Re: [WISPA] Operating as a non-profit

2017-03-09 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 3/9/2017 4:30 PM, Charles Jones wrote: My local county government is considering becoming a WISP. I am interested in finding out if there any city or county governments operating a wireless internet in the United States. The Town of Warwick, Massachusetts has a municipal WISP. I've been wo

Re: [WISPA] The future of 3.65 Band

2017-03-06 Thread Fred Goldstein
omes along. The licenses mostly expire April 17, 2020, so if you're not using something that looks like it will become a CBSD, then keep that in mind when evaluating the purchase. On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 12:03 PM, Fred Goldstein <mailto:f...@interisle.net>> wrote: On 3/6/2017

Re: [WISPA] The future of 3.65 Band

2017-03-06 Thread Fred Goldstein
ing, though. On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 11:40 AM, Fred Goldstein <mailto:f...@interisle.net>> wrote: On 3/6/2017 12:32 PM, Marco Coelho wrote: I've been off-line for a while. What is the latest set of decisions from the FCC with the 3.65 band? A second Report a

Re: [WISPA] The future of 3.65 Band

2017-03-06 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 3/6/2017 12:32 PM, Marco Coelho wrote: I've been off-line for a while. What is the latest set of decisions from the FCC with the 3.65 band? A second Report and Order was issued in May, 2016. Since then, the action has moved to WinnForum, which is producing the standards for how to actua

Re: [WISPA] Active Ethernet switches

2017-03-02 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 3/2/2017 1:43 PM, Chris Fabien wrote: We have a couple of the ignite switches. They work fine. Web interface very clunky but works. Thanks. That gives me some confidence. On Mar 2, 2017 1:41 PM, "Fred Goldstein" <mailto:fgoldst...@ionary.com>> wrote: On 3/2/2

Re: [WISPA] Active Ethernet switches

2017-03-02 Thread Fred Goldstein
ch. So it isn't optimized for clean Layer 2 operation with VLANs, QoS, etc. That's not MT's strength -- router folks don't appreciate Carrier Ethernet, which is a lot newer than eye pee. On Mar 2, 2017 11:22 AM, "Fred Goldstein" <mailto:f...@interisle.net>> w

Re: [WISPA] Active Ethernet switches

2017-03-02 Thread Fred Goldstein
*Sent:* Thursday, March 2, 2017 9:24 AM *To:* WISPA General List *Subject:* Re: [WISPA] Active Ethernet switches There is a 10 SFP mikrotik switch... On Mar 2, 2017 11:22 AM, "Fred Goldstein" <mailto:f...@interisle.net>> wrote: On 3/2/2017 10:54 AM, Dennis Burgess wrote:

Re: [WISPA] Active Ethernet switches

2017-03-02 Thread Fred Goldstein
ch. So it isn't optimized for clean Layer 2 operation with VLANs, QoS, etc. That's not MT's strength -- router folks don't appreciate Carrier Ethernet, which is a lot newer than eye pee. On Mar 2, 2017 11:22 AM, "Fred Goldstein" <mailto:f...@interisle.net>> w

Re: [WISPA] Active Ethernet switches

2017-03-02 Thread Fred Goldstein
*Sent:* Thursday, March 2, 2017 9:24 AM *To:* WISPA General List *Subject:* Re: [WISPA] Active Ethernet switches There is a 10 SFP mikrotik switch... On Mar 2, 2017 11:22 AM, "Fred Goldstein" <mailto:f...@interisle.net>> wrote: On 3/2/2017 10:54 AM, Dennis Burgess wrote:

Re: [WISPA] Active Ethernet switches

2017-03-02 Thread Fred Goldstein
w.towercoverage.com/> Office: 314-735-0270 E-Mail: dmburg...@linktechs.net <mailto:dmburg...@linktechs.net> *From:*wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] *On Behalf Of *Fred Goldstein *Sent:* Wednesday, March 1, 2017 9:37 PM *To:* wireless@wispa.org *Subject:* R

Re: [WISPA] Active Ethernet switches

2017-03-01 Thread Fred Goldstein
loyments. Of course it's kinda new so I don't know if anyone has it deployed yet. And I have no need for higher-layer features in a switch; I'd rather let a real router do that. On Mar 1, 2017 7:07 PM, "Fred Goldstein" <mailto:f...@interisle.net>> wrote: Fo

[WISPA] Active Ethernet switches

2017-03-01 Thread Fred Goldstein
For a small outdoor or semi-outdoor (not a/c) deployment of a couple of dozen ports or so, what's a good cheap Active Ethernet switch? This would be to supplement wireless and focus on business customers, so Active makes more sense. Thanks. -- Fred R. Goldstein k1iofred "at" interis

