Re: [WISPA] The long day...final insult

2009-12-07 Thread Mike
Get em a litter box, he'll keep mice away. At 04:23 PM 12/7/2009, you wrote: So, I get to the workshop this afternoon, and walk in.There's a cat on my chair.I have NO idea how he got in, other than he must have dashed through the door as I walked in or out. I specifically made sure he

Re: [WISPA] Wi-Fi to top 1 GB/s by 2012

2009-12-08 Thread Mike
it will make a ton of illegal links and be a waste of RF spectrum. On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Mike Hammett wispawirel...@ics-il.net wrote: http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/12/07/80211ac.process.underway/ - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com

Re: [WISPA] Insurance....

2009-12-09 Thread Mike
This little historical item says a lot about this subject. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRdLpem-AAs WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/

Re: [WISPA] Wi-Fi to top 1 GB/s by 2012

2009-12-09 Thread Mike
sell my service. I've tried explaining, but the task bar tells all, right? Mike G At 08:30 AM 12/9/2009, Mike Hammett wrote: In 5 GHz (the home of 802.11a) there are a few hundred MHz available. All the home routers really should be in 5 GHz

Re: [WISPA] Wi-Fi to top 1 GB/s by 2012

2009-12-09 Thread Mike
-Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Mike Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 9:21 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Wi-Fi to top 1 GB/s by 2012 I agree! However, most of the newer laptops don't have 802.11a

Re: [WISPA] Wind!

2009-12-09 Thread Mike
? Are you hanging and freezing deer sausage on that cloths line? -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Mike Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 9:16 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Wind! I just tried digging out a path

Re: [WISPA] Wind!

2009-12-09 Thread Mike
Call me when you do. We can meet up if you like. Mike At 12:03 PM 12/9/2009, you wrote: And the wonder pole is now ice Say it isn't so! I gotta go out to cedar rapids in a week or so. That sucks! -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun

Re: [WISPA] Wind!

2009-12-09 Thread Mike
List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Wind! So much for global warming! Oops, another hot topic these days! On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Mike m...@aweiowa.com wrote: I just tried digging out a path for the animals to go back outside. It's fruitless. I have 4 and 5 foot drifts and the wind is gusting

[WISPA] an epic storm

2009-12-09 Thread Mike
I'm not sure how this storm is affecting my fellow midwest WISP friends, but it is turning into an epic event here. Snow has drifted above the windows on a couple sides of the house. Winds are 35 mph sustained gusting to 50. It is still snowing, and we've had 14 - 16 inches of snow. It's

Re: [WISPA] Lanyards and Rebar Hooks

2009-12-09 Thread Mike
One of the short farm jacks might be easier to work on the tower. I have one of the long HiLift jacks I use for all sorts of things. That would be easy to gin pole to a lower section and use it without the base. At 04:36 PM 12/9/2009, you wrote: Ya know, I thought about an old scissor jack.

Re: [WISPA] an epic storm

2009-12-09 Thread Mike
] On Behalf Of Mike Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 3:34 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] an epic storm I'm not sure how this storm is affecting my fellow midwest WISP friends, but it is turning into an epic event here. Snow has drifted above the windows on a couple sides of the house

Re: [WISPA] One long @#$% day!

2009-12-09 Thread Mike
24 volts won't kill you. 25 volts will; with enough current. :-) At 10:00 PM 12/9/2009, you wrote: By low, I was talking about 24 volts. I know the electric company calls 120 volts. My point was I'm not taking a bucket near any electrical power lines, period. Thanks! On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at

Re: [WISPA] Trademark on a color?

2009-12-10 Thread Mike
Oh yes they did. Try to buy John Deere green paint; you pay a premium. They absolutely maintain control on marketing of the green, Deere. At 09:05 AM 12/10/2009, you wrote: I really don't think you can do that. I seem to remember that John Deere tried it and failed. Regards, Jeff Jeff

Re: [WISPA] Report: Broadband stimulus funds won't suffice

2009-12-12 Thread Mike
: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 9:17 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Report: Broadband stimulus funds won't suffice A lot of organizations only consider fiber worthy of deployment going

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti PTMP Antenna Selection

2009-12-15 Thread Mike
Is that saying any antenna with less than 30dBi gain is within the rules? Have they relaxed the rules on certification? Just curious. At 12:04 PM 12/15/2009, Matt wrote: According to Ubiquiti themselves and the FCC: This equipment is required to be professionally installed The device has

