Re: [WISPA] Ping monitoring?

2017-01-20 Thread John Thomas
PRTG? - Original Message - Subject: [WISPA] Ping monitoring? From: "Jon Langeler" Date: 1/18/17 6:35 pm To: a...@afmug.com I can't get smokeping to send a ping say every second and only one each time. Any alternatives or suggestions? Jon Langeler

[WISPA] Renton WA - Looking for service

2016-12-14 Thread John Thomas
I'm looking for service 600 Powell Ave SW Renton WA 98057 need 13 Static IP addresses 5 Megabits symmetric bandwidth ___ Wireless mailing list Wireless@wispa.org http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless

[WISPA] Looking for service

2014-11-14 Thread John Thomas
Looking for 10 meg 1640 West Yosemite Blvd. Manteca, CA 95337 Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID___ Wireless mailing list Wireless@wispa.org http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless

Re: [WISPA] 2dbi vs 3dbi vs 5 dbi vs 100mw vs 400mw

2014-11-13 Thread John Thomas
You have the right idea. It is only when you increase power on both ends that the distance increases. Tablets in particular only have about 10 - 15 mW radios so that is the lowest common denominator. If you have radios with removable antennas, you can sometimes use different antennas to

Re: [WISPA] Anyone serving Pompey NY? PR for WISPA

2014-11-08 Thread John Thomas
And I know someone in San Ramon that the business complex is across the street from Comcast. They want $10,000 to cross the street. Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID Mike Lyon mike.l...@gmail.com wrote: ___ Wireless mailing list

Re: [WISPA] security certificate

2014-10-20 Thread John Thomas
If you use Exchange 2007 or newer, you can change the internal dns name in your send and receive connectors to match the cert. Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID Timothy Way t...@way.lc wrote: ___ Wireless mailing list Wireless@wispa.org

Re: [WISPA] security certificate

2014-10-19 Thread John Thomas
Or you can buy a wildcard for a few hundred dollars and use it on all your devices. Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.com wrote: ___ Wireless mailing list Wireless@wispa.org

Re: [WISPA] security certificate

2014-10-19 Thread John Thomas
http://www.netcentraldomains.com $209 per year. Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.com wrote: ___ Wireless mailing list Wireless@wispa.org http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless

Re: [WISPA] Commission Sales

2014-07-03 Thread John Thomas
Normally sales people will work off a base + commission. Sometimes the base is a draw, or partial commission in advance. Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID Carl Shivers cshiv...@aristotle.net wrote: ___ Wireless mailing list

Re: [WISPA] Need 50Mb highly symmetrical service in Dallas, Texas

2014-05-29 Thread John Thomas
Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID Brad Belton b...@belwave.com wrote: ___ Wireless mailing list Wireless@wispa.org http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless ___ Wireless mailing list

Re: [WISPA] Need 50Mb highly symmetrical service in Dallas, Texas

2014-05-29 Thread John Thomas
Do you have a tower that can service Plano? Looking for 10 meg/10 meg IP v4, IP v6, BGP. I checked with every other wireless provider in the area, and no one does IP v6, and most can't do BGP. Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID Brad Belton b...@belwave.com wrote:

Re: [WISPA] package ideas

2014-05-07 Thread John Thomas
My suggestion was only relative to your current pricing. For reference, ATT UVerse in my area is $34.95 for 6 Meg down, and 768 k up, and when you go past 150 gigs in a month, it's $10 for each 50 gigs. Charter is bragging about 30 megs down, and 4 megs up, capped at 250 gig ( I think) for

Re: [WISPA] package ideas

2014-05-06 Thread John Thomas
How about adding 5 Meg at $79, then 10 Meg at $109? wi...@mncomm.com wrote: ___ Wireless mailing list Wireless@wispa.org http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless ___ Wireless mailing list

Re: [WISPA] pay per use billing

2014-05-06 Thread John Thomas
How about tiering? If you have the infrastructure for it, 2 megabits limited to 50 gig, and then it slows down to 128 k for the rest of the month. wi...@mncomm.com wrote: ___ Wireless mailing list Wireless@wispa.org

Re: [WISPA] Banswidth usage

2014-02-18 Thread John Thomas
Netflix at 480p does about 3 to 5 megabits per second. That upstream number looks high for Netflix. Sent with AquaMail for Android http://www.aqua-mail.com On February 18, 2014 9:51:51 AM ~NGL~ n...@ngl.net wrote: I have a customer that has used 19 GBytes down and 9 GBytes up in the last 18

Re: [WISPA] Are we being muscled out of the 5265 - 5700 frequencies?

