Re: [WISPA] Tricky infrastructure question

2008-12-09 Thread John Thomas
If you use managed switches on both ends that properly support EtherChannel and/or LACP, then your down time should be about 30 seconds or less as the trunks setup. The main thing is that you will want the links as balanced as you can get them. John Thomas Ugo Bellavance wrote: >

Re: [WISPA] Do you provide backup services?

2008-12-09 Thread John Thomas
Based on the reviews, it looks like these may have some firmware problems... Marlon, what kind of space are you talking about? Here's a Buffalo box that does 4 TB ( 3TB in RAID 5) for $1000 http://shop4.frys.com/product/5782802?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG John Mike Hammett wrote: > http://www

[WISPA] Lafayette LA, 10 Meg fiber, $28.95 / month.

2008-12-28 Thread John Thomas
Have you guys in Louisiana heard about this? http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Lafayette-Unveils-FTTH-Pricing-99838 WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ ---

Re: [WISPA] Barracuda outbounds SPAM filter any good?

2009-01-08 Thread John Thomas
Are you guys using the outbound feature on your inbound Barracudas? It doesn't do as full a job as a outbound box, but it may help your problem. John Kurt Fankhauser wrote: > Does anyone use the Barracuda's for outbound spam filtering and is it as > good as the inbound version? I need to keep m

Re: [WISPA] Barracuda outbounds SPAM filter any good?

2009-01-09 Thread John Thomas
[mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On > Behalf Of John Thomas > Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 9:29 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Barracuda outbounds SPAM filter any good? > > Are you guys using the outbound feature on your inbound Barracudas? It > does

Re: [WISPA] Barracuda outbounds SPAM filter any good?

2009-01-09 Thread John Thomas
In the Barracuda, under Basic>Administration at the bottom of the page, you choose the direction, inbound or outbound. If you click on Advanced, you should have an Outbound/Relay tab. If you set this to allow your email server to relay through the Barracuda, it will log your messages and do som

Re: [WISPA] public subnet

2009-12-21 Thread John Thomas
A great article talking about why NOT to block ICMP http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/6524/1/ From the article, In short, blocking ICMP is detrimental to the successful operation of networks. It will break more than just ping; in fact, many protocols will be neutered if ICMP is

[WISPA] WiFiSplurper

2009-12-25 Thread John Thomas
Has anyone ever seen this? http://www.boingboing.net/2007/05/30/wifi-slurper-grabs-u.html John WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -

[WISPA] AT&T was Re: Wimax gear

2010-01-01 Thread John Thomas
Unless the Federal Government gives AT&T a blank check and ORDERS them to this, it is NOT ever going to happen. I have seen copies of Project Pronto documents that said the San Francisco Bay Area was supposed to have fiber to the home 10 years ago. Yes, there were a few strands installed, but n

Re: [WISPA] Re-evaluating our anti-spam solution

2010-01-01 Thread John Thomas
What are the issues with your Barracuda? John Ugo Bellavance wrote: > On 2009-07-13 20:08, Don Grossman wrote: > >> It seems time to take a look at our anti-spam solution. Currently we >> are looking to replace out Barracuda due to ongoing issues with the >> box that after several attempts to

Re: [WISPA] Network Gigabit Switch Recommendations

2010-01-20 Thread John Thomas
Try to find out what mac address is on which port-you can't do that with the HP 1800's, you need something higher up the food chain. John Scott Vander Dussen wrote: > Nick- > Thanks for the info - I'm looking at specifications between the HP ProCurve > 1810G Switch Series http://bit.ly/5g2F0B a

Re: [WISPA] Network Gigabit Switch Recommendations

2010-01-24 Thread John Thomas
> (321) 205-1100 x106 > > > -------- > > From: "John Thomas" > Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 12:20 AM > To: "WISPA General List" > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Network Gigabit Switch Recommendations > > Try to find out what mac address is on which port-you

Re: [WISPA] [Motorola II] metered billing

2010-01-25 Thread John Thomas
Read the fine print in the contracts. With AT&T, if you call people outside AT&T's network too much, they will raise your rates. John Josh Luthman wrote: > I expect if it comes to a point where services are degraded and enough > customers complain they will do just what Vonage does - find the to

Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo

2010-01-26 Thread John Thomas
Start lining up the lawsuit then. We pay about $350 for 100 megabits/sec at Hurricane Electric in Fremont CA. John Andy Trimmell wrote: > 50Mbit for $450 a month isn't bad for a pipe to AT&T. We're paying 10x that > from AT&T right now. > > $0.90? come on give me a break. If that's possible th

Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo

2010-01-26 Thread John Thomas
We buy ours through a reseller, and they have quoted us $1000/month for Gig at Hurricane Electric in Fremont CA. John Mike Hammett wrote: > I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if GigE connections were under $1 now. > I know a couple companies were at $1. > > Bandwidth pricing is the inverse

Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo

2010-01-29 Thread John Thomas
s ridiculous the cost we pay. > > -Original Message- > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On > Behalf Of John Thomas > Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 9:44 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo > > We

Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo

2010-01-29 Thread John Thomas
Kinda sounds like a WISP, eh? As long as they aren't overselling it to the point quality suffers, who cares? We had to work at just doing a speed test on our 100 meg connection as most of the servers couldn't do 100 meg up and 100 meg down. We finally were able to do a ftp and get 95 meg/95 meg

Re: [WISPA] omni upside down

2010-01-29 Thread John Thomas
We have mounted omnis upside down because an omni pattern tends to radiate from the base of the antenna upward. By turning the antenna upside down, it becomes slight better at receiving and sending. That, and Cisco 1500's make it easy to do... John RickG wrote: > Thanks! > Is there any advanta

Re: [WISPA] omni upside down

2010-01-31 Thread John Thomas
Stock Cisco omnis, we were hanging them from light poles. John RickG wrote: > Which antenna did you use? -RickG > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 6:03 PM, John Thomas wrote: > > >> We have mounted omnis upside down because an omni pattern tends to >> radiate from the

Re: [WISPA] Short range backhaul

2010-01-31 Thread John Thomas
Midnight overhead fiber run... :-) John Jeremie Chism wrote: > I have a pop across the street from one of my towers. The phone > company there is giving me a great deal on bandwidth but I have to get > it across to the tower. Any recommendations for something reliable at > that range. > >

Re: [WISPA] Semi-OT: Mobile phone platform questions

2010-02-03 Thread John Thomas
Droid can do RDP and VPN John Brad Belton wrote: > I used to remote desktop from my Sprint Touch phone (and earlier models > too). However, a year or more ago I saw one of the guys here running remote > desktop on his iPhone and was blown away how much better it worked than my > HTC Touch.

Re: [WISPA] Regulators may drop broadband line-sharing bombshell

2010-02-17 Thread John Thomas
Wouldn't it be great if there was something resembling consistent policies regarding facilities? Years ago, there was the suggestion that phone companies should be broken into 2 pieces, facilities and services. The facilities unit could sell access to the copper/fiber/cable to *any* buyer. You

Re: [WISPA] FCC Broadband plan call for more spectrum---- but not forWISP's that's for sure.

2010-02-24 Thread John Thomas
I've wondered what would happen with something like a licensed lite that you had to pay $200 a year for access to a band. If the FCC did that, and people actually used the bands, then they could make some money, and people could get access. If, for instance, you had say 700-740 MHz and each WIS

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquity Pico2HP.

2010-03-10 Thread John Thomas
Cisco 1100 series a/b/g can be repeaters using both bands, Cisco 1200 series can be AP (root), CPE (non-root) or bridge. John Josh Luthman wrote: > I'm thinking that every 802.11 device can be an AP or CPE. > > Pretty sure Tranzeo can. I know Engenius can. MT semi-can (requires > lvl 4 to do

[WISPA] 10 ways you might be breaking the law with your computer: UPDATED

2010-03-29 Thread John Thomas
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=1400&tag=nl.e102 WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wireless

Re: [WISPA] Service vehicle

2009-02-03 Thread John Thomas
It may be worthwhile to consider a Dodge/Mercedes/Freightliner Sprinter Van. The drawback is that they have a high roof line, but they do get 20 + mpg in motorhome trim, and 25-30 mpg bare. They are Diesel and the engines are supposed to be good for 400,000 - 500,000 miles. John George Rogato

