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Headed back to western Pennsylvania to complete the install as planned. Transition was a success and all access points came up as planned. Ran our post-install validation tests and the coverage was as designed. Packed up the returns, cleaned up the site, returned our rental lifts, and headed back to prepare for the next installs. …

Started off the month with finishing up the site inspections we started in August. Once these were complete, ordered all the parts we need, made travel and staffing plans, and mobilized to the first two sites to start the installation work. This project started in late 2022. Took the client some time to digest the …

No plan ever survives contact with the enemy. Never forget that. Business is always dynamic and projects will always go different directions. This month proved it. Had a plan for some internal network rebuilding and some small support projects. Nothing pressing, but cleaning up the task list before a big project kicked off end of …

Started working with a new client in the lumber industry. Conducted a site audit on their full network and wireless design for a facility with indoor and outdoor coverage needs. Spent a few days onsite sorting out how best to rebuild their network and cover the entire facility with wireless. Then back to the office …

After returning from vacation we did a quick turn around to prepare for a mentoring session we were going to conduct for a campground wireless installer. Headed to mountains of western North Carolina to meet them at a nice campground. Very peaceful way to work. Had a cabin to operate out of, lake view. Drove …

We started the month off in Rockford IL installing a high-capacity wireless link for a manufacturing firm. A one mile shot with Ubiquiti AF60-XR radios. The existing link was getting pretty old and there was concern it would fail. Lots of boom lift time on this effort. We were operating an 85ft boom lift so …

The month started with us headed to Minneapolis MN to do an install of a complex UniFi system. It included a number of access points, cameras, switches, and network video recorders. Plus their door access control system. Instead we ended up fixing a wiring job that had gone bad. Spent an entire week repairing bad …

Posting this one a few days early as we are deep into an install… Early in the month we wrapped up the non-profit and the credit union with our post-install validation surveys. Both sites had perfect coverage as designed predictively. As a result of the work we did for the credit union, we were asked …

We started the month off while in the Chicago region. We stopped in to visit one of the WISPs we support then headed back east to get ready for some installs. We kicked off the credit union install in earnest, working mostly after hours to avoid site interruptions and to work with the electricians schedule. …

Welcome to a new year. As we enter into 2023 we are still seeing a major supply chain challenge for many PoE and PHY related chip sets, especially older ones. This seems to affect the lower tier products the hardest (like Ubiquiti and Mikrotik). We are still seeing shortages or delays for Cisco, Meraki, Aruba, …