[WISPA] OT: Miss America

2011-01-14 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Shout out to Miss Nebraska, Theresa Scanlan. She won the talent competition today and is one of the youngest contestants ever in the show (17). The Scanlans are Vistabeam customers and we are very proud of Theresa and her entire family.12 months ago, she was carrying out groceries and

Re: [WISPA] 11Ghz Licensing Warning Question

2011-01-13 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Wow Michael, That was an outstanding post. Thank you for taking the time to put it together. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com On 1/13/2011 11:31 PM, michael mulcay wrote: Fred, Tom DeReggi's comments were business-case based and constructive; basically exploring whether the Commission's NPRM

Re: [WISPA] he.net

2011-01-03 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I'm looking to pickup a gig IP pipe from them this summer. My research so far shows that they should be comparable to Cogent, and even better in some ways. We shall see! Matt Larsen vistabeam.com On 1/3/2011 12:43 PM, Matt wrote: Anyone else having trouble bringing up www.he.net? It

[WISPA] More Spectrum!!

2010-12-30 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Folks, here is the real opportunity that we need to be focusing on http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/12/white-spaces-could-expand-beyond-unused-tv-spectrum.ars There may be no more important item for wisps to unite in their focus on than this.If we can start to use other white

Re: [WISPA] Flexible rules promised for wireless

2010-12-21 Thread Jeff Broadwick - Lists
Mark may state his case strongly, but he isn't wrong. Fred stated it better than I could. Even though this particular set of regs may not be particularly onerous.you've just invited the camel under the tent. Regards, Jeff ImageStream Sales Manager 800-813-5123 x106 _ From:

Re: [WISPA] Flexible rules promised for wireless

2010-12-21 Thread Jeff Broadwick - Lists
Fred, You've been advocating splitting the ILECs between their delivery and service models.basically making the delivery (last mile/middle mile) into common carriers and having the service business stand on it's own, for as long as I've been reading your posts (close to 10 years). You haven't

Re: [WISPA] Free Press Floods the FCC With Net Neutrality Petitions

2010-12-15 Thread Jeff Broadwick - Lists
You nailed it Tom! Regards, Jeff ImageStream Sales Manager 800-813-5123 x106 _ From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Tom DeReggi Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 2:30 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Free Press Floods the

Re: [WISPA] [TowerTalk] Breaking all the tower climbingrulesatanamazingheight...

2010-12-02 Thread Jeff Broadwick - Lists
That's just flippin' nuts! My hands got all sweaty just watching! Aren't you supposed to be tied off at all times during a tower climb? Regards, Jeff ImageStream Sales Manager 800-813-5123 x106 _ From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of

Re: [WISPA] [TowerTalk] Breaking all the towerclimbingrulesatanamazingheight...

2010-12-02 Thread Jeff Broadwick - Lists
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 11:16 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] [TowerTalk] Breaking all the towerclimbingrulesatanamazingheight... At all times, 100%, above 6 feet. No exceptions. On Dec 2, 2010 11:14 AM, Jeff Broadwick - Lists jeffl...@att.net wrote: That's just

Re: [WISPA] Problems with facebook and hotmail

2010-11-26 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I don't know whether it helps or not, but we put in policy routes so that every four or eight routed subnets were NATed out through a different IP address. Something like: 192.168.248.0-192.168.255.0 goes out through 208.14.222.10 192.168.240.0-192.168.247.0 goes out through 208.14.222.11 etc

[WISPA] Squid for Video - videocache

2010-11-18 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Has anyone here tried this out? http://cachevideos.com/ I this sounds like a great idea in theory.Interested to see if it works as well in practice. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com WISPA Wants You! Join today!

