Re: [AFMUG] [WISPA] S'il vous plaît priez pour nos amis français

2015-11-16 Thread Ken Hohhof
I think there was a time when TV news drew big audiences and therefore advertising dollars, and there was a genuine desire to report the news without any political agenda. Basically from the Walter Cronkite and Huntley/Brinkley era and the Vietnam War to about the time CNN was founded and the

Re: [AFMUG] [WISPA] S'il vous plaît priez pour nos amis français

2015-11-16 Thread Ken Hohhof
The cost of WWII is unimaginable to most people today. 3% of the world population dead. I wonder if ISIS is trying to start WWIII. It would be ironic if they end up fighting a two front war against the US and European allies in Iraq, and Russia in Syria. Russia would not have the Siberian

Re: [AFMUG] CentOS 6.7 or 7?

2015-11-16 Thread Ken Hohhof
Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Nov 10, 2015 1:34 AM, "Eric Kuhnke" <eric.kuh...@gmail.com> wrote: 7, for the 3.x series kernel if nothing else. On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 9:41 PM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> w

[AFMUG] all you can eat, not all y'all can eat

2015-11-16 Thread Ken Hohhof
Somehow this seems relevant to sharing your unlimited Internet. (watch video) http://wgntv.com/2015/11/13/irate-customer-arrested-after-sharing-all-you-can-eat-pancakes/

Re: [AFMUG] DC question

2015-11-16 Thread Ken Hohhof
It does kind of get into the messy question of where is your single point ground? If it’s at the top, it would be better to run 4 wires, and connect the 24V and 48V return wires at the top to the single point ground. If you have electronics both top and bottom, things get a bit messy. If you

Re: [AFMUG] OT Politics

2015-11-15 Thread Ken Hohhof
... in a galaxy far, far away? From: Chuck McCown Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2015 9:55 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: [AFMUG] OT Politics So in the debate, Hillary said she is from the 60s, a long time ago... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kt3Q00iJVU

Re: [AFMUG] Sandstone

2015-11-11 Thread Ken Hohhof
I haven’t faced that problem, but I believe they make a non-pen mount for Rohn 25G. If the sandstone is flat and level, could you use a non-pen and rather than (or in addition to) cinder blocks, fasten the corners to the sandstone with masonry anchors? If you don’t trust traditional anchors,

Re: [AFMUG] dmca email

2015-11-12 Thread Ken Hohhof
swip, thats it Im trying to understand this better, I dont know about the abuse contact whether that is maintained as parent, but to provide poc info for a subdelegation does the end user have to accept it and create an ARIN account? On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Ken Hohhof <af..

Re: [AFMUG] Steer customers to ACH (vs CC)?

2015-11-11 Thread Ken Hohhof
s get added. I also tell them that credit cards cost us more to process than checks. I basically just tell them that we prefer ACH, but we will take anything. I regularly question whether ACH is a good idea or not. We have more problem customers on ACH than any other payment method.

Re: [AFMUG] Steer customers to ACH (vs CC)?

2015-11-11 Thread Ken Hohhof
, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: I love auto bill pay, where the customer sets up for the bank to automatically mail a check each month to arrive on or before the payment due date. I stress to customers that unlike other bills with phony fees and taxes, our bill is e

Re: [AFMUG] Cambium Entitlement Keys

2015-11-12 Thread Ken Hohhof
least 1 key that the Entitlement sticks around so you can see how many are left. On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 9:23 AM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: If you get an entitlement for let’s say 10 activations, the Cambium site will tell you how many you have used and how many are le

Re: [AFMUG] Sandstone

2015-11-11 Thread Ken Hohhof
-861-1390 On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: I haven’t faced that problem, but I believe they make a non-pen mount for Rohn 25G. If the sandstone is flat and level, could you use a non-pen and rather than (or in addition to) cinder blocks, fasten the c

Re: [AFMUG] dmca email

2015-11-12 Thread Ken Hohhof
You can SWIP the block to them, I personally wouldn’t bother for less than a /27 but I guess you could do smaller, I don’t know if you can reassign a single IP, probably yes. Whether this will change who gets the DMCA emails depends on how they are deciding who to send them to, probably abuse