2014-02-10 Thread John Thomas
Interesting statement regarding Cisco. They sell $3000 per unit mesh equipment whose range would be hurt if power limits were dropped. John Sent with AquaMail for Android http://www.aqua-mail.com On February 10, 2014 6:15:22 AM Fred Goldstein fgoldst...@ionary.com wrote: Blair Davis

Re: [WISPA] Comcast asking FCC for more 5GHz spectrum.

2013-11-16 Thread John Thomas
Hey Ubiquiti, here is an idea for a new product... :-) Sent with AquaMail for Android http://www.aqua-mail.com On November 15, 2013 6:51:00 AM Eric Muehleisen ericm...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [WISPA] packaging suggestions

2013-09-28 Thread John Thomas
Joe, for 1 reason, you have the fact that others are already doing it. My ATT 6 meg / 768 k circuit started out at unmetered for $19.99 per month. Then it went to 29.99 per month. Then came the 150 gig cap and $ 10 per each additional 50 gigs, then the base rate went to $34.95, and with my

Re: [WISPA] packaging suggestions

2013-09-28 Thread John Thomas
Also, if your billing systems allow for it, you probably want 3 tiers, minimal users, average users, and streaming users. John Joe Fiero joe1...@optonline.net wrote: Joe, I too built up on an open usage platform and yes, when the subscribers logged into their PowerCode portals and viewed

Re: [WISPA] 802.11 and roaming

2013-09-08 Thread John Thomas
It sounds like you didn't try Cisco CAPWAP controller based APs. You have very fine control of how they roam. John Blair Davis the...@wmwisp.net wrote: I've tried MikroTik. I've tried Cisco. I've tried UniFi. I pretty much don't think there is a working way to roam from AP to AP with 802.11

Re: [WISPA] ConnectEd

2013-08-28 Thread John Thomas
Unfortunately, pricing is all over the board, and there are schools that are buying 100 meg circuits. In CA Comcast territory, they offer 100 meg by 10 ( or 20 ) for about $399 per month. Now, we all know that Comcast cherry picks where they provide service, so there are those that are a block

Re: [WISPA] Goodbye to Whitespace for WISP's uses?

2012-09-29 Thread John Thomas
What is really sad is that they could license lite, for a couple hundred dollars a year, spectrum to several thousand wisps and end up with the same $ as selling it to the big boys that would just end up camping on it. John Doug Clark d...@txox.com wrote: Sorry John, this should have been

Re: [WISPA] Cogent?

2012-09-24 Thread John Thomas
That statement alone sys a lot. We have a client with an MPLS network at Megapath- they don't do BGP. :-( Bret Clark bcl...@spectraaccess.com wrote: No problems and their 1st level tech support actually have a clue about BGP. On 09/24/2012 06:46 PM, Victoria Proffer wrote: Love them~

Re: [WISPA] Can they really do this?

2012-09-22 Thread John Thomas
Ciscos wireless LAN controllers can do this. From the web page at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6366/products_qanda_item09186a008064a991.shtml Q. What is a Rogue AP? Can the rogue APs in my wireless network be automatically blocked? A. APs that are not part of your wireless deployment

[WISPA] Internet Censorship

2011-11-16 Thread John Thomas
What is everyone's take on this? http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2011/11/sopa-internet-piracy-bill-criticized-as-internet-censorship/ WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/

Re: [WISPA] Fwd: Choosing core router for small - medium WISP

2011-07-11 Thread John Thomas
Roman, for the things you are talking about, Ciscos are not necessarily stupid expensive. We typically are installing Cisco 881 series routers on Cable modem Internet connections that run at 87 meg down and 20 meg up, and they rarely push more than a few % CPU. 880 series routers can be had for

