Re: [AFMUG] Google Fiber

2017-04-02 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Sounds about right, lol! From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Chuck McCown Sent: Sunday, April 2, 2017 9:34 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: [AFMUG] Google Fiber http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865676957/Google-Fiber-installation-moving-at-dial-up-speeds-in-Salt-Lake-City.html

Re: [AFMUG] MPLS/VPLS MTU

2017-04-05 Thread Sterling Jacobson
My MTU on all MPLS stuff is set for over 9000 so I can do jumbo. If you don’t want fragmentation or problems, your native MTU on layer2 needs to be larger probably. Then the next layer up a bit smaller, and so on so that you can again pass layer2 over the MPLS network at 1530. From: Af

Re: [AFMUG] What happened to Ken Hohof?

2017-04-12 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Lol! From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Steve Jones Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2017 5:46 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] What happened to Ken Hohof? 1 We admitted we were powerless over spectrum—that our lives had become unmanageable. 2 Came to believe that a Power

[AFMUG] Mikrotik SWOS RB260GS New 2.0 units VLAN broken?

2017-04-13 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Anyone get in the new RB260GS hardware versions with software 2.0 yet? I've got a few and management VLAN for the IP seems to be broken. I put in a VLAN for management on the last page and save and I cannot access/ping the device on VLAN uplink through SFP port.

Re: [AFMUG] IgniteNet / Angie press release

2017-04-19 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Looks cool! Could this be the first 2.4/5/60GHz all in one PtMP system? From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Cassidy B. Larson Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2017 10:45 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] IgniteNet / Angie press release What’s this Tri-band Metrolinq? On

Re: [AFMUG] Backhauling fiber 80 miles at 10Gig

2017-04-14 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Any I think since it’s the MUX and beyond that does all the special hard work. From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Paul McCall Sent: Friday, April 14, 2017 10:02 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Backhauling fiber 80 miles at 10Gig What kinda of switch / router would be

Re: [AFMUG] subpoena for non used IP

2017-04-12 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Interesting. I don’t know that any external agency has any power to do anything if you as the ISP just claim it is unused/never used. Never thought of that before. Not sure how you would ‘prove’ that either way. From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Steve Jones Sent: Wednesday,

Re: [AFMUG] installer hire / training process.

2017-04-23 Thread Sterling Jacobson
I had a guy like that a few years back. He was a satellite installer, so he should have been faster, but for the life of me I couldn’t get him to do installs in less than 3-5 hours each. He was contract installer, so I paid same dollar amount per install, no overage. Same as your guy it

[AFMUG] MAC Vendor Lookup

2017-04-21 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Does anyone have a good web site or source for MAC vendor lookup that is current? I want to look up several MAC addresses from customers devices and match them up with vendor. Can't seem to find a vendor for ones that begin with this 34:97:F6:98:D3:08.

Re: [AFMUG] Cost of Operations per Customer a month

2017-03-09 Thread Sterling Jacobson
and customers. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 6:31 PM, Sterling Jacobson <sterl...@avative.net<mailto:sterl...@avative.net>> wrote: Does anyone want to share their metric? -Original Message--

Re: [AFMUG] Ceragon IP-20c Password bug?

2017-03-02 Thread Sterling Jacobson
for a back door login. I do not remember the name but Ask Support Greg -Original Message- From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Sterling Jacobson Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2017 7:23 PM To: 'af@afmug.com' <af@afmug.com> Subject: [AFMUG] Ceragon IP-20c Password bug? So I'm

[AFMUG] Cost of Operations per Customer a month

2017-03-08 Thread Sterling Jacobson
There is probably a name for this in business, but I'm not a trained/schooled businessman. What is your ISP cost per customer to operate right now? Minus debt payments. Mine is currently $38.86 a month. That is taking my normal monthly costs minus loan payments and dividing it by number of

Re: [AFMUG] Cost of Operations per Customer a month

2017-03-08 Thread Sterling Jacobson
. From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Gino Villarini Sent: Wednesday, March 8, 2017 1:21 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Cost of Operations per Customer a month Are you including capex? On 3/8/17, 4:09 PM, "Af on behalf of Sterling Jacobson" Gino Villarini Presid

