Henryville Marysville Tornado Disaster March 2012 Community Wireless
My friends at Community Wireless wanted to post some pictures of the devistation from the Borden / Marysville / Henryville / Chelsea Indiana Tornados. The series of tornados took a very serious path that ran from Borden Indiana to Cincinatti Ohio and is said to have been on the ground for 45 minutes. The tornado at some points was said to have had 2 tornadoes inside of one larger tornado. This took a devistating toll on the communities and took a hard hit to the WISP Community Wireless. A brief statement from Community Wireless
"It is a sad time for our communities that we are so heavily involved in. We personally know many of the people in these communities as we operate in the communities where we live. We are happy to find that some have a good sense of humor as their houses are piles of mere ruble. It really is something to see that in the face of a disaster a community and neighbor communities have pulled together to help one another. We are happy that the red cross, in exchange for putting they're flag on the tower, loaned us a spare generator in order to provide them, the BBQ tent, relief shelter and relief workers with free WiFi so they can keep in contact with their loved ones and other volunteers. It is sad though that the generators have to be chained down due to the low lifes stealing from people allready."
Community Wireless also presented us with a series of pictures from the communities.
Cambium 11.2 Firmware Update
Cambium (Formerly Motorola) has released firmware 11.2. We have ran isolated tests from 1 AP- Access Point and 45 SM's -Subscriber Modules. We are running those along side 11.01 and 11.1. We have found that the transition from 11.01 to 11.2 to be much easier as there are several bug fixes.
Canopy PMP 100 AP Telnet / Command Line Functions
Canopy AP (Access Point) Telnet / Command Line Functions:
addwebfile -- Add a custom web file
arp -- ARP table entries
VOIP Over Motorola Canopy Wireless
I have seen many questions and comments regarding using VoIP on a Motorola Canopy Network. Primarily regarding using 900Mhz Motorola Canopy. As a WISP we have succesfully delivered VoIP to hundreds of 900 Mhz and 2.4 Ghz customers.
Wireless Without Limits Miami Cruise to Bahamas
Well we are here in Miami getting ready for the cruise coming up for the Double Radius - Wireless Without Limits Cruise to the Bahamas. This should be a blast. We thought we would come down a little early to get accuainted with the area and the beautifull weather and of course we will be attending the Sleepless Nights party in South Beach!
As far as the cruise here is what we expect;
Motorola Canopy Software Update 11.1 Warning
Motorola Canopy Software Update Warning;
Motorola released a new version of software, 11.1 for their Canopy radios. There is a number of fixes as well new features making it attractive but there is also some bugs.
Canopy Ethernet stats – CRC, CarSenseLost, Discards and Overruns
Ethernet errors can come from a lot of sources and can be labeled by differently. No matter how they are labelled they need fixed. Common ones we will explain are CRC, CarSenseLost, Discards and Overrun errors.
Motorola Canopy BER results made simple
BER (Bit Error Rate) is really a great bit of information and is really easy to understand, if someone tells you correctly. We will not get into the terminalogies of the Nth powers and so on, just the need to knows.
Ubiquiti Network Setup Guide
The network settings for Ubiquiti are quit simple but you should follow these steps to ensure you have the desired outcome. This assumes you are able to access the router as discussed in our tutorial found at: http://wispwatch.com/airos-ubiquiti-quick-setup-guide . In this tutorial we are setting this up basic network access that will allow us to talk to our unit over the network.
Ubiquiti Access Point Setup
Setting up a Ubiquiti as an access point (wireless router) is simple. This assumes you are able to access the router as discussed in our tutorial found at: http://wispwatch.com/airos-ubiquiti-quick-setup-guide . In this tutorial we are setting this up as a basic Access Point to provide us or our clients with internet access.