Re: [WISPA] Fwd: Choosing core router for small - medium WISP

2011-07-13 Thread Eduardo
We have an 11mi link with rocket M365 radios, AirMax enabled, with aggregation set at 32 frames, with 50KB for the largest frame. We notice that the link is getting some timed out pings and fluctuating randomly latency. When aggregation was set at off, we lost all remote connection with the

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquitiy Link having Intermittent Ping Issues ?

2011-07-13 Thread Faisal Imtiaz
Hi Eduardo, What makes you think that the problem is on the Wireless side of the radios ? What other troubleshooting have you done ? Are you pinging the Radio ? or pinging thru the link ? is the PTP link setup as a WDS Bridge ? Have you checked the Ethernet Ports for Duplex or speed

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquitiy Link having Intermittent Ping Issues ?

2011-07-13 Thread KevinR
Hello, This may not be a wireless side problem, but it is a UBNT radio problem. I recently installed a M365 Powerbridge link and it did the same thing. The only thing that helped was downgrading to 5.2.1 All newer versions I tried would produce packet loss every 300 or so pings where you would

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquitiy Link having Intermittent Ping Issues ?

2011-07-13 Thread Bruce Robertson
Check the forums... this seems to be the problem they're working on in 5.3.3. You can get 5.3.3-RC to see if it helps. On 07/13/2011 07:24 AM, KevinR wrote: Hello, This may not be a wireless side problem, but it is a UBNT radio problem. I recently installed a M365 Powerbridge link and it did

[WISPA] FCC 5.4 gig training

2011-07-13 Thread Marlon K. Schafer (509-982-2181)
Just wondering How many are going to join the What's legal, what's not webinar today? marlon WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/

Re: [WISPA] FCC 5.4 gig training

2011-07-13 Thread Rick Harnish
Current count 161 registered -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Marlon K. Schafer (509-982-2181) Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 11:05 AM To: WISPA General List Cc: Principal WISPA Member List Subject: [WISPA] FCC 5.4

Re: [WISPA] FCC 5.4 gig training

2011-07-13 Thread Josh Luthman
I plan to. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Marlon K. Schafer (509-982-2181) o...@odessaoffice.com wrote: Just wondering How many are going to join the What's legal, what's not webinar

Re: [WISPA] OT: Cleared the Gmail account

2011-07-13 Thread Marlon K. Schafer (509-982-2181)
Just another reason to use a real email account! I can store as much as my hard drive will allow :-) I forget what it's up to. I used to be able to burn a DVD as a backup, but that's not enough anymore. marlon - Original Message - From: Josh Luthman To: WISPA General List

Re: [WISPA] OT: Cleared the Gmail account

2011-07-13 Thread Marlon K. Schafer (509-982-2181)
Yeah, I've kept some of those too. Back to 1999. I keep looking around to see if I can find the original guy that talked me into trying this wireless thing. I'd like to thank him, or beat him up, depending on the day. grin I do remember he talked about having Teletronics gear strung from

Re: [WISPA] OT: Cleared the Gmail account

2011-07-13 Thread Josh Luthman
Unless it's Thunderbird or Outlook and you have 5GB of emails. Then it runs slower than molasses in January. Or Eudora. Or Windows Mail/OE. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Marlon K. Schafer

Re: [WISPA] Fwd: Choosing core router for small - medium WISP

2011-07-13 Thread Marlon K. Schafer (509-982-2181)
I'd add to the MT column. I don't run MT boards for my main routers, I use Dell servers with MT software. 3ghz processors, many gigs of ram, as many interfaces of nearly any kind etc. Never had a lick of trouble with that system, and they basically never running over single digit processor

Re: [WISPA] OT: Cleared the Gmail account

2011-07-13 Thread Rick Lindahl
Marlon, I just stumbled on your recent post about the original salesman and Teletronics' hardware and thought you might have been referring to me!? Although the Kuwait network wasn't something that I worked on. I'm still plugging away down here so drop me a line once in a while and let me

Re: [WISPA] FCC 5.4 gig training

2011-07-13 Thread Blake Covarrubias
Is it possible to receive slides and/or video from this? I was registered to watch this, but was pulled away to a conference out of town. The guy I asked to fill in didn't come through for me. I'd really like to have access to this info though. Rick, can you help? -- Blake Covarrubias On Jul

