[WISPA] Mikrotik CPU graphing

2008-11-11 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Hello all, I'm trying to figure out how to track CPU load and PPS on our Mikrotik core router. Is there a simple guide for tracking this with MRTG/RRD somewhere out there? I"m not having much luck finding it. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com --

Re: [WISPA] heavy usage customers

2008-11-02 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I'm with Travis on this, with the exception of using StarOS instead of Mikrotik. It is nice to have a set of standard, mature tools such as radius, cbq/iptable rules and standard, non-vendor specific hardware to work with instead of having to use a limited, proprietary system limited to a sin

Re: [WISPA] Damn, Ubiquiti

2008-10-22 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I am having great luck with the Nanostation5 radios. The NS2 radios have a terrible antenna, so I'm sticking to Tranzeos for 2.4ghz use. I'd love to see an NS9 at some point. The new products look interesting, but if they are like other Ubiquity "new product releases" - they are vaporware

[WISPA] Anyone have Tranzeo 900mhz radios?

2008-10-03 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Hi all, I am looking to order about 10 Tranzeo 902-11 radios. Our main supplier is backordered on them and I have a backlog of installs, so anyone who can ship radios on Monday, please contact me. Thanks! Matt Larsen vistabeam.com --

Re: [WISPA] Network Monitor

2008-08-01 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
The ability to push configs out from a central location is really a nice feature of Nagios/Cacti/MRTG. I also use Big Brother to monitor customer connections, and it is nice to have something that automatically pushes the configurations out whenever we make a change in the billing system - ke

[WISPA] Interesting Link...

2008-07-28 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
http://gigaom.com/2008/07/28/the-brookings-plan-for-rural-broadband/ WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wi

Re: [WISPA] Nanostations

2008-07-24 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Hi Chuck, Need to put the new AirOS 3.0 firmware on the NS5s and they will work as expected. Matt Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CHUCK PROFITO wrote: > Has anyone on the list noticed on the 5.x nanos, that when selecting 10 Mhz > channels, that they only line up in the center of the channel, not lik

Re: [WISPA] Just what we need.

2008-07-22 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I don't usually agree with Mark's viewpoints, but I agree with this one 100%. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Marlon, my friend, that is the wrong viewpoint. > > This is the RIGHT one... > > "Imagine the sales I could make if the taxpayers weren't subsidizing > CenturyTel."

Re: [WISPA] Nanostations - question

2008-07-20 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Here are a few reasons to buy the Tranzeo 1) 3 year warranty 2) Available stock - tried to buy a lot of Nanostations lately?Good luck getting them consistently. 3) Tranzeo design has been through a few winters and hot summers. There are already some questions about the durability of

Re: [WISPA] Nanostations

2008-07-20 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Never really had a major problem with this. Just keep P2P apps limited at the core router, no intercell relay and connection limits per customer. It would be nice if there was a polling implementation that could be easily implemented with standards-based equipment instead of proprietary gear.

Re: [WISPA] Nanostations

2008-07-20 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
ossible with a non-polling system > (in upload or download scenarios). > > Travis > > > Matt Larsen - Lists wrote: >> Travis, >> >> I've got 802.11a APs with 90-100 subs on them without polling and >> customers are very happy. I am one of them - as

Re: [WISPA] Nanostations

2008-07-20 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
y > is at least 10x bigger than StarOS... it would make more sense for > Ubiquiti to load Mikrotik on the Nano's... ;) > > Travis > Microserv > > > Matt Larsen - Lists wrote: >> Travis Johnson wrote: >> >>> Matt, >>> >>> I agree

Re: [WISPA] Nanostations

2008-07-20 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
ht now today. :) > Or Nanostation-SOS - a Nano running StarOS. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com > Travis > Microserv > > Matt Larsen - Lists wrote: >> Hi Travis, >> >> I'm with you - the Nanostations are a pretty amazing product. I've >> been deploying

