Re: [AFMUG] OT Movie Review
How do we get such pass ? Tushar On Dec 31, 2014, at 11:03 PM, Chuck McCown via Af af@afmug.com wrote: $300/year for one or $500 for two. If I use the tickets once a week it saves plenty of money. Sometimes I see two a week. Free popcorn is included. From: Tushar Patel via Af Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2014 9:55 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Movie Review I had always wondered about you going to movie almost every week. Now it make more sense. Tushar On Dec 31, 2014, at 8:35 PM, Chuck McCown via Af af@afmug.com wrote: Wild Meh ++ OK, but I have a season pass at the theater. I would not recommend paying full fare.
Re: [AFMUG] OT Movie Review
I had always wondered about you going to movie almost every week. Now it make more sense. Tushar On Dec 31, 2014, at 8:35 PM, Chuck McCown via Af af@afmug.com wrote: Wild Meh ++ OK, but I have a season pass at the theater. I would not recommend paying full fare.
Re: [AFMUG] OT Oh holy oracle of AF
Did you try and/or considered 6 plus? I am considering 6 plus, I don't need to carry iPad ( mainly for reading). Tushar On Dec 20, 2014, at 10:05 PM, Sean Heskett via Af af@afmug.com wrote: Just upgraded to an iphone6 and I love it. It was a little big at first compared to my 5s but now I don't think I could go back. The only reason I say it's big is because sometimes it's hard to use one handed and stretch your thumb all the way to the top of the screen. Nothing else about the phone is big...it's actually very slim when in my pocket etc. We use ATT because they have the best coverage and speeds in NW CO. Sean On Saturday, December 20, 2014, Chuck McCown via Af af@afmug.com wrote: Huge holiday discussion at my house. Two members of the family need new phones. I have never been a big Apple fan but the only smart phone I have ever owned is an iPhone 4. Still have it. Charge it once a week. Fat, dumb and happy. Wife uses a Samsung Galaxy Infuse and needs a new phone. I have some kids that have iPhones and we all like the find friends apps so we can spy on each other. One kid has lost his phone and needs a new one. That kid and my wife are shopping for phones and plans. Kid is OK with Apple products. His mother has anxiety about leaving Android. Kinda like I want her to vote Democrat or join PETA... (Which is totally weird as I associate Apple with Birkenstock wearing, Dreadlocks, Cigarette Smoking, BA degrees, Wine, Liberal, Democrat, Tree Hugger and folks that use crystals to align their chakras). We are all on a pay as you go “mobile value share” plan with ATT. No matter what we decide I get to pay. The new phones are pretty expensive. But they will amortize depending on the plan. Too lazy to even attempt to understand the plans from the different carriers, the different phones, etc etc. I have used less than 0.01 GB of data in the last month. Phone are for talking on. But I realize that my buggy whip factory stock is probably worthless too. So my opinion as to features is irrelevant as I still read books printed on plant matter. (I do like the built in camera and a solar panel orientation and location app) (And a hymn book...) But I would like to get a good value. I care more about price than features or OS. Not so the rest of the clan. (As in Scottish Clan, OK, not Klan). So if anyone can help me pick a direction It would be appreciated.
Re: [AFMUG] Canopy v13.2 and SNMP Bug?
Mark, I thought you had SNMP trap setup for radios and programmed dynamically? Tushar On Dec 17, 2014, at 4:30 PM, Mark Radabaugh via Af af@afmug.com wrote: We finally got around to building a 8 port SM Programmer out of a Soekris board and OpenBSD.It has 7 Ethernet ports on the front. Plug a SM with a default plug in and of the 7 ports and it blows all the template onto it and lets you know when it's done. Saves a lot of time for inside guys and avoids a whole lot of minor configuration errors that frustrate everyone. Now they all go out the door right (or all wrong). Of course right after we got around to writing it Cambium finally got around to the text configuration file :-) Mark On 12/17/14, 5:20 PM, Matt via Af wrote: Will try to strip our stuff out, clean them up a bit and post an example when I get a chance. There pretty ugly right now. I love a copy of these scripts, too! More compensation available. :-) DaveW On 12/8/2014 4:24 PM, Sean Heskett via Af wrote: would you care to share your scripts matt? i'd be glad to buy beers or other compensation. our guys have been asking for an easy way to do all this and i've been too busy to build the scripts myself. -sean -- Mark Radabaugh Amplex m...@amplex.net 419.837.5015 x 1021
Re: [AFMUG] OT: Question on the Sony Hack
I was thinking on same line but I am sure they must have got some credible threat to act like this. Tushar On Dec 17, 2014, at 7:28 PM, Jason McKemie via Af af@afmug.com wrote: On a side note, I can't believe movie theaters as well as Sony capitulated to these dumbasses in regards to The Interview. Isn't that tantamount to negotiating with a terrorist? On Wednesday, December 17, 2014, Nate Burke via Af af@afmug.com wrote: I've only been following loosely with what I hear on the radio, but it sound like there was a lot of data stolen (multiple gig's from the sound of it). The Last update I heard was that the hack originated from a hotel Wifi connection in china somewhere. How were they able to transfer that much data in a short enough time that it wasn't discovered and stopped? Did the hotel have a blazing fast network? Something with getting that amount of data in such a short time dosen't seem to add up.