Re: [WISPA] National Map Update - 579,154 square miles covered

2009-02-03 Thread John Thomas
Brian, I entered 2400 Camino Ramon San Ramon CA and got part of circles in the coverage area. I will assume that is NextWeb/Covadwireless's footprint. They have a coverage map at http://www.covadwireless.com/network-coverage-maps.html#sanfrancisco if that helps. John Brian Webster wrote: > I

Re: [WISPA] Service vehicle

2009-02-11 Thread John Thomas
Sooner or later, someone will do a 1/2 ton diesel electric hybrid truck , and it should be able to do at least 40 mpg if they do it right. It looks like these guys might be the ones to do it. http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/11/mahindra-appalachian-diesel-pickup-arrives-in-us-next-year-dies/ John

Re: [WISPA] Dual-band Sector Antennas/Multiple Input Sector Antennas

2009-02-24 Thread John Thomas
I understand that Cisco is expensive, but it does work. I have clients with Cisco Aironet 340's installed that are 7+ years old. Is it the national pastime to beat on Cisco? As for antennas, Superpass makes some that might work well for this project http://www.superpass.com/SP-MIMO-D1J1.html ht

[WISPA] Need Service

2009-02-27 Thread John Thomas
Does anyone on list service Redding CA? John Thomas WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wireless List

[WISPA] LinkedIn

2009-02-28 Thread John Thomas
Is anyone around here on LinkedIn? I just got signed up a few days ago, and it may have benefits for your businesses. It works a little bit like Facebook, but is much more business oriented. John WISPA Wants You

Re: [WISPA] 3650 and 4.9

2009-03-04 Thread John Thomas
These will do what you want http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/routers/ps272/ps6990/product_data_sheet0900aecd804c207b.html John Marlon K. Schafer wrote: > OK, last one. > > What would you guys use for 3650 gear. I need to deliver very high speeds > to lots of users with near 100%

Re: [WISPA] 100 meg full duplex backhaul

2009-03-04 Thread John Thomas
Are any of the towers setup such that you could cross the circle? In other words, if you had towers 1 to 20 in a ring, have a secondary link between towers 4 and 16 for instance. This would require routing, and preferably dynamic routing, but then you would have some redundancy. John Marlon

Re: [WISPA] Cisco 1710 and 3600 routers

2009-03-05 Thread John Thomas
That's E&M, it's used to connect to analog voice stuff, in place of FXS or FXO cards. John Matt Jenkins wrote: > I tried to look it up but I cannot figure it out. Whats an E to M card? > > Blake Bowers wrote: > >> I have a local non-profit that has a PILE of 1710 and 1750 routers >> that they

Re: [WISPA] Outsourcing Email and Webhosting

2009-03-16 Thread John Thomas
PostPath is a drop in replacement for Exchange that runs on Linux. Cisco bought PostPath, so it will be interesting to see what happens in the future. http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2008/corp_091808.html John Josh Luthman wrote: > Google is free. > > Exchange I know costs a copy of Windows 20

Re: [WISPA] ARTICLE - What's the U.S. Doing Wrong with Broadband ?

2009-03-16 Thread John Thomas
If you are big enough, or if you are multihomed you can get PI space John David E. Smith wrote: > rea...@muddyfrogwater.us wrote: > > >> This after renumbering and re-routing about 100 clients.So, then, I had >> to find a way to revert everyone bak to the OLD provider All that

Re: [WISPA] speaking of ARIN

2009-03-16 Thread John Thomas
If you are multihomed you need to justify a /22 ( 4 Class C's) and if you are not, then you will need to justify a /20 ( 16 class C's) John Marlon K. Schafer wrote: > We probably need to get our own ip addys now. We're using 4 class c's and > will need more pretty soon in one location. > > A

Re: [WISPA] speaking of ARIN

2009-03-17 Thread John Thomas
---Original Message- > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On > Behalf Of Scott Piehn > Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 7:29 AM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] speaking of ARIN > > One add to the /22. You need to be or plan to be r

Re: [WISPA] speaking of ARIN

2009-03-17 Thread John Thomas
days >> or they could revoke my IP's. Would they allot a /20 in the case you are >> only using 4 class Cs? >> >> -Original Message- >> From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On >> Behalf Of Scott Piehn >> Sent: Tues

