Re: [AFMUG] 3.5Ghz FCC Auction 105

On 2/20/20 10:55 AM, Peter Kranz via AF wrote: I was looking at the cost of bidding on a couple 3.5Ghz PALs for my region… Looks like I need almost $700k to even try to play based on the minimum opening bid. And that's only for one 10MHz channel, which IMO is not sufficient for what most cons

Re: [AFMUG] 3.5Ghz FCC Auction 105

On 2/20/20 11:35 AM, Jason McKemie wrote: What is "Proposed CMA Bidding"? Cellular market area, it would have allowed a bidder to change the license size from county up to CMA (and block all of those pesky single-county bidders), but I don't think that proposal made the final cut. -- AF ma

Re: [AFMUG] 3.5Ghz FCC Auction 105

On 2/21/20 10:13 AM, Steve Jones wrote: look at cook county. crazy. but dont forget there are two bidding credits we are eligible for Which are applied to a winning bid, you still have to wire the FCC the full amount at the beginning to participate. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http:/

Re: [AFMUG] 3.5Ghz FCC Auction 105

On 2/21/20 10:33 AM, Jon Langeler wrote: How does a bidding credit work? What percent does is save? It's applied to a winning bid (not upfront) so during the bidding process your $1 is the same as AT&T's $1. The rules for auction 105 aren't out yet but it should be like before there with a

Re: [AFMUG] Security Certificate Questions

On 2/21/20 11:28 AM, Larry Smith wrote: Mark, Look at letsencrypt.org. They have free certs for personal and minor use. Anyone can use Let's Encrypt for anything. Personal, commercial, for profit, not for profit, whatever you imagine. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug

Re: [AFMUG] Security Certificate Questions

On 2/21/20 12:04 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: I don't have experience with letsencrypt but a webserver software mailing list I'm on has constant traffic about problems with certs not renewing. It may be specific to that software, but my gut tells me if this is something mission critical and you don't w

Re: [AFMUG] 3.5Ghz FCC Auction 105

On 2/23/20 9:53 AM, Dennis Burgess via AF wrote: Our county opening bid is 44k, so assuming you need two clean 20 MHz channels it would be $176k for that, assuming no one else bids it. You would have to put down 88k to start to bid on it. Assuming we get small business and rural credits that

Re: [AFMUG] 3.5Ghz FCC Auction 105

On 2/23/20 5:51 PM, David Williamson wrote: How do we bid on spectrum for this? I am interested in doing this for the region we are in. https://www.fcc.gov/auction/105 -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] OT - rocket daredevil Mike Hughes dies

On 2/24/20 8:46 AM, Caleb Knauer wrote: Seems to be the building consensus.  Saw the video of the launch and subsequent crater, kind of morbid.  Whackadoodle for sure, hopefully he passed out at launch as suspected and didn't see the full ride to the end. I mean it did work once before and th

Re: [AFMUG] OT shall we start a pool

On 2/29/20 09:09, Darin Steffl wrote: Maybe if you had all your money in one stock like Tesla that went up 400% in less than 12 months, sure I can see a crazy return. But that's not diversified, it's all eggs in one basket. If you truly diversify, there's no way to have a 260% return in the mar

Re: [AFMUG] cNMaestro mass SM key upgrade

On 3/2/20 11:22 AM, Kurt Fankhauser wrote: here is the response i got: Hi Kurt, Thank you for contacting Cambium Networks. My name is Sri and I will assist you with this case. I understand that you wish to bulk upgrade the licenses of PMP SMs using the cnMaestro. Unfortunately, it is not

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Conserving your fluids

On 3/5/20 10:50 AM, Adam Moffett wrote: but the health section had some quaint notions.  The health lesson in attached pics particularly struck me since I referenced Dr Strangelove the other day.  You'll be a better man if you conserve your manly fluids.  At least they wanted the boys to

Re: [AFMUG] Bandwidth / Usage

On 3/10/20 6:53 PM, Cassidy B. Larson wrote: My on-net Akamai cluster has been 4-6Gbps today.. and funny enough Akamai sends me an email this afternoon saying they’re going to decommission the cluster we’ve had for 20 years.  “Lack of demand”.. uh huh.  I guess the new baseline is 10Gbps averag

Re: [AFMUG] COVID-19 and WISPAmerica

On 3/13/20 6:33 AM, Carl Peterson wrote: And yes, stocking up on ammunition is moronic behavior.  Spend the money on some extra dry goods you could share with your neighbors in the event that they need help.  WWJD That requires rational thought. The people that think the best response to all

Re: [AFMUG] AGM battery question - noise while charging?