Re: [AFMUG] Cambium Tools
If history is any guide, (BAM, Prizm ) and not continue to support. After poring close to $30k in prizm, cambium wanted us to buy new license for all AP's and backhal again for wireless manager. I could not believe it. You are better off not wasting your time and money into their management platform. We won wireless manager in something and still did not install it. When we did install it, we were not impressed. Don't waste your time and money. Tushar On Dec 12, 2014, at 2:33 PM, SmarterBroadband via Af af@afmug.com wrote: I assume Wireless manager is still a pay for product? Anyone using Wireless Advisor? Is it worth installing? Thanks Adam
Re: [AFMUG] Cambium Tools
So David how much so far have you spent on wireless Manager? Next year or 2 if they come out with new system and tell you to pay again, and tell you old system will not be supported and for newer radio you need new system and will have to pay for all your old AP's to make it work on new system, will you pay them again? In our case we had spent $20k + hardware so close to $30k on prizm, we could not transfer anything to wireless manager, they wanted us to pay again. Same could happen again with new CNS (or whatever is called now). Tushar On Dec 12, 2014, at 4:32 PM, David via Af af@afmug.com wrote: Tushar, we bought the Wireless manager just to display our map of infrastructure on a 50 screen in the lobby. Cool! Once I started getting the keys to support most of our infrastructure I began to investigate more in depth of what all we could do more with it. It allows me to make global changes on the fly and create complex templates for any of our PTP links and APs. This makes for a good day when provisioning a replacement radio when one gets hit by lightning. Other than making network wide changes like modifying protocol filtering or nat templates its ok. I believe but not sure it has the ability to check for service availability at first glance from a subscriber. On 12/12/2014 04:16 PM, Tushar Patel via Af wrote: If history is any guide, (BAM, Prizm ) and not continue to support. After poring close to $30k in prizm, cambium wanted us to buy new license for all AP's and backhal again for wireless manager. I could not believe it. You are better off not wasting your time and money into their management platform. We won wireless manager in something and still did not install it. When we did install it, we were not impressed. Don't waste your time and money. Tushar On Dec 12, 2014, at 2:33 PM, SmarterBroadband via Af af@afmug.com wrote: I assume Wireless manager is still a pay for product? Anyone using Wireless Advisor? Is it worth installing? Thanks Adam
Re: [AFMUG] The Dream of a Unified SM
It is getting difficult to carry lot of radios on each truck. Regarding keys, I agree with you 100%. But cambium is not listing. May be we should invite one of the person who came up with idea to spend 1 month and let them see how cumbersome it gets managing this stupid keys. Tushar On Dec 4, 2014, at 11:26 AM, Mark Radabaugh via Af af@afmug.com wrote: That’s one of the reasons we settled on 450. Having to carry 900FSK, 2.4FSK, 5.7FSK, 5.2FSK, 5.4FSK, 5.7 430, 2.4 450, 3.65 450, 5.7 450, 2.4 ePMP, 5.7ePMP, 3.65 Wimax, NanoBridges, NanaStations, Rockets, UbiquWhatevers was getting really truly ugly. And then Cambium wants us to keep track of speed keys on radios. That’s still completely dumb, but they are stuck on it. Mark On Dec 4, 2014, at 12:10 PM, Nate Burke via Af af@afmug.com wrote: I got spoiled. When Cambium introduced the multiple color code support in the SM's, I no longer had to send my installer out with 3 different radios for the different towers he might need to connect to. It was so nice to program a radio and know that it was going to the customer. (because inevitably, the extra radios ended up staying in his truck, until he would come and dump a pile of radios back in the office). Now I'm back to sending out 3 radios again, He might need to connect to the tower that only had FSK, Only EPMP, or Only 450. If only there was a single SM that could connect to any of the AP's. Ah well, I can dream.