Re: [WISPA] Report: Broadband stimulus funds won't suffice

2009-12-16 Thread Mike
Oh, and I was giving you credit for quoting from Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy, where 42 was the answer to the Universal Question. mg At 04:11 PM 12/16/2009, you wrote: I read an interesting thing the other day concerning that. As proof that you can use numbers to come to any conclusion that

Re: [WISPA] I'm an idiot

2009-12-17 Thread Mike
I like the hand warmer idea. I see em for less than a buck per regularly. Thanks for the tip. mg At 02:01 PM 12/17/2009, you wrote: Yeah, you are an id10t! Yikes. It's only internet guys! NO ONE IS GONNA DIE if it doesn't work. Oh, they act like they will, but they wont. Safety first,

[WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-19 Thread Mike
I was almost ready to pull the trigger on some Ubiquiti equipment for a new project. The scent of low price is alluring. Then I start reading about connectors pulling out, connectors not soldered on properly, and the wrong boot code on boards. Is it too early? Should I wait a bit before I

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ready for prime time?

2009-12-19 Thread Mike
amazed at how well they preformed for the price. I have read all the horror stories in the UBNT forums but have yet to have one problem. Probably just cursed myself and should of kept my mouth shut. But so far so good. On Sat 12/19/09 6:35 AM , Mike m...@aweiowa.com sent: I was almost

Re: [WISPA] 5.8 dishes

2009-12-24 Thread Mike
I think he meant prawn, which is shrimp. I just recently joined DAM; Mother's Against Dyslexia. At 08:51 AM 12/24/2009, you wrote: I'm no able to get my pron at all. I think they have a pron block in my area. -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org

Re: [WISPA] power management tools for cell sites

2009-12-24 Thread Mike
Check out DigitalLoggers: http://www.digital-loggers.com/din.html They have some cool devices. I use them at tower sites and can reboot individual devices. The DIN relays might work for you. I use the web switches a couple places. Mike At 08:24 PM 12/24/2009, you wrote: I'm hoping

[WISPA] Another epic storm?

2009-12-26 Thread Mike
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Re: [WISPA] Water sealing in cold weather

2010-01-11 Thread Mike
The Andrew way has always been wide mastic/coax seal/good electrical tape. The mastic keeps the coax seal out of the threads The coax seal seals The electrical tape protects the coax seal Always wrap like you're roofing; bottom up. Mike -Original Message- From: wireless-boun

Re: [WISPA] Condolences and prayers for the people Haiti

2010-01-13 Thread Mike
, and is estimated to have been an 8 on the scale, or 10 times more powerful than the Haitian one yesterday. The New Madrid quake was 199 years ago this month, or the same time frame as the last big quake in Haiti. Mike -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun

Re: [WISPA] Send MONEY Now!

2010-01-14 Thread Mike
Absolutely not true with the RED Cross. You get a big bang for your buck, and they are always the first to respond with relief, know what they're doing, and do it well. At redcross.org you can even use Amazon payments to get your donation on the way. Do it, it'll make you feel good. Mike

Re: [WISPA] Send MONEY Now!

2010-01-14 Thread Mike
of the St. Petersburg soup kitchen. According to your site, over 90% of Red Cross funds go right to the cause, quickly, efficiently. Why debate, just give. Give blood while you're at it too. The Red Cross does that well too. Mike -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org

[WISPA] Equipment cleanup

2009-06-03 Thread mike
Just going through some extra gear, we picked up from a recent aquisition, have an assortment of Tranzeo 2.4's/5.8's and Trango 900 AP/SU's and TenX radios. We are going to put this stuff up on ebay soon (or bin it), we have tested it and verified it's functioning, if someone is interested

[WISPA] PDU/UPS

2009-06-10 Thread mike
We've got to purchase some PDU/UPS for new locations, I'm looking to standardize on something into the future. I'd prefer a combo PDU/UPS device with 8 ports providing surge/conditioning, remotely accessable via IP and something that can stand the rough Michigan weather conditions. I've looked

[WISPA] Radio Seperation

2009-06-13 Thread mike
We've just installed a 3 sector 2.4 setup, at 145' with maxrad 120's. I'm noticing the receive sensitivity on the AP's are about 15-20 db's different then what I see on the CPE's, tried a Tranzeo/Ubiquity radio. I'm using Ubiquity AP's, and they work fine on another 3 sector setup I have,