Re: [AFMUG] Cost of Operations per Customer a month

2017-03-08 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Does anyone want to share their metric? -Original Message- From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Sterling Jacobson Sent: Wednesday, March 8, 2017 1:09 PM To: 'af@afmug.com' <af@afmug.com> Subject: [AFMUG] Cost of Operations per Customer a month There is probably

Re: [AFMUG] Small-scale GPON

2017-03-06 Thread Sterling Jacobson
AE gets to be a headache with power costs and heat control in cabinets. Low oversub GPON is plenty good for now and probably well into the future. I believe that is what Google did, maybe 8:1 max split? The temptation with GPON is to stretch it to the limits, which might cause some re-splicing

[AFMUG] OT Songs that get us through it

2017-03-06 Thread Sterling Jacobson
A little Monday fun. In 2003 I quit being a 9-5 software engineer and started a WISP. It was the downturn of the tech bubble in the early 2000's and I was sick of it. I had no idea what the hell I was doing. It was a crazy ride and way outside of my expertise and comfort zone. The lyrics to

[AFMUG] In Home Wireless Extension

2017-03-01 Thread Sterling Jacobson
I have a customer with a "trendy" home that has concrete floors, three floors. One AP isn't doing very well to reach the entire house. They use Apple, so I'm thinking buying a bunch of refurbished Airport Extreme units and plugging them in on each floor via Ethernet. I know it's not mesh, but

Re: [AFMUG] Paul's SUMMARY: List topics and verboseness of non-WISPnon-business related discussions

2017-03-02 Thread Sterling Jacobson
I sent $50. It’s not much, but I hope it helps. From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Chuck McCown Sent: Thursday, March 2, 2017 4:04 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Paul's SUMMARY: List topics and verboseness of non-WISPnon-business related discussions OK folks, let’s

Re: [AFMUG] so what to do when a isp in India is using your logo...

2017-03-02 Thread Sterling Jacobson
LOL! It’s a compliment, right? From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett Sent: Thursday, March 2, 2017 8:07 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: so what to do when a isp in India is using your logo... Or just hijacks your whole online presence.

Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik SWOS RB260GS New 2.0 units VLAN broken?

2017-04-18 Thread Sterling Jacobson
t; wrote: Just got an order of them in, they have a new version? I haven't checked them out yet. Are you able to downgrade? On Thursday, April 13, 2017, Sterling Jacobson <sterl...@avative.net<mailto:sterl...@avative.net>> wrote: Anyone get in the new RB260GS hardware versions with so

[AFMUG] UBNT OLT Transition from Active Ethernet to GPON

2017-07-31 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Anyone tried their PON OLT CPE and OLT 8 port (128 clients per port) 1U unit? I see pricing around $70 retail for OLT, but haven't seen pricing yet for the OLT 1U unit. Also, I'm active fiber right now, so I have full 1 to 1 panels in the rack already. If I wanted to 'migrate' to OLT from

Re: [AFMUG] UBNT OLT Transition from Active Ethernet to GPON

2017-07-31 Thread Sterling Jacobson
> > -Original Message- From: Sterling Jacobson > Sent: Monday, July 31, 2017 2:19 PM > To: 'af@afmug.com' > Subject: [AFMUG] UBNT OLT Transition from Active Ethernet to GPON > > Anyone tried their PON OLT CPE and OLT 8 port (128 clients per port) 1U unit? > > I s

Re: [AFMUG] UBNT OLT Transition from Active Ethernet to GPON

2017-07-31 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] UBNT OLT Transition from Active Ethernet to GPON We have good luck with 32 customers per 2.4 Gbps down on GPON. Lotsa overhead. No problems, not even close, so far. And we are selling more Gig circuits than ever before. -Original Message- From: Sterling Jacobson

Re: [AFMUG] UBNT OLT Transition from Active Ethernet to GPON

2017-07-31 Thread Sterling Jacobson
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Re: [AFMUG] Rates for fiber repair

2017-07-31 Thread Sterling Jacobson
I think it’s around $5-$6 a foot is the metric for retail runs. So that’s $6 x 200 = $1200 total. Maybe a bit extra depending on the vaults and splice cases used in your case since it’s a shorter run. From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Adam Moffett Sent: Monday, July 31,

