Re: [WISPA] Internet Packages regarding geography

2013-12-31 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
This last year, we finished unification of all our rate plans so that we would have consistency across our network. At this time last year, we had several plans that had overlap and different sets of services as part of the plans. For example, a 2meg plan for $49.95/month that included

Re: [WISPA] Internet Packages regarding geography

2013-12-31 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
: *Matt Larsen - Lists li...@manageisp.com *To: *WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org *Sent: *Tuesday, December 31, 2013 1:09:48 PM *Subject: *Re: [WISPA] Internet Packages regarding geography This last year, we finished unification of all our rate plans so that we would have consistency across our

Re: [WISPA] OT: I have to share this.. Its BIG news for Colorado ISP's..

2012-12-07 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Not to shift the focus too much but The environmentals were not the primary concern. The environmentals were the loophole that a clever lawyer used to get the project stopped dead in its tracks. At this point, I think WISPs that are being overbuilt by these kind of government supported

Re: [WISPA] I'm new, I hope this is the right list...

2011-11-29 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Rich, You might want to take a look at the white paper that I recently produced for WISPA that highlights how WISPs are successful. You can find it here: http://www.wirelesscowboys.com/?p=252One of the things that makes WISPs successful is the use of fixed wireless, meaning the

Re: [WISPA] Strategies For Finding Bandwidth

2011-11-07 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
360networks has fiber capacity in Billings and will work with WISPs to get equipment colocated.They were recently acquired by Zayo, so you might try calling someone from Zayo to see if they can help you out. Tell them I sent you if you called. I'm trying to get on their good side! Matt

Re: [WISPA] Verizon wants a piece of our pie

2011-10-26 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
We will find out tomorrow - FCC will release their USF plan on Thursday. Let's hope that it will not fund this, but since Verizon and ATT run the telecom section of our government, I would not be surprised. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com On 10/26/2011 11:18 AM, Matt wrote:

Re: [WISPA] Net Neutrality

2011-10-25 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
If you are a Title II regulated telco, they might apply to you. As an operator of a privately funded broadband network, Net Neutrality does not apply to you. You paid for it, you can do what you want with it. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com On 10/25/2011 4:46 PM, Tony Iacopi wrote: Hi there,

Re: [WISPA] America's Broadband Heroes: Fixed Wireless Broadband Providers

2011-10-13 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Fixed now. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com On 10/13/2011 8:09 AM, Jeromie Reeves wrote: There is no http service running on the server. On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Matt Larsen - Lists li...@manageisp.com wrote: Here is the link my white paper about fixed wireless broadband providers

[WISPA] America's Broadband Heroes: Fixed Wireless Broadband Providers

2011-10-12 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Here is the link my white paper about fixed wireless broadband providers. http://www.wirelesscowboys.com/?p=252preview=true http://www.wirelesscowboys.com/?p=252preview=true We will be adding more maps and tables of statistics for the WISP only areas later.This was very well received at the

Re: [WISPA] Licensed Backhaul

2011-09-30 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
What kind of distances can you get from 11ghz with 4' dishes? Matt Larsen vistabeam.com On 9/30/2011 2:14 PM, Charles Wu wrote: Itsnice to see products comming out like APEX9, enabling $6900/link pricing standard, which are fully feauture rich to latest standards. You're a little high on

Re: [WISPA] UBNT

2011-09-23 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Mobile wireless systems cannot deliver the speeds and network performance that is needed to take full advantage of broadband.Smartphones and mobile wireless networks have their places, but they are not, and will never be, a substitute for a fixed wireless or wireline broadband system. Matt

Re: [WISPA] inexpensive non-2.4/5.8 backhaul ?

2011-08-02 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I have had a 3 mile 24ghz Ligowave link up for two years with very little rain fade - maybe 15 minutes worth in the past two years. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com On 8/2/2011 1:13 PM, Fred Goldstein wrote: At 8/2/2011 01:34 PM, Gino Villarini wrote: Content-Language: en-US Content-Type:

Re: [WISPA] inexpensive non-2.4/5.8 backhaul?

