[WISPA] External battery on UPS

2006-11-14 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
I believe I remember some discussion on this list on connecting an external battery to an APC UPS. I'm in the middle of doing it right now and am having problems. The UPS just beep continuously with the 'bad battery' light on. I'm using a Lifeline deep cycle battery. Any ideas? Mark Nash N

Re: [WISPA] External battery on UPS

2006-11-14 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
TECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Nash - Lists Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 12:43 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] External battery on UPS I believe I remember some discussion on this list on connecting an external battery to an APC UPS. I'm in the middle of

Re: [WISPA] External battery on UPS

2006-11-15 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
want to see 24vdc, so you need two batteries running in series. It works perfectly, as I have 20+ remote locations running off two gel type batteries. Make sure you install some type of a fuse on the positive side of the connection. Travis Microserv Mark Nash - Lists wrote: I believe I reme

Re: [WISPA] External battery on UPS

2006-11-15 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
[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 Mark Nash - Lists > Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 10:36 AM > To: WISPA General List

Re: [WISPA] External battery on UPS

2006-11-15 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
HP 24 port > > switch and a power rebooter all running off it. :) > > > > Travis > > Microserv > > > > Mark Nash - Lists wrote: > > > >> Ah-hah! I'll give this a try. Unfortunately the batteries I want to > >> use are $200 each. ;) Got a rec

Re: [WISPA] External battery on UPS

2006-11-16 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
C do you use and what batteries are added? What do you draw > >>> and what is th run time? Do you know how many times the one with > >>> the most cycles has been drawn down? How long do the batteries last? > >>> > >>> Brian > >>> > &g

[WISPA] Mikrotik/RB112/SR9

2006-11-16 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
Has anyone used the SR9's in a RB112? They are a little bigger so will they physically fit? How do you like them? Mark Nash Network Engineer UnwiredOnline.Net 350 Holly Street Junction City, OR 97448 http://www.uwol.net 541-998- 541-998-5599 fax -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org

Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik/RB112/SR9

2006-11-16 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
: "WISPA General List" Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 11:52 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik/RB112/SR9 > Mark Nash - Lists wrote: > > Has anyone used the SR9's in a RB112? They are a little bigger so will they > > physically fit? How do you like them? > >

Re: [WISPA] Wireless Security biting you in the ass?

2006-11-27 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
HIPAA is NOT your responsibility. It is the responsibility of the hospital/health care entity to make sure that they are HIPAA compliant at the point where they connect to the Internet. If they are unable to make that distinction, then doing business with them is asking for trouble because th

Re: [WISPA] Wireless Security biting you in the ass?

2006-11-27 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
I have a customer who works from home transcribing mammogram notes from doctors into their system. Their IT department put a Cisco VPN router at the client side to connect to their VPN at the imaging center. We discussed HIPPA, and they were not worried about my side at all as they were encryptin

Re: [WISPA] HIPAA

2006-11-29 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
If I'm reading this information correctly, it states that the care providers are responsible for encrypting and decrypting electronically transmitted information. Mark Nash Network Engineer UnwiredOnline.Net 350 Holly Street Junction City, OR 97448 http://www.uwol.net 541-998- 541-998-5599 fax

[WISPA] Need recommendations for a licensed backhaul link

2006-12-06 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Hi all, I have a consulting client that needs to do a 28 mile shot in licensed with throughput of up to 45meg. I am looking for any recommendations for something that is relatively inexpensive ($15,000 or less) and would require no larger than 4 foot dishes. Any sales droids out there, feel

Re: [WISPA] Need recommendations for a licensed backhaul link

2006-12-06 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
essage- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Larsen - Lists Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 2:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; WISPA General List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WISPA] Need recommendations for a licensed backhaul link Hi all, I have a consulting client

Re: [WISPA] Point to Point Link Help

2006-12-06 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Jory Privett wrote: I have a need for a new PtP link that is 12.5 miles. The LoS is good and the spectrum is pretty clean. I have 100' towers on both ends. I am looking to use a pair of Tranzeo TR-5plus-32f radios with antennas. I am hoping to get about 10-12M real world transfer with this

[WISPA] WISPA website down - explanation

2006-12-08 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Hi all, My ISP suffered a six hour Internet backbone outage on Friday. The backbone provider to the CLEC that I buy backbone from had a cable go bad in Denver and it only took them five frickin hours to figure it out. The WISPA website is hosted here, so if you couldn't get to it, that

