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Greg talks to Justin Burdine. This week we talk about: IT in Hollywood New post Covid handshakes. Working from home tips: have a dedicated space, follow normal routine, dress for work, voip phone, vpn via router, take some laps. If you need noise try music or podcasts, videos are pretty distracting. The Last Leg on … Continue reading Greg Talks 11 – Hollywood Dreams, Post-Covid Handshake, Media →

 This week Greg,Tomas, Nick, and Tommy talk about networking and listen to traffic driving by Tomas’ house. This week we talk about: – George A had a cheap SM OTDR he likes…I wonder if he still does? – Use caution with cambium 3000s and it looks like 4.4.2 firmware is “pretty good” so far. … Continue reading The Brothers WISP 101 – Cheap OTDR, UBNT Data Collection, IPv6 Tracing →

 This week Greg, Tomas, and almost Tom Smyth(but not quite) catch up on a month’s worth of stuff. The show is complete with a Tomas rant(your life is now complete). This week we talk about: Greg is looking for a reasonably priced OTDR Lightning hitting a tree can take out your fiber PHPIPAM for … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 92 – IPAMs, Verizon Cust BGP Leak, Linux TCP DoS →

 This week Greg, Mike, Dave, and Alex fail at using Zencastr for the first time. We have failed back to the old audio…it is a sadness. 🙁 This week we talk about: Zencastr Feature Request Doc Ubiquiti v Cambium Ubiquiti LTU UniFi Certification ChiNOG NANOG Dan was having unifi APs with wireless backhauls not … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 90 – Ubnt Vs Cambium, Ubiquiti LTU, Nobody Sees The Same Internet →

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 This week Greg, Tomas, Mike, and Wilson get down with the get down. Get ready towards the end, because we go on some nontechnical discussion on technology’s impact on us in our daily lives along with how the technology we facilitate changes people(we go deep bro). This cast we talk about: Mikrotik Update: GPEN … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 86 – Mikrotik IPv6 Vulnerability, MTK Indoor, Technology’s Impact →

 This week Greg talks to Nick Buraglio about his top 5 tips. The Tips: * Be the dumbest person in the room * Know your network * Failure is your friend * Grey is the new black, grey is the new white * Networking is largely social, technical is an artifact * Play to … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP Nick Buraglio’s Top 5 Tips →

 This week Greg, Dave, Mike, and the ever elusive Tomas go on some rants! This cast we talk about: Unimus update from Tomas New Weekly Feature Big Boy Switches Chi-NOG LibreNMS PHP Requirement Change *Slack Updates* Mike K says use silicore HDPE conduit to pull fiber in underground. Mike K also suggests the use … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 83 – Unimus Internals, Big Switches, State of Opensource →

 This week Greg, Dave, Nick, and Andrew Thrift along with his hair, do the thing with the mics. Cox also teases us…we don’t deserve two Andrews in one cast. This cast we talk about: Mikrotik newsletter 87 Intel may be purchasing Mellanox (as per Thrift) Tilera–>EzChip–>Mellanox–>Intel DNS Flag Day anyone? John Osmon’s 5 tips, … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 82 – Mikrotik news 87, Ubiquiti DoS Vector, CRS’ Future →

 This week Greg talks to John Osmon about his top 6 tips. The Tips: 1) *BE* the packet (Know how the network works) 2) pcap or it didn’t happen (get proof) 3) don’t confuse network and physical diagrams 4) give back to the community 5) vocabulary — learn others, teach yours. Necessary for communication … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP Top 5 Tips John Osmon →

 This week Greg, Mike, Dave, and the coolest kid I know in VA, Miller, take it to the mat. This cast we talk about: CEPH and ZFS Open media vault Dynamic SIP server location DNS SRV “Tubes” book PDF? AT&T charges for RFO Certifications? DNS Flag day What bandwidth bursting be used for other … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 81 – CEPH/ZFS, Charging for RFO, Dynamic SIP Servers →

