[WISPA] Here’s a great article about how and why social distancing works

2020-03-15 Thread Sean Heskett via Wireless
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/corona-simulator/ Lots of great simulation animations and graphs. Enjoy! -Sean ___ Wireless mailing list Wireless@wispa.org http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless

Re: [WISPA] [WISPA Members] [AFMUG] COVID-19 and WISPAmerica

2020-03-11 Thread Sean Heskett via Wireless
NBA just suspended its season indefinitely On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 7:59 PM Sean Heskett wrote: > This is from a dr. In norther Italy. > > TRINA AND CLAUDE PLEASE READ THIS. > > > https://www.newsweek.com/young-unafraid-coronavirus-pandemic-good-you-now-stop-killing-peop

Re: [WISPA] [WISPA Members] [AFMUG] COVID-19 and WISPAmerica

2020-03-11 Thread Sean Heskett via Wireless
This is from a dr. In norther Italy. TRINA AND CLAUDE PLEASE READ THIS. https://www.newsweek.com/young-unafraid-coronavirus-pandemic-good-you-now-stop-killing-people-opinion-1491797 -Sean On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 7:48 PM Trina Coffey wrote: > Matt > > Thank you for the rousing endorsement

Re: [WISPA] [AFMUG] COVID-19 and WISPAmerica

2020-03-11 Thread Sean Heskett via Wireless
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbyPW8lJX2E On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 1:29 PM Sean Heskett wrote: > Yup great site josh! We are about 9 days behind Italy. > > The cases grow exponentially every day and what will happen is our > hospitals have no surge capacity. 20% of the pe

Re: [WISPA] [AFMUG] COVID-19 and WISPAmerica

2020-03-11 Thread Sean Heskett via Wireless
/maps/search/1100+Wayne+St+Suite+1337+Troy,+OH+45373?entry=gmail=g> > > > On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 2:59 PM Sean Heskett wrote: > >> https://www.flattenthecurve.com/ >> >> >> >> On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 11:58 AM Sean Heskett wrote: >> >>

Re: [WISPA] COVID-19 and WISPAmerica

2020-03-11 Thread Sean Heskett via Wireless
https://www.flattenthecurve.com/ On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 11:58 AM Sean Heskett wrote: > I’m sorry folks but this conference really should be canceled for the > safety of everyone. > > Thank you to Sonar For their brave decision yesterday to pull out. > > I know this w

[WISPA] COVID-19 and WISPAmerica

2020-03-11 Thread Sean Heskett via Wireless
I’m sorry folks but this conference really should be canceled for the safety of everyone. Thank you to Sonar For their brave decision yesterday to pull out. I know this would be a hardship for WISPA’s finances so I think we should all pull together to make sure WISPA doesn’t suffer financially.

Re: [WISPA] IP Tracking

2019-06-12 Thread Sean Heskett via Wireless
IPPLAN https://sourceforge.net/projects/iptrack/ Or most CRM software (sonar, power code, VISP) usually has ip management capabilities too. -Sean On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 12:26 PM Jeremy Austin via Wireless < wireless@wispa.org> wrote: > If you're willing to use commercial (hosted) software

Re: [WISPA] solar?

2019-05-20 Thread Sean Heskett via Wireless
Do you have electric at these sites already or are you trying to deploy where there is no electric utility? If you already have electric then just invest in a lot of batteries and save your time and money. If it’s an off grid site then I’d have someone like sunwize just build you the first

[WISPA] Job opening: Networking engineer

2018-12-05 Thread Sean Heskett
https://www.zirkelwireless.com/jobs/ Looking for a network engineer with some ninja skills who wants to live and work in Steamboat Springs, CO - ski pass included in benefits package. send resume to res...@zirkel.us -Sean ___ Wireless mailing list

Re: [WISPA] Butch Evans ??

2018-07-16 Thread Sean Heskett
Butch Evans he's been active on the animal farm list if you want to try over there a...@af.afmug.com -Sean On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 4:30 PM, Tony C. Loosle wrote: > so the number I have in my phone and on he website do not work. And > emails are unanswered. Does anyone have any other

Re: [WISPA] SBA tower / Avetta compliance

2018-06-13 Thread Sean Heskett
lth & safety document I "borrowed" from a large company out there > and then started changing the words. Avetta still said it would be > 30/60/90+ days before they'd review it. > > > > > Josh Luthman > Office: 937-552-2340 > Direct: 937-552-2343 > 1100 Wayne

