Re: [AFMUG] Sonar Ticketing email outage

2022-07-12 Thread Richard Strittmatter 
Lots were lost.. any replies to tickets my staff sent before the "fix"  were 
rejected..
Anything queued by billing, automated stuff were queued and sent, yes.

Richard Strittmatter


From: AF [mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com] On Behalf Of Jason Wilson
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 8:32 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group 
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Sonar Ticketing email outage

They also said no emails were lost. Except the didn't acknowledge the ones that 
were lost because they bounced.

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Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Sonar Ticketing email outage

They publicly acknowledged it at 8:41 AM and resolved it by 1:06 PM.


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To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" mailto:af@af.afmug.com>>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 8:17:06 AM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Sonar Ticketing email outage

The Sonar ticketing is still broken for me this morning.
On 7/11/2022 8:13 AM, dmmoff...@gmail.com<mailto:dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'd say email was easy until spammers made it hard.





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I really hate people that use third-party services.



E-mail is so freaking easy to do yourself.


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From: "Nate Burke" <mailto:n...@blastcomm.com>
To: "Animal Farm" <mailto:af@af.afmug.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2022 7:26:44 PM
Subject: [AFMUG] Sonar Ticketing email outage

Wondering if anyone else on here using Sonar is having failures opening
tickets in their instance via email.  The sonarticketing.rocks domain
(routing through mandrillapp.com) is rejecting emails I'm forwarding
there as 'Relay access denied'

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Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik 1072 Frustrations

2020-12-21 Thread Richard Strittmatter 
Yup.. we have several 1072s passing 10+GB that reboot randomly.. we’ve had to 
distribute traffic across several to keep the load down to 7-8, and then they 
don’t..
Replaced them, upgraded, went through the MT support same recommendations.. no 
answers.. I have 2 extras sitting on my shelf for when they tank.. just a 
matter of time.
Also whatever you do, don’t torch a 10gb connection.. every time we’ve tried, 
they’ve locked hard..

At this point, we are reviewing options on higher end / different hardware for 
the CG-NAT side of things.

Richard Strittmatter

From: AF [mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com] On Behalf Of Steven Kenney
Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2020 11:37 PM
To: af 
Subject: [AFMUG] Mikrotik 1072 Frustrations

MIkrotik has been rock solid for me for years.  Until this year and the 1072's. 
 Random reboots set off by watchdog timer on all of my 1072's.  Some more than 
others.  Threads in the forum all discuss the same problem exactly.  Its a 
connection tracking issue.. however I need connection tracking on one 
particular router.  I've adjusted everything I could.  Firmware and board 
firmware all up to date etc.  Happens randomly with low levels of traffic,  
high levels of traffic,  sometimes a couple times a day,  sometimes weeks.  No 
DDOS evidence at all from upstream routers.  Configs checked and rechecked by 
third party experts.  I graph everything about the Mikrotik and there are no 
clues or anything abnormal happening before the crash.  Plenty of memory, disk 
space,  CPU etc.Replaces all the trannies, power cables and such.  Not 
running BGP only OSPF on the one that is giving me the most trouble.

Even have a serial console cable plugged into them to my opengear and set it to 
log pretty much everything to console including the kernel and nothing.  A hard 
freeze.

Then there is Mikrotik support...  I've never needed their support before until 
now.  So I put a ticket in and the shitty attitude I'm getting from them seems 
like they KNOW there is something wrong with the hardware and they are 
intentionally not being helpful.  It is pretty clear to see with all the people 
reporting this issue that there IS an issue.

If this is any indication of how things are going to go with Mikrotik on the 
newer hardware going forware I think its time to jump to an enterprise level 
system.  Juniper most likely.  Shame because they are just about keeping up 
with the demands with their hardware.  Getting closer to 100Gbps etc and ROS7 
... but at their current pace I think we've outgrew them.

All the threads discussing this issue has been absolutely quiet when it comes 
to Mikrotik jumping in to mention or try to help troubleshoot.  I think they 
know they had bad hardware out there and do not want to honor warranties.  I've 
heard rumors of bad batches of 1072's.

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Re: [AFMUG] Greta

2019-11-14 Thread Richard Strittmatter 
As a parent of an “autistic” kid ( aspergers ), I never let the teachers treat 
him any different.

