work with it I have 3 kids, a cat and the
 wife all wanting something.  Time was not well spent when I've tried it.

 -Original Message-
 From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
 Behalf Of David E. Smith
 Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 5:45 PM
 To: WISPA General List
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] Link Planning Software

 Robert West wrote:
   
 What are you folks using to verify the viability of a link before you plan
 the build?  I've tried using Radio Mobile but I'll be darned if I can't
 
 get
   
 that thing to work even with the step by step instructions.  I've been
 finding myself just plotting elevations all the way along the link in
 
 Google
   
 Earth.
 

 Where are you getting hung up? Radio Mobile is probably the best free
 tool you're gonna get, and once set up, works pretty well. (The
 trickiest part probably is getting the terrain data you need, but you
 only have to do that once.)

 David Smith
 MVN.net


 
 
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Re: [WISPA] Link Planning Software

2009-09-23 Thread Israel Lopez-LISTS
Doh.  Forgot cant use HTML email and pasted images.  I will see if I 
cant make a PDF guide or so on how to get terrain data.

-Israel

Israel Lopez-LISTS wrote:
 Actually...

 If you have the lastest radio mobile it is able to automatically pull 
 down the SRTM3 files.

 What I did in one case where I didnt have the SRTM file, and I was going 
 to be out in the field I downloaded the files by hand from this site. 
 http://dds.cr.usgs.gov/srtm/version2_1/SRTM3/North_America/ OR from Nasa 
 Direct.
 And (unzipped) put them in a directory for radio mobile (Same directory 
 as described in the map properties window)



 And actually I just re-ran my radiomobile program, and its automatically 
 grabbing the SRTM Data (140 sets to be exact)
 This is what I have setup for my 'internet options'


 Im running version 9.8.1


 Robert West wrote:
   
 Okay, I went through it here and getting the terrain maps is indeed the
 place where I give up.  Anyone have a good step by step to get the map in
 the thing??


 I totally believe the 4 hour thing.  My issue is, every hour...  Are you
 STILL up?!


 -Original Message-
 From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
 Behalf Of Jerry Richardson
 Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 6:47 PM
 To: WISPA General List
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] Link Planning Software

 It takes 4hrs in the idle of the night with zero interruptions. Once you do
 that it will gel.

 Jerry Richardson
 airCloud Communications
 Sent Mobile (Probably one handed)

 
 From: Robert West robert.w...@just-micro.com
 Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 3:19 PM
 To: 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] Link Planning Software

 You know, I haven't a clue!  It looks simple, heck yes!  Everyone says it's
 easy but I'll be darned if I can't get anything out of it.  Now you also
 have to understand, when I try to work with it I have 3 kids, a cat and the
 wife all wanting something.  Time was not well spent when I've tried it.

 -Original Message-
 From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
 Behalf Of David E. Smith
 Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 5:45 PM
 To: WISPA General List
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] Link Planning Software

 Robert West wrote:
   
 
 What are you folks using to verify the viability of a link before you plan
 the build?  I've tried using Radio Mobile but I'll be darned if I can't
 
   
 get
   
 
 that thing to work even with the step by step instructions.  I've been
 finding myself just plotting elevations all the way along the link in
 
   
 Google
   
 
 Earth.
 
   
 Where are you getting hung up? Radio Mobile is probably the best free
 tool you're gonna get, and once set up, works pretty well. (The
 trickiest part probably is getting the terrain data you need, but you
 only have to do that once.)

 David Smith
 MVN.net


 
 
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Re: [WISPA] Link Planning Software

2009-09-23 Thread Israel Lopez-LISTS
Actually I just found this: http://www.dslreports.com/faq/14302

Seems to sum up what I was trying to say =D

-Israel

Robert West wrote:
 Thanks!

 -Original Message-
 From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
 Behalf Of Israel Lopez-LISTS
 Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 9:28 PM
 To: WISPA General List
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] Link Planning Software

 Doh.  Forgot cant use HTML email and pasted images.  I will see if I 
 cant make a PDF guide or so on how to get terrain data.

 -Israel

 Israel Lopez-LISTS wrote:
   
 Actually...

 If you have the lastest radio mobile it is able to automatically pull 
 down the SRTM3 files.

