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ISP & Network guru with 15 years experience in the ISP field.

 

March 2010
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Real World Wireless Application

From Slashdot:

“Armatix has built a pistol that will disarm itself when it is taken away from a watch that sends it a wireless arming signal. The .22 caliber guns will go on sale in the US within months, and the initial price is 7,000 euro. Higher caliber models will follow. To activate the gun, users [...]

Starting a WISP – Mounting antennas

There are a wide variety of ways to mount equipment.  We are big fans of using standoffs.  By using standoffs you are lessening the rick of electrical surge damage. Electricity will find the shortest path to ground.  It won’t travel down/up a tower, out to a standoff, and back.  Standoffs also do the important job [...]

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Sector and radfio on a standoff around 300 feet

Default Wireless Equipment info

linksys 192.168.1.1   admin admin
wet 11  192.168.1.254 admin admin
airbridge 192.168.0.22 admin public
tenx     192.168.2.254
trango   192.168.100.100 admin trango
cb3      192.168.1.1    admin
ubiquiti  192.168.1.20  ubnt ubnt
ez3       192.168.1.1

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Core Routing

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Starting A Wisp - Antenna Polarization

WISPs have two major antenna polarizations to deal with. You have Horizontal & Vertical.  As with anything you have bonuses and drawback of each.  Some WISPs use Circular polarization but I would recommend against it.  Your choices on circular polarization are much more limited.

Vertical Polarization (V-POL) is the most common out there.  Home routers and [...]

Wireless N Certification

Small Net Builder notes that The Wi-Fi Alliance has started certifying single-stream access points and routers that use 802.11n technology. The 802.11n specification delivers speeds in excess of 100 Mbps primarily because it uses multiple radios on multiple channels. The protocol was also enhanced for better speed, but any radio using only a single radio [...]

Starting a Wisp-Antenna Selection

If you don’t come away with anything else in this article remember this. Omnis are bad.

You have 3 major type of antennas you will deal with.

The first is the Omni directional.  This receives and transmits a full 360 degrees. In otherwords a single antenna can cover a full 360 degree radius. An Omni is not [...]