Re: [AFMUG] underground footage expectations

2022-02-10 Thread Chuck McCown via AF
Yeah, you give the contractor a set of staking sheets that have all the details worked out. Usually a contract, sometimes a W.O. Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 9, 2022, at 11:11 PM, Steve Jones wrote: > >  > when you contract, at the rates discussed, this is preengineered, thats not > enginee

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Document Storage

2022-02-10 Thread Mike Hammett
No doubt you'll need to do maintenance. That's a lot easier than single-copy physical item maintenance. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: "Robert" To: af@af.afmug.com Sent: Wednesday

Re: [AFMUG] DHCP

2022-02-10 Thread Kerry
All I can tell you is our experience with mikrotik dhcp. We have been running two identical vm's for 10 yrs serving up leases. One main vm does all the work, we have a script that runs on each lease assignment/deassignment that logs the mac, ip, and datetime in a log in our IPAM, (phpIPAM) an

[AFMUG] Federal funding totals

2022-02-10 Thread Steve Jones
CAF, RDOF, State level, COVID, etc Is there a compiled list of all the funding for connectivity is out there? Im just looking for the numbers, not for funding. I'm curious how much has been dispersed in the last decade, how much is pending dispersal, how much is pending allocation and how much is

Re: [AFMUG] Federal funding totals

2022-02-10 Thread Josh Luthman
Go to WISPAmerica 2022 in NOLA. Broadband Billions on Monday. 10s of billions maybe a few 100 billion in just the last couple of years. On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 12:31 PM Steve Jones wrote: > CAF, RDOF, State level, COVID, etc > > Is there a compiled list of all the funding for connectivity is o

Re: [AFMUG] Federal funding totals

2022-02-10 Thread Steve Jones
im trying to fund buying out a small underground construction outfit. I can barely afford to eat, let alone pay entry into WISPAmerica and the associated bail when the WISP degenerates get me drinking On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 12:34 PM Josh Luthman wrote: > Go to WISPAmerica 2022 in NOLA. Broadb

Re: [AFMUG] DHCP

2022-02-10 Thread Cameron Crum
Can't you get the dynamic leases through the API? On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 11:02 AM Kerry wrote: > > All I can tell you is our experience with mikrotik dhcp. We have been > running two identical vm's for 10 yrs serving up leases. One main vm does > all the work, we have a script that runs on eac

Re: [AFMUG] Federal funding totals

2022-02-10 Thread Josh Luthman
Seriously, if you can't afford a trip to the show you simply can't afford a fiber project. That's my opinion. On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 2:18 PM Steve Jones wrote: > im trying to fund buying out a small underground construction outfit. I > can barely afford to eat, let alone pay entry into WISPAme

Re: [AFMUG] Federal funding totals

2022-02-10 Thread Steve Jones
Well, I was independently wealthy at one point, but I invested my cash into debt and Im finding its much harder to gain the liquidity from that investment that I anticipated. My accountant tells me that reinvesting this into bail money would be a bad use of funds. On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 1:28 PM J

Re: [AFMUG] Federal funding totals

2022-02-10 Thread Chuck McCown via AF
Not true at all. With a $1000 trencher, shovel and able body you are up and running. From: Josh Luthman Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2022 12:27 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Federal funding totals Seriously, if you can't afford a trip to the show you simply ca

Re: [AFMUG] Federal funding totals

2022-02-10 Thread dmmoffett
Safer to assume he’s not serious. From: AF On Behalf Of Josh Luthman Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2022 2:28 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Federal funding totals Seriously, if you can't afford a trip to the show you simply can't afford a fiber project. That

Re: [AFMUG] DHCP

2022-02-10 Thread dmmoffett
I think the API basically exposes the CLI in cleaner way. If you can get what you need from the CLI, then presumably you can get it from the API too. Anything done with scripting/programming is more about having the time and inclination. From: AF On Behalf Of Cameron Crum Sent: Thursda

Re: [AFMUG] Federal funding totals

2022-02-10 Thread Josh Luthman
How are you getting your permits? How are you getting a spool of fiber? How are you moving it? You need bandwidth, how low can you possibly get that per month? If you're using a trencher, where are you getting the seed to fix the damage? How are you getting under a driveway? On Thu, Feb 10, 2

Re: [AFMUG] DHCP

2022-02-10 Thread Josh Luthman
Generally you manipulate the static leases through the API and simply don't have any dynamic leases (no pool). On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 2:25 PM Cameron Crum wrote: > Can't you get the dynamic leases through the API? > > > On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 11:02 AM Kerry wrote: > >> >> All I can tell you i

Re: [AFMUG] Federal funding totals

2022-02-10 Thread dmmoffett
Come to think of it, in my experience vehicles and construction equipment were both eligible expenses in the grant programs I was involved in. If you’re considering grant funding then putting a trencher, HDD machine, and associated trucks and trailers as expenses on your application is probably

Re: [AFMUG] Federal funding totals

2022-02-10 Thread Chuck McCown via AF
1)Go to the city, county or DOT and get a permit. Cheap and easy. I do it all the time. Many times there are PUEs that you don’t need to even ask before you bury. I get private easements all the time for the price of a stamp and recording. Did 3 yesterday. 2)Graybar, Codale, Mill

Re: [AFMUG] Federal funding totals

2022-02-10 Thread Chuck McCown via AF
Since I disconnected from ILECS, I have yet to get a dollar in gravy money. Will keep trying. From: dmmoff...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2022 1:13 PM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Federal funding totals Come to think of it, in my experience vehicles

