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TheBrothersWISP Podcast 8 – Andrew Thrift, MPLS, MTK Newsletter 41
This go around we have Greg, Andrew Cox, JJ Boyd, and surprise guest Andrew Thrift. Thrift is our pal from New Zealand. He is a network engineer with a wide range of experiences, though we only really grilled him about his MPLS experience with Mikrotik and about where he buys his hair products. BTW when…
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Mikrotik Newsletter 41
THIS…is a news letter. This one is jam packed with delicious cookies…or at least it has some new product. RB2011UAS-2HnD-IN 600MHz CPU two 4dbi antennas Dual chain 2.4 B/G/N wireless 128MB RAM 5 copper gig 5 fastethernet 1 SFP port (which I believe has DDMI?) RJ45 serial port which appears to be on the back…
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Mikrotik ROS V5.20 Released
What’s new in 5.20 (2012-Aug-15 13:04): *) manual upgrade to NEW beta poe controller firmware v2.0 for RB750UP and OmniTIK UPA; more info at http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:PoE-Out *) fix RB951-2n wireless issues; *) ups – fixed resource leak; Looks like a lot of work on the PoE and then a few bug fixes…hmmmm…perhaps a V6 release soon?…
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TheBrothersWISP Podcast 7 – Airfiber – Latvian Mikrotik Videos – Mikrotik Basics
Andrew was out sick for this one so it was just JJ, Justin and Greg. We tried out google huddle this go around and I have to say it was a success 🙂 We talked about: JJ read the airfiber manual…why would any self respecting man read a manual? We talk briefly about the Latvian…
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Interview with Mikrotik CTO Arnis Riekstins
If your Latvian is as rusty as mine, then be sure to hit the CC closed captioning button at the bottom. They show you inside their fab shop, which is pretty cool. I had assumed that they just did design and farmed the rest out to China, but this isn’t exactly the case. It seems…
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A Better Rubberband Gun…Type Thing
So the kids found their old rubberband gun in the closet and started shooting each other with it. I couldn’t help looking at it and thinking “I could do better.” So I started thinking “Hey I’ve seen plenty of guns that use wheels…perhaps I can do the same.” I went as far as to sketch…
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Odd Cisco Inspect Behavior
I was recently asked to evaluate why a network was having issues with watching youtube or download large files. I checked speed and duplex, every thing was fine on my and their sides. show int I checked the CPU and everything was fine. show proc cpu history To rule out the rest of their network,…