 What I did in one case where I didnt have the SRTM file, and I was going 
 to be out in the field I downloaded the files by hand from this site. 
 http://dds.cr.usgs.gov/srtm/version2_1/SRTM3/North_America/ OR from Nasa 
 Direct.
 And (unzipped) put them in a directory for radio mobile (Same directory 
 as described in the map properties window)



 And actually I just re-ran my radiomobile program, and its automatically 
 grabbing the SRTM Data (140 sets to be exact)
 This is what I have setup for my 'internet options'


 Im running version 9.8.1


 Robert West wrote:
   
 
 Okay, I went through it here and getting the terrain maps is indeed the
 place where I give up.  Anyone have a good step by step to get the map in
 the thing??


 I totally believe the 4 hour thing.  My issue is, every hour...  Are you
 STILL up?!


 -Original Message-
 From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
 Behalf Of Jerry Richardson
 Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 6:47 PM
 To: WISPA General List
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] Link Planning Software

 It takes 4hrs in the idle of the night with zero interruptions. Once you
   
 do
   
 that it will gel.

 Jerry Richardson
 airCloud Communications
 Sent Mobile (Probably one handed)

 
 From: Robert West robert.w...@just-micro.com
 Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 3:19 PM
 To: 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] Link Planning Software

 You know, I haven't a clue!  It looks simple, heck yes!  Everyone says
   
 it's
   
 easy but I'll be darned if I can't get anything out of it.  Now you also
 have to understand, when I try to work with it I have 3 kids, a cat and
   
 the
   
 wife all wanting something.  Time was not well spent when I've tried it.

 -Original Message-
 From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
 Behalf Of David E. Smith
 Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 5:45 PM
 To: WISPA General List
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] Link Planning Software

 Robert West wrote:
   
 
   
 What are you folks using to verify the viability of a link before you
 
 plan
   
 the build?  I've tried using Radio Mobile but I'll be darned if I can't
 
   
 
 get
   
 
   
 that thing to work even with the step by step instructions.  I've been
 finding myself just plotting elevations all the way along the link in
 
   
 
 Google
   
 
   
 Earth.
 
   
 
 Where are you getting hung up? Radio Mobile is probably the best free
 tool you're gonna get, and once set up, works pretty well. (The
 trickiest part probably is getting the terrain data you need, but you
 only have to do that once.)

 David Smith
 MVN.net



   
 
   
 
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[WISPA] Moisture Abatement Techniques

2010-03-01 Thread Israel Lopez-LISTS
Hey All,

So how do you guys avoid getting water/moisture in your gear?

I'm going to be standing up a 9 end-point network, with some Ubiquiti 
(Bullet2, Nanostation) gear, Directional  H-Pol Omni antennas, 
Polyphasers, Ethernet Lightning Arrestors, etc,.  I'm not going to be 
able to travel to the site again in at least a year; its a rainy part of 
the world, so I'd like to prevent any damage to the gear as much as 
possible.

Anything I should do to prevent moisture from getting into the gear? Or 
other protective measures... Teflon on the coax connectors, Electrical 
Tape on the Edges of the gear?  If there was a place I could see some 
pictures of the implementations that would be good too.

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Re: [WISPA] Moisture Abatement Techniques

2010-03-02 Thread Israel Lopez-LISTS
Thanks everyone for the helpful suggestions, looks like I got my 
shopping list for the Honduras install.

We are leaving March 12th, and if anyone is interested I can put 
pictures up of the install  the kids we are helping. 

Thanks again, WISPA is a great community and I love being part of it.

-Israel

Israel Lopez-LISTS wrote:
 Hey All,

 So how do you guys avoid getting water/moisture in your gear?

 I'm going to be standing up a 9 end-point network, with some Ubiquiti 
 (Bullet2, Nanostation) gear, Directional  H-Pol Omni antennas, 
 Polyphasers, Ethernet Lightning Arrestors, etc,.  I'm not going to be 
 able to travel to the site again in at least a year; its a rainy part of 
 the world, so I'd like to prevent any damage to the gear as much as 
 possible.

 Anything I should do to prevent moisture from getting into the gear? Or 
 other protective measures... Teflon on the coax connectors, Electrical 
 Tape on the Edges of the gear?  If there was a place I could see some 
 pictures of the implementations that would be good too.

 -Israel


 
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[WISPA] Modified Sine Inverter Acceptable

2010-03-10 Thread Israel Lopez-LISTS
Hey Guys,

For running commodity routers, radios, servers on a remote site, is 
using a modified sine wave acceptable?  I have some electrical engineers 
at the site im working on thinking of putting in a modified sine 
inverter, and joining them up with a large battery cache.

