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Check DSLReports. They are doubling this speed on
Dec 1.
I wonder what they'll do next year, double it
again?
Here's the other bad news:
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Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 12:53
PM
Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Why not to
use smartBridge...
In our area they are advertising $19.99 a month for the first 3 months.
The people don't look at the price after that to find that it goes up to $45.
And that's for 1.5 megs download speed.
John
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Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 9:39
AM
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?
===
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
On 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.
===
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..
===
Rick Kosick
StarLinX Internet
Service
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