Re: [WISPA] VZW, USCC Contact

2010-11-09 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Put up an AP using StarOS and noisebuster mode nearby on an overlapping channel. Watch their 5.8 backhaul magically disappear and be replaced by something else within a fairly short period of time. Problem solved. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com On 11/9/2010 10:56 PM, Jeromie Reeves wrote: On

Re: [WISPA] Juniper M20

2010-11-05 Thread Jeff Broadwick - Lists
How much aggregate throughput are you looking to handle? Sent from my iPhone On Nov 5, 2010, at 6:21 PM, Mike Hammett wispawirel...@ics-il.net wrote: I am looking at comments or recommendations for a Juniper M20. I was looking at a PowerRouter 2200 (or equivalent), but someone I'm working

Re: [WISPA] Juniper M20

2010-11-05 Thread Jeff Broadwick - Lists
:39 PM, Jeff Broadwick - Lists wrote: How much aggregate throughput are you looking to handle? Sent from my iPhone On Nov 5, 2010, at 6:21 PM, Mike Hammettwispawirel...@ics-il.net wrote: I am looking at comments or recommendations for a Juniper M20. I was looking at a PowerRouter 2200

Re: [WISPA] Full BGP on RouterOS

2010-11-04 Thread Jeff Broadwick - Lists
Hi Rubens, We've found Quagga to be rock solid with the typical application which is under a dozen peers. We did add a patch to prevent the never-emptying work queue backlog problem when multiple peers flap at the same time. I'm sure this is the problem the IXP folks ran into. Quagga is a very

Re: [WISPA] Full BGP on RouterOS

2010-11-04 Thread Jeff Broadwick - Lists
literally cannot afford to wrestle with the issues others on this list experience. If its not reliable we replace it. We don't have a problem paying for reliability. -- Blake Covarrubias On Nov 3, 2010, at 1:16 PM, Jeff Broadwick - Lists wrote: Hi Blake, I'm not sure what sort of speeds you think

Re: [WISPA] [Bulk] Re: Full BGP on RouterOS

2010-11-04 Thread Jeff Broadwick - Lists
: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Rubens Kuhl Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 10:52 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: [Bulk] Re: [WISPA] Full BGP on RouterOS On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Jeff Broadwick - Lists jeffl...@att.net wrote: Hi Rubens

Re: [WISPA] PPPoE Concentrator Redundancy

2010-11-04 Thread Jeff Broadwick - Lists
Per my engineer: The Internet side load balancing will still be performed by BGP with an iBGP connection between the two edge routers. As long as both locations are L2 bridged, PPPoE will provide load balancing as Blake outlined. There will probably be some latency difference between the two

Re: [WISPA] Full BGP on RouterOS

2010-11-03 Thread Jeff Broadwick - Lists
I'm curious Travis.not looking for an argument. What specifically do you think is superior in IOS (Unix-based originally) to a hardened, purpose-built Linux distro (us, Mikrotik, Vyatta, whatever)? Regards, Jeff ImageStream 800-813-5123 x106 _ From:

Re: [WISPA] Full BGP on RouterOS

2010-11-03 Thread Jeff Broadwick - Lists
Covarrubias On Nov 3, 2010, at 8:04, Jeff Broadwick - Lists mailto:jeffl...@att.net mailto:jeffl...@att.net mailto:jeffl...@att.net jeffl...@att.net wrote: I'm curious Travis.not looking for an argument. What specifically do you think is superior in IOS (Unix-based originally) to a hardened, purpose

Re: [WISPA] Full BGP on RouterOS

2010-11-02 Thread Jeff Broadwick - Lists
Hi J.P. and others, I have a dog in this fight (I work for ImageStream), but this comment applies to just about any situation/hardware. Set up redundant routers using BGP and VRRP (HSRP in Cisco.although apparently they support VRRP also). If you can't afford to be down, you need to find

Re: [WISPA] Full BGP on RouterOS

2010-11-02 Thread Jeff Broadwick - Lists
Snappy Internet Telecom On 11/2/2010 12:04 PM, Jeff Broadwick - Lists wrote: Hi J.P. and others, I have a dog in this fight (I work for ImageStream), but this comment applies to just about any situation/hardware. Set up redundant routers using BGP and VRRP (HSRP in Cisco.although apparently

