Re: [AFMUG] "Central Office" style fiber patch panels

2025-07-30 Thread Mike Hammett
ined about the Fiberstore ones that we get, 4U, 288 strands of LC. https://www.fs.com/products/73206.html?attribute=57665&id=3568171 -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "Chuck McCown" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2

Re: [AFMUG] "Central Office" style fiber patch panels

2025-07-30 Thread Mike Hammett
This might be a middle of the road. https://thinklynn.com/products/categories/bladehd/ -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "Forrest Christian (List Account)" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2025 12:13:41 PM Subject: [AF

Re: [AFMUG] Starlink $199 installation

2025-06-26 Thread Mike Hammett
DSI is a long-time satellite distributor, so that makes sense. -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "Ken Hohhof" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2025 1:01:09 PM Subject: [AFMUG] Starlink $199 installation I just saw on

Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik on -48VDC

2025-06-23 Thread Mike Hammett
I would call that the normal 2004, as I believe it was released first. The CCR2004-16G-2S+ is an impostor. ;-) Those look like hot-swap power supplies. I wonder if one of the other power supplies Mikrotik carries would work. -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "Josh Lu

Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik on -48VDC

2025-06-23 Thread Mike Hammett
How? It's specifically mentioned as a supported model. No solder required. https://mikrotik.com/product/pw48v_12v85w and as I said, I have these in production. I didn't do the power supply swap myself, but the brochure in the product page shows how you would install it. -- Mi

Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik on -48VDC

2025-06-23 Thread Mike Hammett
Q. Q means quality, but P means premium, X means excellent, and H means advanced. What's better, quality, premium, excellent, or advanced? -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "Adam Moffett" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Monday, June 23,

Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik on -48VDC

2025-06-23 Thread Mike Hammett
For the passively cooled model, I understand as it doesn't have any internal power supplies at all, but yeah, they should all use the same power supply system, with perhaps exceptions at the top and bottom of the range of power needs. -- Mike Hammett - Original Message -

Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik on -48VDC

2025-06-23 Thread Mike Hammett
/product/ccr2004_1g_12s_2xs fiber ports, works with the +-48v power supplies -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "Ken Hohhof" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Monday, June 23, 2025 11:45:31 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik on -48VDC If it'

Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik on -48VDC

2025-06-23 Thread Mike Hammett
I guess it depends on which 2004. The product page says it does work with one of them. We are using that one successfully on -48. -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "Josh Luthman" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Monday, June 23, 2025 10:

Re: [AFMUG] T1 phone

2025-06-16 Thread Mike Hammett
We still have a customer-facing PRI. Trying to get them to let us build fiber in, so at least we can transport the PRI over our own network instead of through Contel\GTE\Verizon\Frontier\Verizon. We still have probably 20x PRI (or channelized portions of a DS3) upstream. -- Mike Hammett

Re: [AFMUG] DoubleRadius / Baltic Networks

2025-06-14 Thread Mike Hammett
I think there was a lull in spending during uncertain times, which probably hurt the supply chain. Probably also someone looking to get in ahead of the splurge in spending that BEAD would cause. -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "Ken Hohhof" To: "AnimalFarm

Re: [AFMUG] DoubleRadius / Baltic Networks

2025-06-14 Thread Mike Hammett
=IwY2xjawK6iR9leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFhWjF0UXJWSThNalJUTjd4AR4ft3HBJSRJX4Jahx4LO1z3zcOI5JSRWQ73hXd7H4UC9oeMwBwyXCaPY2b9Gg_aem_DUfoKgK-L958HMgPokMudA I think there were some names in there, but it's been almost two years since I last read through all that stuff. I've seen names, looked them up, etc. I just don't remember who they are. -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: &

Re: [AFMUG] DoubleRadius / Baltic Networks

2025-06-13 Thread Mike Hammett
Some money guy bought both, tried to buy ISP Supplies (but was unsuccessful) and has screwed up both. WAV ended up buying ISP Supplies. -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "Jason McKemie" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Friday, June 13, 202

