Re: [WISPA] Microtik Remote Weirdness

2009-01-21 Thread Leon D. Zetekoff, NCE
Hi Forbes...

YOu can also look at the connectors on the cable you might want to try 
and put new ones on there. Also, did you try a different POE injector at 
the tower?
Let us know what you come up with.

Leon

* Forbes Mercy wrote, On 1/20/2009 7:33 PM:
 Hi Forbes

 A few questions/comments:
 :
 How long is the ethernet run?

 About 50 feet

 We had a MTK client radio on an RB113 go irratic at times.

 We brought the 133 back into the office and had no problem accessing it
 with short length Cat 5 and the wireless worked great, same for the new
 433A board. So this leaves us with the 433AH and one card working at the
 50 foot length radio mount but not the 133 or 433a which work perfectly
 in the office.

 You can't upload into the MTK when using Winbox with the MAC address,
 only IPs.
 How about duplex/speed are they both matched? You might want to crank it
 to 10M/FULL and see if that helps.

 We can try this.

 Forbes


 -Original Message-
 From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
 Behalf Of Leon D. Zetekoff, NCE
 Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 4:21 PM
 To: WISPA General List
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] Microtik Remote Weirdness

 * Forbes Mercy wrote, On 1/20/2009 7:00 PM:
   
 snip

 Took a back-up 433AH board up and used the same radio card, worked
 
 like
   
 a charm for both our access and customer throughput.  We didn't want
 
 to
   
 waste a three port/LAN board so ordered a 433a single port board.
 
 Once
   
 it arrived we logged into it by MAC in the office with no problem,
 programmed it and sent it up to the tower.  Once on the tower
 
 customers
   
 associated just fine but once again we couldn't access the management
 side.  We saw the MAC and the identity for it but we couldn't ping
 
 that
   
 IP (yes, the 433AH radio was unplugged) and trying to load by MAC
 
 would
   
 start the RouterOS download but at various places it would crash.

 Moved the 433A down to the hut and a laptop easily logged into it,
 
 even
   
 when plugged into the switch, but we still couldn't log into it from
 remote, although the laptop on scene was going through the same switch
 and by MAC just like we were trying, sigh.  OK we put the 433AH back
 
 in
   
 service and again everything worked great.  I'm stumped, we isolated
 
 the
   
 switch, Cat 5, and IP Address but those two single cards won't allow
 
 us
   
 to log in over using Winbox either by IP or by MAC while it allows it
 locally.   *banging head against the wall.  Any ideas?
 
 Hi Forbes

 A few questions/comments:
 :
 How long is the ethernet run?
 We had a MTK client radio on an RB113 go irratic at times.
 You can't upload into the MTK when using Winbox with the MAC address, 
 only IPs.
 How about duplex/speed are they both matched? You might want to crank it

 to 10M/FULL and see if that helps.

 Leon




 
 
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Re: [WISPA] Billboard Contact Info

2009-01-21 Thread Mike Hammett
Although there's not any that are of immediate help to me, I'm sure there 
are for others and options are always good!

How are they in line of ease to work with\pricing...  are they an American 
Tower or are they a Frosty Towers?


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 Jim Ajaeb
 888-551-7483
 tow...@clearchannel.com
 www.towers.clearchannel.com


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Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!

2009-01-21 Thread Josh Luthman
Batteries won't last more then a few hours.  Our NOC uses 300 watts
and we have a 2200va UP - about 1h 15h run time until generators come
into play.

On 1/21/09, George Rogato wi...@oregonfast.net wrote:
 Don't you have battery back ups?


 Marlon K. Schafer wrote:
 Looks pretty normal around here.  But some of our towers are offline again

 due to all of the power outages.
 marlon

 - Original Message -
 From: Eric Tykwinski eric-l...@truenet.com
 To: 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org
 Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:52 AM
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!


 Everyone on NANOG has been saying the same.  We're actually seeing close
 to
 triple on downloading today, starting about 9AM EST.
 Thankfully no issues on capacity at all on our end...

 I'm actually surprised the sites serving the videos aren't having any
 issues
 yet.

 -Original Message-
 From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
 Behalf Of David E. Smith
 Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 12:46 PM
 To: WISPA General List
 Subject: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!

 Not really, but is everyone else seeing lots of extra traffic from people
 streaming inauguration-related events in DC? My network is pulling
 basically
 double the traffic of a normal Tuesday.

 (There's a lesson about capacity planning in here somewhere...)

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 MVN.net



 
 
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Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!

2009-01-21 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
Yeah.  But they don't last forever.

I've also found that they drain faster than they charge too.

Right now I have rolling power outages in at least 4 towns spread out by a 
good 80 miles via road.  The power is on, then off then on then off.  It's 
not like I can just got to town A and fire up a generator.

Plus, these towns combine for a total of 11 sites!  I don't have that many 
generators.

Wanna know the funny part?  In Wilbur, ATT's cell tower has been down more 
than I have!  grin

People still had phone service most of the time.  One of the cell phone 
companies stayed up.  If there was NO communications infrastructure in place 
I'd have worked harder to keep things running.  Without help and a lot more 
generators/gas cans it just wasn't possible though.

The weather is supposed to break today or tomorrow.   I don't know how long 
it'll take to clean up all of the broken limbs etc. though.

laters,
marlon

- Original Message - 
From: George Rogato wi...@oregonfast.net
To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:22 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!


 Don't you have battery back ups?


 Marlon K. Schafer wrote:
 Looks pretty normal around here.  But some of our towers are offline 
 again
 due to all of the power outages.
 marlon

 - Original Message - 
 From: Eric Tykwinski eric-l...@truenet.com
 To: 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org
 Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:52 AM
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!


 Everyone on NANOG has been saying the same.  We're actually seeing close
 to
 triple on downloading today, starting about 9AM EST.
 Thankfully no issues on capacity at all on our end...

 I'm actually surprised the sites serving the videos aren't having any
 issues
 yet.

 -Original Message-
 From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
 Behalf Of David E. Smith
 Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 12:46 PM
 To: WISPA General List
 Subject: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!

 Not really, but is everyone else seeing lots of extra traffic from 
 people
 streaming inauguration-related events in DC? My network is pulling
 basically
 double the traffic of a normal Tuesday.

 (There's a lesson about capacity planning in here somewhere...)

 David Smith
 MVN.net



 
 
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Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!

2009-01-21 Thread Josh Luthman
The last peak was around noon yesterday, give or take a couple of hours.
Not the biggest peak but obviously higher then average!

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On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Marlon K. Schafer 
o...@odessaoffice.comwrote:

 Yeah.  But they don't last forever.

 I've also found that they drain faster than they charge too.

 Right now I have rolling power outages in at least 4 towns spread out by a
 good 80 miles via road.  The power is on, then off then on then off.  It's
 not like I can just got to town A and fire up a generator.

 Plus, these towns combine for a total of 11 sites!  I don't have that many
 generators.

 Wanna know the funny part?  In Wilbur, ATT's cell tower has been down more
 than I have!  grin

 People still had phone service most of the time.  One of the cell phone
 companies stayed up.  If there was NO communications infrastructure in
 place
 I'd have worked harder to keep things running.  Without help and a lot more
 generators/gas cans it just wasn't possible though.

 The weather is supposed to break today or tomorrow.   I don't know how long
 it'll take to clean up all of the broken limbs etc. though.

 laters,
 marlon

 - Original Message -
 From: George Rogato wi...@oregonfast.net
 To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
 Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:22 PM
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!


  Don't you have battery back ups?
 
 
  Marlon K. Schafer wrote:
  Looks pretty normal around here.  But some of our towers are offline
  again
  due to all of the power outages.
  marlon
 
  - Original Message -
  From: Eric Tykwinski eric-l...@truenet.com
  To: 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org
  Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:52 AM
  Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!
 
 
  Everyone on NANOG has been saying the same.  We're actually seeing
 close
  to
  triple on downloading today, starting about 9AM EST.
  Thankfully no issues on capacity at all on our end...
 
  I'm actually surprised the sites serving the videos aren't having any
  issues
  yet.
 
  -Original Message-
  From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org]
 On
  Behalf Of David E. Smith
  Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 12:46 PM
  To: WISPA General List
  Subject: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!
 
  Not really, but is everyone else seeing lots of extra traffic from
  people
  streaming inauguration-related events in DC? My network is pulling
  basically
  double the traffic of a normal Tuesday.
 
  (There's a lesson about capacity planning in here somewhere...)
 
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Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!

2009-01-21 Thread os10rules
You could use a real inverter which has a higher capacity charger  
built in (much faster recovery time). Another advantage of an inverter  
is the batteries are sold separately so you can size them accordingly.  
You could have much longer run time on the batteries. Though having  
lead acid batteries on site might be an issue and large gelled cell  
batteries are expensive. Maybe it wouldn't be cost effective to use  
such a system for the rare power outage.

This little unit delivers 1000 watts continuous (3000 watts surge) and  
has a 50 amp battery charger. 
http://www.xantrex.com/web/id/55/p/1/pt/9/product.asp

Greg

On Jan 21, 2009, at 10:29 AM, Josh Luthman wrote:

 Batteries won't last more then a few hours.  Our NOC uses 300 watts
 and we have a 2200va UP - about 1h 15h run time until generators come
 into play.

 On 1/21/09, George Rogato wi...@oregonfast.net wrote:
 Don't you have battery back ups?


 Marlon K. Schafer wrote:
 Looks pretty normal around here.  But some of our towers are  
 offline again

 due to all of the power outages.
 marlon

 - Original Message -
 From: Eric Tykwinski eric-l...@truenet.com
 To: 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org
 Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:52 AM
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!


 Everyone on NANOG has been saying the same.  We're actually  
 seeing close
 to
 triple on downloading today, starting about 9AM EST.
 Thankfully no issues on capacity at all on our end...

 I'm actually surprised the sites serving the videos aren't having  
 any
 issues
 yet.

 -Original Message-
 From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless- 
 boun...@wispa.org] On
 Behalf Of David E. Smith
 Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 12:46 PM
 To: WISPA General List
 Subject: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!

 Not really, but is everyone else seeing lots of extra traffic  
 from people
 streaming inauguration-related events in DC? My network is pulling
 basically
 double the traffic of a normal Tuesday.

 (There's a lesson about capacity planning in here somewhere...)

 David Smith
 MVN.net



 
 
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[WISPA] The best Power Supplies/UPS are...

2009-01-21 Thread Paolo Di Francesco
Hi All,

I was wondering what is the best power supply/UPS that you have in your
sites.
I am talking about something that can accept from 50AC to 300AC, and
convert it to a -48DC or something like that.

I know that my request can sound strange, and everybody is wondering
why don't you use APC/HP/whatever in your site?. The reason is that
sites are not like data centers where things are very easy...

Our national power company has the bad habit to send the wrong voltage,
therefore I was thinking to see around if there is something from
almost any decent INPUT can generate a DC or AC. Possibly with an
input protection from over voltage, short cut, whatever.

Obviously the more features it has, the better it is. For example if it
has smnp, remote power management (on/off, programmable, etc.) would be
nice. I think HP has this type of feature.
At the moment we are using something which is not so bad, it is
monitored (smnp) via a linux box, but we cannot reset-cycle the output
and this is a BAD thing.


Thank you in advance for your precious suggestions.


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Re: [WISPA] The best Power Supplies/UPS are...

2009-01-21 Thread Josh Luthman
If I were in that position I would contact Bruce Good at Tessco.

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On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Paolo Di Francesco 
difrance...@teleinform.com wrote:

 Hi All,

 I was wondering what is the best power supply/UPS that you have in your
 sites.
 I am talking about something that can accept from 50AC to 300AC, and
 convert it to a -48DC or something like that.

 I know that my request can sound strange, and everybody is wondering
 why don't you use APC/HP/whatever in your site?. The reason is that
 sites are not like data centers where things are very easy...

 Our national power company has the bad habit to send the wrong voltage,
 therefore I was thinking to see around if there is something from
 almost any decent INPUT can generate a DC or AC. Possibly with an
 input protection from over voltage, short cut, whatever.

 Obviously the more features it has, the better it is. For example if it
 has smnp, remote power management (on/off, programmable, etc.) would be
 nice. I think HP has this type of feature.
 At the moment we are using something which is not so bad, it is
 monitored (smnp) via a linux box, but we cannot reset-cycle the output
 and this is a BAD thing.


 Thank you in advance for your precious suggestions.


 --


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 Teleinform S.p.A.
 Sede Legale: Via Francesco Paolo Di Blasi 1, 90144 Palermo
 Unita' Operativa: Via Regione Siciliana 49, 90046 Monreale
 Tel: +39-091-6408576, +39-091-6404501
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[WISPA] nanostation 5 and WDS question.

2009-01-21 Thread rabbtux rabbtux
all,

Working with my first NS5 and have run into a problem that is more due to my
limited WDS experience, than the equipment itsellf.  When I set up the NS5
as a WDS client to one of my AP, then plugged a simple AP into the NS5 to
create a remote repeater.  Everything works fine, in that, my hotspot
solution works fine through the simple AP.   Problem:  I can not contact the
NS5 from the main AP, only from the simple AP (i.e thru NS5 ethernet).  Is
this normal?  Would hate to deploy a few WDS clients, and then have no
remote control.

Thanks,
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Re: [WISPA] nanostation 5 and WDS question.

2009-01-21 Thread Alan Long
Do you have the ns5 in bridge mode, and have it assigned an ip address in
the same subnet of the wds ap it is attached? 


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all,

Working with my first NS5 and have run into a problem that is more due to my
limited WDS experience, than the equipment itsellf.  When I set up the NS5
as a WDS client to one of my AP, then plugged a simple AP into the NS5 to
create a remote repeater.  Everything works fine, in that, my hotspot
solution works fine through the simple AP.   Problem:  I can not contact the
NS5 from the main AP, only from the simple AP (i.e thru NS5 ethernet).  Is
this normal?  Would hate to deploy a few WDS clients, and then have no
remote control.

Thanks,
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Re: [WISPA] nanostation 5 and WDS question.

2009-01-21 Thread Jeromie Reeves
I have a number of NS5's in WDS mode and they can be accessed from
anyplace on the network. Are you using static or dhcp for the NS5? I
use static.

On 1/21/09, rabbtux rabbtux rabb...@gmail.com wrote:
 all,

  Working with my first NS5 and have run into a problem that is more due to my
  limited WDS experience, than the equipment itsellf.  When I set up the NS5
  as a WDS client to one of my AP, then plugged a simple AP into the NS5 to
  create a remote repeater.  Everything works fine, in that, my hotspot
  solution works fine through the simple AP.   Problem:  I can not contact the
  NS5 from the main AP, only from the simple AP (i.e thru NS5 ethernet).  Is
  this normal?  Would hate to deploy a few WDS clients, and then have no
  remote control.

  Thanks,
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Re: [WISPA] nanostation 5 and WDS question.

2009-01-21 Thread rabbtux rabbtux
Yes.  the master AP is n.n.125.x and the WDS bridged NS5 is n.n.125.100.