Re: [WISPA] Copper GigE Distance

2010-11-01 Thread Jeff Broadwick - Lists
The particular hardware you are using REALLY matters here.generally you won't know until you actually try it. _ From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Josh Luthman Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 3:51 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re:

[WISPA] TTY Spam/Stolen Credit Card Scam against ISPs

2010-10-28 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
There is a new spam scam targeted at ISPs going around. Someone uses the TTY system for hearing impaired people (or a forgery of it) to order up a dialup account and several email addresses.Then the account is paid for with a credit card.Within a couple of hours, spam starts flowing

Re: [WISPA] Hacking Tranzeo

2010-10-26 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I would LOVE to see a Tranzeo that talked Nstreme. I am willing to donate a couple of CPQs to anyone who wants to take a shot at it. Also, anyone who has used ones they want to sell, hit me offlist. I still have another 200 or so CPE/CPE80 radios that I need to replace with CPQs or UBNT.

Re: [WISPA] Looking for Bandwidth Manager

2010-10-15 Thread Jeff Broadwick - Lists
No Bandwidth Management for you.2 weeks! _ From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Travis Johnson Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 12:47 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Looking for Bandwidth Manager Run... run far far

Re: [WISPA] Equipment - Tranzeo/Ubiquiti

2010-09-24 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I'm interested in all of these units. Let me know how many of each and how much you want. I'd be willing to take the whole thing. I have 400 subs left to switch to newer CPE that will do 10mhz channels, so I'll take all I can get. Thanks, Matt Larsen mlar...@vistabeam.com On

Re: [WISPA] I'm pulling Mikrotik

2010-09-17 Thread Jeff Broadwick - Lists
Vyatta has a cool product line. Their open source version is free. They have a paid product that is much more full-featured. They make most of their money from their support contracts. Jeff ImageStream -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org

Re: [WISPA] I'm pulling Mikrotik

2010-09-16 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
There's something to be said for losing faith in a technology. For me, it's the build-it-yourself radios. All of them. Mikrotik StarOS. For me, I see such a high service call rate for repairs, the need to put in redundant backhauls sooner than later because we can almost guarantee

Re: [WISPA] Tower Climb video

2010-09-15 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
Tower Climb videoYeah Oh but clipping unclipping makes me tiirred. (my best whiny voice via email). How about being dead? I don't care WHAT OSHA allows. I don't trust ANYONE's hand not to slip. Even though OSHA may say it's OK, how irresponsible of them to put this video out

Re: [WISPA] TV Whitespace Comment Deadline Sept 16th. All WISPsfile immediately.

2010-09-15 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
As will we... - Original Message - From: Jeremie Chism To: WISPA General List Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 9:11 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] TV Whitespace Comment Deadline Sept 16th. All WISPsfile immediately. Will make time today. Sent from my iPhone On Sep 15,

Re: [WISPA] Breezecom PRO.11 Configuration Utility

2010-09-15 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
Didn't know they had a utility. Just connected serially through a terminal emulator like HyperTerminal with one of those special cables... If it's BreezeNET then you may not have telnet access to them. But you should be able to serial into them... - Original Message - From: Bob

[WISPA] RIP vs other routing protocols

2010-09-02 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
We ran into a problem yesterday that caused a large problem, and I'm now quite sure that it was assessed properly, as our network engineer blamed it on RIP not working properly and made the decision to implement BGP for routing at this site. Everywhere else, we're using RIP. Essentially, we

Re: [WISPA] RIP vs other routing protocols

2010-09-02 Thread Jeff Broadwick - Lists
2, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Mark Nash - Lists markl...@uwol.net wrote: We ran into a problem yesterday that caused a large problem, and I'm now quite sure that it was assessed properly, as our network engineer blamed it on RIP not working properly and made the decision to implement BGP for routing

