Re: [WISPA] Data-Alliance.net Horror story w/ Air Fiber

2012-12-17 Thread Larry Weidig 
I am really not sure what the issue with an International version would be.  
Set the country code setting to US and poof you have the equivalent of the US 
version.  I know there has been some talk about different power and such, but I 
can assure you that is not the case.  We got a set that were not the US version 
installed them and received exactly the predicted signal strength, actually 1 
dB better.


Larry A. Weidig (lwei...@excel.net)
Excel.Net, Inc. - http://www.excel.net/
(920) 452-0455 - Sheboygan/Plymouth area
(888) 489-9995 - Other areas, toll-free

From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf 
Of Scott Carullo
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 8:05 PM
To: wireless@wispa.org
Subject: [WISPA] Data-Alliance.net Horror story w/ Air Fiber

So... I really needed an Air Fiber for an important project that was time 
sensitive...

Go to the UBNT tool and see who has stock, I very specifically put HAS TO BE US 
VERSION in the notes.

George Hardesty from there emails me that his company Data-Alliance.net has 
them in stock.

I send an email directly back to his, asking specifically, you have the US 
version in stock?  He emails back, yes he has verified that he has US version 
in stock.

I buy it.  I wait a week.  It shows up and low and behold its the international 
version.  Woohoo, just wasted my time and money and project is not happening 
when I promised customer.  That should not have happened when I specifically 
asked twice for him to verify what I was buying before hand.

It gets better.  Of course I had AMEX open chargeback on the purchase because I 
already lost time, money and possibly new customer on this inexcusable botched 
shipment.  I called George and let him know this and that I expected them to 
pay for shipping back as well because it was 100% his fault.  He then informs 
me he has the US version and can ship it out to fix my problem and will also 
include shipping label for the wrong air fiber return.  Great, seems reasonable 
- at least there is light at the end of the one week delay.   I get with AMEX 
and have them drop the dispute.   I get shipping label and return product to 
him after waiting in line at UPS (bad time of year to ship stuff).  George send 
me tracking info for new US air fiber (I had him double check again, before 
shipping the second time as you might imagine). Ok, I am assured everything is 
good and the correct part is now on its way.  Supposed to arrive today  I 
check tracking this evening because package never arrived, but hey, its baout 
xmas maybe they are working late?  Nope - Mr Hardesty called UPS and had the 
package returned to sender.  LOL  - seriously?

Now I'm late on the project twice and customer thinks this is some sort of new 
hobby for me.  I'm not happy.  And I sure as heck won't make the mistake of 
ordering something from Data-Alliance.net again since they are obviously 
lacking integrity and competence in several departments.  I just can't believe 
after having discussed all this with him several times, and us both potentially 
having everything work out acceptably that he pulled this and didn't even 
bother to communicate with me so I could have at the very least saved another 
lost day.  Now I start over, third time...

/End rant


Scott Carullo
Technical Operations
855-FLSPEED x102

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Re: [WISPA] Internet Speed test..are they inaccurate with wireless?

2012-08-21 Thread Larry Weidig 
Bret:

We have found that the tests are "fairly" accurate (well speedtest.net anyhow), 
BUT only in controlled environments.  Your end user is probably running these 
tests when their Internet is "slow".  Viola look I am right it is slow, xyz 
speed test says so!  What he does not realize is that Johnny intern in the 
warehouse has set his computer up to grab torrents for him while he picks stock 
and then just dumps the off to flash before heading out.  Ok, that is just one 
example, but all sorts of other traffic can come into play.

We tell our customers that we are not at all interested in speed tests unless 
we have a support person on the line watching their link for other types of 
traffic as well during the test.  We also host their speedtest.net mini (free) 
on own of our own servers so that we can eliminate any Internet oddness causing 
problems with the results.  The mini however only seems accurate up to about 
25-30 Mbps in our experience at which point the results are only ballpark at 
best. Ookla claims mini is good until about 50 Mbps, but that has not been our 
experience.

Just what we have experienced with speedtest results.


Larry A. Weidig (lwei...@excel.net)
Excel.Net, Inc. - http://www.excel.net/
(920) 452-0455 - Sheboygan/Plymouth area
(888) 489-9995 - Other areas, toll-free

From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf 
Of Bret Clark
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 2:22 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: [WISPA] Internet Speed test..are they inaccurate with wireless?

We mostly deal with business customer and guarantee bandwidth to customers. We 
validate the bandwidth using IPERF from a Linux server off of our BGP edge 
routers down to the customer and IPERF always shows the customer getting the 
bandwidth they signed up for.  We use QoS to control bandwidth and make sure to 
not oversubscribe any one linksmall ratios of 3:1.

Of course eventually at some point the customer runs one of those stupid 
bandwidth test on the Internet and the results are woefully inaccurate (not in 
our favor)...but  of course customers take the results as gospel. 
AAA!