[WISPA] SBA tower / Avetta compliance

2018-06-13 Thread Sean Heskett
Hello gang, one of the towers we've been on for many years was sold to SBA. SBA is now requiring that we get compliance certification from Avetta. We've filled out the entire LONG questionnaire for Avetta however at the end they are asking us to upload a PDF of our "Safety & Health

[WISPA] SOHO router hack

2018-05-25 Thread Sean Heskett
FBI recommends users at a minimum reboot their router to kill the malware. Factory default, upgrade firmware and change passwords etc. is the best fix. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/05/fbi-tells-router-users-to-reboot-now-to-kill-malware-infecting-500k-devices/

Re: [WISPA] Fwd: MDU Ethernet over Coax recommendations

2018-02-24 Thread Sean Heskett
I’m not an expert in coax deployments but I know calix has a g.fast over coax system. I don’t know if you can still deliver cable tv over the coax tho. Sean On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 6:50 PM Dan Harling wrote: > Hello, > > We're setting up service in an MDU that has coax

Re: [WISPA] Hard hat class

2017-12-21 Thread Sean Heskett
I’ve never heard that. Climbers do need one with a chin strap though. Check with a supplier like GME or check with whoever you use to certify your climbers. -Sean On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 12:42 PM Scott Piehn wrote: > We are getting new hard hats for our ground people when

Re: [WISPA] Network Neutrality talking points

2017-12-15 Thread Sean Heskett
Yes but do you prioritize vonage over ooma??? -Sean [Sent from mobile] > On Dec 15, 2017, at 6:33 PM, James Wilson wrote: > > Don't we prioritize VoIP? > >> On Dec 15, 2017 4:04 PM, "Josh Luthman" wrote: >> This is fantastic. >> >> Josh

Re: [WISPA] CBRS Operator Member Survey

2017-12-07 Thread Sean Heskett
done! Sean Heskett ZIRKEL Wireless High-Speed Internet for NW Colorado 970-871-8500 x100 - Office 970-846-8065 - mobile 866-903-4628 - Fax Website <http://www.zirkelwireless.com/> | Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/zirkelwireless> > On Dec 7, 2017, at 9:09 AM, Ma

Re: [WISPA] CBRS Spectrum - PLEASE DO THIS TODAY, TOMORROW, and every day next week. It's time to ACT to save CBRS spectrum

2017-12-06 Thread Sean Heskett
ank...@oregononline.net> wrote: > > I use that now, where does CBRS get tied to 3.6 equipment? I read the fcc > blurb on cbrs and they didn't cover 3.6, only mentioned cb radios and 40 > channels. Didn't know anybody still used that stuff, grew out of that 40 > years ago. >

Re: [WISPA] CBRS Spectrum - PLEASE DO THIS TODAY, TOMORROW, and every day next week. It's time to ACT to save CBRS spectrum

2017-12-06 Thread Sean Heskett
CBRS is the 3.55-3.7GHz band (not 2.6-2.7) and yes there’s lots of equipment ready to use the band. cambium canopy and all the LTE vendors have product. Sean Heskett ZIRKEL Wireless High-Speed Internet for NW Colorado 970-871-8500 x100 - Office 970-846-8065 - mobile 866-903-4628 - Fax

Re: [WISPA] LinkNYC

2017-05-01 Thread Sean Heskett
And then this happened lol :-/ https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/09/15/nyregion/internet-browsers-to-be-disabled-on-new-yorks-free-wi-fi-kiosks.html -Sean On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 9:39 AM Gino A. Villarini wrote: > > > Anyone has info on this project? Specially who is the

Re: [WISPA] Looking for a switch...

2017-04-17 Thread Sean Heskett
Planet On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 6:47 PM Blair Davis wrote: > Looking for a good rack mount unmanaged switch with at least thirty (30) > 10/100/1000 ports and at least 1 SPF optical port for 1G. > > Don't need or want POE or any special features not listed above. > > Vendors,

Re: [WISPA] 10 gig Switch

2017-03-21 Thread Sean Heskett
planet On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 12:55 PM, Bob Moldashel wrote: > Anyone have any suggestions for a cheap switch I can plug 10 gig GBIC into > and use for testing new 5 and 10 GiGE radios with. Looking for used, ugly, > bulky, etc. Most of all looking for cheap.

Re: [WISPA] Cambium 450, 450m, and epmp in 5.X GHz Comparison

2017-03-21 Thread Sean Heskett
it's a non issue. the 450m is designed in every way for high density, high capacity deployment. -sean On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 10:44 AM, Marco Coelho wrote: > I understand that, but sm on the rear of a panel can interfere with it if > there is freq overlap. > > On Tue, Mar

Re: [WISPA] Bundle With Dish Network TV??