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Alan Long alan.l...@aerowire.net wrote:

 Do you have the ns5 in bridge mode, and have it assigned an ip address in
 the same subnet of the wds ap it is attached?

 
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 -Original Message-
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 Behalf Of rabbtux rabbtux
 Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 10:14 AM
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 Subject: [WISPA] nanostation 5 and WDS question.

 all,

 Working with my first NS5 and have run into a problem that is more due to
 my
 limited WDS experience, than the equipment itsellf.  When I set up the NS5
 as a WDS client to one of my AP, then plugged a simple AP into the NS5 to
 create a remote repeater.  Everything works fine, in that, my hotspot
 solution works fine through the simple AP.   Problem:  I can not contact
 the
 NS5 from the main AP, only from the simple AP (i.e thru NS5 ethernet).  Is
 this normal?  Would hate to deploy a few WDS clients, and then have no
 remote control.

 Thanks,
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Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!

2009-01-21 Thread jp
I like the tripplite APS 700hf/750/1250 gear.

We've got sites with 2 big batteries that should be good for 24 hours 
with these.

I put one at my house after going through 2 APC UPSs in 8 years.

We put them everywhere we need long run time, and add batteries for 
places where it's impractical to take a generator. 

I don't mind freely recommending them. My competition has already seen 
how well they work at a mountaintop site where we are both located and 
has since followed that route in the interest of long runtime.

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 07:07:19AM -0800, Marlon K. Schafer wrote:
 Yeah.  But they don't last forever.
 
 I've also found that they drain faster than they charge too.
 
 Right now I have rolling power outages in at least 4 towns spread out by a 
 good 80 miles via road.  The power is on, then off then on then off.  It's 
 not like I can just got to town A and fire up a generator.
 
 Plus, these towns combine for a total of 11 sites!  I don't have that many 
 generators.
 
 Wanna know the funny part?  In Wilbur, ATT's cell tower has been down more 
 than I have!  grin
 
 People still had phone service most of the time.  One of the cell phone 
 companies stayed up.  If there was NO communications infrastructure in place 
 I'd have worked harder to keep things running.  Without help and a lot more 
 generators/gas cans it just wasn't possible though.
 
 The weather is supposed to break today or tomorrow.   I don't know how long 
 it'll take to clean up all of the broken limbs etc. though.
 
 laters,
 marlon
 
 - Original Message - 
 From: George Rogato wi...@oregonfast.net
 To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
 Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:22 PM
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!
 
 
  Don't you have battery back ups?
 
 
  Marlon K. Schafer wrote:
  Looks pretty normal around here.  But some of our towers are offline 
  again
  due to all of the power outages.
  marlon
 
  - Original Message - 
  From: Eric Tykwinski eric-l...@truenet.com
  To: 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org
  Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:52 AM
  Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!
 
 
  Everyone on NANOG has been saying the same.  We're actually seeing close
  to
  triple on downloading today, starting about 9AM EST.
  Thankfully no issues on capacity at all on our end...
 
  I'm actually surprised the sites serving the videos aren't having any
  issues
  yet.
 
  -Original Message-
  From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
  Behalf Of David E. Smith
  Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 12:46 PM
  To: WISPA General List
  Subject: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!
 
  Not really, but is everyone else seeing lots of extra traffic from 
  people
  streaming inauguration-related events in DC? My network is pulling
  basically
  double the traffic of a normal Tuesday.
 
  (There's a lesson about capacity planning in here somewhere...)
 
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Re: [WISPA] Microtik Remote Weirdness

2009-01-21 Thread Paolo Di Francesco
Hi Forbes,

good news and bad news. Let me start with the good news.

You are not alone!

The bad news is the same of the good news, lately, we are having a lot
of problems on the ethernet. It looks like the ethernet port has a lower
speed (like 200Kbps) or that you cannot even log in it. Does it sound
familiar to you?

On some site, it can be some EM field close to you. That's why when you
try it in your lab everything works magically. You are out of that EM
field, and the interference is gone. Even using shielded cable does not
help, because it could attenuate the effect not fix at 100%. Moreover it
depends if the shield is grounded to the metallic shell of the box, etc.

Moreover, I suspect the overall quality of Mikrotik hardware is not very
good and it's getting even worse.

Suggestions:

1) try shielded cable
2) try some ferrule on the shielded cable
3) test electrical continuity of the circuit from the cable plug on one
side to the box (other side)
4) change power supply
5) if you are using an inject/splitter, change it

Let us know!

Thank you.


 We have a tower with a single radio operating on it.  We were using a
 Microtik 133 board with a single Prizim chipset in it.  One day it
 stopped responding to requests through the network using Winbox.  No
 customers were down so we assumed it was running bandwidth (too much
 snow to travel up there).  One night about 7 PM we started getting tower
 down calls, of course we hadn't been able to ping or get into it for
 weeks so we had no idea.
 
 Took a back-up 433AH board up and used the same radio card, worked like
 a charm for both our access and customer throughput.  We didn't want to
 waste a three port/LAN board so ordered a 433a single port board.  Once
 it arrived we logged into it by MAC in the office with no problem,
 programmed it and sent it up to the tower.  Once on the tower customers
 associated just fine but once again we couldn't access the management
 side.  We saw the MAC and the identity for it but we couldn't ping that
 IP (yes, the 433AH radio was unplugged) and trying to load by MAC would
 start the RouterOS download but at various places it would crash.
 
 Moved the 433A down to the hut and a laptop easily logged into it, even
 when plugged into the switch, but we still couldn't log into it from
 remote, although the laptop on scene was going through the same switch
 and by MAC just like we were trying, sigh.  OK we put the 433AH back in
 service and again everything worked great.  I'm stumped, we isolated the
 switch, Cat 5, and IP Address but those two single cards won't allow us
 to log in over using Winbox either by IP or by MAC while it allows it
 locally.   *banging head against the wall.  Any ideas?
 
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Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!

2009-01-21 Thread George Rogato
You can buy inexpensive ups and use them.
It's pretty windy here on the Oregon Coast, trees are always blowing 
over or limbs falling, so flickering lights is not uncommon. Not every 
power outage last for 10 hours.
Most happen for a couple of hours. Or the lights flicker. Lights 
flickering is worse to me than the outage, especially when it's some 
wild voltage spike. Can't be good for our equipment.

Marlon, some guys say they buy an inexpensive apc ups off ebay and hook 
them up to $100.00+ deep cell batteries.
I have a few 3,000 watt offbrand ups that cost me about 350.00 or so. I 
have them scattered all over the place. I usually get about 10 to 12 hours.

George

Marlon K. Schafer wrote:
 Yeah.  But they don't last forever.
 
 I've also found that they drain faster than they charge too.
 
 Right now I have rolling power outages in at least 4 towns spread out by a 
 good 80 miles via road.  The power is on, then off then on then off.  It's 
 not like I can just got to town A and fire up a generator.
 
 Plus, these towns combine for a total of 11 sites!  I don't have that many 
 generators.
 
 Wanna know the funny part?  In Wilbur, ATT's cell tower has been down more 
 than I have!  grin
 
 People still had phone service most of the time.  One of the cell phone 
 companies stayed up.  If there was NO communications infrastructure in place 
 I'd have worked harder to keep things running.  Without help and a lot more 
 generators/gas cans it just wasn't possible though.
 
 The weather is supposed to break today or tomorrow.   I don't know how long 
 it'll take to clean up all of the broken limbs etc. though.
 
 laters,
 marlon
 
 - Original Message - 
 From: George Rogato wi...@oregonfast.net
 To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
 Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:22 PM
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!
 
 
 Don't you have battery back ups?


 Marlon K. Schafer wrote:
 Looks pretty normal around here.  But some of our towers are offline 
 again
 due to all of the power outages.
 marlon

 - Original Message - 
 From: Eric Tykwinski eric-l...@truenet.com
 To: 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org
 Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:52 AM
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!


 Everyone on NANOG has been saying the same.  We're actually seeing close
 to
 triple on downloading today, starting about 9AM EST.
 Thankfully no issues on capacity at all on our end...

 I'm actually surprised the sites serving the videos aren't having any
 issues
 yet.

 -Original Message-
 From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
 Behalf Of David E. Smith
 Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 12:46 PM
 To: WISPA General List
 Subject: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!

 Not really, but is everyone else seeing lots of extra traffic from 
 people
 streaming inauguration-related events in DC? My network is pulling
 basically
 double the traffic of a normal Tuesday.

 (There's a lesson about capacity planning in here somewhere...)

 David Smith
 MVN.net



 
 
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Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!

2009-01-21 Thread Mark Nash
I have several APC SU700NET UPS systems in place that we've taken out the
internal batteries and put in marine batteries on the floor.  Depending on
what equipment it's powering, you can get 18-36 hours out of 2 batteries.
We also install a AP9617 SNMP card, that emails us of power events.  We were
having power sags on one mountain top.  We tried telling the site owner
(Charter Cable) that they were having a problem.  We got told we're looking
into it for months, until I put THAT guy's email address in the SNMP card
notification list.  Then, with the system nagging HIM as well, we got some
action.

Mark Nash
UnwiredWest
78 Centennial Loop
Suite E
Eugene, OR 97401
541-998-
541-998-5599 fax
http://www.unwiredwest.com
- Original Message - 
From: George Rogato wi...@oregonfast.net
To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 9:28 AM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!


 You can buy inexpensive ups and use them.
 It's pretty windy here on the Oregon Coast, trees are always blowing
 over or limbs falling, so flickering lights is not uncommon. Not every
 power outage last for 10 hours.
 Most happen for a couple of hours. Or the lights flicker. Lights
 flickering is worse to me than the outage, especially when it's some
 wild voltage spike. Can't be good for our equipment.

 Marlon, some guys say they buy an inexpensive apc ups off ebay and hook
 them up to $100.00+ deep cell batteries.
 I have a few 3,000 watt offbrand ups that cost me about 350.00 or so. I
 have them scattered all over the place. I usually get about 10 to 12
hours.

 George

 Marlon K. Schafer wrote:
  Yeah.  But they don't last forever.
 
  I've also found that they drain faster than they charge too.
 
  Right now I have rolling power outages in at least 4 towns spread out by
a
  good 80 miles via road.  The power is on, then off then on then off.
It's
  not like I can just got to town A and fire up a generator.
 
  Plus, these towns combine for a total of 11 sites!  I don't have that
many
  generators.
 
  Wanna know the funny part?  In Wilbur, ATT's cell tower has been down
more
  than I have!  grin
 
  People still had phone service most of the time.  One of the cell phone
  companies stayed up.  If there was NO communications infrastructure in
place
  I'd have worked harder to keep things running.  Without help and a lot
more
  generators/gas cans it just wasn't possible though.
 
  The weather is supposed to break today or tomorrow.   I don't know how
long
  it'll take to clean up all of the broken limbs etc. though.
 
  laters,
  marlon
 
  - Original Message - 
  From: George Rogato wi...@oregonfast.net
  To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
  Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:22 PM
  Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!
 
 
  Don't you have battery back ups?
 
 
  Marlon K. Schafer wrote:
  Looks pretty normal around here.  But some of our towers are offline
  again
  due to all of the power outages.
  marlon
 
  - Original Message - 
  From: Eric Tykwinski eric-l...@truenet.com
  To: 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org
  Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:52 AM
  Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!
 
 
  Everyone on NANOG has been saying the same.  We're actually seeing
close
  to
  triple on downloading today, starting about 9AM EST.
  Thankfully no issues on capacity at all on our end...
 
  I'm actually surprised the sites serving the videos aren't having any
  issues
  yet.
 
  -Original Message-
  From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org]
On
  Behalf Of David E. Smith
  Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 12:46 PM
  To: WISPA General List
  Subject: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!
 
  Not really, but is everyone else seeing lots of extra traffic from
  people
  streaming inauguration-related events in DC? My network is pulling
  basically
  double the traffic of a normal Tuesday.
 
  (There's a lesson about capacity planning in here somewhere...)
 
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  MVN.net
 
 
 

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Re: [WISPA] Microtik Remote Weirdness

2009-01-21 Thread eje
Consider the volume we sell I will have to disagree. We see no more RMA rate 
now then a year or two ago and in fact less then some manufacturers estimate 
about 1 to 2% rma rate. 

Consider how they grown and managed to get price down I'm surprised its not 
more/higher. 

/Eje 
Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile

-Original Message-
From: Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.com

Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:19:48 
To: WISPA General Listwireless@wispa.org
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Microtik Remote Weirdness


 Moreover, I suspect the overall quality of Mikrotik hardware is not very
good and it's getting even worse.

To begin with they're not the best by they are far from not very good in
my opinion.  As far as progression, though, they have majorly improved.  The
RB4xx series is BY FAR superior to the RB1xx and RB5xx boards.  I think the
532s were absolute junk, while the 1xx were decent.  The 4xx has been
flawless in my area.  I have had no DOAs and only one hit by lightning.  No
random failures!

Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
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Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373

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On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Paolo Di Francesco 
difrance...@teleinform.com wrote:

 Hi Forbes,

 good news and bad news. Let me start with the good news.

 You are not alone!

 The bad news is the same of the good news, lately, we are having a lot
 of problems on the ethernet. It looks like the ethernet port has a lower
 speed (like 200Kbps) or that you cannot even log in it. Does it sound
 familiar to you?

 On some site, it can be some EM field close to you. That's why when you
 try it in your lab everything works magically. You are out of that EM
 field, and the interference is gone. Even using shielded cable does not
 help, because it could attenuate the effect not fix at 100%. Moreover it
 depends if the shield is grounded to the metallic shell of the box, etc.

 Moreover, I suspect the overall quality of Mikrotik hardware is not very
 good and it's getting even worse.

 Suggestions:

 1) try shielded cable
 2) try some ferrule on the shielded cable
 3) test electrical continuity of the circuit from the cable plug on one
 side to the box (other side)
 4) change power supply
 5) if you are using an inject/splitter, change it

 Let us know!

 Thank you.


  We have a tower with a single radio operating on it.  We were using a
  Microtik 133 board with a single Prizim chipset in it.  One day it
  stopped responding to requests through the network using Winbox.  No
  customers were down so we assumed it was running bandwidth (too much
  snow to travel up there).  One night about 7 PM we started getting tower
  down calls, of course we hadn't been able to ping or get into it for
  weeks so we had no idea.
 
  Took a back-up 433AH board up and used the same radio card, worked like
  a charm for both our access and customer throughput.  We didn't want to
  waste a three port/LAN board so ordered a 433a single port board.  Once
  it arrived we logged into it by MAC in the office with no problem,
  programmed it and sent it up to the tower.  Once on the tower customers
  associated just fine but once again we couldn't access the management
  side.  We saw the MAC and the identity for it but we couldn't ping that
  IP (yes, the 433AH radio was unplugged) and trying to load by MAC would
  start the RouterOS download but at various places it would crash.
 
  Moved the 433A down to the hut and a laptop easily logged into it, even
  when plugged into the switch, but we still couldn't log into it from
  remote, although the laptop on scene was going through the same switch
  and by MAC just like we were trying, sigh.  OK we put the 433AH back in
  service and again everything worked great.  I'm stumped, we isolated the
  switch, Cat 5, and IP Address but those two single cards won't allow us
  to log in over using Winbox either by IP or by MAC while it allows it
  locally.   *banging head against the wall.  Any ideas?
 
