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The Brothers WISP 170 – Paying Attention to Regulations, EU Broadband Funding

Published on September 26, 2022, by Tommy Croghan in EU Regulations, FCC, Paperwork.

This week we have Tommy, Tom Smyth, Nigle (a real lawyer), Nick Buraglio and John Osmon.

**Sponsors**
Sonar.Software
Towercoverage.com
Preseem.com
store.viloliving.com
**/Sponsors**

This week we are talking about changes to the EU’s rules about broadband funding for member countries.

How to reach people:
Tom Smyth
[email protected]
twitter @ogmaconnect1

https://competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/public-consultations/2021-broadband_en
Replys From industry (check Out Asso Provider submissions
https://competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/document/download/02427000-a0ab-46e7-95a6-aa48b0c38b17_en?filename=HT.5766_BBGL_contributions_0.zip

Nick Buraglio
https://forwardingplane.net/
twitter @forwardingplane
https://www.modem.show/ (A really great podcast that I highly recommend everyone checks out)

John Osmon
[email protected]
twitter @johnosmon

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The Brothers WISP 169 – New UI Stuff, ROS 7.5+ and Unimus Pricing Changes

Published on September 11, 2022, by Tommy Croghan in FCC, Fiber, Mikrotik, Ubiquiti, Unimus, WISPAPALOOZA.

This week we have Tommy, Tomas Kirnak, Robert Chacon and Jon Fernandez.

**Sponsors**
Sonar.Software
Towercoverage.com
Preseem.com
store.viloliving.com
**/Sponsors**

This week we talk about:

0:00:20 Introductions
0:03:15 Sponsors
0:05:00 Preseem Event in Vegas
0:08:15 Vilo WiFi 6 Models will be running WRT software.
0:09:00 What people run for their customer routers/WiFi
0:13:00 New Ubiquiti Products, WiFi scanner.
0:24:00 Ubiquiti Management WiFi vs Bluetooth
0:25:00 New Mikrotik Updates 7.5 and other Betas
0:34:00 Cogent Buys T-Mobile’s (Sprint’s) Wireline Network
0:36:30 Fiber experiences
0:39:00 BDC Deadline has been extended. *(You do still need to submit your 477)
0:47:20 No EU version of FCC 477
0:48:00 Unimus Price increases and why. (Programmers are expensive)
0:59:15 LibreQOS intro
1:03:10 How to Contact People

YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/_JCZdbP0M9c

Preseem Event https://preseem.com/wispapalooza-2022/ (Bottom of the page, fill out the forum to register)
Ubiquiti’s announcements https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTiry59nroU
Unimus Pricing Changes Forum Post: https://forum.unimus.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1571

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The Brothers WISP 168 – IX’s and how much we need them

Published on August 28, 2022, by Tommy Croghan in Networking.

This week we have Tommy, John Osmon, Mike Hammett and Martin Weddle. We will be discussing the need for expanding IX presence for both service providers and businesses.

**Sponsors**
Sonar.Software
Towercoverage.com
Preseem.com
store.viloliving.com
**/Sponsors**

This week we talk about:

0:00:45 Introductions
0:03:30 New Patrons
0:05:40 Sponsor Shout outs
0:08:00 The General Issue
0:13:20 How IXPs have evolved
0:16:20 Covid 19 and how things rapidly changed
0:20:00 How this has happened before
** More chapters to come when I have a quick minute **

You can watch the episode here:

Article by Jonathan Davidson:
https://blogs.cisco.com/news/expanding-the-internet-for-the-future-supporting-first-responders-and-society-at-large
John Osmon’s website
https://www.miscreantsinaction.com/
Tommy’s Site and Blog
lostcreek.tech

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The Brothers WISP 166 – Shows, New Ubiquiti Products, VLAN Trunking, Slack Solutions Will Kill Tommy

Published on August 4, 2022, by Tommy Croghan in Cambium, FCC, Power, Switching, WISPAPALOOZA.

This week we have Tommy, Justin Miller, Tomas Kirnak, Alex Hart and Jake Campbell (Also a working mic, thank you for your patience!)

