Re: [WISPA] Ethernet over 328ft

2007-05-17 Thread Erik Jansson
ference. > > So, if your on an interference free tower, use good cable, good ends, > and good installation techniques and you'll be fine with 400ft. > > Thanks, > -Russ > > > > > > > > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mai

[WISPA] Ethernet over 328ft

2007-05-17 Thread Erik Jansson
The Ethernet spec is for a maximum cable run of 328ft. What is the the spec limits it to this distance, timing, cable resistance? I need to do an outdoor run of 350-400ft, not real keen on fiber as I then need to power a converter and I have doubts of a converter that will with stand the cold

[WISPA] Best Linux desktop

2007-05-15 Thread Erik Jansson
A little of topic but I know there are a bunch of linux people out there. I'm attempting to use windoze as little a possible and want to move to a good linux desktop. Unfortunately many of my programs are windows based so live switching if possible would be nice. I here that Wine runs windoze

[WISPA] EVDO vs Wireless

2007-05-14 Thread Erik Jansson
I recently heard that on of the local cell providers is upgrading from x1 to EVDO. My question is for those of you who have EVDO in you area what if any impact it has had, what speeds are being delivered and what is the cost structure like. Thanks for the feed back Erik -- WISPA Wireless Lis

[WISPA] Pig tails

2007-04-30 Thread Erik Jansson
I'm looking for the best quality lowest loss pigtails, mostly ufl and mmcx to N female bulkhead. Who sells the best? I recall reading a post somewhere that some on on ebay made a top notch jumper... Any experiences would be appreciated. Erik -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subsc

Re: [WISPA] 900 MHz Help

2007-04-08 Thread Erik Jansson
Don't know what equipment you are using but rule of thumb is horizontal pol unless you in the middle of no where or you have scanned the spectrum. Small channel size (5mhz) 10 or 20)only if you are if you have done a spectrum scan to make sure things are clear. You will find a lot more interfe

Re: [WISPA] MT "Hotspot" Configuration

2007-02-27 Thread Erik Jansson
Just a novice on the MT hotspot my self but the simplest way would be just to ftp up a replacement page for MT default login page. This way no proxy server or anything else is needed. Erik Mark Nash wrote: Hi All... I'm trying to configure an RB532A w/Mikrotik RouterOS. It seems there are

Re: [WISPA] Most Common Questions for Tech Support Line ?

2007-01-18 Thread Erik Jansson
Other then the customer down time, having the company pay for a snowmobile run what could be better!!! Erik Forbes Mercy wrote: Thank you very much for this information we have been using the Air Matrix which is the new unit I've been speaking of. It just erases MAC addresses at wil

[WISPA] AC Power Tall tower and Lightning

2007-01-14 Thread Erik Jansson
Were looking at putting some gear (MT) up a 300 ft tower where the temps can hit -40 (with out the wind). As some of the equipment is not rated for these temps and we don't want to test them out either (tower climbing at that temp is a bitch), we are looking at a small heated enclosure. We ca

[WISPA] Anyone using Power Noc

2007-01-04 Thread Erik Jansson
We are trying to decide on a billing and or monitoring package and came across Power Noc. It looks like a great package at a reasonable price, and does what we need as far as we can tell at this point. Has anyone else used this or a similar product? if yes what do you think, if no what are y

Re: [WISPA] Grrrr... pigtails

2006-12-15 Thread Erik Jansson
Hate those things, don't know why anyone uses them. I'm up here in the great white north (Canada) and we can on ocations see temps as low as -40. I try and avoid the ufl;s but when I have to use them we always glue them down to the board to prevent them from coming off, I don't trust them at

Re: [WISPA] high throughput backhaul options

2006-12-12 Thread Erik Jansson
We have done Dragon Wave with links over 20 miles at 18ghz. with 4 ft dishes.(23ghz is very low powered and would get you more then a few miles) We have seen a few minutes a year in rain fade as it is pushing the limits. There is now an high power unit that has about 10db more tx power then

Re: [WISPA] Effect of Snow on 900

2006-12-07 Thread Erik Jansson
What type of antenna are you using a yagi or panel, what was your signal strength at install. Yagis, particularly the 17db by M2 is sensitive to snow/ice build up,it gets slightly detuned, their 14dbi antenna does better under those conditions. Panels of course are pretty much immune and I hav

Re: [WISPA] Waverider

2006-12-07 Thread Erik Jansson
What do you want to know? Stability and software is excellent, great polling mechanism. 2mb Ethernet through put. I have seen them maintain a connection (in a clean rf environment) down to about -98db 10db below spec. Erik chris cooper wrote: So does anyone have the latest scoop on WaveRi

Re: [WISPA] 900 Mhz Mikrotik SR9 Clients

2006-12-02 Thread Erik Jansson
Each product has strength and weaknesses and what is best for a city wisp probably won't cut it for some one in the boonies. We use to use Trango but they moved there product closer to Moto and I for us that was the wrong direction. We also have many hundred Wave rider customers and even with