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Re: [WISPA] Microtik Remote Weirdness

2009-01-21 Thread Josh Luthman
Who RMAs a $100 board???

On 1/21/09, e...@wisp-router.com e...@wisp-router.com wrote:
 Consider the volume we sell I will have to disagree. We see no more RMA rate
 now then a year or two ago and in fact less then some manufacturers estimate
 about 1 to 2% rma rate.

 Consider how they grown and managed to get price down I'm surprised its not
 more/higher.

 /Eje
 Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile

 -Original Message-
 From: Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.com

 Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:19:48
 To: WISPA General Listwireless@wispa.org
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] Microtik Remote Weirdness


  Moreover, I suspect the overall quality of Mikrotik hardware is not very
 good and it's getting even worse.

To begin with they're not the best by they are far from not very good in
 my opinion.  As far as progression, though, they have majorly improved.  The
 RB4xx series is BY FAR superior to the RB1xx and RB5xx boards.  I think the
 532s were absolute junk, while the 1xx were decent.  The 4xx has been
 flawless in my area.  I have had no DOAs and only one hit by lightning.  No
 random failures!

 Josh Luthman
 Office: 937-552-2340
 Direct: 937-552-2343
 1100 Wayne St
 Suite 1337
 Troy, OH 45373

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 --- Henry Spencer


 On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Paolo Di Francesco 
 difrance...@teleinform.com wrote:

 Hi Forbes,

 good news and bad news. Let me start with the good news.

 You are not alone!

 The bad news is the same of the good news, lately, we are having a lot
 of problems on the ethernet. It looks like the ethernet port has a lower
 speed (like 200Kbps) or that you cannot even log in it. Does it sound
 familiar to you?

 On some site, it can be some EM field close to you. That's why when you
 try it in your lab everything works magically. You are out of that EM
 field, and the interference is gone. Even using shielded cable does not
 help, because it could attenuate the effect not fix at 100%. Moreover it
 depends if the shield is grounded to the metallic shell of the box, etc.

 Moreover, I suspect the overall quality of Mikrotik hardware is not very
 good and it's getting even worse.

 Suggestions:

 1) try shielded cable
 2) try some ferrule on the shielded cable
 3) test electrical continuity of the circuit from the cable plug on one
 side to the box (other side)
 4) change power supply
 5) if you are using an inject/splitter, change it

 Let us know!

 Thank you.


  We have a tower with a single radio operating on it.  We were using a
  Microtik 133 board with a single Prizim chipset in it.  One day it
  stopped responding to requests through the network using Winbox.  No
  customers were down so we assumed it was running bandwidth (too much
  snow to travel up there).  One night about 7 PM we started getting tower
  down calls, of course we hadn't been able to ping or get into it for
  weeks so we had no idea.
 
  Took a back-up 433AH board up and used the same radio card, worked like
  a charm for both our access and customer throughput.  We didn't want to
  waste a three port/LAN board so ordered a 433a single port board.  Once
  it arrived we logged into it by MAC in the office with no problem,
  programmed it and sent it up to the tower.  Once on the tower customers
  associated just fine but once again we couldn't access the management
  side.  We saw the MAC and the identity for it but we couldn't ping that
  IP (yes, the 433AH radio was unplugged) and trying to load by MAC would
  start the RouterOS download but at various places it would crash.
 
  Moved the 433A down to the hut and a laptop easily logged into it, even
  when plugged into the switch, but we still couldn't log into it from
  remote, although the laptop on scene was going through the same switch
  and by MAC just like we were trying, sigh.  OK we put the 433AH back in
  service and again everything worked great.  I'm stumped, we isolated the
  switch, Cat 5, and IP Address but those two single cards won't allow us
  to log in over using Winbox either by IP or by MAC while it allows it
  locally.   *banging head against the wall.  Any ideas?
 
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Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!

2009-01-21 Thread Nathan Stooke
Hello,

We do the same thing.  Some with 1 battery and other with 4.

No more generators!!  We had our fun with them a few years back.
Had 7 of them running our towers.  Got great praise from our customers for
keep them network running for 4 days in ice, but killed us filling up gas
cans all the time.  No site was down for more then 24, but we had sites
going down all over the place for 4 days.

-Original Message-
From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
Behalf Of jp
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 10:36 AM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!

I like the tripplite APS 700hf/750/1250 gear.

We've got sites with 2 big batteries that should be good for 24 hours 
with these.

I put one at my house after going through 2 APC UPSs in 8 years.

We put them everywhere we need long run time, and add batteries for 
places where it's impractical to take a generator. 

I don't mind freely recommending them. My competition has already seen 
how well they work at a mountaintop site where we are both located and 
has since followed that route in the interest of long runtime.

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 07:07:19AM -0800, Marlon K. Schafer wrote:
 Yeah.  But they don't last forever.
 
 I've also found that they drain faster than they charge too.
 
 Right now I have rolling power outages in at least 4 towns spread out by a

 good 80 miles via road.  The power is on, then off then on then off.  It's

 not like I can just got to town A and fire up a generator.
 
 Plus, these towns combine for a total of 11 sites!  I don't have that many

 generators.
 
 Wanna know the funny part?  In Wilbur, ATT's cell tower has been down
more 
 than I have!  grin
 
 People still had phone service most of the time.  One of the cell phone 
 companies stayed up.  If there was NO communications infrastructure in
place 
 I'd have worked harder to keep things running.  Without help and a lot
more 
 generators/gas cans it just wasn't possible though.
 
 The weather is supposed to break today or tomorrow.   I don't know how
long 
 it'll take to clean up all of the broken limbs etc. though.
 
 laters,
 marlon
 
 - Original Message - 
 From: George Rogato wi...@oregonfast.net
 To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
 Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:22 PM
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!
 
 
  Don't you have battery back ups?
 
 
  Marlon K. Schafer wrote:
  Looks pretty normal around here.  But some of our towers are offline 
  again
  due to all of the power outages.
  marlon
 
  - Original Message - 
  From: Eric Tykwinski eric-l...@truenet.com
  To: 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org
  Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:52 AM
  Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!
 
 
  Everyone on NANOG has been saying the same.  We're actually seeing
close
  to
  triple on downloading today, starting about 9AM EST.
  Thankfully no issues on capacity at all on our end...
 
  I'm actually surprised the sites serving the videos aren't having any
  issues
  yet.
 
  -Original Message-
  From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org]
On
  Behalf Of David E. Smith
  Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 12:46 PM
  To: WISPA General List
  Subject: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!
 
  Not really, but is everyone else seeing lots of extra traffic from 
  people
  streaming inauguration-related events in DC? My network is pulling
  basically
  double the traffic of a normal Tuesday.
 
  (There's a lesson about capacity planning in here somewhere...)
 
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Re: [WISPA] Microtik Remote Weirdness

2009-01-21 Thread Paolo Di Francesco
Hi Josh,

to be honest the 4xx are giving us problems. We have a lot of boards
with strange behaviors, I have a desk full of suspected of...,
probably does not do this or that.

I cannot tell you if the 5xx (e.g. 532) series were worse. We still have
some 532/532A installed with 2.9.x and they work great, I admit the same
is not for the 333/4xx series.
Maybe it's because the number of nodes in our network has grown
considerably and they are new boards.

Just to tell you the one that we had today:

- the 333/433 board looks burned with a +24V power supply, but it was
working nicely with +18VDC. Same board family and same power supply
family working in other sites
- the 333/433 has ethernet problems with +24 but it works nicely with
+18VDC. Don't ask me why...

However, it surprised me to read about this:

http://forum.routerboard.com/viewtopic.php?f=3t=3868

Now, do you think that I will go up on the tower to open the box and see
what is the capacitor on the board?

Another thing is that I still don't understand why the power supply is
not 48VDC as most of the telco world. It would have simplified many
things but the most irritating is that we have to keep different power
supplies accordingly to different board series. Fortunately lately this
has more or less changed.

I will not talk about the software issues, it's too easy to talk about
the bugs. Every release has new undiscovered bugs of the previous one.

Honestly I would have preferred less features and more stability, but
it's their choice.

Just my 2EuroCents.

P.S. I did not yet send the boards back to mikrotik, I don't have time
for that, maybe in the near future.

  Moreover, I suspect the overall quality of Mikrotik hardware is not very
 good and it's getting even worse.
 
 To begin with they're not the best by they are far from not very good in
 my opinion.  As far as progression, though, they have majorly improved.  The
 RB4xx series is BY FAR superior to the RB1xx and RB5xx boards.  I think the
 532s were absolute junk, while the 1xx were decent.  The 4xx has been
 flawless in my area.  I have had no DOAs and only one hit by lightning.  No
 random failures!
 
 Josh Luthman
 Office: 937-552-2340
 Direct: 937-552-2343
 1100 Wayne St
 Suite 1337
 Troy, OH 45373
 
 Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
 --- Henry Spencer
 
 
 On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Paolo Di Francesco 
 difrance...@teleinform.com wrote:
 
 Hi Forbes,

 good news and bad news. Let me start with the good news.

 You are not alone!

 The bad news is the same of the good news, lately, we are having a lot
 of problems on the ethernet. It looks like the ethernet port has a lower
 speed (like 200Kbps) or that you cannot even log in it. Does it sound
 familiar to you?

 On some site, it can be some EM field close to you. That's why when you
 try it in your lab everything works magically. You are out of that EM
 field, and the interference is gone. Even using shielded cable does not
 help, because it could attenuate the effect not fix at 100%. Moreover it
 depends if the shield is grounded to the metallic shell of the box, etc.

 Moreover, I suspect the overall quality of Mikrotik hardware is not very
 good and it's getting even worse.

 Suggestions:

 1) try shielded cable
 2) try some ferrule on the shielded cable
 3) test electrical continuity of the circuit from the cable plug on one
 side to the box (other side)
 4) change power supply
 5) if you are using an inject/splitter, change it

 Let us know!

 Thank you.


 We have a tower with a single radio operating on it.  We were using a
 Microtik 133 board with a single Prizim chipset in it.  One day it
 stopped responding to requests through the network using Winbox.  No
 customers were down so we assumed it was running bandwidth (too much
 snow to travel up there).  One night about 7 PM we started getting tower
 down calls, of course we hadn't been able to ping or get into it for
 weeks so we had no idea.

 Took a back-up 433AH board up and used the same radio card, worked like
 a charm for both our access and customer throughput.  We didn't want to
 waste a three port/LAN board so ordered a 433a single port board.  Once
 it arrived we logged into it by MAC in the office with no problem,
 programmed it and sent it up to the tower.  Once on the tower customers
 associated just fine but once again we couldn't access the management
 side.  We saw the MAC and the identity for it but we couldn't ping that
 IP (yes, the 433AH radio was unplugged) and trying to load by MAC would
 start the RouterOS download but at various places it would crash.

 Moved the 433A down to the hut and a laptop easily logged into it, even
 when plugged into the switch, but we still couldn't log into it from
 remote, although the laptop on scene was going through the same switch
 and by MAC just like we were trying, sigh.  OK we put the 433AH back in
 service and again everything worked great.  I'm stumped, we isolated 

Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!

2009-01-21 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
Yeah, those are cool.

Inverters have a high price power wise though.

I do a free hotspot for a large desert race every year.  With an inverter I 
can run the system for about a day, maybe a little more, on a good marine 
battery.  When I run direct to the devices with 12vdc I can run an easy 2 
days on the same battery.

I just found a cool device from Inscape Data.  They have a 5 power poe 
switch that will also auto boot.  You can set each port to 12, 24 or 48 
volt!  No poe units, no power bricks, no lighting arrestors etc.  All of 
that is in one box.  I'm still trying to find out if it'll run off of 12 or 
24vdc instead of 110ac.

At $600 per unit it's a bit spendy but I'd get rid of the ups units, 
lightning arrestors, switch and whatnot at the towers.  I might look into 
this for a couple of the bigger/more important sites.

laters,
marlon

- Original Message - 
From: os10ru...@gmail.com
To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 7:38 AM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!


 You could use a real inverter which has a higher capacity charger
 built in (much faster recovery time). Another advantage of an inverter
 is the batteries are sold separately so you can size them accordingly.
 You could have much longer run time on the batteries. Though having
 lead acid batteries on site might be an issue and large gelled cell
 batteries are expensive. Maybe it wouldn't be cost effective to use
 such a system for the rare power outage.

 This little unit delivers 1000 watts continuous (3000 watts surge) and
 has a 50 amp battery charger. 
 http://www.xantrex.com/web/id/55/p/1/pt/9/product.asp

 Greg

 On Jan 21, 2009, at 10:29 AM, Josh Luthman wrote:

 Batteries won't last more then a few hours.  Our NOC uses 300 watts
 and we have a 2200va UP - about 1h 15h run time until generators come
 into play.

 On 1/21/09, George Rogato wi...@oregonfast.net wrote:
 Don't you have battery back ups?


 Marlon K. Schafer wrote:
 Looks pretty normal around here.  But some of our towers are
 offline again

 due to all of the power outages.
 marlon

 - Original Message -
 From: Eric Tykwinski eric-l...@truenet.com
 To: 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org
 Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:52 AM
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!


 Everyone on NANOG has been saying the same.  We're actually
 seeing close
 to
 triple on downloading today, starting about 9AM EST.
 Thankfully no issues on capacity at all on our end...

 I'm actually surprised the sites serving the videos aren't having
 any
 issues
 yet.

 -Original Message-
 From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-
 boun...@wispa.org] On
 Behalf Of David E. Smith
 Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 12:46 PM
 To: WISPA General List
 Subject: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!

 Not really, but is everyone else seeing lots of extra traffic
 from people
 streaming inauguration-related events in DC? My network is pulling
 basically
 double the traffic of a normal Tuesday.

 (There's a lesson about capacity planning in here somewhere...)

 David Smith
 MVN.net



 
 
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Re: [WISPA] The best Power Supplies/UPS are...

2009-01-21 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
I've been thinking about running regular batteries with inverters for quite 
a while.  I'd run a separate battery charger for them (totally isolating the 
power to the devices from the grid) though.  No combo units.

I still might do that.

I'm also thinking of getting some of those 12vdc computer power supplies and 
running my servers off of marine batteries.  Might get one just to install 
it in a machine and see how long it'll run that way.

marlon

- Original Message - 
From: Paolo Di Francesco difrance...@teleinform.com
To: 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 8:00 AM
Subject: [WISPA] The best Power Supplies/UPS are...


 Hi All,

 I was wondering what is the best power supply/UPS that you have in your
 sites.
 I am talking about something that can accept from 50AC to 300AC, and
 convert it to a -48DC or something like that.

 I know that my request can sound strange, and everybody is wondering
 why don't you use APC/HP/whatever in your site?. The reason is that
 sites are not like data centers where things are very easy...

 Our national power company has the bad habit to send the wrong voltage,
 therefore I was thinking to see around if there is something from
 almost any decent INPUT can generate a DC or AC. Possibly with an
 input protection from over voltage, short cut, whatever.

