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MTIN is a full service consulting firm with over 15 years of experience. We specialize in ISP networks.  Other clients include enterprise, education, government, and SOHO.  We have Mikrotik, Cisco, and other certified engineers on staff.

CLear & Intel Mexican WIFI

http://www.dailywireless.org/2009/11/30/mexican-wimax-network-to-serve-23-cities/

Mexican communications firm MVS Comunicaciones has reached a preliminary agreement with Clearwire and Intel to invest $700 million in a WiMAX network covering 23 cities, [...]

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Mikrotik Newsletter is out

http://www.mikrotik.com/pdf/newsletter22.pdf

The new spectrum analyzer features look pretty handy.  Currently only the RouterBoard R2N and R52N cards are supported. The newsletter has this link to the [...]

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Starting a WISP - Backend Systems

To have a basic foundation for your network you should have the following BackEnd systems:

1. Monitoring.
2.Technical Support Tracking (aka trouble ticket)
3.Billing (you want to get paid right?)

There are other systems & functionality you can add in as you grow but the above 3 are the most important.  Now let’s discuss them.

Monitoring. You want to know if [...]

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Natting at each POP

As IPV4 space becomes more and more scarce small operators are faced how to make their IP space stretch as far as they can.  One way to do this in a routed WISP environment is to do NAT translation on a per pop basis.  I have put together a Visio diagram to illustrate this.

The router at [...]

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What is BGP soft reconfiguration?

When changes are made to a BGP session the changes are not activated until the BGP peering is reset.  When the session is reset the routing tables are exchanged.  This can cause interruptions. This is where soft reconfiguration helps.  Changes can activated without clearing the entire session.

There are two types of soft reconfiguration. Inbound & Outbound.  [...]

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Broadband Search

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STarting a WISP - Bandwidth

Bandwidth is a big hurdle most aspiring WISPs face. The reason is if high-speed alternatives were already in place, the need for a WISP would not be as great.  Sure there are business models in which the WISP can compete with other high-speed solutions. However, the bread and butter of a WISP is going into underserved [...]

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New Series - Starting a WISP

As we work on the Redundancy series we are finding several topics carry over into how to start a Wireless ISP.  As such we will be launching a new series on starting a WISP.  If anyone has questions they are wondering please let [...]

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Mikrotik Router OS 4.3 released

Main fixes would benefit anyone running BGP or OSPF on router OS.

Get the torrent [...]

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BGP tidbit

BGP uses TCP port 179 for [...]

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