**Sponsors**
Sonar.Software
Towercoverage.com
Preseem.com
**/Sponsors**

This Week we talk about:

00:04:00 Shows and New WISPA Chair
00:07:35 New Ubiquiti Gear, complaints and Drama.
00:12:10 Cambium Snow Shovel
00:14:55 Wispstock.com, stockpiling
00:16:50 CRS354 PoE will boot Ubiquiti AC Gear without passive setting.
00:19:40 Cool Ruckus Switch
00:21:05 Ruckus and MDU Wireless Thoughts.
00:27:50 What is Trunking? Best Practices.
00:34:00 Wispapalooza Oct. 3-6
00:35:40 Slack going to 90 days of messages, future of TBW Messaging?
00:49:05 The Solution to the above problem. (Hilarious, this almost killed me.)
00:55:15 EP-48 Replacements? General Power Discussion.
01:14:45 988 is the USA National Suicide Hotline
01:23:20 Wrapping up. How to reach people.

https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/wispa-hires-david-zumwalt-ceo
Also something I intended to mention during the cast. A good letter that David wrote:
http://wispa.org/news_manager.php?page=25974

New Ubiquiti Products:
https://uisp.com/wireless
https://uisp.com/wired/ufiber

WISPAPALOOZA 2022

https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/988
https://www.fcc.gov/988-suicide-and-crisis-lifeline

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The Brothers WISP – FCC 477/BDC Requirements and Tower Coverage

Published on July 23, 2022, by Tommy Croghan in FCC, Paperwork, Tower Coverage.

Today we have Tommy and Dennis Burgess

This is an unscheduled cast because I have been trying to make this happen for a couple months now and our two busy schedules have finally aligned. (And there’s enough useful information to work with)

We are talking about the new FCC 477 and BDC (Broadband Deployment Collection) requirements for ISPs and how Tower Coverage can help with those issues.

https://www.towercoverage.com/
https://www.linktechs.net/index.html

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The Brothers WISP 165 – Mikrotik L3 Offloading, New RB5009, CRS610, What is Broadband Similar to?

Published on July 17, 2022, by Tommy Croghan in Mikrotik, WISPs are good.

This week we just have Tommy (I am ordering echo stuff for my room because I have listened to this cast 3x now and hate the sound of my own voice…)

Also note: I guess I have been running my mic backwards for the last couple weeks like a moron. ( you can see the silver dot which is the front of the mic facing towards the camera. I have been informed of this particularly foolish mistake and I have been told I sound great now…) I apologize for the horrible audio quality and hope to do better in the future.

**Sponsors**
Sonar.Software
Towercoverage.com
Preseem.com
**/Sponsors**

This Week we talk about:

00:03:33 New FCC Proposed Speed Requirements
00:07:03 ROS 7.4rc2 and My seeing it working pretty well, check it out for yourself.
00:09:20 L3 HW Offload Experience
00:15:53 Unifi on Mikrotik Docker Link Below
00:17:10 FCC Clarification on Who Can Sign Off on Submissions for Broadband Deployment Data
00:21:48 What Can We Compare Internet Service With?
00:31:30 80km Bidi Optics and Diagnostics
00:38:10 Fiber To The Apartment Discussion
00:49:28 Mikrotik New Switches and Newsletter
00:52:14 Mikrotik RB5009 New Version, Note PoE is only on Copper Ports, No PoE on the SFP 😉
01:01:04 How to Contact Me
01:03:53 Midwest Regional Broadband Operators Meeting – July 28, 2022 (Link Below)

Unifi on Docker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rq1Dnj2p8E
New Mikrotik Switch CRS610 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlhEcesjxiw&t=6s
New Mikrotik Newsletter #106 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_QW_KZu7_M
New FCC Requirements 100/20 https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/07/fcc-chair-proposes-new-us-broadband-standard-of-100mbps-down-20mbps-up/
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/midwest-regional-broadband-operators-meeting-july-28-2022-tickets-367808143057?fbclid=IwAR1Mg9uAmqjdb9cJnQLAipGpu-sJvTHAX8nMzi4QpSuo5_dyid6RoBAdTHQ

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The Brother WISP 164 – Docker is back! Heartwarming stories and TCP Retransmission issues.

Published on July 2, 2022, by Tommy Croghan in Mikrotik, Monitoring, Networking, WISPs are good.

This week we have Tommy and Zach.

**Sponsors**
Sonar.Software
Towercoverage.com
Preseem.com
**/Sponsors**

This Week we talk about:

0:00:10 Intro
0:04:14 Be careful with lighting Season this year. Heartwarming story from Alex Robinson (Open Wireless), Ryan Reid (ROAMR Wireless & Broadband) and David Busch (ZipLink Systems) ?flite=scwspnss
00:06:35 Docker Support is coming back! Containers on x86
00:09:10 Getting Docker to Run has some Gotchas.
00:12:10 Consumer Privacy and minimizing your knowledge
00:15:00 Zach is waiting for NAT to work in VRFs
00:17:41 Communities on ROS v7 Filters is Great! Still is a bummer we don’t have a useful GUI
00:20:22 New Netwatch features (Don’t block ICMP)
00:22:35 Zach’s woes hunting down TCP retransmission issues.
00:30:00 Become Multi-Homed benefits and some diagnostics ideas.
00:33:58 New RouterOS Jailbreak attack from Margin Research
00:37:00 CloudFlare Outage report. Testing Methodologies
00:46:40 Open Source Network?
00:53:10 Juniper MX204s are heading towards EOL
00:55:19 Open Source Caching with QWILT
01:03:15 Wrap up.