Re: [WISPA] top 10 benefits of Wimax in 3.65ghz - my 2 cents

2008-07-19 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Hi Travis, I'm with you - the Nanostations are a pretty amazing product. I've been deploying Nanostations on 10mhz channels in 2.4 and 5ghz with StarOS access points and the performance/interference resistance is pretty amazing at ANY price point. I could say the same thing for the newer T

Re: [WISPA] Any thoughts on a decent cache server

2008-07-11 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
You can build a good squid box with lots of memory and fast hard drives and get good results. The squid setup is also nearly infinitely tunable, as opposed to the ones in Mikrotik and StarOS which have a pretty vanilla configuration. Being able to tune the cache parameters helps a lot, alon

Re: [WISPA] water in feed horn

2008-07-09 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Check the feedhorn for cracks. We have had a few PacWireless units (dishes and grids) that were damaged by hail or dropping ice and developed hairline cracks that caused them to stop working in wet weather. Matt Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurt Fankhauser wrote: > Anyone ever have any water get

[WISPA] WISPA Board Elections

2008-06-18 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Just a reminder - the WISPA Board Elections will be starting on Monday, June 23rd. Any WISPA member who wants to vote in the election has to be paid in full before the date of the election. If you are behind on your dues, please get them caught up. I have just sent out invoices for everyo

[WISPA] OSPF on StarOS

2008-05-28 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Very valuable advice for any of you who are using OSPF on StarOS Make sure that any of your point-to-point wireless links have the statement "ip ospf network point-to-point" in each of your wireless interface definitions, otherwise you are going to see the StarOS OSPF act completely random

Re: [WISPA] Uh-Oh, " they are ready to discipline Internet service providers"

2008-02-26 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
The real problem is the number of connections. One client opening up 300-400 connections is going to cause all kinds of problems. Being able to limit connections is a pretty important item to be able to handle on a wireless network. Matt Larsen Vistabeam.com Mike Hammett wrote: > and I for

Re: [WISPA] MT vs StarOS

2008-02-08 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
the same distance, you are only getting 30Mbps. > Why is there a 50% loss when doing full-duplex? > > Also, are you testing with TCP or UDP? > > Travis > Microserv > > Matt Larsen - Lists wrote: >> OK, here are some real world examples: >> >> 5.3ghz

Re: [WISPA] MT vs StarOS

2008-02-07 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
OK, here are some real world examples: 5.3ghz 40mhz channel, 8.5 miles. WAR4/CM9 attached to 29db PacWireless Antennas.50meg one way. 5.7ghz 20mhz channel, 10 miles.WAR2/CM9 attached to 29db PacWireless Antennas. 45meg one way (CPU maxes out on WAR2s) 5.7ghz 10mhz channel, 42 miles

Re: [WISPA] Tornado

2008-02-07 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
At least is wasn't your main tower!That sucks! Matt Larsen vistabeam.com David E. Smith wrote: > Okay, less FEMA politics and more disaster pictures. > > http://images.bureau42.com/sa/blrv08/SANY0837.JPG > > (This was from Tuesday evening. We were nowhere near any tornadoes, as far as > I k

Re: [WISPA] MT vs StarOS

2008-02-06 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Check on the Valemount site and look for the X-4000. It is under $400 and has four radios and pigtails in it. Performance is equal to or better than the WAR4s or RB333s. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com Kurt Fankhauser wrote: > Interesting, I was hoping to switch a few towers over from War4 Metro

[WISPA] StarOS and VOIP

2008-02-06 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I thought I might pass on a piece of information I recently found out about StarOS networks. At the StarOS training session last month, they mentioned that the newer Version3 firmware automatically prioritizes VOIP traffic as long as the correct TOS bit is set. That made it a lot easier to

Re: [WISPA] 900 Mhz recommendation

2008-02-06 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I have had excellent results with the Tranzeo units. I didn't have any experience with their older ones, but I do know that we can install customers in NLOS situations and get good performance even with the 5mhz channel sizes. I would highly recommend them. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com chris