[WISPA] Marketing ( was Re: Verizon 4G LTE - WOW - update)

2011-04-07 Thread John Thomas
Smart marketing goes a long way. I know of a company that was basically getting a 3 x T-1 pushed its way because ATT wanted to sell it to them. Wow, for only $700 per month you can have 4.5 Megabits per second. We told them go ask about Fiber. By going through a reseller, they were able to get

Re: [WISPA] Verizon 4G LTE - WOW - update

2011-04-07 Thread John Thomas
Rick, what price are you offering 10 megs at? In our neck of the woods Towerstream is doing 8 meg at $800 per month. John On 4/5/2011 9:23 PM, RickG wrote: Thats what I thought which is why I spent so much time and money on upgrading. I've got 30-50 megs at nearly every tower and I started

Re: [WISPA] 5.2 or 5.4 Short Hops

2011-01-25 Thread John Thomas
Cisco 1200 series are FCC certified for DFS bands. We have a pair of 1250's doing a .3 mile link at 135 Megabits/sec. Throughput at about 9.5 Megabytes per second on a file copy. Yes, they are more expensive at about $650 each (CDW), but they work. If you don't need 802.11n, then the 1242's

Re: [WISPA] Email Accounts

2010-12-19 Thread John Thomas
On 12/15/2010 12:08 PM, Glenn Kelley wrote: I have found vmware to be a nightmare in many instances. That is a pretty bold statement, can you describe an instance where it was a nightmare? In others I absolutely love it. Check out the opensource project called ProxMox. It allows you to

Re: [WISPA] Problems with facebook and hotmail

2010-12-02 Thread John Thomas
Have you looked at MTUs on the client PCs? If they have Windows PCs, download TCP Optimizer and set the MTU down to 1472 or less. A lot of ADSL circuits use PPPoE and it adds overhead. By dropping the MTU to allow for the PPPoE overhead, things will start working. IF testing show that this

Re: [WISPA] Covad Wireless

2010-11-21 Thread John Thomas
On 11/21/2010 5:48 AM, Mike Hammett wrote: Has anyone worked with Covad Wireless before? Yes, what do you want to know? John WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/

Re: [WISPA] Full BGP on RouterOS

2010-11-03 Thread John Thomas
You can *probably* do full tables on a pair of 1941's or 2900 Series Cisco's these days. With a pair of 1 U routers using VRRP or HSRP, you should be good to go. John On 11/2/2010 11:14 PM, Tom DeReggi wrote: Actually, answered own question... Saw picts on Google. Pretty sweet switch/router

[WISPA] Remote Controlled Drone

2010-10-20 Thread John Thomas
I have no idea if this would be on any use to anyone, but it seems like it might save a tower climb somewhere. http://www.brookstone.com/ar-drone-quadricopter.html?bkiid=hmpg|hdr|652479p You can remote control it with an iPhone and it has a camera. John

[WISPA] Carrier pigeons faster then rural wierless?

2010-09-22 Thread John Thomas
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/it-8217s-official-carrier-pigeons-are-faster-than-rural-internet/173?tag=nl.e539 WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/

Re: [WISPA] XBOX live, NAT, and UPnP

2010-08-04 Thread John Thomas
: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of John Thomas Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 1:28 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] XBOX live, NAT, and UPnP Robert, what upstream is charging $15 per month? If that is true, I have a portable /19 I am going to start

Re: [WISPA] XBOX live, NAT, and UPnP

2010-08-02 Thread John Thomas
And if I were your client, and you told me $10 for an IP address, I would find a new ISP. The most I have ever seen charged was $5 a month. John Kurt Fankhauser k...@wavelinc.com wrote: Everything i keep coming up with to make this work ideal according to the customer is Im gonna have to sell

Re: [WISPA] XBOX live, NAT, and UPnP

2010-08-02 Thread John Thomas
, 2010, at 8:46 PM, Mike m...@aweiowa.com wrote: Simple analysis might expose that customer to be one you'd rather let go. Or not. -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of John Thomas Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 6:27 PM