 This week Greg talks to Colin Z about his top 5 tips. The Tips: Colin Z 1) Look at things in terms of a Link Budget. 2) 6 dB delta to make a noticeable difference. 3) Follow basic grounding practices (R56 is a good reference). 4) Plan for outage. 5) Document what you can. … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP Top 5 Tips Colin Z →

 This week Greg, Mike, and Dave do the first cast of the new year…time to start out on the wrong foot 😉 This cast we talk about: UBNT vs. Cambium Lawsuit Update Centurylink outage Mikrotik NAT (as it pertains to SIP and RTP) Broken Greg fav things: hAP AC^2, pickleball, your mom’s house podcast/Harmontown … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 80 – Favorite Things 2018, SIP Tshooting, Centurylink Outage →

 This week Greg and Tommy C(TCent to his fam) talk about their top 5 tips. The Tips: Tommy C 1. Have a test bench: I read somewhere “everyone has a test network, not everyone has a production network” I have been able to pull off so many changes/upgrades to our network just because I … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP Top 5 Tips Tommy C and Greg →

 This week Greg and Mike do an after Thanksgiving update. This cast we talk about: Ubiquiti 0% financing Mikrotik newsletter 85 MUM USA in Austin April 4th-5th Mikrotik BGP Tests? Happy Birthday to Miller IBM picks up RedHat Airspan acquires Mimosa *Slack Updates* Jeff – Huawei US distribution raised prices and documentation is behind … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 79 – Ubiquiti Financing, MUM Austin, Slack Catchup →

 This week Greg, Andrew Cox, Andrew Thrift, Dave, and Nick Arellano choot the chit. This cast we talk about: Generate ACLs for country based filtering Route filter for North America Mikrotik grey hat hacker asking for donations. New logo challenge…what do you guys like? Don’t use RB1100 ports 11-13; on pcie interface which causes … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 78 – MTK Grey Hat, RF E Asymmetric Horns, Supermicro HW Hack? →

 This week Greg, Dave, and Mike (Déjà vu) yarn for a bit; stay a while, and listen. This cast we talk about: IPv6 follow-up: enable ipv6 in MTK, then issue “/system default-configuration print” to see default ipv6 firewall rules Steve’s IPv4/IPv6 Network Aggregator Cambium is going to sell outdoor cat5 Greg’s USB boost converter … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 77 – Cambium Cat5, 4011 BGP, All-In-One or Nah? →

 This week Greg, Dave, and Mike (Déjà vu) yarn for a bit; stay a while, and listen. This cast we talk about: Mikrotik renames release channels DHCP Snooping Ubiquiti CPEs with public IPs stop responding to admin access, but pass traffic…why? Tool to aggregate IPv4/IPv6 routes – thanks Steve! Mikrotik newsletter 84 RB4011 RB4011 … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 76 – New Mikrotik Kit, UBNT CPE Mystery, S3 Buckets vs Dropbox →

 This week Greg, Dave, and Mike do a quick cast to kick off the Labor day weekend…it sure feels like working trying to listen to these things, though… This cast we talk about: SECURE YOUR ROUTERS!!!!!!!!! Ignite net new firmware TBW IPv6 podcast Nicks notes on IPv6 All of the pickles Sangoma acquires Digium … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 75 – VoIP Acquisitions, Unifi XG, A Hashing Story →

Nick, John, Miller, Tommy, Mike, and Greg talk about the various reasons to do IPv6 or not, some of the hurdles to implement, and use cases. We also discuss: Business case for IPv6 Islands of knowledge Consumer vs Enterprise Dual stacking P2P addressing Subnet sizes Subnet sizes to deliver to customers Prefix delegation via DHCP … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP – Why Should I Use IPv6? →