Heartwarming WISP story: https://www.facebook.com/100003275926482/posts/5093997970719350/ (Requires Facebook, sorry)
Docker Support Link https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=84901929
New Netwatch Features: https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/Netwatch
RouterOS Jailbreak from Margin Research: https://github.com/MarginResearch/FOISted
And from the same guys How RouterOS works: https://margin.re/blog/pulling-mikrotik-into-the-limelight.aspx
Cloudflare outage and report: (someone put the “Deny All” rule above important stuff.)
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-outage-on-june-21-2022/
Open Source Caching with QWILT
https://www.qwilt.com/open-caching/
Zach’s Blog: https://zachbiles.net/

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The Brother WISP 163 – Preseem Sponsor Highlight

Published on June 19, 2022, by Tommy Croghan in Monitoring, Networking.

This week we have Tommy, John Osman, Greg Lipschitz, Jeremy Austin and Dan Siemon to talk about Preseem as our new sponsor

**Sponsors**
Sonar.Software
Towercoverage.com
Preseem.com
**/Sponsors**

This week we talk about:

0:00:59 Introduction
0:05:30 Preseem elevator pitch
0:09:16 Tommy’s Story with Preseem
0:12:28 What is QOE?
0:15:35 Onboarding Time and what Preseem boxed look like (Hardware requirements)
0:19:50 Question “How many queues can you handle?”
0:22:40 CGNAT?
0:25:04 QOS is Bunk!
0:28:59 Is Preseem afraid of the availability of FQ_Codel/Cake in commodity (Mikrotik) hardware?
0:32:40 Is Preseem only for Wireless? What about other Tech? (DSL, Fiber, Cable, PTMP technologies)
0:34:29 The value of Preseem, our access networks need improvement. Why Preseem
0:50:30 Does not replace actually having sufficient bandwidth! But can help.
0:53:41 The classical solution of throwing bandwidth at all of the problems doesn’t help either.
0:57:40 Where does Preseem+ fit in?
0:59:48 What about when you have multiple ingress/egress paths? (diverse upstreams in your network)
1:04:30 What about when the Preseem box fails?
1:06:30 Is Docker an option?
1:08:50 What about integration with other platforms? (Billing software)
1:10:30 Can I just get Preseem+?
1:12:05 IPv6 support?
1:16:10 Multi-Queueing?
1:20:56 Transport Technologies beyond IPv4 and IPv6? (VLAN, VXLAN, MPLS)
1:20:20 Why the WISP Market and what’s the future look like for other technologies?
1:28:40 Goal is improving customer’s experience. (both you and your customer’s)
1:32:00 How to get ahold of Preseem.
1:36:45 How to get ahold of Greg
1:38:07 How to get ahold of John

https://www.youtube.com/c/Preseem
John’s site: https://www.miscreantsinaction.com/

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The Brother WISP 162 – Ubiquiti 60 GHz gear, Mikrotik V7, Flat network recommendations and more

Published on June 7, 2022, by Tommy Croghan in Fiber, Mikrotik, Ubiquiti, Uncategorized.

This week we have Tommy and Jon

**Sponsors**
Sonar.Software
Towercoverage.com
**/Sponsors**

This week we talk about:
Ubiquiti 60 GHz gear announcements, various 60 GHz gear and a cool teardown video, AF60 and AF60LR are Class A Radios Use Caution when placing them!

1 Petabit per second per strand of Fiber

Ubiquiti Edgeswitch s16 Issues and Switch/Power Discussion.

Mikrotik ROS V7.3 RC1 & 2 and Comments on Cake Queues

Flat network woes and recommendations for avoiding annoying things 1:19:00 TCP Windowing issue?

Mimosa Announcements

Subscription Models and how unpopular they are.

Tom Smith BGP on BSD, X86 Routers

Relevant Links

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxC5R…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI9fv…

https://newatlas.com/telecommunicatio…

Fiber Store’s Mux ponder https://www.fs.com/products/148739.html