TheBrothersWISP Tommy Croghan

 
This week we have Tommy, Dennis Burgess, Chad Wachs and Andrew Horton.
**Sponsors**
Sonar.Software
Towercoverage.com
Preseem.com
store.viloliving.com
**/Sponsors**
00:00:00 Intro and Sponsors
00:08:05 FCC Nutrition Labels are official
00:16:30 Andrew’s going big and his story
00:27:30 Wave AP hitting GA
00:30:30 Battery Backup thougths
00:33:00 Tommy Needs a life
00:34:15 Getting ready for the Storm
00:41:00 Open Access Community Networks
00:53:45 Ubiquiti, 6GHz and WiFI 6/e
01:03:20 28% of Customer Support Story
01:08:45 BDC Challenges are a CF
01:17:30 Mikrotik 100G SFP for $350
01:24:40 BDC Round 2 hitting Jan 1st (Yeah, it’s a CF)
01:32:00 Signing off

 
This week we have Tommy, Justin Wilson, Greg Lipschitz, Tom Mitchell (netElastic) and Paul Mannion (From Intel).
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Sorry about the long delay between casts guys, life happened and I have been a bit preoccupied. But we have a great episode for y’all today.
I met Tom at WISPAPalooza 2022 and we thought it would be fun to chat with Paul Mannion who rocks Intel’s Next Generation Broadband Architecture and we are talking about what can be done with X86 these days.

 
This week we have Tommy, Andrew Kaiser and Seth Poche (of Cambium).
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Hey guys, this is a vendor spotlight from Cambium on their cnHeat project and how to use it for BDC submissions.
https://cnheat.cambiumnetworks.com/
Andrew’s WISP
ridgetopnetworks.com

 
This week we have Tommy, Jeremy Austin, Mike Hammett, Thomas Kirnak and Justin Miller
We are talking about the WISPA America show in Louisville Kentucky.

 
This week we have Tommy, Dennis Burgess (LinkTechs), Thomas Kirnak and Justin Miller.
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00:00:00 Introductions
00:02:15 Sponsors and Patreon
00:04:00 Bad actor companies on FB & RF Elements
00:07:05 Going back to secorized pannels?
00:09:25 WRT54G, That Belongs in a Museum!
00:13:52 Bad Credit Card Machines and UNIFI
00:17:45 New PCI Compliance Testing Rules
00:22:06 OWASP Top 10 and Security Testing
00:27:05 Penetration Testing Fun
00:32:40 Communicating in an Outage
00:52:50 Topolograph
00:54:11 Memorizing Your Network and Maping it
01:01:00 Big F’n Deal, ROS is now Feature Complete! s
01:09:45 ChatGPT won’t be replacing Network Admins
01:12:45 IEEE Talking about LET Bandwidth Limitations
01:18:30 Backup Connections Building and Selling them to Customers
01:25:10 Spectrum will no longer sell to WISPs (Official)
01:29:10 Frontier’s fiber build budget has been spent and other issues with the big carriers.
01:32:00 O-Band Optics
01:34:30 Fiber should be done on Fridays!
01:39:30 DHCP Lease Times? Use the right tech!
01:48:05 BGP Knobs to turn
01:49:00 Outro, BDC is happening
Links:
YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/PRVQgQ_NOlQ
Dennis – Support@linktechs.net (or if you want to call him listen to the video)
Justin – dynstatic.net
Tomas – unimus.net
OWASP Top 10 https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten/
Topolograph https://topolograph.com/
BGP Knobs to Tune https://archive.nanog.org/meetings/nanog45/presentations/Sunday/Freedman_bgp102_1_N45.pdf
IEEE Talking about LEO Bandwidth Limitations https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9568932?denied=
O-Band https://www.fiberlabs.com/glossary/original-band/

 
This week we have Tommy, Jon Fernandez, David Taht, Robert Chacon, Dan Siemon and Zach Biles
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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: dave.taht@gmail.com 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/

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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/