Re: [AFMUG] Cambium Entitlement Keys

2015-11-12 Thread Ken Hohhof
If you get an entitlement for let’s say 10 activations, the Cambium site will tell you how many you have used and how many are left. I don’t know of a way to store an unused entitlement on the site though. From: Sam Lambie Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2015 10:19 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject:

Re: [AFMUG] sealant for N-F bulkhead connectors

2015-11-12 Thread Ken Hohhof
Or use something like Coax Seal and mold it all the way down the connector onto the box so the water doesn't pool around the connector. Also a drain hole in the bottom of the box is probably better than trying to hermetically seal the box, which will cause a vacuum when the temperature drops

Re: [AFMUG] Cambium Entitlement Keys

2015-11-12 Thread Ken Hohhof
e at least 1 key that the Entitlement sticks around so you can see how many are left. On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 9:23 AM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: If you get an entitlement for let’s say 10 activations, the Cambium site will tell you how many you have used and how many are left.

Re: [AFMUG] All units on a tower lost GPS sync

2015-11-02 Thread Ken Hohhof
Have you done a physical inspection up on the tower? And has another tenant fired up anything new on the tower that could be interfering with GPS signals, either by physically blocking the view of the satellites, or RF interference? LightSquared testing some equipment on your tower? Are

Re: [AFMUG] pmp450 60 degree sector antenna 5Ghz

2015-11-03 Thread Ken Hohhof
The spec sheet doesn’t even include numbers for the 3rd port, but I seem to remember it was low gain and 60 degree elevation beamwidth to match a bare PMP100 AP? Is that useful to you? From: George Skorup Sent: Monday, November 02, 2015 3:35 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] pmp450 60

Re: [AFMUG] Airfiber 24 HD

2015-10-30 Thread Ken Hohhof
You know what really sucks for multipath? Heavy rain on frozen ground, sits there and freezes into a big skating rink out in the fields, and stays there until spring thaw. Like a big RF mirror. Other than that, RF seems to like winter. From: Daniel White Sent: Friday, October 30, 2015 6:52

Re: [AFMUG] Checking Comcast Availability on a Per Address Basis?

2015-11-04 Thread Ken Hohhof
the data into my GIS system and have a quick visual. The next town I'm looking at has nearly 80 road miles. On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 9:03 AM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: Is the coax cable in the area on poles or buried? If it’s on poles, a little driving might answer your qu

Re: [AFMUG] Interesting article about a small town creatingtheir own network

2015-11-03 Thread Ken Hohhof
We won’t even relay off one neighbor to another anymore, due to experience with people moving or getting into fights with the neighbor, etc. We’ll only do it between relatives and even then you can get issues. I’m trying to imagine doing it on the scale of this network. People there must

Re: [AFMUG] Interesting article about a small towncreatingtheir own network

2015-11-03 Thread Ken Hohhof
at 11:37 AM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: We won’t even relay off one neighbor to another anymore, due to experience with people moving or getting into fights with the neighbor, etc. We’ll only do it between relatives and even then you can get issues. I’m trying to imagine

Re: [AFMUG] OT Craigslist

2015-11-04 Thread Ken Hohhof
My advice to Chuck would be to separate the two things. Look for a house cleaner, and look for a boarder. At least around here, lots of moms clean houses part time to make some extra money. It’s a job you can do during the day while the kids are in school, or on weekends as a second job. I

Re: [AFMUG] OT 2-way radio systems

2015-11-04 Thread Ken Hohhof
Like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSbigjiKLoU From: Jaime Solorza Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2015 8:27 PM To: Animal Farm Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT 2-way radio systems For my tower work I am happy with Cheap radios... Public safety is another world...but the point I so poorly tried

Re: [AFMUG] VoIP/Dial-Tone/Old Alarm setup question

2015-11-04 Thread Ken Hohhof
You do mean dial tone, right? From: ch...@wbmfg.com Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2015 5:10 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] VoIP/Dial-Tone/Old Alarm setup question ATAs provide dial tone. From: Rory Conaway Sent: Wednesday, November 4, 2015 4:04 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject:

Re: [AFMUG] Has FCC "gone off the rails" with latest Wi-Fi blockingfines? | ITworld

2015-11-04 Thread Ken Hohhof
Whatever happened with 802.11w? Wouldn’t this prevent the deauth hack by cryptographically protecting management frames? From: That One Guy /sarcasm Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2015 12:46 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Has FCC "gone off the rails" with latest Wi-Fi blockingfines?

