@nerdydad said in I am going to start an ISP:

@coliver said in I am going to start an ISP:

@dustinb3403 said in I am going to start an ISP:

@coliver said in I am going to start an ISP:

@dustinb3403 said in I am going to start an ISP:

If wireless only, how are you going to be able to ensure that they can be serviced? You can't expect them to build a tower on their residence. .

WISPs generally do LoS surveys. It's not a new thing for the industry.

No I get that, but you still need an antenna on the residence.

Which if it's only so many feet tall likely won't work.

So the question is are most of the homes in the area relatively clear to be able to see the planned tower?

It's Texas. So most likely a large number of homes will be in LoS of any high point. This isn't the Adirondacks or the Catskills.

Yup. West Texas, this would be a piece of cake as there is hardly nothing out there to get in the way. East Texas, Trees maybe go up 30 ft and the land is generally flat with some hills and valleys.

What area of West Texas? I am in Midland/Odessa area.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

TLC, showcasing the worst that America has to offer.

Remember when it use to have educational programming... and surgeries...

I just ordered a bunch of phones from Balticnetworks.com

The things with Mac's are you have to embrace Apple's way of doing things, if you do that, the interoperability between devices works very well...

@dustinb3403 said in Just need a basic Switch - to act as a Hub:

@fateknollogee said in Just need a basic Switch - to act as a Hub:

@DustinB3403 Why are you calling it a "hub"?

Because there is no switching taking place. The devices simply ask for a dhcp address, and go. All switches are hubs, so a basic unmanaged switch.

There is always switching taking place on a switch. All switches operate on layer 2. Hubs have no switching and operate at layer 1, so they are two different things.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Thats an interesting one...

@dustinb3403 It has both CLI and Web Based GUI to configure it.

@dustinb3403 yes

@dustinb3403 said in Ubiquiti Security Gateway:

@jaredbusch said in Ubiquiti Security Gateway:

@dustinb3403 You don't want a USG. Period. Ever.

It is a gimped ERL.

For personal home use, buy the ERX.

Ok thanks

@jaredbusch said in Ubiquiti Security Gateway:

@dustinb3403 To directly answer the last demo question, no. But if you have a UNiFi Controller, all you have to do it poke around the screens there a bit.

The controller lacks a lot of functionality without the ERX or security Gateway.

On a side note, the controller insists on needing a USG to enable certain functionality, does the ERX fill that requirement?

The only functionality the controller is missing without a USG is Deep Packet Inspection.

When I first heard about thunderbolt, external graphics cards were the first real use for it I thought of. It took too long for someone to come out with this.

I've been using EnPass, while not open source, it has a built in webdav sync utility that I use to sync devices through my Nextcloud server.

Just ordered a Raspberry Pi 3 to turn into a retro game emulator

Just signed up for Sodium to play around with it a bit.

@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:

@brianlittlejohn said in I can't even:

@brianlittlejohn said in I can't even:

@momurda said in I can't even:

Not only is it PATA, is Quantum.

Quantum... had several of those before they went under....

Pretty sure Hard Drive division was bought by Maxtor.

Didn't Maxtor disappear long ago?

Oh yea... I think WD ended up buying them...

@scottalanmiller it’s a guess based on a reddit thread I found, They said in beta it was priced at $500 and in the past beta pricing was half of what retail ended up being.

I bet it will be priced around $1000 USD

@scottalanmiller haven’t seen pricing yet

@scottalanmiller said in Comparing Ubiquiti EdgeRouter and Cisco ASA PPS Performance and Cost:

@brianlittlejohn said in Comparing Ubiquiti EdgeRouter and Cisco ASA PPS Performance and Cost:

Ubiquiti just announced a new Edgerouter with 10gbps ports, 80gbps throughput, and 18 million pps.

Holy poo!!

It’s the EdgeRouter Infinity...it has a 16 core processor in it.

Ubiquiti just announced a new Edgerouter with 10gbps ports, 80gbps throughput, and 18 million pps.

I'm looking at buying a new modem so I can get 1GB/100MB internet.