Re: [WISPA] Leasing Companies

2010-06-05 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I have had good experiences with Landmark Financial in Denver.Good folks. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com On 6/4/2010 11:52 PM, David wrote: Both CTI and Boun at doubleradius can help get you with honest leasing companies. David -Original Message- From:

[WISPA] Customer ID-10-T problems

2010-06-09 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
So we get an angry call from a customer demanding that we come out to fix their computer, because their Internet hasn't worked for a couple of months. Check the system logs, and yes - her link has been down for 13 days. Since we have an automated system that calls every two days when a

Re: [WISPA] Google is out of control.

2010-06-09 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Boy, I can't wait until some hacker figures out how to goatse this. That will make for a pretty ugly search page. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com On 6/9/2010 11:24 PM, Robert West wrote: What be this Google visual abomination!!! YAR!

Re: [WISPA] Tranzeo Gear

2010-06-12 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
On 6/11/2010 11:06 AM, Michael Baird wrote: I've got some Tranzeo gear for sale, not sure of the exact quantities, just let me know what you need. We've tested/cleared and upgraded all of these units, the 2.4 units all support 5/10/20 mhz channel widths. TR-CPQ-15's - $40 TR-CPQ-19's - $60

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

2010-06-12 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Anyone who has Tranzeo CPQ15, CPQ19, SL2-15, SL2N, SL5 or TR5a radios for sale, please contact me. We are switching to 10mhz channels and I have about 500 or so of the older CPE200 and CPE80 radios to switch out. I've been buying a lot of NS2/NS5 and Bullet2/Bullet5, but it is a lot easier

Re: [WISPA] Connect to Old StarOS Boards

2010-06-14 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
You could do a frame capture with wireshark. Used ethereal a long time ago.. - Original Message - From: Steve Barnes st...@pcswin.com To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 7:12 AM Subject: [WISPA] Connect to Old StarOS Boards I have some old StarOS

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

2010-06-15 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I don't use Tranzeos for APs - except for 900mhz and they will soon be replaced with Mikrotik, which seems to work well with Tranzeo 900mhz CPEs. Save some of your blowing up anger for some Smartbridges stuff. I have a few of those that I'd love to drop from a tower. Matt Larsen

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

2010-06-15 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com On 6/15/2010 2:14 AM, Blair Davis wrote: MikroTik AP with Tranzeo CPE... on 900MHz??!?!??! What radio card in the MikroTik AP? Matt Larsen - Lists wrote: I don't use Tranzeos for APs - except for 900mhz and they will soon be replaced with Mikrotik, which seems

Re: [WISPA] The hitch hikers guide to St. Louis.

2010-06-29 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
I'm bringing my woman with me (with respect to the women on the list - she calls herself that). I want to know the great places to hang out, get buzzed, walk around shop for artsy crap! - Original Message - From: Marlon K. Schafer o...@odessaoffice.com To: WISPA General List

Re: [WISPA] Rural Telco in Washington Gets $17,763 per line

2010-07-13 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
Do what you're drawn to do if you can afford it, but don't let anyone take advantage of you that you're not willing to support. Generally, I don't give price breaks that don't make fiscal sense, unless it's an organization that I'm compelled to help. Like I don't give breaks to any religious

Re: [WISPA] Overheating UPS?

2010-07-28 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
It is getting ready to fail.I have had two APCs that got hot and failed soon after.One made for an awful stink in the NOC when it finally went. I thought the building was on fire. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com On 7/27/2010 7:39 PM, Forbes Mercy wrote: One of my UPS's at a house/tower

Re: [WISPA] Health Insurance

2010-07-28 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
We provide health insurance for employees. To keep absolute costs down, we go with a high deductible for our employees, though to offset the costs in the cast of anything major, we pay the first $1000 of the deductible on behalf of the employee. We have 5 employees. Owners have to pay for

Re: [WISPA] Health Insurance

2010-07-28 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
an employee. LLC members are not employees. - Original Message - From: Mark Nash - Lists To: WISPA General List Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 2:57 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Health Insurance We provide health insurance for employees. To keep absolute costs down, we go

Re: [WISPA] [WISPA Members] Health Insurance

2010-07-29 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
The IDEA of an HSA (Health Savings Account) is not for the employer to save money. See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_savings_account It's for the employee to have a employer-funded savings account for medical expenses. Putting the normal, small expenses on the employee. So if

Re: [WISPA] Monitor / Notify App

2010-07-30 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
In the first couple years of my WISP, I used MultiPing. It can email but not text. It can even fire off processes (I used it to run a script to reboot UPS's or reset Trango's in the early days). It can tell you if the device is totally down or if it has high latency. Easy to configure.