The only reason he has a “diagnosis” is that the teachers kept insisting 
something must be wrong because he didn’t do what they wanted.
I don’t believe in treating him different, and giving him “special” education 
requirements. I have always told them no, and he has excelled in classes 
related to reading, and history.
Granted he sucks at math, but hey, it is what it is.

This medical/education treatment of them as “special” is the reason for so many 
of them NOT succeeding, IMHO..

The real world isn’t nice, and handicapping them early by making them believe 
they can’t do it is wrong.

BTW, he wants to be an English teacher… lol

Richard

From: AF [mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com] On Behalf Of Ken Hohhof
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2019 5:11 PM
To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group'
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Greta

When I was a kid, many kids were “nerdy”, “shy”, or “introverted”.  Now they 
would be “autistic” or “on the autism spectrum” or have “ASD”.  As anything 
with “spectrum” in the name, it can vary from minor to severe.  I think Gino is 
right, mental illness is incorrect terminology.

Some employers with boring or repetitive jobs that nonetheless must be done 
correctly with attention to detail have found that such people are ideal 
employees.  Like watchmakers that found out they didn’t want people with 20/20 
vison, they wanted nearsighted people.

The opposite situation is probably all the kids that are diagnosed with ADHD 
because teachers don’t want to deal with a kid who won’t sit quietly and shut 
up, and the helicopter parents take them to the doctor and put them on Ritalin. 
 Because big Pharma has a solution for every problem.  And class size is too 
big for teachers to deal with non conforming kids, and who wants to try old 
fashioned solutions like sending the kids out for recess to burn off energy.

Strange stuff, like have you noticed how many successful, creative, or big 
picture people are dyslexic?


From: AF  On Behalf Of Gino A. Villarini
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2019 4:43 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group 
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Greta

Mental illness?


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From: AF mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com>> on behalf of 
Steve Jones mailto:thatoneguyst...@gmail.com>>
Reply-To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group 
mailto:af@af.afmug.com>>
Date: Thursday, November 14, 2019 at 6:26 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group mailto:af@af.afmug.com>>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Greta

I feel bad for her, autistic, child tool of adults agenda, trained to use a 
mental illness to her advantage while denying it is a mental illness. Id like 
to smack the adults puppeting her around and let her finish being a kid before 
she gets jaded by her politics


On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 11:51 AM mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com>> 
wrote:
Has the face of many scary school teachers.  Makes me flinch...

From: Jaime Solorza
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2019 10:48 AM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Greta

She scares youlol

On Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 10:43 AM mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com>> wrote:
Thunberg

-Original Message-
From: Robert Andrews
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2019 10:34 AM
To: af@af.afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Greta

Greta?

On 11/14/2019 09:15 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote:
> Every time Greta goes somewhere, I am going to calculate the distance,
> multiply it by 2691 BTU per mile.
> Divide that by 139000 and we have gallons of diesel.
>
> So say she is boating from somewhere in South America to Spain.
> Perhaps 3000 miles of airline flight she avoided.
> 3000*2691/139000=58 gallons.
>
> So I will get a kick starter campaign to donate 58 gallons of fuel to
> light the Greta memorial torch so everyone can see when she is on the
> move.
>
> We have to combat climate change!!!
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Re: [AFMUG] Dallas crane collapse

2019-06-10 Thread Richard Strittmatter 
Our cattle gate crushed my wife’s foot in those winds yesterday.. She was 
trying to put the cows in the barn, and one of those
70mph gusts caught it and blew her and the gate sideways..

She’s just bruised, but the wind was crazy.. We skated by with no damage from 
storms, but I think some of the guys up northeast of me took damage.

Richard Strittmatter



From: AF [mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com] On Behalf Of Tushar Patel
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2019 6:40 AM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group 
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Dallas crane collapse

Really bad storms yesterday all over Texas, tornado and 70 miles per hr winds 
near central texas too!
Tushar


On Jun 9, 2019, at 11:25 PM, Jason McKemie 
mailto:j.mcke...@veloxinetbroadband.com>> 
wrote:
Wow, I wonder if that was because something was faulty on the crane or a really 
bad storm?  Hopefully no one else got killed or seriously injured.

