TheBrothersWISP

About TheBrothersWISP

Networking podcast geared towards wireless internet service providers and network engineers of all sorts

Publisher

Tommy Croghan

Category

technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 Mar 2023

Latest episode

21 Apr 2026

Latest episodes

12 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   21 Apr 2026

   The Brothers WISP 191 – ISP America

   Reporting from WISPA's first ISP America show in Atlanta. We have Jeremy Austin with Preseem Justin Wilson j2sw.com Andrew Kaiser with Ridgetop Networks

2. 

   6 Nov 2025

   The Brothers WISP 190 – WISPAPalooza 2025

   We are back again at WISPAPalooza Lots of industry news and everyone is pretty happy with how things went. Dennis can be reached at sales@Linktechs.net Email us at thebrotherswisp@gmail.com **Sponsors** Preseem.com **/Sponsors**

3. 

   21 Oct 2024

   The Brothers WISP 189 – WISPAPalooza 2024

   We are back in Vegas, this year we have Dennis Burgess, Mac (McKenzie) McCarthy, Tomas Kirnak and Tommy Croghan talking about the 2024 WISPA show and what's been announced. There's a lot to go over, and we have NEW Mics which sound so much better. Ubiquiti Wave MLU, Cambium EVO and Tarana vRN all announced along with the interesting things we have seen at the show. Tomas can be reached at unimus.net McKenzie McCarthy can be found on LinkedIn and the Brothers WISP Slack channel https://www.linkedin.com/in/mckenzie-mccarthy-67519a54/ Dennis can be reached at sales@Linktechs.net Tommy can be reached at tommy@lostcreek.tech Email us at thebrotherswisp@gmail.com **Sponsors** Sonar.Software Towercoverage.com Preseem.com **/Sponsors**

4. 

   10 Oct 2024

   The Brothers WISP 188 – Sometimes Ubiquiti gives you tools to fix their screw ups

   This episode we have Tomas Kirnak and Tommy Croghan talking about Cheaper Tarana hardware coming to town, tougher EU telecommunications requirements, the MikroTik Mode button, IPv6 Implementation in Ubiquiti AirMax and more. Useful IPv6 DHCP-PD links https://thisbridgeistheroot.com/blog/dhcpv6-prefix-delegation https://www.alliedtelesis.com/sites/default/files/documents/configuration-guides/dhcpv6_feature_overview_guide.pdf Don't forget to catch us at WISPAPalooza 2024 in Vegas! Tomas can be reached at umimus.net Tommy can be reached at tommy@lostcreek.tech Email us at thebrotherswisp@gmail.com **Sponsors** Sonar.Software Towercoverage.com Preseem.com **/Sponsors**

5. 

   30 Jul 2024

   The Brothers WISP 187 – Is IS-IS worth learning + other news

   This episode we have Tomas Kirnak, John Osman and Tommy Croghan talking about various news evens and spending quite a lot of time on IS-IS and how it fits into the protocol spectrum that we have available to us. Check out ABQ NOG coming soon! https://abqnog.org/ Check out the other NUG groups happening near you! https://www.usnua.com/ Tomas can be reached at umimus.net John Osman can be reached at: john@osman.net **Sponsors** Sonar.Software Towercoverage.com Preseem.com **/Sponsors**

6. 

   11 Jun 2024

   The Brothers WISP 186 – WISPs in Europe and the EU

   This episode we have Tom Smyth and Ole-Morten Sundheim joining us to talk about running small ISPs in Europe and the EU. This is the start of some international casts I have been wanting to do to recognize our listeners all over the world and look at issues and struggles that ISPs face throughout the world. Please reach out if you have an ISP in Africa, Asia, Pacific or the South Americas and we can talk about having you on the cast. White Paper https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/white-paper-how-master-europes-digital-infrastructure-needs EU Consultation on White Paper open until 23:59 CET 30th June 2024 https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14168-White-Paper-How-to-master-Europes-digital-infrastructure-needs?_en Here's the YouTube link if you really want to see our faces https://youtu.be/Fjj0Z0esLRk Sponsors Sonar.Software Towercoverage.com Preseem.com /Sponsors

7. 

   24 May 2024

   The Brothers WISP 185 – Midwest Broadband Operators 2024

   This week we have Tommy, Dennis and Mike Hammett at Midwest Broadband Meeting In Indianapolis Indiana. **Sponsors** Sonar.Software Towercoverage.com Preseem.com **/Sponsors**

8. 

   2 May 2024

   The Brothers WISP – 184 – Net Neutrality is Back Baby!

