Mikrotik IoT KNOT application examples

Many of you are getting familiar with The Internet of Everything (IoT). This naturally leads to the question “What can I do with it?”. Mikrotik has put together a PDF of some real-world examples of how you can put their products to use in the IoT space.

Musings of an ISP engineer Part 1

-Mondays are for emergencies leftover from the weekend. Try not to schedule meetings or things that can’t be fluid. -Customers lie, even when they don’t do it intentionally. They can’t help it. -Sometimes you have to ask your questions in different ways. The more educated the person you are asking the question to, the more … Read more

Justin’s laws of running an ISP

Some of you may recognize these similar to Murphy’s laws of combat 1. 3am is when you find out your backups don’t work 2. Incoming ddos attacks have the right of way 3. Don’t look important, important people get asked tech support questions. 4. There is always a way. 5. The easy way requires money. … Read more

Important Cambium Upgrade by July 1, 2021

UPDATE: Cambium has extended this to January, 31 2022. Updated Bulletinhttps://www.cambiumnetworks.com/support/field-service-bulletins/fsb9083/?fbclid=IwAR0rhizW7jkovSvBFQnUTWyqEKL41nMEceEyfGaeFMAIOIiWNGZTVU0HmTE On July 1, 2021 Cambium will update the certificate for https://cloud.cambiumnetworks.com 14 to use a new Certificate Authority. All cnMaestro managed devices without the updated Root CA certificate will fail to connect to the cnMaestro Cloud service. Please see the following Field Service Bulletin (FSB) for ePMP … Read more

My first wireless enclosure

This “enclosure” was my first attempt at being a Wireless ISP with no budget. The problem I was trying to solve was putting a waverider Subscriber module on top of a 150 grain leg. The Waverider unit was designed for indoor use. You would mount the unit indoors and then run hardline out to your … Read more