Re: [WISPA] SOLVED - Signal Strengths

2009-04-26 Thread RickG
I'm not saying this is your issue but I wanted to put this out on the
list. I've heard and perhaps seen areas that have a lot of metalic
content in the ground which causes reflection. Thoughts anyone?
-RickG

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Jason Wallace supp...@azii.net wrote:
 Well,

     There was only a desert floor of dirt between me and the AP about 4
 miles away.  Not even any houses to speak of.  There were no metal roofs
 directly in the way.  There WAS a very large steel building perpendicular to
 me about 40 feet away.  Also, within 2 miles, there's grain silos scattered
 around that could cause a reflection.  It was either this or it was right at
 the edge of Fresnel effects.

 SOLUTION?

 I changed to a CPE with a higher gain (Deliberating 15dbi).  I think the
 tighter antenna pattern acted like blinders to the out of phase signals.
 I did not have to move the installation point.  70's db.  All is well.

 Thanks everyone, for your encouraging input.

 Jason

 PS.  I'm keeping an eye on it...

 Josh Luthman wrote:

 This happens a lot with metal roofs in the way.  10 feet over, around
 the mentioned building we go from -90 to -65

 On 4/25/09, Jack Unger jun...@ask-wi.com wrote:


 You're seeing normal RF behavior. Simply mount the antenna where the
 signal is the strongest then use your network monitoring system to keep
 an eye on it.

 Jason Wallace wrote:


 Everyone,

 I had trouble during an install today regarding signal strengths.
 2.4Ghz CPE in a location that should be no problem.  Moving the CPE two
 feet in any direction from the point where the CPE was installed
 increased the signal by around 20db (-90 to -70!)

 Any idea of what phenomenon I am dealing with?

 Anything I should consider as I correct this install?

 Jason


 
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Re: [WISPA] SOLVED - Signal Strengths

2009-04-26 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
We've actually seen quite a bit of multipath this year.  Probably 3 or 4 
sites had to have the antennas moved.  Several others aren't working as well 
as they used to, but we've got no where to move the antennas to.

It's a hard problem to diagnose.  We had one customer that's been with us 
for a couple of years now.  He always had somewhat slow, but usable, speeds. 
Finally things really got bad.  I noticed his signal levels was WAY below 
what it should have been.  Ahh, I've seen the Tranzeo cpq radios go deaf 
before so I put in a new radio.  It was better but not right.  Hmm.  I 
then unmounted the radio and tried moving it around a bit.  (He shoots over 
the road and under some BIG high voltage lines.)  We ended up moving his 
antenna down 2 or 3 feet and over by about 6'.  His signal levels went WAY 
up and his speeds more than doubled.  The best part of all?  He's not called 
me since that day!

In the real world we can't always avoid multipath.  We can only minimize it. 
When things just don't seem right on a link, it's one of the things I check 
for.

Oh yeah, out here, in the rolling hills it hits us worse in the spring. 
Somewhat in the fall, but mostly in the spring.  I *think* it's got to do 
with how the weeds etc. deflect the signals.  Either that or just the water 
levels in our normally bone dry dirt.  (I'm in desert country)

I've always wanted to get one of those Berkley Varitronics units that shows 
multipath.  Too bad they are so blasted expensive.

laters,
marlon

- Original Message - 
From: RickG rgunder...@gmail.com
To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2009 7:32 AM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] SOLVED - Signal Strengths


I'm not saying this is your issue but I wanted to put this out on the
list. I've heard and perhaps seen areas that have a lot of metalic
content in the ground which causes reflection. Thoughts anyone?
-RickG

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Jason Wallace supp...@azii.net wrote:
 Well,

 There was only a desert floor of dirt between me and the AP about 4
 miles away. Not even any houses to speak of. There were no metal roofs
 directly in the way. There WAS a very large steel building perpendicular 
 to
 me about 40 feet away. Also, within 2 miles, there's grain silos scattered
 around that could cause a reflection. It was either this or it was right 
 at
 the edge of Fresnel effects.

 SOLUTION?

 I changed to a CPE with a higher gain (Deliberating 15dbi). I think the
 tighter antenna pattern acted like blinders to the out of phase signals.
 I did not have to move the installation point. 70's db. All is well.

 Thanks everyone, for your encouraging input.

 Jason

 PS. I'm keeping an eye on it...

 Josh Luthman wrote:

 This happens a lot with metal roofs in the way.  10 feet over, around
 the mentioned building we go from -90 to -65

 On 4/25/09, Jack Unger jun...@ask-wi.com wrote:


 You're seeing normal RF behavior. Simply mount the antenna where the
 signal is the strongest then use your network monitoring system to keep
 an eye on it.

