Re: [AFMUG] School only wifi hotspots

Get a local cellphone carrier to donate hotspots with unlimited data for a month? Then distribute them where needed. On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 9:40 PM Steve Jones wrote: > Our state closed all schools > I don't know a ton about the elearning for grade school and high school. > But is like to talk

Re: [AFMUG] used telecom shelters

We have had good options from Cell Site Solutions. https://cellsitesolutions.com/communication-shelters/ On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 9:31 PM Chuck McCown via AF wrote: > I want a larger central office. The building I installed is nice, had 4 > roof mounted HVAC units, had an elevated door to make

Re: [AFMUG] Poor Dishes on a Tower

I had my video player on repeat and I couldn't stop watching it... Such a horror show. ;) On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 7:50 PM Chuck McCown wrote: > Blasphemy! > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Aug 10, 2020, at 5:45 PM, Robert wrote: > >  Nylocks... https://www.boltscience.com/pages/helicalspringwas

Re: [AFMUG] My solution

FWIW I think you have an issue with the fiber mounting. The "Ground Lug" is supposed to hold the Fiberglass strength members from the drop cable. This helps keep the cable from getting pistoned in or pulling out. The copper line on the drop cable is a tracer and should not be connected to anything

Re: [AFMUG] OT metal detectors

Our water guys can barely find the valves on top of the ground and to find anything under the ground they use a poking stick until it hits something then draw a blue line. This is why we use a GPR to find the water lines but it will pick up almost all the utilities. We use one of these. https://ww

Re: [AFMUG] PON Combiner?

Yes On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 4:39 PM Gino A. Villarini wrote: > What passive device would I need to combiner a gpon and xgspon light > sources? A normal 2x1 plc will do? > > *Gino* > *Villarini *Founder/President > @gvillarini > t: 787.273.4143 Ext. 204 > m: > [image: aeronet-logo]

Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik new prefix not working with 1 peer

I had an issue similar to this where I need to restart the BGP connection by disabling the peer and re-enabling it before the route went through as expected. On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 11:10 PM TJ Trout wrote: > I have a newly assigned ipv4 prefix, I added it into my 'tik, refreshed > filters and ma

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Netflix - series "Halt and Catch Fire"

I enjoyed it a lot. On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 10:51 AM CBB - Jay Fuller wrote: > > Supposed to be about compaq, which I also noticed Netflix has a great > documentary on. > > Anyone seen the series? It is supposed to be on Netflix. > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.co

Re: [AFMUG] google earth printing and grouping

Create a folder for each region. Put all your pins for that region in the folder. Right click on the folder and select properties. Select Style, Color tab. Under Icon select the the Color you want and it will change all pins to that color. On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 8:58 PM Steve Jones wrote: > ma

Re: [AFMUG] Alibaba LiFePO4 48V 200Ah battery packs?

Shipping and Customs to start. On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 7:37 PM Peter Kranz via AF wrote: > Anyone successfully built a telecom UPS solution using rack mount LiFePO4 > batteries sourced from china? > > > > There seems to be endless arrays of rack mount solutions there: > > > https://www.alibaba.c

Re: [AFMUG] Battery recommendations at fiber hut

We have been using PowerTec Solutions https://www.powertecsolutions.net/solutions/#psi-micro-vision-48v-rackmount-battery-series We have 4 of them setup in the fiber hut. They have a BMS to protect the batteries from overcharging / overcurrenting On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 3:33 PM Josh Luthman wrote:

Re: [AFMUG] good inexpensive OTDR

I used a cheap Chinese one for many years. Other than the battery didn't last it was fine for PTP and cable verification. I have taken a new job are willing to spend the money on a better one. I didn't really know what I was missing until I started looking. Positives: Remote access: Leave the OT

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Google doesn't even know me

Maybe you should check your https://adssettings.google.com/ On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 4:44 PM Nate Burke wrote: > I'm not a sports person. I don't watch sport, I don't play sports. I > just don't care about sports. > > My Chromecast is constantly telling me that's it's 'Chosen just for me' > this