Re: [AFMUG] OT need advice

2015-11-04 Thread Ken Hohhof
Does that mean she shoveled your empty beer bottles and pizza boxes to the curb on garbage day? From: Rory Conaway Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2015 8:26 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT need advice Myself and my two other roommates did that while we were in college. Gave a room

Re: [AFMUG] OT Craigslist

2015-11-05 Thread Ken Hohhof
t; > > > > > Molly is a drug. It is not ecstasy. I believe it's a "light" version > > > of it though? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Josh Luthman > > > Office: 937-552-2340 > > > Direct: 937-552-2343 &

Re: [AFMUG] OT Craigslist

2015-11-05 Thread Ken Hohhof
> Josh Luthman > > Office: 937-552-2340 > > Direct: 937-552-2343 > > 1100 Wayne St > > Suite 1337 > > Troy, OH 45373 > > > > > > > > On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Chuck McCown <ch...@wbmfg.com> > wrote: > > &

Re: [AFMUG] power Switches (PDUs)

2015-11-05 Thread Ken Hohhof
Somebody posted awhile back about a CyberPower 1U switched PDU with 10 outlets and a built-in 2 input automatic transfer switch: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00PY0KUCO I put one in at a tower a month ago and so far have been happy with it. It’s not cheap, but the ATS feature is very

Re: [AFMUG] OT Craigslist

2015-11-05 Thread Ken Hohhof
? From: Jeremy Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2015 9:13 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Craigslist Molly and Lucy? Who sells Ecstasy and LSD on Craigslist??? That's some crazy stuff right there. On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 7:43 PM, Ken Hohhof <af...

Re: [AFMUG] OT Craigslist

2015-11-05 Thread Ken Hohhof
to anyone getting hurt but for some reason is legal. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: Josh only says that because they just voted not to put the HI i

Re: [AFMUG] Here we go - TPP Full Text Released

2015-11-05 Thread Ken Hohhof
That's not how I read the text you cited. It seems to say each country will have a legal process for copyright holders to obtain this information. Currently the US has the DMCA plus copyright holders can obtain a court order. I don't see where that would have to change. I am not a lawyer,

Re: [AFMUG] recommendations for 3.65 Ghz 120degree dual slantantenna

2015-11-05 Thread Ken Hohhof
Of Ken Hohhof Sent: Thursday, November 5, 2015 11:22 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] recommendations for 3.65 Ghz 120degree dualslant antenna Maybe this is a good time to ask if there is a difference between “electrical” and “mechanical” downtilt? If not, then it’s not a big deal

Re: [AFMUG] recommendations for 3.65 Ghz 120degree dualslant antenna

2015-11-05 Thread Ken Hohhof
From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Ken Hohhof Sent: Wednesday, November 4, 2015 7:54 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] recommendations for 3.65 Ghz 120 degree dualslant antenna But 4 degrees downtilt on a sector with 7 degree vertical beamwidth seems excessive

Re: [AFMUG] OT Craigslist

2015-11-05 Thread Ken Hohhof
, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: Used to be it was smuggling Coors beer east of the Mississippi. -Original Message- From: Daniel White Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2015 11:55 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Craigslist I've certainly been

Re: [AFMUG] Minor product change

2015-11-07 Thread Ken Hohhof
Except not 430? -Original Message- From: Chuck McCown Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2015 3:43 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Minor product change No, they help, the bigger the dish, the more they help. They work very will with 450. I should have phrased it better.

Re: [AFMUG] using heliax for DC power up tower?

2015-11-03 Thread Ken Hohhof
If it’s solid copper and not copper clad steel or something. From: Adam Moffett Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2015 2:08 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] using heliax for DC power up tower? For equivalent wire gauge would you just compare the center conductor diameter to a wire gauge

Re: [AFMUG] Checking Comcast Availability on a Per Address Basis?