On 3/15/20 7:45 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: Is it normal, or problematic, to replace AGM batteries and when you connect the new ones to the charger (in this case an Eltek rectifier) they make noise? Like a faint bubbling sound inside?  It's possible they have always done this and I've never heard i

Re: [AFMUG] seriously, we have to say 5G does not cause coronavirus?

On 3/16/20 9:46 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote: https://www.howtogeek.com/662454/no-5g-does-not-cause-coronavirus/ These people need to hook up with the people that believe drinking bleach will protect you. https://www.nbc12.com/2020/03/14/blue-ridge-poison-center-issues-reminder-dont-drink-bleach/

Re: [AFMUG] seriously, we have to say 5G does not cause coronavirus?

On 3/16/20 11:08 AM, Mathew Howard wrote: Nah... nobody is going to believe that. We already know that 5G is going to kill everybody... or at least turn people into mindless zombies. That's why you gotta drink bleach to protect yourself. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/

Re: [AFMUG] OT Aintcha glad

On 3/16/20 12:05 PM, Bill Prince wrote: I was going to comment on the corollary to this, which is how remarkably resilient the broadband business is to something like this. People still want/need their internet service. There is some logistical issues for installers, but they're mostly young...

Re: [AFMUG] OT Aintcha glad

On 3/16/20 2:37 PM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: My county has its first case.  The guy works about 5 miles South of my house. Mayor here just said all "non essential" businesses must close by 10am tomorrow. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] OT Aintcha glad

On 3/16/20 3:52 PM, Forrest Christian (List Account) wrote: Our county decided that bars/restaurants/gyms/etc will close.  Basically people congregate. The restaurants/fast food places can stay open, but can't have anyone eating there. For us (Reno) that means the casinos must shut down

Re: [AFMUG] OT Preppers

On 3/17/20 2:29 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: Grocery stores seem free of hoarders now, I stopped to check one out and they were pretty well stocked with bread, meat, fresh produce, dairy.  I didn’t even venture to the TP aisle  But so far nobody is going to starve.  When the crazy hoarders were runnin

Re: [AFMUG] shelter in place question

On 3/20/20 12:58 PM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: You are essential services.  You are a public utility. Here in NV they specifically stated "utilities as defined in NRS Chapter 704". I assume other states would have something similar. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman

Re: [AFMUG] shelter in place question

On 3/22/20 1:02 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: Someone just asked Governor Pritzker during his daily press conference about letters like these and he said emphatically no, you do not need them, nobody in law enforcement is going to ask for papers. But I was clearly told on facebook that only a fasci

Re: [AFMUG] OT Covid measures at work

On 3/28/20 10:16, Robert wrote: Gloves and masks IF you have them.   Fresh air moving through the facilities and any rooms your team goes into, moving fresh air is one of the most powerful tools.  Make your own sanitizer. Wash hands every chance.  Wipe down surfaces before using them, gloves an

Re: [AFMUG] Good Home UPS

On 3/30/20 8:16 AM, Josh Luthman wrote: No.  Just no.  No.  Back UPS are terrible.  Smart-UPS have been great to us over the years. 100% of our issues are Back UPS related. I'll use a Back-UPS at home, but that's about it. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listi

Re: [AFMUG] OT an honest query

On 3/30/20 11:13 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: I just finished a 330,000' fiber build for one of the largest companies in the world. I had to suffer through weekly (or more often) conference calls with project managers like this. I will never work for them again.  Nobody knows anything but they mas

Re: [AFMUG] needs landline once per day

On 4/2/20 3:23 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: Longtime customer called to get VoIP phone service.  Says he only needs it to make one call per day and it has to be a “landline” because they won’t accept geolocation from his cellphone. Should I worry about why someone needs to call in once per day to pro

Re: [AFMUG] anybody else having Cambium CBRS issues this afternoon?