Re: [AFMUG] DoubleRadius / Baltic Networks

2025-06-13 Thread Mike Hammett
If you need help, I have a good contact over there. -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "Ken Hohhof" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Friday, June 13, 2025 5:50:54 PM Subject: [AFMUG] DoubleRadius / Baltic Networks Has anyone ordered

Re: [AFMUG] What to do with professional Gamer

2025-06-13 Thread Mike Hammett
I heard that more games switched to server\client as opposed to peer to peer, which cleaned that up a bit. -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "Ken Hohhof" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Friday, June 13, 2025 9:02:38 AM Subject: Re: [AF

Re: [AFMUG] What to do with professional Gamer

2025-06-13 Thread Mike Hammett
That would make sense. Hopefully TPAIX can draw them in and help out Mark. -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "Zach Underwood" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Friday, June 13, 2025 8:25:07 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] What to do with prof

Re: [AFMUG] What to do with professional Gamer

2025-06-13 Thread Mike Hammett
ne else on your network have Twitch issues? Can you replicate his Twitch issue? What "issue" is he having? -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "Mark - Myakka Technologies via AF" To: af@af.afmug.com Cc: "Mark - Myakka Technologies" Sent: Thursday,

[AFMUG] Chicago-Area

2025-06-11 Thread Mike Hammett
If any of you Chicago-area ISP, telco, IT service-provider companies that have a meaningful business focus are looking for an exit, I know a guy... -- Mike Hammett -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] Building Automation

2025-06-08 Thread Mike Hammett
lding a homoge= neous solution that actually delivers a better experience, rather than sell= ing ala carte that is disjointed. That applies to ISP stuff as well, though ISP stuff is less complicated. -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "Dennis Burgess - LTI Support v

Re: [AFMUG] Building Automation

2025-06-05 Thread Mike Hammett
We'd probably be building from scratch since nothing we have now is intelligent, and then offering that solution as a service to others. -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "Steve Jones" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Thursday, June 5

Re: [AFMUG] Building Automation

2025-06-05 Thread Mike Hammett
Well, and that's what I'm trying to figure out. -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "Steve Jones" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2025 3:30:33 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Building Automation retrofit on this stuff

Re: [AFMUG] Building Automation

2025-06-05 Thread Mike Hammett
It started with lighting, but then expanded to HVAC, so I wondered what else is under the same umbrella... and what systems people use to manage this. -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "Forrest Christian (List Account)" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Use

Re: [AFMUG] T-Mobile fiber home Internet

2025-06-04 Thread Mike Hammett
I think they'll be available at your house in a couple of years. They're building out a lot of DuPage County. -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "Ken Hohhof" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2025 11:07:41 PM Subje

[AFMUG] Building Automation

2025-06-04 Thread Mike Hammett
What have your experiences been with commercial building automation systems? -- Mike Hammett -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] T-Mobile fiber home Internet

2025-06-04 Thread Mike Hammett
That looks like part of an SSL cert. -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "Dan P via AF" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Cc: "Dan P" Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2025 8:13:01 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG

Re: [AFMUG] T-Mobile fiber home Internet

2025-06-04 Thread Mike Hammett
They're also wholesaling open-access networks. and yes, for the big networks, they pretty much give it away to get signups= . Frontier was already the price\performance leader, and then they slashed = their prices... I assume because few were signing up. -- Mike Hammett - Ori

Re: [AFMUG] Ticket systems

2025-06-02 Thread Mike Hammett
If it's for real MSP work, then I'd look at the various PSAs. Halo PSA seems to be the market leader at the moment. -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "Steve Jones" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2025 10:06:11

Re: [AFMUG] OT Political

2025-05-28 Thread Mike Hammett
-- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "Steve Jones" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2025 4:39:36 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Political it started with mike hammetts reply. I think hes chinese AI. I always wondered, cause Ive