Re: [WISPA] Radio Seperation

2009-06-13 Thread mike
Yea, can't try that until Monday though. Was just sort of wondering if improper isolation would cause the issue I'm seeing, or if I need to keep looking for something else. Regards Michael Baird - Original Message - From: Bob Moldashel lakel...@gbcx.net To: WISPA General List

Re: [WISPA] 802.11 CPE's

2009-07-20 Thread Mike
Looking for a good MT vendor. The fellow I've been trying to work with has gone AWOL. I need to get a link going for a community project pretty quickly. Regards, Mike WISPA Wants You! Join today! http

[WISPA] MT Vendor lead

2009-07-20 Thread Mike
Oops! Forgot to change the subject. Looking for a good MT vendor. The fellow I've been trying to work with has gone AWOL. I need to get a link going for a community project pretty quickly. Regards, Mike

Re: [WISPA] MT Vendor lead

2009-07-21 Thread Mike
, Mike Gilchrist Disruptive Technologist Advanced Wireless Express P.O. Box 255 Toledo, IA 52342 239-770-6203 At 05:40 PM 7/20/2009, you wrote: Try Dennis Burgess from www.linktechs.net One of the best! Victoria Proffer - President/CEO StLouisBroadband.com http://stlbroadband.com/ 314.974.5600

Re: [WISPA] Canopy Distance

2009-07-30 Thread Mike
, or just tell the customer it won't work if you are trying to reach that distance with an AP to SM. Mike At 07:01 PM 7/30/2009, you wrote: Any chance it could do 30 to 40 miles from ap to cpe with that setup? Jason Gino Villarini wrote: Charles Actually now it's FCC certified with the low power

Re: [WISPA] 5.8 Distance

2009-07-31 Thread Mike
But NOT with Canopy, right? At 10:25 AM 7/31/2009, you wrote: We have 29 mile ptmp links that will deliver 6Mbps x 3Mbps without a problem. Travis Microserv WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/

[WISPA] Mounting a dish on a Rohn 9N

2009-08-03 Thread Mike
1 1/2 at the smallest. What are you guys using as a pipe mount in such a situation? Is there something I could use I could buy locally? Thanks, Mike WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org

Re: [WISPA] Mounting a dish on a Rohn 9N

2009-08-03 Thread Mike
When I search there for pipe to pipe, I only get hits for ice bridge hardware. At 01:30 PM 8/3/2009, you wrote: Pipe to pipe mount This will allow you to mount to the leg and add a larger pipe to mount the dish. www.sitepro1.com ...

Re: [WISPA] Installs on Towers, what's your method?

2009-08-05 Thread Mike
I too disagree on the electrical tape. An old installer taught me that 9 - 12 lengths of insulated solid #8 wire makes great bundle ties. Before the climb, he cuts a bunch of them to length, stuffs them in his pouch. On the way back down, every five feet or so he will take the wire around

Re: [WISPA] Tranzeo 900 Latency

2009-08-06 Thread Mike
; grain bins, rural water towers etc ... It's the fastest growing wireless network I've ever seen, and all but trashes 900 MHz. Mike At 10:17 AM 8/6/2009, you wrote: Most of my tranzeo AP's have had to be replaced due to similar things. They started out good, but as people have done more

Re: [WISPA] 5.8GHz Link Loss

2009-08-08 Thread Mike
in the midwest they are uncommon. This may not be the case with your link, but is worth learning about. Here is a nice site for tropo predictions. http://www.dxinfocentre.com/tropo_car.html Mike At 10:33 PM 8/7/2009, you wrote: So, what causes this crazy loss on all of my 'longer' 5.8 links after

Re: [WISPA] 5.8GHz Link Loss

2009-08-08 Thread Mike
At 08:18 AM 8/8/2009, you wrote: Likely to be scintillation. Could be, but in my experience, scintillation is more of a factor mid day. WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/

Re: [WISPA] 5.8GHz Link Loss

2009-08-08 Thread Mike
Scintillation, for our purposes, is similar to when you see a mirage on a highway in front of you, usually on a hot day, and not uncommon across deserts. The wavering of the light waves is the same thing that happens to radio signals, more-or-less. I once had a canopy, with dish mounted on a

Re: [WISPA] 5.8GHz Link Loss

2009-08-08 Thread Mike
] On Behalf Of Mike Sent: Saturday, August 08, 2009 1:05 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] 5.8GHz Link Loss Scintillation, for our purposes, is similar to when you see a mirage on a highway in front of you, usually on a hot day, and not uncommon across deserts. The wavering