Re: [WISPA] Static IP Pricing

2017-02-02 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 2/2/2017 3:43 PM, redes wrote: We charge 8€/Mo/IP here in north of Spain... El Robert Dillon , 2 feb. 2017 4:42 p. m. escribió: We also charge $5/IP/Mo for residential customers and one free IP for business customers with $5/IP/Mo for additional IPs. For subnet routed customer

Re: [WISPA] What my spies are talking about

2017-01-25 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 1/25/2017 11:58 AM, Marco Coelho wrote: Some of my friends at Verizon are talking a major shift in their Fiber Deployment. They have decided Fiber to the Home is non practical. They have adopted a fiber to the pedestal scheme with the last part of the connectivity being wireless to the home

Re: [WISPA] 3.65 Precedence

2016-12-27 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 12/27/2016 4:41 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote: On 12/27/16 13:35, Fred Goldstein wrote: Since you have the license, you are entitled to put up more devices, just not as Incumbent. So what you might want to do is pull the FCC's ULS records in that area to see what registered devices the exi

Re: [WISPA] 3.65 Precedence

2016-12-27 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 12/27/2016 4:13 PM, Sam Morris wrote: On 12/27/2016 2:34 PM, Johnathan Penberthy wrote: I believe it is really difficult to get a 3.65 Ghz license now. Though 3.65 Ghz is basically treated as 5 Ghz, it can share the same space as another provider, though every link is registered with the FC

Re: [WISPA] 3.65 Precedence

2016-12-27 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 12/27/2016 3:25 PM, Sam Morris wrote: I have a question to which I suspect I know the answer but wanted to defer to you smart guys. Let's say I'm opening up a new WISP and want to go into an area where there is an existing WISP already there. And let's say I want to use 3.65 GHz (non-LTE if t

Re: [WISPA] 3.65 Ghz License

2016-11-18 Thread Fred Goldstein
.A. Mobile: +1.972.922.1443 Email: rick.harn...@baicells.com Follow us on Facebook for the latest news -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Fred Goldstein Sent: Friday, November 18, 2016 12:11 PM To: wireless@wispa.org Subject:

Re: [WISPA] 3.65 Ghz License

2016-11-18 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 11/18/2016 11:09 AM, Chadwick Wachs wrote: We are considering the purchase of a 3.65 license from an existing license holder who is not using it. We would be using it for a handful of backhauls to get off of crowded 5GHz space. However, I'm not sure if this is a smart move (buying a 3.65 li

Re: [WISPA] Switch causing packet loss?

2016-11-07 Thread Fred Goldstein
you basically don't need a buffer bigger than 10 packets or so. But with QoS classmarking, you may need multiple buffers. On Nov 7, 2016 9:53 AM, "Fred Goldstein" <mailto:f...@interisle.net>> wrote: On 11/7/2016 10:40 AM, Josh Reynolds wrote: Negative, l

Re: [WISPA] Switch causing packet loss?

2016-11-07 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 11/7/2016 10:40 AM, Josh Reynolds wrote: Negative, layer2 flow control is an axe when you need a scalpel. Turn it off everywhere! Layer3 has automatic mechanisms to help handle bandwidth saturation, and packet loss is part of that process. Furthermore, proper ToS/DSCP queueing is equally

Re: [WISPA] IPV6 again?!?

2016-11-01 Thread Fred Goldstein
The sooner you realize that IPv6 was a practical joke, the better off you'll be. On 11/1/2016 4:51 PM, Art Stephens wrote: OK.. so we can not use static addressing then... So I programmed a Mikrotik to do DHCP-PD and connected it to our server network. [admin@MikroTik] /ipv6 dhcp-server> pr

Re: [WISPA] Anyone ever had your phone number spoofed?

2016-10-21 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 10/21/2016 10:09 PM, Civano Coffee House wrote: signature And this is exactly why they continue to get away with this kind of fraud, the government is selective on who they will let report it. If you’re a person called and try to file a report they throw another obstacle in the way. Th

Re: [WISPA] Network/infrastructure design for WISP's

2016-10-21 Thread Fred Goldstein
n to the CPE On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 6:13 PM, Ian Fraser mailto:ian_fra...@gozoom.ca>> wrote: Not sure how static would be safer than DHCP for CPE mgmt? Ian Original message ---- From: Fred Goldstein mailto:f...@interisle.net>>

Re: [WISPA] Network/infrastructure design for WISP's

2016-10-21 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 10/21/2016 5:55 PM, Ian Fraser wrote: PPPOE for Res traffic. VLAN's for Biz. Public IP's are statically assigned. DHCP for CPE's MgMt IP assignment. PPPOE session and CPE's connection to the AP authenticated by Radius. Radius Accounting is used for traffic billing and session info.

