[olug] (OT) - Free/Cheap Temporary Colo-space

[Trent Melcher]

That's what I figured, Personally I thinks it's the AP tower that may have
been swaying too much and it only happens when the gusts are over 65 or so,
there was only 2 times on Thursday where I could see the connection dropped
and its was less than a minute both times.  My antenna is bolted down very
securely.  The guys installed it very well ( I made sure of that) for the
very fact of the winds. I live pretty much on top of a hill and there are
not trees around to buffer any winds, so I get slammed pretty good on windy
days.

Trent 

-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of Sam
Tetherow
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 11:47 PM
To: Omaha Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [olug] (OT) - Free/Cheap Temporary Colo-space

Trent Melcher wrote:

>Well, I am hosting my churches website at home right now,  I don't have 
>Cox, so I don't have to deal with the port blocking.  Im taking car eof 
>DNS and have battery backup and cool for my little data center in my 
>basement, however, my pipe is only 256Kbps (advertised) Im actually 
>getting close to 900Kbps up and down.  So far its runniing fine, but 
>it's a wireless connection with line-of-site to the tower, so on really 
>windy days (like last Thursday) my connection can drop intermitently, 
>so Im looking for an alternative.  Im really interested into a facility 
>of some sort.  Im working on a deal with a friend of mine right now, 
>that is looking at moving his home office into a space in 
>bellevue(close to his residence) he has offered me some space for a 
>rack to hold my handful of servers.  He is going to have a dedicated T1 
>to start, and depending on his revenue and requirements might be 
>increasing that.  This at least will be a good start for me, to host my 
>web/dns/smb/mysql/postgresql servers.  Myabe there is a site somewhere 
>in Omaha that could do something similar for our needs,  where are 
>OLUGS currents servers residing?  Maybe there is a little space avaiable in
that area?
>  
>
OT a bit, but you shouldn't lose connectivity on a windy day with wireless I
have hundreds of installs and we didn't get a call at all last week with
problems.  Either you need to secure your antenna mount better or you WISP
needs to do the same with their AP.  In general CPE antennas have atleast a
30* beam width so you have plenty of 'play' in the aim for minor vibration.

--- Sam Tetherow
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