Cisco Aironet 350 Wireless Bridges

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  @alc5440 · 1 year ago

  I love wireless bridging. My mom lives directly across the street from me so rather than paying for internet at her house I just bought Ubiquiti point to point bridges and put her on an isolated subnet on my network.

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• CO

  @colinstu · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5HMiZRuBko&amp;t=865">14:25</a> I was curious about that default SSID name... I looked it up, reply from Cisco engineer from 2006: <br>&quot;Yes there is a reason (and a story) so I&apos;m glad you asked. As you may be aware, Cisco purchased a wireless company called Aironet (of which I was an original employee of). Aironet was a company called Telesystems in Canada and at the time (years ago) when I was at Telxon we purchased Telesystems and moved it to Akron Ohio renaming it to Aironet. At the time of the rename, the Aironet marketing folks decided to create a logo that looks much like a storm or tornado.<br>This logo was picked because at the time we thought we would take the wireless market by storm (which we did) ... so in keeping with the &quot;storm&quot; approach, the SSID names &quot;tsunami&quot; and &quot;typhoon&quot; were selected. Different names were used to keep them separate. By the way many of those original &quot;Telesystems&quot; engineers are still around today and designed many of the first &quot;repeaters&quot; and mesh like technology that we use today. Thanks again for the question (and memories)... Fred&quot;

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• AD

  @adslf874yti3q7u4hf83 · 1 year ago

  I worked at Cisco TAC during the time when these things were popular. Consumers hated us because the drivers for the Aironet PCMCIA cards were locked behind an active contract and the default warranty was only 30 days. So we&apos;d get calls from regular people who had got ahold of these and needed drivers for them, and we had no way of giving them the access they needed. They changed that policy for Aironet around 2004 IIRC

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• LE

  @LeighHart · 1 year ago

  Back in the late 90s we were importing Aironet gear into Australia to build ISP last mile links before the acquisition. &nbsp;Later we developed our own 802.1q stack on BSD using their PCI cards to do multi tenant building distribution. &nbsp;Fun times.

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• DE

  @deathbyharakira · 1 year ago

  &gt;clab mentions 30-30-30<br>&gt;the memories come flooding back<br>&gt;*fortunate son begins to play*

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• PI

  @pixitha · 1 year ago (edited)

  To echo what Francis mentioned, 48V DC is the old telco standard. So anything in a central office, was 48V DC, lots of the early telecom gear for enterprise, just kept that same standard. Any carrier grade gear in the 2000s usually had the 48V power supply option available (if you wanted to pay more usually....) We used to have 7206 VXRs and 6509s with DC PSUs in them.

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• RA

  @RayneYoruka · 1 year ago

  Why are these videos so relaxing and entertaining to watch?

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• HI

  @HighlandSteam · 1 year ago

  When racking up. Put the lowest screws in first as they will hold the switch in place for adding the higher screws as the ears push against the rack.

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• YU

  @yukayuyu3844 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Loved the story about wireless bridging with your upstairs neighbor, setups like these are amazing and so satisfying when they work just like that.<br>Did the exact same thing (albeit more cursed) to share my mom&apos;s network at my grandma&apos;s place about 200 meters away. No line of sight, unable to set up a wired network, but next to the house is an old shed which shares the power wiring with my grandma&apos;s house, so in there I set up a WR841N with OpenWRT (wireless client connected to AP at my mom&apos;s and bridged to LAN), which in turn is hooked up to a powerline adapter. Then, 100 meters away over 40&apos;s aluminium wiring, the powerline adapter on the other end at grandma&apos;s house is connected to a router acting as an AP.<br>Overall sketchy as hell, with two wireless links and a powerline adapter inbetween but has been working rock solid for over two years, no reboots needed. Getting 77 Mbps down and 51 Mbps up over that cursed setup!

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• SM

  @smarszalek11 · 1 year ago

  I love seeing early networking gear coming to life. Plus you&apos;ve got that late night FM radio DJ voice lol.

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• JA

  @jamess1787 · 1 year ago

  The cage nuts and rack screws ASMR was nice, keep it up. 🤜🤛.<br>The professional network engineers always land the bottom screws on a piece of network equipment.... Then top screws after once the hand is free 😂

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• TR

  @troycording · 1 year ago

  Fun fact, the BR350 units (the metal case ones) actually had the same Aironet PCMCIA card inside them but antenna connectors. We used to take the cards out and plug them into a laptop and use Netstumber (a wireless sniffing application) with a Yagi antenna to go &quot;survey&quot; with.

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