On 4/6/20 12:24, Matt Hoppes wrote: Didn’t I say this would happen? And I was a shored by the vendors, the SAS providers, and everyone else that this wouldn’t happen. Here we are not even really into full production and a provider is down and people have customers down because the grounds do

Re: [AFMUG] American Tower trying to renegotiate Tower Lease with landlord

On 4/8/20 9:04 AM, Kurt Fankhauser wrote: Both those offers are less than what the current lease payments are, the one time buyout will break even in 15-20 years. So what I'm wondering here is American Tower trying to pull their bluff on saying they will "look for alternative sites" ? I don

Re: [AFMUG] American Tower trying to renegotiate Tower Lease with landlord

On 4/8/20 11:01 AM, Kurt Fankhauser wrote: Well the landlord is getting  $1150.00/month now and ATC is trying to re-negotiate it down to $700.00. I wonder what they're paying ATC. There's a VZ built site here in Reno on a hill that VZ is paying the property owner $4,000/mo for. -- AF mailin

Re: [AFMUG] Edge Router Options

On 4/15/20 7:14 AM, Mike Hammett wrote: Customer edge vs. provider edge I call them "border" routers; the first B in BGP literally is "border" and OSPF uses the term too. If someone says border router then I know they mean a router whose job is to exchange traffic between ASNs. Saying "edge

Re: [AFMUG] Edge Router Options

On 4/15/20 7:52 AM, Mike Hammett wrote: PE vs. CE if you want something shorter. I suppose anyone unfamiliar with dynamic routing protocols may have never seen the term "border" and just sees things as degrees of edges. If someone says P or PE or CE they're usually talking about MPLS. -- A

Re: [AFMUG] And there we have it....

On 4/15/20 5:21 PM, Jason McKemie wrote: So they can do that and then just pick up and continue on as if nothing ever happened? Contracts are only held against the little guys. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] OT cameras with sfp

On 4/17/20 11:39 AM, Daniel White wrote: Don't use PTZ.  They are far more hassle than they are worth except in really unique situations, and end up missing whatever happened usually. PTZ is a great compliment to overview cameras to go with them and an operator that would use the PTZ to get a

[AFMUG] Is PRI voice still a thing?

Is anyone still using/selling PRI delivered phone service these days or is it pretty much dead? I've had a fractional PRI for 10 years now. It comes off a mux using an OC-12 SONET ring and it's pretty bulletproof (except for one time someone broke into a CO to steal stuff). The problem with VO

Re: [AFMUG] Is PRI voice still a thing?

On 4/17/20 4:53 PM, Bruce Robertson wrote: How on earth do you break into a CO?  The one's I've seen are pretty dang secure, and usually staffed unless it's rural.  Was that here in Reno, Seth? The south meadows CO by winco. 11/11/18 - 11/14/18 -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.af

Re: [AFMUG] Is PRI voice still a thing?

On 4/18/20 6:05 AM, Daniel White wrote: LTE backup is probably cheaper.  We offer that as a solution to our clients at least for internet connectivity loss. Is it integrated enough to switch over to backup without interrupting calls? Like right now if I pull the active side of the OC-12 ring

Re: [AFMUG] customers with repeat DDoS attacks

On 4/19/20 4:28 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: Has anyone come up with a successful strategy for customers who manage to provoke repeated DDoS attacks against them, other than to disconnect their service? I’ve got one who just got their 3rd strike after 2 previous warnings. In 20 years in this busines

Re: [AFMUG] customers with repeat DDoS attacks

On 4/19/20 4:43 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: Hadn't thought of that, is it feasible? If it's a console you could block ranges XBL or PSN are using. Blocking PC gaming might be harder. If you want to put the effort into either vs. the easier option of telling the customer they need to find a new ISP

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Dynamic Content Gripes

On 4/21/20 9:57 AM, Nate Burke wrote: The IP Address thing drives me crazy too! I hate that, and the thing where browsers now add http(s):// when you copy and paste out of the address bar. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] OT - why America can't build

On 4/22/20 9:23 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote: There you go, we can’t even do little stuff anymore. We had Vine. Then it sold to Tiwtter who killed it, but the users still liked/wanted the short-form video thing and Tik Tok filled that void. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/ma

