Re: [WISPA] FS: Remote Reboot

2006-04-27 Thread Tom DeReggi
Title: FS: Remote Reboot Aren't those preprogramed from the factory for specific ZIP CODEs of operation. Thats the reason we didn't go with them, we couldn't just buy a bunch of them and use them, we had to predict in advance where we would use them.   Tom DeReggiRapidDSL & Wireless, IncIntAi

[WISPA] Stability of a MT + WRAP or Soekris board based AP

2006-04-27 Thread rabbtux rabbtux
All, Have been trying to upgrade our AP systems from a pebble based system to something newer and stable. Just finshed a several day trial of a newer m0n0wall based distro called pfsense. Loved advanced FW and traffic shaping available. Configured simple bridge & shaper and put it inline with o

[WISPA] Assembly Bill 892 and Senate Bill 483, AKA Broadband Deployment Act

2006-04-27 Thread Dawn DiPietro
All, Who are they targeting for this "tax incentive"? As quoted from the article: "To be eligible for the credits, Internet access providers would be required to make an investment that is reasonably calculated by the Department of Commerce to increase broadband

[WISPA] House Committee Rejects Net Neutrality Amendment

2006-04-27 Thread Dawn DiPietro
All, I suppose this should come as no surprise. As quoted from the article; "Although the battle for net neutrality is far from over, the committee vote is another win for the major U.S. telecommunications carriers –AT&T ( News- Alert), BellSouth, Verizon (News - Alert) and the like – which h

RE: [WISPA] Stability of a MT + WRAP or Soekris board based AP

2006-04-27 Thread danlist
> > Have been trying to upgrade our AP systems from a pebble based system > to something newer and stable. Just finshed a several day trial of a > newer m0n0wall based distro called pfsense. Loved advanced FW and > traffic shaping available. Configured simple bridge & shaper and put > it inline

Re: [WISPA] Pioneering Wi-Fi City Sees Startup Woes

2006-04-27 Thread Carl A Jeptha
In the meantime we will send our Product Management VP to explain to you in detail how it works. Also include in your reply the name of the fanciest restaurant in your town. This is where the VP will be having the meetings (We don't want you to be disturb by your day to day emergencies) You hav

Re: [WISPA] Reseller Agreement

2006-04-27 Thread Don Renner
Title: Reseller Agreement I would also be interested in any agreements that would be put in the public domain. Seem to be struggling with the wording and correct terms and conditions.    Thanks for the help, Don Renner NetSurfUSA, Inc. 8550 Main St. French Lick, IN 47432 812-936-4514    offic

RE: [WISPA] FS: Remote Reboot

2006-04-27 Thread Gino A. Villarini
Title: FS: Remote Reboot Zip code? Huh, you just need a paging company with coverage in the area you need service with…. We ordered our units without the paging service, go to you local paging company and activate the units with them   Gino A. Villarini [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aeronet Wirel

RE: [WISPA] FS: Remote Reboot

2006-04-27 Thread chris cooper
Title: FS: Remote Reboot Are they frequency specific?  The company should be able to offer numeric service out of the same terminal it is offering the alpha service through.   -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gino A. Villarini Sent:

Re: [WISPA] FS: Remote Reboot

2006-04-27 Thread Blake Bowers
That is pretty confusing. Any alphanumeric paging provider has backwards compatability to numeric. Any of them. Can't stress that enough. What kind of issue are you getting in trying to make it play? (One of our businesses is a regional paging system) - Original Message - From: "Gin

Re: [WISPA] Pioneering Wi-Fi City Sees Startup Woes

2006-04-27 Thread Peter R.
Free Municipal Wi-Fi Service Boosts Economic Development in the City of St. Cloud, FL at http://www.digitalcityexpo.com/agenda.htm -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wirele

Re: [WISPA] FS: Remote Reboot

2006-04-27 Thread Blake Bowers
The issue must be a format issue. It appears that the Nighthawk system uses Pocsag, long the leader in paging formats. Some paging systems do not use Pocsag (Very few do not have the capabilty to use Pocsag, but there are some out there) and the Nighthawk would not appear to be compatable with a

