[ale] IP addresses

[Carl Forsell]

DSL works very poorly up here... many of our subscribers have dropped dsl to
come back to dial up accounts (better reliability), or wireless if they are
in range.

We are partnerning (is that a word?) with a gentlemen who owns a whole lot
of microwave (cellular) towers to expand our coverage area.

I am setting up a school right now that is at the extreme end of the
distance from our closest tower.  Sitting on their roof last night with a
hand held antenna I was surfing at 780-900K. (try holding an antenna in one
hand, pc in the other and typing - all at the same time)

Our backhaul (Master antenna to our office) is T1, so that is our max speed,
for now.

Residential we are about $5.00/month less than DSL and for
commercial/business about 20% less.  Setup cost is about the same (very slim
markup, but we are not loosing $ on it)

Can't go into hardware right now (would Macey's tell Gimbels?).

The laptop I was surfing with, on the roof last night, was SUSE6.2.

-----Original Message-----
From: Brown, Matthew <MBrown at msdemo.ms.gmsmail.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: ale at ale.org <ale at ale.org>
Date: Thursday, August 17, 2000 3:13 PM
Subject: RE: [ale] IP addresses


>I am asking for myself, but I know everyone would be interested...
>
>How are you beating DSL with cost and bandwidth using wireless?  What
>hardware are you using?  which provider?  which O/S? - errr nevermind the
>last one :)
>
>-Matthew Brown
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Carl Forsell [mailto:cforsell at roman.net]
>Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 03:16 PM
>To: krugerb at benning.army.mil; ale at ale.org
>Subject: Re: [ale] IP addresses
>
>
>Thanks to one an all.  This script is going to solve my problem.  I tried
to
>be brief earlier but must have been too brief.  The boss has a habit of
>walking in and asking my for (x) consecutive free ip address and sits there
>looking over my shoulder while I start pinging.
>
>We are becoming very active in wireless internet access and the boss likes
>to asign radios IP's that are sequential.  (even with all the hills and
>trees up here in NW GA, we can easily outperform dsl on cost and
bandwidth -
>cool)
>
>Again, thanks for the help.  I appreciate it.
>
>PS.  A friend is trying to sell his boss on Linux.  I showed him a message
I
>posted (a couple of weeks back) and the 18 responces that I got in less
than
>1/2 hour,  His arguement about "no support" went away!  The community is
>growing!
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bob Kruger <krugerb at benning.army.mil>
>To: Carl Forsell <cforsell at roman.net>; ale at ale.org <ale at ale.org>
>Date: Thursday, August 17, 2000 2:47 PM
>Subject: Re: [ale] IP addresses
>
>
>>Carl Forsell wrote:
>>>
>>> Does anyone know of software that can ping a range of IP addresses and
>>> report on which are available?  Manualy pinging each IP address is a
>pain.
>>
>>Ok - a quick and dirty script that I wrote to help me with this task.
>>You can edit as necessary.
>>
>>---------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>#!/bin/bash
>>export TZ=EST5EDT
>>ip1="150.226.80."
>># starting ip number
>>ip2="1"
>>while [ $ip2 -le 255 ] ; do
>>   dt=`date '+%d%b%Y' `
>>   tm=`date '+%H%M' `
>>   ipn="$ip1$ip2"
>>   ping -c3 -q  $ip1$ip2 > /dev/null
>>      if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then
>>         hwa="On line              "
>>      else
>>         hwa="Not active or on line"
>>      fi
>>      echo -e "$ipn \t\t $hwa \t$dt   $tm"
>>      ip2=`expr $ip2 + 1`
>>done
>>
>>
>>---------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>Enjoy.
>>
>>Regards - Bob Kruger
>>
>
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