It's not our internet connections, we have three 100Mbps BGP links and none of 
them run at more then 50% during peak loads.

Has anyone else found those Internet speed test to be woefully inaccurate? Or 
is something else going on that I'm missing?

Thanks,
Bret
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Re: [WISPA] ethernet and towers with FM transmitters

2012-02-29 Thread Larry Weidig 
www.mouser.com and search for EMI clamp.  They have a 
lot of options available.


Larry A. Weidig (lwei...@excel.net)
Excel.Net, Inc. - http://www.excel.net/
(920) 452-0455 - Sheboygan/Plymouth area
(888) 489-9995 - Other areas, toll-free

From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf 
Of Ben West
Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 1:58 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] ethernet and towers with FM transmitters

Might anyone have a recommendation for a cheap supplier of ferrite beads large 
enough to fit thick STP, e.g. like Ubiquiti tough cable?

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Ben West
http://gowasabi.net
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Re: [WISPA] Aircontrol for UBNT

2011-10-19 Thread Larry Weidig 
Is 1.4.2 the version they were demoing at Wisapalooza?  Thought that it was 2.x 
from what I recall.  Is that version available anywhere at this point?


Larry A. Weidig (lwei...@excel.net)
Excel.Net, Inc. - http://www.excel.net/
(920) 452-0455 - Sheboygan/Plymouth area
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-Original Message-
From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf 
Of Josh Luthman
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 11:50 AM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Aircontrol for UBNT

Green is connected.

Red means they are configured to be and once were, but are down (the radio 
isn't phoning the server).

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



On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:48 PM, ~NGL~  wrote:
> What are the Green and Red ? I have never seen them.
> NGL
>
> --
> From: "Patrick D. Nix, Jr" 
> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 9:01 AM
> To: "WISPA General List" 
> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Aircontrol for UBNT
>
>> :) right, I am able to discover the devices, do firmware updates, but 
>> rssi is not visible and the device shows up red, unless I do a 
>> rebuild in which case it goes green until the services on the BMU are 
>> started and then goes red again.  I am on a routed network OSPF my 
>> devices are private subnet but route-able from the AirControl server. 
>> i.e. I can ping, ssh, web connect to the radios from the aircontrol running 
>> on CentOS btw.
>>
>> Patrick Nix, Jr.,
>> Computer Network Solutions
>> CSWEB.NET Internet Services
>> IT Manager
>> http://www.cnetworksolutions.com
>> http://www.csweb.net
>> (918) 235-0414
>>
>>
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>>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] 
>> On Behalf Of Josh Luthman
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 10:51 AM
>> To: WISPA General List
>> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Aircontrol for UBNT
>>
>> Too many Air products.
>>
>> If you're doing a broadcast discovery they need to be in the same 
>> collision domain, same interface of the router, etc.  I expect you're 
>> probably trying that and they are on a different collision domain so 
>> what you do is add an IP range in the scan box (ie 10.10.10.0/24 and
>> 172.16.2.0/24 and 192.168.233.0/24)
>>
>> Josh Luthman
>> Office: 937-552-2340
>> Direct: 937-552-2343
>> 1100 Wayne St
>> Suite 1337
>> Troy, OH 45373
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Patrick D. Nix, Jr 
>>  wrote:
>>> Cameras? No cameras, just managing the APs and CPEs.  All of my APs 
>>> are added as infrastructure already, still not working.  Are there 
>>> any additional ports that need to be open to establish communication?
>>>
>>> Patrick Nix, Jr.,
>>> Computer Network Solutions
>>> CSWEB.NET Internet Services
>>> IT Manager
>>> http://www.cnetworksolutions.com
>>> http://www.csweb.net
>>> (918) 235-0414
>>>
>>>
>>> Attention: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential 
>>> and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, 
>>> please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, delete this 
>>> e-mail and destroy any copies. Any dissemination or use of this 
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>>> unauthorized and may be illegal.
>>>
>>> -Original Message-
>>> From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] 
>>> On Behalf Of Josh Luthman
>>> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 10:41 AM
>>> To: WISPA General List
>>> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Aircontrol for UBNT
>>>
>>> Just add the cameras as infrastructure.  It's the easiest way and 
>>> best way (it's documented!!!)
>>>
>>> Josh Luthman
>>> Office: 937-552-2340
>>> Direct: 937-552-2343
>>> 1100 Wayne St
>>> Suite 1337
>>> Troy, OH 45373
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Patrick D. Nix, Jr 
>>>  wrote:
 Having trouble establishing communication to radios via aircontrol.  
 It is definitely an issue with our firewall (using a imagestream 
 rebel running iptables via powercode) because when I initiate a 
 rebuild the communication comes up after the services process it 
 goes down again.  I already have port
 22 and port 9080 open.  Any ideas?



 Pat






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