Re: [WISPA] 5.8GHz Link Loss

2009-08-09 Thread Mike
On long links the information could help you explain some anomalies. From an engineering point of view space diversity is the best way to cope with tropospheric ducting. To a lesser extent, frequency diversity can help maintain a long link since different frequencies are affected slightly

Re: [WISPA] 5.8GHz Link Loss

2009-08-10 Thread Mike
are it may be Rayleigh fading, or Rician fading if the path is over trees and such. Did someone else show up and start shooting across your path, especially at mid path? There is a wealth of knowledge on this list, but we still need some more info. Did all of the 3? paths degrade similarly? Mike

Re: [WISPA] On-line back-up

2009-08-13 Thread Mike
BECAUSE of the long duration back-up users. Without the Netequalizer, just a few of these users would bring my network to its knees. I am beginning to think Mosy and their ilk belong in the same camp as Netflix and the P2Pers. Mike At 05:51 AM 8/13/2009, you wrote: Mike wrote: Seems wrong too

[WISPA] Wiliboard grounding

2009-08-20 Thread Mike
on the board, but wondered if there was a better way. Mike WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wireless List

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-20 Thread Mike
Where is the telephone demark. Access? You're a CLEC, put a small DSLAM in there; Zhone? Or consider Ethernet over power line. Apartment complexes of any size can get really ugly with RF in a hurry. Wireless absolutely? I don't know about the Meraki hardware mentioned, but seem to

Re: [WISPA] Handheld GPS recommendations, anyone?

2009-08-22 Thread Mike
Early Saturday morning and playing catch-up with the list since we took our daughter to college yesterday. I had to look at my cell phone, which by-the-way woke me up a few minutes ago because a router down message was coming in from my upstream provider, to see what day it was. Reading all

Re: [WISPA] VPN's

2009-08-23 Thread Mike
Ran into the Citrix problem a long time ago. Most data programs are sensitive to dropped packets. The problem with Citrix is that the packets were small. The program was written to work as a database across a local area network. Once WANs became common and the databases were centralized I

Re: [WISPA] Gettin sick of Microtik

2009-08-24 Thread Mike
If this was one of your remote sites and you suspected virus activity, would you put a sniffer on the AP? How and with what would you analyze the problem? What's the best way to be alert to such happenings? At 08:26 AM 8/24/2009, you wrote: Sounds like you have one or more infected customers

Re: [WISPA] Antenna Loads

2009-08-24 Thread Mike
://www.rfparts.com/dummy.html Mike At 04:10 PM 8/24/2009, you wrote: For bench purposes, how hard is it to build antenna loads for the bench. I hate having to hook up a antenna, LMR and Pigtail every time I test a radio. I am pretty new to this Building my own stuff and not buying

Re: [WISPA] solar site

2009-08-25 Thread Mike
way to do it, but it works. Mike At 11:09 PM 8/24/2009, you wrote: Hi All, Sorry for the cross post. Time is short on this project and I need a lot of help. I've never done a solar project. Never really even looked at them due to the costs I've seen tossed about. Now I have a customer that's

Re: [WISPA] solar site

2009-08-25 Thread Mike
I was shocked to find the 15W panels at Northern for $79.00. I ordered some and they work great. You need a charge controller, $45.00 to keep the batteries from over charging. You have to get creative with uni-strut and angle iron to make your own mount, or buy them. Batteries are the

[WISPA] Location agreement

2009-08-25 Thread Mike
I am going to plant a 60 foot pole on a fellow's farm. The plan is to light up a river valley which can't get fast Internet. Does anyone have a friendly agreement they've used and would share? Thanks, Mike

[WISPA] Tower sighting

2009-08-25 Thread Mike
back. Mike WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe

Re: [WISPA] solar site

2009-08-25 Thread Mike
for site surveys on occasion. Both radios pull less than an Amp total and the system supplies 2.5 Amp in good sun. The 800 Amp hour battery will run it for 800 hours? Mike At 08:04 PM 8/25/2009, you wrote: Interesting. What radios are you powering this with? Scottie -- Original Message

Re: [WISPA] solar site

2009-08-26 Thread Mike
http://www.wonderpole.com/wp640_630.html I have had very good service from this device. Don't over-tighten the section rings in the field unless you have a pair of channel locks with you. Don't ask me how I know that. At 01:59 AM 8/26/2009, you wrote: Wonder Pole? Please tell me more! Mike