Re: [WISPA] speaking of ARIN

2009-03-17 Thread John Thomas
ps full duplex link for $3,000 > per month. Then go buy a Trango licensed link for $11k and make $3k a > month profit after 4 months. :) > > Travis > Microserv > > John Thomas wrote: >> Are you saying that it is not practical for you to get a T-1 so that you >>

Re: [WISPA] speaking of ARIN

2009-03-18 Thread John Thomas
Even > at $500/mo that's a lot of money to spend on something you will never really > use.You might as well be down if your DS3 takes a hit and your traffic > rolls over to the T1. > > Richey > > -Original Message- > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto

Re: [WISPA] speaking of ARIN

2009-03-18 Thread John Thomas
gt; From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On >>> Behalf Of Cliff Olle >>> Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 9:02 AM >>> To: 'WISPA General List' >>> Subject: Re: [WISPA] speaking of ARIN >>> >>> I was told that I w

Re: [WISPA] Cost of bandwidth

2009-03-23 Thread John Thomas
My question would be, is there anyone doing glass from the Carrier hotel to the edge of town? If you were able to get fiber on the edge of Spokane, wouldn't it save you a few towers? I wish it weren't top secret as to where the fiber is. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to go somewhere ( website)

Re: [WISPA] One connection bandwidth=x / 2 commections bandwidth=2x why?

2009-05-11 Thread John Thomas
1 minute 49 seconds from a 100 Meg feed at Hurricane Electric in Fremont CA. John Scott Carullo wrote: > Yes lots of them, from different internet connections as well. Focusing on > customers from BHN connecting to our TW Telecom fiber circuit. Have not > been able to do enough testing outsi

Re: [WISPA] I need a few people to run a bandwidth test to me please...

2009-05-19 Thread John Thomas
As they say, your mileage may vary We have a 2xT1 that we pay $560 per month for, and the routing/peering at TW Telecom is good, but then again, we are in the San Francisco Bay Area. If the building owners would have let TW Telecom into this buildings MPOE's we would have a 10 meg fiber c

[WISPA] Service Limits

2009-05-20 Thread John Thomas
ey couldn't deliver. Maybe someone has bogus information? John Mike Hammett wrote: > If you want their service, they can't restrict you, AFAIK. > > > - > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > > > -----

Re: [WISPA] OT: Cisco 7200 Gigabit Ethernet Cards?

2009-06-04 Thread John Thomas
Cisco 2960G-24's are an option too. John Jon Auer wrote: > I second that. We use 7200s trunked to, variously, 3500XLs, 3550s, and > Zyxel switches. > For gig ports go with a NPE-G1/G2 for routing and a 3560 as a port expander. > Dot1q subinterfaces are your friend. > > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 1:1

Re: [WISPA] OT: Cisco 7200 Gigabit Ethernet Cards?

2009-06-04 Thread John Thomas
If you guys want to bash Cisco, that's your perogative, but my experience has been somewhat different. We recently took on a new client that has some Cisco switches that their old VAR sols them 5 YEARs of Smartnets on. Since we are looking at them upgrading to some new equipment, we asked Cisco

Re: [WISPA] Suggestions on Firewall

2009-06-23 Thread John Thomas
You might also consider a Cisco 800 or 1800 series router. They do firewalls well and have a nice GUI. John Patrick D.. Nix, Jr wrote: > Any suggestions on a good linux firewall distro. I'm looking at either > implementing this or going with an older Cisco PIX 525. Which would be > the best wa

Re: [WISPA] Magic Jack

2009-06-23 Thread John Thomas
Other opinions about Magic Jack http://uninstallmagicjack.com/?p=5 John Chuck Profito wrote: > That's is what I remember from the list. Once it was in, a 'normal' > subscriber couldn't get it out, and they, MJ, had a subscriber installed, > and "agreed to", OPEN Back Door to any computer it wa

Re: [WISPA] Suggestions on Firewall

2009-06-23 Thread John Thomas
Here is some info http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/secursw/ps5318/index.html John Josh Luthman wrote: > Wait pictures of this GUI??? > > On 6/23/09, John Thomas wrote: > >> You might also consider a Cisco 800 or 1800 series router. They do >> firewalls