Re: [AFMUG] UBNT OLT Transition from Active Ethernet to GPON

2017-08-03 Thread Sterling Jacobson
t have a TX power level much higher on one end than the other due to manufacturing differences or different equipment. On Aug 2, 2017 12:10 PM, "Sterling Jacobson" <sterl...@avative.net<mailto:sterl...@avative.net>> wrote: Hmmm, that's not good if it can't auto-attenuate

Re: [AFMUG] Accepting bitcoin as payment for Internet service

2017-08-03 Thread Sterling Jacobson
That’s a good question. Platypus isn’t capable of transacting Bitcoin (or IPPay for that matter I’m pretty sure). I don’t think I would bother with it until the major transaction companies and our own bill pay systems handle it natively. I don’t even have a bitcoin account myself or for my

Re: [AFMUG] DW shutsdown

2017-08-03 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Wow. I wonder how that happened? Used to be one of the forefront in that market. Just couldn't keep pace with the industry? I bet that happens to Ceragon in the next year or two. From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Gino A. Villarini Sent: Thursday, August 3, 2017 9:42 AM To:

Re: [AFMUG] Ick

2017-07-07 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Haha, I have some of those as well. From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Adam Moffett Sent: Friday, July 7, 2017 11:30 AM To: Animal Farm Subject: [AFMUG] Ick I noticed this comment on a port today: [cid:image001.png@01D2F715.D5836E20]

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Road Trip Battery

2017-07-12 Thread Sterling Jacobson
start inverter when vehicle is started. Prevents draining battery.. Jaime Solorza On Jul 11, 2017 6:14 PM, "Sterling Jacobson" <sterl...@avative.net<mailto:sterl...@avative.net>> wrote: I've got a cross country family trip from Utah to New York coming up and I want to wire up

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Road Trip Battery

2017-07-13 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Oh wait, do these require a grounded outlet? Because the outlets don’t have ground. Maybe I plug them in to a DC to AC inverter instead. From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Sterling Jacobson Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2017 3:32 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Road

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Road Trip Battery

2017-07-13 Thread Sterling Jacobson
lt;mailto:j.mcke...@veloxinetbroadband.com>> To: "af@afmug.com<mailto:af@afmug.com>" <af@afmug.com<mailto:af@afmug.com>> Sent: 7/12/2017 11:30:21 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Road Trip Battery You could always strap a generator to the roof... On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 1:21 AM, Ste

Re: [AFMUG] Amplifi?

2017-07-16 Thread Sterling Jacobson
It’s good. I’m using the three ‘box’ Amplifi package. The one box, two wireless mesh units worked ok, but I had wired connections to my remote areas, so I switched to using the three wired boxes. Super simple to set up and configure with the app. I have one of the boxes configured as main

Re: [AFMUG] Serverplus/powercode users, OT

2017-07-11 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Years ago when we were with ServerPlus I think they had a mandatory wait time of at least a minute. Maybe they have changed that policy, but it always irritated me. From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Jeremy Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2017 10:49 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re:

Re: [AFMUG] doing the math

2017-07-11 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Gaming, even intensive stuff like Overwatch etc, don’t take much data. I want to say a consistent stream both ways of less than 1Mbps most of the time. But latency that changes or bursts high will cause lag and problems with gaming. From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Dave

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Road Trip Battery

2017-07-11 Thread Sterling Jacobson
d work well and no big thing to install. I use this for wiring up inverters for vans and buses to a solenoid to start inverter when vehicle is started. Prevents draining battery.. Jaime Solorza On Jul 11, 2017 6:14 PM, "Sterling Jacobson" <sterl...@avative.net<mailto:sterl.

Re: [AFMUG] Amplifi?

