Re: [WISPA] Impatient man's PowerBridgeM5 clone available today.

2010-06-04 Thread Tom DeReggi
Is the latter deprecated by the first link? I'm not sure. Yes, we used the Square antenna, the 1st URL.. Baltic had a good price running on them, and was kind enough to get them to me overnight.. As for the one sold at Quicklink, the 2nd URL, I had been eyeballing them, but have not

[WISPA] OT: Pictures of Water Tower Installations

2010-06-04 Thread Chuck Hogg
Since this is a new avenue for me, can anyone help out with pictures of water tower installations, both top and bottom? Looking for pictures of how the tower looks after the install from the ground as well. I have approval from one water company, pending the looks of it. Out of respect to others

Re: [WISPA] [Motorola II] OT: Pictures of Water Tower Installations

2010-06-04 Thread Josh Luthman
What type of water tower? http://ncwportal.com/media/jpg/photo/2005/grant/2005_george_water_tower http://wilhelm-aerospace.org/Photos/summer-2005/roll-04/2790-clinton-water-tower.jpg Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 “Success is not

Re: [WISPA] taxes

2010-06-04 Thread RickG
Thanks again for all the replies! Since I didnt get anyone telling me NOT to expense the equipment I'm assuming there is no issue with that. On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 1:32 AM, Scottie Arnett sarn...@info-ed.com wrote: As a PC auditor for a rather large customer, this customer is doing over $10

Re: [WISPA] Talk about A Geeks Geek ...

2010-06-04 Thread Josh Luthman
I am hopeful something, anything, positive comes in light of this. On 6/4/10, St. Louis Broadband li...@stlbroadband.com wrote: Thank you WISPA for posting the article about yesterdays Rural Summit: http://www.wispa.org/?p=2458 I actually felt like a 'groupie' yesterday when I met Aneesh

Re: [WISPA] Talk about A Geeks Geek ...

2010-06-04 Thread Steve Barnes
Victoria, Thank you for presenting a very professional view and for help the WISP community the way you do. Steve Barnes RC-WiFi Wireless Internet Servicehttp://www.rcwifi.com/ _ From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org]

Re: [WISPA] Talk about A Geeks Geek ...

2010-06-04 Thread St. Louis Broadband
Steve, it was my pleasure. I know how hard WISPA members work, as do we. I also know what pioneers we have in our industry, and so does Aneesh. I was just glad to hear from him that he knew about WISPA and appeared to be very excited when he discussed this with Administrator Adelstine, who btw

Re: [WISPA] taxes

2010-06-04 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
I'm with Travis on this one. Sometimes we take the entire hit at once, other times we spread it out. It kind of depends on what we need for deductions and what the equipment is. Our accountant has taken a lot of time to learn this industry and is really good. The phone number is

[WISPA] FS - Motorola Gear

2010-06-04 Thread Ryan Ghering
(6) 5700BH20 P8 and P9 models : $350.00 each (2) 5200BH20 P8 models : $300.00 each (3) 2450AP 1 P10 2 P9's : $600.00 each (NEW) (3) 5200AP P8 models: $250.00 each (1) 5250AP P10 model : $600.00 (NEW) All units have been tested and work properly. Will ask a bulk price for the lot of : $4750.00

[WISPA] Inconsistencies in BIP Round 2 rules.

2010-06-04 Thread Scottie Arnett
What do you guys make of the following discussion? How can they state one thing in the NOFA, and then put something different on their website? If it is in fact true, that the NOFA did not state this, should the whole mess be started over? I am looking in the NOFA, but not finding the mention of

Re: [WISPA] Talk about A Geeks Geek ...

