Re: [WISPA] Bridge Network - ARP Poisioning

2010-04-17 Thread Justin Wilson
3500XL switches are cheap on eBay when you need port density. I have installed quite a few at towers where there are 8 Aps plus backhauls plus other stuff. -- Justin Wilson http://www.mtin.net/blog Wisp Consulting ­ Tower Climbing ­ Network Support From: Josh Luthman Reply-To: WISPA Gene

Re: [WISPA] Internet for festival: Laptop/PDA signal strength?

2010-04-17 Thread Josh Luthman
Nanos would be cheaper then MT wouldn't it? On 4/17/10, Mike wrote: > Marlon's idea is good. Put a high 5.8 omni at the crossroads. Put some 5.8 > cpe at a few different places with 2.4 low power radios connected to them. > A P2P to the crossroads system from your demark would complete the syst

Re: [WISPA] Internet for festival: Laptop/PDA signal strength?

2010-04-17 Thread Mike
Marlon's idea is good. Put a high 5.8 omni at the crossroads. Put some 5.8 cpe at a few different places with 2.4 low power radios connected to them. A P2P to the crossroads system from your demark would complete the system. You could do it with Deliberant radios, or Mikrotik quite easily. ---

Re: [WISPA] Internet for festival: Laptop/PDA signal strength?

2010-04-17 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
I use a 24dB grid for a project like this. We can get to a laptop (in open air) about a mile away this way ;-). It's pretty cool. You'd never be able to handle the volume that way though. I'd probably try to go with REALLY low powered omni or sectors with a LOT of them. 5 gig 802.11 a and b

Re: [WISPA] Friday Funnies

2010-04-17 Thread Marco Coelho
I've still got a floppy with Trumpet on it! Now if I can just find my 5 1/4 floppy drive On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Ryan Spott wrote: > Oh man.. memories... :) > > I used to have a 2 page SLIP script that would connect people in the AK bush > to the internet via x500 pads provided by Briti

Re: [WISPA] looking for iperf test site with 1G open

2010-04-17 Thread Marco Coelho
Testing to a dedicated Cogent server in California yielded the best results; however, even testing to their pool of iperf servers provided a transfer of 796 Mb/s. The trick was to run multiple threads (50). Marco Coelho [r...@ns1 ~]# iperf -c dca.iperf.cogentco.com -w 256000 -P 50 -C -

[WISPA] Internet for festival: Laptop/PDA signal strength?

2010-04-17 Thread Charles Hooper
Hi, Every year in July we have a fairly large, 3-day festival in town with over 100 vendors and over 300,000 visitors. I'm teaming up with a local non-profit that I'm involved with to try to provide Internet access to those vendors, as well as any of those 300,000 people with smartphones/PDAs

Re: [WISPA] Canopy Equipment

2010-04-17 Thread Dan Ferguson
Thanks for the recommendations everyone! Best, - Dan On 4/15/2010 9:25 AM, Justin Wilson wrote: > Quicklink will treat you right. > > I would become a member of the motorola forums and lurk there for awhile > as well. > > Justin > > --