 This week Greg, Dave, Mike, Miller and Andrew Cox totally bro out and talk about manly things…and at the end Greg feels all the feels, so use caution if that’s not your thing 😉 This cast we talk about: Dragonwav’s annoucement Bare minimum to protect your Mikrotik Greg Trains on Ciena Metro E Kit … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 74 – Protect your tik, Ciena Metro E, Unresponsive Customers →

 This week Greg, Dave, and Mike trade our favorite recipes. This cast we talk about: Mikrotik 4011 first look Mikrotik 4011 second look Wireless Wire MTU Issue – regular wireless l2mtu of 1600 Mikrotik selling CWDM muxes and optics Mikrotik coinhive crytpojacking More botnets taking advantage of winbox holes up to version 6.42 Mikrotik … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 73 – Mikrotik 4011, security, MTU, cheap fiber tools →

 This cast we talk about: NEWS: Cambium launches the e700 outdoor WiFi AP NEWS: RF Elements gets hornier Mikrotik have found a bit of focus on LTE, HOORAY! NEWS: Mikrotik: RB450Gx4 and hEX S new products + discuss the inevitable refresh of Omnitik AC, Dynadish, Netmetal Mikrotik switching – State of Play 1H2018 Ham … Continue reading TBW 71: Where oh were could Greg be? →

 This week Greg, Dave, and Mike get jazzy. Can you notice the better audio? This cast we talk about: Mikrotik LHG60 available around 15th of this month stagnation in vendors vs wireless in emerging markets Caching on https USAC – FCC subsidized telecom costs for govn’t organizations UBNT starts looking into AirMax MPLS issues … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 70 – LHG60g, Vendor Stagnation, Why Ham? →

 This week Greg, Dave, and Mike have some real talk, bro. This cast we talk about: Follow up from last week: Calix G.fast and Coworking space software Nexudus VoIP phones that don’t feel cheap Mikrotik 6.43rc17 – w60g – added 4th 802.11ad channel (CLI only); Mikrotik part of the VPNFilter botnet Mikrotik Hex-S – … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 69 – VoIP Phones, Mikrotik Hex-S, Centralized Vs Distributed DHCP →

 This week Greg Dave from PennyTone choot the chit. This cast we talk about: Who is using G.fast; what are you using and how well did it work? LibreNMS with Centos Brick. PHP conflict due to auto update Security onion security collection Flow collection / elastiflow with elasticstack and nfsen/ndfump(Nick B.), ntop(Tom S). Co-working … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 68 – G.fast, Security Onion, Co-working spaces →

 This week Greg, Mike, and Tomas catchup for the first time in ages! This cast we talk about: New mimosa radio – was it 24Ghz? Mikrotik MUM EU hardware waplte Unimus has blog/mass change pushes 10Gb unifi gateway Cloudkey version 2 hits FCC Mikrotik winbox port vulnerability from 6.29 to 6.42 xLEC Stuff FB … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 67 – 10G unifi Gateway, New Mikrotik Hardware, 24Ghz Mimosa →

 This week Greg, Alex, Miller, and Tomas all sit down and talk on day one at the 2018 Baltimore MUM. Thanks to our sponsor for this cast Sonar.Software. A simple yet feature rich customer billing platform. This cast we talk about: Some of the new CRS devices wAP60G tweaks Mikrotik Hardware Help support us … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP66 – Mikrotik MUM 2018, wap60G, Mikrotik Hardware →

 This week Greg, Mike, Wilson, Miller, and Tomas discuss the chick pea, it’s neither a chick, nor a pea. This cast we talk about: chinog in may Wispamerica very soon OpenVPN isn’t so hard Mikey 😉 Unimus has some US MUM vouchers, so bother Tomas about it. Siklu has 70/80Ghz 10Gb wireless link Link … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 65 – OpenVPN, Siklu 10Gb, VAR’s Design →