2017-02-14 Thread Sean Heskett
, etc. > > Regards, > Chuck > > On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 2:22 PM, Sean Heskett <af...@zirkel.us> wrote: > > The price includes support with server plus...so them. > > > -Sean > > > On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 11:41 AM RickG <rgunder...@gmail.com> wr

Re: [WISPA] Bundle With Dish Network TV??

2017-02-14 Thread Sean Heskett
ite, they will bundle in other services in the bills and continually > blast them with commercials on all the channels they serve, including gift > card offers, etc. > > Regards, > Chuck > > On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 2:22 PM, Sean Heskett <af...@zirkel.us> wrote: &g

Re: [WISPA] Bundle With Dish Network TV??

2017-02-14 Thread Sean Heskett
The price includes support with server plus...so them. -Sean On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 11:41 AM RickG <rgunder...@gmail.com> wrote: > Who supports it, you or them? > > On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 1:37 PM, Sean Heskett <af...@zirkel.us> wrote: > > Hi William, > > T

Re: [WISPA] Bundle With Dish Network TV??

2017-02-14 Thread Sean Heskett
work. What type of speeds and > network capacity have to penciled in for your network? What is the cost? > > On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 4:53 PM, Sean Heskett <af...@zirkel.us> wrote: > > Other operators have complained that the harvest your client list and > advertise heavily to get them to

Re: [WISPA] Bundle With Dish Network TV??

2017-02-13 Thread Sean Heskett
Other operators have complained that the harvest your client list and advertise heavily to get them to use DSL. I've personally never sold satellite tv so I can't say that is true myself. We are about to deploy RealchoiceTV which is Over the top (OTT) live streaming TV with local channels. They

Re: [WISPA] 18 Ghz Range

2017-01-16 Thread Sean Heskett
We've done a 6 mile link with 2' dishes without issues. We are in NW Colorado so we get some wicked thunderstorms in the summertime that drop lots of water. I probably wouldn't go much further than 6 miles with 2' dishes though. -Sean On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 7:34 AM Sam Morris

Re: [WISPA] 3.65 Ghz License

2016-11-18 Thread Sean Heskett
+ 1 bazillion use unlicensed and licensed lite (aka 3.65) for PMP and part 101 licensed for PTP backhaul. if it's short distances then use 24ghz which is unlicensed PTP spectrum. 2 cents -sean On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 9:59 PM, Faisal Imtiaz wrote: > Want some

Re: [WISPA] MDU Ethernet Switch

2016-11-02 Thread Sean Heskett
mend for planet switches? > > On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 3:20 PM, Sean Heskett <af...@zirkel.us> wrote: > >> planet >> >> >> On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Colton Conor <colton.co...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> I am in need of a recomme

Re: [WISPA] MDU Ethernet Switch

2016-11-02 Thread Sean Heskett
planet On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Colton Conor wrote: > I am in need of a recommendation for a small Ethernet switch for an MDU > applications. This is a garden style community where each building has > between 4 to 8 units inside of the building. There are 15

Re: [WISPA] Shielding FM noise with conduit?

2016-09-20 Thread Sean Heskett
quick and is working great. Thanks for the suggestion. > > On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 10:51 AM, Sean Heskett <af...@zirkel.us> wrote: > >> my bad, i was answering late in the evening, i was thinking PVC when you >> said EMT. EMT will work too since it's metal but it's hard to wo

Re: [WISPA] Intermapper Probes

2016-09-12 Thread Sean Heskett
I would be interested in these as well. I'd be willing to help pay if their development if necessary. -Sean On Monday, September 12, 2016, Gino Villarini wrote: > Looking to get some probes developed, > > Cambim 450 > Epmp > AF24 > AF5x > Mimosa > > Anyone have probes for

Re: [WISPA] Shielding FM noise with conduit?

2016-09-09 Thread Sean Heskett
hat you describe. > > I have to ask - from a physics(?) standpoint, what keeps RF out of the > Liquidtight but not EMT? > > On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 10:46 PM, Sean Heskett <af...@zirkel.us> wrote: > >> If you do conduit you need to use liquidtight with the metal inside.

Re: [WISPA] Shielding FM noise with conduit?