Re: [WISPA] ePMP vs Mimosa for 50Mbps+ Speed plans.

2016-10-06 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 10/6/2016 6:26 PM, Civano Coffee House wrote: Even without TDMA on a Mimosa A5-14, and Cambium Force180 and Force 200 CPE’s we have 23 customers with 100Mbit plans and have not maxed it out, Customers don’t use the full bandwidth, but we were happy to sell it to them. They do a few speed

Re: [WISPA] WISPAPALOOZA

2016-09-29 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 9/29/2016 4:21 PM, Matt Hoppes wrote: And you still haven't offered Mimosas, Jaime... I feel like you're missing an opportunity here. You must have missed, or been late for, the WISPAPALOOZA 2014 product announcement. On 9/29/16 4:20 PM, Jaime Fink wrote: Mimosa's open event where we'l

Re: [WISPA] Intermapper Probes

2016-09-12 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 9/12/2016 4:11 PM, Gino Villarini wrote: Looking to get some probes developed, Cambim 450 Epmp AF24 AF5x Mimosa We have AF24 and Mimosa probes (we designed our own). I suspect AF5x uses the same probe. We have Motorola PTP 400 and 600 probes but they're probably too old for the Cambium 65

Re: [WISPA] Need a ~60ft pole to mount a 2ft dish on

2016-09-12 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 9/12/2016 2:38 PM, Nick Bright wrote: On 9/8/2016 10:16 AM, Dan Petermann wrote: http://www.commscope.com/catalog/wireless/product_details.aspx?id=49277 Any idea how much these usually cost? I looked to find it for sale. I found a shorter version of that (the Ballast Pole -- a monopole wi

Re: [WISPA] Need a ~60ft pole to mount a 2ft dish on

2016-09-07 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 9/7/2016 7:21 PM, Scott Carullo wrote: Whats the best option? One economical approach might be to get a 75' or 80' wood utility pole. An 80' pole can be set 15' deep (a bit deeper in soft soil, I'd guess) and thus provide 65' of space (maybe 60' if set deep). If it can hold a pole pig tra

Re: [WISPA] Big Guns align behind 3.5 ghz CBRS LTE

2016-08-25 Thread Fred Goldstein
ith its 700 MHz coverage. AT&T holds a lot of the 2300 MHz WCS licenses. I think one of the Nextwaves held some and was leasing them to WISPs, but AT&T bought them. Verizon of course had bought a previous Nextwave. ----

Re: [WISPA] Big Guns align behind 3.5 ghz CBRS LTE

2016-08-25 Thread Fred Goldstein
We are involved in this band, at WinnForum. That's where the standards are being written. The FCC announced the rules last year and did a minor update of them earlier this year. Now we're working with WinnForum to fix an oversight that makes the band pretty much unusable by rural WISPs. ("What,

Re: [WISPA] Baicells - who's deployed it?

2016-06-20 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 6/19/2016 10:09 PM, Nathan Anderson wrote: > I believe that Patrick has said as much (not SDR) on the ISP Radio interview > with him back in April. Would certainly go a ways to explaining how they > managed to offer it for basically 1/3rd the price of competing gear. I only know what's publi

Re: [WISPA] Baicells - who's deployed it?

2016-06-19 Thread Fred Goldstein
.org] On Behalf Of > Matt Hoppes [mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net] > Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2016 2:19 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Baicells - who's deployed it? > > I think Adair said he has? > > Who says the baicells isn't SDR? I don

Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik - MEF

2014-12-31 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 12/31/2014 8:45 AM, Mike Hammett wrote: So then what do you guys think should be the desired functionality, standards, etc. we'd want out of MEF\CE in a WISP "router"? Interesting point Dan made about the price of certification. Not that it's outrageous as these things go, but it's a co

Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik - MEF

2014-12-30 Thread Fred Goldstein
the dirt-cheap Linux router market that WISPs like. I do hope we can get some RINA stuff into circulation though; fully baked (and this hasn't all been coded yet), it is a functional superset of both CE, MPLS, IP, and IPsec, among other things, with a much smaller footprint. On De

Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik - MEF

2014-12-30 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 12/30/2014 5:05 PM, Mike Hammett wrote: How many WISPs have heard of MEF or CE or even VPLS? So... have you asked for it yet? :-p supp...@mikrotik.com I may have once asked somebody from MT about it, maybe at a show, and they gave the predicted answer, that they're a *router* compan

