Re: [WISPA] Fwd: Fiber cut in SF area

2009-04-12 Thread Andrew Macleod
Etheric also provides service to most of the Bay Area as well as Santa Cruz and parts of Monteray county as well. We were not impacted at all during this event. On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 8:56 PM, John J. Thomas wrote: > www.covadwireless.com > > They service a large chunk of the SF Bay Area and

Re: [WISPA] Content Filtering

2009-04-12 Thread Chuck Profito
No sub for daddy and mommy... Cheep i.e. FREE,opendns -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Scott Vander Dussen Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2009 10:20 PM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: [WISPA] Content Filtering Recommendati

[WISPA] Content Filtering

2009-04-12 Thread Scott Vander Dussen
Recommendations for home user grade content filtering (either software or hardware) - thanks. `S WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ --

Re: [WISPA] Fwd: Fiber cut in SF area

2009-04-12 Thread John J. Thomas
www.covadwireless.com They service a large chunk of the SF Bay Area and some of the Los Angeles area. John >-Original Message- >From: Travis Johnson [mailto:t...@ida.net] >Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 05:20 PM >To: 'WISPA General List' >Subject: Re: [WISPA] Fwd: Fiber cut in SF area

Re: [WISPA] High Throughput Licensed vs. Unlicensed - changeoftopic -- customers / AP

2009-04-12 Thread Travis Johnson
That brings up a whole new point that I had never considered How many more users can you put on an AP if you are NOT providing VoIP services that you have to support? It would seem you could make up any profit on VoIP by being able to add a few additional users to an AP that you couldn't

Re: [WISPA] High Throughput Licensed vs. Unlicensed - changeoftopic -- customers / AP

2009-04-12 Thread Scott Carullo
Doesn't all the residential associations still affect your business latency etc? Or is it small enough not to be noticed? You also don't do voip that changes the game. You can get away with a lot with just data... Scott Carullo Brevard Wireless (321) 205-1100 x102 On Apr 12, 2009, at 9:55

Re: [WISPA] Time Warner Tests $150-Per-Month Unlimited Internet

2009-04-12 Thread os10rules
Are you running the 2.0 beta of pfSense? On Apr 12, 2009, at 1:45 PM, Rogelio wrote: > On a somewhat related note, does anyone here use open source packet > shaping solutions? > > I've only used Packeteer in production (enterprise environment), but > I'm > always on the lookout for good other s

Re: [WISPA] Time Warner Tests $150-Per-Month Unlimited Internet

2009-04-12 Thread os10rules
Are you using the optional QoS module that does layer 7 traffic shaping? I was using that at home but found the QoS in the Tomato firmware for Broadcom based APs to be more accurate. I haven't found any of the free open source Linux based firewalls to be very good at traffic shaping. I wish

Re: [WISPA] Towers....

2009-04-12 Thread Bob Moldashel
Blake Bowers wrote: > I have never bought a Nello Tower, simply because we > don't buy much new steel, we buy existing sites for the > most part. > > I have however dealt a number of times with Dan Ianello. Dan > is very available, very customer service oriented, and has been > always nothing but

Re: [WISPA] Off Topic // Looking for Vehicle Advertising Ideas

2009-04-12 Thread Martha Huizenga
I was thinking high school students with nothing better to do : ) Martha Huizenga DC Access, LLC 202-546-5898 */Friendly, Local, Affordable, Internet!/**/ Connecting the Capitol Hill Community /* Tom DeReggi wrote: > The Competition ? :-) > > Tom DeReggi > RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc > IntAirNet-

Re: [WISPA] Tower climbers in north Louisiana

2009-04-12 Thread Chuck Profito
To: Subject: RE: [WISPA] Tower climbers in north Louisiana Call Mac He's In Rayville, kinda north -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Jeremie Chism Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2009 5:28 PM To: wireless@wispa.org Subject: [WIS

Re: [WISPA] Towers....

2009-04-12 Thread Blake Bowers
I have never bought a Nello Tower, simply because we don't buy much new steel, we buy existing sites for the most part. I have however dealt a number of times with Dan Ianello. Dan is very available, very customer service oriented, and has been always nothing but helpful to me. I have NEVER he

Re: [WISPA] DC power reset

2009-04-12 Thread Chuck Profito
Mike, We use both the small and large AC units. I don't know about the rest of you guys, but we buy a short extension cord, spread the male contacts with a pocket knife and plug in two wall warts on each extension, label and lay them neatly in the bottom of the cabinet with the power injector in f

[WISPA] Towers....

