Sure is. Very fast. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stuart Pierce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 4:17 PM Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Why not to use smartBridge...
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 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
