Re: [ptp-general] Setting up wireless in Haiti

2010-01-21 Thread Gary
don't think US Hwy 1 goes that far South. ;) -Gary -- The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireless.portland.general/

Re: [ptp-general] SkyPilots from the City

2010-01-15 Thread Gary
etails we've discovered so far. I did find that post, by the way. it was in a thread about the ALIX. -Gary -- The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.wirele

Re: [ptp-general] SkyPilots from the City

2010-01-15 Thread Gary
s the list archive have a post about the two boards? I seem to remember a recent post by Russell that I'd like to review. -Gary -- The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives:

[ptp-general] mobiel broadband & WiMAX webinar

2010-01-12 Thread Gary
I'm subbed to the Software Assoc. of Oregon events list and this one came through that I thought some of you might be interested in... "Join Ron Resnick, WiMAX Forum President and Chairman of the Board as he discusses current trends in Mobile Broadband technologies. Ron will give an overview of wh

Re: [ptp-general] civilian/user of ptp, and nat to internal machine

2009-12-02 Thread Gary
P2P traffic. -Gary -- The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireless.portland.general/ Etiquette: http://www.personaltelco.net

Re: [ptp-general] Fwd: California Public Utilities Commission approves $5M grant for fiber network

2009-11-25 Thread Gary
Michael wrote: > No! When did it come out? > I have a double lot... Some time last week or the week before... We're not far from the CO on 71st just south of Foster. Maybe they're only building out from one CO at a time...? -Gary -- The Personal Telco Project - http://www.p

Re: [ptp-general] Fwd: California Public Utilities Commission approves $5M grant for fiber network

2009-11-25 Thread Gary
umably it's to build out their "fiber to the 'hood" offerings. -Gary -- The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireless.portland.general/

[ptp-general] Re: Server Sky?

2009-10-22 Thread Gary
be a wet towel. I'm just curious. -Gary --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireless.portland.general/

[ptp-general] NetEquality?

2009-10-22 Thread Gary
used to sell them for. -Gary --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireless.portland.general

[ptp-general] Re: Server Sky?

2009-10-22 Thread Gary
yes, please. the longer the better but I'll settle for the mid-range if there's not a consensus. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gma

[ptp-general] Re: RB750 openwrt-able router?

2009-09-03 Thread Gary
http://www.ubnt.com/products/rspro.php http://www.ubnt.com/products/rs.php -Gary --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gman

[ptp-general] Re: REMINDER: Inside the SkyPilot SkyExtender, PTP Monthly

2009-08-31 Thread Gary
V7-DBE1010) and looked up the test reports here: http://www.fcc.gov/oet/ea/fccid. I had to enter RV7 only then look for DBE1010 in the resulting list. -Gary --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http:/

[ptp-general] Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Inside the SkyPilot SkyExtender, PTP Monthly

2009-08-21 Thread Gary
I had no idea one could flash Ubiquiti hardware with SkyPilot firmware: http://skypilot.trilliantinc.com/products/SyncMesh_Client.php q.v. this R&D project using analog TV white space for data links: http://mobile.technologyreview.com/communications/23271 -

[ptp-general] Re: connector wanted

2009-07-03 Thread Gary
They do and they're open til 6pm. Thanks for the tip! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireless.portland.general/

[ptp-general] connector wanted

2009-07-03 Thread Gary
en today? much thanks, Gary --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireless.p

[ptp-general] Re: City of Portland Purchasing $400K in Clearwire Service

2009-06-10 Thread Gary
The City wrote: > The City currently has one vendor providing such services Who might that be? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gman

[ptp-general] wireless power harvesting

2009-06-09 Thread Gary
Imagine if you could harvest enough juice to run a low power AP... Tuesday, June 09, 2009 Wireless Power Harvesting for Cell Phones Nokia hopes to create a device that could harvest enough power to keep a cell phone topped up. A cell phone that never needs recharging might sound too good to be

[ptp-general] Re: Verizon gets something in my f-eye, MIFI

2009-05-14 Thread Gary
large cruft of geeks would find it useful -- it could even be used by merchants who want to sell products at their exhibit booths but don't want to pay the outrageous prices that venues want to charge for network access. -Gary http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS4513173129.html q.v. http://www.sierrawi

[ptp-general] Re: Bandwidth Options, NW Portland by Montgomery Park?

2009-05-04 Thread Gary
phone number in at covad.com and they're offering "Business DSL 1.5M/384k" for $70/month with a one year contract. 1905 NW 29th Ave Portland, OR 97210 (503) 224-0842 -Gary --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelc

[ptp-general] Re: Good MacWorld Article on Time Warner Metered Broadband

2009-04-24 Thread Gary
I highly recommend DSL Only aka DSL Northwest aka Portland Internetworks (pdx.net). They've been locally owned and operated for many years and all their staff are wicked smart and super helpful. -Gary --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ The Personal Telco Project -

[ptp-general] Re: Clear(wire) as backhaul, is it allowed?

2009-02-12 Thread Gary
ecks, service agreements, etc? -Gary --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireless.por

[ptp-general] Re: Clear(wire) as backhaul, is it allowed?

2009-01-05 Thread Gary
clearly will require running it past their legal dept. -Gary --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gmane.o

[ptp-general] Re: Clear(wire) as backhaul, is it allowed?

2009-01-05 Thread Gary
"You also agree that Clearwire retains the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to employ network management activities including, but not limited to (i) reducing, limiting, or otherwise restricting uplink and downlink speeds and transfer rates, (ii) reducing or limiting peer-to-peer sessio

[ptp-general] Re: Clear(wire) as backhaul, is it allowed?