2017-07-16 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Reynolds Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2017 1:01 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Amplifi? Why not use unifi? On Jul 16, 2017 1:48 PM, "Sterling Jacobson" <sterl...@avative.net<mailto:sterl...@avative.net>> wrote: It’s good. I’m using the three ‘box’ Amplifi package. The one

Re: [AFMUG] Graphic Display of OSPF routes

2017-07-12 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Yeah, that would be real handy. I don’t think The Dude can do this, but if someone is pro Dude, maybe they know a trick? Otherwise I’m just following this thread… From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Wireless Administrator Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2017 12:29 PM To: af@afmug.com

[AFMUG] OT: Road Trip Battery

2017-07-11 Thread Sterling Jacobson
I've got a cross country family trip from Utah to New York coming up and I want to wire up a secondary battery to my Toyota Minivan. I know, maybe I'm crazy, but I want to be able to run all our electronics on the trip, including maybe a computer for serving up video (another topic). I want it

[AFMUG] Mikrotik VPLS MAC Address

2017-07-01 Thread Sterling Jacobson
I noticed on Mikrotik you can assign/change a MAC address to a VPLS interface. Is that MAC address supposed to be always unique? Several of mine on any given device are using the same MAC address.

[AFMUG] What is this Device eating my DHCP IPs?

2017-07-02 Thread Sterling Jacobson
I can't seem to trace it because the request comes, grabs an IP with this device name, then leaves and is off the ARP table. I don't think it's all at once, I think it happens slowly over a period of a few hours or a day. MAC always begins with 70:4c:ed which Wireshark identifies as TMRG, Inc.

Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik VPLS MAC Address

2017-07-02 Thread Sterling Jacobson
having the same MAC address show up in cycle. Very interesting. -Original Message- From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Sterling Jacobson Sent: Saturday, July 1, 2017 1:46 AM To: 'af@afmug.com' <af@afmug.com> Subject: [AFMUG] Mikrotik VPLS MAC Address I noticed on Mikrot

Re: [AFMUG] Planet Switches Suck Ass?

2017-07-05 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Nathan -Original Message- From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Sterling Jacobson Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2017 12:16 PM To: 'af@afmug.com' Subject: [AFMUG] Planet Switches Suck Ass? Anyone use the larger Planet switches? I've got five of the 48 port SFP switches (with 4 po

Re: [AFMUG] Iridium 2.0?

2017-07-05 Thread Sterling Jacobson
900 f’n satellites? Jeez, isn’t there some sort of international consortium that says that’s more than enough? That’s going to be over 1Tbps capacity network wide? That should definitely help the digital divide for remote areas. From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Rory Conaway

[AFMUG] Planet Switches Suck Ass?

2017-07-05 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Anyone use the larger Planet switches? I've got five of the 48 port SFP switches (with 4 port SFP+). They are total crap. Brand new out of box, and a few hours later one switch can't seem to bring up lights on ports 25-48 anymore. Four of them have issues with SFP+ port disconnecting and not

Re: [AFMUG] policy routing via ospf

2017-04-27 Thread Sterling Jacobson
I think it’s a route mark? From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Steve Jones Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2017 3:56 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: [AFMUG] policy routing via ospf ive been beating this horse, I get told its easily doable, but I have yet to achieve it If I have two

Re: [AFMUG] MAC Vendor Lookup

2017-04-21 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Thanks all that does help. From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Steve Jones Sent: Friday, April 21, 2017 4:25 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] MAC Vendor Lookup I switch between them, it seems they dont all reference the same database, wiresharks is pretty reliable though

Re: [AFMUG] Hosted Email for ISPs?

2017-04-28 Thread Sterling Jacobson
This isn't what you are looking for, but I abandoned that years ago and never looked back. From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Chris Wright Sent: Friday, April 28, 2017 3:21 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: [AFMUG] Hosted Email for ISPs? In a world where anyone can get a free 15GB

[AFMUG] DHCP Declines IP Address several times a second

2017-04-28 Thread Sterling Jacobson
This is one a Mikrotik CCR DHCP server, but I've never seen this. I have a client, I think an Apple router MAC 20:C9:D0:11:56:F0, that the DHCP says "declines IP address x.x.x.x" several times a second. I have it on static assignment. If I take it off static assignment, it just starts cycling

Re: [AFMUG] Underwater fiber

2017-04-27 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Dropping armored fiber cable in a lake isn't hard. But obtaining permits and permission from the Lake Commission, and Utah Army Core of Engineers and other regulating bodies (cities) might be the real challenge. -Original Message- From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of

Re: [AFMUG] Any SOHO router (cost effective) that does SFP+?

