----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Hammett" <[email protected]>
To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 3:26 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] make sure you are filtering AS48438 right now


> There's always, always another option.  The affordability or practicality 
> of
> those options vary.
>
> Education and knowledge of the world at large is certainly cheaper than
> burying 200 miles of fiber.  Not having an easy upstream choice isn't an
> excuse for not knowing what networks are around you, keeping in contact 
> with
> them, knowing how the Internet at large works.
>
> I'm not sure how current your coverage map is, but Electric Lightwave has 
> a
> POP in Grand Coulee, which is 20 miles from Wilbur.

It's more than 20 miles in reality.  There is also a bit of a mountain in 
the way.  And much of the land out there is government and mostly 
unavailable for use.

>  They  may have closer,
> but their POP names don't necessarily match up with town names.

Yeah, and NoaNET has a drop near Creston Wa.  But we're based in Odessa, not 
Creston, Wilbur or Coulee Dam.

>  Vision
> networks in Montana may be of use, but I don't know.  they indicate a line
> going near you, but no POPs specified.  Being right near I-90, there has 
> to
> be a chunk of fiber next to it, just have to do some research to find out
> whom.  ;-)

There is fiber IN town.  But there's only 1.  And it's Century Tel.

There is a lot of fiber south of us (some closer to us than to I-90 even!). 
But so far I've not found a way to get into it.  For some reason AT&T (or 
whoever owns it now) doesn't like to break into their runs mid span.

The upshot of things is that I'm only 9 miles from being able to tie my 
Grant and Lincoln county networks together.  Anyone know how small of a 
block of IP addys we can get?  How do we get them and what is the cost?

When I can get them tied together I'll likely run bgp and get my own ip 
space.  That'll help with upstream choices anyway.  Renumbering hundreds of 
customers would suck!

laters,
marlon

>
>
> -----
> Mike Hammett
> Intelligent Computing Solutions
> http://www.ics-il.com
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> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Marlon K. Schafer" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 4:05 PM
> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [WISPA] make sure you are filtering AS48438 right now
>
>> roflol
>>
>> Oh the arrogance of the well connected!  grin
>>
>> I'm just twisting your tail Mike.
>>
>> But understand something about the reality of things out here.  There are
>> NO
>> other choices for upstream connectivity.  I have ONE provider at three of
>> my
>> main sites.  Not because I don't want a back up, but because there IS no
>> other choice.
>> marlon
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Mike Hammett" <[email protected]>
>> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 1:22 PM
>> Subject: Re: [WISPA] make sure you are filtering AS48438 right now
>>
>>
>>> I'm not saying anything about you personally, John.
>>>
>>> However, situations like this are why a lot of people don't take WISPs
>>> seriously.  Everybody here should be doing BGP, or at the very least 
>>> know
>>> what it is, how it works, and how large of an impact it has on the whole
>>> Internet.  There were a few responses to this statement indicating that
>>> people don't know how this system works or how to get current 
>>> information
>>> on
>>> the issue (NANOG, etc.).
>>>
>>> There were only a few responses, but I bet you there are dozens or
>>> hundreds
>>> of lurkers that don't know either.
>>>
>>> You can't run your operation effectively if you don't (or have people 
>>> to)
>>> know everything from RF propagation, local demographics, routing,
>>> government
>>> policy, etc.
>>>
>>>
>>> -----
>>> Mike Hammett
>>> Intelligent Computing Solutions
>>> http://www.ics-il.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>> From: "John McDowell" <[email protected]>
>>> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 11:18 AM
>>> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]>
>>> Subject: Re: [WISPA] make sure you are filtering AS48438 right now
>>>
>>>> what is that?
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Matt Liotta <[email protected]> wrote:
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