 Jason Wallace wrote:


 Everyone,

 I had trouble during an install today regarding signal strengths.
 2.4Ghz CPE in a location that should be no problem.  Moving the CPE two
 feet in any direction from the point where the CPE was installed
 increased the signal by around 20db (-90 to -70!)

 Any idea of what phenomenon I am dealing with?

 Anything I should consider as I correct this install?

 Jason


 
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Re: [WISPA] Fwd: Fw: ISP Professional Release

2009-04-26 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
All of the mounting brackets, led's etc. look just like Inscape Data.
http://www.inscapedata.com/airEther.htm

Inscape has been around the WISP market for years now.
malron

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From: RickG rgunder...@gmail.com
To: wireless@wispa.org
Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2009 7:35 AM
Subject: [WISPA] Fwd: Fw: ISP Professional Release


Ever hear of this group?


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Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2009 2:17 AM
Subject: ISP Professional Release


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Re: [WISPA] SOLVED - Signal Strengths

2009-04-26 Thread Josh Luthman
Butch's suggestion for multipath is to tilt the antenna up a few
degrees.   Worked for us the few times I have seen it.

On 4/26/09, Marlon K. Schafer o...@odessaoffice.com wrote:
 We've actually seen quite a bit of multipath this year.  Probably 3 or 4
 sites had to have the antennas moved.  Several others aren't working as well
 as they used to, but we've got no where to move the antennas to.

 It's a hard problem to diagnose.  We had one customer that's been with us
 for a couple of years now.  He always had somewhat slow, but usable, speeds.
 Finally things really got bad.  I noticed his signal levels was WAY below
 what it should have been.  Ahh, I've seen the Tranzeo cpq radios go deaf
 before so I put in a new radio.  It was better but not right.  Hmm.  I
 then unmounted the radio and tried moving it around a bit.  (He shoots over
 the road and under some BIG high voltage lines.)  We ended up moving his
 antenna down 2 or 3 feet and over by about 6'.  His signal levels went WAY
 up and his speeds more than doubled.  The best part of all?  He's not called
 me since that day!

 In the real world we can't always avoid multipath.  We can only minimize it.
 When things just don't seem right on a link, it's one of the things I check
 for.

 Oh yeah, out here, in the rolling hills it hits us worse in the spring.
 Somewhat in the fall, but mostly in the spring.  I *think* it's got to do
 with how the weeds etc. deflect the signals.  Either that or just the water
 levels in our normally bone dry dirt.  (I'm in desert country)

 I've always wanted to get one of those Berkley Varitronics units that shows
 multipath.  Too bad they are so blasted expensive.

 laters,
 marlon

 - Original Message -
 From: RickG rgunder...@gmail.com
 To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
 Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2009 7:32 AM
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] SOLVED - Signal Strengths


 I'm not saying this is your issue but I wanted to put this out on the
 list. I've heard and perhaps seen areas that have a lot of metalic
 content in the ground which causes reflection. Thoughts anyone?
 -RickG

 On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Jason Wallace supp...@azii.net wrote:
 Well,

 There was only a desert floor of dirt between me and the AP about 4
 miles away. Not even any houses to speak of. There were no metal roofs
 directly in the way. There WAS a very large steel building perpendicular
 to
 me about 40 feet away. Also, within 2 miles, there's grain silos scattered
 around that could cause a reflection. It was either this or it was right
 at
 the edge of Fresnel effects.

 SOLUTION?

 I changed to a CPE with a higher gain (Deliberating 15dbi). I think the
 tighter antenna pattern acted like blinders to the out of phase signals.
 I did not have to move the installation point. 70's db. All is well.

 Thanks everyone, for your encouraging input.

 Jason

 PS. I'm keeping an eye on it...

 Josh Luthman wrote:

 This happens a lot with metal roofs in the way.  10 feet over, around
 the mentioned building we go from -90 to -65

 On 4/25/09, Jack Unger jun...@ask-wi.com wrote:


 You're seeing normal RF behavior. Simply mount the antenna where the
 signal is the strongest then use your network monitoring system to keep
 an eye on it.

 Jason Wallace wrote:


 Everyone,

 I had trouble during an install today regarding signal strengths.
 2.4Ghz CPE in a location that should be no problem.  Moving the CPE two
 feet in any direction from the point where the CPE was installed
 increased the signal by around 20db (-90 to -70!)

 Any idea of what phenomenon I am dealing with?

 Anything I should consider as I correct this install?

 Jason


 
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Re: [WISPA] Interesting BGP Redundancy Opton for FREE

2009-04-26 Thread Tom DeReggi
Butch,

You completely missed my point, ot the background to the thread..
Of course you can build a tunnel of just about any MTU size on your 
network.
The issue at hand is what max MTU size OTHER upstream ISPs allow on their 
network.