RE: [WISPA] FS: Remote Reboot

2006-04-27 Thread Gino A. Villarini
Well, the problem is not pocsag or flex ( my last business was paging), historically here in Puerto Rico, numeric paging didn't catch.. PR market was always alphanumeric ( we had a big message center, with lots of operators...what a headache!!!)so, the problem lies in the remaining paging operator

Re: [WISPA] FS: Remote Reboot

2006-04-27 Thread Blake Bowers
Are all you wanting to do is reset your equipment? No bells and whistles, just page the pager causes the equipment to reset? - Original Message - From: "Gino A. Villarini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'WISPA General List'" Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 8:35 AM Subject: RE: [WISPA] FS: Re

RE: [WISPA] FS: Remote Reboot

2006-04-27 Thread Gino A. Villarini
The night hawk units , does this, exactly, it receives a page with a 4 digit code to either turn off, or reset the ac outlet, the good thing about the nighthawks is that you can have as many units with the same capcode and pay just for 1 paging number, each units has a code, that it uses to differ

Re: [WISPA] FS: Remote Reboot

2006-04-27 Thread Blake Bowers
That makes sense. There are other options out there, one would be use a local Community Repeater (If you are not familiar with them, your local two way radio dealer would be) Put an encoder in your office, used you could put one together with a radio and power supply for under 1k, and Motorola M

[WISPA] Business Value

2006-04-27 Thread Mark Nash
I may be splitting with my partner in the coming months. We'll have to come up with a buy-out agreement. Has anyone got experience with valuating WISP businesses? Mark Nash Network Engineer UnwiredOnline.Net 350 Holly Street Junction City, OR 97448 http://www.uwol.net 541-998- 541-998-5599 f

Re: [WISPA] Assembly Bill 892 and Senate Bill 483, AKA Broadband Deployment Act

2006-04-27 Thread Tom DeReggi
Providers would have to make about $150 million in equipment investments in order to collect the full amount of the credit." What good is that. I'm not sure anyone other than the ILEC or Comcast would qualify for that one. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadba

Re: [WISPA] FS: Remote Reboot

2006-04-27 Thread Tom DeReggi
Title: FS: Remote Reboot Paging companies, have codes that must be entered into pagers, to identify the area they page to.   It might just require pre-configuration, if purchased to use NightHawks low cost paging service.  Its like $15 a month + $1 more per each Reboot device, up to 20 units.

RE: Re: [WISPA] FS: Remote Reboot

2006-04-27 Thread n7mfy
I know that motorola, and even radio shack used to make a small paging system.  You could use that too, and just ditch out on the monthly bill.    Here is a motorola Alphamate 250, I do not know if you can connect to a phone or not.   http://cgi.ebay.com/Motorola-Alphamate-250-Pager-hub-Paging-k

RE: Re: [WISPA] FS: Remote Reboot

2006-04-27 Thread Gino A. Villarini
I wouldn imagine using that to cover a 100 x 35 mile island… jeje We used to have 22 paging transmitter sites in VHF 157.740 to cover the island, most transmitting 400 -500 watts..and even then we had dead spots!   Gino A. Villarini [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp.

Re: Re: [WISPA] FS: Remote Reboot

2006-04-27 Thread Blake Bowers
The Alphamate is strictly a input device, it has no transmitter. The Radio Schlouqe system is... Well, very short range, and I believe (Althought I could be wrong on this point) two tone, not the pocsag that the Nighthawk requires. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WI

OFFLIST Re: [WISPA] Business Value

2006-04-27 Thread Brian Rohrbacher
Call me. 269 838 8338 Brian Mark Nash wrote: I may be splitting with my partner in the coming months. We'll have to come up with a buy-out agreement. Has anyone got experience with valuating WISP businesses? Mark Nash Network Engineer UnwiredOnline.Net 350 Holly Street Junction City, OR 97

Re: OFFLIST Re: [WISPA] Business Value

2006-04-27 Thread Brian Rohrbacher
Hey look everybody. I send offlist emails onlist. :) doh! Brian Rohrbacher wrote: Call me. 269 838 8338 Brian Mark Nash wrote: I may be splitting with my partner in the coming months. We'll have to come up with a buy-out agreement. Has anyone got experience with valuating WISP busi

RE: [WISPA] REVISED - Wisp Wireless Internet Google Map DONE!

