Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-21 Thread Robert West
..? The education would be over. -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Joe Laura Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 10:17 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings I had a nightmare trying to do apartment

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-21 Thread Curtis Maurand
into the accessories for that MT board. Bob- -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of David E. Smith Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 3:08 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings Jeff Yette wrote

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-21 Thread Dennis Burgess
] On Behalf Of Josh Luthman Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 9:56 PM To: sc...@brevardwireless.com; WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings Mikrotik Hotspot does NOT have the capability of catching people behind NAT. Example: Joe buys a WRT54g. WRT54g bridges to the paid wireless

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-21 Thread Dennis Burgess
To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings Jeff Yette wrote: To clarify, we are not looking for a hosted application, but more of a home-grown solution. We have all of the components for billing, which will automatically create a radius account and e-mail, we have online

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-21 Thread Andy Trimmell
20, 2009 3:30 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings We are using Radius Manager 3 (http://www.radius-manager.com/?gclid=CNqwrZL8spwCFSMeDQodd2XJnQ). It's not the best, but it is the best we found for the price. Martha Martha Huizenga DC Access, LLC 202-546-5898

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-21 Thread richard sterne
@wispa.org Subject: Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings I had a nightmare trying to do apartment complexes. I thought I touched on a goldmine when all the signups started comming in. Then as tennants started firing up their own A/P's others would connect to them and cancel service

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-21 Thread Scott Reed
Of Josh Luthman Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 9:56 PM To: sc...@brevardwireless.com; WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings Mikrotik Hotspot does NOT have the capability of catching people behind NAT. Example: Joe buys a WRT54g. WRT54g bridges to the paid wireless

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-21 Thread Eric Rogers
[mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Scott Reed Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 4:00 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings Sure, but the customer plugs that one connection into his own wireless router and runs it as a DHCP server. richard sterne wrote

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-21 Thread Eje Gustafsson
: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of richard sterne Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 2:33 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings Could you not set the CPE to DHCP and the IP pool to allow only 1 IP address? Richard 2009/8/21 Eje

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-21 Thread Faisal Imtiaz
] On Behalf Of Eric Rogers Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 5:17 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings We deploy in fairly dense housing editions for our wireless service and run across this occasionally. We use PPPoE for logged in routers and DHCP to put them

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-21 Thread ralph
- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Eje Gustafsson Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 3:24 PM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings Not seen a single solution that can do that. That is the functionality of NAT to hide what

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-21 Thread ralph
[mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Faisal Imtiaz Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 5:27 PM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings Just as a FYI. Systems like Ruckus Wireless have built in 'Rouge AP' detection capabilities. Which would allow you to manage

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-21 Thread Josh Luthman
...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Faisal Imtiaz Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 5:27 PM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings Just as a FYI. Systems like Ruckus Wireless have built in 'Rouge AP' detection capabilities. Which would allow you

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-21 Thread Jonathan Schmidt
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings Pretty confident finding the MACs behind a NAT device is impossible. I do remember some discussion on this list (or the Moto one) that suggested a white paper by a company that had created software that can intelligently guess if there was NAT judging

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-21 Thread ralph
Of Jonathan Schmidt Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 6:48 PM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings The only one that I know that does that is Perftech. Otherwise, it must be a black hole. . . . J o n a t h a n -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-21 Thread eje
a rouge ap don't need to be that hard if you can associate to it. /Eje Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.com Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:43:09 To: WISPA General Listwireless@wispa.org Subject: Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-21 Thread Faisal Imtiaz
21, 2009 6:39 PM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings Rogue detection mostly a joke. Now before you go all whacky on me- I don't mean that it is a joke to want to know if you have someone who has brought an AP into the office building and inadvertently created a hole

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-21 Thread Mike Hammett
@wispa.org Subject: Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings I think it was Earthlink that did have a technology by which they could see the different MACs behind a router. I wish I could remember how they said it worked. They did tell me that at the time, they were not worrying about how many

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-21 Thread Faisal Imtiaz
...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Faisal Imtiaz Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 8:50 PM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings For the Uber Geeks... http://www.sflow.org/detectNAT/ Faisal Imtiaz -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun

[WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-20 Thread Jeff Yette
Hi All - I've looked through several of the archives and wasn't finding an answer quickly, but I will apologize if this has been discussed before. Quick history, we are a facilities-based CLEC and provide phone and broadband internet over a dedicated fiber-optic network. Through out our service

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-20 Thread Scott Reed
Sounds like standard hotspot functionality. Lots of ways to do that. For homegrown backend check out Mikrotik. Jeff Yette wrote: Hi All - I've looked through several of the archives and wasn't finding an answer quickly, but I will apologize if this has been discussed before. Quick

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-20 Thread Andy Trimmell
: Thursday, August 20, 2009 2:27 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings Sounds like standard hotspot functionality. Lots of ways to do that. For homegrown backend check out Mikrotik. Jeff Yette wrote: Hi All - I've looked through several of the archives and wasn't

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-20 Thread David E. Smith
Jeff Yette wrote: To clarify, we are not looking for a hosted application, but more of a home-grown solution. We have all of the components for billing, which will automatically create a radius account and e-mail, we have online billing and web-mail - the only part is the is missing is the

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-20 Thread Martha Huizenga
We are using Radius Manager 3 (http://www.radius-manager.com/?gclid=CNqwrZL8spwCFSMeDQodd2XJnQ). It's not the best, but it is the best we found for the price. Martha Martha Huizenga DC Access, LLC 202-546-5898 */Friendly, Local, Affordable, Internet!/**/ Connecting the Capitol Hill Community

