Huh ? ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Tom Haynes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 13:12:07 -0500
>Is everyone aware of all of the money that the cable companies pay to the county to >maintain their monopoly? It is managed by the Telecommunication Commission in your >area is they are required to give a big chunk of that money away as grants for people >like us. Make them pay for your CPE equipment :-) > > > > _____ > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Banes >Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 12:53 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Why not to use smartBridge... > > > >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 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >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 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >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. >=== >Rick Kosick >StarLinX Internet Service > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: Sevak Avakians <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >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 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >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 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >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 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >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 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >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