2015-11-04 Thread Ken Hohhof
Is the coax cable in the area on poles or buried? If it’s on poles, a little driving might answer your question. From: Christopher Gray Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2015 7:16 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: [AFMUG] Checking Comcast Availability on a Per Address Basis? Does anyone know of a way

Re: [AFMUG] using heliax for DC power up tower?

2015-11-03 Thread Ken Hohhof
At high frequencies, yes. High frequency RF is like Shallow Hal, skin deep is all that matters. From: Bill Prince Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2015 8:00 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] using heliax for DC power up tower? Doesn't something like 90% of the current flow through the

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Best laptop for battery and price

2015-11-02 Thread Ken Hohhof
No Ethernet is kind of a killer for me. I accepted no serial port and using a USB dongle, because serial is a dinosaur anyway. And I even accept that laptops typically have no CD/DVD drives anymore, that can be solved with USB flash drives. But everything we do is Ethernet, and any kind of

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Best laptop for battery and price

2015-10-31 Thread Ken Hohhof
The Thinkpad contoured keys are nice, the trackpads are hit or miss depending on model. I like the keyboard and trackpad on my 5 year old Sony VAIO Z-series, but of course Sony got out of the PC business. From: Josh Luthman Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2015 8:37 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject:

Re: [AFMUG] Roundcube

2015-11-05 Thread Ken Hohhof
For the typical WISP, I think it’s 3 facts: Fact 1: 10% of customers are morons Fact 2: 10% of customers will get an email account from you Fact 3: they are the same 10% It sounds like Lewis had a lot of business customers with their own domains, that’s maybe a different and possibly more

Re: [AFMUG] Roundcube

2015-11-05 Thread Ken Hohhof
Surely you recognize the absurdity of 14 servers for a few hundred mailboxes. Might as well give each customer their own personal mailserver. Wait, was Hillary one of your customers? From: Mike Hammett Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2015 8:44 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Roundcube

Re: [AFMUG] OT Craigslist

2015-11-06 Thread Ken Hohhof
sense. I understand Lucy but why is Molly Ecstacy? From: Jeremy Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2015 9:13 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Craigslist Molly and Lucy? Who sells Ecstasy and LSD on Craigslist??? That's some crazy stuff right there. On Wed, N

Re: [AFMUG] 10Gbps FTTH

2015-10-16 Thread Ken Hohhof
2015 at 10:42 AM, <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: East St. Louis... -Original Message- From: Ken Hohhof Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 9:33 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 10Gbps FTTH This is the New Economy, we don't need no stinkin' profits. http://

Re: [AFMUG] Deep Cycle Battery

2015-10-19 Thread Ken Hohhof
An alternative if you want a high quality AGM Group 27 100 Ah battery, there’s a place in Texas selling Sun Xtenders for $280 incl shipping: http://centexbatteries.com/PVX-1040T.html I recently bought the same batteries but paid around $300 at a local Concorde dealer where I could pick them up

Re: [AFMUG] Fiber up the tower with edgepoint thanks Ben

2015-10-19 Thread Ken Hohhof
So I’m lost, are you talking about antennas for the B11? Are you saying Jirous is supplying HP 11 GHz antennas? If that’s correct, I hope the build quality is a giant step up from the 5 GHz antennas I’ve bought from them, they are OK especially for the price, but I would demand a lot more for

Re: [AFMUG] Take down notices/Copyright infringement notices..

2015-10-14 Thread Ken Hohhof
Maybe notices of claimed infringement have entered new territory recently, but I’m pretty sure every one we ever received was accurate. But I think it’s been a couple years since we received one. With the exception of a handful of cable network shows that are unavailable for streaming, it’s

Re: [AFMUG] PMP 450i 900 MHz SM

2015-10-14 Thread Ken Hohhof
There are dual slant antennas for cellular 900 but the trend seems to be toward multiband something like 900/1900/2500 for LTE. From: Adam Moffett Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2015 12:09 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] PMP 450i 900 MHz SM One problem I see is V and H antennas are

Re: [AFMUG] PMP 450i 900 MHz SM

2015-10-14 Thread Ken Hohhof
In my search for antenna options other then ITElite, I see a lot of LH and RH circular. From: Daniel White Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2015 11:24 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] PMP 450i 900 MHz SM I’m sure Matt will post in detail their reasoning for dual-slant next week, but to

Re: [AFMUG] Anyone not at Wispapalooza?