On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 9:12 PM Ken Hohhof 
mailto:af...@kwisp.com>> wrote:
Have you guys been looking at the photos and video from Dallas?  Bad situation.
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Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Fiber SFP+

2019-05-09 Thread Richard Strittmatter 
https://www.fs.com/products/11591.html

We use a bunch of these.. Dell Coded, Intel coded, generic.. doesn't seem to 
matter, they all work fine for us.

We've also used their bidi, and cwdm ones with no issues.

Richard

From: AF [mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com] On Behalf Of SmarterBroadband
Sent: Thursday, May 9, 2019 1:36 PM
To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' 
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Fiber SFP+

Which one?

From: AF [mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com] On Behalf Of Richard Strittmatter
Sent: Thursday, May 9, 2019 10:01 AM
To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' 
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Fiber SFP+

Fs.com

From: AF [mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com] On Behalf Of SmarterBroadband
Sent: Thursday, May 9, 2019 11:58 AM
To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' mailto:af@af.afmug.com>>
Subject: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Fiber SFP+

Hi

We are using CCR 1036-8G-2S+, what Single Mode LR Fiber 10G SFP+ compatible 
modules are you using successfully?

Thanks

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Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Fiber SFP+

2019-05-09 Thread Richard Strittmatter 
Fs.com

 

From: AF [mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com] On Behalf Of SmarterBroadband
Sent: Thursday, May 9, 2019 11:58 AM
To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' 
Subject: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Fiber SFP+

 

Hi

 

We are using CCR 1036-8G-2S+, what Single Mode LR Fiber 10G SFP+ compatible
modules are you using successfully?  

 

Thanks

 

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Re: [AFMUG] gas can review

2019-01-16 Thread Richard Strittmatter 

I always replace the spout..
https://www.amazon.com/EZ-Pour-Hi-Flo-Gas-Can-Spout/dp/B00DGVRXD2
Worth their weight in gold..

And all my gas cans are pre 2009.. ;)

R

From: AF [mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com] On Behalf Of Ken Hohhof
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 10:20 AM
To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' 
Subject: [AFMUG] gas can review

I have 3 different styles of gas cans for refueling generators, and they all 
suck.  Thank you, government agencies who regulate gas cans.

Anyway, I picked up a "No-Spill" brand can for my snowblower and can report 
that it works as advertised, yet apparently meets government rules.  It's a 
little finicky getting the childproof cap off to fill it, but dispensing the 
gas is easy with no mess.  I will be purchasing more of them for the business.  
It looks like they come in 1, 2 and 5 gallon sizes, and appropriate colors for 
gas, diesel and kerosene.

The only brick&mortar store I found that carried them was Ace Hardware, maybe 
some auto parts stores would have them, not sure about Farm&Fleet or Tractor 
Supply.  I was fine with Ace HW, they had all the sizes and types in stock, and 
buying local is cool.
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Re: [AFMUG] bandwidth management appliance opinions

2018-11-13 Thread Richard Strittmatter 
They don’t.

It’s merely a bridge. On either side of it is usually a router…

 

Richard

 

From: AF [mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com] On Behalf Of Josh Baird
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2018 2:35 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group 
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] bandwidth management appliance opinions

 

Ah - didn’t realize they supported routing.  Thanks!

Sent from my iPhone


On Nov 13, 2018, at 2:51 PM, Richard Strittmatter mailto:rich...@mesh.net> > wrote:

We just have failover OSPF connections between the routers.

Core <-> preseem <-> access network

+

Core <-> access network  ( at a higher OSPF cost )

 

Simple. If the preseem fails, it routes around it. We are currently building 
our second  preseem box to split the load ( because they only have 10GB 
interfaces )

 

Richard Strittmatter

 

From: AF [mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com] On Behalf Of Josh Baird
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2018 1:46 PM
To: AFMUG mailto:af@af.afmug.com> >
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] bandwidth management appliance opinions

 

A concern that I have with Preseam (or any other vendor like this) is that it 
requires me to put a single box (usually a Dell server) right in-line with all 
of my customer traffic.  All of a sudden, my entire customer network is reliant 
on a single Dell server.  I know that Procera and maybe some other vendors 
offered bypass modules for this type of thing, but what are Preseam customers 
doing?  Is this not a concern for you?

 

On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 2:40 PM Ken Hohhof mailto:af...@kwisp.com> > wrote:

That’s what bothers me about Preseem, it sounds like it works by magic.  Every 
time in the past I’ve bought into magical solutions, I’ve been burned.