Re: [AFMUG] OT Political

2025-05-26 Thread Mike Hammett
"Cult" is a very apt term. -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "Ken Hohhof" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Monday, May 26, 2025 11:49:22 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Political We should stop calling them =E2=80=9Cparties=E2=80

Re: [AFMUG] Scott Adams -Dilbert

2025-05-23 Thread Mike Hammett
Some people get very culty pro and against various political inclinations. -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "rory" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Friday, May 23, 2025 9:12:23 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Scott Adams -Dilbert Be serious g

Re: [AFMUG] UPS for Internet equipment

2025-05-02 Thread Mike Hammett
You do have to offer it (I think that requirement is going away), but no on= e has to take you up on the offer, and the offer doesn't have to be reasona= ble. -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "Steve Jones" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sen

Re: [AFMUG] UPS for Internet equipment

2025-05-02 Thread Mike Hammett
Other than ONTs\modems that have support for battery integrations, there re= ally isn't anything that's appropriate for keeping a sub 50 watt load onlin= e for a long time. https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/na...@lists.nanog.org/thread/7P2J2YK3= S6257XKFJ54NWABALF62DACL/ -- Mi

Re: [AFMUG] OT joke Latent heat of fusion

2025-05-01 Thread Mike Hammett
probably thinks that kale is communist or some such thing, to your point of taking something apolitical and making it political. -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "Ken Hohhof" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Thursday, May 1, 2025 11:07:27 AM Sub

Re: [AFMUG] OT joke Latent heat of fusion

2025-05-01 Thread Mike Hammett
lshit, just different bullshit. -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "Adam Moffett" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2025 12:39:25 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT joke Latent heat of fusion I think it's clear that &qu

Re: [AFMUG] Billing

2025-04-18 Thread Mike Hammett
or to do every 6 months, and you do it wrong. Meanwhile, they continue to talk about improvements that no one wants (well, I'm sure some do, but no one in any of the communities or in their own feature request system seems to care about them). Regulatory compliance should be near the top of ev

Re: [AFMUG] Billing

2025-04-18 Thread Mike Hammett
There's absolutely no doubt that Vision by FIBER Smith was built for fiber ISPs. Of course, given the large amount of crossover in smaller operators, it makes sense for them to add WISP features and functionality. -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "Josh Lu

Re: [AFMUG] Billing

2025-04-18 Thread Mike Hammett
I couldn't have said it better myself. -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "Sterling Jacobson via AF" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Cc: "Sterling Jacobson" Sent: Friday, April 18, 2025 10:48

Re: [AFMUG] Billing

2025-04-18 Thread Mike Hammett
Sonar's pace of development has historically been god awful. They've gotten= a lot better at it the past six months. -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "Chuck McCown" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Cc: "Frank McCown" Se

Re: [AFMUG] Billing

2025-04-18 Thread Mike Hammett
I'm not happy about my Sonar ride, but also, most platforms have fatal flaw= s, so, the enemy you know vs. the enemy you don't. -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "Chuck McCown" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Cc: "Frank McCown&quo

Re: [AFMUG] Billing

2025-04-18 Thread Mike Hammett
You'll need to include what you want it to do. Vision was built from the ground up for fiber ISPs. -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: ch...@go-mtc.com To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2025 5:33:08 PM Subject: [AFMUG] Billing

Re: [AFMUG] DZS Saved

2025-04-10 Thread Mike Hammett
They tried to buy Metaswitch as well. NetSapiens sold to one of their customers a few years ago. -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "Josh Luthman" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Monday, April 7, 2025 1:16:38 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] DZS Sav

[AFMUG] DZS Saved

2025-04-07 Thread Mike Hammett
https://dzsi.com/news/dzs-in-the-news/mnsi-announces-its-intention-to-acquire-dzs-assets/ -- Mike Hammett -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

2025-04-05 Thread Mike Hammett
I wonder why there is conflicting information. The state and Farm Bureau are very much of the belief that every landowner needs to provide an easement. Also why ComEd had to remove poles because they didn't have an easement. -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