2015-10-14 Thread Ken Hohhof
You, me, and Joe Biden. From: Gino Villarini Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2015 11:29 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: [AFMUG] Anyone not at Wispapalooza? just me?

Re: [AFMUG] PMP 450i 900 MHz SM

2015-10-14 Thread Ken Hohhof
I actually have a subdivision repeater using the old Trango 900, all the subs are within 2 blocks with signals in the 40’s and 50’s. But the AP and SU are all the 8x12 inch internal antenna versions with 60x60 beamwidth. There is no way aesthetically that I can use either the 3 ft sector or

Re: [AFMUG] Anyone not at Wispapalooza?

2015-10-14 Thread Ken Hohhof
Why is everything in PR upside down? Is it in the southern hemisphere? -Original Message- From: Brett A Mansfield Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2015 12:24 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Anyone not at Wispapalooza? I wanted to go, but I had already booked a trip to Puerto

Re: [AFMUG] Take down notices/Copyright infringement notices..

2015-10-13 Thread Ken Hohhof
Here in the U.S., I believe the FCC Open Internet Order exempts premises like Starbucks (I forget the terminology they used) from rules applied to “BIAS providers”. From: Eric Kuhnke Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 7:54 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Take down notices/Copyright

Re: [AFMUG] PTP400

2015-10-14 Thread Ken Hohhof
Vector error is the same as SNR, but probably expressed as a negative rather than positive dB value. Also it is an actual SNR calculation from comparing the received constellation point to the decoded constellation point which is presumably what was originally transmitted. As opposed to

Re: [AFMUG] current 5ghz chart

2015-10-14 Thread Ken Hohhof
If you’re talking equipment certified under the new FCC rules, there is no simple answer. It depends on the radio and may be different at every frequency even within the same band. So you need to check the firmware or a path calculator tool from the particular manufacturer, unless you are

Re: [AFMUG] Any interesting multi-gigabit backhauls at wispalooza..

2015-10-14 Thread Ken Hohhof
How does that work from a frequency coordination standpoint? I guess you need the same frequency clear in both directions. Given that Part 101 channels come in pairs (high and low), does the other one go unused? Or do the radios use both frequencies in both directions? Are the frequency

Re: [AFMUG] Any interesting multi-gigabit backhauls at wispalooza..

2015-10-14 Thread Ken Hohhof
At some point you reach diminishing returns, given licensing and antenna costs. Also in 11 GHz I always want to know system margin which depends on factors like xmt power, rcv sensitivity, adaptive modulation, and whether you get max xmt power at each modulation using adaptive. From: Brian

Re: [AFMUG] Any interesting multi-gigabit backhauls at wispalooza..

2015-10-14 Thread Ken Hohhof
actually transmits on 4 channels (2 low and 2 high) – Achieving their 4x4 MIMO deal.. Peter Kranz www.UnwiredLtd.com Desk: 510-868-1614 x100 Mobile: 510-207- pkr...@unwiredltd.com From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Ken Hohhof Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2015 3:16 PM

Re: [AFMUG] Consumer routers?

2015-10-07 Thread Ken Hohhof
rse is trying to admin an AirPort from an ipad. bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 10/7/2015 11:21 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote: My guys hate the Apple routers because they can’t be configured from a web GUI, you need the AirPort software on your computer. At least that’s what they tell me.

Re: [AFMUG] FAA levies $1.9 M civil penalty

2015-10-07 Thread Ken Hohhof
I see the hawk-vs-drone and kangaroo-vs-drone videos on Youtube, and think you just need a trained hawk. Or kangaroo. I don’t know what happened to that guy’s drone, officer, I think it had a run-in with some wildlife. From: Chuck McCown Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2015 6:33 PM To:

Re: [AFMUG] $117,000 to install cable internet

2015-10-15 Thread Ken Hohhof
Steve was abducted by aliens who left a robot duplicate in his place the last few days. Now they have returned the real Steve, who is grouchy because ... probing? From: ch...@wbmfg.com Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2015 3:21 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] $117,000 to install cable

Re: [AFMUG] 10Gbps FTTH

2015-10-16 Thread Ken Hohhof
This is the New Economy, we don't need no stinkin' profits. http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/shinal/2015/10/15/square-ipo-filing-shows-fast-growth-consistent-losses/73985492/ And in the case of Google Fiber, how would we know if it was profitable? Unless Alphabet intends to split

Re: [AFMUG] Mimosa B11: Exactly what does the mounting look like?