Scott was talkng about doing a tunnel accross an end user Comcast circuit. 
With the open Internet, the two end point end users don't really have 
control of what ISPs in between  gets traversed from End Point A to B.  The 
ISPs in the middle could chance at any time. This is not a new problem

For example A number of years back Universities built a private 
experimental transport network to support high MTU above 9600, so that their 
GB and 10GB networks could pass full capacity.  As you know, max transfer 
rate is directly proportional to latency times packet size. Most common ISPs 
only passed 1500MTU, therefore the Universities had to make their own net. 
This has been a challenge for years for even passing VLAN tags or MPLS data, 
where layer2 fiber carriers would only pass a 1512 packet.  When you are the 
end user, the answer is to shrink your MTU, so after the tunnel overhead it 
fits into the ISP's max 1512 MTU.  But when one is an tranport ISP that 
transports many customer's data, it is not appropriate for the ISP to shrink 
his MTU below 1500, as all the other end users would not know that the MTU 
was shrunk, and would not have their routers set to a smaller MTU to fit.

Sure you can allow fragmentation, and TCP will automatically split the 
packets to fit, but it has been common ISP management practice to disallow 
fragmentation for various reasons that I don't want to get into in this 
thread. And yes, there is MTU autolearning, but again, not supported by 
everyone or all protocols.

So sure, the ISP can make a tunnel setting a lower MTU, so after tunel 
overhead, it will fit in the uipstream's 1512 MTU. But then full size 
packets (because packets comming from end user customers will be 1512 size) 
inside the tunnel will get fragmented to fit into the tunnel.  For long haul 
backhauls, there can be side effects of  just simply allowing fragmentation 
on the routers without any further consideration.

Again, we have a good solution for this... It is called CIPE. Its a 
tunneling protocol that splits the packets appropriately for optimal 
efficiency. I understand how CIPE works because it is what we use. I can't 
say I understand the methods that Mikrotik may use.  So, what I asked is how 
Mikrotik can deal with that problem, because Mikrotik does not support CIPE.


Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL  Wireless, Inc
IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband


- Original Message - 
From: Butch Evans but...@butchevans.com
To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 11:03 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Interesting BGP Redundancy Opton for FREE


 On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 19:37 -0400, Tom DeReggi wrote:
 Over a Layer2 PTP its usually not an issue, but it is over a standard
 transit connection.
 (customer and Internet needs to see 1500 bytes, but an ISP's tunnel 
 causes
 packet size to exceed 1500 MTU.

 I have built tunnels that carry 12000 byte packets.  Not sure where this
 idea comes from.  They can be built that will carry as much as 65k
 bytes.

 We use Cipe tunnels to solve that. To split the full size packets before 
 it
 enters the tunnel, so tunnel stays at 1500MTU or less, required by the
 transit provider..

 How do you do it with Mikrotik ?

 Of the tunnels I've done with MT, you just use PPtP and set the MRRU
 (just like your tunnels).  I've done this with standard Linux, too.  It
 is actually quite an elegant solution.

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Re: [WISPA] Interesting BGP Redundancy Opton for FREE

2009-04-26 Thread Tom DeReggi
Butch,

 Of the tunnels I've done with MT, you just use PPtP and set the MRRU
 (just like your tunnels).  I've done this with standard Linux, too.  It
 is actually quite an elegant solution.

Actually I missed this part of your post, before making my last post

Am I understanding correctly Are you saying.
When using PPTP and you set the MRRU to the same as your tunnels, both your 
tunnel ethernet packet size can be 1512, while the ethernet packet size for 
data inside the tunnel also can be 1512?  Meaning that PPTP does not 
increase the Ethernet packet size, in order to be implemented?

(PS, I don't recall the details of PPTP. We generally use IPSEC, OpenVPN, 
VLANs, MPLS, all of which increase ethernet packetsize above 1512, unless IP 
payload MTU is reduced..)

Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL  Wireless, Inc
IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband


- Original Message - 
From: Butch Evans but...@butchevans.com
To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 11:03 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Interesting BGP Redundancy Opton for FREE


 On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 19:37 -0400, Tom DeReggi wrote:
 Over a Layer2 PTP its usually not an issue, but it is over a standard
 transit connection.
 (customer and Internet needs to see 1500 bytes, but an ISP's tunnel 
 causes
 packet size to exceed 1500 MTU.

 I have built tunnels that carry 12000 byte packets.  Not sure where this
 idea comes from.  They can be built that will carry as much as 65k
 bytes.

 We use Cipe tunnels to solve that. To split the full size packets before 
 it
 enters the tunnel, so tunnel stays at 1500MTU or less, required by the
 transit provider..

 How do you do it with Mikrotik ?

 Of the tunnels I've done with MT, you just use PPtP and set the MRRU
 (just like your tunnels).  I've done this with standard Linux, too.  It
 is actually quite an elegant solution.