Re: [AFMUG] Christmas bonus
Sean, Sound like great plan. We need to implement something like this. So with net of 55 per month, how much $$ will go in the pool per month? So highest amount made in the year by one person? Tushar On Dec 2, 2014, at 6:48 PM, Sean Heskett via Af af@afmug.com wrote: a couple years ago we stopped doing christmas bonuses and moved to a year round monthly net new bonuses each month. we take the total active subs last month and the total active subs this month and any amount over 20 goes into the net new bonus pool. for instance if we have 75 net new in a month then 55 * monthly sub $ average = net new $ bonus pool. the pool gets divided amongst everyone. The formula is a bit more complicated than that but that's the general gist of the net new bonus. also the reason for the 20 off the top is that we feel the company should be able to add 20 net new subs with out even really trying (based on historical data from 15 years) this gets the whole team from sales to support to installers to network techs focused on customer retention and company growth. also since the monthly sub $ average is part of the formula it encourages everyone to upsell. this november we doubled last november's net new :-) we expect this december to blow the doors off last year because in the first 2 days of the month we took 23 orders. -sean On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Josh Luthman via Af af@afmug.com wrote: When does everyone else usually hand this over? Are there any tax benefits or anything like that? Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373
Re: [AFMUG] Christmas bonus
That is lot of money. Do you have sales people on commission (first month's revenue)? If so how do you handle that with the other bonus structure? Tushar On Dec 2, 2014, at 9:07 PM, Sean Heskett via Af af@afmug.com wrote: The math is similar to what you posted Jeremy, and we have 11 employees so it can be a couple to a few hundred dollars in a month. We also made it fat on purpose because all those net new clients are a new long term revenue stream for the company. It gives them ownership of company growth so everyone is focused on that one goal...net new. I'm basically trading most of the first month's revenue for focus on the company goal. It's been great all around for employee moral and company growth...win win -Sean On Tuesday, December 2, 2014, Jeremy via Af af@afmug.com wrote: So if you have an ARPU of $40 then 40*55 = $2200 / month. Depending on how many employees you have that would be a pretty awesome bonus structure. On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 7:25 PM, Tushar Patel via Af af@afmug.com wrote: Sean, Sound like great plan. We need to implement something like this. So with net of 55 per month, how much $$ will go in the pool per month? So highest amount made in the year by one person? Tushar On Dec 2, 2014, at 6:48 PM, Sean Heskett via Af af@afmug.com wrote: a couple years ago we stopped doing christmas bonuses and moved to a year round monthly net new bonuses each month. we take the total active subs last month and the total active subs this month and any amount over 20 goes into the net new bonus pool. for instance if we have 75 net new in a month then 55 * monthly sub $ average = net new $ bonus pool. the pool gets divided amongst everyone. The formula is a bit more complicated than that but that's the general gist of the net new bonus. also the reason for the 20 off the top is that we feel the company should be able to add 20 net new subs with out even really trying (based on historical data from 15 years) this gets the whole team from sales to support to installers to network techs focused on customer retention and company growth. also since the monthly sub $ average is part of the formula it encourages everyone to upsell. this november we doubled last november's net new :-) we expect this december to blow the doors off last year because in the first 2 days of the month we took 23 orders. -sean On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Josh Luthman via Af af@afmug.com wrote: When does everyone else usually hand this over? Are there any tax benefits or anything like that? Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373
[AFMUG] ACA plans, lot of options this year.
Hi, Did anybody get chance to look at the healthcare.gov website to see the plans offered in their markets? If you have not looked at it, give it a try and you will be surprised to see the number of options available. Since we are under 50 employees we are not required to offer any plans, I am guessing lot of people on this list will fall under that. Last year in Austin market there were just 2 providers offering plans and none of the plans were reasonable, this year there are lot of plans and some of them are reasonable. Big change in our market for sure. We are just planning to give fixed amount of $$ to each employee every month and let them buy the plan that meets their needs rather than forcing down two plans to everybody. Some of them may qualify for subsidy which they will have to let go if employer offers the plan. Is anybody else planning to do something like this? Are you guys seeing many more options in your market? Thanks, Tushar Patel 512-257-1077 www.westernbroadband.com
Re: [AFMUG] ACA plans, lot of options this year.