 Greg, Wilson, Andrew Cox, and Mike put all those other sucker MCs to shame. This cast we talk about: Slack updates CHR virtio-scsi driver/CHR additions in recent RC Virtual routing ASICs to CPU routing, and back to ASICs What does your network lab look like? Upcoming events Help support us by becoming a patron! … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 64 – CHR/Virtual Routers, MUM Spec, Your Lab →

 Join Tomas, Mike, and Greg as we roll the D20, and forage through our bag of holding. This cast we talk about: Mikrotik updates wap-60g hap-ac2 cap-ac Newsletter 80 USB-powered MT Getting a network coach. Account manager vs. sales vs. sales support vs. sales engineer The boring company’s flame thrower Help support us by … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 63 – Mikrotik NL 80, Network Coach, Sales People →

 The two best looking brothers Greg and Mike chat about networkie type things. This cast we talk about: Google devices disrupting home wifi Ubiquiti Unifi Dimmers Mikrotik hAP ac2 – AC wave 2 gear How many routes have you gotten on a CCR? IPv6 again… EDNS Help support us by becoming a patron! Keep … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 62 – WiFi Broadcast Storms, Large BGP Tables, Unifi Automation →

 Andrew Cox, Mike, and Greg(who has a cold{sorry}) talk about some of their favorite things from 2017. This cast we talk about: Meltdown/Spectre IPv6 464XLAT What do you want to see in 2018? What is your favorite piece of gear of 2017? Deals with other ISPs to sell their service? Playlist of interesting WISP-related … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 61 – Meltdown, IPv6, Favs Of 2017 →

 We have Greg(I’m so sick of seeing this guy) and Tomas working it out. This cast we talk about: Thoughts on firewall appliances – Joey A. BCP38 Reverse Path Forwarding QoS in the network – where and when Where to rate-limit clients PPPoE Design Considerations Help support us by becoming a patron! Keep contacting … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 59 – Firewalls, QoS, Client Limiting →

 This week Mike and Greg throw mad shade at the haters…or perhaps they just talk about networking stuff. This cast we talk about: Feeback ignitenet switch “meshlinq” – 4(1Gb) and 2.5Gb uplink + trill + 48V DC in netbox for dc documentation/ipam Ubiquiti AmpliFi Teleport – VPN router for travel Thoughts on ibill.io Thoughts … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 58 – Meshlinq, Netbox Doc, Ibill.io/Splynx Impression →

 This week Mike and Greg fight the after Thanksgiving nap to chat about the things. This cast we talk about: New Intro Unimus 1.4.0 released Ubiquiti nanostation AC passes FCC Mikrotik submits an AC cAP to the FCC Wispa drops new videos on youtube from wispaplooza Thoughts on customer mikrotik controller platorm? – Contact … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 57 – Indoor AC, Hosted Mikrotik Control, Choosing ISPs →

 Greg and Brandon review one of the affordable Komshine fusion splicers straight from China. *The audio has a deep hum – sorry guys* They discuss: Stripping and cleaving fiber The fusion process Fusion machine setup Fusion machine maintenence Visual Fault Location Please support us on patreon.com/thebrotherswisp! Keep contacting us: contactus (at) thebrotherswisp.com or https://facebook.com/thebrotherswisp … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP – Fusion Splicing A Beginners Guide →

 This is a compilation of Millennium and BrinkNetworks.com talking to us from Wispaplooza. They discuss: OTDR terms OTDR operations Jirous dishes State of 11Ghz Please support us on patreon.com/thebrotherswisp! Keep contacting us: contactus (at) thebrotherswisp.com or https://facebook.com/thebrotherswisp Here’s the video:(if you don’t see it, hit refresh)

 Miller, Mike, and Greg talk a bit about what and who they saw at this year’s show. This cast we talk about: -Sessions Fiber Friday Master Monday -People Too many to name -Gear Netonix Bridgewave Carbon Fiber Towers Keep contacting us: contactus (at) thebrotherswisp.com or https://facebook.com/thebrotherswisp Here’s the video:(if you don’t see it, hit … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 56 – #Wispaplooza 2017 Wrap-up, Gear Talk →