2017-08-05 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Well, you could pair a CCR with 10Gbps In and Out with a SFP+ switch like a Force10 and have 48 or more SFP+ ports. I think UBNT has a small port count SFP+ switch, but it’s not a router, you would need that paired with their new router that has a couple of SFP+ ports. The CCR 1072 is the best

Re: [AFMUG] Rates for fiber repair

2017-07-31 Thread Sterling Jacobson
er non bulk splice, I think that's fair On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 3:52 PM, Sterling Jacobson <sterl...@avative.net<mailto:sterl...@avative.net>> wrote: I think it’s around $5-$6 a foot is the metric for retail runs. So that’s $6 x 200 = $1200 total. Maybe a bit extra depending on the vaults

Re: [AFMUG] UBNT OLT Transition from Active Ethernet to GPON

2017-08-02 Thread Sterling Jacobson
fg.com> <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: >> >> We have good luck with 32 customers per 2.4 Gbps down on GPON. Lotsa >> overhead. No problems, not even close, so far. And we are selling more Gig >> circuits than ever before. >> >> -Original Messag

[AFMUG] IPArchitechs

2017-08-08 Thread Sterling Jacobson
That company was a bust. So I'm looking again for a professional team/company that can professionally handle my network contracting needs in a reasonable time frame. Dennis, I'll be asking for your help again in the meantime as soon as I get refunded from IPArchitechs.

[AFMUG] OT RABID!!

2017-08-09 Thread Sterling Jacobson
I guess it didn't like my attachment, trying again. Discovered this on the command line of one of my new switches, lol!

[AFMUG] OT RABID!!

2017-08-09 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Discovered this on the command line of one of my new switches, lol! [cid:image001.png@01D2F01C.AC63AE10]

Re: [AFMUG] Any SOHO router (cost effective) that does SFP+?

2017-08-04 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Not really. You can get a Mikrotik CRS that has two SFP+ but it doesn't NAT very well, not a big enough CPU. You can get a Mikrotik CCR I think for around $500 that will NAT ok, maybe not full 10Gbps, but probably doesn't have wireless. I think UBNT is about to release a SFP+ router, again,

Re: [AFMUG] OT Municipally funded ISPs

2017-08-06 Thread Sterling Jacobson
I agree with that. The numbers never added up. iProvo never added up, Utopia never added up, Amercian Fork system numbers never made any sense. I was a network provider on iProvo and AF networks for a while and sold them off since they were always substandard and profit was driven to minimum.

Re: [AFMUG] Another Ceragon ODU Frequency Question

2017-08-18 Thread Sterling Jacobson
you end up swapping them? Or did you open them up and change the diplexers? On 8/18/2017 6:09 PM, Sterling Jacobson wrote: > Ok, so maybe this is a problem and maybe not. > > But our license says we transmit LOW at channel 10835MHz. > > The sticker on the label of the LOW Ce

[AFMUG] Another Ceragon ODU Frequency Question

2017-08-18 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Ok, so maybe this is a problem and maybe not. But our license says we transmit LOW at channel 10835MHz. The sticker on the label of the LOW Ceragon ODU shows transmit at 10915-11207MHz. Does that mean I have the wrong ODU for this license? Or is the IP-20C radio that I have capable of that

[AFMUG] Ceragon AGAIN, help please!

2017-08-17 Thread Sterling Jacobson
They sent me back my radio in a box with little to no padding. Check it out: https://youtu.be/lCKJjy1jBzg It appears my ODU now has severely damaged/bent mounting and the holes don't line up. They are taking no responsibility for it and want me to buy a mounting part to replace the damaged

Re: [AFMUG] Ceragon AGAIN, help please!

2017-08-17 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Here is the bent mount. If I can get a replacement part, I guess I'm good to swap it out? -Original Message- From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Sterling Jacobson Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2017 10:19 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Ceragon AGAIN, help please

Re: [AFMUG] Ceragon AGAIN, help please!

2017-08-17 Thread Sterling Jacobson
with a hydraulic press and weld it back on if it breaks off. I thought it mounted with the screws. Is that handle looking part necessary to the overall mounting? -Original Message- From: Sterling Jacobson Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2017 10:24 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Ceragon

Re: [AFMUG] Ceragon AGAIN, help please!