Re: [WISPA] Need UPS recommendations

2014-12-01 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 12/1/2014 1:56 PM, Bryce Duchcherer wrote: We started using Alpha UPS' and we have been happy with them. You have to use your own batteries, but it's nice that you're not locked down to proprietary batteries like you are with the likes of APC and TrippLite. TrippLite also has SNMP cards

Re: [WISPA] 5 ghz backhaul sanity check

2014-12-01 Thread Fred Goldstein
uto adjust to EIRP limit", it caps the power on the AP side to +36 (the PtMP limit) on 5150-5250, but doesn't enforce the +36 cap on 5725+. I'm not 100% certain that the test lab was following the rules, though, as there is no band edge to protect at 5725. *From: *"Fred G

Re: [WISPA] 5 ghz backhaul sanity check

2014-11-30 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 11/30/2014 11:55 PM, Josh Luthman wrote: > I have a link at 6.6 miles with a pair of Rocket M5. It's at 5765 and > has worked beautifully for a couple of years now. It is -55 on each > side with 2' dishes. > > I'm looking at doing another link that's almost identical (one similar > tower) a

Re: [WISPA] Quickbooks hosts

2014-11-25 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 11/25/2014 2:18 PM, Mike Hammett wrote: Who are you writing checks to and why aren't you doing something better? I haven't written a check in years. One of my Interisle partners is a financial-IT expert, and knows the banking system inside and out. He designed the network for Wall Stree

Re: [WISPA] Quick Question: Title II, for or against?

2014-11-22 Thread Fred Goldstein
a few years before the sum of the parts was worth three times as much as the previous whole. Shareholders, including Rockefeller, cried all the way to the bank.) Now they're in the final stages of abandoning the undermaintained plant, using excuses like "IP transition". It most

Re: [WISPA] Quick Question: Title II, for or against?

2014-11-21 Thread Fred Goldstein
g about now, it's the data itself, which Title II was never meant to regulate, so it wouldn't stand up in court. -- On 11/21/2014 6:19 PM, Fred Goldstein wrote: On 11/21/2014 5:47 PM, Drew Lentz wrote: So here's what sparked the question. I was trying to get some point-counterpoin

Re: [WISPA] Quick Question: Title II, for or against?

2014-11-21 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 11/21/2014 5:47 PM, Drew Lentz wrote: So here's what sparked the question. I was trying to get some point-counterpoint going on with a friend of mine and found some pretty good arguments on each. This article made me think about it all a little differently: http://www.netcompetition.org/co

Re: [WISPA] Quick Question: Title II, for or against?

2014-11-20 Thread Fred Goldstein
ve a bit more common sense and see >>> that competition is what will lead to the public good in the long run. >>> >>> Now if the lawyers can actually come up with something that will legally >>> stick, well that’s up in the air. >>> >>> Sincerely

Re: [WISPA] Quick Question: Title II, for or against?

2014-11-19 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 11/19/2014 4:22 PM, Sean Heskett wrote: > also title II regulations are why an OC3 at 150Mbps costs 100 times as > much as 150Mbps metro ethernet. Ethernet is unregulated, OC3 is part > of the whole terrified crap left over from MaBell etc. So even though > both services are delivered over

Re: [WISPA] Quick Question: Title II, for or against?

2014-11-19 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 11/19/2014 8:49 AM, Drew Lentz wrote: > I put up a quick poll, results will be shared and are anonymous. > > https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/3R6YTH9 > > I'm curious to see what the percentages are between those that support > and those that don't support the Title II argument. I've been trying

Re: [WISPA] 2dbi vs 3dbi vs 5 dbi vs 100mw vs 400mw

2014-11-13 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 11/13/2014 1:26 PM, Jason Bailey wrote: Higher gain,lower power works best,in almost any situation. But not necessarily in-home. Higher gain only comes from a more directive antenna. An "omni" gain antenna has a pancake pattern. If it's a one-story building, fine. But I ran into the o

Re: [WISPA] [SPAM] "FCC Confirms Delay of New Net Neutrality Rules Until 2015"

2014-11-12 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 11/12/2014 7:05 AM, Matt Hoppes wrote: > Is there any more information on what exactly the FCC is proposing to > propose? I know there was Title II thrown around There is no firm proposal. Last week Tom let out a "trial baloon" suggesting that he'd adopt something based on the Mozilla pr

Re: [WISPA] small 24GHz radio

2014-10-24 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 10/23/2014 6:36 PM, daniel.mul...@metrocom.ca wrote: > Sure - > > http://www.commscope.com/catalog/wireless/2147485870/product_details.aspx?id=27271 > > I will sell it to you with a radio attached too! ;-) > That's for the licensed 24.25-26.5 GHz band. Was the original poster referring to the