 Obviously the more features it has, the better it is. For example if it
 has smnp, remote power management (on/off, programmable, etc.) would be
 nice. I think HP has this type of feature.
 At the moment we are using something which is not so bad, it is
 monitored (smnp) via a linux box, but we cannot reset-cycle the output
 and this is a BAD thing.


 Thank you in advance for your precious suggestions.


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Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!

2009-01-21 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
I wondered about just swapping out the batteries on my APC units and instead 
hooking the units to bigger batteries.  My fear is that the chargers won't 
hold up to long charge times that would be needed for a big marine battery 
instead of a little exit light battery

Thoughts?  Anyone already tried this?
marlon

- Original Message - 
From: jp j...@saucer.midcoast.com
To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 8:36 AM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!


I like the tripplite APS 700hf/750/1250 gear.

 We've got sites with 2 big batteries that should be good for 24 hours
 with these.

 I put one at my house after going through 2 APC UPSs in 8 years.

 We put them everywhere we need long run time, and add batteries for
 places where it's impractical to take a generator.

 I don't mind freely recommending them. My competition has already seen
 how well they work at a mountaintop site where we are both located and
 has since followed that route in the interest of long runtime.

 On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 07:07:19AM -0800, Marlon K. Schafer wrote:
 Yeah.  But they don't last forever.

 I've also found that they drain faster than they charge too.

 Right now I have rolling power outages in at least 4 towns spread out by 
 a
 good 80 miles via road.  The power is on, then off then on then off. 
 It's
 not like I can just got to town A and fire up a generator.

 Plus, these towns combine for a total of 11 sites!  I don't have that 
 many
 generators.

 Wanna know the funny part?  In Wilbur, ATT's cell tower has been down 
 more
 than I have!  grin

 People still had phone service most of the time.  One of the cell phone
 companies stayed up.  If there was NO communications infrastructure in 
 place
 I'd have worked harder to keep things running.  Without help and a lot 
 more
 generators/gas cans it just wasn't possible though.

 The weather is supposed to break today or tomorrow.   I don't know how 
 long
 it'll take to clean up all of the broken limbs etc. though.

 laters,
 marlon

 - Original Message - 
 From: George Rogato wi...@oregonfast.net
 To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
 Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:22 PM
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!


  Don't you have battery back ups?
 
 
  Marlon K. Schafer wrote:
  Looks pretty normal around here.  But some of our towers are offline
  again
  due to all of the power outages.
  marlon
 
  - Original Message - 
  From: Eric Tykwinski eric-l...@truenet.com
  To: 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org
  Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:52 AM
  Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!
 
 
  Everyone on NANOG has been saying the same.  We're actually seeing 
  close
  to
  triple on downloading today, starting about 9AM EST.
  Thankfully no issues on capacity at all on our end...
 
  I'm actually surprised the sites serving the videos aren't having any
  issues
  yet.
 
  -Original Message-
  From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] 
  On
  Behalf Of David E. Smith
  Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 12:46 PM
  To: WISPA General List
  Subject: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!
 
  Not really, but is everyone else seeing lots of extra traffic from
  people
  streaming inauguration-related events in DC? My network is pulling
  basically
  double the traffic of a normal Tuesday.
 
  (There's a lesson about capacity planning in here somewhere...)
 
  David Smith
  MVN.net
 
 
 
  
  
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Re: [WISPA] Microtik Remote Weirdness

2009-01-21 Thread Josh Luthman
The 333 board sucked.  That simple.

I have dozens of customers with RB411 CPEs and our power is pretty good -
never had to reboot the CPE for the last 6 months (we started deploying them
6 months ago).  The 133 did have that power problem and I saw it many times,
however, a $50 UPS can fix that.  Not to mention if someone has a PC they
should have one already...

Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373

Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
--- Henry Spencer


On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Paolo Di Francesco 
difrance...@teleinform.com wrote:

 Hi Josh,

 to be honest the 4xx are giving us problems. We have a lot of boards
 with strange behaviors, I have a desk full of suspected of...,
 probably does not do this or that.

 I cannot tell you if the 5xx (e.g. 532) series were worse. We still have
 some 532/532A installed with 2.9.x and they work great, I admit the same
 is not for the 333/4xx series.
 Maybe it's because the number of nodes in our network has grown
 considerably and they are new boards.

 Just to tell you the one that we had today:

 - the 333/433 board looks burned with a +24V power supply, but it was
 working nicely with +18VDC. Same board family and same power supply
 family working in other sites
 - the 333/433 has ethernet problems with +24 but it works nicely with
 +18VDC. Don't ask me why...

 However, it surprised me to read about this:

 http://forum.routerboard.com/viewtopic.php?f=3t=3868

 Now, do you think that I will go up on the tower to open the box and see
 what is the capacitor on the board?

 Another thing is that I still don't understand why the power supply is
 not 48VDC as most of the telco world. It would have simplified many
 things but the most irritating is that we have to keep different power
 supplies accordingly to different board series. Fortunately lately this
 has more or less changed.

 I will not talk about the software issues, it's too easy to talk about
 the bugs. Every release has new undiscovered bugs of the previous one.

 Honestly I would have preferred less features and more stability, but
 it's their choice.

 Just my 2EuroCents.

 P.S. I did not yet send the boards back to mikrotik, I don't have time
 for that, maybe in the near future.

   Moreover, I suspect the overall quality of Mikrotik hardware is not very
  good and it's getting even worse.
 
  To begin with they're not the best by they are far from not very good
 in
  my opinion.  As far as progression, though, they have majorly improved.
  The
  RB4xx series is BY FAR superior to the RB1xx and RB5xx boards.  I think
 the
  532s were absolute junk, while the 1xx were decent.  The 4xx has been
  flawless in my area.  I have had no DOAs and only one hit by lightning.
  No
  random failures!
 
  Josh Luthman
  Office: 937-552-2340
  Direct: 937-552-2343
  1100 Wayne St
  Suite 1337
  Troy, OH 45373
 
  Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
  --- Henry Spencer
 
 
  On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Paolo Di Francesco 
  difrance...@teleinform.com wrote:
 
  Hi Forbes,
 
  good news and bad news. Let me start with the good news.
 
  You are not alone!
 
  The bad news is the same of the good news, lately, we are having a lot
  of problems on the ethernet. It looks like the ethernet port has a lower
  speed (like 200Kbps) or that you cannot even log in it. Does it sound
  familiar to you?
 
  On some site, it can be some EM field close to you. That's why when you
  try it in your lab everything works magically. You are out of that EM
  field, and the interference is gone. Even using shielded cable does not
  help, because it could attenuate the effect not fix at 100%. Moreover it
  depends if the shield is grounded to the metallic shell of the box, etc.
 
  Moreover, I suspect the overall quality of Mikrotik hardware is not very
  good and it's getting even worse.
 
  Suggestions:
 
  1) try shielded cable
  2) try some ferrule on the shielded cable
  3) test electrical continuity of the circuit from the cable plug on one
  side to the box (other side)
  4) change power supply
  5) if you are using an inject/splitter, change it
 
  Let us know!
 
  Thank you.
 
 
  We have a tower with a single radio operating on it.  We were using a
  Microtik 133 board with a single Prizim chipset in it.  One day it
  stopped responding to requests through the network using Winbox.  No
  customers were down so we assumed it was running bandwidth (too much
  snow to travel up there).  One night about 7 PM we started getting
 tower
  down calls, of course we hadn't been able to ping or get into it for
  weeks so we had no idea.
 
  Took a back-up 433AH board up and used the same radio card, worked like
  a charm for both our access and customer throughput.  We didn't want to
  waste a three port/LAN board so ordered a 433a single port board.  Once
  it arrived we logged into it by MAC in the 

Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!

2009-01-21 Thread Tom DeReggi
Mark,

 APC SU700NET UPS

We currenly have been using Triplite inverters that do about 3500watt with 
48V battery chains, for years. They work great, but all these units put out 
pulse modulated wave (modified sine wave) and do not provide smart remote 
monitoring via SNMP or WEB cards. As you know, if doing modified sine wave, 
you can not put after it another smart UPS, as it would detect the 
Pulse-modulated wave as a corrupt signal, noise, or disrupted power, 
triggering frequent switching to battery of the second inline UPS.  Where 
this was an issue was if we served a rack, and one of our colocated clients, 
wanted to insert a small smart UPS to to monitor their power, and prevent 
against any mainteance outages that we might have with our battery testing 
or replacements.

We were thinking of using a small 1U smart UPS, and removing the batteries, 
and installing to extermnal only batteries, as you suggested that you had 
done.

However, there are concerns on whether these smaller units have adequate 
charging circuits to handle larger load of long run time battery chains. 
For racks, pbviously a high enough wattage/VA unit would be needed.

Have you run into any limits of how many batteries you can connect, before 
overloading its charging circuits?

Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL  Wireless, Inc
IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband


- Original Message - 
From: Mark Nash markl...@uwol.net
To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 12:39 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!


I have several APC SU700NET UPS systems in place that we've taken out the
 internal batteries and put in marine batteries on the floor.  Depending on
 what equipment it's powering, you can get 18-36 hours out of 2 batteries.
 We also install a AP9617 SNMP card, that emails us of power events.  We 
 were
 having power sags on one mountain top.  We tried telling the site owner
 (Charter Cable) that they were having a problem.  We got told we're 
 looking
 into it for months, until I put THAT guy's email address in the SNMP card
 notification list.  Then, with the system nagging HIM as well, we got some
 action.

 Mark Nash
 UnwiredWest
 78 Centennial Loop
 Suite E
 Eugene, OR 97401
 541-998-
 541-998-5599 fax
 http://www.unwiredwest.com
 - Original Message - 
 From: George Rogato wi...@oregonfast.net
 To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
 Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 9:28 AM
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!


 You can buy inexpensive ups and use them.
 It's pretty windy here on the Oregon Coast, trees are always blowing
 over or limbs falling, so flickering lights is not uncommon. Not every
 power outage last for 10 hours.
 Most happen for a couple of hours. Or the lights flicker. Lights
 flickering is worse to me than the outage, especially when it's some
 wild voltage spike. Can't be good for our equipment.

 Marlon, some guys say they buy an inexpensive apc ups off ebay and hook
 them up to $100.00+ deep cell batteries.
 I have a few 3,000 watt offbrand ups that cost me about 350.00 or so. I
 have them scattered all over the place. I usually get about 10 to 12
 hours.

 George

 Marlon K. Schafer wrote:
  Yeah.  But they don't last forever.
 
  I've also found that they drain faster than they charge too.
 
  Right now I have rolling power outages in at least 4 towns spread out 
  by
 a
  good 80 miles via road.  The power is on, then off then on then off.
 It's
  not like I can just got to town A and fire up a generator.
 
  Plus, these towns combine for a total of 11 sites!  I don't have that
 many
  generators.
 
  Wanna know the funny part?  In Wilbur, ATT's cell tower has been down
 more
  than I have!  grin
 
  People still had phone service most of the time.  One of the cell phone
  companies stayed up.  If there was NO communications infrastructure in
 place
  I'd have worked harder to keep things running.  Without help and a lot
 more
  generators/gas cans it just wasn't possible though.
 
  The weather is supposed to break today or tomorrow.   I don't know how
 long
  it'll take to clean up all of the broken limbs etc. though.
 
  laters,
  marlon
 
  - Original Message - 
  From: George Rogato wi...@oregonfast.net
  To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
  Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:22 PM
  Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!
 
 
  Don't you have battery back ups?
 
 
  Marlon K. Schafer wrote:
  Looks pretty normal around here.  But some of our towers are offline
  again
  due to all of the power outages.
  marlon
 
  - Original Message - 
  From: Eric Tykwinski eric-l...@truenet.com
  To: 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org
  Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:52 AM
  Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!
 
 
  Everyone on NANOG has been saying the same.  We're actually seeing
 close
  to
  triple on downloading today, starting about 9AM EST.
  Thankfully no issues on capacity at all on 

Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!

2009-01-21 Thread Patrick Shoemaker
Use the APC Smart-UPS XL series. They have an external battery connector 
and a charger designed to handle large external battery banks. You can 
also update the configuration value for the capacity of the external 
battery packs so that the UPS runtime calculation (for SNMP/email 
alerts) is correct.

The external connector is a standard anderson DC power connector.

Patrick Shoemaker
Vector Data Systems LLC
shoemak...@vectordatasystems.com
office: (301) 358-1690 x36
http://www.vectordatasystems.com


Tom DeReggi wrote:
 Mark,
 
 APC SU700NET UPS
 
 We currenly have been using Triplite inverters that do about 3500watt with 
 48V battery chains, for years. They work great, but all these units put out 
 pulse modulated wave (modified sine wave) and do not provide smart remote 
 monitoring via SNMP or WEB cards. As you know, if doing modified sine wave, 
 you can not put after it another smart UPS, as it would detect the 
 Pulse-modulated wave as a corrupt signal, noise, or disrupted power, 
 triggering frequent switching to battery of the second inline UPS.  Where 
 this was an issue was if we served a rack, and one of our colocated clients, 
 wanted to insert a small smart UPS to to monitor their power, and prevent 
 against any mainteance outages that we might have with our battery testing 
 or replacements.
 
 We were thinking of using a small 1U smart UPS, and removing the batteries, 
 and installing to extermnal only batteries, as you suggested that you had 
 done.
 
 However, there are concerns on whether these smaller units have adequate 
 charging circuits to handle larger load of long run time battery chains. 
 For racks, pbviously a high enough wattage/VA unit would be needed.
 
 Have you run into any limits of how many batteries you can connect, before 
 overloading its charging circuits?
 
 Tom DeReggi
 RapidDSL  Wireless, Inc
 IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband
 
 
 - Original Message - 
 From: Mark Nash markl...@uwol.net
 To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
 Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 12:39 PM
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!
 
 
 I have several APC SU700NET UPS systems in place that we've taken out the
 internal batteries and put in marine batteries on the floor.  Depending on
 what equipment it's powering, you can get 18-36 hours out of 2 batteries.
 We also install a AP9617 SNMP card, that emails us of power events.  We 
 were
 having power sags on one mountain top.  We tried telling the site owner
 (Charter Cable) that they were having a problem.  We got told we're 
 looking
 into it for months, until I put THAT guy's email address in the SNMP card
 notification list.  Then, with the system nagging HIM as well, we got some
 action.

 Mark Nash
 UnwiredWest
 78 Centennial Loop
 Suite E
 Eugene, OR 97401
 541-998-
 541-998-5599 fax
 http://www.unwiredwest.com
 - Original Message - 
 From: George Rogato wi...@oregonfast.net
 To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
 Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 9:28 AM
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!


 You can buy inexpensive ups and use them.
 It's pretty windy here on the Oregon Coast, trees are always blowing
 over or limbs falling, so flickering lights is not uncommon. Not every
 power outage last for 10 hours.
 Most happen for a couple of hours. Or the lights flicker. Lights
 flickering is worse to me than the outage, especially when it's some
 wild voltage spike. Can't be good for our equipment.

