TheBrothersWISP

TheBrothersWISP

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TheBrothersWISP episodes

  • The Brothers WISP 189 – WISPAPalooza 2024

    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 [email protected]

    Tommy can be reached at [email protected]

    Email us at [email protected]

    **Sponsors**

    Sonar.Software

    Towercoverage.com

    Preseem.com

    **/Sponsors**

    55 min
  • The Brothers WISP 188 – Sometimes Ubiquiti gives you tools to fix their screw ups

    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 [email protected]

    Email us at [email protected]

    **Sponsors**

    Sonar.Software

    Towercoverage.com

    Preseem.com

    **/Sponsors**

    1 hr 43 min
  • The Brothers WISP 187 – Is IS-IS worth learning + other news

    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: [email protected]

    **Sponsors** Sonar.Software

    Towercoverage.com

    Preseem.com

    **/Sponsors**

    1 hr 35 min
  • The Brothers WISP 186 – WISPs in Europe and the EU

    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

    2 hr 14 min
  • The Brothers WISP – 184 – Net Neutrality is Back Baby!

    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

    1 hr 43 min
  • The Brothers WISP 181 – The Cake is not a Lie for ISPs

     

    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: [email protected] 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/

    1 min

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