 This cast we talk about: Baicells Sponsorship Microcom Sponsorship Baltic Sponsorship Tower Coverage Sponsorship Sponsors need to signup a time for Wispapalooza between Tuesday and Wednesday – holler at Mike Long path BGP advertisement filtering As per the UBNT investor day, they have no plans to play in the CBRS range Thoughts on recent … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 55 – BGP Long Path Protection, Ubiquiti Investor Thoughts, Sonar Acquires WispMon →

 This special cast we have Sakid and Dmitry from Cambium along with, Wilson, Mike, Greg, and special guest Brian Gray. What is Cambium at a glance, what is the difference between PMP and ePMP, what is Elevate and how is it being used in the real world. Brian Gray speaks openly and extremely honestly … Continue reading TheBrothesWISP – Cambium Elevate Real World Experience →

 Greg, Mr. Wiiiillllsssoooon, Tomas and Mike chat nicely about all vendors great and small 😉 This is the newer, friendlier TBW hehehe. This cast we talk about: Mikrotik newsletter 78 UBNT UAP‑AC‑SHD Outdoor Boxes Tomas Unimus Updates CBRS Rules Keep contacting us: contactus (at) thebrotherswisp.com or https://facebook.com/thebrotherswisp Here’s the video:(if you don’t see it, … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 54 – Mikrotik Newsletter 78, Ubiquiti UAP‑AC‑SHD, Outdoor Boxes →

 Greg, Mike, and Miller do the thing with the talking and the laughing. This cast we talk about: Hurricane Harvey BGP Looking Glasses Route Servers CLI Ransomware Thermal Inversions Mike moves cables on his B5cs google dns servers under atttaaaaacccckkkk! Mikrotik wAP60 hit FCC Rain fade calculations Rain fade link 2 Chassis-based Radios Keep … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 53 – Hurricane Harvey, BGP Looking Glass, Thermal Inversion →

 Greg and Mike go down the tangent hole, and have a good time doing it. This cast we talk about: Ubiquti Front Row Ubiquiti UCRM Bridgewave has 10Gb AES 256 80ghz link BGP for redundant customer connections WISPAPALOOZA Calendar Midwest IX is looking for a sales leader Dragonwave Bankruptcy 100G switches Unimus Beta licenses … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 52 – Ubiquiti UCRM vs Aircontrol, BGP to Customers, 100Gb Switch →

 This is a special cast with Thrift dropping some knowledge bombs on: Wilson, Mike, and Tomas. This cast we talk about: New chips Mikrotik is using in the CRS3xx line. In particular, these two: CRS317 and CRS326 Here’s a bit of information on what Marvell’s eBridge functionality means Here’s a bit on Carrier Ethernet … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP Special – New MT Chips and Bridging / wireless and UI design →

 We have the lovely Greg, the sleepy Tomas, and the sassy Mike. We talk the talk, though it’s too hot for anyone to walk the walk. This cast we talk about: RF elements link calculator for horns Ubiquiti blocking cambium elevate code Native VTLAN on a trunked port doesn’t seem to work on VMWare … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 51 – UBNT Signed Firmware, New FCC Spectrum, VMware Vs Native VLAN →

 It’s Greg, Tomas(of course), and Miller catching up on a few network related thing-o’s. This cast we talk about: UBNT switch through the FCC, has built in wireless UBNT ONT NanoG Note – Cambium ePMP exploit out/update fools Mike and company do a DNS video Cambium Elevate on MikroTik MikroTik new bridging in 6.40rc … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 50 – Elevate On Mikrotik, New Mikrotik Bridging, iBGP Full Mesh Or Nah →