[WISPA] Looking for short licensed link

2008-01-15 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Hi all, I am looking for a licensed link to replace a fiber connection. I am currently paying for a 100meg fiber connection between two of my towers and would like to replace it with my own infrastructure. I own the towers on both sides, there is plenty of LOS and the link distance is 2.9 m

[WISPA] Lucaya X-4000 radios

2008-01-04 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Hi all, I did some performance testing yesterday with the new X-4000 radio units from Lucaya and wanted to share the results. These are the new four radio access point/client/backhaul units from Valemount Networks (the authors of StarOS). The latest versions of the firmware now support fu

Re: [WISPA] Freeside + QuickBooks

2007-12-27 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Just use QuickBooks to do your regular bookkeeping, and Freeside to handle the Accounts Receivable from your ISP customers. Everyday, we input all of our payments into Freeside, then add up the deposit and put the total deposit into QuickBooks under "Freeside Deposits". This system has work

Re: [WISPA] FDX Wireless

2007-12-23 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
StarOS V3 does true FDX with dual cards. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com Mike Hammett wrote: Other than N-Streme 2, what out there is true FDX and not just HDX with 50/50 balancing? - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ---

Re: [WISPA] PHP Helpdesk

2007-12-19 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Freeside with built in RT Ticket system. RT is also available as a standalone application, and works well. We use it to keep track of installs, deinstalls, service calls, maintenance work and a few other things as well. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com Ty Carter wrote: Platypus w/ wombat (

Re: [WISPA] Vuze / Comcast / Peer to Peer / FCC

2007-11-20 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
George, Comcast's customers are the ones paying for access to the Comcast network. If a Comcast customer wants to use Vuze, he should be able to because he is ALREADY PAYING FOR THE RIGHT TO USE THE NETWORK. This idea of content providers being "parasites" on networks is a total load of

Re: [WISPA] Vuze / Comcast / Peer to Peer / FCC

2007-11-19 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
business model and is incredibly harmful to your competitor's business model. If you question my math, feel free to contact me offl-list--there are some specifics that I'm not willing to discuss in a public forum. Thanks, Clint Ricker -Kentnis Technologies On Nov 18, 2007 10:44 PM

Re: [WISPA] Vuze / Comcast / Peer to Peer / FCC

2007-11-18 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
My strong feeling is that the free market approach is by far the best approach to the Network Neutrality/Network Management. If Comcast wants to degrade the service to their customers, then that is an opportunity for the other providers in the market - they are essentially degrading their own

[WISPA] Service in Washington State

2007-10-31 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Good morning I am looking for DSL, or wireless servcie anything at the following 2 sites 8409 North Texas Road, Anacortes, WA 98221 Phone 360-293-6323. 5232 Lake Terrell Road. Fermdale. WA 98248 Phone 360-380-1945. Please anything you can do to help would be appreciated Matt Larsen vistabe

[WISPA] OpenMoko Phone

2007-10-13 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
less it's just the bee's knees. Cell phones have yet to cause that kind of reaction in me. I mean, I have a Treo 650 that still has default ring tones and no apps. Best intentions. Is it built well, Matt? Brandon -Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [WISPA] Why the Nokia E70 is better than the iPhone - Thread CLOSED!

2007-10-10 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Larsen - Lists Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 12:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] Why the Nokia E70 is better than the iPhone FWIW, my E70 rules. It is by far the best phone I have ever used. Take that, iPhone fanboys! http

[WISPA] Why the Nokia E70 is better than the iPhone

2007-10-10 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
FWIW, my E70 rules. It is by far the best phone I have ever used. Take that, iPhone fanboys! http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone Matt Larsen vistabeam.com ** Join us at the WISPA Reception

Re: [WISPA] iPhone

2007-10-03 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I have one of these phones, and as excited as I was about it, it is pretty disappointing. Very ALPHA. I was unable to get it to actually work after several hours of trying to get the software loaded and configured. I am going to put some more time into it, but it sounds like the second ve

