Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste

I am behind on reading the messages, so I am behind. This company had already built out FTTH in our service area. They had also received protest from Comcast in their proposed area. It did not affect anything! Comcast is offering 3X NC

Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste

Yep, same here. Much smaller than you: http://www.nctc.com/version_3.0/StimBlog/BBStimulus.html They had already built out FTH on all the areas we cover. They also asked for money to expand out into areas already covered by Comcast and what they already covered with slower speeds(Comcast disput

Re: [WISPA] WISPA TV Whitespaces Meeting with the FCC

This may have already been answered or may not be exactly what you are looking for, but: http://showmywhitespace.com/ shows what is available. Scottie -- Original Message -- From: "Tom DeReggi" Reply-To: WISPA General List Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 14:51:2

[WISPA] Updates to Member's Directory and Map

I just completed an update of the Member 's Directory. Please review it and let me know if I have mistakenly missed your company. Also, check the Google Map either on the Member's Directory Page or at http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8

Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste

Template posted for Service Providers protesting applications: http://www2.ntia.doc.gov/ServiceProviderResponses V -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Matt Larsen - Lists Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 8:59 PM To: WISPA Gen

Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste

Tell me about it. -- Original Message -- From: Bret Clark Reply-To: WISPA General List Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:49:39 -0400 >Yeah...one of the colleges in our state is trying for stimulus money in >round 2 to wire-up the entire state, then specifically

Re: [WISPA] email issues

Many customers have shared their passwords with webmail phishers. (who want to use their webmail accounts). We have squirrelmail webmail for our users. We had a bunch of with people from nigeria entering into our customers' webmail accounts. We installed the restrict sender plugin from the sq

[WISPA] Did You Know?

Did you know that all WISPA members have the ability to edit the WISPA Wiki? The WISPA wiki can be accessed at http://wiki.wispa.org and is a member's only site. On this wiki, our members can share information such as contracts, forms, software tools and much more. Review the Section Headings to

Re: [WISPA] Speed test

Similar issue here. Locked down the port to 100Mbps and fixed it. On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Jeremie Chism wrote: > We had a 50 Meg pipe that was showing much slower download speeds and > half of what we were supposed to get on upload. Our Cisco was > mistakenly configured to auto negotiate

Re: [WISPA] Speed test

We had a 50 Meg pipe that was showing much slower download speeds and half of what we were supposed to get on upload. Our Cisco was mistakenly configured to auto negotiate which we corrected and that fixed the upload. We then found a router on our upstream's network which was also auto nego

Re: [WISPA] Speed test

Jeremie, Can you expound on that a little, where it was how you found it. Steve Barnes RC-WiFi Wireless Internet Service -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Jeremie Chism Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 2:28 PM To: WISPA Ge

Re: [WISPA] OT: Rohn 25G Tower Help

Yes. That is correct. They have unreleased docs for 70%, but said that really I should take it down and rebuild it. Regards, Chuck Hogg Shelby Broadband 502-722-9292 ch...@shelbybb.com http://www.shelbybb.com -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@

Re: [WISPA] Speed test

I had the same issue with some duplex mismatch which showed slow speeds. Sent from my iPhone On Apr 8, 2010, at 12:47 PM, RickG wrote: > I'm thinking Chuck or Gerard at Shelby Broadband. With that said, who > is your upstream? They may have a test site. -RickG > > On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:42 AM

Re: [WISPA] OT: Rohn 25G Tower Help

Chuck, I guess I should have read all of you post. I now see that you mentioned that you found the 120' requirement but were looking for engineering for closer spacing. Data Technology wrote: > All Rohn tower books I have had show 80% of vertical height for the > anchor post. On some towers/

Re: [WISPA] OT: Rohn 25G Tower Help

Chuck, which WISP did you buy? Just curious. -RickG On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Chuck Hogg wrote: > We purchased a WISP and are doing tower maintenance on one of their > towers.  I was going to replace the guy wires, bolts, redo the anchors > (not a big fan of how it is done), install guy wi