The question we raised was, will a modified sine wave be 
damaging/problematic for things like a Ubiquti Radio/POE Injector, small 
WRT54GL router, small switch, and two servers (300-400w each).

Let me know.

I searched the lists and found this, 
http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/2007-July/027900.html  but I 
didnt see the impact on the equipment there, just UPSes.

I am going from:

[very dirty mains 90-120v] - [battery charger] - [battery bank] - 
[inverter] --- outlets, [Equipment Transformers] - [Equipment]

Ideas?  Other power engineers on site brought along a Chicago Electric 
Inverter #95596 - 
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/Displayitem.taf?itemnumber=95596

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Re: [WISPA] HD Video across Wireless?

2010-03-12 Thread Israel Lopez-LISTS
How many HD Channels? 720p, 1080i?

Is there coax running through the community?  Just as a thought 
exercise, I may get a few HD ATSC Hardware Cards, some hefty boxes, and 
use VLC to convert the video into a multicast stream, bridge it across 
the lake/valley, and reconstitute it into something useful on the other 
end.  Depending on how much bandwidth you can get (More the better + 
future growth), probably looking at at 100MPS link. (If you decide to 
compress the channels to lets say 15mbps).

I heard for awhile that my local cable company was using Winboxes + VLC 
and Video Capture cards to encode and distribute the analog video for 
their digital STB for awhile.  (Unknown source)

-Israel

AJ wrote:
 Any suggestions for carrying HD Video (ATSC over-the-air) across IP
 wireless?

 We're trying to bridge coverage in to a community that literally sits at the
 base of a ridge line, blocking direct OTA reception. We already pull down
 the standard definition content by satellite; the local broadcasters however
 are not carried in HD. I do have a site that has line of sight to both OTA
 broadcasters (about 50 miles away) and the valley where the headend is
 (about 2 miles across a lake).


 Anyone encounter a need to stream video like this?

 We've looked at ASI transport across fiber but our lowest bid was almost
 28k... Not quite in the scope of the budget for the project.

 Suggestions?


 
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Re: [WISPA] State Education Networks?

2010-03-12 Thread Israel Lopez-LISTS
I had the chance to befriend a high-school IT guy (Quite stellar IT guy 
too), and I learned a lot from the processes there.  The education 
system in CA will historically go for Wired/Fiber based plants.  Usually 
due to FUD, about security, reliability, blah blah blah.

I hope you can get them to change their mind, especially considering the 
price difference.  Their big hang up may be a political opponent who may 
respond to any 'public' network problems as: You see, you get what you 
pay for, you were cheap and tried (gasp) wireless!

Out here in California, most is T1s/fiber direct into local network hubs 
those are usually school districts-HQs (smaller loops that way), then 
those link up to a bigger regional hub, and finally to the main hub; 
access to the internet originates from a single point for the whole 
network (afaik, I only know so-cal education nets).

They do this so they can implement district wide/state wide filtering, 
management, etc,. 

-Israel

Kevin Owen wrote:
 The State I provide service in (Idaho) is in the process of building a 
 Statewide Educational Network.  I am interested in hearing from any of you 
 are providing service in a State that has built a State Educational Network 
 and if so, are local providers used to provide any of the last miles services 
 to the schools?

 Idaho started by saying they would work with the local providers, however, 
 now they have changed their tune and local providers are not given the 
 opportunity to even bid on the service.  

 Qwest is charging at least 3 - 5 times what any of the other local ISP's 
 could or would charge for the same or more bandwidth.  We are simply told we 
 are not able to provide the service due to technical reasons, however, the 
 State thus far has not defined what those technical reasons are.  The 
 difference in cost per year is in the millions.

 Our State IT group is also saying this is how it is done in other states to 
 provide a quality and cost effective network. 

 So does anybody provide any last mile services to any Statewide educational 
 network?

 Thanks,

 Kevin
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Re: [WISPA] HD Video across Wireless?

2010-03-12 Thread Israel Lopez-LISTS
Well,

This looks promising, I did a google search for ATSC to IP.  
http://www.computermodules.com/broadcast-systems/8VSB-ATSC-to-IP.html

-Israel

AJ wrote:
 At this point, there are a total of (6) ATSC carriers we're trying to pull
 down in 1080i. Once they're over on the other side of the lake, we can use
 narrowcast transmitters back from our old headend site back to the new
 headend where it can be distributed across fiber to the nodes then coax back
 in to the community.