2010-06-04 Thread Tom DeReggi
Victoria, That is really good feedback to hear. Good Job! Tom DeReggi RapidDSL Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: St. Louis Broadband li...@stlbroadband.com To: 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 11:40 AM

Re: [WISPA] Leasing Companies

2010-06-04 Thread Marco Coelho
Any other suggestions? mc On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:28 PM, RickG rgunder...@gmail.com wrote: Travis, I surprised you didnt mention: Taycor Financial -An Inc 500 Company- 6100 Center Drive, Suite 710 Los Angeles, CA 90045 Direct: (310) 895-7717, Fax: (310) 568-9922 dolyn...@taycor.com,

Re: [WISPA] Leasing Companies

2010-06-04 Thread Layne Sisk
Just a note, my posting his info here was not an endorsement, I have never dealt with Bill on a lease, it was just posted as a resource. -Layne www.ServerPlus.com -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of RickG Sent:

Re: [WISPA] Talk about A Geeks Geek ...

2010-06-04 Thread Stuart Pierce
That's awesome V, I for one appreciate you taking up the torch at the opportune moment. It goes further than just WISP intentions with what an inroad you have made in opening up a dialog between WISPA and the government. Stuart -- Original Message --

Re: [WISPA] Talk about A Geeks Geek ...

2010-06-04 Thread St. Louis Broadband
Thanks Tom! ~V~ -Original Message- From: Tom DeReggi [mailto:wirelessn...@rapiddsl.net] Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 11:33 AM To: li...@stlbroadband.com; WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Talk about A Geeks Geek ... Victoria, That is really good feedback to hear. Good Job! Tom

Re: [WISPA] Talk about A Geeks Geek ...

2010-06-04 Thread St. Louis Broadband
Thanks Stuart! It was an honor and a privilege to have this opportunity! ~V~ -Original Message- From: Stuart Pierce [mailto:spie...@avolve.net] Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 1:19 PM To: li...@stlbroadband.com; WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Talk about A Geeks Geek ... That's

Re: [WISPA] Talk about A Geeks Geek ...

2010-06-04 Thread Jerry Richardson
That may be the single biggest hit for our team yet. Thank you Jerry _ From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of St. Louis Broadband Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 8:41 AM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: [WISPA]

Re: [WISPA] Talk about A Geeks Geek ...

2010-06-04 Thread Justin Wilson
Good Job Victoria. It is nice to see someone, with some tact, be able to have the ear of some ³important² people without flexing how great they are. From reading it sounds like you spoke on the ³team¹s² behalf. I salute you for that. -- Justin Wilson j...@mtin.net http://www.mtin.net/blog

Re: [WISPA] Talk about A Geeks Geek ...

2010-06-04 Thread St. Louis Broadband
Thank you guys /blush. Best team I have been on! IMHO the broadband stimulus is trying to create what the '96 Telecommunications Act failed at doing, competition. We know that we are competitive, if given a chance. We just have to make the 'Tech' guys in government understand this. Once this

Re: [WISPA] Leasing Companies

2010-06-04 Thread Tom DeReggi
I would recommend Peer to Peer lending options. (Google peer to peer lending). They will end up being personal loans, and likely lower credit lines, but there is a much higher chance of walking away with a loan, at a reasonable rate. If you meet the financial profile for leasing, Lease Corp

[WISPA] Authoritative BIND issues

2010-06-04 Thread Mike Hammett
I'm trying to setup a new authoritative BIND server, but all test queries I issue to the server (dig @serversIP test.domain) get forwarded to the root servers and so on. My zones have recursive searching disabled. How is this happening? There are errors in loading the zone, but if all

Re: [WISPA] Authoritative BIND issues

2010-06-04 Thread Justin Wilson
Try this: // options section fragment of named.conf // recursion no = limits caching options { directory /var/named; version 1.2.3.4; recursion no; }; // zone file sections -- Justin Wilson j...@mtin.net http://www.mtin.net/blog Wisp Consulting ­ Tower Climbing ­ Network Support

Re: [WISPA] Authoritative BIND issues

2010-06-04 Thread David E. Smith
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 13:12, Mike Hammett wispawirel...@ics-il.net wrote: There are errors in loading the zone,  but if all queries are being sent out to the public Internet, how am I going to be able to test the new system? If there were errors in loading the zone, then it's not going to

