Loved the image. What really amazes me is that you can mail to anywhere in the
galaxy for a mere 41 cent first class postage.
Rich
- Original Message -
From: Mike Hammett
To: WISPA General List
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 1:42 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] [OT] The USPS never
From the article:
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In fact, Milanowski was unaware the practice known as piggybacking was
illegal, so his did a bit of legal research. I had a feeling a law was
being broken, said Milanowski. He found Michigan's Fraudulent access to
computers, computer systems, and computer networks
http://www.netburnerstore.com/embedded_ethernet_development_p/nndk-mod5270lc-kit.htm
$99 includes core module, development board, ac adapter, ethernet cable,
crossover cable, serial cable, and software (including a collection of
canned applications). Lowest priced hardware I've seen.
-
pd
Rich Comroe wrote:
What a rip! Sprint told me it's only $300-400 to get out of a Sprint
contract. What's it cost to early terminate a Cingular contract? Why
doesn't he just terminate? Getting a $1200 monthly bill is ridiculous!
UNLIMITED data to a Sprint windows phone is only about $10
,
mounted in the trunk, and it would be something that would sell like crazy
for $3k installed.
I guess what I would like is a retail version of this with more features:
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/how20/d04305f2dbbf1110vgnvcm104eecbccdrcrd.html
pd
Rich Comroe wrote:
What a rip! Sprint
What a rip! Sprint told me it's only $300-400 to get out of a Sprint
contract. What's it cost to early terminate a Cingular contract? Why
doesn't he just terminate? Getting a $1200 monthly bill is ridiculous!
UNLIMITED data to a Sprint windows phone is only about $10/month, and
there's no
not? What is the plan? Will other interests like
private or muni broadband be able to use the spectrum when public safety
is quiet? If not then why not?
Thanks,
Scriv
Rich Comroe wrote:
- Original Message - From: Mark Koskenmaki [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: WISPA General List wireless
From: Ryan Langseth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
One more thing, If you haven't watch/listened to it yet (do it twice):
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4216011961522818645
What a terrific link! Perfectly appropriate! At times LMAO because of how
true the lessons are when applied to some of
- Original Message -
From: Mark Koskenmaki [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] 700 MHz decision at FCC
Justin... I am aware of the problems revolving around the inability to
talk
to each other via
It's ALWAYS been this way. Back in the 50's when you were taught ideals, rest
assured it was the same way (but as a child you weren't aware). Remember that
telecommunications had little need for radio back then other than as microwave
backhaul ... which never cut a large geographic area due
on 700 MHz
- Original Message -
From: Rich Comroe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 10:34 AM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Open Meeting on 700 MHz
Before I start sounding like Mark, I need to state that I believe
government plays
say that my eyes have been opened. I now try to watch
the FCC and our government at every level (local, state and federal) to
try to keep them true to the ideals that I was taught were true and that I
still believe they should be upholding.
jack
Rich Comroe wrote:
It's ALWAYS been this way
- Original Message -
From: Mark Koskenmaki [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 2:38 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Open Meeting on 700 MHz
- Original Message -
From: Rich Comroe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: WISPA General List
I agree Mark's post was extremely well said, and insightful. To me, it's like
Yellowstone wildlife management. Once it became a national park the park
management (people) said we need to manage the wildlife. They did this, then
10 years later they did that, then 10 years later they did
Latest New Vonage news from yesterday:
Vonage CEO resigns, cost-cutting moves planned
contains the interesting quotation:
... on Friday it won a temporary reprieve from a court order prohibiting it
from signing up new customers ... at least until April 24 when the next
hearing occurs.
Saw this in Network World and thought of the recent WalMart RFID thread on
this list. Enjoy.
Rich
-
Wal-Mart and the Three Great RFID Lies
by Yankee Ingenuity, Howard Anderson
The Three Great Lies used to be: My wife doesn't understand
I think the message for the rest of the VoIP industry is:
You're next
Maybe true, but I have a different opinion.