Re: [AFMUG] billing

On 4/24/20 9:40 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote: That sounds like the greylisting fans who claim email senders are required to retry again within 15 minutes from the same IP address. Sure.  And in the real world … Greylsiting is highly effective against a specific set of spew sources: compromised mac

Re: [AFMUG] name of a jack

On 4/26/20 9:39 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: What was the designator for data jacks that loop back when you unplug the cord? RJ48X maybe? -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] Papas, Jalapenos, cebolla blanca

On 4/27/20 1:56 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: Jaime seems to love his potatoes.  He has me thinking that the stores have lots of baking potatoes, bacon and cheese.  Maybe I’ll just live on bacon & cheese potatoes for the duration of the pandemic. Potatoes are the best. They can do everything. -- A

Re: [AFMUG] anybody else having SAS problems this morning?

On 4/30/20 7:15 AM, Mark Radabaugh wrote: Cambium confirmed they are aware of an issue.   No details or ETA yet. Or even exactly whose issue it is. Big organizations have way way way too much faith in ‘cloud computing’. Somewhere along the line people have latched onto this idea that the

Re: [AFMUG] Ground lugs and tools

On 5/20/20 07:16, Ken Hohhof wrote: I have a Greenlee K05-1GL crimper and it has been fine for my purposes. As far as lugs I mostly use T&B but Burndy, Panduit, etc. are all pretty much interchangeable. The longer lugs that get crimped twice are perhaps a little better for critical applications

Re: [AFMUG] OT: You had one job

On 5/21/20 1:49 PM, Jaime Solorza wrote: Still scratching my head.. Guy was hired to do pipes, not move rocks. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] OT Doug and Bob's Excellent Adventure - 2nd Try

On 5/30/20 2:37 PM, Robert Andrews wrote: All pioneered in the mind of Buzz Aldrin.. AKA Dr. Rendezvous -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] Data center fire prevention

On 6/8/20 12:19 PM, Brian Webster wrote: We had halon systems in the main propulsion rooms on some of the Navy Ships (mostly gas turbine powered if memory serves me). We had things like an emergency escape breathing device you would wear on your hip while working in those spaces, you could stic

Re: [AFMUG] Data center fire prevention

On 6/6/20 6:46 PM, TJ Trout wrote: So one of our sites has become pretty darn important so I was considering a 'clean agent' fire system (like Halon) Wondering what you guys use? This room has a sprinkler, should I look at getting it removed? Or build a shield over our racks? If the fire did

Re: [AFMUG] Cloud Hosted Mikrotik

On 6/10/20 6:01 AM, Mike Hammett wrote: Oh, for sure. Virtualized routers are where the industry is going, whether it's a VM running on your compute infrastructure or on your switch\router. No thanks, because here comes the annual subscriptions. Cisco already went that way with CSR 1000V. Ma

Re: [AFMUG] Cloud Hosted Mikrotik

On 6/10/20 9:56 AM, Mike Hammett wrote: I believe Juniper MX's run a VM underneath, allowing for low-hit firmware upgrades and the like. Then again, maybe whomever told me didn't know what they were talking about. While I don't know anything about the MX architecture, the ASR1k is Linux wit

Re: [AFMUG] RV Park Fiber

On 6/11/20 6:10 PM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: Who said anything about the middle of the road? I think he's thinking they always come with a trailer and therefore wouldn't fit in a space. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] Favorite DC wire c/o type

On 6/15/20 10:51 AM, Adam Moffett wrote: What's "telco grade" DC wire?  Is it personally inspected by the ghost of Alexander Graham Bell? I would assume telcoflex wire. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] TVWS feasibility

On 6/16/20 11:22, D. Bernardi wrote: I'm considering building an analyzer to get some basic spectral use. Given the rural nature I assume spectrum could be fairly clean but yes, cellular operators gobbling up spectrum is a concern. That's determined by the TVWS database. There used to be

Re: [AFMUG] OT Unifying dislike

On 6/26/20 13:07, Steve Jones wrote: link to these "studies" Who needs fancy studies? Get a box fan. Cover the front with some cloth. The air velocity should be different covered vs. uncovered. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] OT Unifying dislike

You can throw all the studies you want around, but people who refuse to believe it simply won't. Otherwise it would mean they were wrong and you can't be wrong on the internet anymore, you gotta die on the hill you took. Politicians can't change their minds either because then they're a flip-fl

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Switching Home to Grid Tied Solar

On 7/16/20 6:06 PM, Bill Prince wrote: Wow. That's a lot of power from my perspective. We use less than 700 KWh per month. We live in the country, so we have to pump our water (big well pump and a pressure pump); so that is a big influence on our power usage. I have a hard time imagining how yo

Re: [AFMUG] Federated Wireless SAS outage?