Re: [WISPA] Long Distance StarOS links

2007-10-03 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Ubiquity SR5. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com Wallace L. Walcher wrote: What Radios did you use? Ubiqui -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Larsen - Lists Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 12:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; WISPA General List

[WISPA] Long Distance StarOS links

2007-10-02 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Hi all, Today we finished replacing our long Trango links with StarOS links, WAR-4 boards running version 3 of StarOS - hooked up to 4' Radiowaves dishes. Here are the results: 42 mile shot 10mhz channel size -58 signal strength 10-12meg throughput 62 mile shot 10mhz channel size -60 sign

Re: [WISPA] OT: Cell Phone Repeaters.

2007-09-06 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Thanks for the useful information about Cell Phone Repeaters. No thanks for the non-related information. This thread is now CLOSED. Any more onlist responses to it will be forwarded to the list moderator and the contributors will be suspended from the list. NEW SUBJECT! Matt Larsen vista

Re: [WISPA] FBI Proposes Building Network of U.S. Informants

2007-07-25 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
feelings about allowing advertisements on the free WISPA lists. The current Board is taking this under consideration at this time. We want to know your thoughts. -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe

[WISPA] Connection Tracking problem on StarOS backhauls

2007-06-20 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Hi all, Just came across a problem that was easy to fix and thought everyone should know about it. We had a couple of backhaul links that were having some strange issues, dropping lots of packets on all interfaces and then mysteriously stopping or requiring a reboot to get back into operatio

Re: [WISPA] Wispa@ ISPCON

2007-05-15 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Mac and I will be at the airport between 2pm and 3pm on Tuesday. Anyone who needs a ride, drop me an email and I'll see if we can squeeze you in. There was a rumor that there may be a Geek Jam at a local bar sometime on Wednesday night, after the WISPA reception. Will find out more details

[WISPA] StarOS v3 and new Tranzeo CPE radios

2007-05-09 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
While doing some testing with StarV3 and Tranzeo SL5/SL2 CPE units and came across something interesting. 20mhz and 5mhz channel spacing works just fine. However, 10mhz channel spacing doesn't work because the channels do not line up. For example: in 5.8 with 10mhz channels, the Tranzeo use

Re: [WISPA] TRIVIA QUESTION

2007-05-01 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Time gets to the best of us, old man. Gets to me tomorrow too. Yuk yuk. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com Mac Dearman wrote: Wise guy eh? Nyuk nyuk My ankles are actually sexier than in that picture. I was recovering from a broken Tibia :-) (Pay back is tough Harnish!) Mac -Origin

Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik Hotspot Setup

2007-05-01 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Can the Certification Nazis give it a rest for a couple of months? There will be plenty of StarOS and MT certified systems by then and we can send these stupid threads into /dev/null oblivion. Sheesh. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com Chadd Thompson wrote: You want to help the guy or poke him wit

Re: [WISPA] 5GHz Amps

2007-04-22 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Wrong. ADI Engineering has a certified StarOS/War Board combo, with a choice of cards. I am currently evaluating them for my future backhauls. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com Smith, Rick wrote: Nope, not FCC certified. What Mikrotik / Star-OS systems are ? None. -Original Message- Fr

Re: [WISPA] 5GHz Amps

2007-04-22 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
The solid dishes are much better than the grids. The 26db grids are pretty decent, but the 29db grids (both PacWireless and Equinox) are poor compared to the solid dish 29db antennas. I saw an 8db improvement in signal switching from a 29db grid to a 29db solid dish antenna at a couple of my

Re: [WISPA] Wireless ISP's

2007-04-02 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I ride both sides of this fence I started out leasing all of my CPE in March 2004 and for the next 24 months did more leases when we needed more CPE, buying 100 at a time. We reached a point where it looked like it didn't make a lot of sense to continue the leasing. The rates were getti

[WISPA] Nebraska WISPs - Something to look out for...

