Tower take down photos
Sone tower work we did in Cincinnati 14 years ago. Taking down an old MCI tower.
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
Some more Install photos
More Wireless Internet and Ham Radio photos from the archives. WISP installs.
Vintage Wireless Install Photos
Some various install photos over the years. Mainly wireless Internet but some ham radio and two-way stuff in here. Some of the quality isn’t so great due to the age of the photos.
Water Tower Install Photos
Some water tower install photos from the archives. These are mainly WISP antennas and equipment on various water towers.
MagMounts on a water tower
Magnet mount for a wireless antenna. This particular mount has a Ubiquiti dish on it.
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
Anyone remember these Wireless antennas?
Just a blast from the past. These were popular in the SMartBridges days of Wireless Internet.
Drunk Posts of a Senior Engineer
Worth a read. https://old.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/nmodyl/drunk_post_things_ive_learned_as_a_sr_engineer/
From the Big Brother Files: Chicago Heat
The Chicago Police Department is using an algorithm to predict whether citizens will be involved with a shooting incident. While the system identifies people who might be involved with an incident, it doesn’t say on which side the citizen might be involved. This resulted in a citizen with no record of violence being continually contacted … Read more