2006-04-27 Thread Rick Harnish
I'm not kidding Robert, I applaud your efforts, but if you want a usable product, you need to get either a faster server or a faster hosting service. Adding sites to this is excruciating. I have plenty of bandwidth on my end so I would guess the problem is on your end still. Respectfully, R

Re: [WISPA] Assembly Bill 892 and Senate Bill 483, AKA Broadband Deployment Act

2006-04-27 Thread Dawn DiPietro
Tom, Exactly! Regards, Dawn DiPietro Tom DeReggi wrote: Providers would have to make about $150 million in equipment investments in order to collect the full amount of the credit." What good is that. I'm not sure anyone other than the ILEC or Comcast would qualify for that one. Tom DeR

Re: [WISPA] Business Value

2006-04-27 Thread Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181
Hi Mark, I don't have time to get into the deep details right now. I can probably help with this if you'd like. I've done some valuations based on income, customer base etc. Standard business stuff would put your company value at 1.2 to 2x annual earnings. OR 3 to 5 x annual profit (proba

Re: [WISPA] Business Value

2006-04-27 Thread Mark Nash
Thanks Marlon... For the record, it's not a rough split between me and my partner. He's got a more profitable business going, he's put up money for the wireless business, he's 53 and going to retire when he's 55, so he wants to focus on his other business. That's what I would do if I were him.

Re: [WISPA] Business Value

2006-04-27 Thread George
Mark at the Chicago Wispnog Charles put on, there was a couple investors that bought and sold wisps. We had a session on it. The way they described the valuation of a wisp brought the price down well under 1x yearly revenue. More like 6 months of revenue cash buyout. They picked everything apart

Re: [WISPA] Business Value

2006-04-27 Thread Mark Nash
It's about 180 I think. Mark Nash Network Engineer UnwiredOnline.Net 350 Holly Street Junction City, OR 97448 http://www.uwol.net 541-998- 541-998-5599 fax - Original Message - From: "George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 6:14 PM Subjec

Re: [WISPA] Business Value

2006-04-27 Thread George
Nice, especially for small town like JC. George Mark Nash wrote: It's about 180 I think. Mark Nash Network Engineer UnwiredOnline.Net 350 Holly Street Junction City, OR 97448 http://www.uwol.net 541-998- 541-998-5599 fax -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe:

Re: [WISPA] Business Value

2006-04-27 Thread Mark Nash
Yeah...we actually now cover West Eugene all the way up to south of Corvallis all backhauled into one POP in JC. A very large footprint. CPE costs vs. our install fee have just come down to the right price to begin building much faster. We are pushing hard this summer/fall. Mark Nash Networ

RE: [WISPA] Pioneering Wi-Fi City Sees Startup Woes

2006-04-27 Thread Charles Wu
Take that "article/session" with a grain of salt -- as it is being run by an organization that is supported by vendors trying to *sell* the concept of muni-wifi -Charles --- CWLab Technology Architects http://www.cwlab.com -Original Message- Fro

RE: [WISPA] Auction 66

2006-04-27 Thread Charles Wu
Title: Message yes -- it's targeted towards 3G (mobile data) services not trying to sound snotty here -- but chances are, you're going to have a hard time bidding on spectrum directly against verizon / cingular / etc   -Charles     ---CWLabTechnology

RE: [WISPA] Business Value

2006-04-27 Thread Charles Wu
One thing to remember -- when buying and selling a business (or anything for the matter) there has to be benefits on both sides (e.g., a win-win solution) Just as you are trying to maximize all your time and effort put into your company, the buyer needs to be able to see a light at the end of the

Re: [WISPA] Auction 66

2006-04-27 Thread Dylan Oliver
The way Chairman Copps talked about it at a recent conference in Milwaukee, I got the idea the auction might be approachable for a small business. Cellular market areas would be a WISP's (or consortium of WISPs) best bet in terms of number available (734 - we're bound to get at least one ... right?