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

 

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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 [...]

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 [...]

Install Photo of the Day

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Water tower Install

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2.4GHZ sectors at 300 feet

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 [...]

POP Redundancy

Access point redundancy is one of the hardest things to achieve. This is because fixed wireless customers do not roam between access points.  You have a couple of tricks you can do to minimize downtime in the event of an AP failure.

The first thing to do is implement the same SSID across your network or [...]

Nifty feature of Canopy 9.5 Software release

Color Code Priority on SM
On the SM, multiple color codes (up to 10 per SM) and priorities (3) allow more control of which AP an SM will register to during normal and off-normal conditions.

This means you can setup an SM to register to multiple APs. If you have customers that can see other APs at [...]