 Greg grills the Slovakian Robot(Tomas) on some random things. This cast we talk about: Some automation getting started tips(plink, expect scripts, ansible) Success stories from Unimus thus far Speed and quality of services to customers PPPoE VPN issues Tomas worked out Favorite thing you are watching on TV right now Keep contacting us: contactus … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 49 – Mesh Networking, Get Started In Automation, Customer Service →

 This go around we have Greg, Mike, Andrew Cox, and David Attias from PennyTone do the thing where we talk about the stuff. This cast we talk about: High density wifi with Mikrotik? ATT buys Vyatta from Brocade Dual band Mikrotik Groove through FCC MUM Videos Cambium change in support policy. Ignitenet Metrolinq 2.5Ghz … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 48 – Vendor Licensing, Small Dual Band Devices, 2.5Gb Metrolinq, VoIP →

 Greg Sowell, Justin Miller, Tomas Kirnak, Alex Hart, JJ Boyd, and Justin Wilson field AMA Mikrotik questions from the crowd at the 2017 Denver MUM. Bask in brilliance and rapier wit. This cast we talk about: What would you have done differently starting a WISP Routing vs Bridging DHCP vs PPPoE MPLS/VPLS complexity vs … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 47 – MUM 2017 Panel – Routing vs Bridge, PPPoE vs DHCP, Starting Advice →

 The few, the faithful, Tomas, Mike, and Greg beat you over the head with opinion and speculation(everyone’s favorite). This cast we talk about: Tier system for classifying ISPs High Frequency Trading /8 transfers of IPv4 **Reminder, climb smart/safe and go home alive** WISPAPALOOZA 2017 registration now open Cambium Networks cnPilot R190W RFC New Mikrotik … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 46 – Tiering Standard, HFT, Mikrotik RFC Flagship Router →

 This cast we had Greg, Tomas, Tom, Mike, and Miller talking shop. Tom’s rants were even kept just below 10 minutes 😛 This cast we talk about: OpenBSD6.1 Released Routing panel at Denver MUM – may25th and 26th Unimus 0.3.3 GPS sync NTP server RB953GS-5HNT-US has hit the FCC Ubiquiti U-installer Riverbed picks up … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 45 – Upcoming Denver MUM, AU Data Collection, FIOS Gig →

 This cast Tom, Tomas, Mike, and Greg do some deep thinking…you may have believe that if it were anyone but us. This cast we talk about: Youtube TV AWS S3 Outage – Human Error Cloudflare leaking info SHA1 encryption collissions possible, but not practical – 110 years of single-GPU computations. FCC Form 477 filing … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 42 – Youtube TV, AWS Outage, FCC Form 477 →

This week we have a QUICK cast with Tomas, Andrew Cox, Mike, and Greg. This cast we talk about: Unimus additional support for devices Siklu does 60-80Ghz – no real details yet Aaron Hausken‎ creates a rpi config to visually show dude status SIAE Microelettronica Where do you find your new employees? Keep contacting us: … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 41 – Siklu 60-80Ghz, SIAE Microelettronica, Finding Employees →

This week we only have the best looking brothers: Cox, Miller, and the fairest of them all Greg. We talk about: Unimus 1.1.1 portal update Chinog07 in May NANOG69 – DC – Feb 6-8 Mikrotik cAP Lite – 2 cases w/ 3d print files Mikrotik CSS326 – 24XG 2X10Gb – SwOS Mikrotik CRS106 UCRM pCells … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 39 – Mikrotik Gear, UCRM, pCells →

Wow, has it been a while…we’ve MISSED TWO SHOWS!!! Some of you even noticed 🙂 Greg, Andrew COX(sorry about the slip sir), Tomas, Miller, and Mike play catchup for the last month of videos. There’s a lot of hardware chat, get some. This week we chat about: WISPAmerica 2017 – Memphis Midwest-IX STL and new … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 38 – Hardware Catchup – Mimosa, Mikrotik, Ubiquiti →