Re: [WISPA] RIP vs other routing protocols

2010-09-02 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
loops. - Original Message - From: Jeremy Parr To: WISPA General List Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 1:09 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] RIP vs other routing protocols On 2 September 2010 14:25, Jeff Broadwick - Lists jeffl...@att.net wrote: Agreed...there are some old

Re: [WISPA] RIP vs other routing protocols

2010-09-02 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
, Mark Nash - Lists wrote: I appreciate advice in many cases, but for this one, I have only heard one answer to the question... That is: Is RIP stable? That person that answered said Yes. Sure, if you want to have stable routing loops

Re: [WISPA] RIP vs other routing protocols

2010-09-02 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
mirrors masking an ACTUAL problem. - Original Message - From: Jeremy Parr To: WISPA General List Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 1:59 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] RIP vs other routing protocols On 2 September 2010 16:38, Mark Nash - Lists markl...@uwol.net wrote: We

Re: [WISPA] RIP vs other routing protocols

2010-09-02 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
for a laugh and a nod for those who understand us older guys and our older protocols. - Original Message - From: Mark Nash - Lists To: WISPA General List Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 2:07 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] RIP vs other routing protocols Yes, there are lots

Re: [WISPA] RIP vs other routing protocols

2010-09-02 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
: Re: [WISPA] RIP vs other routing protocols On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 13:16 -0700, Mark Nash - Lists wrote: I appreciate advice in many cases, but for this one, I have only heard one answer to the question... That is: Is RIP stable? That person that answered said Yes. If the question is Is RIP

[WISPA] Katrina, Five Years Later

2010-09-01 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
(from my blog, WirelessCowboys.com) It is now 5 years since Katrina hit New Orleans and changed the face of the Gulf Coast forever. One of the good things that came out of this disaster was the outstanding effort by wireless ISPs that came together to provide Internet and phone services

Re: [WISPA] UPS with IP

2010-09-01 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
We are doing this with our old CB3 and RB110 boards. I am actually turning on the 2.4ghz AP mode, so that our techs can get online through them without having to plug into the network. All of our APs are switching to 10mhz channels and the laptops can't just hop on them anymore! Matt

Re: [WISPA] [WISPA Members] FCC Form 477 Due Sept. 1st **OFFLIST**

2010-08-31 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
We are using Powercode... - Original Message - From: Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.com To: memb...@wispa.org Cc: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 9:32 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA Members] FCC Form 477 Due Sept. 1st If anyone using Powercode has yet

Re: [WISPA] Tranzeo lockups

2010-08-31 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
If you are using Tranzeo TR5a, 49a or AP6000 series radios running in PtP mode on an all bridged network, they will lock up. Newer firmware helps, but does not completely resolve this problem. I ran in to this very problem recently while troubleshooting a client's network. It may not be

[WISPA] FTTH Show

2010-08-30 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Anyone here going to this show? http://www.ftthconference.com/FTTH10/public/enter.aspx Still deciding whether I should go or not. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/

Re: [WISPA] Close range radio recommendation

2010-08-30 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
I just learned that with new firmware, UBNT just added support for multiple IP addresses on an interface. We were wanting that alot... - Original Message - From: RickG To: WISPA General List Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 9:47 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Close range radio

Re: [WISPA] netflix/hulu IP's

2010-08-30 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
You need it if you have your own IP space, for BGP. If you don't own your OWN public IPs, then you don't have one. - Original Message - From: Kurt Fankhauser To: 'WISPA General List' Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 10:15 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] netflix/hulu IP's

Re: [WISPA] Close range radio recommendation

2010-08-30 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
You could put 100' of cheap RG58 cable between the radio and the antenna... at 5800MHz gives you something like 31dB loss... - Original Message - From: Jason Hensley To: 'WISPA General List' Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 10:38 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Close range radio