Re: [WISPA] Monitor / Notify App

2010-07-30 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
- Lists markl...@uwol.net To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 11:00 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Monitor / Notify App In the first couple years of my WISP, I used MultiPing. It can email but not text. It can even fire off processes (I used it to run a script

Re: [WISPA] [WISPA Members] Health Insurance

2010-08-03 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
Anyone got a 10-foot-pole that I could use to NOT touch this with? Anyone? Anyone? - Original Message - From: MDK rea...@muddyfrogwater.us To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 4:26 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] [WISPA Members] Health Insurance I have

Re: [WISPA] OT: New Tax Recordkeeping Rules Will Cost SmallBusinesses

2010-08-04 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
Let's hope it turns out to be nothing. Would be burdensome. For some more than others. - Original Message - From: MDK rea...@muddyfrogwater.us To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 10:56 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] OT: New Tax Recordkeeping Rules Will

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti Link - Poor Performance

2010-08-05 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
Did ack timing get off somehow? - Original Message - From: KosiNet Wireless wirel...@kosinet.com To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 4:33 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti Link - Poor Performance Rick, I hate to ask what my be obvious Are you

Re: [WISPA] computer won't connect to radio

2010-08-06 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
Crossover issue? We had a new installer come across this the other day. - Original Message - From: Terry Hickey thic...@rockies.net To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 9:56 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] computer won't connect to radio I have had Tranzeo

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti Link - Poor Performance

2010-08-06 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
How about insufficient power to the radio? - Original Message - From: Mike To: 'WISPA General List' Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 11:47 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti Link - Poor Performance Is one end lower than the other? If so, there could be a duct that is steering

Re: [WISPA] UBNT thoughts

2010-08-10 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
Where we have seen a difference in value of equipment is in the failure/repair rate. Ours is horrible. The success or failure of build-em-yourself radios depends GREATLY on the quality of the install/installer (we have alot of StarOS, alot of weatherproofing tape, alot of pigtails, alot of

[WISPA] OS Humor

2010-08-13 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
http://www.google.com/buzz/thastoner/T8pswjDZNmW/How-Fanboys-See-Operating-Systems hehe WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/

Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik OSPF Problem

2010-08-16 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Butch - your post was fine except for the first sentence. No need to pick at wounds at this point. Let it go. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com On 8/15/2010 5:49 PM, Butch Evans wrote: On Sat, 2010-08-14 at 17:15 -0400, Scott Reed wrote: I have an RB433AH running ROS3.30. It has been running

Re: [WISPA] Major Disaster

2010-08-18 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
bridge loop? arp storm? That's an awful lot of clients on that one AP. If all your CPEs are in bridge mode you could have alot of customer routers creating an arp storm for you. - Original Message - From: Ryan Spott To: WISPA General List Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 8:22

Re: [WISPA] Major Disaster

2010-08-18 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
If you have 50 clients on 5MHz you need to change IMO. - Original Message - From: ~NGL~ n...@ngl.net To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 8:48 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Major Disaster Quarter 5 MHZ 908/5 MHZ

Re: [WISPA] Backend systems

2010-08-22 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Just a quick point here, because this is a key element for WISP operators Mike, if you are too poor to pay the $2000 or devote the time to setup a billing system then you should seriously question whether you should be in this business at all. Once the initial network deployment is

Re: [WISPA] Backend systems

2010-08-22 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
...@aweiowa.com -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Matt Larsen - Lists Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2010 12:12 PM To: wireless@wispa.org Subject: Re: [WISPA] Backend systems Just a quick point here, because

Re: [WISPA] Backend systems

2010-08-23 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
This may be getting a little off-topic, but this is a benefit of back-end systems: We have tiered service levels...the more you pay the faster you go. We have bandwidth caps (FAPs)...the higher level tiered service you pay for, the higher your FAP limit is so you can download more. About

Re: [WISPA] Backend systems

2010-08-23 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Hello Mark, It is fairly easy to come up with a Perl script that outputs all of the customer radios into a text file that you can then parse and put into Nagios. We do that with Xymon for all of our customer devices, and it works very well.You can also come up with a pgsql request

[WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers?

