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Good idea. I only service business customers but
I do like the concept.
What I have found is that people prefer Comcast
over anything else. They have it at home, they want it at work. Simple as
that.
If you recall... at one time AOL was
synonomous with the word "Internet". Every TV commercial used to say "visit us
on the web at www.whatever.com or AOL
KEYWORK: whatever"
People didn't know the difference. AOL was, for
the most part, "the Internet".
Comcast is now taking that seat. Everything is
compared (in my area) to Comcast and even when the pricing is close, they go
Comcast.
They are geniouses for getting themseleves into
this position (and the FCC's pocket)
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Rick Kosick
StarLinX Internet
Service
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 1:26
PM
Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Why not to
use smartBridge...
Maybe you should change your ads to show the savings they can
get instead of putting down the price?
BTW, try to get in with the local
DirectTV guys in your area and bundle packages with them. Many people
are unwilling to convert to another ISP because they've got cable TV
service. But DirectTV has better deals and I'm sure you can find a bunch
of customers willing to take your service with DirectTV or other satellite TV
service. It's a win-win-win for you, the satellite service you team up
with, and your customers.
Sevak
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 12:53,
John Banes wrote:
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In our area they
are advertising $19.99 a month for the first 3 months. The people don't look
at the price after that to find that it goes up to $45. And that's for 1.5
megs download speed.
John
----- Original Message -----
From: Colin
Watson
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 9:39 AM
Subject:
Re: [smartBridges] Why not to use smartBridge...
How badly are u suffering? Why can't you compete?
----- Original Message -----
From: Rick Kosick
To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 4:26 PM
Subject:
Re: [smartBridges] Why not to use smartBridge...
Nope, wasn't me who called. I started out with
Breezecom about 3 years ago and remained pretty small. I'm taking it in
the backside now with Comcast here giving it all away for free.
Scumbags.
Wouldn't it be so nice to have that monopoly? Run
wires to every home and then call it a private network so nobody else
has access to the wire. Funny, 230' of their cable runs across my lawn
and I don't see any rent money for that "private network". What a waste
the FCC is.
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Rick Kosick
StarLinX Internet Service
----- Original Message -----
From: Sevak
Avakians
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 11:10
AM
Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Why not to use
smartBridge...
Hi Rick,
I'm in NYC. Yeah, both our
areas (NY & PA) were hit bad yesterday!
PA? There was
a guy in PA that wanted to setup a WISP and had called me for tips
awhile back...that wasn't you, right? If I remember correctly,
his name was also Rick.
Sevak
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at
11:02, Rick Kosick wrote:
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No
luck. I downgraded to lower firmware and nothing.
I am going to
try and reset it by using the button on PowerShot and trying from
scratch. Otherwise, I have to dump the equipment and move to
something else. Way too much time spent on this
what-should-be-simple setup. It did work for about 5 mins until I
tried enabling WEP. Ever since though, nothing.
Where are you located that you have 55MPH wind? I'm in PA and
have the same problem. Trees down everywhere :-(
Where can I get 1.4j.9? Maybe that will do
it?
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Rick
Kosick
StarLinX Internet Service
----- Original Message -----
From:
Sevak Avakians
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 10:47
AM
Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Why not to use
smartBridge...
Hi Rick,
Turns out that I'm also
having problems getting 2 aPPOT units to bridge. At first, I
was having trouble with one of the appot to broadcast it's
ssid. The other appot did not take up the ssid changes I
made to it. Whenever sniffing wirelessly, its ssid appeared
as airPointProOutdoorTOTAL. After re-flashing the rom,
rebooting, and switching from wireless bridge mode to client
bridge mode then back to wireless bridge mode, the ssid appears
properly on the second unit. (Note, that the ssid as seen
from the monitor program would always appear as the correct
one. It was only from looking at the wireless broadcast that
I could see that the ssid was incorrect.)
Well, anyway it
is way too windy here today for me to continue (55 mph winds!), so
I'll take another look at it tomorrow.
Any luck with your
setup???
Sevak
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 09:19, Rick
Kosick wrote:
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Software: 1.6
Firmware: 1.4j.8
Both sides.
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Rick Kosick
StarLinX Internet Service
----- Original Message -----
From:
Sevak Avakians
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003
9:11 AM
Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Why not to use
smartBridge...
Rick, if you got the firmware off the
website, it may not be the latest. Usually sb has a beta
version that they post on this list and most of us use before
it is posted to the website.
Check the version number
using simpleNMS or the firmware upgrade
utility.
Sevak
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 09:05, Rick
Kosick wrote:
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I don't know the actual version number but I just
downloaded it off the website in the past few days and it is
the very latest on both sides.
This part
about it bringing the switch to its knees is VERY disturbing
because a switch, by its design, should not allow that to
happen normally. I can see it happening to a
hub.
I was
working on this remotely (from home) at late hours both
times and had to drive to the NOC to remedy it because I
couldn't access any machines via PC Anywhere. The whole
network crashed basically.
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Rick Kosick
StarLinX
Internet Service
----- Original
Message -----
From: Blazen
Wireless
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 13,
2003 8:59 AM
Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Why not
to use smartBridge...
Interesting what firmware were you using which
should not affect your switch like that just curious to
know..
----- Original Message -----
From: Rick
Kosick
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 13,
2003 5:39 AM
Subject: [smartBridges] Why not
to use smartBridge...
So far I've come up with three good reasons to
not continue to use smartBridges but I'm open to
suggestions for fixing these problem. Pardon my
frustration but I have 3 years of wireless experience
and its taking me more than 10 hours of fiddling to get
a simple Wireless Bridge to Wireless Bridge up and
running and I am sitting here with more problems than
solutions right now.
1)
Last week I plugged the ethernet side of an APPO into an
APCC PNET4 ethernet surge supressor where there where
three other devices plugged in. This caused severe
packet loss on the other devices. Pinging the other
devices between each other would result in 4 out of 10
pings timeing out.
SOLUTION: Bypass the ethernet
surge supressor.
2)
Right now I have two APPO's configured in Wireless
Bridge mode (which won't work, see #3). At my NOC side
its plugged into a D-Link DES3226 Managed Switch. If I
put the APPO into Access Point mode, it KILLS
the traffic on my switch entirely to the point
where workstations and servers can barely reach each
other. As soon as I unplug the APPO's ethernet
connection from the switch, immediately everything goes
back to normal. This has happened twice now in my quest
to get my wireless link working.
SOLUTION: No
idea. Maybe avoid Access Point mode?
3) I have to admit I did enjoy 3
minutes of Wireless Bridge mode where everything worked
as it was expected, but I got adventerous and enabled
WEP. This did not work out for some reason and now,
after disabling WEP... I cannot get the Wireless Bridge
mode to work again. I've reset to Defaults and started
over, still nothing. I simply cannot get Wirless Bridge
to Wireless Bridge mode to work at this point. I've been
through the "recycling both sides", "double checking
MAC#'s", etc. You'd think that if this was going to work
at all, I would have accidentally made it work by
now.
SOLUTION: None as of
yet.
Clearly, when considering points #1
and #2 above, there is more happening on the ethernet
side of the link than just ethernet. Something is
different than a standard ethernet connection
because this radio clearly caused major packet loss
between the other devices plugged into am
ethernet surge supressor. Maybe power is leaking
through from the PowerShot device? And, its ability to
completely bring a managed switch to its knees just
reassures this..
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Rick Kosick
StarLinX Internet
Service
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