2016-09-08 Thread Sean Heskett
If you do conduit you need to use liquidtight with the metal inside. EMT will do nothing to stop the RF from bleeding. We've done it on several towers with great success. -Sean On Thursday, September 8, 2016, Chadwick Wachs wrote: > With two new FM stations moving onto

Re: [WISPA] High-Rise Building Rooftop Grounding

2016-08-22 Thread Sean Heskett
FYI Structural steel is not a proper electrical ground On Monday, August 22, 2016, Mike Hammett wrote: > Any structural steel nearby? > > > > - > Mike Hammett > > Intelligent Computing Solutions > >

Re: [WISPA] High-Rise Building Rooftop Grounding

2016-08-22 Thread Sean Heskett
Try to find an electrical ground that is already up there for an air conditioner or the elevator equipment. Cold water pipe is good too as long as it doesn't turn into PVC pipe somewhere along the way to the ground. -Sean On Saturday, August 20, 2016, Chris Fabien wrote:

Re: [WISPA] 13.4 canopy sw

2016-07-28 Thread Sean Heskett
13.4.1 is the latest and greatest and is very stable for PMP100 and PMP430. -sean On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Marco Coelho wrote: > Any negative issues with the 13.4 firmware for the pmp100 series > > -- > Marco C. Coelho > Argon Technologies Inc. > POB 875 >

Re: [WISPA] cambium 450 real 90 degree panels

2016-07-27 Thread Sean Heskett
http://www.kpperformance.ca/5ghz-90-degree-17-5-dbi-sector On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 12:13 PM, Marco Coelho wrote: > > Does anyone have some recommendations for this? Cambiums 90° antenna is > actually a 65° antenna. My definition of a sector is 3db down at the edge > of the

Re: [WISPA] FM Radio interference

2016-07-14 Thread Sean Heskett
i prefer liquidtight because the metal shield is protected by an outside coating. this keeps it both water tight and prevents it from becoming a giant conductor should it happen to touch a live wire somehow. you can buy it at any local electrical supply shop -sean On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 3:21

Re: [WISPA] FM Radio interference

2016-07-14 Thread Sean Heskett
we have had good luck with shielded cable inside liquidtight conduit, but even then sometimes it doesn't work. fiber is the only way to truly "fix" the problem. also we could that grounding the cables only at the bottom helped (instead of at the top and bottom). -sean On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at

Re: [WISPA] Tower Climbing Requirements

2015-01-07 Thread Sean Heskett
. On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Sean Heskett af...@zirkel.us wrote: you have to follow OSHA rules. On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Tim Way t...@way.vg wrote: How does one find out the legal requirements for performing tower climbing in a locality? I am located in Brown County, WI and I

Re: [WISPA] Tower Climbing Requirements

2015-01-07 Thread Sean Heskett
you have to follow OSHA rules. On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Tim Way t...@way.vg wrote: How does one find out the legal requirements for performing tower climbing in a locality? I am located in Brown County, WI and I can't seem to drum up an intelligible Google search that finds me the

Re: [WISPA] Rogue Accesspoint Detection

2015-01-06 Thread Sean Heskett
In Colorado and many other states with make my day laws you can most certainly be shot :-/ On Tuesday, January 6, 2015, l...@mwtcorp.net wrote: On Tue, 6 Jan 2015 16:27:13 -0600 (CST) Mike Hammett wispawirel...@ics-il.net javascript:; wrote: A WISP doesn't own (or lease) everywhere. A

Re: [WISPA] Tower mounting

2014-12-16 Thread Sean Heskett
wbmfg.com M-TOW-3P-48 On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Larry A. Weidig lwei...@excel.net wrote: Most of the time we have been using 120 sectors, but we are planning some new deployments with 90 degree sectors instead. Since most of the towers we are on had three legs it made 120 degree

Re: [WISPA] Solar setup recommendations...

2014-12-01 Thread Sean Heskett
You'll need to do some math first. How many watts of power do you need, multiply by 24 to get your daily usage. Add in some buffer if you think this site will expand (it probably will). For instance say your draw is 100watts * 24 = 2400watts. In Florida on dec 21st you should have 5 hours

Re: [WISPA] I need to monitor bandwidth usage

2014-12-01 Thread Sean Heskett
Cacti Cactiez is a easy install cd that will format the drive, install Linux and all the cacti software etc On Monday, December 1, 2014, ~NGL~ n...@ngl.net wrote: I need an inexpensive means to keep track of under 100 clients bandwidth usage. Any suggestions? Thanx NGL If you can read

Re: [WISPA] Quickbooks hosts

2014-11-24 Thread Sean Heskett
You can turn aws on and off as needed. You just click a button on a web page and it's instant on. You can also schedule it to turn on and off On Monday, November 24, 2014, Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.com wrote: Any idea what AWS would cost for something like this? I feel like it

Re: [WISPA] Quickbooks hosts

2014-11-24 Thread Sean Heskett
at 4:13 PM, Sean Heskett af...@zirkel.us wrote: You can turn aws on and off as needed. You just click a button on a web page and it's instant on. You can also schedule it to turn on and off On Monday, November 24, 2014, Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.com wrote: Any idea what AWS

Re: [WISPA] Quick Question: Title II, for or against?