Re: [AFMUG] Federal funding totals

2022-02-10 Thread Steve Jones
Thats actually what im looking for. whats allocated, whats distributed, whats pending, and whats up their sleeves. I have to show that its more near the end of a gold rush than the beginning if entering right now, but theres still plenty of contracts to sign. IMHO, there is a broadband drunken spe

Re: [AFMUG] Federal funding totals

2022-02-10 Thread Josh Luthman
1) Who did all of your designs? I'm in Ohio which is pretty easy to work with from what I gather, but they still wanted the GIS design of what you were doing. 2) They all want money. If you don't have $1000 you can't get product. Are you just pushing off your fiber reel off the truck? Where are

Re: [AFMUG] Federal funding totals

2022-02-10 Thread Steve Jones
you know, #1 is always what I figured would be the greatest hurdle. I figured it was costly and full of constand bureaucratic nonsense. Its what stopped me over the years from even considering spending much time looking into underground for my employer to self build or for me to do stuff. Its only

Re: [AFMUG] Federal funding totals

2022-02-10 Thread Josh Luthman
IMO it's pretty far from the worst hurdle. I'm in Ohio, though. Being in Illinois it's certainly worse, but outside of Cook County you're probably OK. ODOT was by far the easiest since they knew how to spell fiber. The counties just think we're another Frontier/AT&T and get irritated. Towns lo

Re: [AFMUG] Federal funding totals

2022-02-10 Thread Chuck McCown via AF
Never been asked for GIS yet. Autocad, draftsight, lots of drawing programs. Cut and paste from google earth. Sheet of butcher paper and a T square if you really are hurting. I presume you at least have a truck. Go rent one. I have been doing underground telecom construction since 1978.

Re: [AFMUG] Federal funding totals

2022-02-10 Thread Chuck McCown via AF
BLM takes a year or two and some money for the NEPA stuff. The rest of them just take asking. Sometimes you have to have a bond, but those are not terribly expensive. Just ask for an excavation permit. Here that app is online. From: Steve Jones Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2022 1:44 PM T

[AFMUG] sms forwarding

2022-02-10 Thread Chuck McCown via AF
Today, while doing some power wiring in the C.O. we shorted the battery and blew the battery disconnect circuit breaker. They guy doing it did not know that circuit breaker was behind a panel in the rectifier shelf. If you didn’t know how to open the fancy door that looks like a rectifier modul

Re: [AFMUG] sms forwarding

2022-02-10 Thread TJ Trout
your voip provider should be able to forward if your network is down, someone like callcentric can forward when your ATA isn't registered, and they offer sms messaging also On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 3:25 PM Chuck McCown via AF wrote: > Today, while doing some power wiring in the C.O. we shorted th

Re: [AFMUG] sms forwarding

2022-02-10 Thread Chuck McCown via AF
But even in the middle of the night, when our phones are working and go to VM, be nice for the customers to have a catastrophic end-of-the-world emergency number that does not depend on our network to call that would either answer live and take a message or be able to receive a text. In both ca

Re: [AFMUG] sms forwarding

2022-02-10 Thread Brian Webster
Get yourself a Google Voice number. It does SMS like a cell phone as well as mms. You can use it from a web browser and text from an actual keyboard. You can register other numbers to forward to, and a lot of other features such as forward based on the day and hours. Thank you, Brian Webste

Re: [AFMUG] sms forwarding

2022-02-10 Thread Chuck McCown via AF
OK, let’s say our C.O. got hit by lightening or the CO entrance cables were cut or something else that is the worst case scenario. Our customers need a number to call or text. I don’t want to answer it. But I do want them to get a reply that we have received the message and are working on

Re: [AFMUG] sms forwarding

2022-02-10 Thread TJ Trout
Sounds complex, google voice is a simple option but won't do half that On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 4:42 PM Chuck McCown via AF wrote: > OK, let’s say our C.O. got hit by lightening or the CO entrance cables > were cut or something else that is the worst case scenario. > > Our customers need a number

Re: [AFMUG] sms forwarding

2022-02-10 Thread Bill Prince
Hasn't the Android world moved on to RCS (instead of SMS)? I think on the applephone, it's iMessage or something like that. SMS is so 2000. bp On 2/10/2022 3:23 PM, Chuck McCown via AF wrote: Today, while doi

Re: [AFMUG] sms forwarding

2022-02-10 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
Twilio will do exactly what you need. The gotcha is that it is a bit of an erector set. On Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 4:25 PM Chuck McCown via AF wrote: > Today, while doing some power wiring in the C.O. we shorted the battery > and blew the battery disconnect circuit breaker. > They guy doing it did

[AFMUG] OT: Movie Review

2022-02-10 Thread CBB - Jay Fuller
Wife and I saw Moon Fall / Moon Shot / Moon whatever tonight. Quite the wild ride. Throw science out the window. You won't need it. A fun ride. Will see the Death on the Nile movie Sunday when the temp falls back into the you-don't-wanna-be-outside-teens. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com h

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Fashion Statement

2022-02-10 Thread Bill Prince
So what's the problem? -- bp part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 6:55 PM Jaime Solorza wrote: > So no one noticed or maybe too polite to say anything... > I even climbed a 40 ft. tower today... > Oh well... > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/l

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Movie Review

2022-02-10 Thread Bill Prince
Critics have been brutal with Moonfall. Even less kind to Bruce Willis. The high temp here today was something in the high 70s (77 I think). -- bp part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 8:17 PM CBB - Jay Fuller wrote: > > > Wife and I saw Moon Fall / Moon Shot / Moon whatever toni