 Marlon, some guys say they buy an inexpensive apc ups off ebay and hook
 them up to $100.00+ deep cell batteries.
 I have a few 3,000 watt offbrand ups that cost me about 350.00 or so. I
 have them scattered all over the place. I usually get about 10 to 12
 hours.
 George

 Marlon K. Schafer wrote:
 Yeah.  But they don't last forever.

 I've also found that they drain faster than they charge too.

 Right now I have rolling power outages in at least 4 towns spread out 
 by
 a
 good 80 miles via road.  The power is on, then off then on then off.
 It's
 not like I can just got to town A and fire up a generator.

 Plus, these towns combine for a total of 11 sites!  I don't have that
 many
 generators.

 Wanna know the funny part?  In Wilbur, ATT's cell tower has been down
 more
 than I have!  grin

 People still had phone service most of the time.  One of the cell phone
 companies stayed up.  If there was NO communications infrastructure in
 place
 I'd have worked harder to keep things running.  Without help and a lot
 more
 generators/gas cans it just wasn't possible though.

 The weather is supposed to break today or tomorrow.   I don't know how
 long
 it'll take to clean up all of the broken limbs etc. though.

 laters,
 marlon

 - Original Message - 
 From: George Rogato wi...@oregonfast.net
 To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
 Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:22 PM
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!


 Don't you have battery back ups?


 Marlon K. Schafer 

Re: [WISPA] nanostation 5 and WDS question.

2009-01-21 Thread rabbtux rabbtux
Just upgraded software from 2.2.x to 3.3.1 and now all works!

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 8:14 AM, rabbtux rabbtux rabb...@gmail.com wrote:

 all,

 Working with my first NS5 and have run into a problem that is more due to
 my limited WDS experience, than the equipment itsellf.  When I set up the
 NS5 as a WDS client to one of my AP, then plugged a simple AP into the NS5
 to create a remote repeater.  Everything works fine, in that, my hotspot
 solution works fine through the simple AP.   Problem:  I can not contact the
 NS5 from the main AP, only from the simple AP (i.e thru NS5 ethernet).  Is
 this normal?  Would hate to deploy a few WDS clients, and then have no
 remote control.

 Thanks,
 Marshall




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Re: [WISPA] Microtik Remote Weirdness

2009-01-21 Thread Blair Davis




I do.

Josh Luthman wrote:

  Who RMAs a $100 board???

On 1/21/09, e...@wisp-router.com e...@wisp-router.com wrote:
  
  
Consider the volume we sell I will have to disagree. We see no more RMA rate
now then a year or two ago and in fact less then some manufacturers estimate
about 1 to 2% rma rate.

Consider how they grown and managed to get price down I'm surprised its not
more/higher.

/Eje
Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile

-Original Message-
From: Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.com

Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:19:48
To: WISPA General Listwireless@wispa.org
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Microtik Remote Weirdness


 Moreover, I suspect the overall quality of Mikrotik hardware is not very
good and it's getting even worse.



  
To begin with they're not the best by they are far from "not very good" in

  

my opinion.  As far as progression, though, they have majorly improved.  The
RB4xx series is BY FAR superior to the RB1xx and RB5xx boards.  I think the
532s were absolute junk, while the 1xx were decent.  The 4xx has been
flawless in my area.  I have had no DOAs and only one hit by lightning.  No
random failures!

Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373

Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
--- Henry Spencer


On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Paolo Di Francesco 
difrance...@teleinform.com wrote:



  Hi Forbes,

good news and bad news. Let me start with the good news.

You are not alone!

The bad news is the same of the good news, lately, we are having a lot
of problems on the ethernet. It looks like the ethernet port has a lower
speed (like 200Kbps) or that you cannot even log in it. Does it sound
familiar to you?

On some site, it can be some EM field close to you. That's why when you
try it in your lab everything works magically. You are out of that EM
field, and the interference is gone. Even using shielded cable does not
help, because it could attenuate the effect not fix at 100%. Moreover it
depends if the shield is grounded to the metallic shell of the box, etc.

Moreover, I suspect the overall quality of Mikrotik hardware is not very
good and it's getting even worse.

Suggestions:

1) try shielded cable
2) try some ferrule on the shielded cable
3) test electrical continuity of the circuit from the cable plug on one
side to the box (other side)
4) change power supply
5) if you are using an inject/splitter, change it

Let us know!

Thank you.


  
  
We have a tower with a single radio operating on it.  We were using a
Microtik 133 board with a single Prizim chipset in it.  One day it
stopped responding to requests through the network using Winbox.  No
customers were down so we assumed it was running bandwidth (too much
snow to travel up there).  One night about 7 PM we started getting tower
down calls, of course we hadn't been able to ping or get into it for
weeks so we had no idea.

Took a back-up 433AH board up and used the same radio card, worked like
a charm for both our access and customer throughput.  We didn't want to
waste a three port/LAN board so ordered a 433a single port board.  Once
it arrived we logged into it by MAC in the office with no problem,
programmed it and sent it up to the tower.  Once on the tower customers
associated just fine but once again we couldn't access the management
side.  We saw the MAC and the identity for it but we couldn't ping that
IP (yes, the 433AH radio was unplugged) and trying to load by MAC would
start the RouterOS download but at various places it would crash.

Moved the 433A down to the hut and a laptop easily logged into it, even
when plugged into the switch, but we still couldn't log into it from
remote, although the laptop on scene was going through the same switch
and by MAC just like we were trying, sigh.  OK we put the 433AH back in
service and again everything worked great.  I'm stumped, we isolated the
switch, Cat 5, and IP Address but those two single cards won't allow us
to log in over using Winbox either by IP or by MAC while it allows it
locally.   *banging head against the wall.  Any ideas?

Forbes




  
  
  
  
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Re: [WISPA] Microtik Remote Weirdness

2009-01-21 Thread Blair Davis




You are not alone!

I've use a 48VDC to 15VDC converter in my boxes. All my tower gear is
48VDC and staying that way.

Paolo Di Francesco wrote:

  
Another thing is that I still don't understand why the power supply is
not 48VDC as most of the telco world. It would have simplified many
things but the most irritating is that we have to keep different power
supplies accordingly to different board series. Fortunately lately this
has more or less changed.

  







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Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!

2009-01-21 Thread Tom DeReggi
Thats why we liked the triplite inverters. They had a 33amp charging circuit 
(required 40 amp breaker), and the charge voltage varied based on the type 
of battery.
This was my fear with using Smart Ups. They were designed for lead acid 
batteries, which have different characteristics than Gel batteries, or the 
other type (VLRA?).

One thing we didn't like about the Triplite Smart UP XL series at high VA, 
was they were deep as hech, to accommodate a lot of internal batteries.  I 
preferred a unit that had a shorter depth.  The Triplites also have 
different Voltage requirements for its batteries. I found one of the models 
that did support 48V.

Although I did not look into APC's XL series yet, as Patrick suggested.

Its tough getting the facts out of APC and trriplite, because oif course 
they all want to sell you theirown battery packs, which are way over priced 
by a factor of 6X minimum.


Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL  Wireless, Inc
IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband


- Original Message - 
From: jp j...@saucer.midcoast.com
To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 2:35 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!


 We were having trouble with the APC rackmount UPSs getting flaky, so
 that's why we went elsewhere. The 2U smartups tended to fail by
 overcharging the batteries causing them to bulge to the extent the
 batteries could not be removed except by complete disassembly of the
 UPS. We had 3-4 UPSs taken out of service for this reason. I had a 3U
 smartups start to pulse the output power and it killed a computer in the
 process, and I've had the 3u fail to take advantage of a new battery
 pack.

 That said, the APC units work mostly flawlessly within a datacenter with
 proper cooling. However, out in the field in cold barns, basements,
 outdoor cabinets or warm closets, they haven't been sufficiently reliable.

 The tripplites have different charging rates, the 700hf is 6amp, the 750
 is 20amp I think, the 1250 perhaps more. This lets me recharge quickly
 and be ready for another outage. If it's on generator power, it means
 the batteries can be fully recharged before we run out of gas.

 On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:49:15AM -0800, Marlon K. Schafer wrote:
 I wondered about just swapping out the batteries on my APC units and 
 instead
 hooking the units to bigger batteries.  My fear is that the chargers 
 won't
 hold up to long charge times that would be needed for a big marine 
 battery
 instead of a little exit light battery

 Thoughts?  Anyone already tried this?
 marlon

 - Original Message - 
 From: jp j...@saucer.midcoast.com
 To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
 Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 8:36 AM
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!


 I like the tripplite APS 700hf/750/1250 gear.
 
  We've got sites with 2 big batteries that should be good for 24 hours
  with these.
 
  I put one at my house after going through 2 APC UPSs in 8 years.
 
  We put them everywhere we need long run time, and add batteries for
  places where it's impractical to take a generator.
 
  I don't mind freely recommending them. My competition has already seen
  how well they work at a mountaintop site where we are both located and
  has since followed that route in the interest of long runtime.
 
  On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 07:07:19AM -0800, Marlon K. Schafer wrote:
  Yeah.  But they don't last forever.
 
  I've also found that they drain faster than they charge too.
 
  Right now I have rolling power outages in at least 4 towns spread out 
  by
  a
  good 80 miles via road.  The power is on, then off then on then off.
  It's
  not like I can just got to town A and fire up a generator.
 
  Plus, these towns combine for a total of 11 sites!  I don't have that
  many
  generators.
 
  Wanna know the funny part?  In Wilbur, ATT's cell tower has been down
  more
  than I have!  grin
 
  People still had phone service most of the time.  One of the cell 
  phone
  companies stayed up.  If there was NO communications infrastructure in
  place
  I'd have worked harder to keep things running.  Without help and a lot
  more
  generators/gas cans it just wasn't possible though.
 
  The weather is supposed to break today or tomorrow.   I don't know how
  long
  it'll take to clean up all of the broken limbs etc. though.
 
  laters,
  marlon
 
  - Original Message - 
  From: George Rogato wi...@oregonfast.net
  To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
  Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:22 PM
  Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!
 
 
   Don't you have battery back ups?
  
  
   Marlon K. Schafer wrote:
   Looks pretty normal around here.  But some of our towers are 
   offline
   again
   due to all of the power outages.
   marlon
  
   - Original Message - 
   From: Eric Tykwinski eric-l...@truenet.com
   To: 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org
   Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:52 AM
   Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being 

Re: [WISPA] Microtik Remote Weirdness

2009-01-21 Thread Tom DeReggi
What 48V to 15 V converters do you use?

Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL  Wireless, Inc
IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband


  - Original Message - 
  From: Blair Davis 
  To: WISPA General List 
  Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 5:54 PM
  Subject: Re: [WISPA] Microtik Remote Weirdness


  You are not alone!

  I've use a 48VDC to 15VDC converter in my boxes.  All my tower gear is 48VDC 
and staying that way.

  Paolo Di Francesco wrote: 
Another thing is that I still don't understand why the power supply is
not 48VDC as most of the telco world. It would have simplified many
things but the most irritating is that we have to keep different power
supplies accordingly to different board series. Fortunately lately this
has more or less changed.

  



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[WISPA] UBNT Bullet5 review...

2009-01-21 Thread reader
I deployed my first Bullet5 today.   Not the high power, but the standard.

throughput testing showed insignificant difference between my Star-OS/WAR1 
combo and the Bullet.   The AP shows that the Bullet has active compression 
and fast frames that functions with my star-os access point.

I have not tried the narrower channels to see if they're compatible with my 
star-os AP's.

They have been certified with up to 30 db antennas.

Summary...  1 bullet5,  1 pacwireless 25 db grid w/pigtail, 1 universal 
mount = very cheap 5 ghz cpe - about $130 - 140 complete.   Even nicer???

The bullet slides down INTO the universal mount pipe, becoming invisible 
after you mount and aim it.

 Just FYI...  The Bullet does NAT and has a DHCP server built in.   No need 
for a router, allows you to have a fully routed network.

Opinion I like them.







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Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!

2009-01-21 Thread can...@believewireless.net
Here's what we just started using:
APC Smart-UPS 1000 XL - $500
APC XL Ultra Battery Pack 24V - UXBP24 - $500
APC Management Card - $200

The downside to this is that it isn't a rackmount solution.  The external
battery pack is BIG as it houses four car battery-sized batteries.  These
are chainable too which is nice.

Based on a 300W load, here is the uptime you'll see with the battery packs:

SUA1000XL + (1)UXBP2411 hrs 57 minsSUA1000XL + (2)UXBP2424 hrs 31 minsSUA1000XL
+ (3)UXBP2435 hrs 43 minsSUA1000XL + (4)UXBP2446 hrs 55 mins

So, for $1,200 you'll get a UPS w/monitoring and nearly 12 hours of uptime.
 Drop in
another UXBP24 for every additional 12 hours of uptime you need.


On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Tom DeReggi wirelessn...@rapiddsl.netwrote:

 Thats why we liked the triplite inverters. They had a 33amp charging
 circuit
 (required 40 amp breaker), and the charge voltage varied based on the type
 of battery.
 This was my fear with using Smart Ups. They were designed for lead acid
 batteries, which have different characteristics than Gel batteries, or the
 other type (VLRA?).

 One thing we didn't like about the Triplite Smart UP XL series at high VA,
 was they were deep as hech, to accommodate a lot of internal batteries.  I
 preferred a unit that had a shorter depth.  The Triplites also have
 different Voltage requirements for its batteries. I found one of the models
 that did support 48V.

 Although I did not look into APC's XL series yet, as Patrick suggested.

 Its tough getting the facts out of APC and trriplite, because oif course
 they all want to sell you theirown battery packs, which are way over priced
 by a factor of 6X minimum.


 Tom DeReggi
 RapidDSL  Wireless, Inc
 IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband


 - Original Message -
 From: jp j...@saucer.midcoast.com
 To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
 Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 2:35 PM
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!


  We were having trouble with the APC rackmount UPSs getting flaky, so
  that's why we went elsewhere. The 2U smartups tended to fail by
  overcharging the batteries causing them to bulge to the extent the
  batteries could not be removed except by complete disassembly of the
  UPS. We had 3-4 UPSs taken out of service for this reason. I had a 3U
  smartups start to pulse the output power and it killed a computer in the
  process, and I've had the 3u fail to take advantage of a new battery
  pack.
 
  That said, the APC units work mostly flawlessly within a datacenter with
  proper cooling. However, out in the field in cold barns, basements,
  outdoor cabinets or warm closets, they haven't been sufficiently
 reliable.
 
  The tripplites have different charging rates, the 700hf is 6amp, the 750
  is 20amp I think, the 1250 perhaps more. This lets me recharge quickly
  and be ready for another outage. If it's on generator power, it means
  the batteries can be fully recharged before we run out of gas.
 
  On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:49:15AM -0800, Marlon K. Schafer wrote:
  I wondered about just swapping out the batteries on my APC units and
  instead
  hooking the units to bigger batteries.  My fear is that the chargers
  won't
  hold up to long charge times that would be needed for a big marine
  battery
  instead of a little exit light battery
 
  Thoughts?  Anyone already tried this?
  marlon
 
  - Original Message -
  From: jp j...@saucer.midcoast.com
  To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
  Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 8:36 AM
  Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!
 