 -- 
 
 * Butch Evans   * Professional Network Consultation*
 * http://www.butchevans.com/* Network Engineering  *
 * http://www.wispa.org/ * WISPA Board Member   *
 * http://blog.butchevans.com/   * Wired or Wireless Networks   *
 




 
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Re: [WISPA] Interesting BGP Redundancy Opton for FREE

2009-04-26 Thread Scott Carullo

Hello again...

I didn't specify comcast but in the context of our discussion it doesn't 
matter much :)

Tom...  Lets just do a test from your network to mine.  A learning 
experience if nothing else - can't go wrong there.

I've never heard of CIPE but I assure you that MT has no problem whatsoever 
passing traffic from anyone over a tunnel between us, I think you are hung 
up on something that is a non-issue and what Butch mentioned was not about 
over one's own network - he understood that it was from some end user 
provider to another with multiple possible ISPs in the middle...  its a 
mute point who's in the middle really with whats being proposed and how it 
works.

I have a router ready to go, you?  Latency between us is good, less than 
30ms.  I 60MB on any given day/time still available not doing anything, 
usually a little more.

Scott Carullo
Brevard Wireless
321-205-1100 x102

 Original Message 
 From: Tom DeReggi wirelessn...@rapiddsl.net
 Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2009 6:49 PM
 To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] Interesting BGP Redundancy Opton for FREE
 
 Butch,
 
 You completely missed my point, ot the background to the thread..
 Of course you can build a tunnel of just about any MTU size on your 
 network.
 The issue at hand is what max MTU size OTHER upstream ISPs allow on their 

 network.
 
 Scott was talkng about doing a tunnel accross an end user Comcast 
circuit. 
 With the open Internet, the two end point end users don't really have 
 control of what ISPs in between  gets traversed from End Point A to B.  
The 
 ISPs in the middle could chance at any time. This is not a new 
problem
 
 For example A number of years back Universities built a private 
 experimental transport network to support high MTU above 9600, so that 
their 
 GB and 10GB networks could pass full capacity.  As you know, max transfer 

 rate is directly proportional to latency times packet size. Most common 
ISPs 
 only passed 1500MTU, therefore the Universities had to make their own 
net. 
 This has been a challenge for years for even passing VLAN tags or MPLS 
data, 
 where layer2 fiber carriers would only pass a 1512 packet.  When you are 
the 
 end user, the answer is to shrink your MTU, so after the tunnel overhead 
it 
 fits into the ISP's max 1512 MTU.  But when one is an tranport ISP that 
 transports many customer's data, it is not appropriate for the ISP to 
shrink 
 his MTU below 1500, as all the other end users would not know that the 
MTU 
 was shrunk, and would not have their routers set to a smaller MTU to 
fit.
 
 Sure you can allow fragmentation, and TCP will automatically split the 
 packets to fit, but it has been common ISP management practice to 
disallow 
 fragmentation for various reasons that I don't want to get into in this 
 thread. And yes, there is MTU autolearning, but again, not supported by 
 everyone or all protocols.
 
 So sure, the ISP can make a tunnel setting a lower MTU, so after tunel 
 overhead, it will fit in the uipstream's 1512 MTU. But then full size 
 packets (because packets comming from end user customers will be 1512 
size) 
 inside the tunnel will get fragmented to fit into the tunnel.  For long 
haul 
 backhauls, there can be side effects of  just simply allowing 
fragmentation 
 on the routers without any further consideration.
 
 Again, we have a good solution for this... It is called CIPE. Its a 
 tunneling protocol that splits the packets appropriately for optimal 
 efficiency. I understand how CIPE works because it is what we use. I 
can't 
 say I understand the methods that Mikrotik may use.  So, what I asked is 
how 
 Mikrotik can deal with that problem, because Mikrotik does not support 
CIPE.
 
 
 Tom DeReggi
 RapidDSL  Wireless, Inc
 IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband
 
 
 - Original Message - 
 From: Butch Evans but...@butchevans.com
 To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
 Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 11:03 PM
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] Interesting BGP Redundancy Opton for FREE
 
 
  On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 19:37 -0400, Tom DeReggi wrote:
  Over a Layer2 PTP its usually not an issue, but it is over a standard
  transit connection.
  (customer and Internet needs to see 1500 bytes, but an ISP's tunnel 
  causes
  packet size to exceed 1500 MTU.
 
  I have built tunnels that carry 12000 byte packets.  Not sure where 
this
  idea comes from.  They can be built that will carry as much as 65k
  bytes.
 
  We use Cipe tunnels to solve that. To split the full size packets 
before 
  it
  enters the tunnel, so tunnel stays at 1500MTU or less, required by 
the
  transit provider..
 
  How do you do it with Mikrotik ?
 
  Of the tunnels I've done with MT, you just use PPtP and set the MRRU
  (just like your tunnels).  I've done this with standard Linux, too.  
It
  is actually quite an elegant solution.
 