2025-04-05 Thread Mike Hammett
It certainly is busy. In one spot, we have water, sanitary sewer, storm sewer, Frontier copper, Frontier fiber, Comcast coax, Comcast fiber, Metronet, DFO\Syndeo, and us all underground in the same ROW\easement. The city thinks they're entitled to a 5' buffer on each side of their infrastructure

Re: [AFMUG] OT good book

2025-04-05 Thread Mike Hammett
People love the swinging pendulum. - Original Message - From: "Darin Steffl" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2025 1:42:55 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT good book Does the book cover how uneducated many bigots are in America? Does it explain why some peop

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

2025-04-05 Thread Mike Hammett
so then I wouldn't care if it filled up once I was done with it. I'd also pop out into my own handhole every time I might possibly need to access the run in the future. That way, I'd avoid their babysitting. CapEx vs. OpEx. -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "A

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

2025-04-04 Thread Mike Hammett
a dangerous intersection just down the road from you. Of course, the flashing lights probably won't do anything to stop people from blowing through the stop sign because they're texting. -Original Message- From: AF On Behalf Of Mike Hammett Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2025 4:02 PM

Re: [AFMUG] Desk VoIP Phones

2025-04-03 Thread Mike Hammett
The cheap Cisco came from that. Cisco had their own line before that. -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "Ken Hohhof" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Tuesday, April 1, 2025 3:43:54 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Desk VoIP Phones Amazing what a

Re: [AFMUG] Desk VoIP Phones

2025-04-03 Thread Mike Hammett
We use Yealink and Fanvil. The customers use what we support, or they're not customers. Now, we may expand the scope of what we support, but there needs to be a very good reason to expand that scope. -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "Nate Burke" To: "

Re: [AFMUG] Mailing List Rate Limiting or Having Issues?

2025-03-27 Thread Mike Hammett
I do use O365, but not for this. This is all on my own infrastructure. The link on the original email showed each hop the message went through on the way from me back to me and how long each hop took. -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "Adam Moffett" To: &

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

2025-03-27 Thread Mike Hammett
I think the difference is *CAN* do 185 vs. a government mandate that all cars go 185. -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "Chuck" To: af@af.afmug.com Cc: af@af.afmug.com Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2025 2:27:36 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] BEAD Does anyone need a car th

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

2025-03-27 Thread Mike Hammett
I have seen some really awkward GIS representations of some parcels. I haven't gotten around to going to the ecorder's office (backwards county) to pull the documents to look what the descriptions actually say. -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "S

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

2025-03-27 Thread Mike Hammett
g, but not anywhere else. Within the datacenter, they actually over-provision the 800 gig connections because the latency caused by any congestion for any reason isn't acceptable. Thankfully, the usage trend lines are starting to flatten out. -- Mike Hammett - Original Messag

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

2025-03-27 Thread Mike Hammett
owner, property line to row no easement, On Wed, Mar 26, 2025, 5:41 PM Mike Hammett < af...@ics-il.net > wrote: I wonder why there is conflicting information. The state and Farm Bureau are very much of the belief that every landowner needs to provide an easement. Also why ComEd had to remo

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

2025-03-26 Thread Mike Hammett
In the past 5 years, I've paid under $10 to two different contractors. I believe I have another one now. -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "Adam Moffett" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2025 3:42:54 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

2025-03-26 Thread Mike Hammett
The one I called was one of those broker scams. -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "Ken Hohhof" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2025 1:28:20 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] BEAD Well, that’s just throwing money down a

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

2025-03-26 Thread Mike Hammett
*nods* I've got 50 - 75 GPON customers, all on 100+ symmetric, with the vast majority on 200+. My 95th % on 4 OLT ports and all of those subs is like 185 megs. -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "Ken Hohhof" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group"

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

2025-03-26 Thread Mike Hammett
BEAD, but... -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: ch...@go-mtc.com To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2025 9:57:15 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] BEAD That is not how prescriptive easements work. Of course each state writes its own land laws but generally i