Re: [WISPA] small 24GHz radio

2014-10-23 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 10/23/2014 6:36 PM, daniel.mul...@metrocom.ca wrote: > Sure - > > http://www.commscope.com/catalog/wireless/2147485870/product_details.aspx?id=27271 > > I will sell it to you with a radio attached too! ;-) > That's for the licensed 24.25-26.5 GHz band. Was the original poster referring to the

Re: [WISPA] small 24GHz radio

2014-10-23 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 10/23/2014 3:00 PM, Bryce Duchcherer wrote: Does anybody know of a 24GHz radio that is smaller than 1'? It doesn't have to go very far, but we are wanting 24GHz. It may be a problem because the FCC rules for that band are pretty strict. From 15.249: (3) Antenna gain must be at least

[WISPA] InterMapper probes for Ubiquiti in PTP mode

2014-10-06 Thread Fred Goldstein
Do many people here use InterMapper? We use it as our NMS, monitoring a variety of switches and radios. Each monitored devices requires a probe, or else IM falls back to use standard SNMP variables or even just ping. The probes can be constructed fairly easily out of a MIB. Ubiquiti doesn't

Re: [WISPA] att-and-verizon-say-10mbps-is-too-fast-for-broadband-4mbps-is-enough

2014-09-08 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 9/8/2014 5:28 PM, Josh Reynolds wrote: http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/09/att-and-verizon-say-10mbps-is-too-fast-for-broadband-4mbps-is-enough/ Ironically, ISTM that would probably be good for WISPs. If the FCC decides that 10 Mbps is the baseline and areas that don't get it become e

[WISPA] More FCC fun on 13-49

2014-08-21 Thread Fred Goldstein
While we had submitted Comments already on the U-NII/ISM OOBE issue, I've also been looking at the first U-NII-1 outdoor type approvals coming down the line. These provide concrete evidence that the OOBE limits are severely restricting useful power. So I collected the actual numbers from the

Re: [WISPA] Mimosa Networks New product released

2014-08-05 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 8/5/2014 11:34 AM, Rick Harnish wrote: Jamie, First off, congratulations. I know it has been a long time coming. I see the product was certified under 15.407 rules. Could you post a spec sheet as if it were approved under the 15.247 rules, so everyone can see the impact the rule change

Re: [WISPA] Mimosa Networks New product released

2014-08-05 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 8/5/2014 11:21 AM, Adair Winter wrote: I didn't want to be negative nelly this morning. But that was my thought also.. I'm moving as much as possible to licensed links because I can't hardly keep my 5Ghz PtP's running out of my data center. The 5 GHz band is getting quite crowded, but at

Re: [WISPA] Experimental Licenses? Public Service Commissions?

2014-07-25 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 7/25/2014 12:29 PM, Sam wrote: > Two questions for you guys... > > Have any of you ever heard of a requirement to obtain an "Experimental > License" (via a Form 442) to start up or operate a WISP? I'm trying to > find something online that states what sort of radio, frequency, > activity, or any

Re: [WISPA] UBNT RocketAC spotted on FCC site

2014-07-07 Thread Fred Goldstein
27;n'match antennas is saved. So I'm working on a Comment in favor of both petitions. > -----Original Message- > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On > Behalf Of Fred Goldstein > Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2014 1:03 PM > To: wireless@wispa.org

Re: [WISPA] UBNT RocketAC spotted on FCC site

2014-07-03 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 7/3/2014 9:33 AM, Ben Moore wrote: > $135 MSRP for rocket-lite. That's excellent. One of the contractors working with us recently replaced a pair of old Motorola PTPs with NanoStation Ms. It's just a camera, so it doesn't need much speed, so when I found its wireless side converging at 270

Re: [WISPA] 38GHz Spectrum Usage

2014-06-30 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 6/30/2014 10:24 AM, Jack Lehmann wrote: Outside of the distance sensitivities, is there a clear reason why one would or would not want to use this band? If it's readily available in my area, while the FCC bands are quite congested, would there be anything in particular to compel me to kee

Re: [WISPA] USAF Request - Read this is you want to keep using 5630-5800 Mhz

2014-06-13 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 6/13/2014 2:42 AM, Blair Davis wrote: A question Part 15 vs ISM I thought there was NO protection within the ISM bands. No licensed operations there. Now, someone can get a license in the middle of an ISM and then force the others out? Don't sound kosher... But I want to know whe