   This week we have Tommy, Dennis and Jeremy https://youtu.be/r5H_-tWkUqg Sponsors Sonar.Software Towercoverage.com Preseem.com /Sponsors Notes and Links 120° WaveAP 4-Radio Tower Mount – Brandon's Tower Mounts https://towermounts.myshopify.com/ FCC Order https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-401676A1.pdf BC Broadband conference https://www.miragenews.com/claire-anderson-joins-british-columbia-1221600/ Common WISP Mistakes by Joshaven Potter https://visp.net/blog/common-wisp-mistakes-frankensteined-wireless-infrastructure/ A breakdown of a dialup modem getting started. Absolutely beautiful. https://www.windytan.com/2012/11/the-sound-of-dialup-pictured.html

9. 

   25 Mar 2024

   TheBrothersWISP 182 – Not much news

   This week we have Tommy and Denis just Chatting.

10. 

    27 Jul 2023

    The Brothers WISP 181 – The Cake is not a Lie for ISPs

    This week we have Tommy, Jon Fernandez, David Taht, Robert Chacon, Dan Siemon and Zach Biles **Sponsors** Sonar.Software Towercoverage.com Preseem.com store.viloliving.com **/Sponsors** 00:00:00 Introductions 00:05:10 Dave Taht’s Story 00:18:00 What is Buffer Bloat? 00:25:50 Dave’s Poem about Congestion 00:28:30 Dave’s Mission 00:30:10 What is FQ_Codel? 00:44:30 What have various implementations been focused towards? 00:47:50 New Zealand Example and the ECN Bit 00:51:20 What does CAKE do different than FQ_Codel 01:04:30 Congestion isn’t just in our Links, looking at the insane time scale of BW 01:09:50 How different protocols handle being queued (Not everything is IPv4/TCP) 01:25:10 Where should you be doing your proper Queuing 01:34:00 How well has FQ_Codel and CAKE been implemented? (Kinda poorly) 01:37:00 Dynamic BW availability controls? 01:42:30 Wrapping Up 01:54:00 Dave’s 3 Points How to get ahold of people Dave: dave.taht@gmail.com https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/bloat/wiki/Daves_Media_Guidance/ Zach: zachbiles.net Robert: https://libreqos.io/ Dan: www.coverfire.com Preseem.com Jon: https://geekitek.com/ The Blind Men and the Elephant https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7567 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8290 https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2209336 Personal Blog Post by Dan Siemon about QUIC https://www.coverfire.com/archives/2023/07/11/the-rise-of-udp/ Preseem Podcast Not mentioned in the cast, but informational pages that were very helpful for me in my learning process. (Mikrotik’s documentation has gotten a lot better in the last few months thank goodness.) https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/codel/wiki/ https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/tc-cake.8.html https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/Queues#Queues-FQ-Codel https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.07617.pdf https://lwn.net/Articles/758353/

11. 

    8 Jul 2023

    The Brothers WISP 180 – Communicating in an Outage

    This week we have Tommy, Dennis Burgess (LinkTechs), Thomas Kirnak and Justin Miller. **Sponsors** Sonar.Software Towercoverage.com Preseem.com store.viloliving.com **/Sponsors** 00:00:00 Introductions 00:02:15 Sponsors and Patreon 00:04:00 Bad actor companies on FB & RF Elements 00:07:05 Going back to secorized pannels? 00:09:25 WRT54G, That Belongs in a Museum! 00:13:52 Bad Credit Card Machines and UNIFI 00:17:45 New PCI Compliance Testing Rules 00:22:06 OWASP Top 10 and Security Testing 00:27:05 Penetration Testing Fun 00:32:40 Communicating in an Outage 00:52:50 Topolograph 00:54:11 Memorizing Your Network and Maping it 01:01:00 Big F’n Deal, ROS is now Feature Complete! s 01:09:45 ChatGPT won’t be replacing Network Admins 01:12:45 IEEE Talking about LET Bandwidth Limitations 01:18:30 Backup Connections Building and Selling them to Customers 01:25:10 Spectrum will no longer sell to WISPs (Official) 01:29:10 Frontier’s fiber build budget has been spent and other issues with the big carriers. 01:32:00 O-Band Optics 01:34:30 Fiber should be done on Fridays! 01:39:30 DHCP Lease Times? Use the right tech! 01:48:05 BGP Knobs to turn 01:49:00 Outro, BDC is happening Links: YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/PRVQgQ_NOlQ Dennis – Support@linktechs.net (or if you want to call him listen to the video) Justin – dynstatic.net Tomas – unimus.net OWASP Top 10 https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten/ Topolograph https://topolograph.com/ BGP Knobs to Tune https://archive.nanog.org/meetings/nanog45/presentations/Sunday/Freedman_bgp102_1_N45.pdf IEEE Talking about LEO Bandwidth Limitations https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9568932?denied= O-Band https://www.fiberlabs.com/glossary/original-band/

12. 

    20 Mar 2023

    The Brothers WISP 179 – WISPAMERICA 2023

    This week we have Tommy, Jeremy Austin, Mike Hammett, Thomas Kirnak and Justin Miller We are talking about the WISPA America show in Louisville Kentucky.

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