 
  I like the tripplite APS 700hf/750/1250 gear.
  
   We've got sites with 2 big batteries that should be good for 24 hours
   with these.
  
   I put one at my house after going through 2 APC UPSs in 8 years.
  
   We put them everywhere we need long run time, and add batteries for
   places where it's impractical to take a generator.
  
   I don't mind freely recommending them. My competition has already seen
   how well they work at a mountaintop site where we are both located and
   has since followed that route in the interest of long runtime.
  
   On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 07:07:19AM -0800, Marlon K. Schafer wrote:
   Yeah.  But they don't last forever.
  
   I've also found that they drain faster than they charge too.
  
   Right now I have rolling power outages in at least 4 towns spread out
   by
   a
   good 80 miles via road.  The power is on, then off then on then off.
   It's
   not like I can just got to town A and fire up a generator.
  
   Plus, these towns combine for a total of 11 sites!  I don't have that
   many
   generators.
  
   Wanna know the funny part?  In Wilbur, ATT's cell tower has been
 down
   more
   than I have!  grin
  
   People still had phone service most of the time.  One of the cell
   phone
   companies stayed up.  If there was NO communications infrastructure
 in
   place
   I'd have worked harder to keep things running.  Without help and a
 

Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!

2009-01-21 Thread Tom DeReggi
Yep, thats a good solution for 300w load.

But we are looking for handling much larger loads.

We use the CD 150AH 12V batteries, which are about $330 each, which we 
usually stack  4 in series for 48V.

In theory our PC routers don't draw much current, for average basic 
operation, but they are powerful boxes that are spec'd with High watt power 
supplies.
(QUAD CPU). So 500W power supplies each.  Feasibly, we could imagine two of 
these PC routers.  If we had different routing policies or wanted 
redundancy.
Then if we add 4 or 5 Licensed Links, the Wattage grows significantly on 
these units compared to low power unlicensed radios.(forget exactly how 
much). Then another 10 or so unlicensed, but they'll only draw about 10 
watts. Then add a GB switch or two (100watts each).
We really want to handle atleast 2000watts per unit, and then want minimum 
of 12 hour run-time.

Do you know how many AmpHours (Ah) the APC XL Ultra Battery pack is spec'd 
at?

Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL  Wireless, Inc
IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband


- Original Message - 
From: can...@believewireless.net p...@believewireless.net
To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 7:14 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!


 Here's what we just started using:
 APC Smart-UPS 1000 XL - $500
 APC XL Ultra Battery Pack 24V - UXBP24 - $500
 APC Management Card - $200

 The downside to this is that it isn't a rackmount solution.  The external
 battery pack is BIG as it houses four car battery-sized batteries. 
 These
 are chainable too which is nice.

 Based on a 300W load, here is the uptime you'll see with the battery 
 packs:

 SUA1000XL + (1)UXBP2411 hrs 57 minsSUA1000XL + (2)UXBP2424 hrs 31 
 minsSUA1000XL
 + (3)UXBP2435 hrs 43 minsSUA1000XL + (4)UXBP2446 hrs 55 mins

 So, for $1,200 you'll get a UPS w/monitoring and nearly 12 hours of 
 uptime.
 Drop in
 another UXBP24 for every additional 12 hours of uptime you need.


 On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Tom DeReggi 
 wirelessn...@rapiddsl.netwrote:

 Thats why we liked the triplite inverters. They had a 33amp charging
 circuit
 (required 40 amp breaker), and the charge voltage varied based on the 
 type
 of battery.
 This was my fear with using Smart Ups. They were designed for lead acid
 batteries, which have different characteristics than Gel batteries, or 
 the
 other type (VLRA?).

 One thing we didn't like about the Triplite Smart UP XL series at high 
 VA,
 was they were deep as hech, to accommodate a lot of internal batteries. 
 I
 preferred a unit that had a shorter depth.  The Triplites also have
 different Voltage requirements for its batteries. I found one of the 
 models
 that did support 48V.

 Although I did not look into APC's XL series yet, as Patrick suggested.

 Its tough getting the facts out of APC and trriplite, because oif course
 they all want to sell you theirown battery packs, which are way over 
 priced
 by a factor of 6X minimum.


 Tom DeReggi
 RapidDSL  Wireless, Inc
 IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband


 - Original Message -
 From: jp j...@saucer.midcoast.com
 To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
 Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 2:35 PM
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!


  We were having trouble with the APC rackmount UPSs getting flaky, so
  that's why we went elsewhere. The 2U smartups tended to fail by
  overcharging the batteries causing them to bulge to the extent the
  batteries could not be removed except by complete disassembly of the
  UPS. We had 3-4 UPSs taken out of service for this reason. I had a 3U
  smartups start to pulse the output power and it killed a computer in 
  the
  process, and I've had the 3u fail to take advantage of a new battery
  pack.
 
  That said, the APC units work mostly flawlessly within a datacenter 
  with
  proper cooling. However, out in the field in cold barns, basements,
  outdoor cabinets or warm closets, they haven't been sufficiently
 reliable.
 
  The tripplites have different charging rates, the 700hf is 6amp, the 
  750
  is 20amp I think, the 1250 perhaps more. This lets me recharge quickly
  and be ready for another outage. If it's on generator power, it means
  the batteries can be fully recharged before we run out of gas.
 
  On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:49:15AM -0800, Marlon K. Schafer wrote:
  I wondered about just swapping out the batteries on my APC units and
  instead
  hooking the units to bigger batteries.  My fear is that the chargers
  won't
  hold up to long charge times that would be needed for a big marine
  battery
  instead of a little exit light battery
 
  Thoughts?  Anyone already tried this?
  marlon
 
  - Original Message -
  From: jp j...@saucer.midcoast.com
  To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
  Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 8:36 AM
  Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!
 
 
  I like the tripplite APS 700hf/750/1250 gear.
  
   We've got sites with 2 big batteries that 

Re: [WISPA] [Motorola II] Redline AN80i with SINADR spikes

2009-01-21 Thread Josh Luthman
When it was happening to my AN50s it was interference.  Did you scan the
band with your AN80s to see what was free?

Also keep in mind you can call Redline 24/7 and get very good support.

Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373

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--- Henry Spencer


On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 7:43 PM, John McDowell j...@boonlink.com wrote:

 Anybody here can tell me what might cause this? I am trying to fine tune
 this link and need to know what I'm doing wrong.


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Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!

2009-01-21 Thread John Valenti
http://www.apc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=UXBP24

says Battery Volt-Amp-Hour Capacity is 3360  (divide by 24?)



On Jan 21, 2009, at 7:49 PM, Tom DeReggi wrote:

  Do you know how many AmpHours (Ah) the APC XL Ultra Battery  
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Re: [WISPA] [Motorola II] Redline AN80i with SINADR spikes

2009-01-21 Thread John McDowell
It's a 5.4 link that one end is attached to a water tank. Do u think  
it could be reflection?

Oh I know. Redline is great. I will bug them if I don't find some  
answers here.

Thanks!

Sent from my iPhone

On Jan 21, 2009, at 6:55 PM, Josh Luthman  
j...@imaginenetworksllc.com wrote:

 When it was happening to my AN50s it was interference.  Did you scan  
 the
 band with your AN80s to see what was free?

 Also keep in mind you can call Redline 24/7 and get very good support.

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 Office: 937-552-2340
 Direct: 937-552-2343
 1100 Wayne St
 Suite 1337
 Troy, OH 45373

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 wrote:

 Anybody here can tell me what might cause this? I am trying to fine  
 tune
 this link and need to know what I'm doing wrong.


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Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!

2009-01-21 Thread Gino Villarini
The bigger the ups the better charger it has, typically we use 1400 and
1500 units 


Gino A. Villarini
g...@aeronetpr.com
Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp.
tel  787.273.4143   fax   787.273.4145

-Original Message-
From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
Behalf Of Marlon K. Schafer
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 2:49 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!

I wondered about just swapping out the batteries on my APC units and
instead hooking the units to bigger batteries.  My fear is that the
chargers won't hold up to long charge times that would be needed for a
big marine battery instead of a little exit light battery

Thoughts?  Anyone already tried this?
marlon

- Original Message -
From: jp j...@saucer.midcoast.com
To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 8:36 AM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!


I like the tripplite APS 700hf/750/1250 gear.

 We've got sites with 2 big batteries that should be good for 24 hours
 with these.

 I put one at my house after going through 2 APC UPSs in 8 years.

 We put them everywhere we need long run time, and add batteries for
 places where it's impractical to take a generator.

 I don't mind freely recommending them. My competition has already seen
 how well they work at a mountaintop site where we are both located and
 has since followed that route in the interest of long runtime.

 On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 07:07:19AM -0800, Marlon K. Schafer wrote:
 Yeah.  But they don't last forever.

 I've also found that they drain faster than they charge too.

 Right now I have rolling power outages in at least 4 towns spread out
by 
 a
 good 80 miles via road.  The power is on, then off then on then off. 
 It's
 not like I can just got to town A and fire up a generator.

 Plus, these towns combine for a total of 11 sites!  I don't have that

 many
 generators.

 Wanna know the funny part?  In Wilbur, ATT's cell tower has been
down 
 more
 than I have!  grin

 People still had phone service most of the time.  One of the cell
phone
 companies stayed up.  If there was NO communications infrastructure
in 
 place
 I'd have worked harder to keep things running.  Without help and a
lot 
 more
 generators/gas cans it just wasn't possible though.

 The weather is supposed to break today or tomorrow.   I don't know
how 
 long
 it'll take to clean up all of the broken limbs etc. though.

 laters,
 marlon

 - Original Message - 
 From: George Rogato wi...@oregonfast.net
 To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
 Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:22 PM
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!


  Don't you have battery back ups?
 
 
  Marlon K. Schafer wrote:
  Looks pretty normal around here.  But some of our towers are
offline
  again
  due to all of the power outages.
  marlon
 
  - Original Message - 
  From: Eric Tykwinski eric-l...@truenet.com
  To: 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org
  Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:52 AM
  Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!
 
 
  Everyone on NANOG has been saying the same.  We're actually
seeing 
  close
  to
  triple on downloading today, starting about 9AM EST.
  Thankfully no issues on capacity at all on our end...
 
  I'm actually surprised the sites serving the videos aren't having
any
  issues
  yet.
 
  -Original Message-
  From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org
[mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] 
  On
  Behalf Of David E. Smith
  Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 12:46 PM
  To: WISPA General List
  Subject: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!
 
  Not really, but is everyone else seeing lots of extra traffic
from
  people
  streaming inauguration-related events in DC? My network is
pulling
  basically
  double the traffic of a normal Tuesday.
 
  (There's a lesson about capacity planning in here somewhere...)
 
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Re: [WISPA] UBNT Bullet5 review...

2009-01-21 Thread Jerry Richardson
All I can do is shake my head. Ubiquity seems to have acquired some
Area51 technology. 


 
 
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airCloud Communications

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From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
Behalf Of rea...@muddyfrogwater.us
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 3:42 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: [WISPA] UBNT Bullet5 review...

I deployed my first Bullet5 today.   Not the high power, but the
standard.

throughput testing showed insignificant difference between my
Star-OS/WAR1 
combo and the Bullet.   The AP shows that the Bullet has active
compression 
and fast frames that functions with my star-os access point.

I have not tried the narrower channels to see if they're compatible with
my star-os AP's.

They have been certified with up to 30 db antennas.

Summary...  1 bullet5,  1 pacwireless 25 db grid w/pigtail, 1 universal 
mount = very cheap 5 ghz cpe - about $130 - 140 complete.   Even
nicer???

The bullet slides down INTO the universal mount pipe, becoming invisible
after you mount and aim it.

 Just FYI...  The Bullet does NAT and has a DHCP server built in.   No
need 
for a router, allows you to have a fully routed network.

Opinion I like them.







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Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!

2009-01-21 Thread Leroy
Gino,

What batteries are you using? I've seen posts of your UPS setup in the past,
very nice.

Leroy


-Original Message-
From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
Behalf Of Gino Villarini
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 8:28 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!

The bigger the ups the better charger it has, typically we use 1400 and
1500 units 


Gino A. Villarini
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Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp.
tel  787.273.4143   fax   787.273.4145

-Original Message-
From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
Behalf Of Marlon K. Schafer
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 2:49 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!

I wondered about just swapping out the batteries on my APC units and
instead hooking the units to bigger batteries.  My fear is that the
chargers won't hold up to long charge times that would be needed for a
big marine battery instead of a little exit light battery

Thoughts?  Anyone already tried this?
marlon

- Original Message -
From: jp j...@saucer.midcoast.com
To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 8:36 AM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!


I like the tripplite APS 700hf/750/1250 gear.

 We've got sites with 2 big batteries that should be good for 24 hours
 with these.

 I put one at my house after going through 2 APC UPSs in 8 years.

 We put them everywhere we need long run time, and add batteries for
 places where it's impractical to take a generator.

 I don't mind freely recommending them. My competition has already seen
 how well they work at a mountaintop site where we are both located and
 has since followed that route in the interest of long runtime.

 On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 07:07:19AM -0800, Marlon K. Schafer wrote:
 Yeah.  But they don't last forever.

 I've also found that they drain faster than they charge too.

 Right now I have rolling power outages in at least 4 towns spread out
by 
 a
 good 80 miles via road.  The power is on, then off then on then off. 
 It's
 not like I can just got to town A and fire up a generator.

 Plus, these towns combine for a total of 11 sites!  I don't have that

 many
 generators.

 Wanna know the funny part?  In Wilbur, ATT's cell tower has been
down 
 more
 than I have!  grin

 People still had phone service most of the time.  One of the cell
phone
 companies stayed up.  If there was NO communications infrastructure
in 
 place
 I'd have worked harder to keep things running.  Without help and a
lot 
 more
 generators/gas cans it just wasn't possible though.

 The weather is supposed to break today or tomorrow.   I don't know
how 
 long
 it'll take to clean up all of the broken limbs etc. though.

 laters,
 marlon

 - Original Message - 
 From: George Rogato wi...@oregonfast.net
 To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
 Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:22 PM
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!


  Don't you have battery back ups?
 
 
  Marlon K. Schafer wrote:
  Looks pretty normal around here.  But some of our towers are
offline
  again
  due to all of the power outages.
  marlon
 
  - Original Message - 
  From: Eric Tykwinski eric-l...@truenet.com
  To: 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org
  Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:52 AM
  Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!
 
 
  Everyone on NANOG has been saying the same.  We're actually
seeing 
  close
  to
  triple on downloading today, starting about 9AM EST.
  Thankfully no issues on capacity at all on our end...
 
  I'm actually surprised the sites serving the videos aren't having
any
  issues
  yet.
 
  -Original Message-
  From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org
[mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] 
  On
  Behalf Of David E. Smith
  Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 12:46 PM
  To: WISPA General List
  Subject: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!
 
  Not really, but is everyone else seeing lots of extra traffic
from
  people
  streaming inauguration-related events in DC? My network is
pulling
  basically
  double the traffic of a normal Tuesday.
 
  (There's a lesson about capacity planning in here somewhere...)
 