[AFMUG] Windstream Porting / PIN

Hey guys, Windstream is fighting us every step of the way with moving numbers from them. I currently have 2 Customers that Windstream is rejecting the port due to incorrect PIN. When the Customers call windstream and try to get the pin.. Windstream states there is no PIN for their acct. I am not

[AFMUG] Facebook Business Account Recovery

Hey Everyone, I am working with a business to recover a Facebook account/page. The page still exists but the login to manage was deleted. I was able to recreate the login using the same email address but I am having trouble figuring out how to recover access to the business page. Anyone have any

Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotiks exploited on latest firmware?

Check [System --> Users] for any unknown accounts. On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 4:22 PM TJ Trout wrote: > These are mostly customer routers on old firmware ~v5-v6, they are on the > latest stable/current which I thought cured the exploit, the stuff I am > seeing is usually socks or webproxy enabled f

Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotiks exploited on latest firmware?

oh yea.. when they are hacked they get all the acct passwords so you would need to change your current admin password as well. On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 4:38 PM Louis Arsenault wrote: > Check [System --> Users] for any unknown accounts. > > On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 4:22 PM TJ

Re: [AFMUG] Scammer pop ups

First thing that comes to mind is maybe the router on your service is compromised and proxying or injecting data into your web browsing. I would try to compare the HTML/Javascript for differences. Using something like Google Chrome Dev Tools will give more info. To get to these press F12 when in ch

Re: [AFMUG] Drop Termination Closures

If it were me I would just splice on a pigtail and put a splice chip double side taped to the inside like these. http://www.tiitech.com/repository/datasheetlibrary/FET2.pdf On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 4:17 PM wrote: > Gotta love the sticky gel seal rubber. Best stuff out there. > > -Original Mes

Re: [AFMUG] GPON and DWDM on same fiber?

I am new to this stuff as well, I am thinking you are looking for something like this: https://www.fs.com/products/73961.html On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 11:57 AM Chuck McCown wrote: > I have seen this application on slides at Calex shows. It may take more > than one mux and it might even take some

Re: [AFMUG] GPON and DWDM on same fiber?

NM. you said DWDM. Try this one? https://www.fs.com/products/70411.html On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 2:17 PM Louis Arsenault wrote: > I am new to this stuff as well, I am thinking you are looking for > something like this: > https://www.fs.com/products/73961.html > > On Tue, Jun 18

Re: [AFMUG] Bench Testing PON

I had to attenuate the signal. You can either do an inline attenuator or I just grabbed an extra gpon splitter. IIRC I needed about 5db to get it to work. On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 4:34 PM Jason McKemie < j.mcke...@veloxinetbroadband.com> wrote: > I've only been doing active until now, and most of

Re: [AFMUG] Chrome - AW SNAP!

I have not noticed any issues with 75.0.3770.142 (Official Build) (64-bit) On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 10:04 AM Matt Hoppes < mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net> wrote: > Anyone else seeing almost constant "Aw Snap" issue on every webpage with > Chrome since the recent update they just pushed out? > >

Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Firewall question

I believe what you are looking for is split horizon. https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:MPLSVPLS#Split_horizon_bridging Essentially "The basic idea of split horizon bridging is to make traffic arriving over some port never be sent out some set of ports" So ports that are in the same bridge group

Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Firewall question

t; > Vlad > > > On 9/7/2019 9:40 PM, Louis Arsenault wrote: > > I believe what you are looking for is split horizon. > https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:MPLSVPLS#Split_horizon_bridging > Essentially "The basic idea of split horizon bridging is to make traffic > a

[AFMUG] ZTE Fiber onu availability

Hey guys, We are running short on ZTE ONU's. ZTE Corp says they are out of stock and may not ever get more. We are looking for English Firmware 4 GE 1 or 2 phone lines AC Wireless (2.4Ghz + 5Ghz) Anyone recommend a seller on Alibaba or know anyone looking to offload some units. -- -Louis NTIn