2007-03-13 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
For any other Nebraska WISPs LB661 came up in the state legistlature and the gist is that broadband providers will have to pay into the USF fund. LB560 requires all broadband providers to register with the state Public Service Commission (so they know where to send the bill for LB661 to).

[WISPA] Any ideas on recovering a TR-CPE200, Revision A?

2007-02-28 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I have a stack of TR-CPE200 radios with the revision A firmware on them. This revision doesn't respond to the CPE locator tool and I can't seem to ping them. Any ideas on how to get them operational again? Tranzeo is even kind of stuck. If I could get a static ARP entry to ping, I think I w

[WISPA] WRAP board CF losing all software!!!!

2007-02-21 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Hi all, I recently came across a problem that I have been unable to resolve. I have a bunch of WRAP boards with StarOS software on them, and for some reason about half of them have lost their firmware, and the WRAP shows that there is no software. This has happened to boards right out of th

Re: [WISPA] multi-radio Wi-Fi base stations

2007-02-21 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Hm.. My understanding is that 400mw radios are generally not FCC compliant.If that is the case, then there are a lot of telcos that have been selling non-compliant equipment in the form of those DSL modems that they sell to their customers. Just a thought. Matt Larsen vistabeam.

Re: [WISPA] Following the FCC rules ?????

2007-02-20 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
many of the geniuses who built this stuff got their experience in the first place? Thank You, Brian Webster -Original Message- From: Matt Larsen - Lists [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 2:32 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Following the FCC rules

Re: [WISPA] Following the FCC rules are now simply aboutbeing"sticker conscious" or not??

2007-02-18 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
so far. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com Patrick Leary wrote: Don't make too many assumptions about what your price will be by looking at list prices, for example, our CPE available in the AlvarionCOMNET program for $285 (does require a 25 per quarter commitment), lists with a MSRP of $1,095

Re: [WISPA] Following the FCC rules ?????

2007-02-18 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I think everyone is missing the real problem with 5.4ghz. How big of a piece of crap is our military radar that a $49 minipci wireless card and a homemade pringles antenna can render it useless??? ;^) Matt Larsen vistabeam.com J. Vogel wrote: Fair enough. I might have been a little on

Re: [WISPA] way OT: Did I mention I love the WISP business?

2007-02-09 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
it like it is from my learned view, for better or worse. I know first hand that most of my peers have long since been told by their employers, "Stay off the lists!" out of their company's perceived self-interest and because they don't have the stomach for it. In my view it i

[WISPA] Tranzeo 90-15 for 80-15 swap, anyone?

2007-02-05 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I have about 25 CPE90-15 radios that I would like to trade for 80-15 radios. The 90-15s work fine, but seem to have some kind of issues with my network at times that doesn't seem to affect the 80-15s, and my techs don't like the user interface, so we decided to get them out of the loop. Anyo

Re: [WISPA] Scalability of 802.11a based broadband equipment

2007-02-01 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
for customers past 15 miles? marlon - Original Message - From: "Matt Larsen - Lists" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 12:12 AM Subject: [WISPA] Scalability of 802.11a based broadband equipment Did a little arithmeti

[WISPA] Scalability of 802.11a based broadband equipment

2007-02-01 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Did a little arithmetic tonight... I have a Tranzeo TR5plus access point on my wireless network. Other than being limited by a 10meg ethernet port (it is installed at a noisy FM tower location, and the speed must be turned down to 10meg to keep a reliable connection) - it is a perfectly stand

Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-24 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Have you thought that not everyone has the same kind of market that you do and that bandwidth management of this kind considerably improves the number of customers and quality of service that can be provided? Sheesh. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com Matt Liotta wrote: Have you thought about selling

Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-24 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
StarOS will handle this for you. Just use the "fb" rules. Works great! Matt Larsen vistabeam.com Jason wrote: List, Several times in the last few weeks the topic of bandwidth management has been discussed, but "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Lookin' For"... Here's what I'd like to do:

[WISPA] SmartPhone Happiness...