[WISPA] PtP Flat Panel and MiMo Dish Antennas

2011-07-13 Thread Jawad A Hai
Hello, I have posted below in several forums without success, I will appreciate if you some body can advise me. Hi, This is my first post in the forum.( have posted in mikrotik and ddwrt without any luck ) I wanted to know what antennas users/Pros use for PtP needs.(Apart from UBNT) Both Flat

Re: [WISPA] PtP Flat Panel and MiMo Dish Antennas

2011-07-13 Thread Josh Luthman
I like ARC Wireless, been happy with them. Never heard of Lanbowan or Jirous. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Jawad A Hai ahja...@hotmail.com wrote: ** Hello, I have posted below in several

Re: [WISPA] OT: Cleared the Gmail account

2011-07-13 Thread Marlon K. Schafer (509-982-2181)
Hmmm, I've not noticed that. No problems here yet. marlon - Original Message - From: Josh Luthman To: WISPA General List Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 8:39 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] OT: Cleared the Gmail account Unless it's Thunderbird or Outlook and you have 5GB of

Re: [WISPA] PtP Flat Panel and MiMo Dish Antennas

2011-07-13 Thread Jawad A Hai
Hello Josh, What antennas did you use? Flate Panel or Dish (MIMO), ? What is your Radio that goes with ARC ?? did you get a chance to use other brands beside ARC ? http://en.jirous.com/antenna-5ghz/jrc-29-dx-pr http://www.lanbowan.com/products/en_vpro.asp?id=707 From: Josh Luthman Sent:

Re: [WISPA] OT: Cleared the Gmail account

2011-07-13 Thread Josh Luthman
May be fixed with newer versions, but I experienced it with Thunderbird and Eudora years ago and have seen many complaints online and offline. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Marlon K. Schafer

Re: [WISPA] OT: Cleared the Gmail account

2011-07-13 Thread Marlon K. Schafer (509-982-2181)
Hey there Rick! How the heck are you! Nope, you were my first sales guy, but the guy that taught me about Teletronics and locally cost justifiable gear is now lost to me. I certainly learned a lot from you though! We're up to 700 or 800 subs here. Still doing it with about 2.5 people. Our

Re: [WISPA] OT: Cleared the Gmail account

2011-07-13 Thread Forbes Mercy
Email pack rat :) On 7/13/2011 8:36 AM, Marlon K. Schafer (509-982-2181) wrote: Just another reason to use a real email account! I can store as much as my hard drive will allow :-) I forget what it's

Re: [WISPA] PtP Flat Panel and MiMo Dish Antennas

2011-07-13 Thread Josh Luthman
Flat panel. Mikrotik. The brands I replaced, for the most part, are unknown to me. I did replace a pair of little PacWireless dishes but it isn't something comparable (due to LMR400 runs). Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Wed,

Re: [WISPA] PtP Flat Panel and MiMo Dish Antennas

2011-07-13 Thread Jerry Richardson
Jawad, There is no simple answer to this. You have to take manufactuer specs with a grain of salt as many will skew the numbers leading you to believe the product is better than it is. The other issue is that in many cases the product is a re-branded product made by someone else. Truth be

Re: [WISPA] PtP Flat Panel and MiMo Dish Antennas

2011-07-13 Thread Jawad A Hai
Hello Jerry, Thank YOu for the suggestion. You have exactly understood my problem, I read specs and bring the product and test then compare it with other I always had issues. My main issues is the place where I live I don't have liberty of importing using direct channels. I have to use

Re: [WISPA] PtP Flat Panel and MiMo Dish Antennas

2011-07-13 Thread Jerry Richardson
You could potentially start with the standard Rockets. When the GPS units are more available, you could swap out the AP end and keep the non-GPS units for spares on the Station end. - Jerry From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Jawad A Hai Sent:

[WISPA] Authentication for WISP's

2011-07-13 Thread Josh Bowsher
I am interested in finding an alternative way to authenticate all of my wireless customers. Currently we use pppoe and I would like to get away from it. I use mikrotik AP's and my network is OSPF routed. I tried using hotspot mac auth and it worked and still works in some of my AP's but some of

Re: [WISPA] Authentication for WISP's

2011-07-13 Thread Cameron Crum
What don't you like about radius? MT can do straight MAC auth through radius on the wireless interface. I'm not real sure how your radius server is going to provision anything if it isn't doing the authentication. What are you using as a billing/provisioning platform? Cameron Cameron On Wed,