Re: [WISPA] solar site

2009-08-26 Thread Mike
been reluctant to put signs on it though, for obvious reasons. (people already think I am toting a rocket launcher) LOL Ralph -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Mike Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 10:57 PM To: sarn...@info

Re: [WISPA] solar site

2009-08-26 Thread Mike
Of Mike Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 5:40 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] solar site I'd love to add that to my trailer. What is the make? At 11:36 PM 8/25/2009, you wrote: That sounds like great public service and a way to get recognized too! If you want

Re: [WISPA] solar site

2009-08-26 Thread Mike
://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10051langId=-1catalogId=10053productId=100658288 Mike wrote: It depends on how high you push it up. I *HAVE* had it all the way up with a 12 panel, low wind condition, one person on the ground and the other sitting on the gable end

Re: [WISPA] Antenna Mount extensions

2009-08-27 Thread Mike
'splain please! How is that configured? Thanks. At 10:50 AM 8/27/2009, you wrote: ... We now mount 2 pieces of 1-5/8 Unistrut with 1/4 lags and clamp the pipe to it. WISPA Wants You! Join today!

Re: [WISPA] solar site

2009-08-27 Thread Mike
radios is insignificant, and not some 200' run. Hams, geeks and wisp owners are cut from similar cloth. Mike WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org

Re: [WISPA] solar site

2009-08-29 Thread Mike
That's one point I was making with my fuzzy math repeater example. :-) I think the Wili card radios in that repeater system will operate down to 7V. I may need more than toys if I tried to use legacy 48V stuff and the resultant voltage conversions. At 10:08 AM 8/29/2009, you wrote: The best

[WISPA] Non-disclosure

2009-08-31 Thread Mike
? Friendly Regards, Mike WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe

Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik Processor Load

2009-09-02 Thread Mike
Couldn't you run a bridge computer with something like Untangle running to see what the traffic contains at the tower site? I've never run Untangle, but have considered setting up such a device to put at a troublesome node for analysis. Thoughts? Mike At 07:41 AM 9/2/2009, you wrote

Re: [WISPA] Senate Bill

2009-09-03 Thread Mike
Was it Prodigy, AOL or Gore who invented the Internet? Or was it Compuserve? Man we've come a long ways since ALL of those. At 10:53 AM 9/3/2009, you wrote: I guess it depends on your definition of Internet. The ARPANET model doesn't really show what we have today. For me it's about TCP/IP,

Re: [WISPA] 900Mhz question

2009-09-03 Thread Mike
I'm curious if anybody has explored using circular polarization at 900 MHz for some of the reasons posted in this thread? At 10:42 AM 9/3/2009, you wrote: Lol, and the answer is because horizontal usually has less noise. Whcih has nothing to do with the size of the wave cycle. Unless someone

Re: [WISPA] 900Mhz question

2009-09-03 Thread Mike
Cordless phones, baby monitors, PAGING SYSTEMS, and the bane for rural Iowa users is the new GPS positioning systems on every big farmer's tractor. They make 900 MHz worthless even with filters; they use the entire allotment. Telemetry, talking refrigerators, and other consumer devices also

Re: [WISPA] Ever see Ethernet cables fail so that ...

2009-09-05 Thread Mike
Curious if you blew any water out of the low end of the cat5? I had a similar thing happen one time. It was atmospheric pumping caused by pressure changes; at least that was the theory. At 06:18 PM 9/5/2009, you wrote: Believe me, I tried replacing the end connectors before rerunning the

Re: [WISPA] Some great photos

2009-09-07 Thread Mike
And the Wireless Internet antenna is a discone. Unity gain, omnidirectional. It looks more like a scanner antenna or multiband close comm antenna. At 10:31 PM 9/6/2009, you wrote: It should be clear, I posted that link with no thought to politics, it was simply to show our troops in action

Re: [WISPA] 2.4 Frequency coordination

2009-09-09 Thread Mike
thought about doing this or is doing this? You could squeeze a couple more sectors on a tower if this is possible. Mike At 08:36 AM 9/9/2009, you wrote: I believe you can but you'll need to use the CLI Int wireless set wlan1 frequency=2406 On 9/9/09, Mike m...@aweiowa.com wrote: I have