2007-01-22 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
It was finally time to replace my Nokia 6800 with 600 hours and a broken screen from being dropped too many times, so I decided to get a Nokia E70 phone. It has been a little bit of a challenge, but it is pretty close to cell phone nirvana. It has been able to do I have wanted to accomplish w

[WISPA] testorama

2007-01-16 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
testing the new mail server. Matt vistabeam.com -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/

Re: [WISPA] Well, it was time to stir the pot for the new year...

2007-01-06 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
And now to stir it in the other direction If Alvarion is serious about making the VL platform their new standard bearer for residential, there is a little bit of work to be done. While I understand the need for non-standard items at times, things like the special ethernet cable, non-stand

Re: [WISPA] Well, it was time to stir the pot for the new year...

2007-01-05 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Well, lets really spice it up thenI'm going to stir the pot in this direction for this post Alvarion has done a great job of producing a product that does an excellent job delivering value to their customers and has several unique features that will keep it on a different level above w

Re: [WISPA] Solar power

2007-01-05 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
David... Any news on this potential sub-$1k solar system? Mark Nash Network Engineer UnwiredOnline.Net 350 Holly Street Junction City, OR 97448 http://www.uwol.net 541-998- 541-998-5599 fax - Original Message - From: "David Weddell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'WISPA General List'" Se

Re: [WISPA] Quick-Connect PoE at CPE

2007-01-05 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
Used one of these quick-connect pigtails today on a Tranzeo installation. Had to bore the hole out on the waterproof boot to 7/8" (I expected this), and it worked like a charm. A nice, unexpected bonus is that the cable on this pigtail is less stiff than the outdoor cable I use, so it bends, st

[WISPA] Bad Storm in Nebraska

2007-01-04 Thread lists
I thought it was bad when I lost a backhaul on a mountaintop for part of the day today...until I saw what happened in Central Nebraska http://www.nppd.org/ Charter had 7000 cable internet customers down, including several thousand out here 200+ miles away. One of the microwave towers car

Re: [WISPA] 5.3/5.8 GHz Antenna Suggestion

2007-01-04 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
the kit is > also a bit different due to the fact that the L-Bracket is tapped. > > Thanks, > Ben Moore > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Mark Nash - Lists > Sent: Thursday, Ja

Re: [WISPA] 5.3/5.8 GHz Antenna Suggestion

2007-01-04 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Mark Nash - Lists > Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 11:45 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] 5.3/5.8 GHz Antenna Suggestion > > Ben, > > A) Will these fit the mo

Re: [WISPA] 5.3/5.8 GHz Antenna Suggestion

2007-01-03 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
the extra db that comes with a dish. Mac Dearman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Nash - Lists Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 2:28 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] 5.3/5.8 GHz Antenna Suggestion Are we preferring the

Re: [WISPA] What's everyone using for Bandwidth Management?

2006-12-31 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
StarOS. Jeremy Davis and I put together a module for Freeside that uploads bandwidth rules into a StarOS BW controller automatically. It has made life a lot easier. Matt Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've spent the past week working on getting my bandwidth management s

Re: [WISPA] Cool ideas for RouterOS....

2006-12-30 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
ot;WISPA General List" Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 2:11 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Cool ideas for RouterOS On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, Mark Nash - Lists wrote: How about the ability to place a customer name in the ACL for non-RouterOS CPEs? Like this? / interface wireless access-list a

Re: [WISPA] Cool ideas for RouterOS....

