TheBrothersWISP
By Greg Sowell
The Brothers WISP 193 - RIP Matt Hardy, State of Wireless, Tachyon 60Ghz
We are chatting about the state of wireless with the Scottish and Missouri mafia.
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Topics Covered
The return of The Brothers WISP after a long break.
How the Northeast WISP / Scottish WISP community formed and grew.
Remembering Matt Hardy and his impact on the industry.
What changed in fixed wireless over the last four years.
Ubiquiti Wave: early issues, improvements, limitations, and supply roblems.
UISP as a monitoring tool versus a CRM.
Splinks, Sonar, Powercode, and other WISP management platforms.
Cambium deployments and moving away from older AirMax networks.
Tarana G1 performance, power requirements, spectrum reuse, latency, and real-world speeds.
Using 60 GHz with backup paths, OSPF, BFD, and carrier drop.
Monitoring backup links and the difficulty of knowing when secondary paths fail.
MikroTik’s role in routing, 60 GHz, LTE/5G backup, and outdoor wireless.
TP-Link Aginet routers, TR-069 provisioning, GenieACS, and remote CPE management.
The shift toward fiber and hybrid wireless-to-fiber deployments.
Why 6 GHz could be a major opportunity for WISPs.
The missing low-cost replacement for small Ubiquiti AirMax micropop deployments.
Tachyon’s 60 GHz gear and why it has Andrew excited.
Guest Links and Contact Info Mentioned
Conor / Converged Rural Broadband: crb.scot
Conor email: conor@crb.scot
Ali / Commswest: commswest.co.uk
Rob / WiFi Scotland: wifiscotland.co.uk
Bill: bill@marykirk.com
Andrew Kaiser: Find him in the Little Brothers WISP Slack and WISP-related Facebook groups.
The Brothers WISP Patreon: patreon.com/brotherswisp
Greg’s site: gregsowell.com
Join the patron-only Slack at http://patreon.com/thebrotherswisp
Contact us at contactus (at) thebrotherswisp.com
http://facebook.com/thebrotherswisp
http://TheBrothersWISP.com
The Brothers WISP 192 - Gregs Back, Big Mikrotik, RIP Dude
This week we have Greg and Justin Miller back at it again :)**Sponsors****/Sponsors**This week we talk about:chinog at the end of the monthOOB on wifi?hap be3 media-4 core 1.5 ghz - 2GB ram- 2.5Gb ether - containersMikrotik, what have I missed?I remember lan partiesImpossible to get kitted servers...ram *sigh*CopyFail, DirtyFrag, AI exposure on the riseThe Dude is dead, for real this time.ITW May 18-21 at national harbourJoin the patron-only Slack at http://patreon.com/thebrotherswispContact us at contactus (at) thebrotherswisp.comhttp://facebook.com/thebrotherswisphttp://TheBrothersWISP.com
The Brothers WISP 191 – ISP America
Reporting from WISPA's first ISP America show in Atlanta.
We have Jeremy Austin with Preseem
Justin Wilson j2sw.com
Andrew Kaiser with Ridgetop Networks
The Brothers WISP 190 – WISPAPalooza 2025
We are back again at WISPAPalooza Lots of industry news and everyone is pretty happy with how things went.
Dennis can be reached at sales@Linktechs.net
Email us at thebrotherswisp@gmail.com
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The Brothers WISP 189 – WISPAPalooza 2024
We are back in Vegas, this year we have Dennis Burgess, Mac (McKenzie) McCarthy, Tomas Kirnak and Tommy Croghan talking about the 2024 WISPA show and what's been announced.
There's a lot to go over, and we have NEW Mics which sound so much better.
Ubiquiti Wave MLU, Cambium EVO and Tarana vRN all announced along with the interesting things we have seen at the show.
Tomas can be reached at unimus.net
McKenzie McCarthy can be found on LinkedIn and the Brothers WISP Slack channel https://www.linkedin.com/in/mckenzie-mccarthy-67519a54/
Dennis can be reached at sales@Linktechs.net
Tommy can be reached at tommy@lostcreek.tech
Email us at thebrotherswisp@gmail.com
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The Brothers WISP 188 – Sometimes Ubiquiti gives you tools to fix their screw ups
This episode we have Tomas Kirnak and Tommy Croghan talking about Cheaper Tarana hardware coming to town, tougher EU telecommunications requirements, the MikroTik Mode button, IPv6 Implementation in Ubiquiti AirMax and more.
Useful IPv6 DHCP-PD links
https://thisbridgeistheroot.com/blog/dhcpv6-prefix-delegation https://www.alliedtelesis.com/sites/default/files/documents/configuration-guides/dhcpv6_feature_overview_guide.pdf
Don't forget to catch us at WISPAPalooza 2024 in Vegas!
Tomas can be reached at umimus.net
Tommy can be reached at tommy@lostcreek.tech
Email us at thebrotherswisp@gmail.com
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The Brothers WISP 187 – Is IS-IS worth learning + other news
This episode we have Tomas Kirnak, John Osman and Tommy Croghan talking about various news evens and spending quite a lot of time on IS-IS and how it fits into the protocol spectrum that we have available to us.
Check out ABQ NOG coming soon! https://abqnog.org/
Check out the other NUG groups happening near you! https://www.usnua.com/
Tomas can be reached at umimus.net
John Osman can be reached at: john@osman.net
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The Brothers WISP 186 – WISPs in Europe and the EU
This episode we have Tom Smyth and Ole-Morten Sundheim joining us to talk about running small ISPs in Europe and the EU.
This is the start of some international casts I have been wanting to do to recognize our listeners all over the world and look at issues and struggles that ISPs face throughout the world. Please reach out if you have an ISP in Africa, Asia, Pacific or the South Americas and we can talk about having you on the cast.
White Paper https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/white-paper-how-master-europes-digital-infrastructure-needs
EU Consultation on White Paper open until 23:59 CET 30th June 2024 https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14168-White-Paper-How-to-master-Europes-digital-infrastructure-needs?_en
Here's the YouTube link if you really want to see our faces https://youtu.be/Fjj0Z0esLRk
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The Brothers WISP 185 – Midwest Broadband Operators 2024
This week we have Tommy, Dennis and Mike Hammett at Midwest Broadband Meeting In Indianapolis Indiana.
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The Brothers WISP – 184 – Net Neutrality is Back Baby!
This week we have Tommy, Dennis and Jeremy
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Notes and Links 120° WaveAP 4-Radio Tower Mount – Brandon's Tower Mounts https://towermounts.myshopify.com/
FCC Order https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-401676A1.pdf
BC Broadband conference https://www.miragenews.com/claire-anderson-joins-british-columbia-1221600/
Common WISP Mistakes by Joshaven Potter https://visp.net/blog/common-wisp-mistakes-frankensteined-wireless-infrastructure/
A breakdown of a dialup modem getting started. Absolutely beautiful. https://www.windytan.com/2012/11/the-sound-of-dialup-pictured.html
TheBrothersWISP 182 – Not much news
This week we have Tommy and Denis just Chatting.
The Brothers WISP 181 – The Cake is not a Lie for ISPs
This week we have Tommy, Jon Fernandez, David Taht, Robert Chacon, Dan Siemon and Zach Biles
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00:00:00 Introductions 00:05:10 Dave Taht’s Story 00:18:00 What is Buffer Bloat? 00:25:50 Dave’s Poem about Congestion 00:28:30 Dave’s Mission 00:30:10 What is FQ_Codel? 00:44:30 What have various implementations been focused towards? 00:47:50 New Zealand Example and the ECN Bit 00:51:20 What does CAKE do different than FQ_Codel 01:04:30 Congestion isn’t just in our Links, looking at the insane time scale of BW 01:09:50 How different protocols handle being queued (Not everything is IPv4/TCP) 01:25:10 Where should you be doing your proper Queuing 01:34:00 How well has FQ_Codel and CAKE been implemented? (Kinda poorly) 01:37:00 Dynamic BW availability controls? 01:42:30 Wrapping Up 01:54:00 Dave’s 3 Points
How to get ahold of people Dave: dave.taht@gmail.com https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/bloat/wiki/Daves_Media_Guidance/ Zach: zachbiles.net Robert: https://libreqos.io/ Dan: www.coverfire.com Preseem.com Jon: https://geekitek.com/
The Blind Men and the Elephant
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7567 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8290 https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2209336 Personal Blog Post by Dan Siemon about QUIC https://www.coverfire.com/archives/2023/07/11/the-rise-of-udp/
Not mentioned in the cast, but informational pages that were very helpful for me in my learning process. (Mikrotik’s documentation has gotten a lot better in the last few months thank goodness.) https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/codel/wiki/ https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/tc-cake.8.html https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/Queues#Queues-FQ-Codel https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.07617.pdf https://lwn.net/Articles/758353/