Re: [WISPA] Funny Website Error

2010-08-30 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
OH NO! https://foxnews.com Who are we doing to trust now??? :^) Matt Larsen mlar...@vistabeam.com On 8/30/2010 10:44 AM, Bob Moldashel wrote: Yeah. And don't fear. The Cyber Security Agency is going to keep the world safe.. Too Funny -B- Greg Ihnen wrote: They forgot

Re: [WISPA] (DIRECTLY) Connecting two wireless with a RF cable

2010-08-30 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
arcnet, dude... - Original Message - From: Leon D. Zetekoff wa4...@backwoodswireless.net To: wireless@wispa.org Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 4:27 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] (DIRECTLY) Connecting two wireless with a RF cable On 08/30/2010 06:39 PM, Paolo Di Francesco wrote: well, just

[WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers?

2010-08-24 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I have a need for about ten 2U/4U rackmount servers.All will be running Linux, so 4gig RAM, 2ghz or better CPU and ATA drives are preferred. Does anyone one the list have recommendations? Matt Larsen vistabeam.com

Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers?

2010-08-24 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Servers? On 24 August 2010 02:15, Matt Larsen - Lists li...@manageisp.com mailto:li...@manageisp.com wrote: I have a need for about ten 2U/4U rackmount servers.All will be running Linux, so 4gig RAM, 2ghz or better CPU and ATA drives are preferred. Does anyone one the list have

Re: [WISPA] Backend systems

2010-08-23 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
This may be getting a little off-topic, but this is a benefit of back-end systems: We have tiered service levels...the more you pay the faster you go. We have bandwidth caps (FAPs)...the higher level tiered service you pay for, the higher your FAP limit is so you can download more. About

Re: [WISPA] Backend systems

2010-08-23 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Hello Mark, It is fairly easy to come up with a Perl script that outputs all of the customer radios into a text file that you can then parse and put into Nagios. We do that with Xymon for all of our customer devices, and it works very well.You can also come up with a pgsql request

Re: [WISPA] Backend systems

2010-08-22 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Just a quick point here, because this is a key element for WISP operators Mike, if you are too poor to pay the $2000 or devote the time to setup a billing system then you should seriously question whether you should be in this business at all. Once the initial network deployment is

Re: [WISPA] Backend systems

2010-08-22 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
...@aweiowa.com -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Matt Larsen - Lists Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2010 12:12 PM To: wireless@wispa.org Subject: Re: [WISPA] Backend systems Just a quick point here, because

Re: [WISPA] Major Disaster

2010-08-18 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
bridge loop? arp storm? That's an awful lot of clients on that one AP. If all your CPEs are in bridge mode you could have alot of customer routers creating an arp storm for you. - Original Message - From: Ryan Spott To: WISPA General List Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 8:22

Re: [WISPA] Major Disaster

2010-08-18 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
If you have 50 clients on 5MHz you need to change IMO. - Original Message - From: ~NGL~ n...@ngl.net To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 8:48 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Major Disaster Quarter 5 MHZ 908/5 MHZ

Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik OSPF Problem

2010-08-16 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Butch - your post was fine except for the first sentence. No need to pick at wounds at this point. Let it go. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com On 8/15/2010 5:49 PM, Butch Evans wrote: On Sat, 2010-08-14 at 17:15 -0400, Scott Reed wrote: I have an RB433AH running ROS3.30. It has been running

[WISPA] OS Humor

2010-08-13 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
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Re: [WISPA] UBNT thoughts

2010-08-10 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
Where we have seen a difference in value of equipment is in the failure/repair rate. Ours is horrible. The success or failure of build-em-yourself radios depends GREATLY on the quality of the install/installer (we have alot of StarOS, alot of weatherproofing tape, alot of pigtails, alot of

