Day 7 - Consulting at W3Logic

I agreed to spend the day working with the guys at 3WLogic today and it was a treat. Most WISP's I have visited especially in rural areas, work on a tight budget and don't have the opportunity to develop their networks much beyond what is absolutely necessary to operate and certainly don't design and develop their own solutions, at least not to this level. Butch and Ike have been in business more than six years and when they didn't like the performance and features of Motorola's famed CMM device that controls the Canopy cluster, they simply built their own. Yes, you heard me right, they built their own Canopy controller complete with redundant GPS, redundant power supplies, and loads of monitoring capabilities.

Their NOC is also as nice as I have

seen and lives nestled in the basement of their office. It was a pleasure working with them today and learning about their capabilities. I showed them a few MikroTik tricks and they showed me a few of their Canopy tricks as well. Overall a very productive day!

Tomorrow, we head home through Gatlinburg and pigeon Forge, Tennessee and plan to take a day off there before returning to College Station.

RouterOS Tip of the day...

Stopping commands run by others:

Imagine a situation where another Administrator user has connected to your router, and has started some monitoring action, bandwidth test, scan or any other feature that runs indefinitely, and then gone home.

You can terminate other running commands from your console within the “/system script job” menu.