2015-10-19 Thread Ken Hohhof
Are you asking about cost or difficulty of coordinating that many frequencies on the path? Application cost to FCC is per site independent of number of frequencies or even the number of paths, right? From: Roland Houin Sent: Monday, October 19, 2015 4:16 PM To: John Seaman Subject: Re:

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Hotel meets PTP microwave meets VHF/UHF/FM broadcast

2015-10-19 Thread Ken Hohhof
Very unique. Should be called the Hotel Jetsons, especially the insides of the hotel rooms, it has that "1962 view of the future" look. -Original Message- From: Eric Kuhnke Sent: Monday, October 19, 2015 12:23 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: [AFMUG] OT: Hotel meets PTP microwave meets

Re: [AFMUG] SM Up Tilt Solution

2015-10-19 Thread Ken Hohhof
Good point. Actually, if you are really close to the AP, it may be next to impossible to get good signal and modulation, even if the sector has null fill and you aim the SM up at the AP. We run into this underneath grain legs. Sometimes the best thing is to put in something like a

Re: [AFMUG] SM Up Tilt Solution

2015-10-19 Thread Ken Hohhof
What are you mounting to? An existing vertical pipe or tower leg? And is this a Cambium SM? For a bare SM, if a J-pipe cannot be oriented the right direction to supply the tilt, we use the Zirkel mounts. Like this:

Re: [AFMUG] Fiber up the tower with edgepoint thanks Ben

2015-10-19 Thread Ken Hohhof
<geo...@cbcast.com> wrote: Yes, lift hooks, please, for the love of god. Can be easily cast into the big hunk of aluminum if they would just do it. These things should not take two guys to install. On 10/19/2015 11:30 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote: (although I do wish Radiowaves would ad

Re: [AFMUG] Dead Broadcast Support squatting on PTP paths

2015-10-20 Thread Ken Hohhof
It would be interesting if you could convince a frequency coordinator to issue a PCN and if anyone would object. I’m not sure the FCC would ever notice the conflict, they rely on the PCN process. It would also be interesting to run by your coordinator if there is a process to get a zombie

Re: [AFMUG] Interesting antenna from UBNT

2015-10-17 Thread Ken Hohhof
Many here seem to assume the problem is too difficult for Ubiquiti engineers to figure out. Maybe. But if I had to guess, my money would be on they boxed themselves in by developing the hardware and the airMax protocol first, and then couldn’t get GPS sync to work without starting over.

Re: [AFMUG] 10Gbps FTTH

2015-10-16 Thread Ken Hohhof
et would have to generate a body armor company On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 10:42 AM, <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: East St. Louis... -----Original Message- From: Ken Hohhof Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 9:33 AM To: af@afmug.com S

Re: [AFMUG] Has Cambium announce pricing and availability for the 450/900 products yet?

2015-10-18 Thread Ken Hohhof
I guess also time to find out if those Lanbowan panels someone posted are available in less than a shipping container full, and whether they are good or junk. 15x15 is somewhat larger than I’d like, but better than a cross-pol yagi IMHO. I’m not sure I like the one N connector being in the

Re: [AFMUG] Has Cambium announce pricing and availability for the 450/900 products yet?

