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Hi Colin.
The problem is basically that
I only service one office park of about 100 businesses.
I only have 12 customers there
now (on wireless, anyway). I admit I got a little lazy and didn't market there
like I should have. Recently Comcast came in and wired the complex. Now I am
cutting my prices to $75.00/month for small office and $125.00 for large office
and NOBODY is replying.
These people can't get DSL,
and can't evem get cable yet but Comcast surveyed the area and got them
interested. So, I'm cheaper and better (not faster) and they still go with
them.
I also pondered doing a 10Mbps
link for the same pricing as Comcast and when I spoke to people about it, they
just want Comcast.
I pictched an office complex
of 120 offices DYING for Internet Access. No DSL, no Cable.
Comcast caught wind that this
problem existed and tried to run lines. The association told them they wanted
10k in escrow to make sure no damage was done. Comcast said no.
So, the customers sat
for 18 months with nothing. No hope of Comcast, and no DSL
options.
I went it... do digging,
installed within 2 weeks, $99.00/month.
Comcast caught wind of this...
came back and offered the complex $5000k escrow. They took it. I signed up 3
customers and 1 of them told them that they would likely only use me until they
got their cable installed. The rest never responded.
$95/month, 3.5Mbps. Do the math. And, they could double this at any time (speed,
not price).
Comcast is doubling their
residential speeds from 1.5 to 3Mbps on Dec 1.
Compete with
that.
They're smart. They know 3Mbps
is impossible to get in any other economical format. DSL is not gonna do that
(under realistic conditions) and T1 isn't either. Diabolical!
I used to have about 100
customers on wireless but I opt'd to swap out all the radio equipment for
burried Cat5(it is a complex). Almost all of them were concerned that "when it
rains or the wind is blowing, doesn't it go out?". This is directly related to
Comcast's commercials regarding the dish. :-(
I don't even tell people its
wireless. I call it wDSL, or Wireless DSL if they ask.
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Rick Kosick
StarLinX Internet Service
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 12:39
PM
Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Why not to
use smartBridge...
How badly are u suffering? Why can't you compete?
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 4:26
PM
Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Why not to
use smartBridge...
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 -----
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
-----
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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