2014-11-19 Thread Sean Heskett
Title II is designed to breakup monopolies (i.e. Railroads, MaBell, Electric, Gas etc.) everyone acts like it is the Holy Grail of free market capitalism to have the government step in and regulate everything your company wants to do. /scarcasm I'm not a monopoly...I have done nothing to deserve

Re: [WISPA] Quick Question: Title II, for or against?

2014-11-19 Thread Sean Heskett
also title II regulations are why an OC3 at 150Mbps costs 100 times as much as 150Mbps metro ethernet. Ethernet is unregulated, OC3 is part of the whole terrified crap left over from MaBell etc. So even though both services are delivered over the same medium (fiber) because of the technology

Re: [WISPA] AC Voltage Regulator??

2014-11-10 Thread Sean Heskett
Apc battery backup. They will trim and boost for you. We have a site that drops to 100vac in the winter when the heater kicks on (old building and wiring :-/ ) the apc boost the load to 120. On Monday, November 10, 2014, Gino Villarini g...@aeronetpr.com wrote: We are having some issues

Re: [WISPA] When the power goes off

2014-11-10 Thread Sean Heskett
iOS has had repeat message alerts for years On Monday, November 10, 2014, Scott lamb...@lambertfam.org wrote: On 11/10/14, 1:43 PM, can...@believewireless.net javascript:; wrote: Techs can sleep through a txt message though. A little more difficult to sleep through a phone call but I do

Re: [WISPA] procera or similiar product

2014-10-30 Thread Sean Heskett
Porcera is a packet shaper On Thursday, October 30, 2014, Tim Way t...@way.vg wrote: I agree with Paul on this one for sure. I don't know much about the Procera box but is their method support by Apple or is more of a traditional in-line proxy that intercepts and redirects the communication?

Re: [WISPA] procera or similiar product

2014-10-29 Thread Sean Heskett
Apple doesn't put one in but you can. Just buy a mac mini server and it has the included caching software. On Tuesday, October 28, 2014, Paul Conlin pcon...@blazebroadband.com wrote: Unless the caching server is free. Under what conditions does Apple put one of these in? PC Blaze

Re: [WISPA] Ticketing software

2014-08-16 Thread Sean Heskett
Desk.com It's part of salesforce so if you ever decide you want all the salesforce features it's a simple upgrade. On Saturday, August 16, 2014, Brian Wilson br...@wildsong.biz wrote: What are people using for customer support ticketing software? We currently use a combination of pink

Re: [WISPA] Air Force Base / KSC Launch RFI Question

2014-05-07 Thread Sean Heskett
dang that sucks. i don't think they can require you to turn off your equipment but they might cause so much interference for you that it might bring your network down anyway. perhaps they would fund you switching to the 5.4 band??? i am not a lawyer tho. maybe Steve Cornan (WISPAs attorney)

Re: [WISPA] CANOPY PMP 430:

2014-04-22 Thread Sean Heskett
Just go for the PMP450. Same price, double the performance. Plus the 450 is cambium's focus. The 430 will be going away Sean On Tuesday, April 22, 2014, Art Stephens asteph...@ptera.com wrote: Looking for feed back before buying. The site says 50MB/sector - 200MB/Tower I assume the

Re: [WISPA] PMP100 Software Revisions

2014-03-16 Thread Sean Heskett
If the unit is not in production then you can just jump ahead to the latest software version. However if the radio is deployed in a production environment then it's best to follow the path cambium has laid out so that settings stick through the upgrade process. 2 cents YMMV Sean On Saturday,

Re: [WISPA] Outsourced Server and mail hosting

2014-03-04 Thread Sean Heskett
google apps for your domain. easy peasy..never looked back after switching 8 or 9 years ago :-) -sean On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Josh Bowsher jbows...@midwaynet.net wrote: Who is everyone using for outsourced server hosting/management (Windows or Linux Servers running SQL, Radius,

Re: [WISPA] Outsourced Server and mail hosting

2014-03-04 Thread Sean Heskett
...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] *On Behalf Of *Sean Heskett *Sent:* Tuesday, March 04, 2014 5:01 PM *To:* WISPA General List *Subject:* Re: [WISPA] Outsourced Server and mail hosting google apps for your domain. easy peasy..never looked back after switching 8 or 9 years ago

Re: [WISPA] Tower Seminars?

