Traveling to some areas that having no internet connection for an IT People is like salt less food
Never hoping dedicated line or any wiring connection once you have arrived.

Anyway, Internet Mobile through GSM [Either 3G/GPRS] is a good choice to have there.
Virgin Broadband is one of them.

An Easy Setup Process gives you a quick installation lead time.
Here the steps [Please Insert your SIMCard]:

1. Check Your Connection Status

2. Enable Lan & Wireless Bridge

3. Configure DHCP Servers

4. Configure You GSM Connection [cellular]

That’s All, you have to do.
Anyway, I didn’t find any of WPA / WPE Wireless Security Features for Wireless Network Authentication.
But for sure, Virgin Broadband it self can only covers in 10-20 meter radius.

rgs
a. rahman isnaini r.sutan

Till now I don’t have a good solution for running IPv6 simultanously with Mikrotik Wireless Hotspot.
The condition :

- Your LAN has a dual stack IPv6 / IPv4 installed
- You have to connect to Mikrotik Hotspot Gateway Enabled
- Your first access is browsing and will be redirected to Mikrotik Login Page

The Issue :

No matter you LAN NIC UP/DOWN or we can say connected or not..
With IPv6/IPv4 Dual stack installed, Your Wifi status is Connected but You have error page “Address Not Found” while trying to browse to log in.

What I have done :

Uninstalling IPv6 on Your NIC will help much.
The redirected login page, will be nicely appear waiting for your to enter username & password It’s not happened on my another wifi network.

a. rahman isnaini r.sutan

From Agunk [IndoInternet NOC].
The most affordable & less cost, Cellular Base Transceiver Station [BTS] in the World.
And as well the most fragilest, dangerous stand

Watch your back should you have to pass this Bamboo BTS in windy

a. rahman isnaini r.sutan

Working with this Radio Box, some problems we have :

- Unstable Connection
- Sometimes reachable, rest Timed Out
- Reset the Hardware getting back to Normal
Couple minutes later, Hang
- Sometimes Not Compatible with Catalyst

RB532 is a stable one
a. rahman isnaini r.sutan

Saturday night, had a chance for performance test Free Hotspot by
The area was at DKI parking lot Monas Area (West Park).

With 2 Bar Wireless Signal Strenght, I have these :

- up to 500 kbps international bandwidth pipe
- up to 700 kbps local bandwidth pipe
- 250-350 ms latency to Yahoo.

The conditions :
- Open Air Park with only few cars arround
- In Car Wireless Connection
- Might be less users

Here the captured result :

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Never thought Hotspot only available at Mall or other exclusive public places at Jogjakarta (like Cafe, Restaurant ect).

Captured from Kompas last weekend newspaper, shows that there so many W3s (Warung -Kopi/Nasi- with Wi-Fi) which located most of everywhere around & the corner this Keraton City. Warung Kopi considered as small coffee cafe with facility as is (seadanya).

The WWW (W3) concentrated areas
- Near Colleagues,
- Near Kontrakans (a house which contains rooms that leased monthly by student)
- Near student hangout places.

I’m not really sure either warung owners invest at their own and pay their bandwidth or having other partners for providing this connection.
The users most of them student since Jogja is pretty know well as City of Student.

Interesting thing to look at the picture, You’ll see users are using products & one Nokia Communicator “ON” on the table, which means those products is not now limited to “exclusive & expensive” users or even places. No more !

Untuk lokasi-lokasi Hotspot dapat dilihat di Blog Mas Sunu Wibirama (Thanks Mas Sunu, saya numpang link :))

a. rahman isnaini r.sutan

Nano Station2 (NS2) Ubiqutiy spec :

* Processor Specs : Atheros AR2316 SOC, MIPS 4KC, 180MHz
* Memory Information : 16MB SDRAM, 4MB Flash
* Networking Interface : 1 X 10/100 BASE-TX (Cat. 5, RJ-45) Ethernet Interface
* Wireless Approvals : FCC Part 15.247, IC RS210
* RoHS Compliance : Yes
* TX Power : 26dBm, +/-2dB
* RX Sensitivity : -97dBm +/-2dB
* Antenna : Integrated 10dBi Dual Pol + External SMA
* Outdoor Range : over 15km
* TCP/IP Throughput : 25Mbps+
* Max Power Consumption : 5 Watts
* Power Supply : 12V, 1A (12 Watts). Supply and injector included
* Power Method : Passive Power over Ethernet (pairs 4,5+; 7,8 return)
* Operating Temperature : -20C to +70C (System PCB optimized for hi-temp)
* Operating Humidity : 5 to 95% Condensing
* Shock and Vibration : ETSI300-019-1.4
* Weight : 0.4 Kg

This high gain & high power unit has been tested as Mikrotik Access Point’s (RB 133 & RB 532 A) Radio Client.
Equipped with power up to 600 mWatt, this unit can work pretty good in the range 1000 meters away from access point with Near LOS (NLOS) condition.
And mounted only at House’s Wall in the front side (needs a fine unit adjustion to have a better signal).
The Housing are is an open air area.