Re: [WISPA] long BH links

2006-12-09 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
StarOS with 533mhz WAR boards will give you 25-30meg. Boards and radios will run you about $500 for each side. I just did a link in Wyoming yesterday at 24 miles with 26db PacWireless grids at 5.8ghz. I have a -73 signal and 20meg of throughput. This is with a 233mhz WAR board on one side a

Re: [WISPA] remote power

2006-12-12 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
These are the best ones by far http://www.webpowerswitch.com/ The low end unit is only $139 or something like that. They have autoping and remote web interface as well. I haven't seen anything else come close for the price. Their rackmount units are awesome too, for $295 with 16 outlet

Re: [WISPA] high throughput backhaul options

2006-12-12 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
The above confuses me. In the situation where I have a PtP radio using the full band there is no colocation opportunity for a competitor on either side. That means the competitor would have be on a site near by to be affected by me and/or to affect me. If this hypothetical competitor doesn't

Re: [WISPA] remote power

2006-12-12 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
APC SU700NET with AP9617 SNMP management card. I have been pulling the internal batteries and hooking up external batteries to get extended runtime (went from 2 hours to 11 hours). You can reboot remotely and establish alerts. Web/telnet/SSH interfaces. Mark Nash Network Engineer UnwiredOnl

Re: [WISPA] ISPCON Orlando May 23-25

2006-12-13 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I'll take OLSR, please Matt Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jeff Broadwick wrote: >From Doug: Another good topic for ISPCON would be an introduction to OLSR (Optimized Link State Routing). This routing protocol is beginning to replace OSPF on wireless ISP networks and other mobile and meshed ne

Re: [WISPA] more ip tracking upgrades

2006-12-14 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
If your IP addy's aren't changing often you can use ntop to classify traffic for you. I use it to tell whether or not traffic is human-generated or if it's from a worm or p2p. http://www.ntop.org Mark Nash Network Engineer UnwiredOnline.Net 350 Holly Street Junction City, OR 97448 http://www.uwo

Re: [WISPA] AP Search

2006-12-14 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
StarOS would handle this easily. I tried Mikrotik with a setup like this, and it just didn't work quite right. FWIW, I have a StarOS AP with approx 50 customers on it that has been up for almost a year. Not a single reboot, just works. StarOS will also do hotspot type authentication as wel

Re: [WISPA] AP Search

2006-12-14 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
have used staros, and it is a good OS. Don't get me wrong. It does work and it works well. I am wondering what about the MT in the setup did you not like, or like better in star os? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Larsen - Lists

Re: RE: [WISPA] 25 pr Outdoor cat5

2006-12-15 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
Yeah...66 blocks or 110? Charles, if Brian doesn't want your cable, I may be interested...give him dibs, though... ;) Mark Nash Network Engineer UnwiredOnline.Net 350 Holly Street Junction City, OR 97448 http://www.uwol.net 541-998- 541-998-5599 fax - Original Message - From: <[EMAI

Re: RE: [WISPA] 25 pr Outdoor cat5

2006-12-15 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
Can't get the attachment on the list... Offlist, maybe? URL, maybe? Thanks! Mark Nash Network Engineer UnwiredOnline.Net 350 Holly Street Junction City, OR 97448 http://www.uwol.net 541-998- 541-998-5599 fax - Original Message - From: "Brad Belton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'WISPA

[WISPA] DAY FROM HELL!!!

2006-12-15 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
Wind storms came through last night. Power out at 6 sites this morning, various power companies. Started at 6 this morning...Put in 2 generators, purchased 8 marine batteries and patched them into my APC UPS units. 2 sites now still running on batteries, 2 on generators. Will be a late night I

Re: [WISPA] DAY FROM HELL!!!

2006-12-17 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
You guys totally one-upped me on these...so thanks for making me feel not so bad!!! ;) Still got one site without power...have a generator charging the UPS. When the generator runs out of fuel, the UPS (SNMP card) e-mails us to tell us it has about 20 hours on battery for us to get gas into t

Re: [WISPA] TEST (please ignore)

2006-12-18 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
Then you'll appreciate this: http://www.uwol.net/bday/videos/BigBottom-768.wmv That's me singing... twas a 40th birthday party for me and I invited all my musician friends to have a big jam session. Mark Nash Network Engineer UnwiredOnline.Net 350 Holly Street Junction City, OR 97448 http://www.