  David Smith
  MVN.net
 
 
 
 


  
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Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!

2009-01-21 Thread Gino Villarini
AGM cells 105 ah with APC SmartUPS XL units


Gino A. Villarini
g...@aeronetpr.com
Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp.
tel  787.273.4143   fax   787.273.4145

-Original Message-
From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
Behalf Of Leroy
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 10:37 PM
To: 'WISPA General List'
Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!

Gino,

What batteries are you using? I've seen posts of your UPS setup in the
past, very nice.

Leroy


-Original Message-
From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
Behalf Of Gino Villarini
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 8:28 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!

The bigger the ups the better charger it has, typically we use 1400 and
1500 units 


Gino A. Villarini
g...@aeronetpr.com
Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp.
tel  787.273.4143   fax   787.273.4145

-Original Message-
From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
Behalf Of Marlon K. Schafer
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 2:49 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!

I wondered about just swapping out the batteries on my APC units and
instead hooking the units to bigger batteries.  My fear is that the
chargers won't hold up to long charge times that would be needed for a
big marine battery instead of a little exit light battery

Thoughts?  Anyone already tried this?
marlon

- Original Message -
From: jp j...@saucer.midcoast.com
To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 8:36 AM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!


I like the tripplite APS 700hf/750/1250 gear.

 We've got sites with 2 big batteries that should be good for 24 hours 
 with these.

 I put one at my house after going through 2 APC UPSs in 8 years.

 We put them everywhere we need long run time, and add batteries for 
 places where it's impractical to take a generator.

 I don't mind freely recommending them. My competition has already seen

 how well they work at a mountaintop site where we are both located and

 has since followed that route in the interest of long runtime.

 On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 07:07:19AM -0800, Marlon K. Schafer wrote:
 Yeah.  But they don't last forever.

 I've also found that they drain faster than they charge too.

 Right now I have rolling power outages in at least 4 towns spread out
by 
 a
 good 80 miles via road.  The power is on, then off then on then off. 
 It's
 not like I can just got to town A and fire up a generator.

 Plus, these towns combine for a total of 11 sites!  I don't have that

 many
 generators.

 Wanna know the funny part?  In Wilbur, ATT's cell tower has been
down 
 more
 than I have!  grin

 People still had phone service most of the time.  One of the cell
phone
 companies stayed up.  If there was NO communications infrastructure
in 
 place
 I'd have worked harder to keep things running.  Without help and a
lot 
 more
 generators/gas cans it just wasn't possible though.

 The weather is supposed to break today or tomorrow.   I don't know
how 
 long
 it'll take to clean up all of the broken limbs etc. though.

 laters,
 marlon

 - Original Message -
 From: George Rogato wi...@oregonfast.net
 To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
 Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:22 PM
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!


  Don't you have battery back ups?
 
 
  Marlon K. Schafer wrote:
  Looks pretty normal around here.  But some of our towers are
offline
  again
  due to all of the power outages.
  marlon
 
  - Original Message -
  From: Eric Tykwinski eric-l...@truenet.com
  To: 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org
  Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:52 AM
  Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!
 
 
  Everyone on NANOG has been saying the same.  We're actually
seeing 
  close
  to
  triple on downloading today, starting about 9AM EST.
  Thankfully no issues on capacity at all on our end...
 
  I'm actually surprised the sites serving the videos aren't having
any
  issues
  yet.
 
  -Original Message-
  From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org
[mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] 
  On
  Behalf Of David E. Smith
  Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 12:46 PM
  To: WISPA General List
  Subject: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!
 
  Not really, but is everyone else seeing lots of extra traffic
from
  people
  streaming inauguration-related events in DC? My network is
pulling
  basically
  double the traffic of a normal Tuesday.
 
  (There's a lesson about capacity planning in here somewhere...)
 
  David Smith
  MVN.net
 
 
 
 


  
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Re: [WISPA] UBNT Bullet5 review...

2009-01-21 Thread Travis Johnson
The problem will be that they are still plain 802.11 technology. There 
is no polling or ARQ or FEC or anything else that makes technology like 
Trango, Canopy and others work so well. We pulled all of our 802.11 
stuff down over 5 years ago. It does NOT scale. You will never get an AP 
with reliable, consistent service with more than 20 users.

In fact, I think we witnessed this at AF09. Everyone connected to the 
same AP (48 I think was the count) and we continually got disconnected 
and the speeds and latency were terrible. Could there be a better real 
world experience than that? :)

Travis
Microserv

Jerry Richardson wrote:
 All I can do is shake my head. Ubiquity seems to have acquired some
 Area51 technology. 


  
  
 __ 
 Jerry Richardson 
 airCloud Communications

 -Original Message-
 From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
 Behalf Of rea...@muddyfrogwater.us
 Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 3:42 PM
 To: WISPA General List
 Subject: [WISPA] UBNT Bullet5 review...

 I deployed my first Bullet5 today.   Not the high power, but the
 standard.

 throughput testing showed insignificant difference between my
 Star-OS/WAR1 
 combo and the Bullet.   The AP shows that the Bullet has active
 compression 
 and fast frames that functions with my star-os access point.

 I have not tried the narrower channels to see if they're compatible with
 my star-os AP's.

 They have been certified with up to 30 db antennas.

 Summary...  1 bullet5,  1 pacwireless 25 db grid w/pigtail, 1 universal 
 mount = very cheap 5 ghz cpe - about $130 - 140 complete.   Even
 nicer???

 The bullet slides down INTO the universal mount pipe, becoming invisible
 after you mount and aim it.

  Just FYI...  The Bullet does NAT and has a DHCP server built in.   No
 need 
 for a router, allows you to have a fully routed network.

 Opinion I like them.






 
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Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!

2009-01-21 Thread Travis Johnson




Hi,

I just bought some today for one of our bigger tower sites. We will
install four of these connected to an APC SmartUps 1400 and will
probably get 30+ hours of uptime (this site has multiple switches,
routers, point to point links, licensed links, rebooter and over 10
AP's).

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:ITitem=250316783682

The real killer is the shipping. These things each weigh about 110
pounds (and they don't have any handles). But they are very nice
batteries. We have about 44 of them installed at our bigger tower sites.

Travis
Microserv

Leroy wrote:

  Gino,

What batteries are you using? I've seen posts of your UPS setup in the past,
very nice.

Leroy


-Original Message-
From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
Behalf Of Gino Villarini
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 8:28 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!

The bigger the ups the better charger it has, typically we use 1400 and
1500 units 


Gino A. Villarini
g...@aeronetpr.com
Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp.
tel  787.273.4143   fax   787.273.4145

-Original Message-
From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
Behalf Of Marlon K. Schafer
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 2:49 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!

I wondered about just swapping out the batteries on my APC units and
instead hooking the units to bigger batteries.  My fear is that the
chargers won't hold up to long charge times that would be needed for a
big marine battery instead of a little exit light battery

Thoughts?  Anyone already tried this?
marlon

- Original Message -
From: "jp" j...@saucer.midcoast.com
To: "WISPA General List" wireless@wispa.org
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 8:36 AM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!


  
  
I like the tripplite APS 700hf/750/1250 gear.

We've got sites with 2 big batteries that should be good for 24 hours
with these.

I put one at my house after going through 2 APC UPSs in 8 years.

We put them everywhere we need long run time, and add batteries for
places where it's impractical to take a generator.

I don't mind freely recommending them. My competition has already seen
how well they work at a mountaintop site where we are both located and
has since followed that route in the interest of long runtime.

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 07:07:19AM -0800, Marlon K. Schafer wrote:


  Yeah.  But they don't last forever.

I've also found that they drain faster than they charge too.

Right now I have rolling power outages in at least 4 towns spread out
  

  
  by 
  
  

  a
good 80 miles via road.  The power is on, then off then on then off. 
It's
not like I can just got to town A and fire up a generator.

Plus, these towns combine for a total of 11 sites!  I don't have that
  

  
  
  
  

  many
generators.

Wanna know the funny part?  In Wilbur, ATT's cell tower has been
  

  
  down 
  
  

  more
than I have!  grin

People still had phone service most of the time.  One of the cell
  

  
  phone
  
  

  companies stayed up.  If there was NO communications infrastructure
  

  
  in 
  
  

  place
I'd have worked harder to keep things running.  Without help and a
  

  
  lot 
  
  

  more
generators/gas cans it just wasn't possible though.

The weather is supposed to break today or tomorrow.   I don't know
  

  
  how 
  
  

  long
it'll take to clean up all of the broken limbs etc. though.

laters,
marlon

- Original Message - 
From: "George Rogato" wi...@oregonfast.net
To: "WISPA General List" wireless@wispa.org
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:22 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!


  
  
Don't you have battery back ups?


Marlon K. Schafer wrote:


  Looks pretty normal around here.  But some of our towers are
  

  

  
  offline
  
  

  

  again
due to all of the power outages.
marlon

- Original Message - 
From: "Eric Tykwinski" eric-l...@truenet.com
To: "'WISPA General List'" wireless@wispa.org
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:52 AM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC!


  
  
Everyone on NANOG has been saying the same.  We're actually

  

  

  
  seeing 
  
  

  

  
close
to
triple on downloading today, starting about 9AM EST.
Thankfully no issues on capacity at all on our end...

I'm actually surprised the sites serving the videos aren't having

  

  

  
  any
  
  

  

  
issues
yet.

-Original Message-
From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org

  

Re: [WISPA] UBNT Bullet5 review...

2009-01-21 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Sorry Travis, but you are dead wrong about 802.11 not being able to 
scale beyond 20 users, especially with 802.11a.   I explained how it can 
be done to you before and I have consulting clients with 10,000 plus 
users on their 802.11 based networks scaling right up to the same size 
as any Canopy or Trango network.You might not be able to get to 150 
subs per AP, but you can certainly hit 50-75 per sector and offer 
service that is damn close and a far sight cheaper than what Canopy will 
do.  I would take a StarOS a/b/g network over a Canopy system every day 
of the week.

As far as problems at AF09 - that is what you get when Canopy guys are 
running an 802.11 network.   If I was running it with the proven 
equipment and deployment methods that many of us use on 802.11 networks, 
there would not have been any such problems.Just because the AF09 
guys couldn't figure it out (or more likely didn't bother to try) 
doesn't mean that it can't be done right.

Matt Larsen
vistabeam.com


Travis Johnson wrote:
 The problem will be that they are still plain 802.11 technology. There 
 is no polling or ARQ or FEC or anything else that makes technology like 
 Trango, Canopy and others work so well. We pulled all of our 802.11 
 stuff down over 5 years ago. It does NOT scale. You will never get an AP 
 with reliable, consistent service with more than 20 users.

 In fact, I think we witnessed this at AF09. Everyone connected to the 
 same AP (48 I think was the count) and we continually got disconnected 
 and the speeds and latency were terrible. Could there be a better real 
 world experience than that? :)

 Travis
 Microserv

 Jerry Richardson wrote:
   
 All I can do is shake my head. Ubiquity seems to have acquired some
 Area51 technology. 


  
  
 __ 
 Jerry Richardson 
 airCloud Communications

 -Original Message-
 From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
 Behalf Of rea...@muddyfrogwater.us
 Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 3:42 PM
 To: WISPA General List
 Subject: [WISPA] UBNT Bullet5 review...

 I deployed my first Bullet5 today.   Not the high power, but the
 standard.

 throughput testing showed insignificant difference between my
 Star-OS/WAR1 
 combo and the Bullet.   The AP shows that the Bullet has active
 compression 
 and fast frames that functions with my star-os access point.

 I have not tried the narrower channels to see if they're compatible with
 my star-os AP's.

 They have been certified with up to 30 db antennas.

 Summary...  1 bullet5,  1 pacwireless 25 db grid w/pigtail, 1 universal 
 mount = very cheap 5 ghz cpe - about $130 - 140 complete.   Even
 nicer???

 The bullet slides down INTO the universal mount pipe, becoming invisible
 after you mount and aim it.

  Just FYI...  The Bullet does NAT and has a DHCP server built in.   No
 need 
 for a router, allows you to have a fully routed network.

 Opinion I like them.






 
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Re: [WISPA] UBNT Bullet5 review...

2009-01-21 Thread Jerry Richardson
But for micropops it sure makes sense. Screw it into the bottom of an
omni and presto!
 
 
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-Original Message-
From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
Behalf Of Travis Johnson
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 7:01 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] UBNT Bullet5 review...

The problem will be that they are still plain 802.11 technology. There
is no polling or ARQ or FEC or anything else that makes technology like
Trango, Canopy and others work so well. We pulled all of our 802.11
stuff down over 5 years ago. It does NOT scale. You will never get an AP
with reliable, consistent service with more than 20 users.

In fact, I think we witnessed this at AF09. Everyone connected to the
same AP (48 I think was the count) and we continually got disconnected
and the speeds and latency were terrible. Could there be a better real
world experience than that? :)

Travis
Microserv

Jerry Richardson wrote:
 All I can do is shake my head. Ubiquity seems to have acquired some
 Area51 technology. 


  
  
 __
 Jerry Richardson
 airCloud Communications

 -Original Message-
 From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] 
 On Behalf Of rea...@muddyfrogwater.us
 Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 3:42 PM
 To: WISPA General List
 Subject: [WISPA] UBNT Bullet5 review...

 I deployed my first Bullet5 today.   Not the high power, but the
 standard.

 throughput testing showed insignificant difference between my
 Star-OS/WAR1 
 combo and the Bullet.   The AP shows that the Bullet has active
 compression
 and fast frames that functions with my star-os access point.

 I have not tried the narrower channels to see if they're compatible 
 with my star-os AP's.

 They have been certified with up to 30 db antennas.

 Summary...  1 bullet5,  1 pacwireless 25 db grid w/pigtail, 1
universal 
 mount = very cheap 5 ghz cpe - about $130 - 140 complete.   Even
 nicer???

 The bullet slides down INTO the universal mount pipe, becoming 
 invisible after you mount and aim it.

  Just FYI...  The Bullet does NAT and has a DHCP server built in.   No
 need
 for a router, allows you to have a fully routed network.

 Opinion I like them.






 
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Re: [WISPA] UBNT Bullet5 review...

2009-01-21 Thread Travis Johnson




Matt,

I know we have already discussed this several times, and I'm not sure
we need to do it again... but maybe you could explain how you could
have setup a plain 802.11g wireless AP so that each client (using all
different kinds of wireless adapters) could have gotten equal bandwidth
and latency at AF09? 

And, once again, I have done test after test after test using 802.11
stuff... and every single time (using Mikrotik without Nstreme, using
StarOS, using OSBridge and using Nanostations) if we setup an AP and we
connect two clients with laptops and start a continuous upload, the
other client is basically dead in the water. Even if we limit the
upload to 2Mbps or 3Mbps, when that client starts the upload, the other
client has very high latency, very bad download speeds, etc.

As for price on Canopy vs. 802.11... things are not always as they
seem. I know of a large Canopy operator that is buying radios for $160
each. ;)

And, we have Trango AP's that only deliver 5Mbps total with 128 clients
and we deliver 4ms latency to every single client.