2011-07-27 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I have had one of the Ligowave (SAF) 24ghz 100meg radios in service for almost two years on a three mile link. It has been an outstanding piece of equipment in the time that we have had it.A few months ago, after a discussion on list, we figured out that we did not have the

[WISPA] Rural Broadband in Pictures

2011-07-03 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
My latest Wireless Cowboys post.I think this is one of my best yet, and a perfect illustration of why fixed wireless is so important for rural areas.Plus, it has cool pictures! http://www.wirelesscowboys.com/?p=180 Matt Larsen Vistabeam.com

Re: [WISPA] FW: WISPA Bylaws

2011-05-31 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I will take a bylaws change to add different "classes" to each membership level. As the current bylaws read, each membership level has to be charged at the same rate. That is part of why we did the dues increase the way that we did them. Our intention is to make that

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

2011-05-03 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I have a very detailed breakdown of what we did to solve the UBB problem on my Wireless Cowboys blog. You can read it here: http://www.wirelesscowboys.com/?p=88 We went the NetFlow method and correlate customer IP addresses to their Freeside accounts to see who gets billed. Right now, the

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

2011-05-03 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Matt Larsen - Lists li...@manageisp.com mailto:li...@manageisp.com wrote: I have a very detailed breakdown of what we did to solve the UBB problem on my Wireless

Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Usage Caps Examples?

2011-04-22 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I wrote about this on my http://www.wirelesscowboys.com/ blog - http://www.wirelesscowboys.com/?p=88 There are some other articles about Usage Based Billing (UBB) there as well. Read it and see if that helps. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com On 4/21/2011 10:30 PM, Cameron Crum wrote: Talk with

[WISPA] Mikrotik RB411

2011-02-05 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I just wanted to take this opportunity to mention that the Mikrotik RB411 boards are pieces of crap.Half of the ones I have failed during the cold spell this last week and it turns out that lots of other people have had the same problems.It is very frustrating to see that not all of

Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik RB411

2011-02-05 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
have a single failure. Travis Microserv On 2/5/2011 11:41 AM, Matt Larsen - Lists wrote: I just wanted to take this opportunity to mention that the Mikrotik RB411 boards are pieces of crap.Half of the ones I have failed during the cold spell this last week and it turns out that lots

Re: [WISPA] Tranzeo and Ubnt

2011-01-29 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Phil, Swap out the CPEs first, then you can swap the APs. That is what I'm doing and it seems to be working very well. The UBNT radios don't seem to have a problem associating to the older APs. I use StarOS for the APs instead of Tranzeo, but that shouldn't make much difference. Matt

Re: [WISPA] Smith: Companies must save private data to combat child porn

2011-01-25 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I will be exercising my right to civil disobedience in the event that something like this comes to pass. This would never make it through the court/judiciary system, so I'm fairly certain it won't be a problem. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com On 1/25/2011 7:22 PM, St. Louis Broadband wrote:

[WISPA] OT: Miss America

2011-01-14 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Shout out to Miss Nebraska, Theresa Scanlan. She won the talent competition today and is one of the youngest contestants ever in the show (17). The Scanlans are Vistabeam customers and we are very proud of Theresa and her entire family.12 months ago, she was carrying out groceries and

Re: [WISPA] 11Ghz Licensing Warning Question

2011-01-13 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Wow Michael, That was an outstanding post. Thank you for taking the time to put it together. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com On 1/13/2011 11:31 PM, michael mulcay wrote: Fred, Tom DeReggi's comments were business-case based and constructive; basically exploring whether the Commission's NPRM

Re: [WISPA] he.net

2011-01-03 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I'm looking to pickup a gig IP pipe from them this summer. My research so far shows that they should be comparable to Cogent, and even better in some ways. We shall see! Matt Larsen vistabeam.com On 1/3/2011 12:43 PM, Matt wrote: Anyone else having trouble bringing up www.he.net? It

[WISPA] More Spectrum!!