Re: [WISPA] CAF-USF-StateTax for WISPs

2014-04-16 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 4/16/2014 2:32 PM, Matt Hoppes wrote: > OK... but why is there no USF on an INTRAstate circuit but there is on > an INTERstate? Jurisdiction. The Federal USF is, by law, only applicable to interstate services. USF was created in 1996. Before then, rural telcos got all of their subsidies fr

Re: [WISPA] New FCC rules for 5 GHz bands

2014-04-15 Thread Fred Goldstein
excess of 23 dBi” > > What is the assumed transmitter power? 30dBm? Yes (I didn't copy that sentence of the rule but that's what it says). > On Apr 15, 2014, at 3:55 PM, Fred Goldstein wrote: > >> On 4/15/2014 5:13 PM, Tom DeReggi wrote: >>> Excellent Summr

Re: [WISPA] [Spam] Re: New FCC rules for 5 GHz bands

2014-04-15 Thread Fred Goldstein
ent" of a vertically-integrated information service is no longer subject to USF. > > Tom DeReggi > RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc > IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband > > > - Original Message - > From: "Fred Goldstein" > To: > Sent: Tuesda

Re: [WISPA] New FCC rules for 5 GHz bands

2014-04-15 Thread Fred Goldstein
is required for each 1 dB of antenna gain in excess of 23 dBi. > >> - Original Message - >> From: "Fred Goldstein" >> To: "WISPA General List" >> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2014 12:25 PM >> Subject: [Spam] [WISPA] New FCC rules for 5

Re: [WISPA] CAF-USF-StateTax for WISPs?

2014-04-15 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 4/15/2014 5:12 PM, Tom DeReggi wrote: Guys, I've been out of the loop for a couple years, regarding current status of CAF/USF/Tax requirements for WISPs. I was surprised when I recieved my first bill from my new upstream fiber provider. (they are a dark fiber provider, recently expanded to

[WISPA] New FCC rules for 5 GHz bands

2014-04-04 Thread Fred Goldstein
On Monday, the FCC formally adopted a First Report and Order (FCC 14-30) in ET Docket 13-49, revision of Part 15 U-NII rules. The actual R&O text was released later in the week. For the most part, it came out well for WISPs. Some rules have been tightened to reduce the chance of interference

Re: [WISPA] OT Fax over Voip

2014-04-02 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 4/2/2014 5:24 PM, Nathan Anderson wrote: > On Wednesday, April 02, 2014 6:55 AM, Fred Goldstein <> wrote: > >> But in addition to that, I STRONGLY recommend a separate VLAN for the >> voice-grade channels. With priority, or reserved bandwidth. TCP/IP in >> nor

Re: [WISPA] OT Fax over Voip

2014-04-02 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 4/2/2014 9:03 AM, wi...@mncomm.com wrote: > OK, I will. Right now its on my remote techs bench with a Cat5e cable and a > switch between the 2 devices. Where this will be going is a farmers elevator > site 150 feet between the 2 buildings using UBNT NSM5 radios, excellent > quality. Right now th

Re: [WISPA] OT Fax over Voip

2014-03-31 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 3/31/2014 10:03 AM, wi...@mncomm.com wrote: I have a customer that we installed an IP phone system for. They moved their office to a new building where the telco couldn't or wouldn't bring service to. So I have the PBX at their old location where the COs come in and we go over a wireless lin

Re: [WISPA] Number's that can't port to VOIP

2014-03-27 Thread Fred Goldstein
th Claremont numbers; Sprint and MCC have West Concord numbers. On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Fred Goldstein <mailto:fgoldst...@ionary.com>> wrote: On 3/27/2014 3:11 PM, Chris Fabien wrote: This is the adjacent rate center to one of our main service areas, it is a local

Re: [WISPA] Number's that can't port to VOIP

2014-03-27 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 3/27/2014 3:11 PM, Chris Fabien wrote: This is the adjacent rate center to one of our main service areas, it is a local call. Different telco though. As a general rule, any rate center's numbers can be made portable if they aren't already so. It can worst case take six moths to implement

Re: [WISPA] VoIP reselling.

2014-03-26 Thread Fred Goldstein
omers, pays USF, and essentially gives you a commission, but I'm really not sure about that -- then you still have to file Form 499-A (annual) and give the numbers. If you're above the limit, then you file Form 499-Q (quarterly) and give the numbers and remit the money. On Wed, Mar 26, 20

Re: [WISPA] VoIP reselling.