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

2025-03-26 Thread Mike Hammett
For us, you still need your own easements for aerial. -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "Adam Moffett" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2025 7:54:21 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] BEAD Some local roads in NY have a similar is

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

2025-03-25 Thread Mike Hammett
each of the utilities does have a private easement alongside public roads. -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: ch...@go-mtc.com To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Monday, March 24, 2025 6:08:45 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] BEAD If the road and shoulders ha

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

2025-03-24 Thread Mike Hammett
They must have come to an agreement with the landowner because that route is still there. The electric company, however, pulled their newly installed poles out. Townships, on the other hand, almost never own the land they occupy. -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: &qu

Re: [AFMUG] 100 Mbps for $15 California Bill

2025-03-24 Thread Mike Hammett
A lot of those metrics are also misleading. It's also typically a left person picking metrics they care about as opposed to metrics a right person would care about... and vice versa. Both groups have a hard time with telling the other group of people that they know better about how the other gro

Re: [AFMUG] Mailing List Rate Limiting or Having Issues?

2025-03-24 Thread Mike Hammett
If it's a rate limit because I sent so many messages at once, I understand. I sent about 10 - 15 messages to the list over 1.5 hours. I mean, it's not a LOT lot, but it's more than normal. -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "Chuck" To: af@af.afmu

Re: [AFMUG] Mailing List Rate Limiting or Having Issues?

2025-03-24 Thread Mike Hammett
*nods* but I should at least be able to see it enter the Google, MS, etc. blob and then exit. -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "Ken Hohhof" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Monday, March 24, 2025 10:35:20 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Mailing L

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

2025-03-24 Thread Mike Hammett
https://maps.app.goo.gl/DT6mcZJdjBKQBdxp9 -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "Steve Jones" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2025 7:54:15 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] BEAD if I hop on 23 and stop at the flashing light I'

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

2025-03-24 Thread Mike Hammett
With as cheap as Frontier duct is, I wish I could do it more often, but they've ignored their duct banks, so there is a lot of compromised pipe. -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "Adam Moffett" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Monday,

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

2025-03-24 Thread Mike Hammett
Sprint ran 400G waves on their network 12 years ago. Sprint has some of the oldest fiber out there. -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "Steve Jones" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2025 7:51:40 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] BEA

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

2025-03-24 Thread Mike Hammett
"pay prevailing wage anytime you're doing work in a ROW where a permit was required" Surely someone has sued over that... - Original Message - From: "Adam Moffett" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2025 1:57:01 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] BEAD $15-20/s

Re: [AFMUG] OT Aviation

2025-03-24 Thread Mike Hammett
But also, then it would have to be fair and not punitive. - Original Message - From: "Bill Prince" To: af@af.afmug.com Sent: Friday, March 21, 2025 1:45:11 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Aviation They attack "DEI" because no one knows what it's about. If they had called it "fairness i

Re: [AFMUG] OT Aviation

2025-03-24 Thread Mike Hammett
People haven't figured out how to dampen the pendulum. They'd rather attach a rocket to it. - Original Message - From: "Ken Hohhof" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Friday, March 21, 2025 1:07:49 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Aviation People have explained the anti-DEI

[AFMUG] Mailing List Rate Limiting or Having Issues?

2025-03-23 Thread Mike Hammett
https://mxtoolbox.com/Public/Tools/EmailHeaders.aspx?huid=0ee81e35-6dec-4f68-b78a-1c26f3d5392a I just caught up on a few days of chat and have noticed some severe lag in my responses. Is it more likely that the mailing list host has rate-limited me or that they're having issues? An email I sen

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

2025-03-23 Thread Mike Hammett
"it’s the permitting, engineering, fees to every government entity, paperwork, etc. that you have to pay." We don't have any permitting or government fees. That's actually prohibited by state regulation. I haven't found the engineering to be that expensive either, even if contracted out. I have

Re: [AFMUG] OT Aviation

2025-03-23 Thread Mike Hammett
ne and regretted it. DEI or otherwise. -Original Message- From: AF On Behalf Of Mike Hammett Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2025 4:43 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Aviation But also, then it would have to be fair and not punitive. - Original Message ---