2009-04-12 Thread Bob Moldashel
Just wanted to post a quick plug here for Nello Towers. If any of you guys or gals is considering buying a tower or towers you should consider these guys. We have been installing tower stuff for years and and I can't remember the last time I didn't have to pull out a mag drill, torch, come-a-l

Re: [WISPA] High Throughput Licensed vs. Unlicensed - change oftopic -- customers / AP

2009-04-12 Thread Travis Johnson
Tom, I think you are missing a BIG key that many ISP's (starting clear back in the dial-up days) have missed. The best mix, use of resources, and profitability comes from having high ARPU business customers AND residential users. Why? Because the business customers use the bandwidth from 8:00A

Re: [WISPA] DC power reset

2009-04-12 Thread Tom DeReggi
Digitallogger now also has a DC volts reboot device, for about $200 Tom DeReggi. RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: "Mike Hammett" To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2009 12:20 PM Subject: [WISPA] DC power reset > Lo

Re: [WISPA] Off Topic // Looking for Vehicle Advertising Ideas

2009-04-12 Thread Tom DeReggi
The Competition ? :-) Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: "Scottie Arnett" To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2009 10:21 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Off Topic // Looking for Vehicle Advertising Ideas > They st

Re: [WISPA] Off Topic // Looking for Vehicle Advertising Ideas

2009-04-12 Thread Tom DeReggi
If they start to tear they can easilly blow off. But our lasted quite a long time. Be prepaired for slight change to car's paint color behind the magnet sign. But it was by far the best source of advertizing we ever did, and it was cheap. We tried large trailer signs parked in key areas, but th

Re: [WISPA] Lightning protection used on installs

2009-04-12 Thread Tom DeReggi
The newest version of Citel's outdoor protector is pretty awesome also. Its a pretty close competition on whether the Canopy or Citel is better. The Citel can be had at about the same cost, depedning on how buying. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband - Or

Re: [WISPA] High Throughput Licensed vs. Unlicensed - change oftopic -- customers / AP

2009-04-12 Thread Tom DeReggi
No its not an unrealistic goal, if the business model is low margin high volume type subs. There can be much less maintenance with building a business model on a smaller number of business subs, making it not necessary to get that much per sub. For example, We'll sell 10Mhz of spectrum for $1000

Re: [WISPA] Tower climbers in north Louisiana

2009-04-12 Thread lakeland
Call Johnny O. He should be able to steer you towards someone. 3373687188 Tell that looser I sent you. :-) Bob moldashel Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Jeremie Chism Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:27:38 To: wireless@wispa.org Subject: [WISPA] Tower clim

[WISPA] Tower climbers in north Louisiana

2009-04-12 Thread Jeremie Chism
Does anybody know of a good tower climber willing to do some work in northeast Louisiana. I have three new tower locations that I am ready to deploy and no reliable tower climber. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Sent from my iPhone

Re: [WISPA] STP for redundancy on two panels horiz/vert oriented?

2009-04-12 Thread lakeland
That really only makes sense if the links will have asymetrical bandwidth shaping otherwise you are just wasting capacity. Run them in parallel and load balance them or use the second as a backup. And DP antennas would be a cost effective way to go and would guarantee polarity isolation. Balan

Re: [WISPA] STP for redundancy on two panels horiz/vert oriented?

2009-04-12 Thread Andrew MacLeod
I would concur with Josh. I would use OSPF and run the links unidirectionally that way in essence you get a full duplex link, but still have redundancy should a link go down. Also, why use two antennas? MTI makes a nice dual polarized 23 dbi antenna. Andrew MacLeod Network Operations Manage

Re: [WISPA] STP for redundancy on two panels horiz/vert oriented?

2009-04-12 Thread Josh Luthman
I would suggest OSPF bridging so you can use both of them as long as they're working, if not then it just uses one. On 4/12/09, Rogelio wrote: > Using a dual 5.8 GHz radio solution, could I conceivably give myself > some sort of redundancy by doing the following: > > --two 23 dBi panels, one on e

[WISPA] STP for redundancy on two panels horiz/vert oriented?

2009-04-12 Thread Rogelio
Using a dual 5.8 GHz radio solution, could I conceivably give myself some sort of redundancy by doing the following: --two 23 dBi panels, one on each radio --on panel for horizontal orientation; the other, for vertical --put a switch on both sides that supports spanning tree I have LOS between t

[WISPA] 5.9 GHz ITS

2009-04-12 Thread Rogelio
Has anyone here implemented the 5.9 GHz band for ITS (Intelligent Transportation Services)? I'm looking at some projects that might be a good fit and have recently started researching vendors that do it, as well as some of the regulatory characteristics of the band. -

Re: [WISPA] Dumb question?