2009-01-05 Thread Gary
heir TOS are also their AUP. I used to work for a tier one network provider and though that was over 10 years ago now, AUP content hasn't changed much. -Gary --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http:/

[ptp-general] Re: Clear(wire) as backhaul, is it allowed?

2009-01-05 Thread Gary
lable bandwidth." -Gary --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireless.portland.general/

[ptp-general] wireless UI/firmware contest

2008-12-17 Thread Gary
Is anyone interested in developing a web UI for Open-WRT Kamikaze? In an effort to enrich and contribute to the open-source community, Ubiquiti Networks is offering $200,000 in cash prizes for developers who provide the most impressive User Interface/Firmware for Ubiquiti's newly released open-so

[ptp-general] Re: OpenWRT auto-provisioning

2008-11-26 Thread Gary
7;s an old retired Firetide box (Soekris 4501 plus Senao mini-PCI card). I bought it for $75 from one of the surplus hardware vendors at DefCon seven or eight years ago. People keep giving me their CF cards that are too small for their cameras perfect for me to have multiple cards on hand for

[ptp-general] AirOS 3.2.3rc released

2008-11-26 Thread Gary
Since I know some of you are Ubiquiti users, I thought I'd send this to the list in case you don't look in on their web fora very often. I was just noticing a signal level problem the night before it was made available. -Gary http://ubnt.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16995#16995 http:

[ptp-general] Re: Community Owned Fiber

2008-11-25 Thread Gary
they saved it or not. Anyone here in the know? ashlandfiber.net still has a website... -Gary --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gman

[ptp-general] Re: The Bullet

2008-10-31 Thread Gary
Russell Senior wrote: > Cool vapor, but unobtainable at the moment. This product will be in stock on Wednesday 31 December, 2008. http://metrix.net/ubiquiti-bullet-2-p-120.html http://metrix.net/ubiquiti-bullet-5-p-125.html --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ The Personal Telc

[ptp-general] Re: The Bullet

2008-10-31 Thread Gary
an EIRP calculator if your antenna's not up on a pole. -Gary --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireless.por

[ptp-general] Re: Prevalence of WEP vs WPA

2008-10-29 Thread Gary
Vista, Tiger, and Leopard all support WPA and WPA2 out of the box except for pre SP3 Windows XP requires a hotfix installation to enable WPA2. -Gary --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelc

[ptp-general] Re: Prevalence of WEP vs WPA

2008-10-29 Thread Gary
u'll be doing your users a favor in the long run so long as you're prepared to educate them on the use of non-plaintext services. FWIW, the largest number of WPA networks I've seen in Portland are mostly downtown. But I've se

[ptp-general] Re: TriMetroFi? was: If the City seizes ...

2008-10-13 Thread Gary
q.v. http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/TacomaSounderNode --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireless.portland.gener

[ptp-general] Re: If the City seizes and removes MetroFi's gear...

2008-10-12 Thread Gary
to most of Gov. Tom McCall Waterfront Park via equipment on the roof of their building across the river at SE Morrison? -Gary --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archi

[ptp-general] Re: If the City seizes and removes MetroFi's gear...

2008-10-11 Thread Gary
g to connect to it with city un/supported CPE, phone and/or email queue staff, specialized staff for public safety users, etc? Presenting one line/paragraph/page suggestions to the city council is not recommended at this juncture. It's a lot to bite off so it's no wonder that Me

[ptp-general] Re: If the City seizes and removes MetroFi's gear...

2008-10-11 Thread Gary
ad their firmware downloads require a login or one could attempt to flash an NS5 to see how it compares to AirOS. Their documentation is pretty hefty, though, and no login is required to read it; http://www.skypilot.com/support/productdoc.php According to page 124 of the CLI reference guide they

[ptp-general] Re: If the City seizes and removes MetroFi's gear...

2008-10-10 Thread Gary
pheric effects." http://domino.watson.ibm.com/comm/research_projects.nsf/pages/mmwave.apps.html I can't imagine the power consumption is very low either but I've not yet been able to find any data on that subject. Cool idea but there

[ptp-general] Re: If the City seizes and removes MetroFi's gear...

2008-10-10 Thread Gary
reas the ExtremeRange2 uses the AR5414. Both are supported under Linux, however. But if the SkyConnector Mini isn't just a Ubiquiti NS2 repackaged, how'd they end up with identical housing? Buying from or contracting with the same vendor? -Gary --~--~-~--~~~---~-

[ptp-general] Re: If the City seizes and removes MetroFi's gear...

2008-10-10 Thread Gary
Mini photo on their web site looks exactly like a NanoStation. If they're just a Ubiquiti OEM then what was wrong with their deployment aside from their banner ad model? Poor density? Lack of radio tuning? Inadequate bandwidth? Some or all of the above? -Gary --~--~-~--~~-

[ptp-general] Re: antenna mast, etc.

2008-10-07 Thread Gary
Has anyone tried Proxim's 4.0 firmware yet? It says it was released on Sep. 29th. -Gary --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gman

[ptp-general] Re: Mobile hotspot with WiMAX?

2008-10-01 Thread Gary
How about a Junxion Box or Pyramid Linux on a Soekris system? However, I don't know if either support WiMAX cards yet. -Gary --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/d

[ptp-general] Re: Weekly Meeting, this Wednesday at Green Dragon

2008-09-20 Thread Gary
The June 2008 issue of The IP Journal has a pretty thorough explanation of mobile WiMAX and its history; http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac123/ac147/archived_issues/ipj_11-2/112_wimax.html -Gary --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ The Personal Telco Project - http