Re: [WISPA] computer won't connect to radio

2010-08-06 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
Crossover issue? We had a new installer come across this the other day. - Original Message - From: Terry Hickey thic...@rockies.net To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 9:56 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] computer won't connect to radio I have had Tranzeo

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti Link - Poor Performance

2010-08-06 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
How about insufficient power to the radio? - Original Message - From: Mike To: 'WISPA General List' Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 11:47 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti Link - Poor Performance Is one end lower than the other? If so, there could be a duct that is steering

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti Link - Poor Performance

2010-08-05 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
Did ack timing get off somehow? - Original Message - From: KosiNet Wireless wirel...@kosinet.com To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 4:33 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti Link - Poor Performance Rick, I hate to ask what my be obvious Are you

Re: [WISPA] OT: New Tax Recordkeeping Rules Will Cost SmallBusinesses

2010-08-04 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
Let's hope it turns out to be nothing. Would be burdensome. For some more than others. - Original Message - From: MDK rea...@muddyfrogwater.us To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 10:56 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] OT: New Tax Recordkeeping Rules Will

Re: [WISPA] [WISPA Members] Health Insurance

2010-08-03 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
Anyone got a 10-foot-pole that I could use to NOT touch this with? Anyone? Anyone? - Original Message - From: MDK rea...@muddyfrogwater.us To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 4:26 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] [WISPA Members] Health Insurance I have

Re: [WISPA] Monitor / Notify App

2010-07-30 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
In the first couple years of my WISP, I used MultiPing. It can email but not text. It can even fire off processes (I used it to run a script to reboot UPS's or reset Trango's in the early days). It can tell you if the device is totally down or if it has high latency. Easy to configure.

Re: [WISPA] Monitor / Notify App

2010-07-30 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
- Lists markl...@uwol.net To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 11:00 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Monitor / Notify App In the first couple years of my WISP, I used MultiPing. It can email but not text. It can even fire off processes (I used it to run a script

Re: [WISPA] [WISPA Members] Health Insurance

2010-07-29 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
The IDEA of an HSA (Health Savings Account) is not for the employer to save money. See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_savings_account It's for the employee to have a employer-funded savings account for medical expenses. Putting the normal, small expenses on the employee. So if

Re: [WISPA] Overheating UPS?

2010-07-28 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
It is getting ready to fail.I have had two APCs that got hot and failed soon after.One made for an awful stink in the NOC when it finally went. I thought the building was on fire. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com On 7/27/2010 7:39 PM, Forbes Mercy wrote: One of my UPS's at a house/tower

Re: [WISPA] Health Insurance

2010-07-28 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
We provide health insurance for employees. To keep absolute costs down, we go with a high deductible for our employees, though to offset the costs in the cast of anything major, we pay the first $1000 of the deductible on behalf of the employee. We have 5 employees. Owners have to pay for

Re: [WISPA] Health Insurance

2010-07-28 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
an employee. LLC members are not employees. - Original Message - From: Mark Nash - Lists To: WISPA General List Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 2:57 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Health Insurance We provide health insurance for employees. To keep absolute costs down, we go

[WISPA] test

2010-07-20 Thread lists
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Re: [WISPA] Rural Telco in Washington Gets $17,763 per line

2010-07-13 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
Do what you're drawn to do if you can afford it, but don't let anyone take advantage of you that you're not willing to support. Generally, I don't give price breaks that don't make fiscal sense, unless it's an organization that I'm compelled to help. Like I don't give breaks to any religious

Re: [WISPA] The hitch hikers guide to St. Louis.

2010-06-29 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
I'm bringing my woman with me (with respect to the women on the list - she calls herself that). I want to know the great places to hang out, get buzzed, walk around shop for artsy crap! - Original Message - From: Marlon K. Schafer o...@odessaoffice.com To: WISPA General List

Re: [WISPA] Looking to Sell..........