Re: [WISPA] Authentication for WISP's

2011-07-13 Thread Josh Bowsher
I like radius I am just having some random issues with pppoe. I do not want to get away from radius. I use Platypus ISP billing and Vircom Radius. Joshua S. Bowsher Director of Internet Services Midwaynet.net Midway Electronics NWIIS a division of MidwayNet, LLC 1250 N McKinley Ave Rensselaer,

Re: [WISPA] Authentication for WISP's

2011-07-13 Thread Josh Luthman
What do you want Radius to do if you're not using PPPOE (assuming it's all wireless customers)? Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Josh Bowsher jbows...@midwaynet.netwrote: I like radius I am just

Re: [WISPA] Authentication for WISP's

2011-07-13 Thread Josh Bowsher
Profiles for speed and specifiying IP pools or addresses. Joshua S. Bowsher Director of Internet Services Midwaynet.net Midway Electronics NWIIS a division of MidwayNet, LLC 1250 N McKinley Ave Rensselaer, IN 47978 Office 219-866-7946 ext: 212 Cell 219-863-0678

Re: [WISPA] Authentication for WISP's

2011-07-13 Thread Cameron Crum
Radius can do authentication and provisioning...keep poeple off the network who don't belong, set up queues, assign IP's, set up rules to redirect non-paying customers, etc. It can be a fantastic tool when used properly. It's not jsut for PPPOE. Cameron On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Josh

Re: [WISPA] Authentication for WISP's

2011-07-13 Thread Sam Tetherow
How do you get it to provide rate limits and ip addresses outside of PPPoE, last time I looked if you were doing MAC Auth out of radius you couldn't pass IP and queues, it has been a while though so this may have changed. On 7/13/11 4:46 PM, Cameron Crum wrote: Radius can do authentication

Re: [WISPA] Authentication for WISP's

2011-07-13 Thread Josh Bowsher
I understand that and so I am reaching out for ideas on how to use it with mikrotik and without pppoe. Joshua S. Bowsher Director of Internet Services Midwaynet.net Midway Electronics NWIIS a division of MidwayNet, LLC 1250 N McKinley Ave Rensselaer, IN 47978 Office 219-866-7946 ext: 212 Cell

Re: [WISPA] Authentication for WISP's

2011-07-13 Thread Josh Bowsher
With profiles in the profiles.txt file. You can specify rate limits and IP pools I do it currently but I use the hotspot mac auth in the mikrotik AP's Joshua S. Bowsher Director of Internet Services Midwaynet.net Midway Electronics NWIIS a division of MidwayNet, LLC 1250 N McKinley Ave

Re: [WISPA] Authentication for WISP's

2011-07-13 Thread Josh Luthman
So you don't want to use hotspot or pppoe, but do want to use RADIUS? Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Josh Bowsher jbows...@midwaynet.netwrote: With profiles in the profiles.txt file. You can

Re: [WISPA] Authentication for WISP's

2011-07-13 Thread Josh Bowsher
Yes that's exactly what I am after. Joshua S. Bowsher Director of Internet Services Midwaynet.net Midway Electronics NWIIS a division of MidwayNet, LLC 1250 N McKinley Ave Rensselaer, IN 47978 Office 219-866-7946 ext: 212 Cell 219-863-0678 www.midwaynet.nethttp://www.midwaynet.net/

Re: [WISPA] Authentication for WISP's

2011-07-13 Thread Cameron Crum
You don't need hotspot or pppoe. I have customers using straight mac auth through radius (Freeradius) and the radius passes back whatever attributes are in either the radreply or radgroupreply tables. Cameron On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.comwrote: So

Re: [WISPA] Authentication for WISP's

2011-07-13 Thread Blake Covarrubias
What are your CPE? If you're using MikroTik you can also control rate limits in addition to device authentication. You can assign IPs via RADIUS, but you will have to start allocating IP blocks to AP's, or to a router at a tower site which feeds multiple AP's. IP assignment in MikroTik's RADIUS

Re: [WISPA] Authentication for WISP's

2011-07-13 Thread Josh Luthman
Using EAP? On Jul 13, 2011 6:02 PM, Cameron Crum cc...@wispmon.com wrote: You don't need hotspot or pppoe. I have customers using straight mac auth through radius (Freeradius) and the radius passes back whatever attributes are in either the radreply or radgroupreply tables. Cameron On Wed,