2010-08-24 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I have a need for about ten 2U/4U rackmount servers.All will be running Linux, so 4gig RAM, 2ghz or better CPU and ATA drives are preferred. Does anyone one the list have recommendations? Matt Larsen vistabeam.com

Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers?

2010-08-24 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Servers? On 24 August 2010 02:15, Matt Larsen - Lists li...@manageisp.com mailto:li...@manageisp.com wrote: I have a need for about ten 2U/4U rackmount servers.All will be running Linux, so 4gig RAM, 2ghz or better CPU and ATA drives are preferred. Does anyone one the list have

[WISPA] FTTH Show

2010-08-30 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Anyone here going to this show? http://www.ftthconference.com/FTTH10/public/enter.aspx Still deciding whether I should go or not. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/

Re: [WISPA] Close range radio recommendation

2010-08-30 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
I just learned that with new firmware, UBNT just added support for multiple IP addresses on an interface. We were wanting that alot... - Original Message - From: RickG To: WISPA General List Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 9:47 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Close range radio

Re: [WISPA] netflix/hulu IP's

2010-08-30 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
You need it if you have your own IP space, for BGP. If you don't own your OWN public IPs, then you don't have one. - Original Message - From: Kurt Fankhauser To: 'WISPA General List' Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 10:15 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] netflix/hulu IP's

Re: [WISPA] Close range radio recommendation

2010-08-30 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
You could put 100' of cheap RG58 cable between the radio and the antenna... at 5800MHz gives you something like 31dB loss... - Original Message - From: Jason Hensley To: 'WISPA General List' Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 10:38 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Close range radio

Re: [WISPA] Funny Website Error

2010-08-30 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
OH NO! https://foxnews.com Who are we doing to trust now??? :^) Matt Larsen mlar...@vistabeam.com On 8/30/2010 10:44 AM, Bob Moldashel wrote: Yeah. And don't fear. The Cyber Security Agency is going to keep the world safe.. Too Funny -B- Greg Ihnen wrote: They forgot

Re: [WISPA] (DIRECTLY) Connecting two wireless with a RF cable

2010-08-30 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
arcnet, dude... - Original Message - From: Leon D. Zetekoff wa4...@backwoodswireless.net To: wireless@wispa.org Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 4:27 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] (DIRECTLY) Connecting two wireless with a RF cable On 08/30/2010 06:39 PM, Paolo Di Francesco wrote: well, just

Re: [WISPA] [WISPA Members] FCC Form 477 Due Sept. 1st **OFFLIST**

2010-08-31 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
We are using Powercode... - Original Message - From: Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.com To: memb...@wispa.org Cc: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 9:32 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA Members] FCC Form 477 Due Sept. 1st If anyone using Powercode has yet

Re: [WISPA] Tranzeo lockups

2010-08-31 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
If you are using Tranzeo TR5a, 49a or AP6000 series radios running in PtP mode on an all bridged network, they will lock up. Newer firmware helps, but does not completely resolve this problem. I ran in to this very problem recently while troubleshooting a client's network. It may not be

[WISPA] Katrina, Five Years Later

2010-09-01 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
(from my blog, WirelessCowboys.com) It is now 5 years since Katrina hit New Orleans and changed the face of the Gulf Coast forever. One of the good things that came out of this disaster was the outstanding effort by wireless ISPs that came together to provide Internet and phone services

Re: [WISPA] UPS with IP

2010-09-01 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
We are doing this with our old CB3 and RB110 boards. I am actually turning on the 2.4ghz AP mode, so that our techs can get online through them without having to plug into the network. All of our APs are switching to 10mhz channels and the laptops can't just hop on them anymore! Matt

[WISPA] RIP vs other routing protocols

2010-09-02 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
We ran into a problem yesterday that caused a large problem, and I'm now quite sure that it was assessed properly, as our network engineer blamed it on RIP not working properly and made the decision to implement BGP for routing at this site. Everywhere else, we're using RIP. Essentially, we

Re: [WISPA] RIP vs other routing protocols

2010-09-02 Thread Jeff Broadwick - Lists
2, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Mark Nash - Lists markl...@uwol.net wrote: We ran into a problem yesterday that caused a large problem, and I'm now quite sure that it was assessed properly, as our network engineer blamed it on RIP not working properly and made the decision to implement BGP for routing