  -- 
  
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[WISPA] Nifty Outdoor Switch..

2009-04-26 Thread Gino Villarini
Found this nice outdoor switch, multi power POE capable
 
Nice for small pops
 
anyone used it?
 
http://www.inscapedata.com/pdf/LPS1000.pdf
 

Gino A. Villarini 
g...@aeronetpr.com 
Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. 
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Re: [WISPA] Interesting BGP Redundancy Opton for FREE

2009-04-26 Thread Butch Evans
On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 18:57 -0400, Tom DeReggi wrote:
  Of the tunnels I've done with MT, you just use PPtP and set the MRRU
  (just like your tunnels).  I've done this with standard Linux, too.  It
  is actually quite an elegant solution.
 
 Actually I missed this part of your post, before making my last post
 
 Am I understanding correctly Are you saying.
 When using PPTP and you set the MRRU to the same as your tunnels, both your 
 tunnel ethernet packet size can be 1512, while the ethernet packet size for 
 data inside the tunnel also can be 1512?  Meaning that PPTP does not 
 increase the Ethernet packet size, in order to be implemented?

You can set the MRRU to 65535 if you want.

 (PS, I don't recall the details of PPTP. We generally use IPSEC, OpenVPN, 
 VLANs, MPLS, all of which increase ethernet packetsize above 1512, unless IP 
 payload MTU is reduced..)

The tunnel itself will be whatever the transport MTU is.  You can even
do (if you desire) a PPtP over OpenVPN to get the added encryption.  For
what it's worth, it is documented:
http://www.mikrotik.com/testdocs/ros/3.0/vpn/pptp.php

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Re: [WISPA] Nifty Outdoor Switch..

2009-04-26 Thread Travis Johnson
Looks cool... except it won't work with Canopy devices because they 
aren't standard PoE... unless I missed something?

Travis
Microserv


Gino Villarini wrote:
 Found this nice outdoor switch, multi power POE capable
  
 Nice for small pops
  
 anyone used it?
  
 http://www.inscapedata.com/pdf/LPS1000.pdf
  

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

  


 
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Re: [WISPA] Nifty Outdoor Switch..

2009-04-26 Thread Butch Evans
On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 19:04 -0400, Gino Villarini wrote:
 Found this nice outdoor switch, multi power POE capable
  
 Nice for small pops
  
 anyone used it?

I've never used one, but it does look very useful.  Any idea on cost? 

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Re: [WISPA] Nifty Outdoor Switch..

2009-04-26 Thread Gerard Dupont III
Last I looked they were in the $700 range..

Gerard


Butch Evans wrote:
 On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 19:04 -0400, Gino Villarini wrote:
 Found this nice outdoor switch, multi power POE capable
  
 Nice for small pops
  
 anyone used it?
 
 I've never used one, but it does look very useful.  Any idea on cost? 
 




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[WISPA] Wifi on AM Radio Tower?

2009-04-26 Thread Israel Lopez

Hello There,

I am a volunteer IT guy spending some time in Honduras.  I sent the list 
an email awhile ago for some knowledgeable guys in the WISPA space and I 
was impressed with some of your members' willingness to help.  Im 
sending you guys a message so i have some feedback.


We are here in Juticalpa, Olancho, Honduras.   We have a tower that we 
are housing some multi point equipment on.  A low grade omni, with no 
back haul where other sites use to get connectivity as our Demarc for 
internet doesnt have LOS to all of our sites.   Our sites are schools, 3 
of them:  Special needs, Elementary, High School.  The current problem 
is the network is slow end to end (from Site - multipoint - 
demarc(internet) we have 800kbps, and 300ms) over 2.8kilometers.


We are putting a plan together to build a backhaul (new radios) and 
possibly better antenna coverage if it is possible


1) Our multipoint site has two towers available, we are using one of them.
2) The second tower has an AM Radio attached to it.
3) The AM Radio is broadcasting on 650Khz @ 1KW of power on the 100meter 
tower

4) We have a smaller tower (20Meters) with some 200mW 2.4Ghz Wifi Radio
5) This WIFI radio is acting as a bridge to other sites we cant get LOS.

The idea.

1) Rebuild the multi point with a 2.4Ghz back haul PTP, and a new Omni 
directional radio @ 300mW
2) Move the setup into the 100Meter tower on the same tower with the AM 
transmitter for better LOS coverage.


The expectation of a problem: Will that work?  Are we crazy to put a 
2.4Ghz antenna @ 300mW on the same tower as an AM Transmitter on 650Khz 
@ 1KW.  I am honestly expecting RF overload on some of the radios to 
cause problems.  If thats not the case, then we could use the higher 
tower to serve an area better.


We are not running a WISP here, mainly providing data connectivity 
between schools.


Let me know what your guys's thoughts are.

-Israel


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Re: [WISPA] Nifty Outdoor Switch..

