Re: [smartBridges] Sticking up for sB

[George]

Well my EZ Bridges lets you do this if you put it's IP address in the 
Allowed Firewall Rule and made the lan side of the router the same 
subnet as the radio or visa versa. or have windows 2000 or better and 
can apply multiple IP addresses.

But Now that you asked. I have the best possible radio ( IMHO) that is 
of great quality and yes you can get to the radio and router from either 
the lan or wan side with ssh. You can also do bandwidth limiting and see 
CORRECT noise and signal strengths in both directions as well as host of 
other valuable options  not seen in any other radio possible. And I 
believe is under 400.00 in a weatherproof enclosure.

Star-OS
www.star-os.com
George



Bullit wrote:

 

I.E the SIMPLE STATUS is a great example, of all the people that us SB
   

stuff
 

how many do you actually hook direct to a PC? I personally have MAYBE
   

5--10%
 

that I do that way so this software would possible work but to me its a
bandaid I hook most my installs to a router which this software is useless
because the radio is before the router so how is a customer PC supposed to
see the radio other then giving the radio a public IP which would be a
waste.
   

Ok, showing my ignorance here, but could someone point me to a radio that
will allow someone to access it from the LAN port of a router where the
radio is plugged into the WAN port of the router? Proxim??? Orinoco???
Canopy??? I guess I'm missing something here. Every radio that I can think
of off the top of my head requires you to connect directly to the ether port
to configure/monitor it (over the ether port side anyway). Many radios can
be monitors over the wireless side of things.
 

Its little things like that if you pass if before a few people to critique
first then you don't spin your wheels developing something that maybe 5%
   

of
 

us will ever use. You could have them spend more of their time developing
   

a
 

more useful feature like having this feature (watchdog reboot) built INTO
the radio which would have been more useful??
   

The above comment doesn't make sense at all. You appear to be indicating
that sB doesn't do Beta testing. (at least that's what I read into your
comment. sB does have an extensive Beta program in place.
 

Believe me I bet I have just as much R & D time as they do working with
engineers and beta testing stuff trying to find the bugs that was part of
   

my
 

job for 7 + years. So as you can see I have an eye for these things and it
seems a few other people do as well and we have said we would donate our
time to help but it seems like they just go ahead and do what they want
   

and
 

maybe put a feature or two in that is actually good.
   

Even with the experience you mention, it's not just having "an eye" the
makes for a good quality assurance inspector. I guess you have already asked
sB to be a Beta tester and have not heard back or were not selected. Just
because you were not selected, you should take offense to that nor indicate
that they are not doing field beta. Your non-selection could be totally
based on something as simple as by the time you request beta status, they
already had 2000 other people before you ask for the same thing.
 

I would like to see this stuff work like it did 6 months ago and I know it
can and like you said it does not seem fast enough. Personally I would
   

have
 

recalled ALL the product back from the DIST and NOT sent it back until
   

they
 

knew for sure it was good if thats not what they have done already.
   

You've said that 10 times already and we all agree with you.

 

I think everyone is just venting me included since I have not been doing
   

as
 

many installs due to equipment that keeps failing and I am not going to
order anymore till this corrected I have been sitting here looking at all
the features and or bugs same as everyone else.
   

I know and understand. I'm in the same boat as everyone else and yes I have
thrown a fit (in private) after having to send a tech back to the same house
for the fifth time in two weeks.
If you really want to help the situation, make better reports to sB on the
exact circumstances. The better we write our discovery of problems, the
better they can try to duplicate them in a lab. It's the quality of the
report that will help solve the problem not the quantity of the reports.
My2cents
Michael






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