Re: [WISPA] RIP vs other routing protocols

2010-09-02 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
loops. - Original Message - From: Jeremy Parr To: WISPA General List Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 1:09 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] RIP vs other routing protocols On 2 September 2010 14:25, Jeff Broadwick - Lists jeffl...@att.net wrote: Agreed...there are some old

Re: [WISPA] RIP vs other routing protocols

2010-09-02 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
, Mark Nash - Lists wrote: I appreciate advice in many cases, but for this one, I have only heard one answer to the question... That is: Is RIP stable? That person that answered said Yes. Sure, if you want to have stable routing loops

Re: [WISPA] RIP vs other routing protocols

2010-09-02 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
mirrors masking an ACTUAL problem. - Original Message - From: Jeremy Parr To: WISPA General List Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 1:59 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] RIP vs other routing protocols On 2 September 2010 16:38, Mark Nash - Lists markl...@uwol.net wrote: We

Re: [WISPA] RIP vs other routing protocols

2010-09-02 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
for a laugh and a nod for those who understand us older guys and our older protocols. - Original Message - From: Mark Nash - Lists To: WISPA General List Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 2:07 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] RIP vs other routing protocols Yes, there are lots

Re: [WISPA] RIP vs other routing protocols

2010-09-02 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
: Re: [WISPA] RIP vs other routing protocols On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 13:16 -0700, Mark Nash - Lists wrote: I appreciate advice in many cases, but for this one, I have only heard one answer to the question... That is: Is RIP stable? That person that answered said Yes. If the question is Is RIP

Re: [WISPA] Tower Climb video

2010-09-15 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
Tower Climb videoYeah Oh but clipping unclipping makes me tiirred. (my best whiny voice via email). How about being dead? I don't care WHAT OSHA allows. I don't trust ANYONE's hand not to slip. Even though OSHA may say it's OK, how irresponsible of them to put this video out

Re: [WISPA] TV Whitespace Comment Deadline Sept 16th. All WISPsfile immediately.

2010-09-15 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
As will we... - Original Message - From: Jeremie Chism To: WISPA General List Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 9:11 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] TV Whitespace Comment Deadline Sept 16th. All WISPsfile immediately. Will make time today. Sent from my iPhone On Sep 15,

Re: [WISPA] Breezecom PRO.11 Configuration Utility

2010-09-15 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
Didn't know they had a utility. Just connected serially through a terminal emulator like HyperTerminal with one of those special cables... If it's BreezeNET then you may not have telnet access to them. But you should be able to serial into them... - Original Message - From: Bob

Re: [WISPA] I'm pulling Mikrotik

2010-09-16 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
There's something to be said for losing faith in a technology. For me, it's the build-it-yourself radios. All of them. Mikrotik StarOS. For me, I see such a high service call rate for repairs, the need to put in redundant backhauls sooner than later because we can almost guarantee

Re: [WISPA] I'm pulling Mikrotik

2010-09-17 Thread Jeff Broadwick - Lists
Vyatta has a cool product line. Their open source version is free. They have a paid product that is much more full-featured. They make most of their money from their support contracts. Jeff ImageStream -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org

Re: [WISPA] Equipment - Tranzeo/Ubiquiti

2010-09-24 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I'm interested in all of these units. Let me know how many of each and how much you want. I'd be willing to take the whole thing. I have 400 subs left to switch to newer CPE that will do 10mhz channels, so I'll take all I can get. Thanks, Matt Larsen mlar...@vistabeam.com On

Re: [WISPA] Wireless ISP's

2007-04-02 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I ride both sides of this fence I started out leasing all of my CPE in March 2004 and for the next 24 months did more leases when we needed more CPE, buying 100 at a time. We reached a point where it looked like it didn't make a lot of sense to continue the leasing. The rates were

Re: [WISPA] 5GHz Amps

2007-04-22 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
The solid dishes are much better than the grids. The 26db grids are pretty decent, but the 29db grids (both PacWireless and Equinox) are poor compared to the solid dish 29db antennas. I saw an 8db improvement in signal switching from a 29db grid to a 29db solid dish antenna at a couple of my

Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik Hotspot Setup

2007-05-01 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Can the Certification Nazis give it a rest for a couple of months? There will be plenty of StarOS and MT certified systems by then and we can send these stupid threads into /dev/null oblivion. Sheesh. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com Chadd Thompson wrote: You want to help the guy or poke him