The ruling included an explicit list of the algorithms that infringed on
Verizon (shout out thanks go to Peter for these). It's clear that you can
build VoIP service without
Many Microsoft programs use common routines to provide functions (so they don't
replicate them in each program). These show up as SVCHOST in the task-manager,
and perform a variety of functions such as right-click menus, launching
windows, opening links, etc. Some 3rd party applications have
, March 27, 2007 9:14 AM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] IPTV
It wouldn't happen to be this one:
http://www.samsung.com/Products/ProAV/Plasmas/PPM50M5HBXXAA.asp?page=Specifications
I was thinking of buying this last year. Held off looking for lower
pricing, so I can buy 2.
George
Rich Comroe
What patents did Vonage infringe upon. What does Verizon have a patter on
concerning voip ...
Many thanks to Peter, who supplied all the specifics of the patents in
question. Interesting reading.
... and how does that effect the future?
I read the public announcement from Vonage issued the
I myself don't want to watch a movie on my pc monitor. I like the
comfort of a big picture in my easy chair. When I can do that with
internet tv, it will be a lot more popular.
Yeah, but ...
My living room big picture that I watch from my easy chair happens to be my PC
video server, not a TV.
I didn't find anything that listed the patents in question. Most were only
business articles, but one article did summarized the patent topics.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20060619-1055-vonage-verizonsuit.html
Verizon charged that Vonage is infringing on at least seven of its
the 28 pages of techno-babble as opined by U.S.
District Court Judge Claude Hilton.
Regards,
Peter Radizeski
RAD-INFO, Inc. - see Info is in the name :)
Rich Comroe wrote:
I didn't find anything that listed the patents in question. Most were only
business articles, but one
I haven't seen but one DECT phone here and it was very basic, but I expect
that the technology will quickly be expanded to products like the multi
handset systems, etc that are getting popular from Uniden and all the
others.
There's a reason you haven't seen these products here. I began
hate it when opportunity is right in front of my
face and I am too blind to see it!
Scriv
Rich Comroe wrote:
I haven't seen but one DECT phone here and it was very basic, but I expect
that the technology will quickly be expanded to products like the multi
handset systems, etc
they pay the fees? I am trying to understand all the issues
being discussed here and feel I am missing important facts.
Thank you,
Scriv
Rich Comroe wrote:
Did you look at the UTAM URL? The fee until recently was $20 per
device A market killer if I've ever seen one, especially
I just keep looking at that picture as if there's something I'm not getting. I
can see pegs going down the left leg backmost leg below you, and pegs going
up the right leg above you. What seems wierd is that the parallel braces below
you and above you do not look parallel to each other right
Impressive list of QA. Not an issue, but I think the Questioner was asking
about a different topic than the answerer was thinking of on one question.
I added the Q A to make it clear:
Q Are there any known problems with over-polling an AP with SNMP?
A We do not use polling. In our view it is
To: WISPA General List
Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 1:43 AM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Some unlicensed history
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 17:31:23 -0600, Rich Comroe wrote
We don't have to agree. I certainly respect differing opinions as
long as their from people that seem to know the field
or the same age, but for me 30 yrs in industry changed many of my
perspectives! :-)
- Original Message -
From: wispa
To: WISPA General List
Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 4:56 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Some unlicensed history
On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 14:01:32 -0600, Rich Comroe
enough to
see and thwart this type of activity in the future. I have heard you
have the intellectual knowledge to do so. Please let us know when to cry
foul in the future.
Scriv
Rich Comroe wrote:
Some wireless business phone systems have been built, but it is all but
impossible
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 13:56:40 -0600, Rich Comroe wrote
Scriv-
Mark-
IMO the FCC has certainly been just responding to the market over
the last 15yrs (as you advocate).
Actually, I disagree. I think the FCC was attempting to create a market on
their own. Cellular type
Some wireless business phone systems have been built, but it is all but
impossible to find, if you search for u-pcs specific products.
Search for a different name: PHS. It was fascinating to walk the streets of
Tokyo and see crowded areas where hundreds of people would be talking on their
I haven't been following compression formats all that closely but I've been
amazed what things like SlingBox can do with only a couple hundred
kiloBITS/second (not even kilobytes/sec). I think it's microsoft asf (is that
mpeg4?) and I've seen good quality sent UPSTREAM from customer cpe
Amen, and well said. There is a lot that an industry org can do in this
respect. I'm familiar with APCO and find many similarities. (key: APCO =
Association of Publicsafety Communications Officials ... www.apcointl.org)
Here's some examples.
1.. Speak for the industry to the FCC.