2014-03-26 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 3/26/2014 12:53 PM, Randy Cosby wrote: Doesn't sound right to me, unless they are going to do all the billing and tax filing in your behalf. If they charge you USF on your wholesale rate, who pays on the difference between your wholesale rate and the customer's marked up rate? USF rules a

Re: [WISPA] Do i have enough separation

2014-03-14 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 3/14/2014 4:44 PM, heith petersen wrote: Yeah, its 2.4 omni. Yeah, I wouldn't have done it that way, I thought he used more of the real estate that we had available on the platform. But yeah, that was the cause, moved it away 10 foot and increased through put. Understandable problem. A

Re: [WISPA] ePMP PTP Results

2014-03-10 Thread Fred Goldstein
ts from the SM's hard wired to the AP --- Sent from Mailbox <https://www.dropbox.com/mailbox> for iPhone On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Fred Goldstein mailto:fgoldst...@ionary.com>> wrote: Very interesting, Chris, thanks If the latency is going up to

Re: [WISPA] ePMP PTP Results

2014-03-10 Thread Fred Goldstein
Very interesting, Chris, thanks If the latency is going up to 200-400 ms. and there are no other buffered network elements in the path, then it would seem to me that the ePMP has a very serious case of bufferbloat. This is sometimes done because it makes the radio seem to perform better on ar

Re: [WISPA] Tower Seminars?

2014-02-27 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 2/27/2014 7:59 PM, Tommie Dodd wrote: Smoking those funny cigarettes! Their goal would cost trillions and still not be free. It would need maintenance. I am not shaking in my shoes just yet. Isaac's a good guy, and he's not trying to put you all out of business. His model is essentiall

Re: [WISPA] Fw: FW:

2014-02-24 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 2/24/2014 6:03 PM, Marlon Schafer (509.982.2181) wrote: This is the only cantenna that I've ever heard of http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-make-a-wifi-antenna-out-of-a-pringles-can-nb/ marlon Well, among us real old timers, who remember Heathkits, they were probably the first to have

Re: [WISPA] Fw: FW:2

2014-02-23 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 2/23/2014 9:20 PM, Robert wrote: > I believe they are allowed to xmit at up to 6 watts, similar to clear > wire I loved thinking about the power levels coming out of clear > wire antennas sitting on peoples desks next to where they work for 8 > hours. My recollection is that the old analo

Re: [WISPA] OT computer issue

2014-02-21 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 2/21/2014 1:53 PM, Heith Petersen wrote: I have a long standing customer that recently bought a PC from best buy. He kept telling me he would lose signal from his Air Router. So he came to my office and I set him up with a Pico station. Worked good at first then failure. So I talked with him

Re: [WISPA] Are we being muscled out of the 5265 - 5700 frequencies?

2014-02-12 Thread Fred Goldstein
r the radios), with the TX power set to +4 dBm. The PTPs were all upgraded to DFS. Longer paths tend to converge at lower speeds (QPSK). But path by path conditions vary. Sent from my iPad On Feb 12, 2014, at 17:56, Fred Goldstein <mailto:fgoldst...@ionary.com>> wrote: On 2/12/2014

Re: [WISPA] Are we being muscled out of the 5265 - 5700 frequencies?

2014-02-12 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 2/12/2014 5:23 PM, Chuck Hogg wrote: Yea, but the power levels of some are not likely usable in an outdoor WISP environment. A good explanation is at Wikipedia strange enough... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-NII People running equipment in frequencies at a power level higher than intended

Re: [WISPA] Are we being muscled out of the 5265 - 5700 frequencies?

2014-02-12 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 2/11/2014 6:18 PM, Art Stephens wrote: 5265-5320 5500-5580 5660-5700 5735-5840 Are these not USA channels? If am wrong let me know and I will change them. Yes, if your radio is type-approved for 15.407 with DFS. Otherwise only the latter block, which can be type-approved under 15.247 an

Re: [WISPA] Are we being muscled out of the 5265 - 5700 frequencies?

2014-02-10 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 2/10/2014 10:21 AM, Matt Hoppes wrote: So what about the cell companies that use 5GHz for a quick back haul while waiting for their license to come in? Not the ones commenting in favor of the proposal. I suppose the old Motorola might have understood that, but Cambium now owns the unlice

Re: [WISPA] Are we being muscled out of the 5265 - 5700 frequencies?

2014-02-10 Thread Fred Goldstein
d. I don't know what companies are in the Alliance. Sent with AquaMail for Android http://www.aqua-mail.com On February 10, 2014 6:15:22 AM Fred Goldstein wrote: Blair Davis wrote, > I just went and read a bunch of the comments on the proceeding... > > I didn't read the

Re: [WISPA] Are we being muscled out of the 5265 - 5700 frequencies?

2014-02-10 Thread Fred Goldstein
Blair Davis wrote, I just went and read a bunch of the comments on the proceeding... > > I didn't read them all, but I didn't find one in favor of the lower antenna gain... > > Has anyone else? Motorola Solutions, makers of $6000 police walkie-talkies, explicitly supports the lower gain l

Re: [WISPA] Are we being muscled out of the 5265 - 5700 frequencies?

