Re: [WISPA] Any thoughts on a decent cache server

2008-07-11 Thread David E. Smith
What I'd LOVE to figure out how to set up is a spoke and hub cache system. Squid (and probably other caches) support something similar, in the form of parent and child caches. It sorta works backwards from what you described, but the net benefit would be similar. Basically, you set up caches at

Re: [WISPA] Any thoughts on a decent cache server

2008-07-11 Thread Dennis Burgess
You can do this as well with Mikrotik. MT is very, very simple. We have seen avg savings of between 20-40%. With 25-30% being avg. Also, you can specify what sites you want to cache, typically done by IP, but you could also say that you only want to cache sites that are on different areas

Re: [WISPA] Any thoughts on a decent cache server

2008-07-11 Thread Travis Johnson
Hi, Are you somehow redirecting traffic to the MT box, or having all the traffic go through the box? Cache hit rates are going to depend on the size of the network... a 250GB drive would only cache about 4 hours of http traffic on my network... hit rates would be less than 5% I would guess.

Re: [WISPA] Any thoughts on a decent cache server

2008-07-11 Thread Dennis Burgess
Keep in mind that if you move 250 gig, that does not mean that it will cache that. CNN is an exaxmple that has a cache time of 0 seconds, so it never caches it.That type of thing.I have never had a major issue with MT caching services. Works VERY good. --

Re: [WISPA] Any thoughts on a decent cache server

2008-07-11 Thread Matt
The people that we had the most problems with were web designers who's sites were cached and they couldn't easily see their changes. We always told then to add no cache to their sites. Thats an easy one to fix. Tell them to press [CTRL] F5. Thats all it takes on virtually any standards

[WISPA] Report: FCC to Punish Comcast Over Web Blocking

2008-07-11 Thread Larry Yunker
Looks like the FCC make take some action in enforcing its Net Neutrality Policies See: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2325396,00.asp Depending on the scope of their ruling, this could have a significant impact on how WISPs can control traffic on their own networks. Larry Yunker

Re: [WISPA] Any thoughts on a decent cache server

2008-07-11 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
You can build a good squid box with lots of memory and fast hard drives and get good results. The squid setup is also nearly infinitely tunable, as opposed to the ones in Mikrotik and StarOS which have a pretty vanilla configuration. Being able to tune the cache parameters helps a lot,

Re: [WISPA] Any thoughts on a decent cache server

2008-07-11 Thread George Rogato
I've been watching the internet tv for the past 9 months. CNN, FOX, NBC, etc all have their news online. It would be great if those were cachable. Just like on tv a lot of the news bits are over and over again and why should we have to keep paying each view. The content providers like akamai,

[WISPA] Service Need

2008-07-11 Thread David Peterson
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[WISPA] Good 24vdc to 48vdc up converter

2008-07-11 Thread John McDowell
Anyone have a good DC-DC converter they like to buy. We've got 24v batteries, powering 24v canopy gear and 48v redline and Imagestream gear. Thanks! -- John M. McDowell Boonlink Communications 307 Grand Ave NW Fort Payne, AL 35967 256.844.9932 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.boonlink.com This

[WISPA] using fping to check for wifi roaming glitches

2008-07-11 Thread Rogelio
I was just showing this to one of my partners, and I thought I'd share it with the group Sometimes, one quick and dirty thing I do when checking roaming connectivity is to ping lots of things in parallel with fping (d/l here: http://www.brothersoft.com/fping-download-72435.html, then drop

Re: [WISPA] Good 24vdc to 48vdc up converter

2008-07-11 Thread Kurt Fankhauser
http://www.solarconverters.com/equal2.htm I use their 12/24 volt converter and it works great. Kurt Fankhauser WAVELINC P.O. Box 126 Bucyrus, OH 44820 419-562-6405 www.wavelinc.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John McDowell Sent:

Re: [WISPA] Report: FCC to Punish Comcast Over Web Blocking

2008-07-11 Thread Jonathan Schmidt
Without traffic management standards and support, our roads would be a bloodbath. Without the FCC you wouldn't have an open frequency for anything. As a Ham Radio operator for over 50 years, I appreciate the regulations that protected the nursery for some of our greatest electronic developments.

Re: [WISPA] Report: FCC to Punish Comcast Over Web Blocking

2008-07-11 Thread Chuck McCown - 3
Amen (Carterphone, had not thought bout that for a while) - Original Message - From: Jonathan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 6:54 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Report: FCC to Punish Comcast Over Web Blocking Without traffic