Re: [WISPA] DMA Labs
Not currently, but if you asked the developer I am sure he might entertain the idea of integrating it. Btw, the paypal has two methods of integration... 1) a customer can use their paypal account like normal 2) you can setup a paypal merchant account and authorize credit card transactions, without requiring the customer to have or create a paypal account. Jaron Parsons Sumner Communications Joe Miller wrote: > Does this work with Authorize.net? > > > > - Original Message ---- > From: Jaron Parsons > To: WISPA General List > Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2009 8:39:50 PM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] DMA Labs > > We use it for a hotspot authorization and payment gateway. > It works very well once setup, the packaging system is a little > confusing, but the support is great. The guy that maintains it will > pretty much setup it up for you. > Only drawback to me is ... We tried to run in on FreeBSD which most of > our other servers run and is more stable imo , but it was unable to run > one of his binaries properly. he said it will run on FreeBSD but is > better supported on LINUX. > The manual has detailed instructions for fedora and gentoo i believe. > So it wasn't too hard. Just make sure you have a stable LINUX server > running first, and let him do the rest remotely and you shouldn't have > too much to worry about. > Other drawback is that the support guy must be out of the states, cause > it sometimes takes 12 hours for a response. but i do not think i have > ever NOT received a response in more than 24 hours. Also his english is > not 100% but I had no problems understanding him. > > Otherwise, it is very flexible, and reliable once running. > It took about a days worth of fiddling with it to understand the > packages and get them running the way i wanted. > I have run ours for about a year without a reboot. It integrates with > paypal or netcash good too. > > If you have any other questions feel free to give me a shout or shoot me > an e-mail! > > Jaron Parsons > Networking Div Manager > Sumner Communications > 117 W Harvey > Wellington, KS 67152 > 620-326-8989 > > Jerry Richardson wrote: > >> Anyone using these Radius based billing software solutions? >> http://www.dmasoftlab.com/cont/home >> http://www.radius-manager.com/ >> >> Comments? >> >> >> >> Broadband for Business >> Public and Private WiFi >> >> Jerry Richardson >> VP Operations >> 925-260-4119 >> _ >> >> ConsuWISP >> RF Topographical Coverage Maps >> Network Optimization and Planning >> Network Design and Troubleshooting >> Installer and Technician Training >> >> P Please consider the environment before printing this email >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> >> >> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> > > > > > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > > > > > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -- Jaron Parsons Network Division Mgr Sumner Communications 117 W Harvey Wellington, KS 67152 jpars...@sumnercomm.net <mailto:jpars...@sumnercomm.net> http://www.sumnercomm.net 620-326-8989 x101 Office 620-326-5332 Fax WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] DMA Labs
We use it for a hotspot authorization and payment gateway. It works very well once setup, the packaging system is a little confusing, but the support is great. The guy that maintains it will pretty much setup it up for you. Only drawback to me is ... We tried to run in on FreeBSD which most of our other servers run and is more stable imo , but it was unable to run one of his binaries properly. he said it will run on FreeBSD but is better supported on LINUX. The manual has detailed instructions for fedora and gentoo i believe. So it wasn't too hard. Just make sure you have a stable LINUX server running first, and let him do the rest remotely and you shouldn't have too much to worry about. Other drawback is that the support guy must be out of the states, cause it sometimes takes 12 hours for a response. but i do not think i have ever NOT received a response in more than 24 hours. Also his english is not 100% but I had no problems understanding him. Otherwise, it is very flexible, and reliable once running. It took about a days worth of fiddling with it to understand the packages and get them running the way i wanted. I have run ours for about a year without a reboot. It integrates with paypal or netcash good too. If you have any other questions feel free to give me a shout or shoot me an e-mail! Jaron Parsons Networking Div Manager Sumner Communications 117 W Harvey Wellington, KS 67152 620-326-8989 Jerry Richardson wrote: > Anyone using these Radius based billing software solutions? > http://www.dmasoftlab.com/cont/home > http://www.radius-manager.com/ > > Comments? > > > > Broadband for Business > Public and Private WiFi > > Jerry Richardson > VP Operations > 925-260-4119 > _ > > ConsuWISP > RF Topographical Coverage Maps > Network Optimization and Planning > Network Design and Troubleshooting > Installer and Technician Training > > P Please consider the environment before printing this email > > > > > > > > > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] Lease Agreement Templates
I would also like the lease agreement information. Is there a repository somewhere for this information? Some kind of online source for members to access these kinds of documents and etc. Thank you! - Jaron Parsons Networking Division Manager Sumner Communications 117 W Harvey Wellington, KS 67152 620-326-8989 Office 620-326-5332 Fax On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 08:48 -0400, Steve Nedolast wrote: > John, > > If the lease agreements are still available, I would love to have a copy > of them. > > Thanks, Steve > > > > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] BGP
I have dual homed feeds from AT&T and Sprint. When I first installed the second, all traffic preferred AT&T. I added AS pre-pends to the AT&T link, until it was fairly equal between the two. From my understanding this makes your router appear further from the network than it really is on that link. I am not familiar with the two providers you mentioned, however I imagine it would depend on which provider has closer destinations for your traffic. Hope that helps, Jaron Parsons Sumner Communications Bryan Scott wrote: > Matt wrote: > >> If one were to multihome/BGP a wisp primarily serving home users >> between Cogent and another carrier like TWT or other where would the >> majority of the traffic wind up flowing? Just considering some >> bandwidth options. >> >> > > It really depends on where your users are going. > > When we had MCI + Sprint with full routes, the inbound traffic was > virtually identical (WOW servers were closer via Sprint though). > Outbound traffic leaned towards the UUNet/MCI/VZBiz circuit. > > In another life I found that the Tier 1 providers usually got and sent > more traffic than Tier 2. There are tricks you can use to massage all of > that though. > > -- Bryan > > > > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] Lightning Protection
