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Well we're getting close to free.
They started offering the $19.95/month for 12
months. When you're at 19.95, how much further down is it to nearly free?
Bundle it with a little HBO and "10 free on-demand movies" and you can call it
what you want. Hey, how about some phone service over the same wire to go with
it??
I'm stunned that they are giving away
3.5Mb/384k for 95.00/month here. How does one compete!?!?
Thank the nitwits at the FCC for
this.
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Rick Kosick
StarLinX Internet Service
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 11:43
AM
Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Why not to
use smartBridge...
Huh? Comcast is giving it away for free?
On Fri,
2003-11-14 at 11:26, Rick Kosick wrote:
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Nope, wasn't me who called. I started out with
Breezecom about 3 years ago and remained pretty small. I'm taking it in the
backside now with Comcast here giving it all away for free.
Scumbags.
Wouldn't it be so nice to have that monopoly? Run wires
to every home and then call it a private network so nobody else has access
to the wire. Funny, 230' of their cable runs across my lawn and I don't see
any rent money for that "private network". What a waste the FCC
is.
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Rick Kosick
StarLinX Internet Service
----- Original Message -----
From: Sevak
Avakians
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 11:10 AM
Subject:
Re: [smartBridges] Why not to use smartBridge...
Hi
Rick,
I'm in NYC. Yeah, both our areas (NY & PA) were hit
bad yesterday!
PA? There was a guy in PA that wanted to setup
a WISP and had called me for tips awhile back...that wasn't you,
right? If I remember correctly, his name was also
Rick.
Sevak
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 11:02, Rick Kosick wrote:
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No luck.
I downgraded to lower firmware and nothing.
I am going to try and
reset it by using the button on PowerShot and trying from scratch.
Otherwise, I have to dump the equipment and move to something else. Way
too much time spent on this what-should-be-simple setup. It did work for
about 5 mins until I tried enabling WEP. Ever since though,
nothing.
Where are you located that you have 55MPH wind? I'm
in PA and have the same problem. Trees down everywhere
:-(
Where can I get 1.4j.9? Maybe that will do
it?
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Rick Kosick
StarLinX
Internet Service
----- Original Message -----
From: Sevak
Avakians
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 10:47
AM
Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Why not to use
smartBridge...
Hi Rick,
Turns out that I'm also having
problems getting 2 aPPOT units to bridge. At first, I was having
trouble with one of the appot to broadcast it's ssid. The other
appot did not take up the ssid changes I made to it. Whenever
sniffing wirelessly, its ssid appeared as
airPointProOutdoorTOTAL. After re-flashing the rom, rebooting,
and switching from wireless bridge mode to client bridge mode then
back to wireless bridge mode, the ssid appears properly on the second
unit. (Note, that the ssid as seen from the monitor program
would always appear as the correct one. It was only from looking
at the wireless broadcast that I could see that the ssid was
incorrect.)
Well, anyway it is way too windy here today for me
to continue (55 mph winds!), so I'll take another look at it
tomorrow.
Any luck with your setup???
Sevak
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Thu, 2003-11-13 at 09:19, Rick Kosick wrote:
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Software: 1.6
Firmware: 1.4j.8
Both sides.
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Rick
Kosick
StarLinX Internet Service
----- Original Message -----
From:
Sevak Avakians
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 9:11
AM
Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Why not to use
smartBridge...
Rick, if you got the firmware off the
website, it may not be the latest. Usually sb has a beta
version that they post on this list and most of us use before it
is posted to the website.
Check the version number using
simpleNMS or the firmware upgrade utility.
Sevak
On
Thu, 2003-11-13 at 09:05, Rick Kosick wrote:
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I don't know the actual version number but I just
downloaded it off the website in the past few days and it is the
very latest on both sides.
This part
about it bringing the switch to its knees is VERY disturbing
because a switch, by its design, should not allow that to happen
normally. I can see it happening to a hub.
I was working on this remotely (from home) at late hours
both times and had to drive to the NOC to remedy it because I
couldn't access any machines via PC Anywhere. The whole network
crashed basically.
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Rick Kosick
StarLinX Internet
Service
----- Original Message
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From: Blazen
Wireless
To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003
8:59 AM
Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Why not to use
smartBridge...
Interesting what firmware were you using which should
not affect your switch like that just curious to
know..
----- Original Message -----
From:
Rick
Kosick
To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 13,
2003 5:39 AM
Subject: [smartBridges] Why not to
use smartBridge...
So far I've come up with three good reasons to not
continue to use smartBridges but I'm open to suggestions for
fixing these problem. Pardon my frustration but I have 3
years of wireless experience and its taking me more than 10
hours of fiddling to get a simple Wireless Bridge to
Wireless Bridge up and running and I am sitting here with
more problems than solutions right now.
1) Last week I plugged the ethernet side of an APPO
into an APCC PNET4 ethernet surge supressor where there
where three other devices plugged in. This caused severe
packet loss on the other devices. Pinging the other devices
between each other would result in 4 out of 10 pings timeing
out.
SOLUTION: Bypass the ethernet surge
supressor.
2) Right
now I have two APPO's configured in Wireless Bridge mode
(which won't work, see #3). At my NOC side its plugged into
a D-Link DES3226 Managed Switch. If I put the APPO into
Access Point mode, it KILLS the traffic on my switch
entirely to the point where workstations and servers can
barely reach each other. As soon as I unplug the APPO's
ethernet connection from the switch, immediately everything
goes back to normal. This has happened twice now in my quest
to get my wireless link working.
SOLUTION: No idea. Maybe avoid
Access Point mode?
3) I have
to admit I did enjoy 3 minutes of Wireless Bridge mode where
everything worked as it was expected, but I got adventerous
and enabled WEP. This did not work out for some reason and
now, after disabling WEP... I cannot get the Wireless Bridge
mode to work again. I've reset to Defaults and started over,
still nothing. I simply cannot get Wirless Bridge to
Wireless Bridge mode to work at this point. I've been
through the "recycling both sides", "double checking
MAC#'s", etc. You'd think that if this was going to work at
all, I would have accidentally made it work by
now.
SOLUTION: None as of
yet.
Clearly, when considering points #1 and
#2 above, there is more happening on the ethernet side of
the link than just ethernet. Something is different
than a standard ethernet connection because this radio
clearly caused major packet loss between the other devices
plugged into am ethernet surge supressor. Maybe power
is leaking through from the PowerShot device? And, its
ability to completely bring a managed switch to its knees
just reassures this..
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Rick Kosick
StarLinX Internet
Service
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