 Know of any off the shelf options for ATSC or even just native HDMI/DVI HD
 video in to IP out?

 Windows Box *might* work but the concern would be failure in the winter
 where it would be located - either helo or snow cat to access October-May...

 On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Israel Lopez-LISTS 
 ilopezli...@sandboxitsolutions.com wrote:

   
 How many HD Channels? 720p, 1080i?

 Is there coax running through the community?  Just as a thought
 exercise, I may get a few HD ATSC Hardware Cards, some hefty boxes, and
 use VLC to convert the video into a multicast stream, bridge it across
 the lake/valley, and reconstitute it into something useful on the other
 end.  Depending on how much bandwidth you can get (More the better +
 future growth), probably looking at at 100MPS link. (If you decide to
 compress the channels to lets say 15mbps).

 I heard for awhile that my local cable company was using Winboxes + VLC
 and Video Capture cards to encode and distribute the analog video for
 their digital STB for awhile.  (Unknown source)

 -Israel

 AJ wrote:
 
 Any suggestions for carrying HD Video (ATSC over-the-air) across IP
 wireless?

 We're trying to bridge coverage in to a community that literally sits at
   
 the
 
 base of a ridge line, blocking direct OTA reception. We already pull down
 the standard definition content by satellite; the local broadcasters
   
 however
 
 are not carried in HD. I do have a site that has line of sight to both
   
 OTA
 
 broadcasters (about 50 miles away) and the valley where the headend is
 (about 2 miles across a lake).


 Anyone encounter a need to stream video like this?

 We've looked at ASI transport across fiber but our lowest bid was
   
 almost
 
 28k... Not quite in the scope of the budget for the project.

 Suggestions?



   
 
 
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[WISPA] Channel Recommendation Gel Filled Ethernet

2010-03-15 Thread Israel Lopez-LISTS
Hey Guys,

Trying to choose the best channel for a new installation.  
http://ewbhonduras.tumblr.com/post/450395382/1hr-wispy-rf-2-4-capture-from-the-horizontal

This is what I see, I attached the WiSPY along with a laptop, and 
mounted both on the tower we are planning on using for one hour.  Then 
brought the laptop down.

Any suggestions?

Also, what is the best way to handle crimping gel-filled cat5e cable?  
We are having a heck of a time with the ends slipping off and the 
individual conductors slipping out.

-Israel



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[WISPA] Thank You to WISPA - Education Network in Honduras

2010-03-26 Thread Israel Lopez-LISTS
Hey All,

I wanted to thank the WISPA community for being quite helpful and 
generous.  I have been leading a team to implement/replace an aging 
wireless network in Honduras for three schools and their volunteer 
homes.  It has been a long year and a half, but it has paid off. 

They had 9 locations, 800kbps-3mbps throughput, 100-400ms latency, and 
+20% loss.
Now they have: 9 Locations, 12mbps throughput, 1-4ms latency, between 
0-2% packet loss at the schools, and 1-10% packet loss at the volunteer 
homes. 

In the year after our April 2009 assessment trip we spent time planning, 
designing, and running dry runs, we still had to adapt to what was 'on 
the ground.' It was a challenge properly grounding our 40meter tower, 
installing the equipment at the various locations, battling contractor 
costs, freak lightning storms, and a last minute show stopper with 
routing loops.

In the end the schools have a better platform for education  
technology, and we hope to support them through the entire process of 
technology in the hands of the kids.

I will be presenting the implementation story to a local user group here 
in Southern California, I will have the presentation recorded if you all 
are interested I will make the link available.

As promised I have some implementation pictures to share.
http://picasaweb.google.com/israel.lopez/HondurasAllPics#

This was one of the first Wireless projects with Engineers Without 
Borders, we are quite proud of the people that have volunteered to help 
remotely, and in country.  I personally would like to see more 
Technology Engineering projects in developing countries, so if you think 
you can help, visit one of your local EWB Professional chapters, talk to 
them, see if technology may be something their communities may need.  
http://ewb-usa.org/chapters.php.

In support of technology projects/professionals in EWB I have created 
http://EWBTechies.org if you become a member, please join and let us 
know how you want to help!

Special Thanks goes to:
Ubiquiti Networks - Donated some radios  helped us RMA a unit right 
before we left LAX
WLANMall.com - For the WiSPY 2.4x that we won for our school
Western Digital - Donation of USB Hard Drives for Backup of our Servers 
 Critical Data

Thank You,

Israel Lopez



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