2009-04-12 Thread Rogelio
Gino Villarini wrote:p > Easy, the current Wimax MAC (802.16d and e) was designed for licensed > frequencies, noise is not well handled by the protocol I'll have to admit believing some of the WiMAX hype until I heard this fact several months ago. The only people I see taking WiMAX seriously ar

Re: [WISPA] 10 GigE

2009-04-12 Thread Rogelio
Jon Auer wrote: > http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog > > Also join Cisco-NSP if you are interested in Cisco gear: > http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > And the Outages list occasionally informative: > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages Ditto on both list

Re: [WISPA] Time Warner Tests $150-Per-Month Unlimited Internet

2009-04-12 Thread Rogelio
On a somewhat related note, does anyone here use open source packet shaping solutions? I've only used Packeteer in production (enterprise environment), but I'm always on the lookout for good other solutions. Right now, I'm using BSD-based pfSense at home, and that seems to be working great. O

Re: [WISPA] Off Topic // Looking for Vehicle Advertising Ideas

2009-04-12 Thread RickG
Not sure - they just disappear off vehicles. Could be kids, or fell off in car wash, or ? On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Scottie Arnett wrote: > They stole your magnetic signs? Why? Giant frig magnets? or are they putting > new writing on them? > > Scott > > -- Original Message --

Re: [WISPA] DC power reset

2009-04-12 Thread Brad Belton
We've also used Control by Web in some cases. Good people with a very reliable product. Ten relays rather than eight and a couple hundred less than the DLI-48, but without an "auto-ping reboot" feature. http://www.controlbyweb.com/webrelay-10/index.html Brad -Original Message- From: w

Re: [WISPA] DC power reset

2009-04-12 Thread Brad Belton
http://digital-loggers.com/48.html Brad -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Chuck Profito Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2009 12:14 PM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] DC power reset http://digital-loggers.com/EPC.pd

Re: [WISPA] DC power reset

2009-04-12 Thread Mike Hammett
http://digital-loggers.com/48.html Indeed. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -- From: "Chuck Profito" Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2009 12:13 PM To: "'WISPA General List'" Subject: Re: [WISPA] DC power reset

Re: [WISPA] DC power reset

2009-04-12 Thread Chuck Profito
http://digital-loggers.com/EPC.pdf This is the AC one, we heard that they are now making a DC unit. -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2009 9:21 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA

Re: [WISPA] Fwd: Fiber cut in SF area

2009-04-12 Thread Andrew MacLeod
I was in Gilroy that day which was the longest and hardest hit area. Everything was cash only. However, seeing we backhaul everything wirelessly our customers still happily kept plugging along. Andrew MacLeod Network Operations Manager Etheric Networks 877.541.3905 Sent from my iPhone On Ap

Re: [WISPA] Fwd: Fiber cut in SF area

2009-04-12 Thread Rogelio
Gino Villarini wrote: > Someone should be using this example in a way to push wireless as a > 2nd option for bup and redundancy If I remember right, they had redundant fiber there already. I also remember something about the person doing it knowing that and cutting both sides of the ring. Ag

[WISPA] DC power reset

2009-04-12 Thread Mike Hammett
Looking for a device to power cycle multiple 48 vDC devices, preferably Ethernet based. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.or

Re: [WISPA] SiteMonitor (Base) IP address?

2009-04-12 Thread Adam Goodman
Found it! http://manuals.packetflux.com/index.php?page=accessing-the-device The default IP address is: 169.254.1.20 On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Adam Goodman wrote: > Happy Easter everyone, > > I just got a "SiteMonitor" from PacketFlux and am trying to get it > going. I thought I would

[WISPA] SiteMonitor (Base) IP address?

2009-04-12 Thread Adam Goodman
Happy Easter everyone, I just got a "SiteMonitor" from PacketFlux and am trying to get it going. I thought I would find some instructions in the box but I was wrong. does anyone know the IP settings for this thing? Thinking it would try to pick up an address from my dhcp server I just hooked it up

Re: [WISPA] Off Topic // Looking for Vehicle Advertising Ideas

2009-04-12 Thread Scottie Arnett
They stole your magnetic signs? Why? Giant frig magnets? or are they putting new writing on them? Scott -- Original Message -- From: Martha Huizenga Reply-To: WISPA General List Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 08:04:39 -0400 >We've only had one stolen so far. W

Re: [WISPA] Off Topic // Looking for Vehicle Advertising Ideas

2009-04-12 Thread Martha Huizenga
We've only had one stolen so far. Which I am surprised about since we are in the city. Never lost any. Martha Huizenga DC Access, LLC 202-546-5898 */Friendly, Local, Affordable, Internet!/**/ Connecting the Capitol Hill Community /* RickG wrote: > I put them on my installers vehicles but usua