2014-02-27 Thread Sean Heskett
um sidewalks air and water are not free for any and all uses nor are they free of charge. I can't drive my car on the sidewalk and in some places in town I can't ride my bike on the sidewalk. I can't polite the air against EPA emissions standards Water sure as hell isn't free, I pay a water

Re: [WISPA] Dynamic Spectrum Brokarage?

2014-01-28 Thread Sean Heskett
this proves the FCC needs to do a better job. this would be like a commodity market for BLM grazing rights for sheep and cattle. We all own the spectrum, if the FCC has issued you a license for an area then you should have to use it or loose it. I certainly don't think you should be able to

Re: [WISPA] Wireless Digest, Vol 24, Issue 16

2014-01-08 Thread Sean Heskett
the part 15 PTP 24Ghz band is only from 24000-24200Mhz (200Mhz of spectrum) i would assume that the doppler radar for cars is in another slice of the 24Ghz spectrum. as far as i know 24000-24200Mhz is for part 15 PTP only. shouldn't be an issue. 2 cents -sean On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 8:06 AM,

Re: [WISPA] Allot equipment

2013-12-18 Thread Sean Heskett
is the bottle neck on your network the fiber connection out to the Internet or at your APs? for us the APs are the biggest bottleneck and the fiber internet connection (GigE) has plenty of bandwidth. so in our case a cache server wouldn't do much except chew a hole in my wallet. If your

Re: [WISPA] tower climbers/workers comp insurance

2013-12-11 Thread Sean Heskett
In Colorado workmans comp is handled by a quasi government run monopoly. (I think pinical is the name) We specify what % of a workers hours are office, installer, tower climber etc. then they calculate the premium based on that. Sean On Wednesday, December 11, 2013, heith petersen wrote: I

Re: [WISPA] Solat panels: series or parallel?

2013-11-19 Thread Sean Heskett
When you hook things up in series (solar panels, batteries etc.) you increase the voltage. 12vdc + 12vdc = 24vdc. When you hook them up in parallel you increase the amps. 200ah + 200ah = 400ah. So if you need a 24vdc plant then you hook them up like you currently have with 2x12vdc in series

Re: [WISPA] Batteries for solar

2013-11-14 Thread Sean Heskett
Shipping is what can kill you with batteries. If you have amazon prime they will ship the ub4d for free. Which battery can you source for the cheepest shipping? Sean On Thursday, November 14, 2013, Mike Lyon wrote: Anyone ever use Sacred Sun batteries? They have a 12vdc / 200ah battery for

Re: [WISPA] Anyone building Intermapper probes?

2013-11-06 Thread Sean Heskett
me too! -sean On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Gino Villarini g...@aeronetpr.com wrote: I need one for PacketFlux Generator system… anyone? Gino A. Villarini g...@aeronetpr.com Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. 787.273.4143 ___ Wireless

Re: [WISPA] 2.4ghz AP interfering with 2-way radio

2013-10-31 Thread Sean Heskett
It might also be the Ethernet run causing interference. On Thursday, October 31, 2013, Chris Fabien wrote: We have a tower site where we agreed to allow a friend of the tower owner to install a 2-way radio repeater. I believe it is using a frequency around 450 mhz. We installed their omni

Re: [WISPA] WISP Industry Growth Rate

2013-10-29 Thread Sean Heskett
Revenue or subscribers? For us we have seen a drop in our % growth of subs since the economic downturn. I think we are around 20% this year (was 40-50%) But thanks to Netflix we have seen a huge amount of growth in ARPU. I think our revenue is up 35-40% this year. Kinda crazy but I don't mind

Re: [WISPA] Batteries?