Re: [WISPA] [Spam] FCC 5.4 gig training

2011-07-13 Thread Tom DeReggi
yeah, that will be helpful if Slides are published on WISPA web site somewhere. The slides had some useful links to FCC Knowledge base documents. I made the mistake of logging in at the last minute assuming gotomeeting wouldn;t require any updates since I've used it before, but missed the first

Re: [WISPA] Authentication for WISP's

2011-07-13 Thread Scott Reed
Exactly my thought when I read the original post. Aren't you already doing authentication in RADIUS? What are you really trying to accomplish with authentication? On 7/13/2011 5:37 PM, Cameron Crum wrote: What don't you like about radius? MT can do straight MAC auth through radius on the

Re: [WISPA] Authentication for WISP's

2011-07-13 Thread Eric Merkel
Use DHCP with radius auth and attributes to set your shaping queues, etc... Eric On Jul 13, 2011 6:00 PM, Josh Bowsher jbows...@midwaynet.net wrote: Yes that's exactly what I am after. Joshua S. Bowsher Director of Internet Services Midwaynet.net Midway Electronics NWIIS a division of

Re: [WISPA] OT: Cleared the Gmail account

2011-07-13 Thread Mike Hammett
Those are the two clients I use. My Outlook probably has about 5 GB, but my Thunderbird probably has 30 GB. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com On 7/13/2011 10:39 AM, Josh Luthman wrote: Unless it's Thunderbird or Outlook and

Re: [WISPA] OT: Cleared the Gmail account

2011-07-13 Thread Josh Luthman
Versions? What storage or access method (imap, pop)? On Jul 13, 2011 8:29 PM, Mike Hammett wispawirel...@ics-il.net wrote: Those are the two clients I use. My Outlook probably has about 5 GB, but my Thunderbird probably has 30 GB. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions

Re: [WISPA] Authentication for WISP's

2011-07-13 Thread Wilson Hernandez
I'm doing straight MAC auth with MT and nothing else. Today I noticed an intruder who cloned a client's NS2 MAC address and it looks like it did a ipscan to get a customer's ip address and access the internet... That's the only tower I have without WEP key... I have all towers with mac auth

Re: [WISPA] PtP Flat Panel and MiMo Dish Antennas

2011-07-13 Thread RickG
+1 On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.comwrote: I like ARC Wireless, been happy with them. Never heard of Lanbowan or Jirous. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 3:15

Re: [WISPA] PtP Flat Panel and MiMo Dish Antennas

2011-07-13 Thread Josh Luthman
Just noticed the subject was ptp. What kind of distances? Panels are not a great choice a lot of the time. On Jul 13, 2011 10:23 PM, RickG rgunder...@gmail.com wrote: +1 On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.comwrote: I like ARC Wireless, been happy with

Re: [WISPA] PtP Flat Panel and MiMo Dish Antennas

2011-07-13 Thread RickG
I'll save Chuck from having to type this again: http://www.ubnt.com/stock :P On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Jawad A Hai ahja...@hotmail.com wrote: ** Hello Jerry, Thank YOu for the suggestion. You have exactly understood my problem, I read specs and bring the product and test then

Re: [WISPA] OT: Cleared the Gmail account

2011-07-13 Thread Mike Hammett
IMAP for everything, no POP at all. I am interested to give MAPI a try once I finish getting my new Zimbra cluster online. Outlook 2010 and ThunderBird... whatever the latest one is. It restarted for an update the other day. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions

[WISPA] Ubiquity Rocket M365 link question

2011-07-13 Thread Eduardo
We have an 11mi link with rocket M365 radios, AirMax enabled, with aggregation set at 32 frames, with 50KB for the largest frame. We notice that the link is getting some timed out pings and fluctuating randomly latency. When aggregation was set at off, we lost all remote connection with the

Re: [WISPA] OT: Cleared the Gmail account

2011-07-13 Thread Josh Luthman
Major difference, most everyone used POP years ago. Probably the cause of the issues. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Mike Hammett wispawirel...@ics-il.netwrote: ** IMAP for everything, no POP

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquity Rocket M365 link question

2011-07-13 Thread Josh Luthman
I have a Powerbridge 365 link. I left it all default in terms of advanced wireless config. Works just fine. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Eduardo edua...@webjogger.net wrote: ** We have an