Re: [WISPA] OT: Rohn 25G Tower Help

All Rohn tower books I have had show 80% of vertical height for the anchor post. On some towers/heights they go to 2 sets of anchor posts. Even the brochure they have on their site still shows that, 120' for 150' tall tower with 5 sets of guys. http://www.rohnnet.com/resourcesmodule/download_res

Re: [WISPA] UBNT PowerBridgeM5

Seems reliable enough to me, have not had a problem with one yet. Kurt Fankhauser WAVELINC P.O. Box 126 Bucyrus, OH 44820 419-562-6405 www.wavelinc.com -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Patrick Cole Sent: Thursday, Apr

Re: [WISPA] Speed test

I'm thinking Chuck or Gerard at Shelby Broadband. With that said, who is your upstream? They may have a test site. -RickG On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Steve Barnes wrote: > Sorry forgot to change subject line. > > Steve Barnes > RC-WiFi Wireless Internet Service > > > > Does someone have a goo

Re: [WISPA] OT: Rohn 25G Tower Help

Myself included, nobody wants to climb it. I'm just trying to see if there is any documentation that says this can be done. Obviously it was some idiot that put it up...which is why I'm trying to see if it can even be safely engineered with anchors at these positions. FWIW, I contacted Radian/Ro

Re: [WISPA] OT: Rohn 25G Tower Help

http://www.rohnnet.com/ They are very helpful folks. I pieced together stuff for a gin pole for rohn25 not too long ago with their help. Justin -- Justin Wilson http://www.mtin.net/blog Wisp Consulting ­ Tower Climbing ­ Network Support Chuck Hogg wrote: > We purchased a WISP and are doing

Re: [WISPA] email issues

We do a combination of the following across networks: -Greylisting -Customers can only talk to certain mail servers on port 25. We encourage them to use port 587 for out of network access. -Set inbound and outbound limits on our routers in regards to port 25 traffic and to mail serve

Re: [WISPA] OT: Rohn 25G Tower Help

SHUDDER 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: "Chuck Hogg" To: ; "WISPA General List" Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 10:53 AM Subject: [WISPA] OT: Rohn 25G Tower Help

Re: [WISPA] OT: Rohn 25G Tower Help

Chuck, Here is a link to their site. Looks like they have changed the site but if you download the Rohn 25 brochure you will find what you are looking for. http://www.rohnnet.com/rohn-25g-tower LaRoy McCann Data Technology Chuck Hogg wrote: > We purchased a WISP and are doing tower maintenance

Re: [WISPA] email issues

Actually, if you use MailScanner, you can watermark all messages originating at your server and toast any "undeliverables" that do not have the watermark. It works like a charm. Terry - Original Message - From: "Robert West" To: ; "'WISPA General List'" Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010

Re: [WISPA] OT: Rohn 25G Tower Help

Chuck, A lot of us here are also on the TowerTalk list... http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/Towertalk If you're not on it, you might want to ask there. Those guys have been invaluable to me in more ways than one. Bob- -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [m

[WISPA] OT: Rohn 25G Tower Help

We purchased a WISP and are doing tower maintenance on one of their towers. I was going to replace the guy wires, bolts, redo the anchors (not a big fan of how it is done), install guy wire brackets, etc. Essentially it is a complete overhaul of the tower. The tower is 150' Rohn 25G. The guy

Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste

Travis, Do you have a link to the article, or to a list of upgrade areas? Thanks, Randy On 4/7/2010 7:02 PM, Travis Johnson wrote: > Hi, > > So, as I said since the Broadband Stimulus act was passed, the money > will be wasted. Qwest just applied for $467 MILLION dollars to upgrade > their DSL

[WISPA] Form 477

I know it's not Form 477 panic season, but I am just working on a few items in my database to get a cleaner count next time, and I ran across something I had not noticed before. http://www.fcc.gov/Forms/Form477/477tutorial.pdf On page 26, it instructs: "Include census tracts within your define

Re: [WISPA] Obama Eyes New Taxes, Fees for National Broadband Network

These are the same people... http://stfunoo.be/?p=529 Skip to about a minute ahead if you want... http://stfunoo.be/?p=818 In other words, I don't like it but I think those people are so clueless it doesn't matter. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337