Re: [WISPA] Leasing Companies

2010-06-04 Thread Jeff Ehman
LCA for Canopy. -Jeff Convergence Technologies There is a difference -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Tom DeReggi Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 1:09 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Leasing Companies I

[WISPA] Don't bend over to pick up the soap! FCC's Clyburn Defends 'Third Way' Plan

2010-06-04 Thread Marco Coelho
http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20100604/tc_zd/251481;_ylt=AsxNrBgj0gGjS1iCd119VaL6VbIF;_ylu=X3oDMTJkMWNkbnJhBGFzc2V0A3pkLzIwMTAwNjA0LzI1MTQ4MQRwb3MDMTMEc2VjA3luX3BhZ2luYXRlX3N1bW1hcnlfbGlzdARzbGsDZmNjMzlzY2x5YnVy Reminds me of a funny. As a FAA representative, I would have to go the the annual

[WISPA] FCC Seeks Volunteers to Test Broadband Speed

2010-06-04 Thread Marco Coelho

Re: [WISPA] FCC Seeks Volunteers to Test Broadband Speed

2010-06-04 Thread Josh Luthman
Most U.S. residents don't know how fast their home broadband service is supposed to be, but they are satisfied with the speed they get, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reported on Tuesday after conducting a nationwide phone survey. So because they're happy we must spend money

Re: [WISPA] FCC Seeks Volunteers to Test Broadband Speed

2010-06-04 Thread Chris Gotstein
Sure, makes perfect sense to me this is the government we are talking about. Chris Gotstein, Sr Network Engineer, UP Logon/Computer Connection UP http://uplogon.com | +1 906 774 4847 | ch...@uplogon.com On 6/4/2010 4:02 PM, Josh Luthman wrote: Most U.S. residents don't

Re: [WISPA] Authoritative BIND issues

2010-06-04 Thread Bradley D. Thornton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Yup. I pointed that out on the other list too. Could be as simple as not upping your serial too ;) I like this format - works well with scripts mmdd## - that should give you more than enough updates to your zonefiles each day for an AUTH

Re: [WISPA] FCC Seeks Volunteers to Test Broadband Speed

2010-06-04 Thread Robert West
Interesting. Ya know, around here Time Warner directs everyone with a speed issue to test on their nice and conveniently linked on their webpage, speed test server. You can bet it will show your full contracted speeds every time. But... Try hitting something outside of their network. With

Re: [WISPA] Authoritative BIND issues

2010-06-04 Thread Mike Hammett
I got the errors to stop (period after the Origin, put there by a config generator), but it still doesn't answer for itself and looks to the roots and so on. If I'm issuing the command as I stated below, it shouldn't matter that the public authoritative server is elsewhere, would it? I'm

Re: [WISPA] FCC Seeks Volunteers to Test Broadband Speed

2010-06-04 Thread Josh Luthman
Not to mention that fact that the Connect Ohio speed test server is in Texas. That and it's worse then any mini speedtest server I've seen shared on the Moto list. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 “Success is not final, failure is

Re: [WISPA] Talk about A Geeks Geek ...

2010-06-04 Thread Forbes Mercy
Victoria, All I can say is WOW, nice job... and he really said that about WISPA? WOW! Forbes - Original Message - From: St. Louis Broadbandli...@stlbroadband.com To: 'WISPA General List'wireless@wispa.org Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 11:40 AM Subject: [WISPA] Talk about A Geeks Geek

Re: [WISPA] FCC Seeks Volunteers to Test Broadband Speed

2010-06-04 Thread Tom DeReggi
The flaw in the FCC tests is that It lets anyone sign up. So whats keeping Verizon from advertizing to their customers that sit on the top 5% highest performing portions of the FIOS network, to stear them to the speed test? What keeping my customer that is 5 hops ou on a NON-LOS net, who I

Re: [WISPA] Leasing Companies

2010-06-04 Thread Kevin Sullivan
I've applied to several leasing companies, mostly for licensed links. All of them gave me an appox. rate for a five year term of under 10% per year. Then, after they ran credit, they came back with a monthly payment but wouldn't tell me the rate. I calculated it to be over 25% annually in all

[WISPA] sprint 4g reviews?