Re: [WISPA] salary

2006-12-18 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I cured myself - sort of. :^) I stopped building out new tower sites in June 2006, other than a few little repeaters that were pretty basic network extensions with no tower work involved. A couple of months before that, I also stopped doing new leases for CPE equipment. In August, I had one

[WISPA] Terabeam Turbocell - Flash to 802.11b

2006-12-23 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
Anyone know if there is a way to flash Terabeam/Proxim EtherAnt-Turbo wireless units with 802.11b firmware? I've got about 70 of these on 2 sites that I'm wanting to move away from Turbocell and I don't want to replace them all at once. Thanks... Mark Nash Network Engineer UnwiredOnline.Net

Re: [WISPA] Terabeam Turbocell - Flash to 802.11b

2006-12-25 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
- From: "Blair Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2006 10:08 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Terabeam Turbocell - Flash to 802.11b I assume you are talking about the clients. It depends on what clients you have Mark Nash - Li

Re: [WISPA] bits per mbps

2006-12-26 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Back in the olden days of dialup, I used to get fantastic results from our caching server. It was just a PIII machine with a whopping 640meg of memory, but it did a good job. Page views were noticeably faster when things were setup correctly. When I was in a backbone pinch, I used a caching

Re: [WISPA] StarOS or Microtik with TRCPQ clients...

2006-12-29 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Hi Ryan, My favorite AP setup for 2.4 is StarOS/Orinoco card/YDI amplifier/YDI 180deg sector antenna - however some of these parts are getting harder to find and/or don't work for a lot of situations. So here is the most common one that I am deploying as of late: StarOS/prism2511/tranzeo h-

Re: [WISPA] TRUCKPC

2006-12-29 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
AHA I've been wondering where the hell that TruckPC request has been coming from!! Occasionally, I have techs who have left the radius authentication disabled on an access point and the dhcp logs will start to fill up with requests from "TruckPC". They were coming from access points

Re: [WISPA] Cool ideas for RouterOS....

2006-12-30 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
Keep a list of 'discovered' DHCP servers and their mac addresses in a table. Usually, the LAN mac address of the consumer routers is one off from the WAN mac address, so we should be able to quickly identify who has plugged their router in backwards. Mark Nash Network Engineer UnwiredOnline.Ne

[WISPA] 5.3/5.8 GHz Antenna Suggestion

2006-12-30 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
I have usually used Trango backhauls, so I have not had to worry about 5 GHz antennas and what to choose. Now I'm going to try a MikroTik backhaul with a CM9. Currently, I've got two applications: 1. 2-mile link that I can perhaps use 5.3GHz over. 2. 8-mile link that I'll go 5.8GHz over. Wh

Re: [WISPA] 5.3/5.8 GHz Antenna Suggestion

2006-12-30 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
ess network that covers 12% of Louisiana utilizing their antennas exclusively for my BH. Well - I do have several of the Trango dual polarity ext's. Mac Dearman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Nash - Lists Sent: Saturday, December

Re: [WISPA] 5.3/5.8 GHz Antenna Suggestion

2006-12-30 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
TECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Nash - Lists Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 2:28 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] 5.3/5.8 GHz Antenna Suggestion Are we preferring their grids to dishes? Mark Nash Network Engineer UnwiredOnline.Net 350 Holly Street Junction City,

Re: [WISPA] 5.3/5.8 GHz Antenna Suggestion

2006-12-30 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
e- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Nash - Lists Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 3:07 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] 5.3/5.8 GHz Antenna Suggestion Thanks Mac and Travis... This does sound like a no-brainer. How about a 12-mile link

Re: [WISPA] Cool ideas for RouterOS....

2006-12-30 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
How about the ability to place a customer name in the ACL for non-RouterOS CPEs? Mark Nash Network Engineer UnwiredOnline.Net 350 Holly Street Junction City, OR 97448 http://www.uwol.net 541-998- 541-998-5599 fax - Original Message - From: "Butch Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Wis

Re: [WISPA] Cool ideas for RouterOS....

2006-12-30 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
ot;WISPA General List" Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 2:11 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Cool ideas for RouterOS On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, Mark Nash - Lists wrote: How about the ability to place a customer name in the ACL for non-RouterOS CPEs? Like this? / interface wireless access-list a

Re: [WISPA] What's everyone using for Bandwidth Management?