DOT is ***supposed*** to switch to DSRC for this. DSRC was allocated 75MHz at
5.9Ghz just above the U-NII band based on roadway highway needs such as this
DOT application. I participated in DSRC formulation enough to know that DOT
had been experimenting with UL for years for highway signage
No, EVDO and RTT1X are the data modulations that the PPC6700 can do, which the
Sprint network supports. The Sprint option plan for data is called
PowerVision, and includes unlimited internet to the phone ... pretty sweet, and
for only a few dollars a month over the phone service. With
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 12:44 AM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management
On Jan 24, 2007, at 8:25 PM, Rich Comroe wrote:
Thanks much. I love it when you talk technical! Sorry, couldn't
help it...
No really, the devil is always in the details
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management
On Jan 24, 2007, at 8:25 PM, Rich Comroe wrote:
Thanks much. I love it when you talk technical! Sorry, couldn't
help it...
No really, the devil is always in the details in these things.
This is just the detail I was looking
'
that has something to do with the Lord of the Rings. 'Leaky Bucket' is
a reference to my brains as I try to grasp bandwidth shaping.
Jason
Rich Comroe wrote:
Great reference and I've learned a tremendous amount from this list. I
learned that I have been mis-using the term Leaky Bucket. I
This thread should not hit a nerve, as I think it has. I've read a lot of your
stuff, so I know you're a bright guy. You know that while telephone talk-time
may not be metered for many phone services that if everyone picked up their
phone that the chances of getting a trunk out of your local
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rich Comroe
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 4:01 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management
Fascinating. I only spoke of leaky bucket because that's practically a match
to what Jason originally described to the list (and I
Absolutely amazing how many windows phones have come out in the last few
months. Just 12 months ago there were only 3 ... and now there's got'ta be
dozens. I love my PPC6700 so much I bought a 2nd one ... EVDO / RTT1X / IS95
tri-mode, bluetooth, wifi, camera, added a couple GB on mini-SD,
and the mobile data worked perfectly for the
PDA and Dial Up Networking for my laptop (with no roaming data surcharge).
Frank
-Original Message-
From: Rich Comroe
Absolutely amazing how many windows phones have come out in
the last few months. Just 12 months ago
Patrick, I agree with your engineer's description. But I'd argue the use of
the word prioritization is incorrectly applied to Canopy. Canopy doesn't
prioritize VoIP. Priority schemes infer media access preference. Canopy's
separate pre-allocated partitions have nothing to do with
I worked for a manufacturer that certified product with the FCC. The legality
issue for FCC type acceptance can be argued in certain circumstances. Truth
is, we didn't re-apply for FCC type acceptance every time we changed a resistor
value or made some board change or modified the software.
Well said. You've covered issues in deploying your FCC certified radio product
with various pre-approved antennas.
Now, when it comes to selling a box with a computer and radio in it, the
questions are a bit different. If it's a radio integrated onto a computer
board, my belief it that it's
Good stuff. In the order presented, the text makes some statements about RX
threshold damping.
It is a powerful tool for a higher
modulation radio operating in a noisy environment, as it allows the radio to
block out and ignore signals received below the preset RF Rx Threshold.
By creating an
Canopy's C/I of 3dB is only the 10mbps at signals much stronger than
sensitivity. At low signal it's always been higher than 3dB, and the 20mbps
Canopy requires higher C/I under all circumstances.
OFDM provides a range of signalling speeds, from BPSK (same C/I as the 10mbps
Canopy) through
Again, I think they're already being made, aren't they? for 3.5GHz. Doesn't
have to be final WiMAX ... I presume that all the pre-WiMAX products are OFDM
and TDD. I've yet to hear of one at 900, 2.4, or 5. Anyone? Am I all wet on
what the pre-WiMAX products are? I could very well be all
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rich Comroe
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 5:31 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Alvarion Comnet Radios have
arrived-regardinginterference- Part 1
Again, I think they're already being made, aren't they? for 3.5GHz. Doesn't
have to be final WiMAX
soon.
But 5.8G, yes, I think it will be first half 2007.
Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL Wireless, Inc
IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband
- Original Message -
From: Rich Comroe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 8:23 PM
and know
the deal.
Patrick Leary
AVP WISP Markets
Alvarion, Inc.
o: 650.314.2628
c: 760.580.0080
Vonage: 650.641.1243
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Rich Comroe
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 7
.