2017-08-17 Thread Sterling Jacobson
I guess the photos didn't go through because there were three of them? I'll try again in sequence. Check out this antenna photo, there is a wasp caught flying in the lower right, lol -Original Message- From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Sterling Jacobson Sent: Thursday

Re: [AFMUG] Putting on big boy IPv6 pants

2017-05-10 Thread Sterling Jacobson
I want there to be a two day world wide event where we disable all hosted IPv4 routing. Then we’ll see which hosting services are stuck in the 1990’s and need to upgrade immediately to IPv6. That is what is stopping us. And ISP, upstream providers not handling IPv6 transport or BGP IPv6…

Re: [AFMUG] Putting on big boy IPv6 pants

2017-05-10 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Nothing at the moment, still dual stack IPv4 and IPv6 Also interested if someone has figured this out with a half decent solution as I need to purchase another /22 this year. From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Chris Wright Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2017 4:51 PM To: af@afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] owner vs employee staff valuation

2017-05-11 Thread Sterling Jacobson
I calculate that at about $45k to $120k depending on your network. There either has to be an all in one guy that can monitor the network and respond to complicated issues correctly 24/7 ($120k guy), or one or more NOC techs ($45k) that can do that 24/7 and somehow bring you or someone capable

Re: [AFMUG] NEC heartburn

2017-05-11 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Wow. This is going to make data centers and electricians a boatload of money. They will now require their own staff to do all the NOC work, you we will pay them a trillion dollars an hour for mounting a server and plugging it in. Ads new light to the term ‘port connection fee’ ☹ And every

Re: [AFMUG] Employee Retention - Benefits, Insurance, etc.

2017-05-11 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Health insurance is probably a good step, and the hardest right now. You could join your company to a ‘health pool’ program for the least expensive option probably. I think all of these things will help and tell your workers that they are valued. Also flex time. That is really big. If they

Re: [AFMUG] Putting on big boy IPv6 pants

2017-05-11 Thread Sterling Jacobson
The large majority of customer devices are behind the router on NAT anyway. So, they can still be handed IPv4 NAT internal addresses which filter through the router as one public IPv6 forever more. But more than half of any given customer device profile now happily take IPv6 from the router.

Re: [AFMUG] Employee Retention - Benefits, Insurance, etc.

2017-05-11 Thread Sterling Jacobson
That's a really good benefit. But it's also a double-edged sword. I agree with that policy 1000 percent, but it can also quickly lead your employees to other, better paying/benefit jobs because they have increased their worth. So although I'm very for that, as a business owner I would advise

[AFMUG] Mikrotik RB260GS VLAN Still no worky

2017-05-15 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Anyone tried VLAN web management access from a remote switch/device yet on the new hardware/v2.2? I can't get it to work for the life of me. It will ping, but never access the web page. I can tag another port on the RB260GS itself and get it on VLAN, but nothing else, not from the SFP where

Re: [AFMUG] Utah Local NID Enclosure?

2017-06-21 Thread Sterling Jacobson
e- From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Chuck McCown Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2017 11:15 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Utah Local NID Enclosure? Give me some dims and price point. I will check another vendor I know. -Original Message- From: Sterling Jacobson Sent: Wed

Re: [AFMUG] Utah Local NID Enclosure?

2017-06-21 Thread Sterling Jacobson
are more like 8x10 -Original Message- From: Sterling Jacobson Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2017 12:21 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Utah Local NID Enclosure? Still on-list, something around 14"x14" mostly empty with about 2"+ clearance inside would be idea. Price p

[AFMUG] Utah Local NID Enclosure?

2017-06-21 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Idiots at Codale still have 100 count of our 14" NID box on backorder since forever and I'm out of it now. Anyone have a good supplier that can somewhat quickly ship a good open plastic outdoor enclosure around 14" size? Any of us local Utah guys have a few I can buy and pick up to tie me

Re: [AFMUG] So Silicon Valley WISP startup gets $7M investment?

2017-06-24 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Not exactly the true hybrid model, but sort of like Vivint and others I guess. From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Gino A. Villarini Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2017 2:31 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: [AFMUG] So Silicon Valley WISP startup gets $7M investment? Things that make you

Re: [AFMUG] So Silicon Valley WISP startup gets $7M investment?