Re: [WISPA] TRIVIA QUESTION

2007-05-01 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Time gets to the best of us, old man. Gets to me tomorrow too. Yuk yuk. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com Mac Dearman wrote: Wise guy eh? Nyuk nyuk My ankles are actually sexier than in that picture. I was recovering from a broken Tibia :-) (Pay back is tough Harnish!) Mac

[WISPA] StarOS v3 and new Tranzeo CPE radios

2007-05-09 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
While doing some testing with StarV3 and Tranzeo SL5/SL2 CPE units and came across something interesting. 20mhz and 5mhz channel spacing works just fine. However, 10mhz channel spacing doesn't work because the channels do not line up. For example: in 5.8 with 10mhz channels, the Tranzeo

Re: [WISPA] Wispa@ ISPCON

2007-05-16 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Mac and I will be at the airport between 2pm and 3pm on Tuesday. Anyone who needs a ride, drop me an email and I'll see if we can squeeze you in. There was a rumor that there may be a Geek Jam at a local bar sometime on Wednesday night, after the WISPA reception. Will find out more

[WISPA] Connection Tracking problem on StarOS backhauls

2007-06-20 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Hi all, Just came across a problem that was easy to fix and thought everyone should know about it. We had a couple of backhaul links that were having some strange issues, dropping lots of packets on all interfaces and then mysteriously stopping or requiring a reboot to get back into

Re: [WISPA] FBI Proposes Building Network of U.S. Informants

2007-07-25 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
feelings about allowing advertisements on the free WISPA lists. The current Board is taking this under consideration at this time. We want to know your thoughts. -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe

Re: [WISPA] OT: Cell Phone Repeaters.

2007-09-06 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Thanks for the useful information about Cell Phone Repeaters. No thanks for the non-related information. This thread is now CLOSED. Any more onlist responses to it will be forwarded to the list moderator and the contributors will be suspended from the list. NEW SUBJECT! Matt Larsen

Re: [WISPA] Helping the Hurricane Victims

2005-09-02 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I am putting together an Asterisk box with four phones and long distance termination for Mac to send to a local shelter. After talking to him yesterday, the need for telecom down there appears to be intense. There are lines of people waiting to use phones and even the normal phone operations

[WISPA] WISPA Crisis Center website now operational

2005-09-07 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Thanks to help from Paul Smith of Community for Network Technology, we now have the WISPA Crisis Center website up and operational. Please visit http://katrina.cnt.org/freepress/ for the details. This will be our official outlet for documenting donations, volunteers, equipment needed and

[WISPA] Re: [Wisp] WISPA Crisis Center website now operational

2005-09-07 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Wrong URL - here is the correct one: http://katrina.cnt.org/wordpress/ Dangnabit Matt Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Matt Larsen - Lists wrote: Thanks to help from Paul Smith of Community for Network Technology, we now have the WISPA Crisis Center website up and operational. Please visit http

Re: [WISPA] WISPA TShirts and Hats

2005-09-07 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Hi Rick, My wife is working on a Wispapalooza 2005 logo and we will put it up on cafepress when we get it done. Matt Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rick Harnish wrote: It has been suggested to me that we send Tshirts and hats to our men in the field. Alex, how soon can you get some printed up?

Re: [WISPA] FCC Open Commission meeting - Real Audio

2005-09-15 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Is is just me, or is there no representation from WISPs at all?? I'm watching it right now trying to figure out what is going on here, but it looks like we have been snubbed again. Matt Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rick Harnish wrote: September 14, 2005 *_PARTICIPANTS FOR _*

[WISPA] A Message from Brother Larsen

2005-09-15 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Hello all, I considered going to the FCC meeting today, but it would have been a huge time committment for me after already making a pretty big committment to get down to Louisiana last week. If I really felt that this was the time for us to come out to the forefront and declare our

Re: [WISPA] NYCwireless Network Neutrality Broadband Challenge

2005-11-07 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
The elecric company doesn't care what you do with their electricity... The gas company doesn't care what you do with their gas... The water company doesn't care what you do with your water... Why should the ISP care what you do with your connection, as long as it doesn't affect their network?

[WISPA] Its almost Friday...