Re: [WISPA] XBOX live, NAT, and UPnP

2010-08-02 Thread John Thomas
iPhone On Aug 2, 2010, at 8:46 PM, Mike m...@aweiowa.com wrote: Simple analysis might expose that customer to be one you'd rather let go. Or not. -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of John Thomas Sent: Monday, August 02

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

2010-06-12 Thread John Thomas
Robert West robert.w...@just-micro.com wrote: Thanks for the gumball, Popeye. Thanks for the gumball. -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Scott Piehn Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2010 6:35 PM To: WISPA General List Cc:

Re: [WISPA] Repeater

2010-06-07 Thread John Thomas
Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.com wrote: Issue I see is that not many other units, UBNT or MT have a 2nd Ethernet that pass through POE? Not to my knowledge. I've always done two lines up the tower. Usually MT APs so I can do tons of troubleshooting but an NS2 works great, too. Josh

Re: [WISPA] Repeater

2010-06-07 Thread John Thomas
.e ww.sa xs,cssx. Z. Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.com wrote: Issue I see is that not many other units, UBNT or MT have a 2nd Ethernet that pass through POE? Not to my knowledge. I've always done two lines up the tower. Usually MT APs so I can do tons of

[WISPA] 10 ways you might be breaking the law with your computer: UPDATED

2010-03-29 Thread John Thomas
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=1400tag=nl.e102 WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wireless

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquity Pico2HP.

2010-03-10 Thread John Thomas
Cisco 1100 series a/b/g can be repeaters using both bands, Cisco 1200 series can be AP (root), CPE (non-root) or bridge. John Josh Luthman wrote: I'm thinking that every 802.11 device can be an AP or CPE. Pretty sure Tranzeo can. I know Engenius can. MT semi-can (requires lvl 4 to do

Re: [WISPA] FCC Broadband plan call for more spectrum---- but not forWISP's that's for sure.

2010-02-24 Thread John Thomas
I've wondered what would happen with something like a licensed lite that you had to pay $200 a year for access to a band. If the FCC did that, and people actually used the bands, then they could make some money, and people could get access. If, for instance, you had say 700-740 MHz and each

Re: [WISPA] Regulators may drop broadband line-sharing bombshell

2010-02-17 Thread John Thomas
Wouldn't it be great if there was something resembling consistent policies regarding facilities? Years ago, there was the suggestion that phone companies should be broken into 2 pieces, facilities and services. The facilities unit could sell access to the copper/fiber/cable to *any* buyer. You

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

2010-02-03 Thread John Thomas
Droid can do RDP and VPN John Brad Belton wrote: I used to remote desktop from my Sprint Touch phone (and earlier models too). However, a year or more ago I saw one of the guys here running remote desktop on his iPhone and was blown away how much better it worked than my HTC Touch. I

Re: [WISPA] omni upside down

2010-01-31 Thread John Thomas
Stock Cisco omnis, we were hanging them from light poles. John RickG wrote: Which antenna did you use? -RickG On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 6:03 PM, John Thomas jtho...@quarnet.com wrote: We have mounted omnis upside down because an omni pattern tends to radiate from the base of the antenna

Re: [WISPA] Short range backhaul

2010-01-31 Thread John Thomas
Midnight overhead fiber run... :-) John Jeremie Chism wrote: I have a pop across the street from one of my towers. The phone company there is giving me a great deal on bandwidth but I have to get it across to the tower. Any recommendations for something reliable at that range. Sent

Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo

2010-01-29 Thread John Thomas
the cost we pay. -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of John Thomas Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 9:44 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo We buy ours through a reseller, and they have quoted us

Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo

2010-01-29 Thread John Thomas
Kinda sounds like a WISP, eh? As long as they aren't overselling it to the point quality suffers, who cares? We had to work at just doing a speed test on our 100 meg connection as most of the servers couldn't do 100 meg up and 100 meg down. We finally were able to do a ftp and get 95 meg/95

