Neil McDonald

Articles written for the Preseem blog.

Set It and Forget It with AQM

Set It and Forget It with AQM

Save Time for Yourself and Your Subscribers “Lost time is never found again,” wrote Benjamin Franklin, a proverb that grows truer the older we get. Time is at the center of most things, and operating and maintaining a network is no different. Network engineers fret...

WISPAPALOOZA 2022 Recap

WISPAPALOOZA 2022 Recap

WISPAPALOOZA 2022 Recap In the Preseem world, October means it’s time for fall sweaters, pumpkin spice lattes, and WISPAPALOOZA, the annual flagship trade show of the Wireless Internet Service Providers Association (WISPA). This year, we flew a team of 11 to sunny Las...

Women of WISPA to Host Gathering and Fundraiser at WISPAPALOOZA 2022

Women of WISPA to Host Gathering and Fundraiser at WISPAPALOOZA 2022

WATERLOO, ON - 09-28-2022 - Women of WISPA (WoW), a group dedicated to the advancement of women in the telecommunications industry, will hold their largest gathering yet at this year’s WISPAPALOOZA conference in Las Vegas. The group is expecting more than 100...

Fixed Wireless Market Trends: What to Watch For

Fixed Wireless Market Trends: What to Watch For

Fixed Wireless Market Trends Despite recent global economic turbulence, the fixed wireless access (FWA) industry is still very much a growth market. According to a recent report by Wells Fargo, FWA broadband is on track to add more than 10 million subscribers by 2027....

WISPAPALOOZA 2022: Your Guide to What’s Happening

WISPAPALOOZA 2022: Your Guide to What’s Happening

WISPAPALOOZA 2022 October’s on the way and that means it’s almost time for WISPAPALOOZA 2022, the flagship event on the calendar of the Wireless Internet Service Providers Association (WISPA). This year’s conference will be held at the Paris and Bally’s hotels on the...

Traffic Shaping: The Icing on Your Network Cake

Traffic Shaping: The Icing on Your Network Cake

Traffic Shaping Software and Your Network The relationship between traffic shaping software and your network is kind of like adding icing to the proverbial cake. Traffic shaping, like icing, is nice to have and can be the perfect finishing touch for your network...

Brothers WISP Podcast with Preseem – Video

Brothers WISP Podcast with Preseem – Video

Brothers WISP Podcast with Preseem: Recap To celebrate our recent sponsorship of the Brothers WISP podcast, our Chief Product Officer Dan Siemon and Senior Product Manager Jeremy Austin joined host Tommy Croghan for a discussion on QoE, traffic shaping, and many other...

Bandwidth Management: Best Practices & What Not to Do

Bandwidth Management: Best Practices & What Not to Do

Bandwidth Management Bandwidth management is how Internet Service Providers (ISPs) control traffic on their networks and enforce subscriber plan rates. Traffic shaping is a commonly-used bandwidth control mechanism that’s intended to improve network performance,...

Measure & Proactively Manage AP Capacity, Airtime & RF Conditions

Measure & Proactively Manage AP Capacity, Airtime & RF Conditions

AP Capacity Planning and RF Management Made Easy Some aspects of RF management have long been considered a “dark art,” requiring specialized knowledge, years of experience, and a near-superhuman ability to juggle information from multiple tools. As you can imagine,...