2005-11-10 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
For your Thursday afternoon listening pleasure, our latest obnoxious radio commercial. Enjoy! http://www.thelar.com/mp3/vista.wav Matt Larsen -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives:

Re: [WISPA] Insurance / Service Plan Offerings

2005-11-15 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I did a quick analysis and I have returned 45 bad radios to Tranzeo. However, I have received 40 working radios back from them, so I'm only really out about 5. Out of 1000 or so customers, I think that is an acceptable balance between inexpensive CPE and quality of construction. Heck,

Re: [WISPA] How to keep track of appointments

2005-11-15 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Reliable Internet, LLC wrote: How do ya'll do it? I used to remember everything, but I am forgetting things lately. Maybe it's old age (i did just turn 22) or maybe the work volume has increased past my memory's capacity. Either way I need a solution. Do I go with a program on the laptop?

Re: [WISPA] New Service

2005-11-17 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I'm on a consulting gig helping out the folks who Pat sold to. The business is http://www.rcom-ne.com/ and I've already given them your contact information. Have a good one! Matt Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 wrote: I helped build a couple of systems in that

Re: [WISPA] Good Backhaul?

2005-12-23 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I would echo Pauls sentiments, exactly. StarOS has been great for me, and seems to get the most out of the hardware that I run it on. I have some WAR boards, but they are not in production yet - I'm waiting for v3 to be ported over before putting them up. There are three things that I

Re: [WISPA] 5.8Ghz Multi-point radios

2006-01-04 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Matt, I've talked to quite a few people who are looking at Tranzeo CPE/StarOS APs for 5.3/5.8Ghz multipoint deployments and have had good luck myself so far. The combination of StarOS AP units and Tranzeo CPE units seems to work fairly well. Within a 5 mile radius, you will probably be able

[WISPA] VOIP on a shoestring

2006-01-05 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Hello all, After a year and a half of watching, jumping in and learning about VOIP, I think I have come up with a way to implement it with a relatively low budget setup. Here is my very general outline of how to deliver VOIP on a shoestring: 1) Asterisk server with AMP (Asterisk

Re: [WISPA] 5.8Ghz Multi-point radios

2006-01-05 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
parameters, then that is your prerogative. Matt Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Matt Liotta wrote: The Tranzeo radios at least are 802.11, which we refuse to use for fixed wireless. -Matt Matt Larsen - Lists wrote: Matt, I've talked to quite a few people who are looking at Tranzeo CPE/StarOS APs

Re: [WISPA] VOIP on a shoestring

2006-01-05 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Comments inline: Matt Liotta wrote: If you keep a single POTS line for faxing, how do you manage the backend? You are going to get the line billed separately from your VoIP provider and you won't be able to share long distance or international across the two. Most customers expect to have

Re: [WISPA] VOIP on a shoestring

2006-01-05 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Comments inline... You are right, this solution is not 911 compliant. Neither is service from Nufone, Teliax, Voipjet, Stanaphone or hundreds of other VOIP carriers out there. The question of the degree of 911 compliance is very much up in the air right now because the FCC's

Re: [WISPA] VOIP on a shoestring

2006-01-05 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
: Matt Larsen - Lists wrote: The requirement is there but has yet to be proven by law, or enforced. I intend to keep my voip ventures separate from my regular ISP business. If the 911 requirement for voip is proven by law, then I can either work to make it compliant according to the established

Re: [WISPA] VOIP on a shoestring

2006-01-05 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Further reading https://www.stanaphone.com/index/news_Nov2205.html There is one way around the 911 requirement. Matt Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Matt Larsen - Lists wrote: OK, here is the $1million dollar question...what have you done to make your VOIP service 911 compliant? Are you

[WISPA] Experience with 802.11a 5Ghz PtMP deployments

2006-01-09 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Hello all, I am getting ready to start migrating my higher end customers from 2.4Ghz to 5.8Ghz radios. I will be using Tranzeo CPEs and StarOS APs for this. My question: Is there anyone out there who has done this and has quite a few people on 5ghz (802.11a based)? I'm not talking about

Re: [WISPA] My Towers Need More CPU - suggestions?

2006-01-31 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
and always found it to be more expensive. I would be interested in something like that for sure. Thanks, Chadd -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Larsen - Lists Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 4:52 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re

Re: [WISPA] My Towers Need More CPU - suggestions?

