The Brothers WISP 176 - Nutrition Labels, Ubiquiti Wave AP hitting GA and Preparing for Bad Weather

This week we have Tommy, Dennis Burgess, Chad Wachs and Andrew Horton.
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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

[@maigonis.elleris]

About internet history in Latvia you are about spot on. I remember childhood, (around >2000s) when on of my friends got PC and internet. At that time all local ISPs had twisted pair runs, from building to building as you mentioned. At that time I believe they where using RouterOS, but on regular PCs converted to routers, as routerboards was not yet made at the time of deployment, or requirements was not met (no CCRs at that time). Stability was sometimes not that great, and thunderstorms burned many customer and ISPs equipment NICs, but local network speeds was whit out limits. So DC++, emule downloaded movies and games really fast, if peers was in local ISP network. There where even specific ISP hubs in DC++, just for that ISP users, so you can get full fast ethernet speeds. Also, at one point, public internet speed was raised x2 at night. Dunno why and how.
We had and still have DSL, but there is only one provider (at least that matters and still is in operation), our biggest country wide telecommunication company that is now called Tet. Before it was called Lattelecom. As they had country wide telephone lines (not sure about type they use) they could implement DSL.

[@dewboy2005]

Entrepenuer Network / RF Admin. I am adding that to my resume!! I currently run someones WISP 2 Hours south of St Louis Missouri but I live in Minnesota and wanna start my own this summer. For the right price though, I travel! Hahaha

[@mikerichardson6973]

Andrew the filibuster