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

2025-03-23 Thread Mike Hammett
The contractors all talk about how little money they make, and the ISPs talk about how excessively expensive the contractors are. - Original Message - From: "dbernardi" To: af@af.afmug.com Sent: Friday, March 21, 2025 3:49:09 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] BEAD But the expensive/important

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

2025-03-23 Thread Mike Hammett
But I can't imagine it's incredibly useful in most places. - Original Message - From: "Chuck McCown" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2025 4:45:29 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] BEAD Microtrenching is much faster and cheaper than HDD. From: AF [mail

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

2025-03-23 Thread Mike Hammett
Once you're tall enough to ride, the contractors really rake you over the coals compared to actual costs. They'll bid a bunch of money, then scramble to find sub-contractors that actually do the work, collecting half of the money for themselves... or if they don't, they charge like the people t

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

2025-03-23 Thread Mike Hammett
uild 11,505’ in one shift last week. Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 23, 2025, at 3:19 PM, Mike Hammett wrote: > > But I can't imagine it's incredibly useful in most places. > > > > > - Original Message - > From: "Chuck McCown" > To: &qu

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

2025-03-23 Thread Mike Hammett
"Contractors charge" Getting rid of contractors is the key. - Original Message - From: "Adam Moffett" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2025 12:59:16 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] BEAD Yeah, city and county permits aren't usually bad. People mean differen

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

2025-03-23 Thread Mike Hammett
We are starting to do some aerial, but it's extremely opportunistic. The default is underground. - Original Message - From: "Chuck McCown" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2025 1:07:23 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] BEAD I learned my lesson on make ready

Re: [AFMUG] Property Tax

2025-03-20 Thread Mike Hammett
Which always baffles me. In IL, we tax everything, but not that. I can't imagine a worse type of tax to have. - Original Message - From: "Adam Moffett" To: af@af.afmug.com Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2025 9:26:55 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Property Tax Ah"personal property tax". A

Re: [AFMUG] Twitter by any other name would still smell

2025-03-17 Thread Mike Hammett
As much as I want it to be true, I see where Adam is coming from. Show the proof. I haven't looked into it at all because I have better things to do, but from what Adam is saying, she hasn't shown the proof; therefore, at this point, it's just opinion. - Original Message - From: "Ch

Re: [AFMUG] OT USAID

2025-03-16 Thread Mike Hammett
". On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 7:21 PM Mike Hammett < af...@ics-il.net > wrote: USAID was first and foremost, a money-laundering cesspool. Second, it was an intelligence propaganda operation. - Original Message - From: ch...@go-mtc.com To: "AnimalFarm Microwave

Re: [AFMUG] OT USAID

2025-03-14 Thread Mike Hammett
USAID was first and foremost, a money-laundering cesspool. Second, it was an intelligence propaganda operation. - Original Message - From: ch...@go-mtc.com To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Friday, March 14, 2025 10:34:30 AM Subject: [AFMUG] OT USAID https://datarepubli

Re: [AFMUG] OT trolling this morning

2025-03-11 Thread Mike Hammett
or taxpayers to pay twice. On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 8:59 AM Mike Hammett < af...@ics-il.net > wrote: Shitty students and shitty parents are likely the #1 concern with teachers. I agree that teachers shouldn't have to pay for supplies out of their own pockets, but then why don't

Re: [AFMUG] OT trolling this morning

2025-03-11 Thread Mike Hammett
Shitty students and shitty parents are likely the #1 concern with teachers. I agree that teachers shouldn't have to pay for supplies out of their own pockets, but then why don't the unions ever get that stipulation into their contracts? - Original Message - From: "Ken Hohhof" To: "A

Re: [AFMUG] OT trolling this morning

2025-03-11 Thread Mike Hammett
Do we, though? I've looked into this, probably 25 - 30 school districts in multiple states over the past 10 years. In only two cases was the median teacher income meaningfully less than the median household income for the district in which they taught. In some cases, the median teacher was upwar

Re: [AFMUG] OT FAA

2025-03-07 Thread Mike Hammett
Well, and people are assuming Verizon means wireless. Don't forget that Verizon is also MCI, which has a huge national fiber network. - Original Message - From: ch...@go-mtc.com To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Thursday, March 6, 2025 1:28:53 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT FAA

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD Fiber projects gone?