2009-04-26 Thread Gino Villarini
Its DC input 48 vdc, any of the 5 POE ports can be configured to 12, 24
,48 and 48 802.3af 


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-Original Message-
From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
Behalf Of Travis Johnson
Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2009 7:21 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Nifty Outdoor Switch..

Looks cool... except it won't work with Canopy devices because they
aren't standard PoE... unless I missed something?

Travis
Microserv


Gino Villarini wrote:
 Found this nice outdoor switch, multi power POE capable
  
 Nice for small pops
  
 anyone used it?
  
 http://www.inscapedata.com/pdf/LPS1000.pdf
  

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

  


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[WISPA] Joomla Programmer

2009-04-26 Thread Cliff LeBoeuf
I am interested on redesigning a couple of websites and want to consider
Joomla.

I don't have the time to learn from scratch, but I would like to maintain it
myself afterwards.

I am looking for someone to design, and assist me with the on-going
maintenance.

If you have those skills, and are interested, please contact me off-list.

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Re: [WISPA] Interesting BGP Redundancy Opton for FREE

2009-04-26 Thread Tom DeReggi
Scott,

Actually, I originally missed the part about mikrotik router.
We don't use Mikrotik routers currently, as they can not accommodate us 
loading our custom management software code.
But all our servers are Linux based, so can likely do anything that Mikrotik 
can, (with a little bit of effort).

Butch was suggesting using PPTP. I need to double check that we have a PPTP 
package loaded on our routers, and if not, load one first.
(I could always get a MT box to do the tunnel, and just allocate an Ethernet 
port on my Linux router to it, but I'd need to procure a MT unit first. )
I agree, at minimum, it would be a fun experiment,with no disadvantage. We 
have plenty of free bandwidth.

We should probably take this offlist, at this point.
We can always share the results with the list, after the fact.

Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL  Wireless, Inc
IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband


- Original Message - 
From: Scott Carullo sc...@brevardwireless.com
To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2009 6:58 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Interesting BGP Redundancy Opton for FREE



 Hello again...

 I didn't specify comcast but in the context of our discussion it doesn't
 matter much :)

 Tom...  Lets just do a test from your network to mine.  A learning
 experience if nothing else - can't go wrong there.

 I've never heard of CIPE but I assure you that MT has no problem 
 whatsoever
 passing traffic from anyone over a tunnel between us, I think you are hung
 up on something that is a non-issue and what Butch mentioned was not about
 over one's own network - he understood that it was from some end user
 provider to another with multiple possible ISPs in the middle...  its a
 mute point who's in the middle really with whats being proposed and how it
 works.

 I have a router ready to go, you?  Latency between us is good, less than
 30ms.  I 60MB on any given day/time still available not doing anything,
 usually a little more.

 Scott Carullo
 Brevard Wireless
 321-205-1100 x102

  Original Message 
 From: Tom DeReggi wirelessn...@rapiddsl.net
 Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2009 6:49 PM
 To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] Interesting BGP Redundancy Opton for FREE

 Butch,

 You completely missed my point, ot the background to the thread..
 Of course you can build a tunnel of just about any MTU size on your
 network.
 The issue at hand is what max MTU size OTHER upstream ISPs allow on their

 network.

 Scott was talkng about doing a tunnel accross an end user Comcast
 circuit.
 With the open Internet, the two end point end users don't really have
 control of what ISPs in between  gets traversed from End Point A to B.
 The
 ISPs in the middle could chance at any time. This is not a new
 problem

 For example A number of years back Universities built a private
 experimental transport network to support high MTU above 9600, so that
 their
 GB and 10GB networks could pass full capacity.  As you know, max transfer

 rate is directly proportional to latency times packet size. Most common
 ISPs
 only passed 1500MTU, therefore the Universities had to make their own
 net.
 This has been a challenge for years for even passing VLAN tags or MPLS
 data,
 where layer2 fiber carriers would only pass a 1512 packet.  When you are
 the
 end user, the answer is to shrink your MTU, so after the tunnel overhead
 it
 fits into the ISP's max 1512 MTU.  But when one is an tranport ISP that
 transports many customer's data, it is not appropriate for the ISP to
 shrink
 his MTU below 1500, as all the other end users would not know that the
 MTU
 was shrunk, and would not have their routers set to a smaller MTU to
 fit.

 Sure you can allow fragmentation, and TCP will automatically split the
 packets to fit, but it has been common ISP management practice to
 disallow
 fragmentation for various reasons that I don't want to get into in this
 thread. And yes, there is MTU autolearning, but again, not supported by
 everyone or all protocols.

 So sure, the ISP can make a tunnel setting a lower MTU, so after tunel
 overhead, it will fit in the uipstream's 1512 MTU. But then full size
 packets (because packets comming from end user customers will be 1512
 size)
 inside the tunnel will get fragmented to fit into the tunnel.  For long
 haul
 backhauls, there can be side effects of  just simply allowing
 fragmentation
 on the routers without any further consideration.