On 7/19/20 5:37 AM, Steve Jones wrote: It's a bit disturbing that a nobody, podunk wisp in illinois has redundant DNs but some people with broader shoulders do not. Because they think if you throw all your eggs into the single cloud basket, it's too big to break. -- AF mailing list AF@af.af

Re: [AFMUG] Federated Wireless SAS outage?

On 7/19/20 8:42 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote: The idea seems to be that you are outsourcing your redundancy to a big company like Cloudflare or Amazon that can do it better than you could, or at least has more resources. A quick read of some of the discussion lists indicates that you can’t run Cloudf

Re: [AFMUG] OT fun

On 7/22/20 10:16, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: But how will it be administered... 5G towers -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] Auction results so far

On 7/27/20 15:42, Mark Radabaugh wrote: https://auctiondata.fcc.gov/public/projects/auction105 I'm curious to see how many WISPs actually get a PAL when this is all done. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] Auction results so far

On 7/27/20 9:46 PM, Steve Jones wrote: What happens if there are unbid PALs? Nothing, it works like it does now as GAA. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] Auction results so far

On 7/31/20 5:33 AM, Matt Hoppes wrote: How is that smaller than the current building area of counties? Some of those areas are huge. PEA is a Partial Economic Area. https://www.fcc.gov/oet/maps/areas -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] [SPAM] Re: COVID Exposure and the real world

On 8/7/20 09:47, James Howard wrote: Doesn’t everybody have a garage with a basement?  Mine could fit 4 cars and has 14’ ceiling……  previous owner parked his boat in it. I wish I had a basement, but I have a semi-detached garage with a second floor that has a small kitchen, bathroom, shower

Re: [AFMUG] [SPAM] Re: COVID Exposure and the real world

On 8/7/20 09:58, Bill Prince wrote: How did the garage get semi-detached? Is there like a rope or something to prevent it from becoming completely detached? It's connected to the house by a covered walkway or you an access it through a storage room. I call it semi-detached because it's not ful

Re: [AFMUG] [SPAM] Re: COVID Exposure and the real world

On 8/7/20 09:54, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: I was going to add an apartment to a second story but decided to leave that off.  We have an obscene amount of house. I want to use it as a place where the kids can GTFO to and not be in the main house making a mess. Previous owners used it as a gym.

[AFMUG] DC dual feed module for -48V?

Does anyone know of a DC dual feed redundancy module like the Meanwell DRDN20DIN but that will work with -48VDC when +0V return is bonded to ground? All of the ones I see have diodes on the + side which doesn't work when + is bonded to ground and - has the breaker on it. I want to feed a Racki

Re: [AFMUG] DC dual feed module for -48V?

On 8/7/20 12:09, Carl Peterson wrote: I know it exists.  I just saw one the other day and thought I need to document this somewhere...  Don't remember where. How much power? I only need 10A, I think that's a max a Rackinjector can handle per input. I've been trying to google such a device t

Re: [AFMUG] DC dual feed module for -48V?

On 8/7/20 12:35, Ken Hohhof wrote: Are you using the "DC OK" contacts, or you just want 2 x MOSFET "diodes" in a DIN rail box? If the schematic diagram on the Mean Well datasheet is to be taken literally, you could just hook it up backwards. (reverse IN and OUT) It looks like the two diodes

Re: [AFMUG] DC dual feed module for -48V?