2017-06-24 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Oh yeah, I've got to get caught up on season 2! That show is hilarious! -Original Message- From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of ch...@wbmfg.com Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2017 3:03 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] So Silicon Valley WISP startup gets $7M investment?

[AFMUG] OT Productivity

2017-06-24 Thread Sterling Jacobson
I'm not one for using productivity apps and methods. I do carry around a pen and notepad with me everywhere. But I'm finding that it's not easy to reference the crap load of notes and thoughts I put in these, then pile up in a corner when they fill up. So I'm thinking of doing SOMETHING to

Re: [AFMUG] OT Productivity

2017-06-24 Thread Sterling Jacobson
an (List Account) > *Sent:* Saturday, June 24, 2017 5:47 PM > *To:* af <af@afmug.com> > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT Productivity > > Evernote. > > Definitely not even close to perfect, but it seems the most usable of > any solution I've tried for this type of stuff, so

Re: [AFMUG] So Silicon Valley WISP startup gets $7M investment?

2017-06-24 Thread Sterling Jacobson
??? Season 4 its currently running! Gylfoile its the man! On 6/24/17, 5:04 PM, "Af on behalf of Sterling Jacobson" Gino A. Villarini President Metro Office Park #18 Suite 304 Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00968 [cid:image001.png@01D2ED2C.AEB495A0] <af-boun...@afmug.com on behalf of sterl..

Re: [AFMUG] Best Home Wifi Router

2017-06-19 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Yes. If it's a multi-story house, putting the wireless router in the middle of the house is better most of the time. I like wireless routers with antennas that are external and can be arranged like TV antennas of old. Not sure what the state of Mesh/Handoff is on Mikrotik these days, but you

Re: [AFMUG] Shielded Cat6 connectors

2017-06-27 Thread Sterling Jacobson
I use Cat6 EZ-RJ45 stuff all the time. This is what I ordered: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002PI85LQ/ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00939KFOU/ I'm getting to the point where I can't see fine writing close, or wiring in semi-dark like I used to. -Original Message- From:

[AFMUG] OT Stupid Audio Question

2017-05-20 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Thought one of you might have a quick or easy answer to this. I have a tube amp with stereo RCA input. I want to have two RCA sources feed it. Is there a simple RCA plug stereo auto switch device? Or can I simply get a Y input 2 to 1 RCA adapter/cable? Not sure that would cause issues or

Re: [AFMUG] Would you like some porn with your shopping?

2017-05-18 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Asshats always get in the way of real progress. From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of can...@believewireless.net Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2017 11:18 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: [AFMUG] Would you like some porn with your shopping? A customer of mine decided they needed some digital

Re: [AFMUG] OT Stupid Audio Question

2017-05-20 Thread Sterling Jacobson
device remains high impedance when switched off. I think line level inputs are around 10k. -Original Message- From: Sterling Jacobson Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2017 12:55 PM To: 'af@afmug.com' Subject: [AFMUG] OT Stupid Audio Question Thought one of you might have a quick or easy answer

Re: [AFMUG] OT Stupid Audio Question

2017-05-20 Thread Sterling Jacobson
:55 PM, "Sterling Jacobson" <sterl...@avative.net<mailto:sterl...@avative.net>> wrote: Thought one of you might have a quick or easy answer to this. I have a tube amp with stereo RCA input. I want to have two RCA sources feed it. Is there a simple RCA plug stereo auto switch

Re: [AFMUG] OT: LED Lifespan

2017-05-27 Thread Sterling Jacobson
I replaced all my lights in my house to LED and haven't had any failures in over a year now. Thanks for the heads up on the LED filament bulbs, those were the only ones I didn't replace yet because they were ugly, but these are way better and I'm going to buy them on Amazon:

Re: [AFMUG] IP Architects

2017-06-01 Thread Sterling Jacobson
& Telecom 7266 SW 48 Street Miami, FL 33155 Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232 Help-desk: (305)663-5518 Option 2 or Email: supp...@snappytelecom.net - Original Message - > From: "Sterling Jacobson" <sterl...@avative.net> > To: af@afmug.com > Sent: Thursday, June 1, 2017 4:4