Re: [WISPA] dual ethernte port router

2009-06-25 Thread John Thomas
If you are ONLY going to route, no NAT, firewall or other stuff, then a Cisco 871 will do what you want. We have tested it at wirespeed. John Alan Long wrote: > Anyone have a suggestion for a dual ethernet port router, that can handle > 30-50mb/s of traffic. I do not need it to do nat or anythi

Re: [WISPA] OT, pesky email stuff

2009-07-01 Thread John Thomas
I don't know about those, but Frontbridge got blacklisted once and they are an anti-spam provider John George Rogato wrote: > How come Google, Yahoo, and Live.com don't get black listed. > I'm pretty sure 1 million times more spam comes out of those domains > than any small independent isp

Re: [WISPA] OT, pesky email stuff

2009-07-01 Thread John Thomas
http://www.mxlogic.com/services/email-filtering/index.cfm they have done good by us. John George Rogato wrote: > Wonder how much it is. > Says it's based on qty of email addresses. > > > > RickG wrote: > >> Cost? >> >> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Pat O'Connor wrote: >> >>> We're sw

Re: [WISPA] Re-evaluating our anti-spam solution

2009-07-15 Thread John Thomas
Please see my responses inline Jeremy Parr wrote: > 2009/7/14 David E. Smith : > >> Don Grossman wrote: >> >>> It seems time to take a look at our anti-spam solution. Currently we >>> are looking to replace out Barracuda due to ongoing issues with the >>> box that after several attemp

Re: [WISPA] Re-evaluating our anti-spam solution

2009-07-15 Thread John Thomas
I know of Barracudas that the only time they get rebooted is for firmware updates. They can run for months without a reboot, but usually the firmware updates have useful stuff in 3-6 months that requires a firmware upgrade. John Charles Wyble wrote: > David E. Smith wrote: > > >> What kind

Re: [WISPA] POE Switch box

2009-07-15 Thread John Thomas
Yes, but Cisco switches only do Cisco Prestandard and 802.3af 48 volt. John Charles Wyble wrote: > On a cisco poe enabled switch can't you just do > > conf t > interface Gig0/0 > shutdown > no shutdown > done > > to power cycle? > > Lots of resellers out there. > > > Jason Hensley wrote: > >>

Re: [WISPA] Sales Lead Zip code 95008

2009-07-20 Thread John Thomas
Is Covadwireless out of their price range? John Jerry Richardson wrote: > Name > Ray > > Email > r_a_...@yahoo.com > > Phone > 408-421-2100 > > Your message: Do you guys cover 95008 zip code for wireless internet? if not > any suggestions who does? > > > -

Re: [WISPA] Dragonwave Support

2009-07-27 Thread John Thomas
To be fair, I wonder how much larger Cogent is than Dragonwave? Someone has to pay the engineer's salary, and it costs to have a 24/7 support staff. I always find it interesting to see people's perspective's on support. John Tom DeReggi wrote: > Well, when I really needed support for Dragonwave

Re: [WISPA] Are customers increasingly clueless? Or is itgettingbetter?

2009-08-13 Thread John Thomas
Ryan, when you agree to offer service, that becomes your responsibility, and when someone is paying for it, they have a reasonable expectation of the service they are paying for. With that said, is it crazy expensive to get a 2 x T-1 where you are? Maybe a T-3 is stupid expensive, but if you eve

Re: [WISPA] Small auto start generator

2009-08-13 Thread John Thomas
Is this some place you could put some batteries and a solar panel or small windmill? John Jerry Richardson wrote: > Thank you, > That is very good advice. After some research, I'm leaning toward a UPS. > > A pair of good AGM batteries and charge controller will cost less and be far > less mai

Re: [WISPA] Small auto start generator

2009-08-13 Thread John Thomas
Unless your equipment is tolerant of voltage swings, you will still probably want a DC-DC regulator, but that will likely be more efficient than a 12/24volt to 120 volt inverter. John Leon D. Zetekoff, NCE wrote: > Hi Guys...I'd steer away from inverters since they soak up a lot of > power. Y

Re: [WISPA] On-line back-up

2009-08-13 Thread John Thomas
Are you willing to setup a server for their backups? For home users, Mozy charges $4.95 per month. If you setup your own backup server, you would have the initial expense of a server with big drive space, but you could charge $4.95 and at least save money on your upstream bandwidth. John Mike