Like this year we provide all employees BlueCross plan which is HSA plan with $3500 deductible, it is costing us about $157/employee + dental for $24.0., this plan does not cost anything to employee. They also have option of selecting $2000 deductible with $30 office copay plan and employee pay the difference between the plans. But this year we are going to move to cash reimbursement. Thanks, Tushar Patel 512-257-1077 http://www.westernbroadband.com/ www.westernbroadband.com From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Chuck Hogg via Af Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2014 3:06 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] ACA plans, lot of options this year. We provide up to $100 per month for insurance coverage, we are too small for a group plan and feel like we have to provide something. Regards, Chuck On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Tushar Patel via Af af@afmug.com wrote: Hi, Did anybody get chance to look at the healthcare.gov website to see the plans offered in their markets? If you have not looked at it, give it a try and you will be surprised to see the number of options available. Since we are under 50 employees we are not required to offer any plans, I am guessing lot of people on this list will fall under that. Last year in Austin market there were just 2 providers offering plans and none of the plans were reasonable, this year there are lot of plans and some of them are reasonable. Big change in our market for sure. We are just planning to give fixed amount of $$ to each employee every month and let them buy the plan that meets their needs rather than forcing down two plans to everybody. Some of them may qualify for subsidy which they will have to let go if employer offers the plan. Is anybody else planning to do something like this? Are you guys seeing many more options in your market? Thanks, Tushar Patel 512-257-1077 www.westernbroadband.com
Re: [AFMUG] ACA plans, lot of options this year.
Not here, In fact the site is very good, very responsive, very user friendly too, you can even see the doctors who are in the particular plan etc. Thanks, Tushar Patel 512-257-1077 http://www.westernbroadband.com/ www.westernbroadband.com From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Mark Radabaugh via Af Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2014 3:20 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] ACA plans, lot of options this year. I see it works as well this year as last: We're busy making HealthCare.gov even better! (en Español https://www.healthcare.gov/marketplace/b/create-account/#spanish ) Sorry you can’t get what you need right now. Please come back and visit again later. Mark On 11/11/14, 4:15 PM, Tushar Patel via Af wrote: Like this year we provide all employees BlueCross plan which is HSA plan with $3500 deductible, it is costing us about $157/employee + dental for $24.0., this plan does not cost anything to employee. They also have option of selecting $2000 deductible with $30 office copay plan and employee pay the difference between the plans. But this year we are going to move to cash reimbursement. Thanks, Tushar Patel 512-257-1077 www.westernbroadband.com http://www.westernbroadband.com/ From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Chuck Hogg via Af Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2014 3:06 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] ACA plans, lot of options this year. We provide up to $100 per month for insurance coverage, we are too small for a group plan and feel like we have to provide something. Regards, Chuck On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Tushar Patel via Af af@afmug.com wrote: Hi, Did anybody get chance to look at the healthcare.gov website to see the plans offered in their markets? If you have not looked at it, give it a try and you will be surprised to see the number of options available. Since we are under 50 employees we are not required to offer any plans, I am guessing lot of people on this list will fall under that. Last year in Austin market there were just 2 providers offering plans and none of the plans were reasonable, this year there are lot of plans and some of them are reasonable. Big change in our market for sure. We are just planning to give fixed amount of $$ to each employee every month and let them buy the plan that meets their needs rather than forcing down two plans to everybody. Some of them may qualify for subsidy which they will have to let go if employer offers the plan. Is anybody else planning to do something like this? Are you guys seeing many more options in your market? Thanks, Tushar Patel 512-257-1077 www.westernbroadband.com -- Mark Radabaugh Amplex m...@amplex.net 419.837.5015 x 1021
Re: [AFMUG] ACA plans, lot of options this year.