Re: [WISPA] omni upside down

2010-01-29 Thread John Thomas
We have mounted omnis upside down because an omni pattern tends to radiate from the base of the antenna upward. By turning the antenna upside down, it becomes slight better at receiving and sending. That, and Cisco 1500's make it easy to do... John RickG wrote: Thanks! Is there any

Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo

2010-01-26 Thread John Thomas
Start lining up the lawsuit then. We pay about $350 for 100 megabits/sec at Hurricane Electric in Fremont CA. John Andy Trimmell wrote: 50Mbit for $450 a month isn't bad for a pipe to ATT. We're paying 10x that from ATT right now. $0.90? come on give me a break. If that's possible then we

Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo

2010-01-26 Thread John Thomas
We buy ours through a reseller, and they have quoted us $1000/month for Gig at Hurricane Electric in Fremont CA. John Mike Hammett wrote: I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if GigE connections were under $1 now. I know a couple companies were at $1. Bandwidth pricing is the inverse of

Re: [WISPA] [Motorola II] metered billing

2010-01-25 Thread John Thomas
Read the fine print in the contracts. With ATT, if you call people outside ATT's network too much, they will raise your rates. John Josh Luthman wrote: I expect if it comes to a point where services are degraded and enough customers complain they will do just what Vonage does - find the top

Re: [WISPA] Network Gigabit Switch Recommendations

2010-01-24 Thread John Thomas
From: John Thomas jtho...@quarnet.com Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 12:20 AM To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Subject: Re: [WISPA] Network Gigabit Switch Recommendations Try to find out what mac address is on which port-you can't do that with the HP 1800's, you need something

Re: [WISPA] Network Gigabit Switch Recommendations

2010-01-20 Thread John Thomas
Try to find out what mac address is on which port-you can't do that with the HP 1800's, you need something higher up the food chain. John Scott Vander Dussen wrote: Nick- Thanks for the info - I'm looking at specifications between the HP ProCurve 1810G Switch Series http://bit.ly/5g2F0B and

[WISPA] ATT was Re: Wimax gear

2010-01-01 Thread John Thomas
Unless the Federal Government gives ATT a blank check and ORDERS them to this, it is NOT ever going to happen. I have seen copies of Project Pronto documents that said the San Francisco Bay Area was supposed to have fiber to the home 10 years ago. Yes, there were a few strands installed, but

Re: [WISPA] Re-evaluating our anti-spam solution

2010-01-01 Thread John Thomas
What are the issues with your Barracuda? John Ugo Bellavance wrote: On 2009-07-13 20:08, Don Grossman wrote: It seems time to take a look at our anti-spam solution. Currently we are looking to replace out Barracuda due to ongoing issues with the box that after several attempts to work

[WISPA] WiFiSplurper

2009-12-25 Thread John Thomas
Has anyone ever seen this? http://www.boingboing.net/2007/05/30/wifi-slurper-grabs-u.html John WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/

Re: [WISPA] public subnet

2009-12-21 Thread John Thomas
A great article talking about why NOT to block ICMP http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/6524/1/ From the article, In short, blocking ICMP is detrimental to the successful operation of networks. It will break more than just ping; in fact, many protocols will be neutered if ICMP

Re: [WISPA] 5.6 GHZ?

2009-11-23 Thread John Thomas
On a Cisco 1231, Band 3 is 5.470 to 5.725 GHz. John George Morris wrote: Its part of 5.4. In Canada, you have to stay out of 5600-5650 due to weather radar, suspect the US may be much the same... George -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org

Re: [WISPA] Cat3 instead of Cat5

2009-11-19 Thread John Thomas
Also HP had 100 VG AnyLAN that used 4 wires. John Jerry Richardson wrote: There was a technology that used all 4 pairs. It was a proprietary solution that put Video on one set and data on the other. Broadxxx or something like that. -Original Message- From:

Re: [WISPA] Need a new AP

2009-11-19 Thread John Thomas
Cisco 1200 series will plug right in John AJ wrote: Hahaha Gmail ads came up with this firmware as I was reading this thread: http://www.fireserve.com/products/ubiquiti/bullet-m-firmware.php chop *Adds 802.11-compatible encryption modes *The stock Ubiquiti firmware only supports

