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Notes from running WISPs.
Network design, monitoring, and hard-won lessons from two decades of building and supporting fixed-wireless ISPs.
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Multiple Gateways as You Grow: Five Ways WISPs Connect to the Internet
The five gateway configurations WISPs grow through, from a single default route to full-tables BGP on ARM64 MikroTiks to geographically diverse gateways balanced with MPLS/TE, and the trade-offs of each.
Five Ways to Stretch Your IPv4 Space (and What Each One Costs You)
How the IPv4 assignment strategies for WISPs compare, from per-AP public subnets and PPPoE to deterministic CGNAT and dual-stack IPv6, with the trade-offs for gaming, abuse handling, and law enforcement requests.
Archive
Older articles, kept for reference — accurate when written, preserved because they're still widely linked.
- Building Robust Connections Between Tower Sites
- WISP Backup Power Solution
- The Importance of Last Mile Network Monitoring
- Starting a WISP Step 2 – Wholesale Internet Access: How it works, How to get it.
- WISP Pitfalls: Cable Modems as Gateway
- 802.11 Hidden Node: What It Is And How WISPs Can Fix It
- Starting a WISP – Step 1: Finding a Market