2010-06-04 Thread Robert Kim Wireless Internet Advisor
hi guys... it's been a while! So since the whole 3g thing went mega corporate and independents like me got pushed out, i havent paid much attention to the wireless space ... but has anyone here used sprint's 4g network? -- Robert Q Kim 2611 S Coast Highway San Diego, CA 92007 310 598 1606

Re: [WISPA] sprint 4g reviews?

2010-06-04 Thread Josh Luthman
Isn't it Clear's wimax service? On 6/4/10, Robert Kim Wireless Internet Advisor evdo.hs...@gmail.com wrote: hi guys... it's been a while! So since the whole 3g thing went mega corporate and independents like me got pushed out, i havent paid much attention to the wireless space ... but has

Re: [WISPA] Talk about A Geeks Geek ...

2010-06-04 Thread St. Louis Broadband
Forbes, No, all I can say is WOW: http://www.usda.gov/blog/usda/entry/h2_the_national_summit_of ~V~ -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Forbes Mercy Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 5:50 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re:

Re: [WISPA] FCC Seeks Volunteers to Test Broadband Speed

2010-06-04 Thread Robert West
As usual, it's all a BS job. The truth doesn't matter, it's all reported numbers by whoever. Should be a central speed test URL that anyone can test to that is publically reported. -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Tom

Re: [WISPA] FCC Seeks Volunteers to Test Broadband Speed

2010-06-04 Thread Robert West
Now that's funny! I never noticed since Connect Ohio is full of the stuff as far as I'm concerned. Not a surprise! They can all play the numbers.Speed Test keeps track of average speeds, so why is not good enough? Seems to be a free. But it's an average, maybe they want exact regional.

Re: [WISPA] sprint 4g reviews?

2010-06-04 Thread Jeromie Reeves
Yes it is, Sprint owns Clear and they are releasing a phone (HTC 4G) some time soon. The times I used it, it was not very good at all. High ping, low bandwidth, but these were all the 'pro' install cabled to a indoor AP. On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.com

Re: [WISPA] FCC Seeks Volunteers to Test Broadband Speed

2010-06-04 Thread RickG
I think the FCC just wants to get people in a frenzy thinking they're getting ripped off so they'll support them more. Now people are going to whine because they dont get what they pay for. Too bad most arent educated enough to know the difference between on net and off net and shared bandwidth

Re: [WISPA] sprint 4g reviews?

2010-06-04 Thread Philip Dorr
The HTC EVO 4G was released today. The demand for it brought down their activation system. On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Jeromie Reeves jree...@18-30chat.net wrote: Yes it is, Sprint owns Clear and they are releasing a phone (HTC 4G) some time soon. The times I used it, it was not very good

Re: [WISPA] sprint 4g reviews?

2010-06-04 Thread Mike Hammett
Sprint owns 51% of Clear. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com On 6/4/2010 7:34 PM, Josh Luthman wrote: Isn't it Clear's wimax service? On 6/4/10, Robert Kim Wireless Internet Advisorevdo.hs...@gmail.com wrote: hi guys... it's been a while! So

Re: [WISPA] sprint 4g reviews?

2010-06-04 Thread Mike Hammett
Today, I have it in my hands, but I'm not under 4G coverage. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com On 6/4/2010 9:53 PM, Jeromie Reeves wrote: Yes it is, Sprint owns Clear and they are releasing a phone (HTC 4G) some time soon. The times I used it, it was

Re: [WISPA] Leasing Companies

2010-06-04 Thread David
Both CTI and Boun at doubleradius can help get you with honest leasing companies. David -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Sullivan Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 6:11 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: