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Entries for March, 2011

WISPA Article Congress – Stop Selling Our Airwaves!

Here is an excellent article from the guys over @ WISPA. I could not agree more about what the author is saying in this piece. Congress – Stop Selling Our Airwaves! by John Scrivner on Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 8:13am Do you have little or no access to broadband (high speed) Internet? Then forward [...]

New Mikrotik Products Announced!

Mikrotik has announced many new products at the Hungary MUM this week. I will break them out here.  You can see the “Official News Letter Here”   Starting with the RB435G   RB435G -  5 miniPCI -  3 Gigabit Ethernet -  800MHz CPU -  2 USB 2.0 -  microSD -  Fan headers -  9-30V -  [...]

AirControl 1.3.7-beta Released

AirControl Release Notes For user guide please visit: http://www.ubnt.com/wiki/index.php?title=AirControl 1.3.x Changes 1.3.7-beta (2011-03-03) Throughput display in bps (and packets as pps). This will now allow sorting of devices by throughput to find high usage quickly. Unit of measure display options in graph for packets and throughput. Export of historical (graph) data from UI and API [...]

Excelent 440Mhz/70CM Amateur Radio HSMM Article

I implore everyone that finds this post to contact there representatives about HR 607.  Here is a link from ARRL with a sample letter & all the information to contact your representative about this matter. HR 607 will strip us of our use of the 70cm band. We must innovate & make highspeed data a [...]

This is why we ground everything!

A friend of mine sent me a copy of this video demonstrating why we must use shielded cables & shielded connectors as well as Cat 5e Grounding block on the exterior of the structure to protect equipment from ESD. This is a video of a Cat-5e Ethernet cable arcing electricity during an electrical storm. It [...]