 

I don’t know how you decide between a Windows 10 Update, an Xbox game download, 
a Netflix stream that with variable video quality, and a live sports video 
stream that has a single stream rate and will buffer or skip if it doesn’t get 
10 Mbps … unless you identify the application via either DPI or something 
equivalent.

 

Apparently Preseem allocates the bandwidth based on how the flow acts?  I still 
don’t see how it can know that the software download can be deferred or slowed 
until off-peak, the Netflix stream can be squeezed to 2.5 Mbps, but the live 
sports stream needs a certain bitrate or it just won’t work.

 

Of course there’s also a bigger problem.  If you talk to the kid trying to 
download the latest 50 gigabyte game and play it, that should get 100% of the 
bandwidth.  But we’re never going to solve that one, unless we give customers a 
portal where they can tweak the knobs themselves.

 

 

From: AF mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com> > On Behalf 
Of Darin Steffl 

Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2018 1:21 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group mailto:af@af.afmug.com> >
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] bandwidth management appliance opinions

 

I'll say we've used procera, saisei, in the past and they're DPI. They're cool 
and you can do lots of things with them. They also require hands-on attention 
and tweaking. They give you NO usable QoE data so you still can't tell where 
you have trouble in your network or individual customers like you can with 
preseem. 

 

We now use preseem for about 11 months and we love it! It's not DPI so don't 
even think that you can shape individual types of traffic like video, updates, 
etc because thats not what it is. 

 

It requires no tweaking or hands-on configuration at all and preseem guys do 
all the work for you. It provides the best QoE data of any service out there 
and really helps tell you what tower, sector, or customer is having a bad 
experience so you can fix it. On top of this valuable data, it does your rate 
plan shaping and it does it damn well to boot. Customers can now max out their 
rate plans without a spike in latency or complaints or laggy gaming or slow web 
browsing. It allows small traffic flows like voip, dns, web browsing, gaming to 
"jump the queue" so to speak so large flows like video and updates don't slow 
everything down. 

 

It's very handy. I've rate shaped my home down to 3 mbps and still was able to 
run 2 Netflix streams, 1 YouTube, plus a voip call and web browse without any 
lag or buffering whatsoever. 

 

I highly recommend anyone do a trial with preseem and you'll be happy campers. 

 

On Tue, Nov 13, 2018, 1:34 PM Mike Hammett mailto:af...@ics-il.net>  wrote:

Bufferbloat is over-hyped.

Also, https://people.ucsc.edu/~warner/buffer.html

 



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Re: [AFMUG] bandwidth management appliance opinions

2018-11-13 Thread Richard Strittmatter 
We just have failover OSPF connections between the routers.
Core <-> preseem <-> access network
+
Core <-> access network  ( at a higher OSPF cost )

Simple. If the preseem fails, it routes around it. We are currently building 
our second  preseem box to split the load ( because they only have 10GB 
interfaces )

Richard Strittmatter

From: AF [mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com] On Behalf Of Josh Baird
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2018 1:46 PM
To: AFMUG 
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] bandwidth management appliance opinions

A concern that I have with Preseam (or any other vendor like this) is that it 
requires me to put a single box (usually a Dell server) right in-line with all 
of my customer traffic.  All of a sudden, my entire customer network is reliant 
on a single Dell server.  I know that Procera and maybe some other vendors 
offered bypass modules for this type of thing, but what are Preseam customers 
doing?  Is this not a concern for you?

On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 2:40 PM Ken Hohhof 
mailto:af...@kwisp.com>> wrote:
That’s what bothers me about Preseem, it sounds like it works by magic.  Every 
time in the past I’ve bought into magical solutions, I’ve been burned.

I don’t know how you decide between a Windows 10 Update, an Xbox game download, 
a Netflix stream that with variable video quality, and a live sports video 
stream that has a single stream rate and will buffer or skip if it doesn’t get 
10 Mbps … unless you identify the application via either DPI or something 
equivalent.

Apparently Preseem allocates the bandwidth based on how the flow acts?  I still 
don’t see how it can know that the software download can be deferred or slowed 
until off-peak, the Netflix stream can be squeezed to 2.5 Mbps, but the live 
sports stream needs a certain bitrate or it just won’t work.