Jim, I too have the pleasure of enjoying the wonderful Kansas Storms... Our main tower had been hit three times (in a row, in one season) while i have been using it for wireless, and I got fed up with changing out the equipment each time. I have found that on most of the towers, if it has a good ground, and you leave some of the tower, or a pole up higher than your equipment, there are no Lightning problems. On our main tower however, it was not grounded well. So in doing a little research I came across this kit from glen martin (I am sure there are others out there too) http://www.glenmartin.com/catalog/lightning.htm It came with everything but the wire to run down the side of the tower, which i was able to purchase from our local electric dept. I installed it, as well as drove a rod at each leg (it was a self supporting tower with three legs) and grounded each as well. since this was installed, I have not had a single problem through two seasons of storms now. I also installed a surge protection system , in my equipment room, that is connected to a ground bar that is tied to the tower as well. (an electrician told me to make sure your have your grounds tied together. Something about ground differentials, or equipment from two different grounding sources. I cannot remember the exact reason) In the past it seemed I was losing the equipment (or more specifically the mini-pci cards) from at least one tower everytime it decided to cloud over, due to another problem as well. Come to find out most of that problem was related to static build up on the antennas. (in fact every Omni directional antenna i had nearly, popped a card each time it clouded over) I found a solution to that as well, which you can read about here ( http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=9734&hilit= Topic:Wireless card recieve blows issue, in Wireless Networking Category ) on the Mikrotik Forums. Again Since implementing it, Havent lost a single card. Hope this all helps. Jaron Parsons Sumner Communications Jim Stout wrote: Spring arrived in Kansas City and so did the thunder storms. I took a lightning stike on my tower and lost both APs, the POEs, two switches and a Mikrotik router. The Antennas survived but it looks like I lost a little gain. My question is how do I protect against this happening again? Are lightning rods effective? Any thoughts will be appreciated. I don't want to have to replace everything again. TIA, Jim Jim Stout LTO Communications, LLC 15701 Henry Andrews Dr Pleasant Hill, MO 64080 (816) 305-1076 - Mobile (816) 497-0033 - Pager -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] WISP/Hosting friendly Billing software
I am in the process of installing freeside actually, but i tried it on FreeBSD and it isn't happy. I was going to start over and try again. Made it through all the steps but I keep getting Perl errors and more. ill give it another try. The Platypus looks good, I might get the demo, I would prefer something *nix based, however. Jaron Jeremy Davis wrote: Jaron Parsons wrote: Hello all, I may not be posting this to the right location, forgive me if this is the case, and direct me to the proper procedure if any. I am looking for a good flexible billing software package that is WISP friendly, Web Host Friendly, Dial-Up friendly, possibly automatic provisioning although not necessary, CC processing, Hotspot friendly, has a web based customer interface, preferrably with a support ticketing system and/or some kind of knowledge base, and priced economically. I have spent days sifting through pages after pages of different solutions from various providers. All of them claim to be the best of course. What I would really like to hear is what another WISP is using and had success with. Pros and Cons discovered by real companies. Recommendations to evaluate, and products to steer away from and why. Freeside sisd.com/freeside However its not that WISP friendly until AFTER it is setup. Sincerely, Jeremy Davis -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
[WISPA] WISP/Hosting friendly Billing software
Hello all, I may not be posting this to the right location, forgive me if this is the case, and direct me to the proper procedure if any. I am looking for a good flexible billing software package that is WISP friendly, Web Host Friendly, Dial-Up friendly, possibly automatic provisioning although not necessary, CC processing, Hotspot friendly, has a web based customer interface, preferrably with a support ticketing system and/or some kind of knowledge base, and priced economically. I have spent days sifting through pages after pages of different solutions from various providers. All of them claim to be the best of course. What I would really like to hear is what another WISP is using and had success with. Pros and Cons discovered by real companies. Recommendations to evaluate, and products to steer away from and why. Thank you for your time and response, Jaron Parsons Sumner Communications http://www.sumnercomm.net -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] Power Lines in the LOS path
Jim, I have run into very similar situations, where high power lines, were the only explanation as to the interference. I was able to work around it in some situations by adjusting the customer antenna to shoot under the powerlines, however, this is not always possible, nor is it always the fix. In most of these cases, we were able to get data through, but not at the speed that it should have been, so we would end up selling the customer a lower speed package. I have been unable to find much information about this, but would be greatly interested in hearing what others have done, if they have run into it at all. Jaron Parsons Sumner Communications Jim Stout wrote: I hate to ask this question, but I'm at my wit's end with this one. I recently installed a new customer (2.4 GHz) with a clear LOS to my tower. The distance is less than a mile and I get -56 dBm of signal strength. I've run a spectrum analyzer and it's dead silent when the radio's off.. All sounds great! A real simple install, but the radio intermittently locks up, fails to associate and most recently, simply fails to work for more then 10 - 30 seconds at a time following a POR. I've replaced radio (Tranzeo SL2) and gone to the latest version of firmware. I even contacted Tranzeo Tech Support and follwed their recommendations for timing settings. The only difference between this client and all the others on my tower is that there is a power line in the LOS path. Has anyone else found this to be a problem? It's almost like an invisible concrete wall is between the AP and the site. Thanks, Jim Jim Stout LTO Communications, LLC 15701 Henry Andrews Dr Pleasant Hill, MO 64080 (816) 305-1076 - Mobile (816) 497-0033 - Pager -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
