Episodes

  • The Brothers WISP 176 – Nutrition Labels, Ubiquiti Wave AP hitting GA and Preparing for Bad Weather

    The Brothers WISP 176 – Nutrition Labels, Ubiquiti Wave AP hitting GA and Preparing for Bad Weather
    Dec 22 2022
    This week we have Tommy, Dennis Burgess, Chad Wachs and Andrew Horton. **Sponsors** Sonar.Software Towercoverage.com Preseem.com store.viloliving.com **/Sponsors** 00:00:00 Intro and Sponsors 00:08:05 FCC Nutrition Labels are official 00:16:30 Andrew’s going big and his story 00:27:30 Wave AP hitting GA 00:30:30 Battery Backup thougths 00:33:00 Tommy Needs a life 00:34:15 Getting ready for the Storm 00:41:00 Open Access Community Networks 00:53:45 Ubiquiti, 6GHz and WiFI 6/e 01:03:20 28% of Customer Support Story 01:08:45 BDC Challenges are a CF 01:17:30 Mikrotik 100G SFP for $350 01:24:40 BDC Round 2 hitting Jan 1st (Yeah, it’s a CF) 01:32:00 Signing off
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  • The Brothers WISP 177 – X86 vs ASIC, Why We Don’t Need Custom Hardware

    The Brothers WISP 177 – X86 vs ASIC, Why We Don’t Need Custom Hardware
    Feb 2 2023
    This week we have Tommy, Justin Wilson, Greg Lipschitz, Tom Mitchell (netElastic) and Paul Mannion (From Intel). **Sponsors** Sonar.Software Towercoverage.com Preseem.com store.viloliving.com **/Sponsors** Sorry about the long delay between casts guys, life happened and I have been a bit preoccupied. But we have a great episode for y’all today. I met Tom at WISPAPalooza 2022 and we thought it would be fun to chat with Paul Mannion who rocks Intel’s Next Generation Broadband Architecture and we are talking about what can be done with X86 these days.
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  • The Brothers WISP 178 – Cambium cnHeat Vendor Spotlight

    The Brothers WISP 178 – Cambium cnHeat Vendor Spotlight
    Feb 25 2023
    This week we have Tommy, Andrew Kaiser and Seth Poche (of Cambium). **Sponsors** Sonar.Software Towercoverage.com Preseem.com store.viloliving.com **/Sponsors** Hey guys, this is a vendor spotlight from Cambium on their cnHeat project and how to use it for BDC submissions. https://cnheat.cambiumnetworks.com/ Andrew’s WISP ridgetopnetworks.com
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  • The Brothers WISP 179 – WISPAMERICA 2023

    The Brothers WISP 179 – WISPAMERICA 2023
    Mar 20 2023
    This week we have Tommy, Jeremy Austin, Mike Hammett, Thomas Kirnak and Justin Miller We are talking about the WISPA America show in Louisville Kentucky.
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  • The Brothers WISP 180 – Communicating in an Outage

    The Brothers WISP 180 – Communicating in an Outage
    Jul 8 2023
    This week we have Tommy, Dennis Burgess (LinkTechs), Thomas Kirnak and Justin Miller. **Sponsors** Sonar.Software Towercoverage.com Preseem.com store.viloliving.com **/Sponsors** 00:00:00 Introductions 00:02:15 Sponsors and Patreon 00:04:00 Bad actor companies on FB & RF Elements 00:07:05 Going back to secorized pannels? 00:09:25 WRT54G, That Belongs in a Museum! 00:13:52 Bad Credit Card Machines and UNIFI 00:17:45 New PCI Compliance Testing Rules 00:22:06 OWASP Top 10 and Security Testing 00:27:05 Penetration Testing Fun 00:32:40 Communicating in an Outage 00:52:50 Topolograph 00:54:11 Memorizing Your Network and Maping it 01:01:00 Big F’n Deal, ROS is now Feature Complete! s 01:09:45 ChatGPT won’t be replacing Network Admins 01:12:45 IEEE Talking about LET Bandwidth Limitations 01:18:30 Backup Connections Building and Selling them to Customers 01:25:10 Spectrum will no longer sell to WISPs (Official) 01:29:10 Frontier’s fiber build budget has been spent
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  • The Brothers WISP 181 – The Cake is not a Lie for ISPs

    The Brothers WISP 181 – The Cake is not a Lie for ISPs
    Jul 27 2023
    This week we have Tommy, Jon Fernandez, David Taht, Robert Chacon, Dan Siemon and Zach Biles **Sponsors** Sonar.Software Towercoverage.com Preseem.com store.viloliving.com **/Sponsors** 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:/
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  • TheBrothersWISP 182 – Not much news

    TheBrothersWISP 182 – Not much news
    Mar 25 2024
    This week we have Tommy and Denis just Chatting.
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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • The Brothers WISP – 184 – Net Neutrality is Back Baby!

    The Brothers WISP – 184 – Net Neutrality is Back Baby!
    May 2 2024
    This week we have Tommy, Dennis and Jeremy https://youtu.be/r5H_-tWkUqg Sponsors Sonar.Software Towercoverage.com Preseem.com /Sponsors 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
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    1 hr and 42 mins