Re: [WISPA] [Wisp] solar site

2009-08-25 Thread John Thomas
Is there any reason you can't mount the panels close to the ground? In Nevada, this is common practice. Can you setup a small windmill? Home Depot has these ( as do many other suppliers) http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1vZ1xr5/R-100658295/h_d2/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=

Re: [WISPA] solar site

2009-08-25 Thread John Thomas
Absolutely, 12, 24, or 48 volts depending on what you are trying to do. John Paul Rice wrote: > I'd recommend you use either a unmanaged or managed industrial DC powered > switch 12-20 vdc > otherwise your going to need a LOT of solar panels (650 watts is what my > calcs came up with) > In fac

Re: [WISPA] solar site

2009-08-25 Thread John Thomas
It looks like there is a sweet spot at 60 watts http://www.solarhome.org/51-60wattsolarpanels.aspx About $250 each. John Mike wrote: > I was shocked to find the 15W panels at Northern for $79.00. I > ordered some and they work great. You need a charge controller, > $45.00 to keep the batter

Re: [WISPA] West Coast WISPA activities?

2010-06-07 Thread John Thomas
Josh Luthman wrote: >Bill Prince is out that way. > >http://skylinebroadbandservice.com/ > >Josh Luthman >Office: 937-552-2340 >Direct: 937-552-2343 >1100 Wayne St >Suite 1337 >Troy, OH 45373 > >“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to >continue that counts.” >--- Winst

Re: [WISPA] Repeater

2010-06-07 Thread John Thomas
Josh Luthman wrote: >>Issue I see is that not many other units, UBNT or MT have a 2nd Ethernet that >>pass through POE? > >Not to my knowledge. > >I've always done two lines up the tower. Usually MT APs so I can do >tons of troubleshooting but an NS2 works great, too. > >Josh Luthman >Office:

Re: [WISPA] Repeater

2010-06-07 Thread John Thomas
Josh Luthman wrote: >>Issue I see is that not many other units, UBNT or MT have a 2nd Ethernet that >>pass through POE? > >Not to my knowledge. > >I've always done two lines up the tower. Usually MT APs so I can do >tons of troubleshooting but an NS2 works great, too. > >Josh Luthman >Office:

Re: [WISPA] Repeater

2010-06-07 Thread John Thomas
.e ww.sa xs,cssx. Z. Josh Luthman wrote: >>Issue I see is that not many other units, UBNT or MT have a 2nd Ethernet that >>pass through POE? > >Not to my knowledge. > >I've always done two lines up the tower. Usually MT APs so I can do >tons of troubleshooting but an NS2 works

Re: [WISPA] OFFLIST - Looking to Sell..........

2010-06-12 Thread John Thomas
Robert West wrote: >Thanks for the gumball, Popeye. > >Thanks for the gumball. > > > >-Original Message- >From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On >Behalf Of Scott Piehn >Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2010 6:35 PM >To: WISPA General List >Cc: i...@jcwifi.com >S

Re: [WISPA] XBOX live, NAT, and UPnP

2010-08-02 Thread John Thomas
And if I were your client, and you told me $10 for an IP address, I would find a new ISP. The most I have ever seen charged was $5 a month. John Kurt Fankhauser wrote: >Everything i keep coming up with to make this work "ideal" according to the >customer is I"m gonna have to sell them a publi

Re: [WISPA] XBOX live, NAT, and UPnP

2010-08-02 Thread John Thomas
g 2, 2010, at 8:46 PM, "Mike" wrote: > >> Simple analysis might expose that customer to be one you'd rather let go. >> Or not. >> >> -Original Message- >> From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On >> Behalf

Re: [WISPA] XBOX live, NAT, and UPnP

2010-08-02 Thread John Thomas
2010, at 7:31 PM, Jeremie Chism wrote: > >> True. Sounds like a bandwidth hog to me. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Aug 2, 2010, at 8:46 PM, "Mike" wrote: >> >>> Simple analysis might expose that customer to be one you'd rathe

Re: [WISPA] XBOX live, NAT, and UPnP

2010-08-03 Thread John Thomas
eless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On >Behalf Of John Thomas >Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 1:28 AM >To: WISPA General List >Subject: Re: [WISPA] XBOX live, NAT, and UPnP > >Robert, what upstream is charging $15 per month? If that is true, I have a

