Category: Wireless
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OSPF Across Ubiquiti Radios
Forum thread is here. My boy JJ turned me on to some issues he’s been having with the UBNT radios. It seems they are pac-manning some of the multicast traffic traversing them. As you all know OSPF communicates using multicast by default. If you set your interfaces to non broadcast multi access(NBMA), then it uses…
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Wireless Networking in the Developing World
My boy JJ passed this on to me: WNDW.net. These guys write a multi lingual book on designing and implementing networks for the developing world. What does this really mean? They give you practical application on developing networks on a shoe string budget…which is basically everyone I know in the WISP industry…hehehe. Here’s the download…
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Making Sure Your Fresnel Zone Is Clear – New Wireless Installs
When you are looking at a point to point (P2P) wireless link you will hear people mention “line of sight”. As in, if I stand at one point can I see where the other antenna will be mounted. I once thought “as long as I can see the other antenna, I’m good…right?” Not exactly. There…
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My Pan-Tilt Mikrotik
I had the desire, not the need, to be able to pan/tilt my Mikrotik AP from inside my house. It is a huge pain to go outside, climb the ladder, sit on the roof with my laptop and tune my AP. Yes I occasionally have to tune my AP. So I came up with a…
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Class Video – Mikrotik Basics
This is a 45 minute video that will walk you through configuring a Mikrotik for a standard network: ip addressing, routing, dhcp server/client, DNS, basic wireless and bridging. It also covers some of the basic services and tools. The slides can be found here -> . I cover disabling ip services in my security class…
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Mikrotik Spectral Scanner
It looks like Mikrotik is adding some cool new features into V4. This is a good start and I hope this matures into a nice feature. It looks like this scanner will pick up interference from any device, be it wireless phone or microwave. This feature will be around in version 4.3, which has just…
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Class Video – Intro to Networking
This is a CCNA style class that is vendor independent…ish…it’s really a free CCNA Training Video. I focus on Cisco and Mikrotik. The video is about an hour and 45 minutes. The slides are here -> This class was taught to a group of guys I am quite familiar with, so the style is pretty…