2010-12-30 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Folks, here is the real opportunity that we need to be focusing on http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/12/white-spaces-could-expand-beyond-unused-tv-spectrum.ars There may be no more important item for wisps to unite in their focus on than this.If we can start to use other white

Re: [WISPA] Problems with facebook and hotmail

2010-11-26 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I don't know whether it helps or not, but we put in policy routes so that every four or eight routed subnets were NATed out through a different IP address. Something like: 192.168.248.0-192.168.255.0 goes out through 208.14.222.10 192.168.240.0-192.168.247.0 goes out through 208.14.222.11 etc

[WISPA] Squid for Video - videocache

2010-11-18 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Has anyone here tried this out? http://cachevideos.com/ I this sounds like a great idea in theory.Interested to see if it works as well in practice. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com WISPA Wants You! Join today!

Re: [WISPA] VZW, USCC Contact

2010-11-09 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Put up an AP using StarOS and noisebuster mode nearby on an overlapping channel. Watch their 5.8 backhaul magically disappear and be replaced by something else within a fairly short period of time. Problem solved. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com On 11/9/2010 10:56 PM, Jeromie Reeves wrote: On

[WISPA] TTY Spam/Stolen Credit Card Scam against ISPs

2010-10-28 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
There is a new spam scam targeted at ISPs going around. Someone uses the TTY system for hearing impaired people (or a forgery of it) to order up a dialup account and several email addresses.Then the account is paid for with a credit card.Within a couple of hours, spam starts flowing

Re: [WISPA] Hacking Tranzeo

2010-10-26 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I would LOVE to see a Tranzeo that talked Nstreme. I am willing to donate a couple of CPQs to anyone who wants to take a shot at it. Also, anyone who has used ones they want to sell, hit me offlist. I still have another 200 or so CPE/CPE80 radios that I need to replace with CPQs or UBNT.

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

[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

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] 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] 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

[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

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

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] 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

[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] 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] 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] 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

[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] 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:

Re: [WISPA] How the FCC Proposes the Regulate Broadband

2010-05-28 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Mark, I would like to thank you for your interesting and obivously well thought out post. I am firmly of the camp that USF should be completely discontinued, and my efforts going forward will be to encourage its disbandment. The major goals of the original USF program have been completed for

Re: [WISPA] How the FCC Proposes the Regulate Broadband

2010-05-28 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Tom, Thank you for asking your questions - I have some awesome answers for you. 1) Alaska. Alaska does indeed have an infrastructure problem. Alaska also receives an enormous amount of federal support already along with substantial revenues from their natural resources, mainly oil

Re: [WISPA] Google Pac Man

2010-05-21 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
My son and I ate at a pizza place a few months ago that still had the Galaga game from when I was in high school. He wanted to play, so I let him run the shooter while I ran the joystick. About 45 minutes later, we had the high score, and the next day I get a text message from one of my

Re: [WISPA] Call Tracking / Customer management software

2010-05-12 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
with that? Only problem with Freeside I've seen so far is the lack of documentation which I'm guessing is on purpose to get you to pay for support. Many thanks, Paul. -Original Message- From: Matt Larsen - Lists [mailto:li...@manageisp.com] Sent: 11 May 2010 21:07 To: WISPA General List

Re: [WISPA] Call Tracking / Customer management software

2010-05-11 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
We use Freeside with integrated RT Ticket System. The next upgrade of Freeside (we are planning on implementing it next month) is also supposed to include a calendar that is tied to RT. This has worked very well for us, although Freeside has a few wonks that have to be dealt with on

[WISPA] Bandwidth Cap Implementation

2010-05-07 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Since there has been a lot of discussion about bandwidth caps on this list recently, I thought that I would share the one that we recently implemented, along with some details on how we are enforcing it and how we established the caps. Going back to day 1, we have had a 3gig cap on broadband

