Is it really that speed though ? ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Rick Kosick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 12:46:51 -0500
>Well we're getting close to free. >They started offering the $19.95/month for 12 months. When you're at 19.95, how much >further down is it to nearly free? Bundle it with a little HBO and "10 free >on-demand movies" and you can call it what you want. Hey, how about some phone >service over the same wire to go with it?? > >I'm stunned that they are giving away 3.5Mb/384k for 95.00/month here. How does one >compete!?!? > >Thank the nitwits at the FCC for this. >=== >Rick Kosick >StarLinX Internet Service > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Sevak Avakians > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 11:43 AM > Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Why not to use smartBridge... > > > Huh? Comcast is giving it away for free? > > On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 11:26, Rick Kosick wrote: > > 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. > === > 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: > > 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? > === > 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: > > Software: 1.6 > Firmware: 1.4j.8 > > Both sides. > === > 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: > > 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. > === > 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.. > > === > Rick Kosick > StarLinX Internet Service > --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus By Avolve.net] The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://archives.part-15.org