Re: [WISPA] Warehouse wireless

2008-01-22 Thread John Thomas
Zack, is there something *wrong* with your Cisco gear? If you already have Cisco 123x or 124x access points, you can certainly look at reusing them. Fixing this may be as simple as changing antennas and settings. I wonder if someone set the channels to fixed? The radios can be set to pick the b

Re: [WISPA] LDAP

2008-01-29 Thread John Thomas
You would use LDAP when you need directory services. An example might be using RADIUS to contact an LDAP server for Authentication. Another use may be to have single sign on across multiple servers. John Mike Hammett wrote: > Someone asked why I didn't use some sort of directory system like eDi

Re: [WISPA] Private vs Public addresses for end-users

2008-01-29 Thread John Thomas
Unless you have a H.323 compliant firewall, 1 to 1 NAT will generally break H.323 (Netmeeting) Also, some VPN clients default config doesn't work properly through NAT. John Ugo Bellavance wrote: > Jason Hensley wrote: > >> Even if you buy your own from ARIN, if you're that big, then the costs

Re: [WISPA] Cisco Mesh 1510 or 1520 series

2008-02-25 Thread John Thomas
I've done Cisco, but it was a small install, just 4 1500 series John Dennis Burgess - Link Techs Inc wrote: > Mesh is a four letter word to most! > > > > Dennis M. Burgess > Mikrotik Certified Consultant > Link Technologies, Inc., St. Louis, Missouri > --WISP/Network Support Services-- > +1

Re: [WISPA] Femtocells

2008-04-07 Thread John Thomas
G.711 *can* support FAXing, otherwise g.729 is very common for voice. John Mike Hammett wrote: > I know. AT&T and T-Mobile use GSM (the GSM for wireless is the same as the > GSM VoIP codec). I dunno if the CDMA operators translate to anything in the > VoIP world or not. > > I've tested with

Re: [WISPA] Metered Broadband

2008-04-30 Thread John Thomas
Have you considered $19/mo for 1 Gig, $39/mo for 5 Gig and $59/mo for 10 Gig +$x per gig over what they normally pay? Another thought is do the tiers, and throttle them after they hit a point, after 1 gig, then you get throttled to 64k for the rest of the month. John Mike Hammett wrote: > So

Re: [WISPA] The best Firewall - for the money

2008-06-16 Thread John Thomas
Cisco 851 router + Smartnet. Cisco 871 router if you need VLANs John Rogelio wrote: > Ron Wallace wrote: > >> to All, >> >> I have a small Medical practice that has requested a firewall for their LAN. >> Which would you all recommend? Price rane below $1000, Doc woule prefer $500. >> >

Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda

2008-06-29 Thread John Thomas
Have you called Barracuda Support? They are good to work with and may be able to help you-you could have something weird going on in the box that needs to be fixed. We don't generally sell the 200's, but I have had 300's that handle 60,000 + emails a day and aren't bre

Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda

2008-06-29 Thread John Thomas
you for 3 years. I have a BIG problem with any business that operates like that. In this instance, the cleint is now stuck with Frontbridge for 2 1/2 years, and their attitude when asked about a refund was "tough, you agreed to a 3 year term, and we have your money." John Thomas

Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda

2008-06-29 Thread John Thomas
Unless you know something I don't, all the quotes we have received from Postini require a 3 year commitment, with a minimum of 1 years payment up front. For my client that has 60,000 + emails coming into his Barracuda, his Exchange 2003 server is happily running along. John Thomas

Re: [WISPA] Employee Tracking Program

2008-08-20 Thread John Thomas
If you have a Netflow compatible router at the edge, you can use http://manageengine.adventnet.com/products/netflow/network-bandwith-monitoring.html John Thomas Eric Rogers wrote: > I have a company that would like to track real-time and summary > information of internet activity o

Re: [WISPA] bits per mbps

2006-12-24 Thread John Thomas
o the Internet for $399, others are doing SDSL at $250-299 per month, so if you are in the neighborhood, that should be expected. Anothe thing to think about is tiering your pricing 4 Gigs$49 10 Gigs $99 50 Gigs $299 or something like that. John Thomas Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982

Re: [WISPA] anyone see this?