For LOS condition up to 15 km as shown above (not yet proven here).

The throughput at 1000 meters away is arround 9 Mbps maximum (either tx or rx).
The advantage is Antenna & Radio integrated, and POE port.

Another test has been conducted for Housing with trees and hills landscape.
For 500 meters range with trees covered and down to the small valley (4-5 meters), this NS2 works better than Senao/LinkSys client.
While Senao/Linksys hasn’t received any signal at all, this unit connected to AP with 3 Bar of wireless strenght status.

3 Bar wireless connection strength status on your laptop would equal to arround -67 to -70 dB signal strenght.
This would be enough for a normal data connection to transmit/receive.

The price : NS2 here in Indonesia Rp. 1.200.000 (USD $1300 +-).
Web price : NS2 USD $76 (how come ? :)), You know Tax, Vat, Shipping, Custom… Reseller Margin… ‘inserted’ till reach end user.

a. rahman isnaini r.sutan

RT/RWnet Technology can be wired by UTP house to house with limited distance (up to 100 meters).
Or Wireless.

Wireless allows end users mobility.
The limitation is :

- Coverage
- Walls
- Trees
- Power Regulation
- Health Concern

Regardless above conditions, using Mikrotik with Atheros / Asus WL 520 gives you 25-30 meters coverage or up to rear rooms in house (type 45/90) user in that range.
The test was using Omni Hyperlink Antenna with 15 dB Gain.
More than 30 meters, you will need Radio Client with default Antenna for In House Internet Usage.
More than 500 meters, you will need Radio Client with external Antenna on roof for In House Internet Usage.

See picture :

It might be installing more BTS / Poles for Access Point in every range 40 meters could decrease cost per user.
And Access Point Signal Density getting better.
Mikrotik with Ubiquity is more powerful, Asus WL 320 GP either powerful.

a. rahman isnaini r.sutan

Wireless Outdoor RB133 (3 bh AP ABG)

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Kategori : Wireless Outdoor 133 Kode : WO133-A3 Harga : Rp 3.115.000,00 : Menggunakan Routerboard 133 (MIPS CPU, 32MB DDR RAM, 64MB NAND Storage) dengan RouterOS WISP-AP/CF. Memiliki 3 buah port ethernet (1 untuk PoE), dan 3 slot miniPCI, dengan 3 buah card miniPCI wireless card A+B+G dalam kotak outdoor besar (cukup untuk memasang 3 buah ethernet insulator dan 3 N-Famale bulhead connector pada box).

• Routerboard 133 dengan outdoor box
• 3 port ethernet (1 untuk PoE)
• 3 slot minipci
• 3 buah Atheros MiniPCI Wireless 802.11a+b+g 54Mbps 2.4/5GHz
• 1 Insulator Ethernet (klik di sini jika butuh tambahan)
• Power Adaptor 18 V
• Power over Ethernet Spliter
• 2 metal ring
• Lisensi Mikrotik RouterOS WISP-AP/CF.

Spec Routerboard 133 :

• CPU: MIPS 32 4Kc based 175MHz embedded processor
• Memory: 32MB DDR onboard memory chip
• Root loader: RouterBOOT, 1Mbit Flash chip
• Data storage: 64MB onboard NAND memory chip
• Ethernet ports: 3 10/100 Mbit/s Fast Ethernet port supporting Auto-MDI/X
• Serial ports: One DB9 RS232C asynchronous serial port
• LEDs: Power, user LED
• Watchdog: IDT internal SoC hardware watchdog timer
• Power options: Power over Ethernet: 16..28V DC (except power over datalines); Power jack: 9..28V DC; Overvoltage protection
• Dimensions: 117mm x 105mm (4.61 in x 4.13 in)
• Temperature: Operational: -20°C to +70°C (-4°F to 158°F)
• Humidity: Operational: 70% relative humidity (non-condensing)
• Currently supported OS: RouterOS

Asus WL-520G Specification :

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Both above products have been finally tested for RT/RW net Access Point Solution.
Scheme :

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As what everyone who received any unwanted information from their mobile operator (assumed as SPAM/JUNK) denies this type of promotion, so do I.

XL bebas as we know one of prepaid card from XL sending sometimes any unwanted information, and has been discussed and told among bloggers. Pak Hasnul said that only few customers who did complains regarding this spam, included me I believe among of them
My perspective yes, 818 or other information center can send the ‘general’ sms. But please have the ’selected ones’ not promo. Selected means useful, helpful, urgent.

Positive side is still the low cost tariff (Thanks to XL) and there many other operators claimed their similar low cost call/sms againts “zero, zero, zero,… dot One” Rupiah. And of course much better than what we have been used and called for many decade of years “SLJJ”…

Another things to concern ? here are they :

- Network often busy (oversubscriber / BTS / Backhaul congested)
- Urgent Call Only
- Noise Talk & Low Quality
- Voice Compression
- Redirect to VoIP Network (with QoS)

a. rahman isnaini r.sutan
(0817 xx88xxx)