Greg, Mike, Tomas, and Tom ramble about a lot of things…we inadvertently spend a lot of time musing over Mikrotik and the mysterious version 7. This week we chat about: Unimus was at London MUM – update us CCR1009 hardware change-no switchchip/more throughput hAP lite new design/color wAP Lte Cavium chips (better CCRs?) EdgeMax SFP+ … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 37 – London MUM 2016, Hardware, Mikrotik Bugs, INOG/IPv6 →

Greg, Mike, Miller, and Tom talk about the show in general and some of the presentations. We ask the question “Can anyone have too much Tom in their life?” Keep contacting us ! Facebook.com/thebrotherswisp or contact (at) thebrotherswisp.com Here’s the video:(if you don’t see it, hit refresh)

Greg, Mike, Miller, and Tom talk about some of the hardware at this year’s Wispalooza; and yes Miller…we talk about LTE hehehe. This cast we talk about: LTE Siklu\Vubiq LTU and other UBNT gear RF Elements Amarillo Wireless IPTV Mikrotik IgniteNet Mimosa BrightWiFi Cambium Networks Mimosa Final Thoughts Keep contacting us ! Facebook.com/thebrotherswisp or contact … Continue reading Wispapalooza 2016 – Hardware Wrapup →

Greg, Tomas, and Alex do their best to pretend WISPAPALOOZA didn’t happen(since they were the only ones who didn’t get to go). This one is less news and more conversation/speculation. This cast we talk about: Budapest MUM Unimus in open beta Blocking ICMP Using wireshark with Mikrotik Packet Sniffer Using prefix-length in your route filters … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 35 – Blocking ICMP, Wireshark/Mikrotik Packet Sniffer, Open Compute Networking →

Greg, Tom, Tomas, Alex, and Andrew Cox talk about soooo many things. We get in a spirited debate about who uses Mikrotik and the ease of interface vs how marketing plays into the decision making process. It’s pretty amazing I gotta say. Warning, the end of days may be upon us…Tomas actually promoted QuickSet hehehehe. … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 34 – 10Gb Wireless, Mikrotik Vs Ubiquiti Marketing/Use-case/User Experience, Breaches And DDoS →

Greg, Tomas, and Miller talk a little shop. I do mean little, because this one is short and sweet. Topics Include: MUM Budapest free vouchers WISPAPALOOZA Rebook Scam Arstechnica testing some small routers Ethical BGP Hijacking? Electrical pole attachment – mimosa blog Favorable AF11FX review UBNT EdgePoint Keep contacting us! Facebook.com/thebrotherswisp or contact (at) thebrotherswisp.com … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 33 – News, Ethics Of BGP Hijacking, UBNT EdgePoint, Electrical Pole Attachment →

Greg, Andrew Thrift, Mike, Tomas, and Tom talk routing platforms today…those other than Mikrotik that is. We talk about quite a list of things including: OpenBSD OpenBSD ripe presentation SecurityRouter – Gui/CLI packaged OpenBSD PFSense OpnSense CloudRouter – Feature list – PacketPushers podcast on CR FreeRTR Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Nokia (Alcatel Lucent) – SAM Cisco Juniper … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 32 – Alternative Routing Platforms →

Alex, Tomas, and Greg join today’s cast…Mike showed up to say bye. We go down the rabbit hole like always, but mostly we talk about: We talk about: Unimus 0.2.0 release Google fiber going wireless Mikrotik link calculator International hAPs in US DFS – dynamic frequency selection – mandatory in ROS 6.37 Education – college(to … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 31 – Google Fiber Going Wireless, hAPs and Supply Chain, Education →

This go around we have Greg, Mike, Cox, Tomas, and a little Miller. We go down the rabbit hole like always, but mostly we talk about: Ubiquiti EdgeSwitch 16 XG UBNT hiring PF Sense engineer FAA Tower Regulations 50′-200′ New Mimosa Firmware WISPA Elections Fail2Ban Here’s the video:(if you don’t see it, hit refresh)