Re: [WISPA] Small Managed Switches

2009-11-12 Thread John Thomas
I know that used to be an issue, but we have been seeing great results with Cisco 2960 series switches. John RickG wrote: Cisco makes great routers but their switches suck. They have port compatability issues with other equipment. On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:48 PM, Faisal Imtiaz

Re: [WISPA] customers dogs chewing on CAT5

2009-11-10 Thread John Thomas
How about http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetailproductId=69899-1267-FO550Mlpage=none where the dogs can reach it? John Kurt Fankhauser wrote: I've had several customers that have had their dog chew on the Cat5 going from the house to the TV tower and some of them multiple

Re: [WISPA] cellular repeater/bidirectional amps

2009-10-27 Thread John Thomas
Sometimes, you can contact the carriers and they will install repeaters for their clients. John jp wrote: I've got a wi-ex zboost yx500-cel at home and it works great to bring cellular into my home which is otherwise a dead-zone. Now, since we're the local gurus of all thing wireless, one

Re: [WISPA] Court says cities have the right tobar telecommunicationstowers

2009-10-27 Thread John Thomas
There are several of these on I80 and Hwy 50 in Northern CA. These silly things cost like $40,000 to sort of look like a tree John Tom Sharples wrote: We spotted several on a recent road-trip around the Sacramento area. Looked like the world's worst fake Christmas tree from Walmart!

Re: [WISPA] MT Lamer question

2009-10-27 Thread John Thomas
Is there any reason that you want those IP addresses accessing your box at all? You can probably block several /8's and make things work better. John Scott Vander Dussen wrote: Lamer question- I have a MT box we use for a public hotspot and logs reveal folks are trying to hack the password

Re: [WISPA] choice of upstreams

2009-10-22 Thread John Thomas
I just got a quote today from a HE reseller for the HE facility in Fremont CA $599 cabinet with 15 amps $699 cabinet with 15 amps and 20 Megabits/sec $899 cabinet with 15 amps and 100 megabits/sec John Tom DeReggi wrote: HE even has $1250 GEs Wow, is that transport or transit? Yeah,

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

2009-10-05 Thread John Thomas
Cisco's 1242's are certified for 5.4-5.7 GHz. Could you use Cisco APs' and Mikrotik clients? John Randy Cosby wrote: I know the mikrotik R52N card is.. I was so excited... Until I read closer. It's certified as a client device, but not as an AP. The AP has to do all the heavy DFS/TPC

Re: [WISPA] [Wisp] solar site

2009-08-25 Thread John Thomas
Is there any reason you can't mount the panels close to the ground? In Nevada, this is common practice. Can you setup a small windmill? Home Depot has these ( as do many other suppliers)

Re: [WISPA] solar site

2009-08-25 Thread John Thomas
Absolutely, 12, 24, or 48 volts depending on what you are trying to do. John Paul Rice wrote: I'd recommend you use either a unmanaged or managed industrial DC powered switch 12-20 vdc otherwise your going to need a LOT of solar panels (650 watts is what my calcs came up with) In fact

Re: [WISPA] solar site

2009-08-25 Thread John Thomas
It looks like there is a sweet spot at 60 watts http://www.solarhome.org/51-60wattsolarpanels.aspx About $250 each. John Mike wrote: 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

Re: [WISPA] Are customers increasingly clueless? Or is itgettingbetter?

2009-08-13 Thread John Thomas
Ryan, when you agree to offer service, that becomes your responsibility, and when someone is paying for it, they have a reasonable expectation of the service they are paying for. With that said, is it crazy expensive to get a 2 x T-1 where you are? Maybe a T-3 is stupid expensive, but if you

Re: [WISPA] Small auto start generator

2009-08-13 Thread John Thomas
Is this some place you could put some batteries and a solar panel or small windmill? John Jerry Richardson wrote: Thank you, That is very good advice. After some research, I'm leaning toward a UPS. A pair of good AGM batteries and charge controller will cost less and be far less

Re: [WISPA] Small auto start generator

2009-08-13 Thread John Thomas
Unless your equipment is tolerant of voltage swings, you will still probably want a DC-DC regulator, but that will likely be more efficient than a 12/24volt to 120 volt inverter. John Leon D. Zetekoff, NCE wrote: Hi Guys...I'd steer away from inverters since they soak up a lot of power.