I did look at the SHOP, it is available to see on the healthcare.gov site now. But under the SHOP, there were not too many plans and the plans which are there are not reasonable. Pre tax? I will have to look at that perspective again. Before ACA, insurance company had to cover every employee we hire under the group plan, the premium were very high, I could go buy the same plan for 1/3 the cost if I buy as the individual plan. With ACA, now insurance company have to offer plan to everybody so it make more sense now let the employee buy their own plan that meets their needs. Thanks, Tushar Patel 512-257-1077 http://www.westernbroadband.com/ www.westernbroadband.com From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Dennis Burgess via Af Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2014 3:15 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] ACA plans, lot of options this year. I think they offer a SHOP program, starting on the 15th, that you as a business owner can sign up. Don’t quote me, but the way I understand it, it lets you pool everyone together, and then you (the business) pays the premium for all members, you can choose to take it out each person’s paycheck (pretax is the big thing here), or to pay a portion of it etc. Again, don’t know 100% of the details, but that signup starts on the 15th just in case you are interested. Dennis Burgess, Link Technologies, Inc. 314-735-0270 From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Chuck Hogg via Af Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2014 3:06 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] ACA plans, lot of options this year. We provide up to $100 per month for insurance coverage, we are too small for a group plan and feel like we have to provide something. Regards, Chuck On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Tushar Patel via Af af@afmug.com wrote: Hi, Did anybody get chance to look at the healthcare.gov website to see the plans offered in their markets? If you have not looked at it, give it a try and you will be surprised to see the number of options available. Since we are under 50 employees we are not required to offer any plans, I am guessing lot of people on this list will fall under that. Last year in Austin market there were just 2 providers offering plans and none of the plans were reasonable, this year there are lot of plans and some of them are reasonable. Big change in our market for sure. We are just planning to give fixed amount of $$ to each employee every month and let them buy the plan that meets their needs rather than forcing down two plans to everybody. Some of them may qualify for subsidy which they will have to let go if employer offers the plan. Is anybody else planning to do something like this? Are you guys seeing many more options in your market? Thanks, Tushar Patel 512-257-1077 www.westernbroadband.com
Re: [AFMUG] Speedtest replacements?
Speedtest site has to sit on our network, so we eliminate any problem on the net and can show customer that it is performing within our network fine. Branable is must. This is what ookla gives: CLIENT IP ADDRESS ,CLIENT LOCATION, TEST DATE SERVER ,downloadDOWNLOAD ,uploadUPLOAD ,latencyLATENCY ,USER AGENT Above is sufficient. Thanks, Tushar Patel 512-257-1077 http://www.westernbroadband.com/ www.westernbroadband.com From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Dennis Burgess via Af Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 9:47 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Speedtest replacements? What kind of data do you want? We were thinking a simple brandable speedtest site.. Dennis Burgess, CTO, Link Technologies, Inc. den...@linktechs.net – 314-735-0270 – www.linktechs.net From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Tushar Patel via Af Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 9:09 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Speedtest replacements? I would say one time price of about $500, all data saved on local mysql. May charge operator for hosting if they want to do it that way. If you do come up with new upgrade then charge about $250 for upgrade. Thanks, Tushar Patel 512-257-1077 www.westernbroadband.com http://www.westernbroadband.com/ From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Dennis Burgess via Af Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 7:28 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Speedtest replacements? It was, not anymore. What would be a good cost that you would pay for? i.e. I was thinking of my team programming up one for WISPs :-) Dennis Burgess, Link Technologies, Inc. 314-735-0270 From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Jason McKemie via Af Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 10:38 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Speedtest replacements? Per the Mikrotik forums it looks like it is proprietary. On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 9:18 PM, Bill Prince via Af af@afmug.com wrote: Isn't the bandwidth test built into Mikrotik a variant of iperf? bp On 10/21/2014 7:00 PM, Keefe John via Af wrote: We found speedtest.net to be very unreliable even though we have a server hosted in our datacenter. We also run speedtest mini and it is not very reliable, especially for 25mbps or greater. Iperf, however, works every time. On 10/21/2014 7:09 PM, Jon Auer via Af wrote: FWIW at one time we had three peers (no open internet/upstream to worry about) running speedtest.net servers and still saw a lot of variation in performance. The server on a network run by a world-famous optimization nerd reported much higher speeds and more consistent results than the one run by the fellow WISP or the one run by a IT consultant... On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Mike Hammett via Af af@afmug.com wrote: If your upstreams suck, your customer's speedtests should reflect that and be addressed. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions https://twitter.com/ICSIL _ From: Timothy D. McNabb via Af af@afmug.com To: af@afmug.com Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 5:15:06 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Speedtest replacements? I hate to necro an old thread, but has anyone devised an alternative? We’re looking at the same dilemma of our own speedtest. It’s always been nice to have the Ookla speedtest not just in terms of performance, but the ability to reference actual results as well (since customers sometimes misinterpret the results). From the other speedtests mentioned (speedtest.io and openspeedtest) it appears that neither are something you can install on a local machine. Our personal preference is so customers can see what their speeds are within our control (the speedtest server is right next to our upstreams). -Tim From: Af [mailto:af-bounces+tim mailto:af-bounces%2Btim =velociter@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Tushar Patel via Af Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 7:55 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Speedtest replacements? May be we will try that. But as a speedtest product from ookla, I am surprised there isn't really good competing product in the market. One would think there should be market for such product. No wonder they are raising the price. Tushar On Sep 23, 2014, at 8:23 PM, Forrest Christian (List Account) via Af af@afmug.com wrote: Why not just host a speedtest.net server and have your customers test to it? -forrest On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Darren Shea via Af af@afmug.com wrote: We currently host our own speedtest server using Ookla's speedtest technology, but Ookla is discontinuing the version we run, and the licensing fees for the new version are very steep. I'm looking at alternatives, such as OpenSpeedTest and speed.io
Re: [AFMUG] packetflux save me
Found for lot less https://www.scmsinc.com/shop/transmission-products-tower-lights-accessories/?page=1 https://www.scmsinc.com/shop/transmission-products-tower-lights-accessories/?page=1pageItemCount=30brands=FM%20Services pageItemCount=30brands=FM%20Services Thanks, Tushar Patel 512-257-1077 http://www.westernbroadband.com/ www.westernbroadband.com From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Tushar Patel via Af Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2014 7:36 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] packetflux save me Forrest, First search on tower monitor price is close to $940. Do you know the place where you can buy for lot less? How about following? http://www.burk.com/Products/Tlm.aspx Thanks, Tushar Patel 512-257-1077 www.westernbroadband.com http://www.westernbroadband.com/ From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Forrest Christian (List Account) via Af Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2014 2:33 AM To: af Subject: Re: [AFMUG] packetflux save me I was going through my drafts and noticed for some reason the following was still a draft, and hadn't been sent: Are you saying this is a DC tower lighting system now? I haven't run across one of those yet. For AC, I was going to recommend that you look into a tower light monitor with a contact output you could hook into a sitemonitor or similar. I know people who have used the ones from www.towermonitor.com with good results. I'm also looking at building a purpose-built module for the sitemonitor system, but this is a ways down the todo list. -forrest On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 5:58 AM, David Milholen dmilho...@wletc.com wrote: I am going to replace my third elec eye. I am converting the eye to DC with isolation so I dont lose another one but I would like to get something simple to monitor the sites lights. On 9/15/2014 1:18 AM, Forrest Christian (List Account) wrote: Hey I was going to reply but I've been traveling and haven't had a chance to access the info I need to reply. At this point I'll be back in the office mid week and I'll have some good suggestions for you. On Sep 11, 2014 9:34 PM, David Milholen dmilho...@wletc.com wrote: Forrest, I was looking over your site trying to find something that would help me to monitor our older tower lighting using incandescent bulbs. I am not sure if the shunts will do the trick because I believe those are for DC current not AC. I have some Toroids that may help with the AC current drop across a circuit for indicating its on or off. Ill have to pull my old AC circuit analysis book and transducers to see what I have to do to interface it to a site monitor base unit -- --
Re: [AFMUG] ObamaCare
Ours went up, 19%. Tushar On Oct 8, 2014, at 10:42 AM, Travis Johnson via Af af@afmug.com wrote: Hi... I'm not sure exactly how this ObamaCare thing was supposed to save everyone money and provider better health care. We just received our group health insurance premium notice for the upcoming year, and our rates will go up by 10% starting 2015. On top of that, everyone is now paying a 3% ObamaCare tax on their personal income taxes. This doesn't really seem like much of a savings to me... :( Travis
Re: [AFMUG] Belkin routers going nuts