Mike, Greg, Miller, and Tomas talk about the recent Ubiquiti exploit(stuff happens, right), and some best practices for securing your network. Mike gives some indepth details on what happened, and we talk about ways to mitigate. Here’s the video:(if you don’t see it, hit refresh)

Greg, Miller, Jeremy Austin, a little bit of Mike, Cox, and Tomas talk about monitoring and demo just a little of what NetXMS can do. We talk about what/how we monitoring now, and how we all wish we had a Tomas to build a system for us. Topics include: NetXMS Tomas’ NetXMS instructional videos What … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP – Monitoring With NetXMS →

It has been ages since we have casted, so it was obvious that we had a lot to say…over 2 hours worth of stuff to say. We covered a lot of ground, so hang on to your britches. This episode we had Andrew Cox, Justin Wilson, Mike Hammett, and myself Greg Sowell. Topics include: Thoughts … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 15 – New UBNT, Tools, Catching Up →

Justin, JJ and Greg talk about Justin’s trip to Wispapalooza and the Ubiquiti World Conference 2012. Andrewwww we miiiiissssss yyyyyooouuuuuu 😉 The glorious links!!!! Wispapalooza Ubiquiti World Conference EdgeMAX ArcWireless new CPE and APs Cambium Some of the topics touched are: AirMAX V2 Nanobridge HP UniFi Justin is a celebrity 🙂 Fast roaming on APs … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 11 – Wispapalooza →

JJ, Justin and myself talk about: The CCR – Additional MUM info on the CCR: – – Winbox and config – – ROS V6 info related to CCR New hardware RB2011UAS-RM, RB2011UAS-2HnD-IN, 2.4Ghz Metal AP/CPE, 2.4Ghz miniPCI, and SXT G-5HnD: – Greg’s list – Justin’s list ROS V6 notes: – Greg’s list – Justin’s list … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 10 – MUM 2012 →

JJ, Justin and Greg speak this week. We also have Rick Harnish of WISPA talk to us about what WISPA is as well as upcoming events:WISPAPALOOZA in Vegas. We also started the first part of our tower series. In the first part we speak about: Safety equipment -what are your favorite brands —DBI SALA – … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 9 – Rick Harnish →

This go around we have Greg, Andrew Cox, JJ Boyd, and surprise guest Andrew Thrift. Thrift is our pal from New Zealand. He is a network engineer with a wide range of experiences, though we only really grilled him about his MPLS experience with Mikrotik and about where he buys his hair products. BTW when … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 8 – Andrew Thrift →

We have the whole crew on deck again. We talk mostly about hardware in this one including: Toughswitch Ubiquiti mFi My ramblings about mFi Mikrotik RB2011LS-IN My ramblings Andrew digging up some hardware info on Mikrotik 10Gb Google glass (Glasses we were talking about with skydivers) SPIRAL CUT HOTDOOOOOOOOOGS! Here’s the video:(if you don’t see … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP 6 – RB2011LS-IN →

Bit of a late addition by me, but the BrothersWISP most recent podcast addressing WISP security is now online. Topics covered are: Securing your border router Securing towers Securing clients Securing administrative machines I wasn’t able to be present for this one due to work commitments (not Diablo 3 thanks Greg :-P) but will … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP – Podcast #3 →

TheBrothersWISP Podcast 2 is now out, head on over here for the video and discussion: Topics covered are: Airfiber ToughSwitch Titanium antennas Aircams Unifi Pro Mikrotik RB2011L-IN This is a pretty long one, we won’t hate you if you want to skip through to the bits you’re interested in 🙂

  Greg and I have started a new podcast series. The idea is to include chats about pretty much whatever seems interesting at the time. This one was quickly after the PL MUM so Greg and I talked about some of the hardware that was announced, along with future predictions for MikroTik gear. Topics include: … Continue reading TheBrothersWISP – Podcast #1 →