Re: [WISPA] Insurance on equipment

2009-04-19 Thread George Rogato
I was thinking the opposite Kurt, most of the wisps here are quite succcesful. Seriously, those who cry poor mouth, are the exception. Kurt Fankhauser wrote: > Yeah but most Wisps operators are some of the financially worst off people I > have ever met. I agree on not making a bunch of small cl

Re: [WISPA] Question about BGP + Mikrotik

2009-04-19 Thread Dennis Burgess
Anything with 2 gig of ram should be able to handle 1+ million routes. * --- Dennis Burgess, CCNA, A+, Mikrotik Certified Trainer WISPA Board Member - wispa.org Link Technologies, Inc -- Mikrotik & WISP Support Servic

Re: [WISPA] Promotion

2009-04-19 Thread Blake Bowers
And that looks good. If you ever want to head over towards Clifton we may be able to help ya out. Don't take your organs to heaven, heaven knows we need them down here! Be an organ donor, sign your donor card today. - Original Message - From: "Josh Luthman" To: "WISPA General List" S

Re: [WISPA] electricity usage calculator

2009-04-19 Thread Scott Reed
So you multiply 15W x hours in a month (about 720) getting 10800 watt-hours. Divide by 1000 to get 10.8KW Hours per month. e...@wisp-router.com wrote: > about 15watt total consumption from what you have there. 5w for the RB, then > 5watt per radio card (actually little less but no more). > > /

Re: [WISPA] electricity usage calculator

2009-04-19 Thread Kurt Fankhauser
Brian, I have a tower site that has its own electric meter since 3 years ago. Have had several AP's and Backhaul's on it and the meter still reads 0, 3 years later. Electric company thought I wasn't reading the meter and sent a guy out to re-calibrate it. He said it was accurate. Kurt Fankhau

Re: [WISPA] electricity usage calculator

2009-04-19 Thread Brian Rohrbacher
Just found a pretty neat calculator online.  They have average prices for all states. http://michaelbluejay.com/electricity/howmuch.html Here is my screen shot on the calc I ran.  (I based it off an 18 watt compact bulb. Brian e...@wisp-router.com wrote: about 15watt total consumption f

Re: [WISPA] electricity usage calculator

2009-04-19 Thread Brian Rohrbacher
Ya, i have a couple already. D. Ryan Spott wrote: Go get a "kill-a-watt" and run it for a few hours. You can show your tower owner what you will be using... This little device is also great for finding power thieves in your home. ryan D. Ryan Spott rsp...@cspott.com On Apr 19,

Re: [WISPA] electricity usage calculator

2009-04-19 Thread D. Ryan Spott
Go get a "kill-a-watt" and run it for a few hours. You can show your tower owner what you will be using... This little device is also great for finding power thieves in your home. ryan D. Ryan Spott rsp...@cspott.com On Apr 19, 2009, at 1:0

Re: [WISPA] electricity usage calculator

2009-04-19 Thread eje
about 15watt total consumption from what you have there. 5w for the RB, then 5watt per radio card (actually little less but no more). /Eje --Original Message-- From: Brian Rohrbacher Sender: wireless-boun...@wispa.org To: WISPA General List ReplyTo: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] el

Re: [WISPA] electricity usage calculator

2009-04-19 Thread eje
about 15watt total consumption from what you have there. 5w for the RB, then 5watt per radio card (actually little less but no more). /Eje --Original Message-- From: Brian Rohrbacher Sender: wireless-boun...@wispa.org To: WISPA General List ReplyTo: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] el

[WISPA] electricity usage calculator

2009-04-19 Thread Brian Rohrbacher
I have a new tower site and the owner ask how much electric I will use. How can I calculate that? For now all I will have is one 24v 2amp power supply going to a rb433ah with an xr2 omni and a xr5 backhaul. I can roughly guess the price per kilowatt hr but I need to get an estimate on kw/hr firs

Re: [WISPA] How much to charge for a truck roll

2009-04-19 Thread Brian Rohrbacher
I never used to charge for a lot of that stuff but then one day I said screw it.  $75 for a service call.  I had some complaints, started lowering the price for 5 minute repairs and decided on another change.  I now do $50 service calls.  I decided instead of getting complaints about $75 or low

Re: [WISPA] How much to charge for a truck roll

2009-04-19 Thread Kurt Fankhauser
Oh my! We could never get away with charging anywhere near that! If we sent our customers a bill like that they would call up the bigger wisp in this area that is doing free installs and just switch. Not to mention the DSL here is $20/month. Kurt Fankhauser WAVELINC P.O. Box 126 Bucyrus, OH 44820

Re: [WISPA] Insurance on equipment

2009-04-19 Thread Kurt Fankhauser
Yeah but most Wisps operators are some of the financially worst off people I have ever met. I agree on not making a bunch of small claims, same holds true with your automobile policy. I remember Mac said once that he actually got APC to pay out on their equipment protection guarantee and he got som

Re: [WISPA] Insurance on equipment

2009-04-19 Thread Josh Luthman
Well put, John! Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. --- Henry Spencer On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 7:22 AM, John Scrivner wrote: > I carry a very high deductible (like $

Re: [WISPA] Usage caps

2009-04-19 Thread Al Stewart
Anyone else putting usage caps on subscribers? Where do you set the max number of Gigs? And how much are you charging for those who go beyond the limit? Al -- At 09:21 AM 04/16/2009 -0700, Marlon K. Schafer wrote: --- >Yeppers. > >http://www.odessaoffice.com/services.html > >We generat

Re: [WISPA] Question about BGP + Mikrotik

2009-04-19 Thread Gino Villarini
1- Yes correct, 2- Wea lready have a BGP session between us and the new customer/isp for internal traffic xchange, Do I need to provide Sprint with My customer AS number or just their IP space for Filtering purposes?. 3- Any changes on my Tik box to accept Full routes from Sprint? Gino A. Vi

Re: [WISPA] Question about BGP + Mikrotik

2009-04-19 Thread Gino Villarini
Travis Thanks, thats very basic and easy. My new customer is an ISP and they have their own AS number, any new config on my Tik box? We arleady have a BGP session between both for internal traffic. Gino A. Villarini g...@aeronetpr.com Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. tel 787.273.4143 fax

Re: [WISPA] Insurance on equipment

2009-04-19 Thread John Scrivner
I carry a very high deductible (like $10K per incident). I keep insurance strictly for liability coverage and for catastrophic coverage like if our office burns down or a tornado comes through and wipes everything out. My rates are low and I do not plan to ever make a claim. Insurance companies are