[WISPA] [OT] Chicken Currency

2010-04-24 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
95% of the members of this list are probably not familiar with an old WISPCON story that had to do with chickens being currency in Latvia and how I love to throw some abuse at the Mikrotik guys about this when I see them. For those 5% though, I think you will appreciate that perhaps the

Re: [WISPA] Ubnt vs Moto vs ... your brand

2010-04-14 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Right on schedule, its time for the 802.11 vs Canopy crusades. If you deploy it right, you should be able to get about 40-50 subs on 802.11 based APs. If your application is going to require higher density than that, go with Canopy, as you can probably get 120-150 per AP before they max out.

[WISPA] Broadband Fiasco Followup

2010-04-13 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Apparently my tirade about broadband mapping reached a few ears in Washington, as the NE PSC called me this afternoon to let me know that the NTIA is willing to accept shape files and is willing to relax some of the data requirements in order to get fuller representation from WISPs.Making

Re: [WISPA] When to route?

2010-04-13 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
When to route? From the very start!!! If you take the time to learn the basics of OSPF, implement NAT and/or use private IPs for the links between systems and use a logical design for your subnets it is relatively easy to route. Understanding the basics of OSPF is really key, because

Re: [WISPA] connected nation mapping data

2010-04-12 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I was on a conference call with the State of Nebraska broadband mapping contractors and the Public Service Commission this morning and came away with a bad feeling. Based on the Form477 data, and the PSC's broadband provider registration information, there are 283 broadband providers in the

Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste

2010-04-07 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I filed 32 protests during the first round of the stimulus plan, and none of them were funded. Protest long and protest often. From what I have seen so far, most of the frivolous projects have been rejected handily. Don't get all worked up about the waste until it finally comes to pass.

[WISPA] Blocking UDP traffic

2010-04-01 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
While working on our bandwidth monitoring system, we noticed a lot of strange traffic that had no apparent route through our system, but was coming across the wire between our core router and our NAT router. The traffic would be destined for addresses like '192.168.0.10', '192.168.4.5' and

Re: [WISPA] Speaking of Tranzeo......

2010-03-31 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I have had issues on FM Towers that cause problems with ethernet - not just with Tranzeo either. We are getting ready to run fiber up an FM tower in the next two weeks to resolve ongoing ethernet issues. One of the FM stations most likely has an antenna going bad that is causing the

[WISPA] Bandwidth Tracking Solutions

2010-03-30 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Hello list, I am looking for a solution that will keep track of the monthly bandwidth consumption for all of my broadband customers and am having a hard time coming up with a good solution. Our goal is to collect the traffic flows every 15 minutes and generate three things: 1)

Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Tracking Solutions

2010-03-30 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
/ On Mar 30, 2010, at 3:24 PM, Matt Larsen - Lists wrote: I am looking for a solution that will keep track of the monthly bandwidth consumption for all of my broadband customers and am having a hard time coming up with a good solution. Our goal is to collect the traffic flows every 15

Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Tracking Solutions

2010-03-30 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
of Marlon's previous posts) you have have the MTs report by IP address back to the server. I have done this on my network, though it is not running right now. I would be glad to help if you opt to go this way. Matt Larsen - Lists wrote: Hello list, I am looking for a solution

Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Tracking Solutions

2010-03-30 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
it is not running right now. I would be glad to help if you opt to go this way. Matt Larsen - Lists wrote: Hello list, I am looking for a solution that will keep track of the monthly bandwidth consumption for all of my broadband customers and am having a hard time coming up with a good solution

Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Tracking Solutions

2010-03-30 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
of Marlon's previous posts) you have have the MTs report by IP address back to the server. I have done this on my network, though it is not running right now. I would be glad to help if you opt to go this way. Matt Larsen - Lists wrote: Hello list, I am looking for a solution

Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Tracking Solutions

2010-03-30 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
.” --- Winston Churchill On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Matt Larsen - Lists li...@manageisp.com wrote: Hi Josh, I'm wanting to track how much each individual customers is using so I can bill the ones that go over our bandwidth cap. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com On 3/30/2010 1:57 PM

[WISPA] Interesting...