Of course there’s also a bigger problem.  If you talk to the kid trying to 
download the latest 50 gigabyte game and play it, that should get 100% of the 
bandwidth.  But we’re never going to solve that one, unless we give customers a 
portal where they can tweak the knobs themselves.


From: AF mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com>> On Behalf Of 
Darin Steffl
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2018 1:21 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group mailto:af@af.afmug.com>>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] bandwidth management appliance opinions

I'll say we've used procera, saisei, in the past and they're DPI. They're cool 
and you can do lots of things with them. They also require hands-on attention 
and tweaking. They give you NO usable QoE data so you still can't tell where 
you have trouble in your network or individual customers like you can with 
preseem.

We now use preseem for about 11 months and we love it! It's not DPI so don't 
even think that you can shape individual types of traffic like video, updates, 
etc because thats not what it is.

It requires no tweaking or hands-on configuration at all and preseem guys do 
all the work for you. It provides the best QoE data of any service out there 
and really helps tell you what tower, sector, or customer is having a bad 
experience so you can fix it. On top of this valuable data, it does your rate 
plan shaping and it does it damn well to boot. Customers can now max out their 
rate plans without a spike in latency or complaints or laggy gaming or slow web 
browsing. It allows small traffic flows like voip, dns, web browsing, gaming to 
"jump the queue" so to speak so large flows like video and updates don't slow 
everything down.

It's very handy. I've rate shaped my home down to 3 mbps and still was able to 
run 2 Netflix streams, 1 YouTube, plus a voip call and web browse without any 
lag or buffering whatsoever.

I highly recommend anyone do a trial with preseem and you'll be happy campers.

On Tue, Nov 13, 2018, 1:34 PM Mike Hammett 
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Bufferbloat is over-hyped.

Also, https://people.ucsc.edu/~warner/buffer.html



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Re: [AFMUG] DIA pricing

2018-09-25 Thread Richard Strittmatter 
Another +1 for Fusion. We touch them in 1950 Stemmons, and Erich was great to
work with, even working around some multi-floor cross-connect issues we had.

Richard Strittmatter

From: AF [mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com] On Behalf Of Sterling Jacobson
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 12:09 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group 
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] DIA pricing

Yes, H, very interesting.

From: AF mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com>> On Behalf Of 
Chuck McCown
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 9:59 AM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group mailto:af@af.afmug.com>>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] DIA pricing

Hmmm

From: Erich Kaiser
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 9:55 AM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] DIA pricing

yes 179 Social Hall, we have a local Netflix Cache box in our cab there as 
well.  Not to mention every nexthop POP we are connected to a major IX, LAX, 
DEN, SEA.

We are $1650/m for 10G on 3 yr term can also include content Vlan to Realchoice 
on that.  We are connected to them at Social Hall.

Sincerely,


Erich Kaiser
er...@gotfusion.net<mailto:er...@gotfusion.net>




On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 10:50 AM Chuck McCown 
mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com>> wrote:
You in Salt Lake City?

From: Erich Kaiser
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 9:01 AM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] DIA pricing

Thanks for the Fusion mention Dave.  We have worked hard the last several years 
building a network that is WISP/FISP friendly, offering flexibility in 
bandwidth costs, co-location, going where others would not, etc..  Steering 
around all of these resellers that have popped up the last few years has been 
interesting.  A lot of them talk a big game. We are in trenches everyday 
dealing with Att, Windstream, Zayo, etc..   If you want to talk about Overheard 
costs to run a nationwide network, having colo in multiple major cities, it is 
not cheap.  Don't get me started on x-connects :(  but we try to stay as 
competitive as we can especially at our Primary POP locations.I actually 
don't understand why Cogent is giving bandwidth away as they are, kind of a red 
flag IMO.  They also are not peering friendly.  We are peering friendly.   We 
are closely priced to HE.  Oh and we are part of the WISP industry, we even 
deliver bandwidth via licensed links to certain customers :)

Sincerely,

Erich Kaiser
The Fusion Network


On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 8:33 AM Dave 
mailto:dmilho...@wletc.com>> wrote:
This is why I like fusion.. I get a 10G but only charged for 1G. The pipe 
allows us to go over if we need it based on 96th percent.

On 09/24/2018 01:07 PM, Lewis Bergman wrote:
5 years is practically forever. The per gig sounds great but I am prone to look 
at it more in the terms of need. If you only need 5 gig but you buy 10 to get 
it at a better price, you really just doubled your "perceived cost". To belabor 
the point, need 5 but bought 10 at $200 a gig? You just paid $400 a gig.