2006-12-30 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
How about the ability to place a customer name in the ACL for non-RouterOS CPEs? Mark Nash Network Engineer UnwiredOnline.Net 350 Holly Street Junction City, OR 97448 http://www.uwol.net 541-998- 541-998-5599 fax - Original Message - From: "Butch Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Wis

Re: [WISPA] 5.3/5.8 GHz Antenna Suggestion

2006-12-30 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
e- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Nash - Lists Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 3:07 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] 5.3/5.8 GHz Antenna Suggestion Thanks Mac and Travis... This does sound like a no-brainer. How about a 12-mile link

Re: [WISPA] 5.3/5.8 GHz Antenna Suggestion

2006-12-30 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
TECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Nash - Lists Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 2:28 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] 5.3/5.8 GHz Antenna Suggestion Are we preferring their grids to dishes? Mark Nash Network Engineer UnwiredOnline.Net 350 Holly Street Junction City,

Re: [WISPA] 5.3/5.8 GHz Antenna Suggestion

2006-12-30 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
ess network that covers 12% of Louisiana utilizing their antennas exclusively for my BH. Well - I do have several of the Trango dual polarity ext's. Mac Dearman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Nash - Lists Sent: Saturday, December

[WISPA] 5.3/5.8 GHz Antenna Suggestion

2006-12-30 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
I have usually used Trango backhauls, so I have not had to worry about 5 GHz antennas and what to choose. Now I'm going to try a MikroTik backhaul with a CM9. Currently, I've got two applications: 1. 2-mile link that I can perhaps use 5.3GHz over. 2. 8-mile link that I'll go 5.8GHz over. Wh

Re: [WISPA] Cool ideas for RouterOS....

2006-12-30 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
Keep a list of 'discovered' DHCP servers and their mac addresses in a table. Usually, the LAN mac address of the consumer routers is one off from the WAN mac address, so we should be able to quickly identify who has plugged their router in backwards. Mark Nash Network Engineer UnwiredOnline.Ne

Re: [WISPA] TRUCKPC

2006-12-29 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
AHA I've been wondering where the hell that TruckPC request has been coming from!! Occasionally, I have techs who have left the radius authentication disabled on an access point and the dhcp logs will start to fill up with requests from "TruckPC". They were coming from access points

Re: [WISPA] StarOS or Microtik with TRCPQ clients...

2006-12-29 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Hi Ryan, My favorite AP setup for 2.4 is StarOS/Orinoco card/YDI amplifier/YDI 180deg sector antenna - however some of these parts are getting harder to find and/or don't work for a lot of situations. So here is the most common one that I am deploying as of late: StarOS/prism2511/tranzeo h-

Re: [WISPA] bits per mbps

2006-12-26 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Back in the olden days of dialup, I used to get fantastic results from our caching server. It was just a PIII machine with a whopping 640meg of memory, but it did a good job. Page views were noticeably faster when things were setup correctly. When I was in a backbone pinch, I used a caching

Re: [WISPA] Terabeam Turbocell - Flash to 802.11b

2006-12-25 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
- From: "Blair Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2006 10:08 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Terabeam Turbocell - Flash to 802.11b I assume you are talking about the clients. It depends on what clients you have Mark Nash - Li

[WISPA] Terabeam Turbocell - Flash to 802.11b

2006-12-23 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
Anyone know if there is a way to flash Terabeam/Proxim EtherAnt-Turbo wireless units with 802.11b firmware? I've got about 70 of these on 2 sites that I'm wanting to move away from Turbocell and I don't want to replace them all at once. Thanks... Mark Nash Network Engineer UnwiredOnline.Net

Re: [WISPA] salary

2006-12-18 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I cured myself - sort of. :^) I stopped building out new tower sites in June 2006, other than a few little repeaters that were pretty basic network extensions with no tower work involved. A couple of months before that, I also stopped doing new leases for CPE equipment. In August, I had one

Re: [WISPA] TEST (please ignore)

2006-12-18 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
Then you'll appreciate this: http://www.uwol.net/bday/videos/BigBottom-768.wmv That's me singing... twas a 40th birthday party for me and I invited all my musician friends to have a big jam session. Mark Nash Network Engineer UnwiredOnline.Net 350 Holly Street Junction City, OR 97448 http://www.

Re: [WISPA] DAY FROM HELL!!!

