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Nov 6 / Greg

Mikrotik AU MUM Presentations On Tiktube

Be sure to jump over to Tiktube.com and see the AU presentations.

Andrew Cox has his up on scripting.

Andrew Thrift has his up on securing your mikrotik.

Hopefully I’ll get a chance to watch them today!

Oct 31 / Greg

Mikrotik SXT CPE Install Video

Here’s a cute lil video put out by MTK on installing an SXT as a CPE. I’m really starting to like these marketing videos. Someone needs to hire me to make some of these for them 😉

Oct 26 / thebrotherswisp

TheBrothersWISP 11 – Wispapalooza / UWC 2012

Justin, JJ and Greg talk about Justin’s trip to Wispapalooza and the Ubiquiti World Conference 2012. Andrewwww we miiiiissssss yyyyyooouuuuuu 😉

The glorious links!!!!
Wispapalooza
Ubiquiti World Conference
EdgeMAX
ArcWireless new CPE and APs
Cambium

Some of the topics touched are:
AirMAX V2
Nanobridge HP
UniFi
Justin is a celebrity 🙂
Fast roaming on APs
UniFi V2
Airvision V2

Since Mike Hammet was doing who knows what, here are his notes from the show:

Texas de Brazil was delicious, though Justin had a better time than the rest of us. :-p

I wish in addition to (or instead of) the airGateway, I would like to see a Power-APN with PoE out.

UniFi is version 3, not 2.

Damn, feeling like crap sure had me missing a lot! This is the first I heard of the Cambium STB. More info?

https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=%23WISPAPALOOZA

https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=%23UBNTUWC

I suspect the ArcWireless stuff is based on Atheros chipsets just as AirMax and NV2.

I am really excited about the new Trango platform. Not only is it in 60 MHz vs. the 100 MHz of AirFiber, but it also only uses one polarity vs. two. It also has built in aggregation, so you can combine two links with just a single Ethernet down the tower.

Justin received a Knights of the Black Tie Award

Sub10 has some really cool 60 and 70\80 GHz products. I expect to see a 10 gigabit radio in 70\80 in 2 years. The 60 GHz radios can be physically clustered in a set of 4, pointing in any one direction. Due to FSL, one can colocate 15 to 30 radios on a given structure.

WLANMall was showing off a video surveillance system (I forget the name) that was really impressive. I could go on and on about all the cool stuff it can do, but to sum it up, it’s relatively cheap, it seems to scale well (Clark County, NV schools have 5k cameras on it), it can use your cell phone’s camera.

PureWave’s 6×6 MIMO achieves great foliage penetration. 3650 models surpass the penetration of 900 MHz. I suspect 2.5 GHz operators running the gear may meet the penetration abilities of TVWS, only in a stable regulatory environment and actually have some bandwidth to work with.

Looking forward to additional space that may be coming at 3.6 GHz and in 5 GHz.

Hey, some of us have “SANs” and virtual environments. Other stuff I was talking to other WISPs about: Nexenta SAN, VMWare Service Provider Program

One of the vendors was shooting commercials for a “Backhaul Heros” promotion.

They’re hung up on Vegas for the fall show because Vegas is the cheapest place in the country with ready airport access to have a conference.

Click here to view the post!

Oct 25 / Greg

Mikrotik 6.0rc2 Released

*) added generic fast path support on certain interfaces
(all ethernets on RB3xx, RB6xx, RB7xx, RB8xx, RB9xx, RB1000, RB11xx, RB2011);
*) added ipv4 fast path, it doubles ipv4 forwarding performance
on supported interfaces when no firewall, conntrack, queues.
*) added traffic generator fast path;
*) addedbridge fast path;
More info on fast path: http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Fast_Path

Looks like mostly feature additions. I’ve been running RC1 at the house…any of you guys been testing it?

Oct 23 / Greg

Mikrotik AU MUM 2012 Live!

Hey guys, run don’t walk over to TikTube.com. Mike from Duxtel, Andrew Cox, and Andrew Thrift will be wowing you with live presentations.

Oct 20 / Greg

Mikrotik MUM 2012 USA Presentations

If you guys hit TikTube.com you will notice that the 2012 USA vids are up.

Don’t bother watching my multihomed BGP presentation there, catch it here instead.

You can also see:
Justin’s cookie cutter wisp presentation.
Tom Smyth’s BGP BOGON talk.
Uldis’ Wireless Workshop.
Janis’ RoSv6.
Bandwidth based load-balancing with Tomas Kirnak.

Also, here’s the official photo gallery 😉

This is all you really need to see from the gallery.

Oct 18 / Greg

CactiEZ0.7 Released

The link to the announcement post is here.

There are several key things to note about the new CD.

  • OS is CentOS 6 x64 (there is no 32bit version)
  • Now prompts for a few key items during the installation such as Network info, timezone, and password
  • More secure out of the box than the previous builds (some linux hardening, randomized mysql passwords, etc…)
  • PHP Timezone is automatically configured for the timezone entered during install
  • Cacti and all plugins are now installed via RPMs from my custom repository for easy updating of Cacti
  • Switched to RSyslog instead of Syslog-ng
  • NTop removed
  • Now includes a custom setup plugin that walks you through setting up your Cacti server (plugin installs, templates, etc…)
  • Custom jquery based theme donated by an anonymous source (Thanks!)
  • No upgrade path from CactiEZ v0.6 provided
  • Get out there and grab it…now to convince Jimmy to update my install for me 😛