2010-06-15 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I don't use Tranzeos for APs - except for 900mhz and they will soon be replaced with Mikrotik, which seems to work well with Tranzeo 900mhz CPEs. Save some of your blowing up anger for some Smartbridges stuff. I have a few of those that I'd love to drop from a tower. Matt Larsen

Re: [WISPA] Looking to Sell..........

2010-06-15 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com On 6/15/2010 2:14 AM, Blair Davis wrote: MikroTik AP with Tranzeo CPE... on 900MHz??!?!??! What radio card in the MikroTik AP? Matt Larsen - Lists wrote: I don't use Tranzeos for APs - except for 900mhz and they will soon be replaced with Mikrotik, which seems

Re: [WISPA] Connect to Old StarOS Boards

2010-06-14 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
You could do a frame capture with wireshark. Used ethereal a long time ago.. - Original Message - From: Steve Barnes st...@pcswin.com To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 7:12 AM Subject: [WISPA] Connect to Old StarOS Boards I have some old StarOS

Re: [WISPA] Tranzeo Gear

2010-06-12 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
On 6/11/2010 11:06 AM, Michael Baird wrote: I've got some Tranzeo gear for sale, not sure of the exact quantities, just let me know what you need. We've tested/cleared and upgraded all of these units, the 2.4 units all support 5/10/20 mhz channel widths. TR-CPQ-15's - $40 TR-CPQ-19's - $60

Re: [WISPA] Looking to Sell..........

2010-06-12 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Anyone who has Tranzeo CPQ15, CPQ19, SL2-15, SL2N, SL5 or TR5a radios for sale, please contact me. We are switching to 10mhz channels and I have about 500 or so of the older CPE200 and CPE80 radios to switch out. I've been buying a lot of NS2/NS5 and Bullet2/Bullet5, but it is a lot easier

[WISPA] Customer ID-10-T problems

2010-06-09 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
So we get an angry call from a customer demanding that we come out to fix their computer, because their Internet hasn't worked for a couple of months. Check the system logs, and yes - her link has been down for 13 days. Since we have an automated system that calls every two days when a

Re: [WISPA] Google is out of control.

2010-06-09 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Boy, I can't wait until some hacker figures out how to goatse this. That will make for a pretty ugly search page. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com On 6/9/2010 11:24 PM, Robert West wrote: What be this Google visual abomination!!! YAR!

Re: [WISPA] Leasing Companies

2010-06-05 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I have had good experiences with Landmark Financial in Denver.Good folks. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com On 6/4/2010 11:52 PM, David wrote: Both CTI and Boun at doubleradius can help get you with honest leasing companies. David -Original Message- From:

Re: [WISPA] Availability Monitoring

2010-06-03 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
Nagios / The Dude... - Original Message - From: D. Ryan Spott rsp...@irongoat.net To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Cc: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 3:17 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Availability Monitoring I do this for my network and my

Re: [WISPA] How the FCC Proposes the Regulate Broadband

2010-05-28 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Mark, I would like to thank you for your interesting and obivously well thought out post. I am firmly of the camp that USF should be completely discontinued, and my efforts going forward will be to encourage its disbandment. The major goals of the original USF program have been completed for

Re: [WISPA] How the FCC Proposes the Regulate Broadband

2010-05-28 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Tom, Thank you for asking your questions - I have some awesome answers for you. 1) Alaska. Alaska does indeed have an infrastructure problem. Alaska also receives an enormous amount of federal support already along with substantial revenues from their natural resources, mainly oil

Re: [WISPA] Google Pac Man

2010-05-21 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
My son and I ate at a pizza place a few months ago that still had the Galaga game from when I was in high school. He wanted to play, so I let him run the shooter while I ran the joystick. About 45 minutes later, we had the high score, and the next day I get a text message from one of my

Re: [WISPA] Google Pac Man

2010-05-21 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
I saw Gorf the other day. And I just purchased ExciteBike for the Wii at home. 3 months ago I purchased the original Donkey Kong for the Wii, and NONE of my kids could beat it. My kids are 24, 21, 18. I'd keep saying That just cost you a quarter... That just cost you a quarter... That just