I will say when we had HE, Cogent, and Level3, I was always shocked how much 
traffic went across the HE connection. I was expecting it to be the lowest 
utilized and it was always the highest with over 70% of the traffic with 
shaping or route forcing going on. Straight BGP.
On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 10:36 AM Ken Hohhof 
mailto:af...@kwisp.com>> wrote:
Given how much things change in 5 years, I would be extremely reluctant to sign 
a 5 year contract for anything Internet or telecom related.  Granted you can 
usually renegotiate as long as it’s upward.

5 years is an eternity in Internet years.  Anything over 2 years makes me 
uncomfortable.

From: AF mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com>> On Behalf Of 
Darin Steffl
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2018 10:18 AM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group mailto:af@af.afmug.com>>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] DIA pricing

HE is at $1,000 month for 10 Gig circuit on 5-year term.

On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 10:10 AM Adam Moffett 
mailto:dmmoff...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I just got quoted 3x that from Century Link.  Century Link's quote is half of 
what we're paying now.
On 9/24/2018 11:01 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com<mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote:
Latest circuit I am working on obtaining from Cogent is $220 per gig.  I can 
get it as low as $150 if I take a 100G circuit.


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Re: [AFMUG] AF11x to whatever adapters

2018-07-05 Thread Richard Strittmatter 
Hopefully they’ll understand it was an emergency situation… 

 

Richard

 

 

From: AF [mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com] On Behalf Of ch...@wbmfg.com
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2018 12:49 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group 
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] AF11x to whatever adapters

 

Thanks for the kudos, but those that have been patiently waiting for months are 
going to want to choke me now... 

 

From: Richard Strittmatter 

Sent: Thursday, July 5, 2018 11:44 AM

To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] AF11x to whatever 
adapters

 

Just FYI, 

 

We had an old Trango Link with the heavy 4footers way up in the air die the 
other week, and 

Thanks to Chuck, we got it back up quickly with AF11x radios!

( yes we changed the licenses… )

 

His remec to AF11x Adapters worked great!

 

Richard Strittmatter

Cirra Networks.

 

 

From: AF [mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com] On Behalf Of ch...@wbmfg.com
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2018 11:46 AM
To: af@af.afmug.com
Subject: [AFMUG] AF11x to whatever adapters

 

We are actually in production this week on these things.  

After a year of prototype and beta unit shipping we finally found the time to 
get it going.  I know there are a lot of people waiting.  

 

We have AF11X to Remec actually shipping.  Dragonwave and Andrews VLP are right 
behind it.  

Then single polarity Remec will be coming behind that as well.  

 

So if your antenna is starting to identify as some other radio interface, we 
can help with the transition   

 

Glad I saved all my waveguide stuff and waveguide directional couplers.  
Setting up a dedicated return loss tester for this product and actually had all 
the parts I needed to do it without buying new stuff or sacrificing any of my 
precious lab equipment.  And it keeps production people out of my lab.  

  _  

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Re: [AFMUG] AF11x to whatever adapters

2018-07-05 Thread Richard Strittmatter 
Just FYI,

We had an old Trango Link with the heavy 4footers way up in the air die the 
other week, and
Thanks to Chuck, we got it back up quickly with AF11x radios!
( yes we changed the licenses... )

His remec to AF11x Adapters worked great!

Richard Strittmatter
Cirra Networks.


From: AF [mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com] On Behalf Of ch...@wbmfg.com
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2018 11:46 AM
To: af@af.afmug.com
Subject: [AFMUG] AF11x to whatever adapters

We are actually in production this week on these things.
After a year of prototype and beta unit shipping we finally found the time to 
get it going.  I know there are a lot of people waiting.

We have AF11X to Remec actually shipping.  Dragonwave and Andrews VLP are right 
behind it.
Then single polarity Remec will be coming behind that as well.

So if your antenna is starting to identify as some other radio interface, we 
can help with the transition

Glad I saved all my waveguide stuff and waveguide directional couplers.  
Setting up a dedicated return loss tester for this product and actually had all 
the parts I needed to do it without buying new stuff or sacrificing any of my 
precious lab equipment.  And it keeps production people out of my lab.
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