Re: [WISPA] On-line back-up

2009-08-13 Thread John Thomas
Are you willing to setup a server for their backups? For home users, Mozy charges $4.95 per month. If you setup your own backup server, you would have the initial expense of a server with big drive space, but you could charge $4.95 and at least save money on your upstream bandwidth. John Mike

Re: [WISPA] Dragonwave Support

2009-07-27 Thread John Thomas
To be fair, I wonder how much larger Cogent is than Dragonwave? Someone has to pay the engineer's salary, and it costs to have a 24/7 support staff. I always find it interesting to see people's perspective's on support. John Tom DeReggi wrote: Well, when I really needed support for

Re: [WISPA] Sales Lead Zip code 95008

2009-07-20 Thread John Thomas
Is Covadwireless out of their price range? John Jerry Richardson wrote: Name Ray Email r_a_...@yahoo.com Phone 408-421-2100 Your message: Do you guys cover 95008 zip code for wireless internet? if not any suggestions who does?

Re: [WISPA] Re-evaluating our anti-spam solution

2009-07-15 Thread John Thomas
Please see my responses inline Jeremy Parr wrote: 2009/7/14 David E. Smith d...@mvn.net: Don Grossman wrote: It seems time to take a look at our anti-spam solution. Currently we are looking to replace out Barracuda due to ongoing issues with the box that after several attempts

Re: [WISPA] Re-evaluating our anti-spam solution

2009-07-15 Thread John Thomas
I know of Barracudas that the only time they get rebooted is for firmware updates. They can run for months without a reboot, but usually the firmware updates have useful stuff in 3-6 months that requires a firmware upgrade. John Charles Wyble wrote: David E. Smith wrote: What kind of

Re: [WISPA] POE Switch box

2009-07-15 Thread John Thomas
Yes, but Cisco switches only do Cisco Prestandard and 802.3af 48 volt. John Charles Wyble wrote: On a cisco poe enabled switch can't you just do conf t interface Gig0/0 shutdown no shutdown done to power cycle? Lots of resellers out there. Jason Hensley wrote: Looking for

Re: [WISPA] OT, pesky email stuff

2009-07-01 Thread John Thomas
I don't know about those, but Frontbridge got blacklisted once and they are an anti-spam provider John George Rogato wrote: How come Google, Yahoo, and Live.com don't get black listed. I'm pretty sure 1 million times more spam comes out of those domains than any small independent isp's

Re: [WISPA] OT, pesky email stuff

2009-07-01 Thread John Thomas
http://www.mxlogic.com/services/email-filtering/index.cfm they have done good by us. John George Rogato wrote: Wonder how much it is. Says it's based on qty of email addresses. RickG wrote: Cost? On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Pat O'Connorp...@inlandnet.com wrote: We're

Re: [WISPA] dual ethernte port router

2009-06-25 Thread John Thomas
If you are ONLY going to route, no NAT, firewall or other stuff, then a Cisco 871 will do what you want. We have tested it at wirespeed. John Alan Long wrote: Anyone have a suggestion for a dual ethernet port router, that can handle 30-50mb/s of traffic. I do not need it to do nat or

Re: [WISPA] Suggestions on Firewall

2009-06-23 Thread John Thomas
You might also consider a Cisco 800 or 1800 series router. They do firewalls well and have a nice GUI. John Patrick D.. Nix, Jr wrote: Any suggestions on a good linux firewall distro. I'm looking at either implementing this or going with an older Cisco PIX 525. Which would be the best way

Re: [WISPA] Magic Jack

2009-06-23 Thread John Thomas
Other opinions about Magic Jack http://uninstallmagicjack.com/?p=5 John Chuck Profito wrote: That's is what I remember from the list. Once it was in, a 'normal' subscriber couldn't get it out, and they, MJ, had a subscriber installed, and agreed to, OPEN Back Door to any computer it was

Re: [WISPA] Suggestions on Firewall

2009-06-23 Thread John Thomas
Here is some info http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/secursw/ps5318/index.html John Josh Luthman wrote: Wait pictures of this GUI??? On 6/23/09, John Thomas jtho...@quarnet.com wrote: You might also consider a Cisco 800 or 1800 series router. They do firewalls well and have

Re: [WISPA] OT: Cisco 7200 Gigabit Ethernet Cards?

