JJ, Justin and Greg speak this week. We also have Rick Harnish of WISPA talk to us about what WISPA is as well as upcoming events:WISPAPALOOZA in Vegas.

We also started the first part of our tower series. In the first part we speak about:
Safety equipment
-what are your favorite brands
—DBI SALA – exofit harness
-what gear is a necessity
–RF protection
-why does Justin wear such stank old nikes?

Tools
-what are your favorites
-what do you consider a necessity to keep on you
–Knife, Justin’s Boker
—Leatherman Wave, though I carry the old style with a real screwdriver on it. I don’t like the bit style.
-ropes & pullies
-wenches

Grounding
-ground to tower?
-ground at base?
-Lightning suppression

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This go around we have Greg, Andrew Cox, JJ Boyd, and surprise guest Andrew Thrift.

Thrift is our pal from New Zealand. He is a network engineer with a wide range of experiences, though we only really grilled him about his MPLS experience with Mikrotik and about where he buys his hair products. BTW when Andrew talks about carting he is talking about racing go-carts!

We talk about:
MPLS
– My initial thoughts on MTK MPLS
– MTK WIKI MPLS
– MTK WIKI lab MPLS
– We also speak about VPLS a layer 2 tunneling option.
Hardware in the MTK 41 newsletter: RB2011UAS-2HnD, RB44Ge, and RB2011L-RM. My thoughts.
Aircontrol2 beta video.
Aircontrol2 wiki.
Speculation on Dude V2.
JJ talks about tower Ice Bridges.
JJ also shares with us his love for the beaglebone.

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We have the whole crew on deck again.

We talk mostly about hardware in this one including:

Toughswitch

Ubiquiti mFi
My ramblings about mFi

Mikrotik RB2011LS-IN
My ramblings
Andrew digging up some hardware info on Mikrotik 10Gb
Google glass (Glasses we were talking about with skydivers)
SPIRAL CUT HOTDOOOOOOOOOGS!

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