Re: [WISPA] 2.4 Frequency coordination

2009-09-09 Thread Mike
device. I would however buy one for the AP. It may steer me away from using MT for these customer sites IF I decide to try this. Mike *** Good idea, but it won't let me. I receive this message: message=bad band and/or channel, see 'wireless info' for supported

Re: [WISPA] 2.4 Frequency coordination

2009-09-09 Thread Mike
stuff go anyway? Mike At 02:08 PM 9/9/2009, you wrote: Be Careful!! Selecting another Country Code is unwise if you are going to operate near the band edges because of spurs (spurious emissions). Here's an explanation. A 20-MHz (or 10 MHz or 5 MHz) channel is really more than 20 MHz (or 10

Re: [WISPA] Need Lightning Arrestor Advice

2009-09-17 Thread Mike
I'm not sure which Ethernet surge protection I'd recommend, but PolyPhaser does it best, in my opinion, for RF. At 10:51 PM 9/16/2009, you wrote: Hello all, I am part of a group installing a wireless network in rural Honduras for a growing educational system with a chapter of Engineers Without

Re: [WISPA] Router suggestions

2009-09-20 Thread Mike
Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of RickG Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2009 8:40 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Router suggestions http://www.edimax.us/ EW-7207APg -RickG On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Mike Hammett wispawirel

Re: [WISPA] Router suggestions

2009-09-21 Thread Mike
, Sep 20, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Mike Hammett wispawirel...@ics-il.netwrote: Something like 80% of the time I've been to a network had Linksys, it's been broken. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com

Re: [WISPA] Net Neutrality

2009-09-21 Thread Mike
telling ATT what to do. STOP protecting my Free Speech right now!!!. Mike Hammett wrote: What I don't like about it is another case of the government telling me what to do. More regulations is less freedom. If someone doesn't like the way ISP

Re: [WISPA] Organite defense

2009-09-23 Thread Mike
WTF? I hope you're not smoking that sh1t! At 10:28 AM 9/23/2009, you wrote: Never heard of such a thing. This is very interesting: http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message519074/pg1 On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Robert West robert.w...@just-micro.comwrote: Anyone else tired of

Re: [WISPA] Link Planning Software

2009-09-28 Thread Mike
... and a flashing light hooked to a Digital Loggers switch on the tower for sunset site surveys. :-) a light: http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_6970_200365214_200365214 a 24 volt power supply:

Re: [WISPA] OT - Text Messages

2009-09-29 Thread Mike
!) an anomaly of some sort 2) the apple doesn't fall far from the tree 3) she FOUND boys in a big way 4) all of the above I pick 4) all of the above. If you read Verizon's TOS, text messages are not guaranteed to be delivered, take the least cost path, and might arrive well after they are

Re: [WISPA] Multipath

2009-09-29 Thread Mike
Multipath and/or scintillation. It looks like the sun is shining and 65 degrees in Salem. Sun beating on that metal surface can cause heat waves to rise in front of the antenna causing scintillation. Sometimes this stuff is black magic and moving a CPE a couple feet one way or another can

Re: [WISPA] Airports a Problem?

2009-09-30 Thread Mike
Agreed. Planes flying through the Fresnel zone will have more of an impact on B type modulation than on say G. You might see selective fading because of multipath, but OFDM or some other robust modulation technique will recover from an aircraft on approach at 250 mph flying through the

Re: [WISPA] To G or not to G :-)

2009-10-01 Thread Mike
The Atheros Deliberant cards will do half and quarter channels on G. At 10:42 AM 10/1/2009, you wrote: If you aren't sectorized, you should do that first. Neither normal b or g or b/g are ideal in high noise. I don't mix. I like a little better g-mode on 10mhz channels using radio cards that

Re: [WISPA] To G or not to G :-)

2009-10-01 Thread Mike
Yeah, I think they use the same cards -- Willi Atheros. Goota set IEEE mode to G first, then half/quarter channels are available. At 11:04 AM 10/1/2009, you wrote: Mike - you mean 5mhz and 10mhz channels? Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH

Re: [WISPA] To G or not to G :-)

2009-10-01 Thread Mike
* Redundant PtP bridge with STP At 11:37 AM 10/1/2009, you wrote: Yeah, I think they use the same cards -- Willi Atheros. Goota set IEEE mode to G first, then half/quarter channels are available. At 11:04 AM 10/1/2009, you wrote: Mike - you mean 5mhz and 10mhz channels? Josh Luthman

