Stealth small cell deployment
Small cell stealth deployment painted to blend in with downtown Indianapolis. #packetsdownrange #smallcell
Preseem releases access point paper
https://www.preseem.com/2019/06/wireless-access-point-market-insights/ Unlike spec sheets from manufacturers, Preseem collects real-world data from access points in all kinds of deployments and analyzes statistics at a top level to offer valuable insights. So, as part of our Fixed Wireless Network Report, we calculated wireless access point market insights on market share, connected subscriber count, performance on QoE metrics … Read more
Three Spacelink Satellites just floating
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7200885/SpaceX-loses-control-three-Starlink-internet-satellites-just-WEEKS-launch.html SpaceX has lost contact with three satellites in its new Starlink orbiting network, with the errant craft now destined to fall out of orbit and burn up in the atmosphere. Granted, they launched 60 satellites and only three have been lost so far. That is a 5% failure rate so far.
Comcast is pushing for broadband mapping changes
Comcast met with FCC officials last week to urge them to adopt NCTA-The Internet & Television Association’s proposal to use polygon shapefiles
Another BGP blunder.but not THAT one
Recently, there has been much talk about the Cloudflare BGP blunder and others. But did you know there was one involving the entire /12 of IPV6 space
Dot1x in Routeros 6.45.1
Some of you may have noticed a new menu item pop up in winbox labeled dot1x Dot1x is implementation of IEEE 802.1X standard in RouterOS. Main purpose is to provide port-based network access control using EAP over LAN also known as EAPOL. 802.1X consists of a supplicant, an authenticator and an authentication server (RADIUS server). … Read more
Ubnt NVR upgrade woes
The guys over at ISP Supplies publishes a blog post on some issues with Ubiquiti NVR updates and solutions to the problems. https://www.ispsupplies.com/blog/ubiquiti-unifi-video-nvr-upgrade-fails #packetsdownrange #routingrf
Cambium networks and CBRS
Check out this webinar from Cambium networks on CBRS and the Cambium products. Cambium gives you an update.
Check out our peering DB entry
Check out our peering DB entry
Product of the week: LTE signal booster
Do you have poor cellular signal in your home or office? Maybe a mobile job site?
j2 blog hits a new record 4,448 unique visits on Jul 1
Thank you to everyone who reads this blog. Without you it would not be as much fun. Yesterday we hit a record of 4,448 views! Thank you all so much. Spread the word. https://blog.j2sw.com https://www.facebook.com/j2swnetworks https://twitter.com/j2sw https://instagram.com/j2sw