Best,
Brad
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Behalf Of Rich Comroe
Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 5:35 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Alvarion Comnet Radios have arrived
Products that are best effort [snip product
We typically make customer contact when a customer shows up as a regular on our
1Gbyte Honor Roll (a daily list of everyone with = 1Gbyte in or out in the
past 24 hrs). Often we find they are infected, but sometimes P2Pers. We crank
down their CIR if they don't clean up until they are off
Products that are best effort [snip product name]
end up making guys like us look bad.
I'm confused how can anyone do better than best effort in unlicensed
spectrum, regardless of manufacturer?
There is nothing worse than installing one day at 6Mbps and the next day
getting a call saying they
The patent you cite was filed Jan 27, 2000. In general, to challenge a
patent you'd have to find publicly available description (publication),
prior patent, or public offer of the technology for sale pre-dating the
patent's filing date. The patent office has already searched prior patents
Howdy,
I was an active member of the ASTM DSRC sandards formulating committee for
roughly 2 yrs (2000-2001). This is all familiar stuff, and I appreciate
seeing the URL to see how the effort has proceeded.
John wrote:
Actually I was told that this is above the existing UNII band
John wrote:
In fact I think that vehicles and WISPs should be able to add those bands
together with the existing UNII bands and anyone make use of all of it but
that is not an option currently.
Got that right (that it's not an option currently). DSRC may be using a
wifi variant (narrowed
before that I thought this
was outside our existing bands and you never replied.
Scriv
Rich Comroe wrote:
Howdy,
I was an active member of the ASTM DSRC sandards formulating committee
for roughly 2 yrs (2000-2001). This is all familiar stuff, and I
appreciate seeing the URL to see how
and scrolling to spot the offenders.
Rich
- Original Message -
From: Eric Merkel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 3:11 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] The Gremlin, redux
On 10/27/06, Rich Comroe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We look at the traffic
I'd originally written:
The preponderence of NexTel channels are in the private land mobile
806-821/850-865 conventional / trunking band, and a small percentage in the
902-906 trunking band.
...
I am most likely off on the numeric band
I sure was [numerically off - that is]. What's known as
We look at the traffic on the
tower for abuse and/or virus and don't really find anything.
Just to be clear, you've checked your AP broadcast levels during the events
and not found found them elevated? We found the most crippling network
events were not coming into the network from the
I don't know what the beef is. FleetCall bought up in the vicinity of 100
trunking SMR channels in each major metro almost 20 yrs ago. They claimed
to the FCC that they could serve significantly more users than the typical
100 users/channel of the current early 90s analog technology. 100
The preponderence of NexTel channels are in the private land mobile
806-821/850-865 conventional / trunking band, and a small percentage in the
902-906 trunking band. So I believe whatever '900' channels they have are
*below* the 900 ISM band. I am most likely off on the numeric band limits.
Isn't it the WiMAX mobility opportunity? Wasn't the original 802.16 specs
completely rewritten to add the opportunity for mobility?
Rich
- Original Message -
From: Sam Tetherow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
Sent: Thursday, October 12,
We got one of the Hawking Hi-Gain USB Wireless-G Dish Adapter just today.
Has a 5-led signal strength display. Great fun. It's dish antenna is
built-in but they may have one with an external antenna connection too.
Rich
- Original Message -
From: David E. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
in question would require billions to
win, but the later option might actually result in more customers being
served, the money being spent on deployment, and the ability for
innovative companies to raise money contingent on their business model
winning.
-Matt
Rich Comroe wrote:
Amen. Designing
Amen. Designing government policy for the purpose of generating the highest
income from spectrum licensing is completely contrary to policy designed to
serve the public. This had a major role in the US cellular industry losing
the worldwide lead (which didn't do any American any good). Why
Tim Kerns wrote:
The last time this happened to me 90% of my
network was bridged.
Now I am 90% routed and have not seen the
problem
Very true, as long as you're not using Motorola
Canopy. We also used routing to break up the broadcast domains.