2013-10-28 Thread Sean Heskett
UB4D 12v 200ah Sean On Monday, October 28, 2013, Mike Lyon wrote: What is everyones favorite 12vdc battery for there solar sites? I believe Interstate is a WISPA vendor member, correct? -Mike ___ Wireless mailing list Wireless@wispa.org

Re: [WISPA] 802.11 and roaming

2013-09-07 Thread Sean Heskett
Unifi works great for us. What version are you using? Sean On Saturday, September 7, 2013, Blair Davis wrote: I've tried MikroTik. I've tried Cisco. I've tried UniFi. I pretty much don't think there is a working way to roam from AP to AP with 802.11 in an open system. The client

[WISPA] NTIA reporting limit of 25Mbps for wireless networks

2013-08-26 Thread Sean Heskett
I was just informed by Tom McKean of the State of Colorado broadband mapping agency OIT tom.mck...@state.co.us that the NTIA doesn't let them report any wireless plans as being faster than 25Mbps. We have deployed quite a bit of Canopy 450 this year and we have plans that are 30Mbps down and

Re: [WISPA] NTIA reporting limit of 25Mbps for wireless networks

2013-08-26 Thread Sean Heskett
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Re: [WISPA] LTE Chipset for Unlicensed bands?

2013-08-23 Thread Sean Heskett
plus it's a mobile protocol which as we've seen with WiMax is not always the best for fixed wireless. latency is usually higher with mobile protocols. 2cents On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Ryan Spott rsp...@irongoat.net wrote: Would LTE, as a protocol be useful in the unlicensed bands?

Re: [WISPA] Any suggestions for a 6Ghz 3ft dish with N connector single pol

2013-08-12 Thread Sean Heskett
Check with wbmfg.com Sean On Monday, August 12, 2013, Scott Carullo wrote: I need to find something different than the Comscope (andrew) 3ft valueline dishes I have I'm not a fan of them Thanks Scott Carullo Technical Operations 855-FLSPEED x102

Re: [WISPA] Recommendations for Ubiquiti 3.65 site

2013-07-31 Thread Sean Heskett
I would go licensed backhauls and save all the unlicensed spectrum for pmp. That way you have a bunch of different tools to use for the last mile. Start with a couple backhauls each year and work your way out...you'll be glad you did. Also 5.4ghz is very useful because the noise floor is almost

Re: [WISPA] Hotspot Router/Software

2013-07-10 Thread Sean Heskett
UBNT unifi You'll have to replace the APs with unifi APs but they are cheep enough to stay within your budget. It has all the features you listed and then some. Sean On Wednesday, July 10, 2013, Chris Fabien wrote: I need suggestion for a hotspot system for a campground. Requirements: Need

Re: [WISPA] Fixed Wireless growing faster than Cable and DSL

2013-04-16 Thread Sean Heskett
Damn statistics! On Tuesday, April 16, 2013, Brian Webster wrote: Remember when looking at stats like this that the cable and DSL industries have been doing this a lot longer and have already built up a large number of customers in a mature market. Say you have 8 thousand customers, to get a

[WISPA] Canopy 430 AP lockup

2013-04-10 Thread Sean Heskett
Just and FYI. I already submitted a ticket to cambium but we are seeing several 430 APs lock up. The APs will still pass traffic to the clients and I can ping the AP. However, I can't bring up the web interface of the AP and I can't telnet into the AP. As long as SMs connected are not rebooted

Re: [WISPA] Siklu Eband -finally affordable

2013-04-05 Thread Sean Heskett
I think (but i'm not certain) that since there is such a large swath of spectrum (10Ghz) they use 1Ghz channel sizes but only modulate at BPSK and QPSK. Where as lower frequencies (like 5Ghz) you can use a 80Mhz channel at 256QAM and get similar throughput. By only using QPSK there is a higher

[WISPA] FS: ZIRKEL Antenna Mounts

2013-03-29 Thread Sean Heskett
Alan at a...@zirkel.us Thank you, Sean Heskett, ZIRKEL Wireless 970-871-8500 http://www.ebay.com/itm/140922913502?ssPageName=STRK:MEUSX:IT_trksid=p3984.m1562.l2649 http://www.ebay.com/itm/140922918279?ssPageName=STRK:MEUSX:IT_trksid=p3984.m1562.l2649 http://www.ebay.com/itm/140905185561

[WISPA] FCC Chairman Genachowski to step down

2013-03-22 Thread Sean Heskett
Just FYI...not sure if this is good, bad or ugly??? http://news.yahoo.com/fcc-chairman-genachowski-step-down-141103205--finance.html ___ Wireless mailing list Wireless@wispa.org http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless

[WISPA] network password manager

2013-03-21 Thread Sean Heskett
As our network grows and we keep adding more hardware I am wondering what others do with passwords to all these devices. i hate having one password that works on a lot of devices but i haven't found a good industry practice or software tool to store all this data securely. I'm thinking of