2025-03-06 Thread Mike Hammett
FUD is a powerful tool. I think people let their imaginations run wild when they don't get their way. - Original Message - From: "Ken Hohhof" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 6:35:58 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] BEAD Fiber projects gone? Yes, that

Re: [AFMUG] Sonar billing and Voip

2025-03-06 Thread Mike Hammett
We are selling voice with Sonar v2, but we're also using the Avalara integration. - Original Message - From: "Mark - Myakka Technologies via AF" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Cc: "Mark - Myakka Technologies" Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 10:20:35 AM Subject: [AFMUG] Sonar

Re: [AFMUG] DOGE website (www.doge.gov)

2025-02-19 Thread Mike Hammett
Apparently, the inspectors general weren't doing much inspecting. - Original Message - From: "Jan-GAMs" To: af@af.afmug.com Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2025 6:04:25 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] DOGE website (www.doge.gov) Waste, fraud and abuse? Oh, the Inspector Generals who's job it

Re: [AFMUG] DOGE website (www.doge.gov)

2025-02-18 Thread Mike Hammett
This can't be good: https://x.com/doge/status/1891614960452522187 - Original Message - From: "Adam Moffett" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2025 3:43:26 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] DOGE website (www.doge.gov) Steve, I see your point, but some importa

Re: [AFMUG] DOGE website (www.doge.gov)

2025-02-17 Thread Mike Hammett
oxygen makes you gay, belt and lemon sales will skyrocket and right that ship too. the level of mental retardation we are witnessing is astounding. On Mon, Feb 17, 2025, 8:13 AM Mike Hammett < af...@ics-il.net > wrote: I just saw a video of both Clinton and Obama saying th

Re: [AFMUG] DOGE website (www.doge.gov)

2025-02-17 Thread Mike Hammett
I just saw a video of both Clinton and Obama saying they'd do what DOGE is doing, but they seemingly just paid lip service to it. I do want it to be more transparent, but I also want them to keep going. - Original Message - From: "Steve Jones" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group"

Re: [AFMUG] 1Gbps link

2025-01-24 Thread Mike Hammett
Quantenna was reasonably popular, depending on what circles you were in. However, Onsemi shut down (or will soon shut down) all of Quantenna's operations. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP - Original Me

Re: [AFMUG] DirecTV streaming requires 24 month contract?

2025-01-11 Thread Mike Hammett
The advantage we see to it is that with their STB, it's old people friendly in that it has the same UI as regular DirecTV. No needing to run an app, browse through your stereotypical streaming UI. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange

Re: [AFMUG] Small Outdoor Cabinet

2025-01-09 Thread Mike Hammett
Huts seem like a way better idea than cabinets. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: "Chris Fabien" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Tuesday, Januar

Re: [AFMUG] Small Outdoor Cabinet

2025-01-09 Thread Mike Hammett
Frontier has similar cabinets for their FTTx build. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: "Ken Hohhof" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Tuesday, Januar

Re: [AFMUG] OT Politics

2025-01-02 Thread Mike Hammett
It's a very odd combination of states t hat do and do not allow it. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: ch...@go-mtc.com To: af@af.afmug.com Sent: Wednesday, January 1, 2025 5:58:

Re: [AFMUG] daylight saving time

2024-12-31 Thread Mike Hammett
No wonder it's not popular. A pill should get rid of it, right? ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: ch...@go-mtc.com To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Tuesd

Re: [AFMUG] daylight saving time

2024-12-31 Thread Mike Hammett
I guess there's more than one E. Department of Education is what I meant. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: "Ken Hohhof" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Gr

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