Mike and Wilson went to Wispapalooza and did a quick live event talking about everything new they saw. Joining in on the call was myself(Greg), Miller, Tom and JJ.

Some of the things discussed:
RF Elements Antennas
New Unifi Controlling everything
Ubiquiti Rocket X5
Lots-o-random things inbetween.

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It’s been ages since we’ve gotten together, but we had a pretty good showing. Greg Sowell, Tom Smyth, Justin Miller, Mike Hammet, and JJ Boyd talk shop.

Some of the things discussed:
GPON
airFiber/New Ubiquiti Gear
New Mikrotik gear – Thanks for assembling everything Andrew Cox!
New Mimosa gear
Observium monitoring tools
Cacti monitoring tools
A little about IPTV and content rights.

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This one was somewhat spur of the moment, so we didn’t have the whole crew. JJ, Tom Smyth(obviously Irish), and myself(Greg).

Some of the things discussed:
New MTK Gear(CCR109, mAP, CCR1016-12S-1S+, CCR1072, CAPs Manager)
AirFiber5
RIPE
ARIN

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We had the whole crew! JJ, Justin, Andrew, myself(Greg), and a special guest Bryon Jeffers from Missouri. Bryon did radio work for years, and now owns and operates a WISP. He is also heavy into Ham(I prefer bacon).

Some of the things discussed:
School E-Rate Program
JJ’s Software Defined Radio (SDR)
Codec2
FDMDV
FreeDV
BGP Community Strings
Mikrotik RB260GS switch – SFP port on back
My homemade fiber tester.
Unifi API 1, 2, and 3.
Callmanager express, 6 analog ports, elastix VM on the cheap.
Upcoming Mikrotik MUM
Upcoming WISPAPALOOZA

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I’ve been wanting to pickup one of the Apple USB to Ethernet adapters for a while now, and as well as trying it with a bunch of mobile devices I had a change to plug it in and give it a try with my RB751G.

As you can see the device is detected instantly (Tested with v5.4 so I assume it will work with anything onwards) and no reboot is required for the ethernet adaptor to appear and function! It was loaded just seconds after I plugged it in:

I imagine you could use multiple devices if you had a hub however given the speed limit of USB 2.0 (480Mbps) you would be limited to how many you could attach and still get full throughput. The adapter is 10/100BASE-T so no gigabit here.

Just for the sake of it I ran some btests between my RB1100AHX2 and the RB751G-2HnD with the Apple Ethernet Adaptor. Could easily achieve 100Mbps half duplex when testing from the RB1100AHX2 for traffic generation however trying to do a full duplex test was maxing out the CPU on the RB751 so I would get around 150~Mbps of throughput.

The max MTU size for the adaptor is 1518, this is not listed anywhere that I could find but was determined through simple trial and error.

Side note: If you’re looking for Windows 7 drivers to test this out on a PC; I found the recommendations and files at this site worked perfectly.