[WISPA] Short UBNT PTP link

2013-03-20 Thread Sean Heskett
Hi Gang, I am looking at installing a short (100m) PTP backhaul across a campground for a wifi system we are putting in. I'm looking at using a pair of UBNT NSM365 units to accomplish this. I need about 50Mbps full duplex. I'd like to use the 3.65Ghz spectrum for this PTP so that i keep all my

[WISPA] visio stencils

2013-03-16 Thread Sean Heskett
Does anyone have some good visio stencils for cambium, dragonwave, SAF and UBNT? Thanks, sean ___ Wireless mailing list Wireless@wispa.org http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless

Re: [WISPA] Router Question

2013-02-12 Thread Sean Heskett
Mikrotik rb1100 ~$450 UBNT router max ~$90 Cisco linksys RV042G ~$150 Sean On Tuesday, February 12, 2013, ~NGL~ wrote: ** I need a router with 1 150 Meg wan port and at least 2 150 Meg lan ports. Wireless is not needed or could be turned. Preferably under $200.00 and setup thru a Window

Re: [WISPA] Easy hotspot programs

2013-02-11 Thread Sean Heskett
Ubnt unifi On Monday, February 11, 2013, Josh Luthman wrote: This comes up time and time again, but I wonder if anyone has found an easy solution yet. I have a Mikrotik. I used to use Wireless Orbit and they did it the way I expect, but with the lack of support or contact I found it too

Re: [WISPA] Easy hotspot programs

2013-02-11 Thread Sean Heskett
high. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Sean Heskett af...@zirkel.us wrote: Ubnt unifi On Monday, February 11, 2013, Josh Luthman wrote: This comes up time and time again, but I wonder

Re: [WISPA] High Capacity AP alternatives?

2013-01-25 Thread Sean Heskett
what sort of problems have you had with cambium OFDM PMP? we did find that with the 430APs the Omni (laird 12db) is only good for 2-4 mile shots. over 4 miles and you really need the 17db sector on the AP. just curious because for us cambium's OFDM products saved our business. -sean On Fri,

Re: [WISPA] OT: I have to share this.. Its BIG news for Colorado ISP's..

2012-12-06 Thread Sean Heskett
is there a news article or something??? On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Ryan Ghering rgher...@gmail.com wrote: SenatorBrophy @SenatorBrophy Eagle-Net grant pulled. Stimulus boon-doogle that hurt businesses in rural Colorado reigned in. Damage was already done, recovery starts. Word is the

Re: [WISPA] OT: I have to share this.. Its BIG news for Colorado ISP's..

2012-12-06 Thread Sean Heskett
Oh wow, that's really awesome to know they were pulling fiber along the most fiber laden portion of the state...sheeze what a govt boondoggle! Glad they hadn't extended their tenticales to our part of the state that could really use some new fiber paths. Good riddance! On Thursday, December 6,

Re: [WISPA] OT: I have to share this.. Its BIG news for Colorado ISP's..

2012-12-06 Thread Sean Heskett
Well pot is already legal here so what would be better than that??? On Thursday, December 6, 2012, Doug Clark wrote: I can think of one other thing that would be better news coming out of Colorado than that. *---Original Message---* *From:* Daniel White

Re: [WISPA] Challenge to PMP manufacturers!

2012-11-01 Thread Sean Heskett
we could also then put high gain receive antennas (and maybe even apms???) at the tower On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Sean Heskett af...@zirkel.us wrote: what if we Tx to the CPE in 3.65Ghz with 25Mhz channels then we only have to register the tower location, then Tx to the tower

Re: [WISPA] Challenge to PMP manufacturers!

2012-11-01 Thread Sean Heskett
what if we Tx to the CPE in 3.65Ghz with 25Mhz channels then we only have to register the tower location, then Tx to the tower with 900Mhz, 2.4Ghz or 5.xGhz??? -sean On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Gino Villarini g...@aeronetpr.com wrote: I think that there are some common bands that would

[WISPA] East coast storm

2012-10-30 Thread Sean Heskett
Hope everyone is ok out east! Looks like a wicked bad storm. Lets us know if there is something we can do to help. -Sean ___ Wireless mailing list Wireless@wispa.org http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless

[WISPA] 430 SMs

2012-10-18 Thread Sean Heskett
So it seems there are no 430 SMs left on the planet. We are in desperate need of at least a 25 pack (we prefer 20Mbps SMs but beggars can't be choosers). Anyone have any in stock??? -Sean ___ Wireless mailing list Wireless@wispa.org

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