On 8/7/20 12:48, Seth Mattinen wrote: On 8/7/20 12:35, Ken Hohhof wrote: Are you using the "DC OK" contacts, or you just want 2 x MOSFET "diodes" in a DIN rail box?  If the schematic diagram on the Mean Well datasheet is to be taken literally, you could just hook it up bac

Re: [AFMUG] Sports Streaming

On 8/7/20 12:12, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: In my area, they move out to a 5 acre plot.  They end up with a house and 4.5 acres of highly flammable weeds.  Then they take legal action against land developers wanting to create more customers for me claiming 1 acre home lots are "high density".  And

Re: [AFMUG] POTS line charges

On 3/15/22 12:49 PM, Nate Burke wrote: Just got a business customers bill from AT$T so I can port their numbers, they were paying $200/month per POTS line.  And the AT&T Bill told them how happy they should be because the deal they were on was saving them $695.91/month on each line.  Are they s

Re: [AFMUG] Door Access Control System (self-install, self-hosted)

On 6/16/22 11:01 AM, Forrest Christian (List Account) wrote: Before I get pissed and just make something (which is how many of my products start). Is there a good door access system which meets the following requirements: 1) I can actually buy as a mere mortal and not a "security system instal

Re: [AFMUG] Door Access Control System (self-install, self-hosted)

On 6/16/22 12:15 PM, Ryan Ray wrote: As you've found. The security market is deliberately set up so you need to be a distributor or an integrator to get access to any of the good stuff. I've ordered stuff from jmac.com that's just drop shipped form ADI. Can't order from ADI direct though wi

Re: [AFMUG] Movie Review

On 6/27/22 4:23 PM, Nate Burke wrote: Closed Captions, so you can understand what is being said, and Being able to pause for snack breaks (or rebooting the laundry) far outweigh the draw of the big screen for us. Although, When I stream, is it truly using my 9.2 surround? If you're seeing D

Re: [AFMUG] BDC

On 7/21/22 7:33 AM, Josh Luthman wrote: WISPA is absolutely fighting this.  We absolutely did not want this. There's way more opposition than WISPA has resources, but we still did get some wins. Since shutting down the majority of my ISP operations I have literally 5 street addresses I wil

Re: [AFMUG] BDC

On 7/22/22 10:16 AM, Cameron Crum wrote: Mike are you asking me about the program or just a general question about towers? If general question, then you just do a spatial intersection between your buffered fiber routes or a polygon that surrounds all the homes you pass and the address data they

Re: [AFMUG] BDC

On 7/22/22 10:57 AM, Seth Mattinen wrote: On 7/22/22 10:16 AM, Cameron Crum wrote: Mike are you asking me about the program or just a general question about towers? If general question, then you just do a spatial intersection between your buffered fiber routes or a polygon that surrounds all

Re: [AFMUG] BDC service

On 8/25/22 12:15 PM, Josh Luthman wrote: Not filing is a bad decision. The filing thing rejected half of my location IDs as invalid. Apparently they are marked 'bsl_flag=false' in the fabric data. All of my locations IDs are commercial/business which were hit or miss which were flagged true

Re: [AFMUG] BDC service

On 8/25/22 6:39 PM, Cameron Crum wrote: The primary goal is to determine consumer level broadband access. So yeah, they flag the commercial addresses and reject. It's a pretty easy search to eliminate them. Just ignore anything with bsl_flag set to false. I mean that's all of my locations IDs

Re: [AFMUG] BDC service

On 8/25/22 6:39 PM, Cameron Crum wrote: The primary goal is to determine consumer level broadband access. So yeah, they flag the commercial addresses and reject. It's a pretty easy search to eliminate them. Just ignore anything with bsl_flag set to false. Did the math this morning and the rej

Re: [AFMUG] BDC service

On 8/26/22 8:54 AM, Seth Mattinen wrote: On 8/25/22 6:39 PM, Cameron Crum wrote: The primary goal is to determine consumer level broadband access. So yeah, they flag the commercial addresses and reject. It's a pretty easy search to eliminate them. Just ignore anything with bsl_flag se

Re: [AFMUG] Datacenter power submetering

On 10/1/22 10:41 AM, Chris Fabien wrote: We are remodeling our old office building into a datacenter with 2 or 3 tenants and a 2500 sqft general retail space. I want to be able to sub-meter the power on a per-circuit basis, and ideally be able to assign a group of circuits to each tenant they s