2010-03-24 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Clearwire steals the show at CTIA http://www.muniwireless.com/2010/03/24/how-sprint-and-clearwire-stole-the-show-at-ctia/ Matt Larsen vistabeam.com WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/

Re: [WISPA] WISP's are killing themselves!!!! - New FCC form 477 report is out, not looking good for Fixed Wireless

2010-02-15 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I will agree that it is not a good thing that we are not reporting our data. However I did not submit my Form477 data until September, simply because I had no way to give them accurate data! Generating the data by zip codes was easy, as all we had to do was take the zip codes from our

Re: [WISPA] [Wispashow] [Board] Decision on WISPA Show

2010-02-09 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
-Note- WISPA is currently negotiating with a trade show group to participate in the development of a wireless broadband show. While the decision to do this is not yet finalized, the show group will decide the date/location of the show if that is the direction that we go in. -Note- I also

[WISPA] Tech Support - Aaaarrrrggghhh!

2010-02-04 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Here is an entertaining customer support related link to one of my employee's blog posts. http://www.happystinkingjoy.com/?p=556 Sounds pretty typical to me. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com WISPA Wants You! Join

Re: [WISPA] [Wispashow] Decision on WISPA Show

2010-02-03 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
to Ed's group that we'll still be working to our own show at a later date? Also, how are we going to insure that we don't end up with the same problem we did with Charles for his first show? Where there is no profit to split? marlon - Original Message - From: Matt Larsen - Lists li

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

2010-02-03 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
The Nokia N900 has an awesome remote desktop client and a real keyboard. I'd take one of those over an iPhone any day. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com wirelesscowboys.com wispdirectory.com Jerry Richardson wrote: WM6 has a kludgey implementation of VPN that I never could get to work. The RD

Re: [WISPA] [Wispashow] Decision on WISPA Show

2010-02-03 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Service -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Matt Larsen - Lists Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 1:31 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] [Wispashow] Decision on WISPA Show All due respect Marlon, but I'm

Re: [WISPA] [Wispashow] Decision on WISPA Show

2010-02-03 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
/64096486706?ref=tsor follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/dcaccess /* Matt Larsen - Lists wrote: Hi Steve, One of the conditions of WISPA supporting this show will be reduced costs for attendees. The promoters want as many attendees as possible and I told them that $250 is about

Re: [WISPA] Fwd: Short range backhaul

2010-02-01 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I saw the spectrum analysis software at the last Ubiquiti conference in Las Vegas. It is excellent. It is also a simple firmware upgrade to certain radios. I like the idea of being able to take an AP offline for a short time to run an analysis on the sector antenna to see what noise looks

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

2010-01-27 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
The final installment of The Story of Medicine Bow is now online at http://www.wirelesscowboys.com/.This summarizes the final impact of the project three months later. Thanks to all of you who have been reading it! Matt Larsen Vistabeam.com Wirelesscowboys.com wispdirectory.com

[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

[WISPA] Story of Medicine Bow Part 6 of 8 is now online

2010-01-25 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Part 6 of The Story of Medicine Bow is now online at http://www.wirelesscowboys.com/. This segment describes the equipment we decided to use for the deployment and the planning that went into the project. Matt Larsen Vistabeam.com Wirelesscowboys.com Wispdirectory.com

[WISPA] The Story of Medicine Bow Part 3 of 8 now online

2010-01-19 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
The Story of Medicine Bow Part 3 of 8 is now online at http://www.wirelesscowboys.com/ Matt Larsen vistabeam.com wirelesscowboys.com wispdirectory.com WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/

[WISPA] The Story of Medicine Bow - Part 4 now online - Making a Difference with Junk Spectrum