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-20 Thread Robert West
, August 20, 2009 3:08 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings Jeff Yette wrote: To clarify, we are not looking for a hosted application, but more of a home-grown solution. We have all of the components for billing, which will automatically create a radius account and e

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-20 Thread Mike
Where is the telephone demark. Access? You're a CLEC, put a small DSLAM in there; Zhone? Or consider Ethernet over power line. Apartment complexes of any size can get really ugly with RF in a hurry. Wireless absolutely? I don't know about the Meraki hardware mentioned, but seem to

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-20 Thread 3-dB Networks
- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Yette Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 12:17 PM To: wireless@wispa.org Subject: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings Hi All - I've looked through several of the archives and wasn't finding an answer quickly, but I

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-20 Thread Jeff Yette
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings Jeff Yette wrote: To clarify, we are not looking for a hosted application, but more of a home-grown solution.  We have all of the components for billing, which will automatically create a radius account and e-mail, we have online billing and web-mail

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-20 Thread Jeff Yette
The dmarks are trypically in the basements. We could do the DSLAM thing and we have consider some 8 porters on ebay for $550. Ethernet over power line won't work because each apartment is on a separate meter. We set up some linksys wireless routers (SOHO flavor) and run than as APs back to a

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-20 Thread Robert West
] On Behalf Of Mike Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 4:09 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings Where is the telephone demark. Access? You're a CLEC, put a small DSLAM in there; Zhone? Or consider Ethernet over power line. Apartment complexes of any size can get really

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-20 Thread Robert West
of the building! Bob- -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Yette Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 4:29 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings The Mikrotik might be the solution. No DirectTV - we

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-20 Thread Robert West
: Thursday, August 20, 2009 4:33 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings The dmarks are trypically in the basements. We could do the DSLAM thing and we have consider some 8 porters on ebay for $550. Ethernet over power line won't work because each apartment

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-20 Thread Robert West
] On Behalf Of Jeff Yette Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 4:33 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings The dmarks are trypically in the basements. We could do the DSLAM thing and we have consider some 8 porters on ebay for $550. Ethernet over power line won't work because

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-20 Thread 3-dB Networks
. Daniel White 3-dB Networks http://www.3dbnetworks.com -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Robert West Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 2:00 PM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings I agree

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-20 Thread Scott Reed
Meter not the issue. Transformers are. You need one AP per phase (pair of power wires). It should go past the meter since the power companies are trying to go pole to inside. Direction through meter won't matter. Jeff Yette wrote: The dmarks are trypically in the basements. We could do the

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-20 Thread 3-dB Networks
-Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Yette Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 2:33 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings The dmarks are trypically in the basements. We could do the DSLAM thing and we

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-20 Thread 3-dB Networks
-Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Robert West Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 2:46 PM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings Then I'd go with the Broadband over power line. Could also

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-20 Thread richard sterne
Scan the building to see the noise then you can see if wireless is viable. Richard WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-20 Thread Robert West
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 5:12 PM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings Besides the Meter issue... its also a shared stream. So you get 10Mb across the whole building to share with all of your customers. That might be an issue, might not be. I thought BPL was dead

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-20 Thread Jerry Richardson
, the electrical is part of the building! Bob- -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Yette Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 4:29 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings The Mikrotik might be the solution

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-20 Thread Dennis Burgess
contact the sender and delete the material from any computer.   -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Richardson Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 5:07 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings BPL

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-20 Thread Jerry Richardson
exactly Jerry Richardson airCloud Communications Sent Mobile (Probably one handed) From: Dennis Burgess dmburg...@linktechs.net Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 3:15 PM To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Subject: Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings Yep

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-20 Thread Dennis Burgess
-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Richardson Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 5:16 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings exactly Jerry Richardson airCloud Communications Sent Mobile (Probably one handed

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-20 Thread jp
Those DSLAMs work good; we have a couple. ADSL2 works great over the distances found on private properties. On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 04:32:32PM -0400, Jeff Yette wrote: The dmarks are trypically in the basements. We could do the DSLAM thing and we have consider some 8 porters on ebay for $550.

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-20 Thread Joe Laura
I had a nightmare trying to do apartment complexes. I thought I touched on a goldmine when all the signups started comming in. Then as tennants started firing up their own A/P's others would connect to them and cancel service. How are youll dealing with this? Joe Laura

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-20 Thread Josh Luthman
Jeff, Are there any wires to each room? Like copper phone lines for xDSL? Do you have to pay for these wires? Obviously cat5 lines to each room is not going to get you a reasonable ROI. Wireless should be an option - several devices have been suggested. If you can simply get them to bridge

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-20 Thread Scott Carullo
Mikrotik Hotspot between them and the internet Scott Carullo Brevard Wireless 321-205-1100 x102 Original Message From: Joe Laura joela...@superior1.com Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 10:17 PM To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Subject: Re: [WISPA] Apartment

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-20 Thread Josh Luthman
] Apartment Buildings I had a nightmare trying to do apartment complexes. I thought I touched on a goldmine when all the signups started comming in. Then as tennants started firing up their own A/P's others would connect to them and cancel service. How are youll dealing with this? Joe Laura

Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings

2009-08-20 Thread ralph
General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings Jeff Yette wrote: To clarify, we are not looking for a hosted application, but more of a home-grown solution. We have all of the components for billing, which will automatically create a radius account and e-mail, we have online billing and web