2007-03-16 Thread John Thomas
Having a 4xT as a backup is better than no connection. John John Scrivner wrote: Maybe it is very costly to do? Charter Pipeline service in my market is not multi-homed either. Neither am I at this point. I used to be multi-homed in the days when 2 T1s did the job. It is not easy to swing

Re: [WISPA] Using DECT phones to avoid interference issues.

2007-03-22 Thread John Thomas
This site has some DECT products... http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/dect/ John John Scrivner wrote: $50K up front and 50 cents a device to control an entire band in the US sounds like a pretty cheap deal to me. I am surprised nobody jumped on that. I do not see that as too much to pay and I am ve

Re: [WISPA] Our First WISP Consultant Vendor Member - Butch Evans

2007-04-03 Thread John Thomas
Let's be fair here, it is unlikely that certification would make them cost $1000. John Charles Wu wrote: Honestly, Would you buy RB112/532/whatever boards if they cost $1k vs $100 each? -Charles --- WiNOG Wireless Roadshows Coming to a City Near Y

Re: [WISPA] FCC Admits Mistakes In Measuring Broadband Competition

2007-04-22 Thread John Thomas
Pete, you hit on an interesting idea. What if the FCC were to pay the ISP say $500 each year to fill out the 477? Would more ISP's participate? John Pete Davis wrote: 12000, 6000, 2000, or whatever number of WISPs is mainly hard to quantify because there are LOTS of 2 and 3 customer private wi

Re: [WISPA] FCC Admits Mistakes In Measuring Broadband Competition

2007-04-25 Thread John Thomas
EA or know that they need to comply. So $500... it would probably get you about 400 more, but who will pony up the $200k? Peter John Thomas wrote: Pete, you hit on an interesting idea. What if the FCC were to pay the ISP say $500 each year to fill out the 477? Would more ISP's

Re: [WISPA] WISP Peering

2007-05-01 Thread John Thomas
If the radios are smart enough, you could use VLANs. John Travis Johnson wrote: My personal concern would be turning over my IP block to my competition. They would have to have enough control to allow BGP routes from their upstream. Technically they could misconfigure a router accidentally an

Re: [WISPA] Radio choices

2007-05-02 Thread John Thomas
You could still use Mikrotik as a Hotspot, but not as an AP with radio installed. John Mark McElvy wrote: I am getting ready to expand my network by adding a couple of new towers. The decision I am trying to make is what equipment to buy. My plan was to use Mikrotik for a BH/AP, but with all t

Re: [WISPA] CALEA Compliance (Netequalizer)

2007-05-02 Thread John Thomas
For people that run Netequalizers, they are helping you comply As promised, NetEqualizer is now offering the utilities necessary to meet requirements set forth this month by CALEA, or the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act. This law oversees telecommunication security and has no

Re: [WISPA] Mirrored Switch

2007-05-02 Thread John Thomas
If you want something a little easier on the pocketbook, managed HP Procurves work well. John Mark Price wrote: Matt wrote: Does anyone reccommend a good switch that supports this and is rack mount? Hopefully available at newegg.com. Putting together a Linux server is easy but my luck a g

Re: [WISPA] Mirrored Switch

2007-05-02 Thread John Thomas
Also, most HP Procurves have lifetime warranties. John John Thomas wrote: If you want something a little easier on the pocketbook, managed HP Procurves work well. John Mark Price wrote: Matt wrote: Does anyone reccommend a good switch that supports this and is rack mount? Hopefully

Re: [WISPA] commercial router

2007-05-08 Thread John Thomas
http://www.sonicwall.com/us/Content_Security_Management.html George Rogato wrote: I thought that content filtering happened by way of dns. George Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 wrote: Do you have a content filtering service? Marlon (509) 982-2181 (408) 907-6910 (Vonage)C

Re: [WISPA] 5.4 Ghz

2007-05-08 Thread John Thomas
Cisco AP1242's have been doing this for at least 6 months. John Mike Hammett wrote: Redline has a certified product released. Orthogon is about to have theirs out. Anyone else? - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@

Re: [WISPA] 5.4 Ghz

2007-05-10 Thread John Thomas
ino A. Villarini [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. tel 787.273.4143 fax 787.273.4145 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Thomas Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 12:49 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] 5.4 Ghz Cisco AP1

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