This is Mac Heaven

After several weeks of arguing with my Windows 2003 server and the interoperability issues it now has with Mac OSX Lion, I bit the bullet or more appropriately drank Steve Job's kool-aid and spend the evening configuring my new Mac Mini server in my hotel room. Four hours from home and teaching a MikroTik class in Dallas, I was bored and angry that my Time Machine backups weren't working any more because Windows 2003 server's Appletalk protocol has not been updated. Blame it on Lion or blame it on me for still using Winblows as my server, whatever, it was time.

Off to the store I went and am now the owner of a Mac Mini (our new file server, contact server, calendar server, etc.) and a Time Capsule for our home backups. This is Mac heaven.

Since I didn't have a monitor, I jacked the hotel television (thank goodness for HDMI inputs)
hooked up the new mac mini and started downloading Lion server while my Time Capsule backed up my 15" Mac Pro and served up the wireless. This is Apple bliss!

Thank goodness I am able to watch a movie on my I Pad while I watch Lion install on my Mac Mini and type my blog on my MacBook Pro. Heaven I tell you!

Dallas MikroTik Training Started Today

MikroTik MTCNA Training started today in Dallas, Texas with a great group of students. Typically we spend a lot of time with the basics but this group has a great grasp of basic networking so we moved quickly today. We started with the OSI Modem and ended with firewalls. Tomorrow we start the day with bandwidth limitations and hope to finish early on Wednesday.

Are you ready to train? Our next MikroTik Training is in Las Vegas, NV, in October. Send us an email or visit us at LearnMikroTik.com.

New MikroTIk RB750GL

I am sure you have heard of the new MikroTik 750GL but what abut the RB750GK? It has five gigabit ports and a creamy center!

Phil Crawford, a MT colleague is celebrating his birthday and wanted to test drive the newest model!

MikroTik MTCNA Training August 30 - Sept 1 Dallas, Tx

Ready to train? Come to Dallas and learn RouterOS. MikroTik training starts August 30. Learn more...

250 MBps link with MikroTik

Arc Wireless Dual polarity antenna
R52HN Card
RouterBoard 435G
802.11N NV2 link
245 MBps throughput

Nice!

Come get yours at http://ispsupplies.com

Netscape, are you kidding me?

While navigating around the AT&T wireless site today, I noticed something kinda funny. The favorite icon is Netscape! If you don't understand what that is, you won't find this funny...

OmniTIK Now Available

We just got a load of the new OmniTik's, Mikrotik's newest integrated solution. OmniTIK is a weatherproof outdoor AP with dual-polarized omni antennas - the perfect companion for the SXT, or for any other 5GHz 802.11a/n standard device.

Weatherproof, durable and ready to use. It has five 10/100 Ethernet ports, PoE support and a built-in 400mW 802.11a/n wireless radio. It supports Nv2 TDMA technology with up to 200Mbit aggregate throughput.

LED signal indicators on it’s back are fully customizable, show Ethernet activity or wireless signal - or any other information from RouterOS.

The USB port gives the ability to connect a 3G modem or a storage drive.

I am thinking of applications for this device including wireless networks for apartment complexes, as a backbone for an RV park WiFi, temporary internet access venues. etc. What is missing in my opinion is a second radio. I would rather sacrifice the dual chains for 802.11n and instead add a second radio running 2.4 GHz. A dual band mesh node at this price point would be awesome and could lend itself to municipal WiFi deployments, etc.