I feel your pain as well..... Same deal here.
WinnCom is still listing the TurboCell licenses for sale. I will
confirm availability as soon as my sales guy gets back from lunch.
Rick's WRAP with CF will work as well. However, if the TurboCell
licenses are no longer available, I wonder if Rick will be able to
continue to produce them?
Other possibilities are in the works.
Terrorbeam/YDI/Proxim/Karlnet or whoever they are this week annoyed a
lot of people with this mishandling of the TurboCell software and
hardware. Not to mention the callous way they treated the folks at the
Karlnet offices in Ohio.
Personally, while I will continue to buy TurboCell licenses as long as
they are available, I will never consider any new
Terrorbeam/YDI/Proxim/Karlnet products.
We are looking toward Netstream on WRAP or RouterBoard as our long term
solution. Others have their own choices for software/hardware.
Planning on doing each conversion of a tower and client equipment over a
weekend, then reclaiming to old TurboCell equipment for other locations
on other towers....
Mark Nash wrote:
Hello to the list...
My name is Mark Nash and I own & operate a little WISP of about 300
customers in Oregon.
For CPE, I started out using Breezecom 2.4GHz FH radios then switched
to Karlnet RSU's loaded w/Turbocell. Then the YDI/Terabeam/Proxim
series of mergers & acquisitions happened and I've got products from
all companies but they are all Turbocell CPE.
We have 6 WiPops surrounding our customer base (rural southern
Willamette Valley). We're using Trango backhauls...I started out
using them simply because of their low cost and advertised bandwidth.
I still have two in use from when the company was called Sunstream (I
think it was 2002). I remain happy about that decision.
We started out with a bridged network then ARP changed my tune and we
went to a routed design.
OK, so...there it is. For those of you who know what's going on with
Turbocell from the new Proxim, you probably know that I'm not happy as
they have set out to discontinue the Turbocell client software. So I
will soon have to purchase new AP's and shift some customers around
because I won't be able to purchase Turbocell-based devices. That's
the word from Proxim. So...anyone heard any differently? I've also
asked Proxim if we can 'downgrade' our Turbocell products to 802.11b
and they are saying 'no'.
It's a you-know-what sandwich from which I'd rather not take a bite.
Does anyone feel my pain? Any way around these issues aside from
replacing CPE?
Regards,
Mark Nash
Network Engineer
UnwiredOnline.Net
325 Holly Street
Junction City, OR 97448
http://www.uwol.net
541-998-5555
541-998-5599 fax
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