We did torch (one of the Mikrotik tools), that allows me to see the destination address of 67.20.176.130, with protocol and the number of source address accessing that. The number of source address trying to access that was very high. Since morning we must have taken over 20 to 25 calls on the subject. So from the resource stand point it was more efficient for us to implement loopback response then to keep taking the call. We did not tell any customers what we did to fix it. How it works: it appears that those Belkin routers were just trying to ping the that ip address, so by putting loop back on our network, we are essentially responding to that ip address and that make the Belkin router happy. As you mentioned below that you were able to ping it, earlier we were not able to ping that ip address, may be they have already fix the problem. Thanks, Tushar Patel 512-257-1077 http://www.westernbroadband.com/ www.westernbroadband.com From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Mathew Howard via Af Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 11:18 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Belkin routers going nuts Yeah... if I were to do something like that, I wouldn't let any customers know I did it... but I don't like messing with the network to fix things that aren't really my problem anyway, it would be nice to make those calls stop, but it doesn't seem worth it. I'm still a bit confused how that is making it work anyway though, since I can ping that IP... how does putting it on an internal router make it work? for those who have done it, is your router giving any HTTP response on that IP? _ From: Af [af-boun...@afmug.com] on behalf of That One Guy via Af [af@afmug.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 11:06 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Belkin routers going nuts that sounds alot like doing Belkins job for them, and guarantees from that point forward everytime a customer has any issue. just do that brokeback loop thing you did, this is your problem, fix it now, i pay good money for this service, i run a business, and my kids go to school and my pacemaker will stop On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Tushar Patel via Af af@afmug.com wrote: As somebody suggested earlier to put loopback with the 67.20.176.130, on one of the internal router appears to fix the problem. Thanks, Tushar Patel 512-257-1077 www.westernbroadband.com -Original Message- From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of David via Af Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 10:42 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Belkin routers going nuts We are seeing this also.. Belkin domain is down Also be aware that the belkins use heartbeat.belkin.com to check to see if there is internet access and if the answer comes back negative then it will not connect any lan clients to internet. Also there are a few exploits that have been exposed on 1.00 firmware which do bad things to the wan side of things. I am currently trying to spoof heartbeat.belkin.com to our internal dns to fool the router into thinking everything is ok. On 10/07/2014 09:11 AM, Mark Radabaugh via Af wrote: 13 customers so far today - all Belkin. Powned? Mark On 10/7/14, 10:04 AM, Darren Shea via Af wrote: Is anyone else getting inundated with a flood of customers who can't connect to the internet through their Belkin routers this morning? What's the deal with that?, Darren -- All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer. -- IBM maintenance manual, 1925
[AFMUG] Aviat Networks, (Harris stratex ), any input?
For license backhaul and 80 MHz channel in 11 GHz band, I have found only three company that is making the radios now. 1) Exalt (chapter 11 now) 2) Ceragon 3) Aviat Any other company making products in 80 MHz channel in 11 Ghz band? Any input on Harris Stratex (Aviat) products? Thanks, Tushar Patel 512-257-1077 www.westernbroadband.com
Re: [AFMUG] Aviat Networks, (Harris stratex ), any input?
I posted following last week, that came directly from one of the sales rep, “ Tushar, Message from our CEO... We have gone through a major reorganization and change of ownership over the past week. However, the nature of our business stays the same as before. Same products, same markets and applications. We apologize for any inconvenience or business disruption this may have caused you. Thank you for your patience, understanding, and support during this rather extraordinary period of our evolution. We are confident we will reemerge stronger, more competitive, and better than ever before. So we're in business and moving forward.” Thanks, Tushar Patel 512-257-1077 http://www.westernbroadband.com/ www.westernbroadband.com From: Af [mailto:af-bounces+tpatel=ecpi@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Josh Reynolds via Af Sent: Monday, September 22, 2014 3:27 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Aviat Networks, (Harris stratex ), any input? Would like to know as well Josh Reynolds, Chief Information Officer SPITwSPOTS, www.spitwspots.com On 09/22/2014 12:22 PM, Eric Kuhnke via Af wrote: from what source are you seeing that Exalt has gone chapter 11? On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Tushar Patel via Af af@afmug.com wrote: For license backhaul and 80 MHz channel in 11 GHz band, I have found only three company that is making the radios now. 1) Exalt (chapter 11 now) 2) Ceragon 3) Aviat Any other company making products in 80 MHz channel in 11 Ghz band? Any input on Harris Stratex (Aviat) products? Thanks, Tushar Patel 512-257-1077 www.westernbroadband.com