2006-12-31 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
StarOS. Jeremy Davis and I put together a module for Freeside that uploads bandwidth rules into a StarOS BW controller automatically. It has made life a lot easier. Matt Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've spent the past week working on getting my bandwidth management s

Re: [WISPA] 5.3/5.8 GHz Antenna Suggestion

2007-01-03 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
the extra db that comes with a dish. Mac Dearman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Nash - Lists Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 2:28 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] 5.3/5.8 GHz Antenna Suggestion Are we preferring the

Re: [WISPA] 5.3/5.8 GHz Antenna Suggestion

2007-01-04 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Mark Nash - Lists > Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 11:45 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] 5.3/5.8 GHz Antenna Suggestion > > Ben, > > A) Will these fit the mo

Re: [WISPA] 5.3/5.8 GHz Antenna Suggestion

2007-01-04 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
the kit is > also a bit different due to the fact that the L-Bracket is tapped. > > Thanks, > Ben Moore > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Mark Nash - Lists > Sent: Thursday, Ja

Re: [WISPA] Quick-Connect PoE at CPE

2007-01-05 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
Used one of these quick-connect pigtails today on a Tranzeo installation. Had to bore the hole out on the waterproof boot to 7/8" (I expected this), and it worked like a charm. A nice, unexpected bonus is that the cable on this pigtail is less stiff than the outdoor cable I use, so it bends, st

Re: [WISPA] Solar power

2007-01-05 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
David... Any news on this potential sub-$1k solar system? Mark Nash Network Engineer UnwiredOnline.Net 350 Holly Street Junction City, OR 97448 http://www.uwol.net 541-998- 541-998-5599 fax - Original Message - From: "David Weddell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'WISPA General List'" Se

Re: [WISPA] Well, it was time to stir the pot for the new year...

2007-01-05 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Well, lets really spice it up thenI'm going to stir the pot in this direction for this post Alvarion has done a great job of producing a product that does an excellent job delivering value to their customers and has several unique features that will keep it on a different level above w

Re: [WISPA] Well, it was time to stir the pot for the new year...

2007-01-06 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
And now to stir it in the other direction If Alvarion is serious about making the VL platform their new standard bearer for residential, there is a little bit of work to be done. While I understand the need for non-standard items at times, things like the special ethernet cable, non-stand

[WISPA] testorama

2007-01-16 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
testing the new mail server. Matt vistabeam.com -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/

[WISPA] SmartPhone Happiness...

2007-01-22 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
It was finally time to replace my Nokia 6800 with 600 hours and a broken screen from being dropped too many times, so I decided to get a Nokia E70 phone. It has been a little bit of a challenge, but it is pretty close to cell phone nirvana. It has been able to do I have wanted to accomplish w

Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-24 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
StarOS will handle this for you. Just use the "fb" rules. Works great! Matt Larsen vistabeam.com Jason wrote: List, Several times in the last few weeks the topic of bandwidth management has been discussed, but "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Lookin' For"... Here's what I'd like to do:

Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-24 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Have you thought that not everyone has the same kind of market that you do and that bandwidth management of this kind considerably improves the number of customers and quality of service that can be provided? Sheesh. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com Matt Liotta wrote: Have you thought about selling

[WISPA] Scalability of 802.11a based broadband equipment

2007-02-01 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Did a little arithmetic tonight... I have a Tranzeo TR5plus access point on my wireless network. Other than being limited by a 10meg ethernet port (it is installed at a noisy FM tower location, and the speed must be turned down to 10meg to keep a reliable connection) - it is a perfectly stand

Re: [WISPA] Scalability of 802.11a based broadband equipment

2007-02-01 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
for customers past 15 miles? marlon - Original Message - From: "Matt Larsen - Lists" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 12:12 AM Subject: [WISPA] Scalability of 802.11a based broadband equipment Did a little arithmeti

[WISPA] Tranzeo 90-15 for 80-15 swap, anyone?

2007-02-05 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I have about 25 CPE90-15 radios that I would like to trade for 80-15 radios. The 90-15s work fine, but seem to have some kind of issues with my network at times that doesn't seem to affect the 80-15s, and my techs don't like the user interface, so we decided to get them out of the loop. Anyo

Re: [WISPA] way OT: Did I mention I love the WISP business?

2007-02-09 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
it like it is from my learned view, for better or worse. I know first hand that most of my peers have long since been told by their employers, "Stay off the lists!" out of their company's perceived self-interest and because they don't have the stomach for it. In my view it i

Re: [WISPA] Following the FCC rules ?????