Re: [AFMUG] Azure ExpressRoute

On 10/7/22 5:44 AM, dmmoff...@gmail.com wrote: I’d never heard of Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute until a few days ago. I’m getting the impression it’s an IP network between datacenters where Microsoft cloud services are, and end users can get an ExpressRoute connection so their MS cloud stuff is

Re: [AFMUG] billing again

On 8/14/20 8:50 AM, Cameron Crum wrote: Sorry, it is illegal in some states to charge a surcharge for taking credit cards. 10 states outlaw it altogether and there are requirements in other states that you have to meet in order to do it. The 10 states are Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Kansas,

Re: [AFMUG] QB for billing

On 8/14/20 5:46 AM, Mike Hammett wrote: SAAS is a developer's lazy way out. Traditionally, you had to innovate with your product to entice people to give you more money. Now they have to give you more money to keep operating. I find it frustrating because *everyone* wants a piece of recurring

Re: [AFMUG] QB for billing

On 8/14/20 11:43 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: Exactly.  We want their recurring revenue.  And we don’t want recurring payments.  Seems perfectly logical to me. I don't need to pay recurring fees for software I develop myself which makes it a different question: it's not what do I have to choose

Re: [AFMUG] OT persids

On 8/14/20 11:20 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote: OK, now that’s really getting political. https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/trump-administration-relaxing-showerhead-rules I bought a bunch of bath/shower fixtures for a

Re: [AFMUG] OT persids

On 8/14/20 12:15 PM, Robert Andrews wrote: Am I the only one that removes the flow restrictors?  And the tags on my mattresses? The stupidest one was a tub filler. It's still going to use the same amount of water to fill no matter the GPM, just a question of timing. I got a 19GPM filler. --

Re: [AFMUG] OT fired a guy

On 8/19/20 10:53 AM, Adam Moffett wrote: You're not leaving him stranded in the desert, just telling him what time the ride is.  My only question would be whether you are required to pay him for the time he's just sitting there.  His time isn't really his own at that point. As an optics thing

Re: [AFMUG] Buying and selling ISP’s

On 8/20/20 8:13 PM, Steve Jones wrote: I think you either buy or sell, isp isnt really a flip thing There is/was someone in my part of the country buying up ISPs and trying to package them all together as a flip. My ISP customers tell me it's far easier to get the flipper's customers to canc

Re: [AFMUG] Buying and selling ISP’s

On 8/21/20 7:13 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: In reality, many dialup ISPs used wholesale modem banks and their only expense was advertising, and their only asset was customers. I still see that today. "We're nationwide!!" Congrats on being able to resell AT&T I guess. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug

Re: [AFMUG] OT Google Fiber

On 8/22/20 11:36 AM, Robert wrote: "We will microtrench across your driveway.  This will give you an expansion joint that, when filled, will possibly prevent expansion cracking"  ( but you would need to chamfer the edges)... In Reno it's remove and replace the affected structure within the pu

Re: [AFMUG] ***SPAM*** Re: Buying and selling ISP’s

On 8/22/20 9:30 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: I don’t know about Travis.  I know his Shark Tank business tanked.  I know he was really big on buying commercial real estate. This one? https://sharktanktales.com/ecoflower-after-shark-tank/ -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/

Re: [AFMUG] Aviat power supplies and exploding power strips

On 8/23/20 5:24 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: We had one farm where we got the 3 phases, one wild, but no neutral. Luckily when we asked Phoenix Contact, they said we could connect L and N of the power supply we were using (actually a TRIO UPS) to L1 and L2. Ungrounded, corner grounded, and center

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Wife knocked it out of the park

There should be an AFMUG cookbook. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] OT new hires

On 8/28/20 11:23, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: Logan’s run. Soylant green. Logan's Run was mandatory "carousel" on your 30th birthday. I thought Soylent Green voluntary go to the happy pictures death room when if you feel like it for any reason. Or get smashed by the riot scoops. -- AF mailing li

Re: [AFMUG] OT new hires

On 9/1/20 11:23, Steven Kenney wrote: North America is all about consumerism and "stuff".  Need a bigger house to more of your stuff.  Need a storage locker to put more of your "stuff". I'm that weirdo that tries to keep my garage empty except for the cars. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] New IPs

On 9/8/20 9:02 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: I haven’t found the template yet. They don't do those anymore for the most part; you fill out stuff online. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com

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