Travis
Microserv

Matt Larsen - Lists wrote:

  Sorry Travis, but you are dead wrong about 802.11 not being able to 
scale beyond 20 users, especially with 802.11a.   I explained how it can 
be done to you before and I have consulting clients with 10,000 plus 
users on their 802.11 based networks scaling right up to the same size 
as any Canopy or Trango network.You might not be able to get to 150 
subs per AP, but you can certainly hit 50-75 per sector and offer 
service that is damn close and a far sight cheaper than what Canopy will 
do.  I would take a StarOS a/b/g network over a Canopy system every day 
of the week.

As far as problems at AF09 - that is what you get when Canopy guys are 
running an 802.11 network.   If I was running it with the proven 
equipment and deployment methods that many of us use on 802.11 networks, 
there would not have been any such problems.Just because the AF09 
guys couldn't figure it out (or more likely didn't bother to try) 
doesn't mean that it can't be done right.

Matt Larsen
vistabeam.com


Travis Johnson wrote:
  
  
The problem will be that they are still plain 802.11 technology. There 
is no polling or ARQ or FEC or anything else that makes technology like 
Trango, Canopy and others work so well. We pulled all of our 802.11 
stuff down over 5 years ago. It does NOT scale. You will never get an AP 
with reliable, consistent service with more than 20 users.

In fact, I think we witnessed this at AF09. Everyone connected to the 
same AP (48 I think was the count) and we continually got disconnected 
and the speeds and latency were terrible. Could there be a better "real 
world" experience than that? :)

Travis
Microserv

Jerry Richardson wrote:
  


  All I can do is shake my head. Ubiquity seems to have acquired some
Area51 technology. 


 
 
__ 
Jerry Richardson 
airCloud Communications

-Original Message-
From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
Behalf Of rea...@muddyfrogwater.us
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 3:42 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: [WISPA] UBNT Bullet5 review...

I deployed my first Bullet5 today.   Not the high power, but the
standard.

throughput testing showed insignificant difference between my
Star-OS/WAR1 
combo and the Bullet.   The AP shows that the Bullet has active
compression 
and fast frames that functions with my star-os access point.

I have not tried the narrower channels to see if they're compatible with
my star-os AP's.

They have been certified with up to 30 db antennas.

Summary...  1 bullet5,  1 pacwireless 25 db grid w/pigtail, 1 universal 
mount = very cheap 5 ghz cpe - about $130 - 140 complete.   Even
nicer???

The bullet slides down INTO the universal mount pipe, becoming invisible
after you mount and aim it.

 Just FYI...  The Bullet does NAT and has a DHCP server built in.   No
need 
for a router, allows you to have a fully routed network.

Opinion I like them.







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Re: [WISPA] UBNT Bullet5 review...

2009-01-21 Thread Chuck Hogg
The cheapest I have ever seen large bulk distributor pricing with
buyback money is a little over $200 per SM except 900Mhz.  Now, if you
are looking at the Lite version SM's they certainly can be had for
cheaper.  All these WISPs claiming cheaper price is not telling the
truth.  Even Motorola disputes the price when questioned (yes I am a
distributor of Motorola products too).  Ask that WISP to buy 100 packs
from them for me, I'll pay a 10% premium!

 

Also, I agree with both of you here.  Having both 900MHz Trango and
2.4Ghz MikroTik, the Trango performs very impressively with 50 clients
per AP.  I have a few AP's that are currently 100+ and they don't drop
packets, and the latency is great in comparison.  However, properly
maintained 802.11 networks do pretty well also, but I don't see them
outperforming what Trango does on clients per AP level.

 

Regards,

Chuck Hogg

Avolutia, LLC
502-722-9292
ch...@avolutia.com

http://www.avolutia.com

http://www.shelbybb.com

 

From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
Behalf Of Travis Johnson
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 10:34 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] UBNT Bullet5 review...

 

Matt,

I know we have already discussed this several times, and I'm not sure we
need to do it again... but maybe you could explain how you could have
setup a plain 802.11g wireless AP so that each client (using all
different kinds of wireless adapters) could have gotten equal bandwidth
and latency at AF09? 

And, once again, I have done test after test after test using 802.11
stuff... and every single time (using Mikrotik without Nstreme, using
StarOS, using OSBridge and using Nanostations) if we setup an AP and we
connect two clients with laptops and start a continuous upload, the
other client is basically dead in the water. Even if we limit the upload
to 2Mbps or 3Mbps, when that client starts the upload, the other client
has very high latency, very bad download speeds, etc.

As for price on Canopy vs. 802.11... things are not always as they seem.
I know of a large Canopy operator that is buying radios for $160 each.
;)

And, we have Trango AP's that only deliver 5Mbps total with 128 clients
and we deliver 4ms latency to every single client.

Travis
Microserv

Matt Larsen - Lists wrote: 

Sorry Travis, but you are dead wrong about 802.11 not being able to 
scale beyond 20 users, especially with 802.11a.   I explained how it can

be done to you before and I have consulting clients with 10,000 plus 
users on their 802.11 based networks scaling right up to the same size 
as any Canopy or Trango network.You might not be able to get to 150 
subs per AP, but you can certainly hit 50-75 per sector and offer 
service that is damn close and a far sight cheaper than what Canopy will

do.  I would take a StarOS a/b/g network over a Canopy system every day 
of the week.
 
As far as problems at AF09 - that is what you get when Canopy guys are 
running an 802.11 network.   If I was running it with the proven 
equipment and deployment methods that many of us use on 802.11 networks,

there would not have been any such problems.Just because the AF09 
guys couldn't figure it out (or more likely didn't bother to try) 
doesn't mean that it can't be done right.
 
Matt Larsen
vistabeam.com
 
 
Travis Johnson wrote:
  

The problem will be that they are still plain 802.11 technology.
There 
is no polling or ARQ or FEC or anything else that makes
technology like 
Trango, Canopy and others work so well. We pulled all of our
802.11 
stuff down over 5 years ago. It does NOT scale. You will never
get an AP 
with reliable, consistent service with more than 20 users.
 
In fact, I think we witnessed this at AF09. Everyone connected
to the 
same AP (48 I think was the count) and we continually got
disconnected 
and the speeds and latency were terrible. Could there be a
better real 
world experience than that? :)
 
Travis
Microserv
 
Jerry Richardson wrote:
  


All I can do is shake my head. Ubiquity seems to have
acquired some
Area51 technology. 
 
 
 
 
__ 
Jerry Richardson 
airCloud Communications
 
-Original Message-
From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org
[mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
Behalf Of rea...@muddyfrogwater.us
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 3:42 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: [WISPA] UBNT Bullet5 review...
 
I deployed my first Bullet5 today.   Not the high power,
but the
standard.
 
throughput testing showed 

Re: [WISPA] UBNT Bullet5 review...

2009-01-21 Thread Travis Johnson
Hi,

I can tell you right now I have a written quote from a 
distributor/reseller for quantity 200 radios at less than $200 each.

The other company I was speaking about is doing 1,000 installs per 
month. $160 per radio is the number I have heard (and seems reasonable 
based on that quantity compared to my pricing at 200 radios).

Travis
Microserv

Chuck Hogg wrote:
 The cheapest I have ever seen large bulk distributor pricing with
 buyback money is a little over $200 per SM except 900Mhz.  Now, if you
 are looking at the Lite version SM's they certainly can be had for
 cheaper.  All these WISPs claiming cheaper price is not telling the
 truth.  Even Motorola disputes the price when questioned (yes I am a
 distributor of Motorola products too).  Ask that WISP to buy 100 packs
 from them for me, I'll pay a 10% premium!

  

 Also, I agree with both of you here.  Having both 900MHz Trango and
 2.4Ghz MikroTik, the Trango performs very impressively with 50 clients
 per AP.  I have a few AP's that are currently 100+ and they don't drop
 packets, and the latency is great in comparison.  However, properly
 maintained 802.11 networks do pretty well also, but I don't see them
 outperforming what Trango does on clients per AP level.

  

 Regards,

 Chuck Hogg

 Avolutia, LLC
 502-722-9292
 ch...@avolutia.com

 http://www.avolutia.com

 http://www.shelbybb.com

  

 From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
 Behalf Of Travis Johnson
 Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 10:34 PM
 To: WISPA General List
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] UBNT Bullet5 review...

  

 Matt,

 I know we have already discussed this several times, and I'm not sure we
 need to do it again... but maybe you could explain how you could have
 setup a plain 802.11g wireless AP so that each client (using all
 different kinds of wireless adapters) could have gotten equal bandwidth
 and latency at AF09? 

 And, once again, I have done test after test after test using 802.11
 stuff... and every single time (using Mikrotik without Nstreme, using
 StarOS, using OSBridge and using Nanostations) if we setup an AP and we
 connect two clients with laptops and start a continuous upload, the
 other client is basically dead in the water. Even if we limit the upload
 to 2Mbps or 3Mbps, when that client starts the upload, the other client
 has very high latency, very bad download speeds, etc.

 As for price on Canopy vs. 802.11... things are not always as they seem.
 I know of a large Canopy operator that is buying radios for $160 each.
 ;)

 And, we have Trango AP's that only deliver 5Mbps total with 128 clients
 and we deliver 4ms latency to every single client.

 Travis
 Microserv

 Matt Larsen - Lists wrote: 

 Sorry Travis, but you are dead wrong about 802.11 not being able to 
 scale beyond 20 users, especially with 802.11a.   I explained how it can

 be done to you before and I have consulting clients with 10,000 plus 
 users on their 802.11 based networks scaling right up to the same size 
 as any Canopy or Trango network.You might not be able to get to 150 
 subs per AP, but you can certainly hit 50-75 per sector and offer 
 service that is damn close and a far sight cheaper than what Canopy will

 do.  I would take a StarOS a/b/g network over a Canopy system every day 
 of the week.
  
 As far as problems at AF09 - that is what you get when Canopy guys are 
 running an 802.11 network.   If I was running it with the proven 
 equipment and deployment methods that many of us use on 802.11 networks,

 there would not have been any such problems.Just because the AF09 
 guys couldn't figure it out (or more likely didn't bother to try) 
 doesn't mean that it can't be done right.
  
 Matt Larsen
 vistabeam.com
  
  
 Travis Johnson wrote:
   

   The problem will be that they are still plain 802.11 technology.
 There 
   is no polling or ARQ or FEC or anything else that makes
 technology like 
   Trango, Canopy and others work so well. We pulled all of our
 802.11 
   stuff down over 5 years ago. It does NOT scale. You will never
 get an AP 
   with reliable, consistent service with more than 20 users.

   In fact, I think we witnessed this at AF09. Everyone connected
 to the 
   same AP (48 I think was the count) and we continually got
 disconnected 
   and the speeds and latency were terrible. Could there be a
 better real 
   world experience than that? :)

   Travis
   Microserv

   Jerry Richardson wrote:
 
   

   All I can do is shake my head. Ubiquity seems to have
 acquired some
   Area51 technology. 




   __ 
   Jerry Richardson 
   airCloud Communications

   -Original Message-
   From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org
 

Re: [WISPA] UBNT Bullet5 review...

2009-01-21 Thread CHUCK PROFITO
Not much will get accomplished on this list...there are ways, but that's for
members.


Chuck Profito
209-988-7388
CV-ACCESS, INC
cprof...@cv-access.com 
Providing High Speed Broadband 
to Rural Central California
-Original Message-
From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
Behalf Of Chuck Hogg
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 9:13 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] UBNT Bullet5 review...

The cheapest I have ever seen large bulk distributor pricing with
buyback money is a little over $200 per SM except 900Mhz.  Now, if you
are looking at the Lite version SM's they certainly can be had for
cheaper.  All these WISPs claiming cheaper price is not telling the
truth.  Even Motorola disputes the price when questioned (yes I am a
distributor of Motorola products too).  Ask that WISP to buy 100 packs
from them for me, I'll pay a 10% premium!

 

Also, I agree with both of you here.  Having both 900MHz Trango and
2.4Ghz MikroTik, the Trango performs very impressively with 50 clients
per AP.  I have a few AP's that are currently 100+ and they don't drop
packets, and the latency is great in comparison.  However, properly
maintained 802.11 networks do pretty well also, but I don't see them
outperforming what Trango does on clients per AP level.

 

Regards,

Chuck Hogg

Avolutia, LLC
502-722-9292
ch...@avolutia.com

http://www.avolutia.com

http://www.shelbybb.com

 

From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
Behalf Of Travis Johnson
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 10:34 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] UBNT Bullet5 review...

 

Matt,

I know we have already discussed this several times, and I'm not sure we
need to do it again... but maybe you could explain how you could have
setup a plain 802.11g wireless AP so that each client (using all
different kinds of wireless adapters) could have gotten equal bandwidth
and latency at AF09? 

And, once again, I have done test after test after test using 802.11
stuff... and every single time (using Mikrotik without Nstreme, using
StarOS, using OSBridge and using Nanostations) if we setup an AP and we
connect two clients with laptops and start a continuous upload, the
other client is basically dead in the water. Even if we limit the upload
to 2Mbps or 3Mbps, when that client starts the upload, the other client
has very high latency, very bad download speeds, etc.

As for price on Canopy vs. 802.11... things are not always as they seem.
I know of a large Canopy operator that is buying radios for $160 each.
;)

And, we have Trango AP's that only deliver 5Mbps total with 128 clients
and we deliver 4ms latency to every single client.

Travis
Microserv

Matt Larsen - Lists wrote: 

Sorry Travis, but you are dead wrong about 802.11 not being able to 
scale beyond 20 users, especially with 802.11a.   I explained how it can

be done to you before and I have consulting clients with 10,000 plus 
users on their 802.11 based networks scaling right up to the same size 
as any Canopy or Trango network.You might not be able to get to 150 
subs per AP, but you can certainly hit 50-75 per sector and offer 
service that is damn close and a far sight cheaper than what Canopy will

do.  I would take a StarOS a/b/g network over a Canopy system every day 
of the week.
 
As far as problems at AF09 - that is what you get when Canopy guys are 
running an 802.11 network.   If I was running it with the proven 
equipment and deployment methods that many of us use on 802.11 networks,

there would not have been any such problems.Just because the AF09 
guys couldn't figure it out (or more likely didn't bother to try) 
doesn't mean that it can't be done right.
 
Matt Larsen
vistabeam.com
 
 
Travis Johnson wrote:
  

The problem will be that they are still plain 802.11 technology.
There 
is no polling or ARQ or FEC or anything else that makes
technology like 
Trango, Canopy and others work so well. We pulled all of our
802.11 
stuff down over 5 years ago. It does NOT scale. You will never
get an AP 
with reliable, consistent service with more than 20 users.
 
In fact, I think we witnessed this at AF09. Everyone connected
to the 
same AP (48 I think was the count) and we continually got
disconnected 
and the speeds and latency were terrible. Could there be a
better real 
world experience than that? :)
 
Travis
Microserv
 
Jerry Richardson wrote:
  


All I can do is shake my head. Ubiquity seems to have
acquired some
Area51 technology. 
 
 
 
 
__ 
Jerry Richardson 
airCloud Communications
 
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