2015-10-18 Thread Ken Hohhof
I assume part of the prioritization was to get 5 GHz stuff approved before the FCC cutoff in July or whenever that was. From: Mathew Howard Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2015 1:22 PM To: af Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Has Cambium announce pricing and availability for the 450/900 products yet? I know, I

Re: [AFMUG] current 5ghz chart

2015-10-14 Thread Ken Hohhof
I had a chart, I dont know where its at, it went away when I went to windows 10. Just showed EIRP by channel/size accounting for band edges On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: If you’re talking equipment certified under the new FCC

Re: [AFMUG] Did I miss Chucks opinion on Ubnt SunMax

2015-10-14 Thread Ken Hohhof
They resisted calling it sunBeam? From: Craig Schmaderer Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2015 6:25 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: [AFMUG] Did I miss Chucks opinion on Ubnt SunMax Not sure when they released this, but I just saw this on their website. https://www.ubnt.com/sunmax/

Re: [AFMUG] TONS of calls offering financing/capital

2015-10-14 Thread Ken Hohhof
I get calls trying to sell me bandwidth. From: Eric Kuhnke Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2015 12:44 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] TONS of calls offering financing/capital Just insist on some ridiculously low interest rate, don't budge and they will stop calling. If that doesn't

Re: [AFMUG] adjustable DIN for rack

2015-10-20 Thread Ken Hohhof
of that box? Could you squeeze a 1100AH in there, or is it not deep enough? Josh On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: +1 on DIN rail to wood (or metal) backplate, then an inexpensive wall-mount rack for shallow rackmount equipment like a Mikrotik

Re: [AFMUG] Fiber up the tower with edgepoint thanks Ben

2015-10-19 Thread Ken Hohhof
a whole lot less. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com From: "Ken Hohhof" <af...@kwisp.com> To: af@afmug.com Sent: Monday, October 19, 2015 11:02:02 AM Subject: Re:

[AFMUG] antennas for B11 (changed subject)

2015-10-19 Thread Ken Hohhof
From: "Ken Hohhof" <af...@kwisp.com> To: af@afmug.com Sent: Monday, October 19, 2015 11:30:04 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Fiber up the tower with edgepoint thanks Ben Not comparable to a Rocket Dish, not in the same zipcode as a Commscope or Radiowaves licensed di

Re: [AFMUG] Netflix bandwidth

2015-10-08 Thread Ken Hohhof
The Prisoner. Except I don’t think either of them has it for streaming. From: Jaime Solorza Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2015 6:15 PM To: Animal Farm Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Netflix bandwidth The Invaders. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea... Jaime Solorza On Oct 8, 2015 3:40 PM, "Rory Conaway"

Re: [AFMUG] New to VoIP

2015-10-08 Thread Ken Hohhof
VoIP is the opposite of Internet service, in that business customers are far more needy than residential. If you offer hosted PBX service, make sure you charge enough, you are replacing their phone system guy. Even if they just want analog lines to replace POTS lines going into their ancient

Re: [AFMUG] New to VoIP

2015-10-08 Thread Ken Hohhof
Have you hired a plumber lately? That’s where the money is. I mean a plumber plumber, not an Internet plumber. Mothers, send your children to plumbing school. Or will they also fall to the “gig economy”? Uber for plumbers? Look, there’s someone with a wrench in his trunk 10 minutes from

Re: [AFMUG] Netflix bandwidth

2015-10-08 Thread Ken Hohhof
Disney=ABC and Comcast=NBC. So it’s difficult to separate networks from content owners. From: Mike Hammett Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2015 5:14 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Netflix bandwidth Fox owns 36%, Disney and Comcast each own 32%. Fox must have bought out the original

Re: [AFMUG] UBNT Next try

2015-10-10 Thread Ken Hohhof
But under the new FCC rules, I assume the closer you are to the band edge, the more the severe the OOBE requirement becomes. Could this be the start of equipment with additional hardware for a dynamic OOBE xmt filter to meet the FCC requirements? Whereas airPrism only filtered the rcv signal?

Re: [AFMUG] OT Campus Shootings

2015-10-10 Thread Ken Hohhof
Interesting article (spoiler alert – contains actual facts): http://www.vox.com/a/mass-shootings-sandy-hook Some tidbits from the article: - there are more gun suicides than gun homicides in America - mass shootings aren’t getting more common – and are a tiny share of all shootings - a tiny

Re: [AFMUG] OT Campus Shootings

2015-10-11 Thread Ken Hohhof
This is outrageous. How can America compete in a world economy if Germans can get to their jobs and classes 3 times as fast as we can? The government needs to develop a National Superhighway Plan, and measure and map advertised and actual speeds. The USDOT needs to immediately raise the

