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We are chatting about the state of wireless with the Scottish and Missouri mafia. **Sponsors** Your Add here :) **/Sponsors** 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

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

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

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 **Sponsors** Preseem.com **/Sponsors**

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

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

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

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

This week we have Tommy, Dennis and Mike Hammett at Midwest Broadband Meeting In Indianapolis Indiana. **Sponsors** Sonar.Software Towercoverage.com Preseem.com **/Sponsors**

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

This week we have Tommy and Denis just Chatting.

  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://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/ Preseem Podcast 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/

  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://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/ Preseem Podcast 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/

  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 and other issues with the big carriers. 01:32:00 O-Band Optics 01:34:30 Fiber should be done on Fridays! 01:39:30 DHCP Lease Times? Use the right tech! 01:48:05 BGP Knobs to turn 01:49:00 Outro, BDC is happening Links: YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/PRVQgQ_NOlQ Dennis – Support@linktechs.net (or if you want to call him listen to the video) Justin – dynstatic.net Tomas – unimus.net OWASP Top 10 https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten/ Topolograph https://topolograph.com/ BGP Knobs to Tune https://archive.nanog.org/meetings/nanog45/presentations/Sunday/Freedman_bgp102_1_N45.pdf IEEE Talking about LEO Bandwidth Limitations https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9568932?denied= O-Band https://www.fiberlabs.com/glossary/original-band/

  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 and other issues with the big carriers. 01:32:00 O-Band Optics 01:34:30 Fiber should be done on Fridays! 01:39:30 DHCP Lease Times? Use the right tech! 01:48:05 BGP Knobs to turn 01:49:00 Outro, BDC is happening Links: YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/PRVQgQ_NOlQ Dennis – Support@linktechs.net (or if you want to call him listen to the video) Justin – dynstatic.net Tomas – unimus.net OWASP Top 10 https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten/ Topolograph https://topolograph.com/ BGP Knobs to Tune https://archive.nanog.org/meetings/nanog45/presentations/Sunday/Freedman_bgp102_1_N45.pdf IEEE Talking about LEO Bandwidth Limitations https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9568932?denied= O-Band https://www.fiberlabs.com/glossary/original-band/

  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.

  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.

  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

  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

  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.