2010-01-19 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Headed to the Ubiquiti conference in Vegas tomorrow, so I'm putting this one out a little early. This section covers how WISPs use guerilla warfare against telcos/cellcos with unlicensed spectrum. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com wirelesscowboys.com wispdirectory.com

Re: [WISPA] The Story of Medicine Bow - Part 4 now online - Making a Difference with Junk Spectrum

2010-01-19 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Forgot the URL: http://www.wirelesscowboys.com Matt Larsen - Lists wrote: Headed to the Ubiquiti conference in Vegas tomorrow, so I'm putting this one out a little early. This section covers how WISPs use guerilla warfare against telcos/cellcos with unlicensed spectrum. Matt Larsen

[WISPA] Story of Medicine Bow (Part II) now online

2010-01-18 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I recently started a new blog site that will be highlighting the stories of Wireless ISPs around the US, along with equipment reviews, opinion pieces on broadband policy and some occasional rants and raves. The site is called Wireless Cowboys and you can find it at

[WISPA] The Story of Medicine Bow and wirelesscowboys.com

2010-01-15 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I recently started a new blog site that will be highlighting the stories of Wireless ISPs around the US, along with equipment reviews, opinion pieces on broadband policy and some occasional rants and raves. The site is called Wireless Cowboys and you can find it at

Re: [WISPA] StarOS Operator gets Stimulus Funding

2010-01-07 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
: Sorta funny that Hawaii got the first, being the connection between our current president and all... just an observation. Scottie -- Original Message -- From: Matt Larsen - Lists li...@manageisp.com Reply-To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Date

Re: [WISPA] StarOS Operator gets Stimulus Funding

2010-01-07 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
: There is a problem with allowing companies being capitalistic? Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. --- Albert Einstein On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Matt Larsen - Lists li

[WISPA] StarOS Operator gets Stimulus Funding

2010-01-06 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Aloha Broadband, a WISP in Hawaii that runs 100% StarOS, was one of the first 18 companies to receive broadband stimulus money. Looks like the total scope of the project was also a lot more reasonable than some of the other ones.

Re: [WISPA] Wimax gear

2009-12-30 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
A Porsche Cayenne could probably handle it, plus do about 140mph. I almost got a used one last spring, but my wife vetoed it. Had a lot of fun on the take it home overnight test drive though. :^) I'm personally going to wait for the BWM X6s to start showing up on the used market. At my

[WISPA] Blackberry email problems

2009-12-30 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
We have some customers complaining that they cannot retrieve their emails from our mail server with their Blackberries. The calls started on Monday, and my tech determined that we had about 2000 connections a week coming from RIM, but on the 26th they stopped completely. No changes were made

[WISPA] OT: Nebraska

2009-12-30 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
...just put a serious beat down on Arizona in the Holiday Bowl. Proud to be a Husker today! Matt Larsen vistabeam.com WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/

[WISPA] Crazy Tech Support

2009-12-23 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Just when I thought I'd seen everything We have a customer who lives in a converted missile silo that has been using our services for a few months. He's an engineer and has been a real pain in the butt at times when he thinks there is a problem with his connection. He has no cable, no

Re: [WISPA] Crazy Tech Support

2009-12-23 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
:36 -0700, Matt Larsen - Lists wrote: Just when I thought I'd seen everything We have a customer who lives in a converted missile silo that has been using our services for a few months. He's an engineer and has been a real pain in the butt at times when he thinks there is a problem

Re: [WISPA] Insurance....

2009-12-09 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I realize that the request went out to stop this thread. However, health care represents more cost to my business than my Internet backbone, so it has quite a bit of bearing on my ability to do business and I consider this to be a good discussion to have. --- Our current health care system

Re: [WISPA] A Ridiculous Failure of Critical Infrastructure

2009-12-01 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
pairs leaving town. Qwest had an outage here about 9 months ago that took two of my competitors completely down for 5 hours... yet we were completely unaffected. :) Travis Microserv Matt Larsen - Lists wrote: Some kind of combination of failure between Charter and Qwest has left

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