 Again, we have a good solution for this... It is called CIPE. Its a
 tunneling protocol that splits the packets appropriately for optimal
 efficiency. I understand how CIPE works because it is what we use. I
 can't
 say I understand the methods that Mikrotik may use.  So, what I asked is
 how
 Mikrotik can deal with that problem, because Mikrotik does not support
 CIPE.


 Tom DeReggi
 RapidDSL  Wireless, Inc
 IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband


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 From: Butch Evans but...@butchevans.com
 

Re: [WISPA] Joomla Programmer

2009-04-26 Thread Josh Luthman
E107 is another cms you might want to try.

Are you looking for someone to simply host it or create custom
templates and content.

On 4/26/09, Cliff LeBoeuf cliff.lebo...@cssla.com wrote:
 I am interested on redesigning a couple of websites and want to consider
 Joomla.

 I don't have the time to learn from scratch, but I would like to maintain it
 myself afterwards.

 I am looking for someone to design, and assist me with the on-going
 maintenance.

 If you have those skills, and are interested, please contact me off-list.

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Re: [WISPA] Nifty Outdoor Switch..

2009-04-26 Thread Scott Carullo
$700 no thanks

Its called a RB450G for $150

Scott Carullo
Brevard Wireless
321-205-1100 x102

 Original Message 
 From: Gino Villarini g...@aeronetpr.com
 Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2009 7:05 PM
 To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org, Motorola Canopy User 
Group motor...@wispa.org
 Subject: [WISPA] Nifty Outdoor Switch..
 
 Found this nice outdoor switch, multi power POE capable
  
 Nice for small pops
  
 anyone used it?
  
 http://www.inscapedata.com/pdf/LPS1000.pdf
  
 
 Gino A. Villarini 
 g...@aeronetpr.com 
 Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. 
 tel  787.273.4143   fax   787.273.4145 
 
  
 
 
 


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Re: [WISPA] Nifty Outdoor Switch..

2009-04-26 Thread Blair Davis




Looks interesting. any price info?

Gino Villarini wrote:

  Found this nice outdoor switch, multi power POE capable
 
Nice for small pops
 
anyone used it?
 
http://www.inscapedata.com/pdf/LPS1000.pdf
 

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g...@aeronetpr.com 
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Re: [WISPA] Wifi on AM Radio Tower?

2009-04-26 Thread Blake Bowers
Most of the time, an AM tower is HOT.  IE, the entire tower
is the antenna.  This presents all sorts of issues with coupling the
equipment at the base of the tower, etc.

Most people will not work with a hot tower.


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- Original Message - 
From: Israel Lopez ilopezli...@sandboxitsolutions.com
To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2009 6:41 PM
Subject: [WISPA] Wifi on AM Radio Tower?


 Hello There,

 I am a volunteer IT guy spending some time in Honduras.  I sent the list
 an email awhile ago for some knowledgeable guys in the WISPA space and I
 was impressed with some of your members' willingness to help.  Im
 sending you guys a message so i have some feedback.

 We are here in Juticalpa, Olancho, Honduras.   We have a tower that we
 are housing some multi point equipment on.  A low grade omni, with no
 back haul where other sites use to get connectivity as our Demarc for
 internet doesnt have LOS to all of our sites.   Our sites are schools, 3
 of them:  Special needs, Elementary, High School.  The current problem
 is the network is slow end to end (from Site - multipoint -
 demarc(internet) we have 800kbps, and 300ms) over 2.8kilometers.

 We are putting a plan together to build a backhaul (new radios) and
 possibly better antenna coverage if it is possible

 1) Our multipoint site has two towers available, we are using one of them.
 2) The second tower has an AM Radio attached to it.
 3) The AM Radio is broadcasting on 650Khz @ 1KW of power on the 100meter
 tower
 4) We have a smaller tower (20Meters) with some 200mW 2.4Ghz Wifi Radio
 5) This WIFI radio is acting as a bridge to other sites we cant get LOS.

 The idea.

 1) Rebuild the multi point with a 2.4Ghz back haul PTP, and a new Omni
 directional radio @ 300mW
 2) Move the setup into the 100Meter tower on the same tower with the AM
 transmitter for better LOS coverage.

 The expectation of a problem: Will that work?  Are we crazy to put a
 2.4Ghz antenna @ 300mW on the same tower as an AM Transmitter on 650Khz
 @ 1KW.  I am honestly expecting RF overload on some of the radios to
 cause problems.  If thats not the case, then we could use the higher
 tower to serve an area better.

 We are not running a WISP here, mainly providing data connectivity
 between schools.

 Let me know what your guys's thoughts are.