Re: [AFMUG] OT Guns etc

2015-10-11 Thread Ken Hohhof
So Chucks says “folks are smart and mostly polite” and then you have to ruin it. I don’t understand why it takes so little provocation these days to use the **tard word. In this case, just because you disagree with some folks. As I’ve turned 65 recently, I’ve noticed people using that

Re: [AFMUG] OT Guns etc

2015-10-11 Thread Ken Hohhof
We come in peas: http://bizarro.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/172/2014/06/Bizarro-07-05-98-PeasWEb.jpg From: Jaime Solorza Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2015 5:15 PM To: Animal Farm Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Guns etc Salud. Going to enjoy my beer and let you enjoy your day.since you are from

Re: [AFMUG] OT Guns etc

2015-10-11 Thread Ken Hohhof
Just don’t call me a unitard. From: Chuck McCown Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2015 3:07 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Guns etc You oldtard... From: Ken Hohhof Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2015 12:41 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Guns etc So Chucks says “folks

Re: [AFMUG] OT Guns etc

2015-10-11 Thread Ken Hohhof
Guns etc Well, he did say "mostly polite", not completely polite... And no, you probably shouldn't expect civility anywhere online, or not online, for that matter... unless you enjoy being disappointed :P On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 1:41 PM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: So Ch

Re: [AFMUG] OT Guns etc

2015-10-12 Thread Ken Hohhof
Everyone wants to elect a President based on ideology (or likeability), ignoring that the primary job is to run the executive branch. Eisenhower was probably the last POTUS who came to the job with credentials for effectively running a giant organization. Not saying someone can’t grow to fill

Re: [AFMUG] anybody know this IP

2015-10-12 Thread Ken Hohhof
I think you answered your own question, it’s likely a game download. If you Google that game, the download is huge. I have seen LLNW use aggressive TCP acceleration. How much traffic are you seeing (compared to the customer’s rate limit)? 1X? 2X? More? If it’s just maxing out the

Re: [AFMUG] how far can we go in capturing and investigating data?

2015-10-12 Thread Ken Hohhof
IANAL, but I would think you could capture and investigate any traffic you want on your network. The problem would be what you do with that data, for example disclosing to third parties, disclosing to law enforcement without a valid warrant or court order pertaining to that customer, or using

Re: [AFMUG] a lot of traffic to a dead subnet

2015-10-12 Thread Ken Hohhof
Is this enough traffic to raise suspicion of an actual attack? Or just a constant random dribble of DNS queries? If so, and given the queries are all for the same domain, maybe someone just has the authoritative nameserver or a delegation set wrong for that domain. Hard to tell since it is

[AFMUG] OT: new snack for Chuck

2015-10-12 Thread Ken Hohhof
Saw on the TV this morning that Hormel now sells dried Spam snacks. http://www.foodbeast.com/news/spam-bites/

Re: [AFMUG] OT Guns etc

2015-10-12 Thread Ken Hohhof
: [AFMUG] OT Guns etc So... you're saying we should elect Trump? He does run a large organization, afterall :P On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: Everyone wants to elect a President based on ideology (or likeability), ignoring that the primary job is

Re: [AFMUG] OT Guns etc

2015-10-12 Thread Ken Hohhof
ends up like a dslreports forum? On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Patrick Leary <patrick.le...@telrad.com> wrote: ++ 1000 Patrick Leary Patrick Leary Telrad On Oct 12, 2015 11:53 AM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: Everyone wants to

[AFMUG] CRS109-8G-1S-2HnD-IN vs RB2011UiAS-2HnD-IN

2015-10-12 Thread Ken Hohhof
Has anyone switched from using RB2011 to CRS109 for WiFi SoHo routers? Any gotchas? Main differences I see are CRS109 has 2 less ports but they are all gigabit, plus it seems to have a fan which might be a negative in some environments. Slightly different form factor, and a little more

Re: [AFMUG] CRS109-8G-1S-2HnD-IN vs RB2011UiAS-2HnD-IN

2015-10-12 Thread Ken Hohhof
throughput drops dramatically IMO. From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Ken Hohhof Sent: Monday, October 12, 2015 1:37 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] CRS109-8G-1S-2HnD-IN vs RB2011UiAS-2HnD-IN Can’t compare CRS and RB model numbers. I think the processor and memory

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