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Belkin/Netgear Routers And Microsoft – Mikrotik Hotspot
So new Belkin routers will give you serious heartburn on your Mikrotik Hotspots. In a normal hotspot server, you will hijack all internet traffic until a user either accepts trial access or logs in. This normally works great with any PC/MAC/Router…unless you are using a newer Belkin router. If a Belkin router can’t connect to…
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TheBrothersWISP 18 – GPON, GAON, AirFiber, New Mikrotik, New Ubiquiti, Mimosa
It’s been ages since we’ve gotten together, but we had a pretty good showing. Greg Sowell, Tom Smyth, Justin Miller, Mike Hammet, and JJ Boyd talk shop. Some of the things discussed: GPON airFiber/New Ubiquiti Gear New Mikrotik gear – Thanks for assembling everything Andrew Cox! New Mimosa gear Observium monitoring tools Cacti monitoring tools…
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Settlers of Catan: Why I Can’t Game
Over the weekend I was at a work function with several of my fellow employees. We ended up playing a board game called Settlers of Catan. I was being very resistant to playing it at first. I mean, I like playing Trivial Pursuit and Pictionary, but these long involved strategy games just don’t do it…
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Mikrotik V6.13 Released
What’s new in 6.13 *) console – comments are now accepted where new command can start, that is, where ‘/’ or ‘:’ characters can be used to start new command, e.g. /interface { # comment until the end of the line print } *) backup – backups by default are encrypted now (with user password).…
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How To Setup A Backup Radius Manager Install
Radius Manager is a product from DMA softlabs that acts as a radius authentication system for your wireless or hotspot clients. I personally use it for my hotspot clients in Mikrotik. The point of this article is to show you how to add some redundancy to your configuration. The software is licensed via a MAC…
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Cisco BGP Prepend All Routes – The Lazy Way
One man’s lazy is another man’s efficient. I’m the most efficient guy you know 😛 Prepending is adding your AS number to BGP NLRI multiple times to make a set of routes look further away and thus less preferred. Without Prepending: Router# show ip bgp 1.1.1.0/24 BGP routing table entry for 1.1.1.0/24, version 555663701 65001…
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Broadband Communities Summit Day 2
FTTX Hardware Greenfield install = “Brand new” building. Easier install as you can drop cabling before the walls go up. Brownfield install = “Existing structure”. Harder/more costly to retrofit. Some things that may be tricky with condos are that each unit is owned property, so there are legal concerns with running through/around. No such thing…