 -Israel








 
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Re: [WISPA] Wifi on AM Radio Tower?

2009-04-26 Thread os10rules

Here's some ideas:

1. if your user base is on 2.4 ghz then use 5.8ghz for the backhaul,  
especially if you want to build your system with some room to grow in  
the future. Using the same band for your backhaul and for your user  
base severely limits your throughput and pretty much ensures you have  
no room to grow. There's a lot of cheap 5.8 ghz gear out there that  
works great for backhaul.
2. shielded Cat 5/6 cable anyplace you're using cat 5/6 cable between  
equipment that's in a high rf environment to eliminate or reduce  
interference
3. ferrite beads on the coax and power cables to reduce or eliminate  
interference.
4. eliminate cable and use rf where ever possible for long links.  
Using long runs of cat 5/6 cable will introduce points of entry for rf  
interference and also failure points for the inevitable nearby  
lightning strikes.


Greg

On Apr 26, 2009, at 7:41 PM, Israel Lopez wrote:


Hello There,

I am a volunteer IT guy spending some time in Honduras.  I sent the  
list an email awhile ago for some knowledgeable guys in the WISPA  
space and I was impressed with some of your members' willingness to  
help.  Im sending you guys a message so i have some feedback.


We are here in Juticalpa, Olancho, Honduras.   We have a tower that  
we are housing some multi point equipment on.  A low grade omni,  
with no back haul where other sites use to get connectivity as our  
Demarc for internet doesnt have LOS to all of our sites.   Our sites  
are schools, 3 of them:  Special needs, Elementary, High School.   
The current problem is the network is slow end to end (from Site -  
multipoint - demarc(internet) we have 800kbps, and 300ms) over  
2.8kilometers.


We are putting a plan together to build a backhaul (new radios) and  
possibly better antenna coverage if it is possible


1) Our multipoint site has two towers available, we are using one of  
them.

2) The second tower has an AM Radio attached to it.
3) The AM Radio is broadcasting on 650Khz @ 1KW of power on the  
100meter tower
4) We have a smaller tower (20Meters) with some 200mW 2.4Ghz Wifi  
Radio
5) This WIFI radio is acting as a bridge to other sites we cant get  
LOS.


The idea.

1) Rebuild the multi point with a 2.4Ghz back haul PTP, and a new  
Omni directional radio @ 300mW
2) Move the setup into the 100Meter tower on the same tower with the  
AM transmitter for better LOS coverage.


The expectation of a problem: Will that work?  Are we crazy to put a  
2.4Ghz antenna @ 300mW on the same tower as an AM Transmitter on  
650Khz @ 1KW.  I am honestly expecting RF overload on some of the  
radios to cause problems.  If thats not the case, then we could use  
the higher tower to serve an area better.


We are not running a WISP here, mainly providing data connectivity  
between schools.


Let me know what your guys's thoughts are.

-Israel
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Re: [WISPA] Nifty Outdoor Switch..

2009-04-26 Thread Butch Evans
On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 21:09 -0400, Scott Carullo wrote:
 $700 no thanks
 
 Its called a RB450G for $150

$700 is a bit steep for what this does, however a RB450G cannot
duplicate the poe injector function that this one has.  I've looked for
something similar to this for a long time, but that price is WAY more
than it's usefulness, IMO.

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Re: [WISPA] SOLVED - Signal Strengths

2009-04-26 Thread Jack Unger




Good job!

Jason Wallace wrote:

  
Well,
  
 There was only a desert floor of dirt between me and the AP about 4
miles away. Not even any houses to speak of. There were no metal
roofs directly in the way. There WAS a very large steel building
perpendicular to me about 40 feet away. Also, within 2 miles, there's
grain silos scattered around that could cause a reflection. It was
either this or it was right at the edge of Fresnel effects.
  
SOLUTION?
  
I changed to a CPE with a higher gain (Deliberating 15dbi). I think
the tighter antenna pattern acted like "blinders" to the out of phase
signals. 
I did not have to move the installation point. 70's db. All is well.
  
Thanks everyone, for your encouraging input.
  
Jason
  
PS. I'm keeping an eye on it...
  
Josh Luthman wrote:
  
This happens a lot with metal roofs in the way.  10 feet over, around
the mentioned building we go from -90 to -65

On 4/25/09, Jack Unger jun...@ask-wi.com wrote:
  

  You're seeing normal RF behavior. Simply mount the antenna where the
signal is the strongest then use your network monitoring system to keep
an "eye" on it.

Jason Wallace wrote:

  
Everyone,

I had trouble during an install today regarding signal strengths.
2.4Ghz CPE in a location that should be no problem.  Moving the CPE two
feet in any direction from the point where the CPE was installed
increased the signal by around 20db (-90 to -70!)

Any idea of what phenomenon I am dealing with?

Anything I should consider as I correct this install?

Jason



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