2014-02-09 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 2/9/2014 9:42 AM, Gino Villarini wrote: The use of compliance test is one of the reasons the FCC is clamping down on 5 ghz... UBNT says that they got DFS2 working in 5.5.2, in 2012, so at least some radios, including the NSM5, are compliant. Aren't these officially approved yet for th

Re: [WISPA] Motorola PTP radios killing switch ports

2014-02-03 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 2/3/2014 6:30 PM, l...@mwtcorp.net wrote: > On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 17:36:02 -0500 > Fred Goldstein wrote: >> We've been seeing a strange problem on a network we operate that has >> a lot of (mostly old) Motorola PTP400 radios on it. These use the >> Motoro

[WISPA] Motorola PTP radios killing switch ports

2014-02-03 Thread Fred Goldstein
We've been seeing a strange problem on a network we operate that has a lot of (mostly old) Motorola PTP400 radios on it. These use the Motorola PIDU POE injector. They're connected to HP Procurve and Cisco 3550 switches. The problem is that some radios literally kill the switch ports. Someti

Re: [WISPA] IPhone email issues

2014-01-13 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 1/13/2014 11:52 AM, CBB - Jay Fuller wrote: my problem with imap that i've seen is all the packrats in the world never ever want to delete their email. so then they have gigabytes of mail on the server dating back to 2004 I have gigabytes of mail on my own computers dating back farther

Re: [WISPA] HAM colo costs

2014-01-13 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 1/13/2014 11:28 AM, D. Ryan Spott wrote: > For those of you that own towers or just know... What do HAM operators > usually get charged for colocation? > No personal experience doing this, but as an old ham, I would be surprised if many hams paid anything! One of the core skills of hamdom is

Re: [WISPA] Wireless Digest, Vol 24, Issue 16

2014-01-08 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 1/8/2014 12:08 PM, Sean Heskett wrote: > the part 15 PTP 24Ghz band is only from 24000-24200Mhz (200Mhz of > spectrum) i would assume that the doppler radar for cars is in another > slice of the 24Ghz spectrum. as far as i know 24000-24200Mhz is for > part 15 PTP only. > > shouldn't be an is

Re: [WISPA] Wireless Digest, Vol 24, Issue 16

2014-01-08 Thread Fred Goldstein
t now but it is likely to become more common. Does anyone know how often it uses 24 GHz? This might eventually impact urban paths or those that go over highways. Message: 1 Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 00:11:47 -0500 From: Fred Goldstein mailto:fgoldst...@ionary.com>> Subject: Re: [W

Re: [WISPA] Advice Needed on 200 Mbps FDX Radios

2014-01-07 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 1/7/2014 8:29 PM, Gino Villarini wrote: Its doable with the PTP650's, add 3' dishes for a nice rx gain I seem to recall a story several years ago, before Orthogon was bought by Moto, about a link somewhere in Central America (Nicaragua or Panama?) that used a pair of 5.8 GHz Orthogon rad

Re: [WISPA] 5.8GHz all frequencies bad?

2014-01-04 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 1/4/2014 2:20 PM, Adam Greene wrote: Hi, We have a small Alvarion VL 5.8GHz cell with two links of less than a mile. Generally they are beautiful. However, since Dec 23, we are getting lots of packet loss and high latency on almost all frequencies. Every day we have to go through all the

Re: [WISPA] MDU wiring

2013-10-29 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 10/29/2013 10:20 AM, Gino Villarini wrote: Then I have to add a switch and ups on each floor... I was thinking of home running all to the top floor... no? How big is each floor? This may be a case where exact mapping of the route matters. Cat5e at 100 Mbps is rated for 100 meters max

Re: [WISPA] FW: FCC Adopts Order to Combat Rural Call Completion

2013-10-28 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 10/28/2013 4:33 PM, Mike Hammett wrote: So they just chose poor VoIP upstreams? Poor quality ones, yes. Under current rules, being VoIP doesn't waive switched access rates. Until the FCC ruled in late 2011 that VoIP termination was subject to interstate access (even on intrastate calls,

Re: [WISPA] FW: FCC Adopts Order to Combat Rural Call Completion

2013-10-28 Thread Fred Goldstein
On 10/28/2013 3:55 PM, Mike Hammett wrote: So not only are the rural telcos getting tens of thousands of dollars per line, but they can't properly complete a call? The problem is/was that they are perfectly capable of completing calls that reach them, but instead of sending calls to them dir

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