2007-02-18 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I think everyone is missing the real problem with 5.4ghz. How big of a piece of crap is our military radar that a $49 minipci wireless card and a homemade pringles antenna can render it useless??? ;^) Matt Larsen vistabeam.com J. Vogel wrote: Fair enough. I might have been a little on

Re: [WISPA] Following the FCC rules are now simply aboutbeing"sticker conscious" or not??

2007-02-18 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
so far. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com Patrick Leary wrote: Don't make too many assumptions about what your price will be by looking at list prices, for example, our CPE available in the AlvarionCOMNET program for $285 (does require a 25 per quarter commitment), lists with a MSRP of $1,095

Re: [WISPA] Following the FCC rules ?????

2007-02-20 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
many of the geniuses who built this stuff got their experience in the first place? Thank You, Brian Webster -Original Message- From: Matt Larsen - Lists [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 2:32 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Following the FCC rules

Re: [WISPA] multi-radio Wi-Fi base stations

2007-02-21 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Hm.. My understanding is that 400mw radios are generally not FCC compliant.If that is the case, then there are a lot of telcos that have been selling non-compliant equipment in the form of those DSL modems that they sell to their customers. Just a thought. Matt Larsen vistabeam.

[WISPA] WRAP board CF losing all software!!!!

2007-02-21 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Hi all, I recently came across a problem that I have been unable to resolve. I have a bunch of WRAP boards with StarOS software on them, and for some reason about half of them have lost their firmware, and the WRAP shows that there is no software. This has happened to boards right out of th

[WISPA] Any ideas on recovering a TR-CPE200, Revision A?

2007-02-28 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I have a stack of TR-CPE200 radios with the revision A firmware on them. This revision doesn't respond to the CPE locator tool and I can't seem to ping them. Any ideas on how to get them operational again? Tranzeo is even kind of stuck. If I could get a static ARP entry to ping, I think I w

[WISPA] Nebraska WISPs - Something to look out for...

2007-03-13 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
For any other Nebraska WISPs LB661 came up in the state legistlature and the gist is that broadband providers will have to pay into the USF fund. LB560 requires all broadband providers to register with the state Public Service Commission (so they know where to send the bill for LB661 to).

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 getti

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] 5GHz Amps

2007-04-22 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Wrong. ADI Engineering has a certified StarOS/War Board combo, with a choice of cards. I am currently evaluating them for my future backhauls. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com Smith, Rick wrote: Nope, not FCC certified. What Mikrotik / Star-OS systems are ? None. -Original Message- Fr

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 wit

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 -Origin

[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 use

Re: [WISPA] Wispa@ ISPCON

2007-05-15 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 details

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti Link - Poor Performance

2010-08-05 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
Did ack timing get off somehow? - Original Message - From: "KosiNet Wireless" To: "WISPA General List" 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 running through a switch? > Co

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" To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 9:56 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] computer won't connect to radio >I have had Tranzeo radios go fubar so they only will

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 jum

Re: [WISPA] RB1100

2010-08-10 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
What kind of throughput are you getting, both in traffic and in PPS? - Original Message - From: Kurt Fankhauser To: 'WISPA General List' Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 11:38 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] RB1100 Running a RB1000 here for core router over a year without single hicc

[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 runnin

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~" To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 8:48 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Major Disaster > Quarter 5 MHZ > 908/5 MHZ > > -- > From: "L

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 compl

Re: [WISPA] Backend systems

2010-08-22 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
less Express > P.O. Box 255 > Toledo, IA 52342 > 239.770.6203 > m...@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: wi

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 this

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 comin

[WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers?

2010-08-23 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
*Subject:* Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers? On 24 August 2010 02:15, Matt Larsen - Lists <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 ar

[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 recommen

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 Interesti

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 recommen

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: >> Th

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" To: 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 using the usual things for non usual situa

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" To: Cc: "WISPA General List" Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 9:32 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA Members] FCC Form 477 Due Sept. 1st If anyone using Powercode has yet to do this or is working on this today let me know. I hav

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 t

[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 to

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 Lars

[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 ha

Re: [WISPA] RIP vs other routing protocols

2010-09-02 Thread Jeff Broadwick - Lists
, Sep 2, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Mark Nash - Lists 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 fo

Re: [WISPA] RIP vs other routing protocols

2010-09-02 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
ally* have routing 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 wrote: Agreed...there are some old ro

Re: [WISPA] RIP vs other routing protocols

2010-09-02 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
g protocols On Sep 2, 2010, at 10:16 PM, 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&quo

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