I mean is it all the time ? ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Rick Kosick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:15:32 -0500
>Sure is. Very fast. >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Stuart Pierce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 4:17 PM >Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Why not to use smartBridge... > > > >Is it really that speed though ? > >---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- >From: "Rick Kosick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 12:46:51 -0500 > >>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. >>=== >>Rick Kosick >>StarLinX Internet Service >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Sevak Avakians >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> 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: >> >> 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. >> === >> 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: >> >> 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: >> >> Software: 1.6 >> Firmware: 1.4j.8 >> >> Both sides. >> === >> 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: >> >> 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 >> > >--- >[This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus By Avolve.net] > >The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List >To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe >smartBridges <yournickname> >To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe >smartBridges) >Archives: http://archives.part-15.org > >The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List >To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges ><yournickname> >To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) >Archives: http://archives.part-15.org >--- >[This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus By Avolve.net] > > --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus By Avolve.net] The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://archives.part-15.org