2009-06-04 Thread John Thomas
Cisco 2960G-24's are an option too. John Jon Auer wrote: I second that. We use 7200s trunked to, variously, 3500XLs, 3550s, and Zyxel switches. For gig ports go with a NPE-G1/G2 for routing and a 3560 as a port expander. Dot1q subinterfaces are your friend. On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 1:16 PM,

Re: [WISPA] OT: Cisco 7200 Gigabit Ethernet Cards?

2009-06-04 Thread John Thomas
If you guys want to bash Cisco, that's your perogative, but my experience has been somewhat different. We recently took on a new client that has some Cisco switches that their old VAR sols them 5 YEARs of Smartnets on. Since we are looking at them upgrading to some new equipment, we asked

[WISPA] Service Limits

2009-05-20 Thread John Thomas
. Maybe someone has bogus information? John Mike Hammett wrote: If you want their service, they can't restrict you, AFAIK. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -- From: John Thomas jtho...@quarnet.com Sent

Re: [WISPA] I need a few people to run a bandwidth test to me please...

2009-05-19 Thread John Thomas
As they say, your mileage may vary We have a 2xT1 that we pay $560 per month for, and the routing/peering at TW Telecom is good, but then again, we are in the San Francisco Bay Area. If the building owners would have let TW Telecom into this buildings MPOE's we would have a 10 meg fiber

Re: [WISPA] One connection bandwidth=x / 2 commections bandwidth=2x why?

2009-05-11 Thread John Thomas
1 minute 49 seconds from a 100 Meg feed at Hurricane Electric in Fremont CA. John Scott Carullo wrote: Yes lots of them, from different internet connections as well. Focusing on customers from BHN connecting to our TW Telecom fiber circuit. Have not been able to do enough testing outside

Re: [WISPA] Cost of bandwidth

2009-03-23 Thread John Thomas
My question would be, is there anyone doing glass from the Carrier hotel to the edge of town? If you were able to get fiber on the edge of Spokane, wouldn't it save you a few towers? I wish it weren't top secret as to where the fiber is. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to go somewhere ( website)

Re: [WISPA] speaking of ARIN

2009-03-18 Thread John Thomas
a lot of money to spend on something you will never really use.You might as well be down if your DS3 takes a hit and your traffic rolls over to the T1. Richey -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of John Thomas Sent

Re: [WISPA] speaking of ARIN

2009-03-18 Thread John Thomas
of ARIN One add to the /22. You need to be or plan to be running BGP. Scott - Original Message - From: John Thomas jtho...@quarnet.com To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 9:54 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] speaking of ARIN If you

Re: [WISPA] speaking of ARIN

2009-03-17 Thread John Thomas
List Subject: Re: [WISPA] speaking of ARIN One add to the /22. You need to be or plan to be running BGP. Scott - Original Message - From: John Thomas jtho...@quarnet.com To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 9:54 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] speaking

Re: [WISPA] speaking of ARIN

2009-03-17 Thread John Thomas
-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Scott Piehn Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 7:29 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] speaking of ARIN One add to the /22. You need to be or plan to be running BGP. Scott - Original Message - From: John

Re: [WISPA] speaking of ARIN

2009-03-17 Thread John Thomas
link for $3,000 per month. Then go buy a Trango licensed link for $11k and make $3k a month profit after 4 months. :) Travis Microserv John Thomas wrote: Are you saying that it is not practical for you to get a T-1 so that you can legitimately run BGP and multi home? You can set BGP so

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