2006-12-17 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
You guys totally one-upped me on these...so thanks for making me feel not so bad!!! ;) Still got one site without power...have a generator charging the UPS. When the generator runs out of fuel, the UPS (SNMP card) e-mails us to tell us it has about 20 hours on battery for us to get gas into t

[WISPA] DAY FROM HELL!!!

2006-12-15 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
Wind storms came through last night. Power out at 6 sites this morning, various power companies. Started at 6 this morning...Put in 2 generators, purchased 8 marine batteries and patched them into my APC UPS units. 2 sites now still running on batteries, 2 on generators. Will be a late night I

Re: RE: [WISPA] 25 pr Outdoor cat5

2006-12-15 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
Can't get the attachment on the list... Offlist, maybe? URL, maybe? Thanks! Mark Nash Network Engineer UnwiredOnline.Net 350 Holly Street Junction City, OR 97448 http://www.uwol.net 541-998- 541-998-5599 fax - Original Message - From: "Brad Belton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'WISPA

Re: RE: [WISPA] 25 pr Outdoor cat5

2006-12-15 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
Yeah...66 blocks or 110? Charles, if Brian doesn't want your cable, I may be interested...give him dibs, though... ;) Mark Nash Network Engineer UnwiredOnline.Net 350 Holly Street Junction City, OR 97448 http://www.uwol.net 541-998- 541-998-5599 fax - Original Message - From: <[EMAI

Re: [WISPA] AP Search

2006-12-14 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
have used staros, and it is a good OS. Don't get me wrong. It does work and it works well. I am wondering what about the MT in the setup did you not like, or like better in star os? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Larsen - Lists

Re: [WISPA] AP Search

2006-12-14 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
StarOS would handle this easily. I tried Mikrotik with a setup like this, and it just didn't work quite right. FWIW, I have a StarOS AP with approx 50 customers on it that has been up for almost a year. Not a single reboot, just works. StarOS will also do hotspot type authentication as wel

Re: [WISPA] more ip tracking upgrades

2006-12-14 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
If your IP addy's aren't changing often you can use ntop to classify traffic for you. I use it to tell whether or not traffic is human-generated or if it's from a worm or p2p. http://www.ntop.org Mark Nash Network Engineer UnwiredOnline.Net 350 Holly Street Junction City, OR 97448 http://www.uwo

Re: [WISPA] ISPCON Orlando May 23-25

2006-12-13 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I'll take OLSR, please Matt Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jeff Broadwick wrote: >From Doug: Another good topic for ISPCON would be an introduction to OLSR (Optimized Link State Routing). This routing protocol is beginning to replace OSPF on wireless ISP networks and other mobile and meshed ne

Re: [WISPA] remote power

2006-12-12 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
APC SU700NET with AP9617 SNMP management card. I have been pulling the internal batteries and hooking up external batteries to get extended runtime (went from 2 hours to 11 hours). You can reboot remotely and establish alerts. Web/telnet/SSH interfaces. Mark Nash Network Engineer UnwiredOnl

Re: [WISPA] high throughput backhaul options

2006-12-12 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
The above confuses me. In the situation where I have a PtP radio using the full band there is no colocation opportunity for a competitor on either side. That means the competitor would have be on a site near by to be affected by me and/or to affect me. If this hypothetical competitor doesn't

Re: [WISPA] remote power

2006-12-12 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
These are the best ones by far http://www.webpowerswitch.com/ The low end unit is only $139 or something like that. They have autoping and remote web interface as well. I haven't seen anything else come close for the price. Their rackmount units are awesome too, for $295 with 16 outlet

Re: [WISPA] long BH links

2006-12-09 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
StarOS with 533mhz WAR boards will give you 25-30meg. Boards and radios will run you about $500 for each side. I just did a link in Wyoming yesterday at 24 miles with 26db PacWireless grids at 5.8ghz. I have a -73 signal and 20meg of throughput. This is with a 233mhz WAR board on one side a

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