2006-02-01 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Larsen - Lists Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 8:46 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] My Towers Need More CPU - suggestions? Here is an example: Here is the list of parts. *BIOSTAR M7VIZ Socket A (Socket 462) VIA KM400 Micro

[WISPA] Adding capacity in a crowded area

2006-02-01 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Hello all, I think that I am running into a few issues that many of us are having and thought it would make sense to start up a discussion about what to do when we run out of capacity. I have two sites that are getting near to or over capacity. The one I am most concerned about is a

Re: [WISPA] regulation, the role of WISP's, and the future

2006-02-05 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Pre-answering for John here I have sat in on a few meetings with FCC officials and spoken at FCC events regarding rural broadband, and it is pretty clear that the people from the FCC I talked to wanted to see WISPs provide competition to cable and DSL, especially in the underserved areas

[WISPA] Amazing 5Ghz link

2006-02-07 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Tonight I switched a customer from 2.4Ghz to 5.8Ghz, and have some amazing results. Going from a TR5amp AP hooked to a 16db H-pol Tranzeo antenna to a 5a24f (integrated antenna), I have a -79 signal and four LEDS on the back - at 14.6 miles! The firmware upgrade from 88R to 2.01 increased

Re: [WISPA] Tranzeo CPQ Opinions

2006-02-13 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Better yet, use StarOS access points. They work great with Tranzeos and will run like rice and beans through Mac's digestive tract. Matt Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mac Dearman wrote: EVERY AP that we upgraded above 86r locks up every couple hours. 86r is stable and has performed exceedingly

Re: [WISPA] 900MHz Systems

2006-02-19 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Tranzeo announced at EC-Expo that they will have a 900mhz CPE/AP combination available sometime in the second quarter of 2006. They are currently beta testing on their own systems in Canada right now. Didn't hear a price quote, but knowing how efficient Tranzeo is, I'm guessing it will be

Re: [WISPA] VOIP

2006-02-23 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Here is the part that really sucks I have an asterisk box setup, and five customers beta testing voip on my network. It works fine. Those five customers have used a grand total of 1003 minutes so far this month. My cost for termination minutes is .02 per minute, with a $5/month charge

Re: [WISPA] WISPS DO have to file the 477

2006-02-28 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
/marlon/cam - Original Message - From: Lists for LoKT [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 10:26 AM Subject: RE: FCC Digest, Vol 12, Issue 8 Yes, WISPs must fill out Form 477. Here is the link

Re: [WISPA] VoIP/PBX Gateway appliance

2006-03-06 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
RANT I've got working VOIP on my network, beta-tested and ready to roll out but without e911. I like VOIP, because I have people subscribing to our service just so they can get Vonage and ditch their land line - but this whole e911 thing is a fscking nightmare. At what point does it make

Re: [WISPA] New revenue stream *THREAD CLOSED!*

2006-03-08 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I for one would prefer that we maintain some semblance of focus on our core focus as an organization (promoting and improving the wireless industry). I could sell Amway and consider that to be an additional revenue stream for my WISP, but having me ramble on about that is the last thing

[WISPA] Asterisk hangup issues

2006-03-08 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Hi Gino, I have the exact same problem. Certain kinds of calls don't hang up - usually calls from cellular carriers that don't send the right kind of termination or whatever. I haven't come up with a perfect solution for it, but we do reboot the server every night at 3am just to make sure

Re: [WISPA] Adzilla Revenue Streams

2006-03-09 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Jory, I think you hit the nail on the head there. Does anyone know if there is a program for ISPs 1 subs? Inquiring minds want to know. :^) Matt Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jory Privett wrote: As all of this is a great thing that I would like to be part of, I do not think it will

Re: [WISPA] Rodopi Vs. Platypus

2006-03-10 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
have demoed almost every billing system out there and Freeside seems to be the most flexible and cost effective. Jory Privett WCCS - Original Message - From: Matt Larsen - Lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 6:09 AM Subject: Re

[WISPA] The Story of Medicine Bow Part 7 of 8 - now online

2010-01-26 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
The Story of Medicine Bow Part 7 is now online at http://www.wirelesscowboys.com/. In this segment, we finally put the equipment online and finish up the network deployment. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com wirelesscowboys.com wispdirectory.com

Re: [WISPA] The Story of Medicine Bow Part 7 of 8 - now online

2010-01-26 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
take your organs to heaven, heaven knows we need them down here! Be an organ donor, sign your donor card today. - Original Message - From: Matt Larsen - Lists li...@manageisp.com To: Mikrotik discussions mikro...@mail.butchevans.com; Motorola Canopy User Group motorola-us

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