Re: [AFMUG] CAT6/6 LAN WAN testers

2017-05-31 Thread Sterling Jacobson
I want one, but that can certify the newer standards of 2.5 and 5Ghz over Cat6. Anyone seen anything like that? From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Chuck McCown Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 10:27 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] CAT6/6 LAN WAN testers I will take a look

Re: [AFMUG] Google Cloud

2017-05-31 Thread Sterling Jacobson
What’s the difference in pricing for Preemptible? Does that mean the standard ‘shared’ architecture? Or is it something that user would notice on a regular REST call or web access at all? From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Lewis Bergman Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 10:20 AM

Re: [AFMUG] Google Cloud

2017-05-31 Thread Sterling Jacobson
I don’t run or store anything on my own desktops or servers anymore. On a set of cloud hosted VM’s that I’m not currently paying for I have the following: Platypus, Quickbooks, The Dude monitoring, UBNT services like Camera DVR and mFi etc, another Mikrotik CHR All of my files and email are on

Re: [AFMUG] IP Architects

2017-06-01 Thread Sterling Jacobson
on your upstream-bgp-in filters? Chris Wright Network Administrator -Original Message- From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Sterling Jacobson Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2017 1:45 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] IP Architects It is a routing problem, probably a BGP

[AFMUG] IP Architects

2017-06-01 Thread Sterling Jacobson
So far, not so good with them. I've spent about $340 for an hour and a half time to have them modify one temporary route rule in fifteen seconds. Rest of the time appeared to be them attempting to figure things out on BGP/eBGP and OSPF. That didn't fix my problem, just a patch to get some

Re: [AFMUG] Google Cloud

2017-05-31 Thread Sterling Jacobson
That pricing doesn’t show disk space. I assume you have to add that and it’s extra per month? From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Harold Bledsoe Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 11:00 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Google Cloud Google cloud is definitely lower cost than

Re: [AFMUG] IP Architects

2017-06-01 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Imtiaz Snappy Internet & Telecom 7266 SW 48 Street Miami, FL 33155 Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232 Help-desk: (305)663-5518 Option 2 or Email: supp...@snappytelecom.net - Original Message - > From: "Sterling Jacobson" <sterl...@avative.net> > To: "af@afmug.com&q

Re: [AFMUG] Alpha UPS AC Input Breaker Open

2017-06-13 Thread Sterling Jacobson
likely an aluminum electrolytic capacitor. > It will probably get more frequent until it totally dies. > > -Original Message- From: Sterling Jacobson > Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2017 10:56 AM > To: 'af@afmug.com' > Subject: [AFMUG] Alpha UPS AC Input Breaker Open > > I've ne

[AFMUG] Alpha UPS AC Input Breaker Open

2017-06-13 Thread Sterling Jacobson
I've never seen this before on my UPS, but the AC Input breaker keeps tripping open on my Alpha about once a day. Nothing else in the cabinet seems to be affected. No other equipment seems to report any problems with the AC. I'm not a guru on these things, what would this indicate? Also, when

Re: [AFMUG] DHCP Declines IP Address several times a second

2017-05-02 Thread Sterling Jacobson
: [AFMUG] DHCP Declines IP Address several times a second Maybe helpful: https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?t=95651 - Josh On Apr 28, 2017 6:15 PM, "Sterling Jacobson" <sterl...@avative.net<mailto:sterl...@avative.net>> wrote: This is one a Mikrotik CCR DHCP serve

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Concert

2017-05-08 Thread Sterling Jacobson
I want to see that concert, but my wife isn’t a fan. From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Jason McKemie Sent: Sunday, May 7, 2017 8:40 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: [AFMUG] OT: Concert I got to see Tears for Fears and Hall & Oates in one sitting last night. Both good, but Tears

Re: [AFMUG] 60Ghz PtMP, Why Doesn't Everyone Have It?

2017-05-08 Thread Sterling Jacobson
components. bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 5/8/2017 1:05 PM, Sterling Jacobson wrote: > What am I missing here? > > Can't Cambium and UBNT and others simply overlay the same radio > architecture/software they have developed over a decade, on top of a 60GHz >

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