RE: [WISPA] Main Street USA

2007-04-20 Thread CHUCK PROFITO
Chase, Yesterday, we set up a mini in a restaurant for a open access hotspot. Worked excellent, except, We can't ping through to OUR gateway , and we cant ssh using putty, into our system. Why are we being blocked? How can we get around this network monitoring problem, we use the various hotspo

Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA

2007-04-20 Thread Chase Phillips
Hi George, On 4/19/07, George Rogato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Speaking of quality, Chase, what is your groups real world performance expectations noise, self interference, and speeds? What most people are interested in when asking that question of our gear is what our performance is throug

Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA

2007-04-20 Thread Dawn DiPietro
Dawn DiPietro Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 11:57 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA Marlon, Google invested in Meraki because they want to use these units to build out a mesh network in Mt.View. Regards, Dawn DiPietro -- WISPA Wireless List: wir

RE: [WISPA] Main Street USA

2007-04-20 Thread ralph
They distributed Ruckus and Peplink. Never heard about Meraki being used. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dawn DiPietro Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 10:02 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA Ralph, As quoted

Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA

2007-04-20 Thread Dawn DiPietro
rsday, April 19, 2007 11:57 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA Marlon, Google invested in Meraki because they want to use these units to build out a mesh network in Mt.View. Regards, Dawn DiPietro -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe:

Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA

2007-04-20 Thread John Scrivner
Replies below: Chase Phillips wrote: Hi Marlon, On 4/19/07, Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Welcome to the list! Thanks for joining us. Happy to be here! I remember when John told me about starting WISPA years ago. Before that, I remember all of us at MVN t

Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA

2007-04-20 Thread Chris Kossman
As of yesterday, this is how their billing works: "For both the indoor and the outdoor Mini, if you enable billing on your network, the model is a revenue share, with you the network operator receiving 80% and Meraki receiving 20%." Chase Phillips wrote: Hi Joe, On 4/19/07, Joe Laura <[EMAIL

Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA

2007-04-19 Thread George Rogato
Chase Phillips wrote: I know we don't do QOS right now but we might soon. If that prioritization (based on packet TOS) makes sense for a lot of our customers, we might implement that feature sooner. Speaking of quality, Chase, what is your groups real world performance expectations noi

Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA

2007-04-19 Thread RickG
10-4. Thanks! On 4/19/07, Dylan Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: See the Authorized Resellers, Streakwave and NetEquality. I bought mine from Streakwave when I found that meraki.net was out of stock. Best, -- Dylan Oliver Primaverity, LLC -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/U

Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA

2007-04-19 Thread Dylan Oliver
See the Authorized Resellers, Streakwave and NetEquality. I bought mine from Streakwave when I found that meraki.net was out of stock. Best, -- Dylan Oliver Primaverity, LLC -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archiv

Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA

2007-04-19 Thread RickG
Hello Chase! My questions is simple: Is the outdoor unit going to be out by "late April" as the website says? Thanks! -RickG On 4/19/07, Chase Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, John asked me to pop in and say "hi" on behalf of Meraki. He and I go way back. Whatever questions you guys

Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA

2007-04-19 Thread RickG
No authentication necessary BUT it would be good to show off a splash page with advertiements ;) On 4/18/07, Marlon K. Schafer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do you need a walled garden? Authentication? etc? marlon - Original Message - From: "RickG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General L

Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA

2007-04-19 Thread Chase Phillips
Hi Joe, On 4/19/07, Joe Laura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Chase, Is the billing part already active? Our billing software is currently in beta. If you have a Dashboard account and network and would like to try it out, feel free to request it be enabled for your networks. We'd love to hear you

Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA

2007-04-19 Thread Chase Phillips
Hi Doug, On 4/19/07, Doug Ratcliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm glad to see we've got a Meraki rep out there that can answer questions. Let me just start by saying, I think these things are awesome. Love the dashboard. Thanks! We've put a lot of time into making it simple, yet effective.

Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA

2007-04-19 Thread Chase Phillips
IL PROTECTED]> Date: Apr 18, 2007 11:39 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA To: WISPA General List I second the motion for Meraki. I only ordered a single unit to see what it has to offer, as documentation is sparse. It would be great for your application. The Outdoor units are $100, and are

Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA

2007-04-19 Thread Joe Laura
, 2007 3:07 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA > Hi Marlon, > > On 4/19/07, Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Welcome to the list! Thanks for joining us. > > Happy to be here! I remember when John told me about starting WISPA > years ago

RE: [WISPA] Main Street USA

2007-04-19 Thread ralph
: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA Marlon, Google invested in Meraki because they want to use these units to build out a mesh network in Mt.View. Regards, Dawn DiPietro -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA

2007-04-19 Thread Doug Ratcliffe
Chase, I'm glad to see we've got a Meraki rep out there that can answer questions. Let me just start by saying, I think these things are awesome. Love the dashboard. I do have a question - the FCC approvals list modular certified, but what radio chipset does it use so I can get more powerful FCC

Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA

2007-04-19 Thread Chase Phillips
Hi Marlon, On 4/19/07, Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Welcome to the list! Thanks for joining us. Happy to be here! I remember when John told me about starting WISPA years ago. Before that, I remember all of us at MVN toasting his first wireless link out of the b

Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA

2007-04-19 Thread Chase Phillips
Hi Tim, On 4/19/07, Tim Kerns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for stopping by... got your flack suit on :) Heh. I have one set up as a hot spot, it looks like it is either free or paid, not some of both. I do not run dhcp so I had to go into the unit and change the settings giving it a

Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA

2007-04-19 Thread Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181
Hi Chase, Welcome to the list! Thanks for joining us. I guess my biggest questions revolve around the "phone home" feature. What is that needed? How can we assure our customers that no data mining etc. is taking place? What's the advantage to YOU guys with the phone home function? I'd think

Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA

2007-04-19 Thread Chase Phillips
On 4/19/07, Smith, Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nice to meet you, Chase. Nice to meet you, too! Very simple: I don't want someone else's company profiting from MY network... i.e. If I'm going to build a mesh, no third party's going to be doing the billing for it. Right now, I'd use Mikrot

Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA

2007-04-19 Thread Tim Kerns
Chase, Thanks for stopping by... got your flack suit on :) I have one set up as a hot spot, it looks like it is either free or paid, not some of both. I do not run dhcp so I had to go into the unit and change the settings giving it a static IP. This was not a problem once I discovered the

RE: [WISPA] Main Street USA

2007-04-19 Thread Smith, Rick
fax 787.273.4145 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Smith, Rick Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 2:45 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: RE: [WISPA] Main Street USA Nice to meet you, Chase. Very simple: I don't want someone else&#x

RE: [WISPA] Main Street USA

2007-04-19 Thread Gino Villarini
.4145 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Smith, Rick Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 2:45 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: RE: [WISPA] Main Street USA Nice to meet you, Chase. Very simple: I don't want someone else's company profiting

RE: [WISPA] Main Street USA

2007-04-19 Thread Smith, Rick
Nice to meet you, Chase. Very simple: I don't want someone else's company profiting from MY network... i.e. If I'm going to build a mesh, no third party's going to be doing the billing for it. Right now, I'd use Mikrotik to build that mesh. I can set it up paid or unpaid, marketing supported via

RE: [WISPA] Main Street USA

2007-04-19 Thread Smith, Rick
2007 12:20 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA I did some more checking, and it appears people have already wrote custom mesh software for the Meraki (CuWIN, the-mesh.net, etc). So even if you or someone else objected to the phone home strategy, there's other meshin

Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA

2007-04-19 Thread Doug Ratcliffe
quot;Dylan Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 12:00 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA Marlon, in the time it takes you to write a sentence like: It's my understanding that Google is somehow involved with this p

Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA

2007-04-19 Thread Doug Ratcliffe
ons to be controlled by a 3rd party, or not have access because > > the Meraki site is either not available or running slow as it seemed to be > > last Friday. > > > > Tim Kerns > > CV-Access, Inc. > > > > - Original Message - > > From: "

Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA

2007-04-19 Thread Dylan Oliver
Marlon, in the time it takes you to write a sentence like: It's my understanding that Google is somehow involved with this product. You could go to Google - or better yet, an objective third party like Yahoo! - and type in "google meraki". Scan the page, and see something like : GigaOM ยป *Goog

Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA

2007-04-19 Thread Dawn DiPietro
m/marlon/cam - Original Message - From: "Tim Kerns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 8:08 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA We have one installed as a free hotspot for now while we test. As a hotspot it is workin

Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA

2007-04-19 Thread Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181
WISP Operator since 1999! [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.odessaoffice.com/wireless www.odessaoffice.com/marlon/cam - Original Message - From: "Tim Kerns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 8:08 AM Subject:

Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA

2007-04-19 Thread Dylan Oliver
Tim, The Meraki will grab an address from your network and is hard-coded with one on the Meraki mesh. These are actually in 6.../8 DoD space. You should be able to ssh into the units with the address on your network. At least, I was able to. They have an optional Public API. Mine (not doing anyt

Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA

2007-04-19 Thread Tim Kerns
Thursday, April 19, 2007 6:44 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA The Meraki nodes are configured through the central web dashboard. All payments go through Meraki, and they get their cut (I'm not sure what that is). The access controls are just lists of MAC addresses to be allowed or byp

Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA

2007-04-19 Thread Dylan Oliver
The Meraki nodes are configured through the central web dashboard. All payments go through Meraki, and they get their cut (I'm not sure what that is). The access controls are just lists of MAC addresses to be allowed or bypass the captive portal. There's no support for RADIUS. You *could* extend

Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA

2007-04-19 Thread John Scrivner
ki to use their hotspot stuff ? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gino Villarini Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 1:01 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: RE: [WISPA] Main Street USA nice Gino A. Villarini [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aeronet Wir

RE: [WISPA] Main Street USA

2007-04-19 Thread Smith, Rick
Villarini Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 1:01 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: RE: [WISPA] Main Street USA nice Gino A. Villarini [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. tel 787.273.4143 fax 787.273.4145 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [WISPA] Main Street USA

2007-04-18 Thread Gino Villarini
: [WISPA] Main Street USA Yes, the whole point of Meraki is to provide access to regular WiFi clients. They also happen to mesh. On 4/18/07, Gino Villarini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have one doubt about Meraki, would it support regular wifi clients > connecting to the Meraki APs/Rep

Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA

2007-04-18 Thread Dylan Oliver
Yes, the whole point of Meraki is to provide access to regular WiFi clients. They also happen to mesh. On 4/18/07, Gino Villarini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have one doubt about Meraki, would it support regular wifi clients connecting to the Meraki APs/Repeaters/Gateways? Or all has to be mer

RE: [WISPA] Main Street USA

2007-04-18 Thread Gino Villarini
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Doug Ratcliffe Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 9:46 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA I've only used in small indoor MTU deployments but I like Meraki, indoor and outdoor versions available. Outdoor Mesh router,

Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA

2007-04-18 Thread Dylan Oliver
I second the motion for Meraki. I only ordered a single unit to see what it has to offer, as documentation is sparse. It would be great for your application. The Outdoor units are $100, and are just the $50 minis in a plastic enclosure with a small (2 dBi?) rubber ducky and right-angle RP-SMA adap

Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA

2007-04-18 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
Do you need a walled garden? Authentication? etc? marlon - Original Message - From: "RickG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 5:26 PM Subject: [WISPA] Main Street USA If YOU had to implement a "muni wireless" 802.11 hotspot to cover Main S

RE: [WISPA] Main Street USA

2007-04-18 Thread Smith, Rick
http://www.mikrotik.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of RickG Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 10:10 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA Thanks Doug, I'll check that out. It's probably not a big d

Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA

2007-04-18 Thread RickG
Thanks Doug, I'll check that out. It's probably not a big deal, but I left out that this will be a free connection which I'll limit to about 256Kbps. In return for this, I get several water tanks to deploy on ;) -RickG On 4/18/07, Doug Ratcliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've only used in sma

Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA

2007-04-18 Thread Doug Ratcliffe
I've only used in small indoor MTU deployments but I like Meraki, indoor and outdoor versions available. Outdoor Mesh router, auto-failover, auto-gateway, built in hotspot, like less than $100. NetEquality.net has some nice pics and also custom antenna attachments, and you can see actual mesh net