Problem using Motorola Canopy is that an AP
Nah. It's just a phone. Ordinary wired phones already offer more features
than people want without VoIP. Ordinary phone service typically offers you
a list of 25 features. People don't want em, so in my midwest Ameritech
area (now ATT land) they typically throw in 5 features from the
It was my impression that most of the US has unmetered local US long
distance available for $60 ... something / month. I do. To save $100 to
$2000 per month on long distance with VoIP would mean they'd have to be
paying the subscriber money back
Out of that $60/month phone bill, the
more than a phone.
But then it is to business, not necessarily resi, which it is about
dial-tone. From experience, Caller ID, Call Forward and Voicemail are the
most popular features, especially with so many SOHO.
- Peter
Rich Comroe wrote:
Nah. It's just a phone. Ordinary wired phones
to its own ext. This setup
on
standard pots would cost much more then VoIP, so you get more features and
save $$ at the same time :)
Tony
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Rich Comroe
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 5:03 PM
To: WISPA General List
The Phone
Hahaha my favorite was It Still Doesn't Work (ISDN).
Travis
Microserv
Rich Comroe wrote:
Nah. It's just a phone. Ordinary wired phones already offer more
features than people want without VoIP. Ordinary phone service typically
offers you a list of 25 features. People don't
That was my experience exactly! Finally used my own protocol analyzer (my
PC) and saw each Q931 request being auto-repeated before the first D channel
acks came back (there was nearly a SECOND of D channel delay!!). At that
point it was obvious and I had the phone technicians switch me from a
why do you do it?
I'm a top poster. I hate having to
essentially re-read the previous email to find the added reply comments
(especially when it's a long email and you ultimately just find an added "yeah
me too" way down at the bottom). I find that incredibly annoying. I
prefer replies
. But, I don't have to because of
simultaneous ring to my Skype-in number. Maybe it's just the fun of
somebody who grew up before the Carterphone decision.
. . . j o n a t h a n
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Rich Comroe
Sent: Tuesday
Nah. What Charles misses in his commentary
But all the fancy schmancy technology you implement won't do @#$@ unless
3650 is licensed b/c interference from 20 other systems in the area
(including several from our GPS-synced FM-based FSK friends) eats you for
breakfast, lunch dinner =(
is
.
Rich
- Original Message -
From: Rich Comroe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 7:33 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] 3650 equipment
Nah. What Charles misses in his commentary
But all the fancy schmancy technology you implement won't do
Couldn't say for sure, but I have a suspicion -
static discharge in the antenna. Worked on Canopy at Motorola. At
one time they used an antenna coupling circuit that was highly static sensitive
(at the antenna). They reworked the antenna couplingto make it less
succeptible. If these cards
I use PayPal and am very happy.
I originally used PayPal and was forced to switch to a merchant e-account.
Too many orders from countries where PayPal didn't serve.
Oh and by
the way people do not have to be PayPal members to post payments.
Too many orders lost from customers that don't
,
Rich
- Original Message -
From: Butch Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 9:52 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] merchant accounts/credit cards
On Wed, 31 May 2006, Rich Comroe wrote:
Too many orders lost from customers that don't have
The problem is, in a democracy full of special interests, how does one
determine fairly what that compatibilty standard should be?
You got it. In a democracy full of special interests, who decides?
It depends on the charter of who is organizing the standard and who the
participants are.
The
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64.146.146.12 (net meeting)
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www.odessaoffice.com/marlon/cam
- Original Message -
From: Rich Comroe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] UL WiMAX update
It's quite unfortunate IMO
Marlon, I think I can appreciate most everything you've said. I can only
add to each of your points, while accepting your input, why I think that
your (and my) life would be better if we had some more constructive
requirements in the wisp market than anything that fits the transmit mask.
Canopy will run with 3db of signal to noise separation, which is more
robust than 802.11b
For signal levels typically found in deployed equipment this is not true,
nor has it ever been true. The Canopy 3dB C/I is measured at stronger
signal
than typical deployment (unless all your SMs have
I note some of the respondents are thinking satellite. I'm thinking 10baseT
or 100baseT bleeding into the household coax distribution. Any chance the
ethernet runs alongside the coax for any length somewhere within the home?
With cable TV I've seen ethernet put interference on the screen for
Your comments couldn't be more appropriate. I'm hearing 3rd hand that Moto
just announced on webinar's today that their next firmware release (8.0)
will no longer support compatibility with the original Canopy protocol, so
original deployed equipment must be replaced. Some unhappy comments
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