Re: [WISPA] Google Pac Man

2010-05-21 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
Wing as well only because it says come on, you know it All your base belong to us!! Bob- -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Mark Nash - Lists Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 12:13 PM To: WISPA General List

Re: [WISPA] Google Pac Man

2010-05-21 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Mark Nash - Lists Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 12:13 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Google Pac Man I saw Gorf the other day. And I just purchased ExciteBike for the Wii at home. 3 months ago I purchased the original Donkey Kong for the Wii

Re: [WISPA] Google Pac Man

2010-05-21 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
21, 2010 9:38 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Google Pac Man Captain: For great justice. Steve Barnes RC-WiFi Wireless Internet Service -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Mark Nash - Lists Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 12:33

Re: [WISPA] Google Pac Man

2010-05-21 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
Used to go down to Laguna Beach CA with a group. They had a LAN system with full-surround pods intercom to your teammates. Had mech battles - Original Message - From: David E. Smith d...@mvn.net To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 9:41 AM Subject: Re:

Re: [WISPA] Google Pac Man

2010-05-21 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
, by name...they had A-Z beer names) and every 5 pitchers we would go head-to-head on pole-position hehehe... Got a little difficult after awhile. I can still taste the morning after...beer peanuts...uck... - Original Message - From: Mark Nash - Lists markl...@uwol.net To: WISPA General

Re: [WISPA] Google Pac Man

2010-05-21 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
Nash - Lists markl...@uwol.net wrote: Used to go down to Laguna Beach CA with a group. They had a LAN system with full-surround pods intercom to your teammates. Had mech battles - Original Message - From: David E. Smith d...@mvn.net To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Friday

Re: [WISPA] Google Pac Man

2010-05-21 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
! Shesh! Kids. At his age, 13, I already had dog bites, one snake bite, a broken wrist, scars, etc. Electronics suck! -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Mark Nash - Lists Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 1:51 PM

Re: [WISPA] Issues with sending email with Everyone.net servers

2010-05-17 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
Yes, address books. They are a pain. We migrated about 900 accounts TO the Everyone.Net servers last year. From 2 very different mail servers, about 40 domains. Address books were a pain in the rear. Then there was the 2 users that were actually using the Calendar feature of one of the

[WISPA] Issues with sending email with Everyone.net servers

2010-05-14 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
We have been having alot of problems sending email through Everyone.Net's servers. Lots of server rejections, delivery resource unavailable type messages. Anyone going through the same problems? Here's a message sent by our tech to their tech support this morning. This message outlines our

Re: [WISPA] Call Tracking / Customer management software

2010-05-12 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
with that? Only problem with Freeside I've seen so far is the lack of documentation which I'm guessing is on purpose to get you to pay for support. Many thanks, Paul. -Original Message- From: Matt Larsen - Lists [mailto:li...@manageisp.com] Sent: 11 May 2010 21:07 To: WISPA General List

Re: [WISPA] Call Tracking / Customer management software

2010-05-11 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
I use Powercode. - Original Message - From: Sara Gray li...@jcwifi.com To: 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 11:35 AM Subject: [WISPA] Call Tracking / Customer management software I'm looking for software to tract customer calls, trouble tickets,

Re: [WISPA] Call Tracking / Customer management software

2010-05-11 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Mark Nash - Lists Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 1:39 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Call Tracking / Customer management software I use Powercode. - Original Message - From: Sara Gray li...@jcwifi.com

Re: [WISPA] Call Tracking / Customer management software

2010-05-11 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
my subs into powercode at one point last summer... happily thinking this system is gonna rock! and then I found out that I only get 1/2 of the features that were advertised. :( I ended up not going with them. ryan On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Mark Nash - Lists markl...@uwol.netwrote: I

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