Re: [WISPA] To G or not to G :-)

2009-10-01 Thread Mike
You don't say if you are using 5Mhz or 10MHz channels. I assume 10 with 40 customers. With the smaller bandwidth and slower speeds I think fractional channels limit the number of subscribers you can put on an AP. Does anybody have any empirical data on the number of users that can use a 5MHz

Re: [WISPA] To G or not to G :-)

2009-10-01 Thread Mike
We get a capital fee up front that covers most of the equipment charges. It was harder a few years ago with $380.00 radios, but like most electronic stuff they keep getting better and cheaper. Soon they will just be giving them to us. :-) At 06:49 PM 10/1/2009, you wrote: Like I said, we

Re: [WISPA] To G or not to G :-)

2009-10-02 Thread Mike
I built one of the very first Canopy networks back in 2002. Joe Schneider even sat at my desk and helped configure the first cluster. We even helped them iron out some problems with the early CMM. Ken Magro was near the top of my speed dial list. The only serious competition at the time was

Re: [WISPA] To G or not to G :-)

2009-10-04 Thread Mike
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[WISPA] XBOX 360

2009-10-04 Thread Mike
I have a couple XBOX 360 players saying they are having lag issues. It seems a low bandwidth consumer. How are you guys optimizing for them? I'd like to try and make them happier. Is there a down side? I know Marlon asked last winter but a good answer never appeared on the list. Thanks

Re: [WISPA] XBOX 360

2009-10-05 Thread Mike
Huh? How does that help? At 10:52 PM 10/4/2009, you wrote: As my father told me, a poor workman blames his tools. . . . J o n a t h a n -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Mike Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2009 9:41 PM

Re: [WISPA] XBOX 360

2009-10-05 Thread Mike
up. Have you set up QOS queues for XBox? Mike At 10:15 PM 10/4/2009, you wrote: What kind of network topology do you have between your head end and their Xbox? Two or more layers of NAT, from what I read, bother the Xbox. What kind of bandwidth does he get after a speed test? Xbox uses a lot

Re: [WISPA] XBOX 360

2009-10-05 Thread Mike
can also contribute. Lend the customer a different router and see if that helps. On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 06:18:57AM -0500, Mike wrote: They ARE behind a double nat. They are a rural pocket of family I feed with a sector, then have a repeater on one of the buildings. I put a robust client

Re: [WISPA] XBOX 360

2009-10-05 Thread Mike
double nat can cause a problem for that sometimes. A low quality home firewall/router can also contribute. Lend the customer a different router and see if that helps. On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 06:18:57AM -0500, Mike wrote: They ARE behind a double nat. They are a rural pocket of family I feed

Re: [WISPA] XBOX 360

2009-10-05 Thread Mike
of users to see if it's the server or not. I guess I never knew the servers were out in other users homes, kinda like P2P or a sort of distributed computing? I guess I thought the Xbox live servers were centrally located. Mike At 09:02 AM 10/5/2009, you wrote: The only issue we have with Xbox

Re: [WISPA] XBOX 360

2009-10-05 Thread Mike
improbable, must be the truth. --- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Jeremy Parr jeremyp...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/10/5 David E. Smith d...@mvn.net: Mike Hammett wrote: I miss it back in the day when game servers were centrally hosted. These things, like many

Re: [WISPA] NetEqualizer Question

2009-10-06 Thread Mike
setting you really HAVE to do is set your trunk up and trunk down. It is a nice device and will keep you from having to buy more bandwidth. It just makes everybody play fair in an agnostic sort of way. Mike At 09:53 PM 10/6/2009, you wrote: Anyone running a NetEqualizer? I set one up

Re: [WISPA] NetEqualizer Question

2009-10-06 Thread Mike
I keep a browser open with three windows on the monitoring machine: http://192.168.100.2:3000/thptStats.html (change your ip. It updates automatically. I zoom it to see 3 graphs) http://192.168.100.2/cgi-bin/arbi/doGetbrain.cgi (I hit refresh when I want to see connections)

Re: [WISPA] NetEqualizer Question

2009-10-06 Thread Mike
of doing DHCP and NAT at your AP's). Mike At 10:36 PM 10/6/2009, you wrote: Mike- Thanks - I have a feeling something is still wrong, the connection count is just too low - there are 10's of 1,000s of connections on our network and this thing is only showing 120 or so at a time. Investigating

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