JJ, Justin and Greg speak this week. We also have Rick Harnish of WISPA talk to us about what WISPA is as well as upcoming events:WISPAPALOOZA in Vegas.
We also started the first part of our tower series. In the first part we speak about:
Safety equipment
-what are your favorite brands
—DBI SALA – exofit harness
-what gear is a necessity
–RF protection
-why does Justin wear such stank old nikes?
Tools
-what are your favorites
-what do you consider a necessity to keep on you
–Knife, Justin’s Boker
—Leatherman Wave, though I carry the old style with a real screwdriver on it. I don’t like the bit style.
-ropes & pullies
-wenches
Grounding
-ground to tower?
-ground at base?
-Lightning suppression
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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 Andrew talks about carting he is talking about racing go-carts!
We talk about:
MPLS
– My initial thoughts on MTK MPLS
– MTK WIKI MPLS
– MTK WIKI lab MPLS
– We also speak about VPLS a layer 2 tunneling option.
Hardware in the MTK 41 newsletter: RB2011UAS-2HnD, RB44Ge, and RB2011L-RM. My thoughts.
Aircontrol2 beta video.
Aircontrol2 wiki.
Speculation on Dude V2.
JJ talks about tower Ice Bridges.
JJ also shares with us his love for the beaglebone.
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THIS…is a news letter. This one is jam packed with delicious cookies…or at least it has some new product.
RB2011UAS-2HnD-IN
Stolen straight from the newsletter
The indoor model (RB2011UAS-2HnD-IN) is the first MikroTik product to be equipped with a touchscreen LCD panel. Not only does it show interface statistics, graphs, and resource usage – you can also perform simple configuration tasks. You don’t have to worry about security, because the screen is password protected. As it’s a touchscreen, entering your password is very simple.
So that’s an interesting addition…an LCD. I suppose it seems like something that may be useful, but I can’t foresee myself every using it. The first thing that popped into my head is “Can I play pong on it?” But seriously, I wonder if we will have the ability to display custom information on screen…I somewhat doubt it.
I do love the power in this box plus the integrated wireless.
RB2011L-RM
This seems to be your basic 2011 sans wireless with a nice black rackmount case. This would look quite nice in a wallmount rack in a small office.
RB44Ge
To this I say boom shaka laka, unless you prefer boom goes the dynamite. There is no such thing as a reasonably priced 4 port gig NIC…until now!
I love to see new hardware and I really like the new NIC. It seems I use just as many x86 MTKs as I do routerboards at this point 🙂 What say you?
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? What do you guys think?
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 TV interview with the Mikrotik CTO.
The new Mikrotik 951 marketing video.
We spoke about the firewall script I put up.
We spoke breifly about OSPF NBMA.
Here’s my rubber-band gun 😉
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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 they still maintain some production at the home office. What I really want to know is where was Janis, Sergejs or Normands? 😛
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 boring
What…only two shots?!?!
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 out some stuff and even make a wheel.
How did I not get that caricature job….?
The wheel I made…or is it a sweet ninja star?
While waiting for the wheel to dry I started to think “Why am I making this so complicated…I wonder if I can just make something fast.” So I came up with this.
1 Inch PVC pipe, clothes pins, duct tape and a bit of wire. Oh and rubber bands…duh
I stretched the rubber bands as far as I wanted them to go, then marked on my pipe that point. Right on that line I rolled on some duct tape backwards so the sticky side would be out. I then just stuck my clothes pins on all the way around. I only had nine, but there really is room for ten. I then threaded some wire through the pins and twisted it tight.
Last at the end I put two slits about a 8th of an inch apart. This holds the rubberband on the end.
Now feast your eyes on some additional images 😛
And this would be the video of how it comes together and how it works:
As always, thanks guys 🙂