Re: [WISPA] Obama Eyes New Taxes, Fees for National Broadband Network

No. ++ Neofast, Inc, Making internet easy 541-969-8200 509-386-4589 ++ -- From: "RickG" Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 11:08 AM To: "WISPA General List" Subject: Re: [WISPA] Obama Eyes New

Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste

Marlon was that the NoaNet build out? Marlon K. Schafer wrote: > We protested a project out here. > > A fiber build with wireless overlay. > > There is already fiber, DSL AND wireless. > > The project was funded anyway. > > It's not about the consumer folks And it's CERTAINLY NOT about usi

Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste

Yeah...one of the colleges in our state is trying for stimulus money in round 2 to wire-up the entire state, then specifically mentions a town in which we already have service in as being one of the first locations that would be wired from the stimulas! What the @#$% is a college doing getting

Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste

We protested a project out here. A fiber build with wireless overlay. There is already fiber, DSL AND wireless. The project was funded anyway. It's not about the consumer folks And it's CERTAINLY NOT about using OUR money efficiently. marlon - Original Message - From: "Matt Lars

Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste

giggle Did you guys REALLY think this (the entire ARRA) was anything other than payback to the big companies that got Obama elected? That and a way to force the USA into so much red ink that they'll "have" to tax us higher to ever be able to pay it back? Silly silly boys. marlon - Origin

Re: [WISPA] email issues

We had a lot of that in the past. It wasn't that their email was hijacked, it was just that the spam bot was using our domain extension with random names as a return address. When the spam was sent to an invalid email address, it was then bounced back to us since it was the return email. As St

Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste

Knowing whom your provider is can be more important than the geography. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -- From: "Steve Barnes" Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 8:41 AM To: "WISPA General List" Subject: Re

Re: [WISPA] email issues

Seems to be a problem with the specific webmail installation, and not webmail in general. Hard drives are cheap, and I prefer IMAP to POP3 myself, so I don't really worry about customers leaving email on the server. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com --

Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste

Is there a map or listing of round 2 applicants? - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -- From: "Travis Johnson" Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 8:02 PM To: "WISPA General List" Subject: [WISPA] Stimulus waste

[WISPA] Speed test

Sorry forgot to change subject line. Steve Barnes RC-WiFi Wireless Internet Service Does someone have a good connection in the Indiana Ohio Kentucky area with a Mikrotik who can setup a user for me to do a Bandwidth test? I need to test a 50 Meg fiber connection clear out of our network. In

Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste

Does someone have a good connection in the Indiana Ohio Kentucky area with a Mikrotik who can setup a user for me to do a Bandwidth test? I need to test a 50 Meg fiber connection clear out of our network. Inside its fine but to all outside speedtest.net sites I get 1/2 and I need to make sure

Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste

The agencies will load the PFSA maps into BB USA.gov. They will open a 30 day comment window and then service providers will be given the opportunity to comment. Chris -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Travis Johnson Se

Re: [WISPA] UBNT PowerBridgeM5

Kurt, Are they reliable? They seem to be much lower cost compared to what we've used previously (Snaptec). Pat Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 08:54:03AM -0400, Kurt Fankhauser wrote: > This should fix your 12v site problem. > > http://www.zahninc.com/ > > > Kurt Fankhauser > WAVELINC > P.O. Box 12

Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste

I second wanting a link to do protests as well. Kurt Fankhauser WAVELINC P.O. Box 126 Bucyrus, OH 44820 419-562-6405 www.wavelinc.com -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Travis Johnson Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 10:

Re: [WISPA] WISPA TV Whitespaces Meeting with the FCC

The area you described below should be fit for this TV whitespace. However in my area there are better options since we have far fewer trees. A combination of 3.65ghz, 2.4ghz, and 900mhz will get me to every customer in my area. Kurt Fankhauser WAVELINC P.O. Box 126 Bucyrus, OH 44820 419-562-6405

Re: [WISPA] UBNT PowerBridgeM5

This should fix your 12v site problem. http://www.zahninc.com/ Kurt Fankhauser WAVELINC P.O. Box 126 Bucyrus, OH 44820 419-562-6405 www.wavelinc.com -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Patrick Cole Sent: Wednesday, Apri