I have an old Exalt ExtendAir RC11000 link from a company we acquired.
Last year, it would stop working if the outside temperate went below -8
F. Signal level would be fine, but the link would just stay in the
down state, and BER would be sky high. No Reboots or ethernet bounces
on either end, and the link would start working again as soon as it
warmed up. Since it had to be so cold for it to stop working, that only
happened for a few days last year and I figured I could just live with
it. There are only 2 small customers fed off this site, And I have a
low capacity backup link to the site.
The Last 2 nights we had temperatures that dropped below 40 degrees for
the first time, and the link started acting the exact same way. So it
must have broken more over the summer. I'm guessing there's some sort
of heater on the RF chip that's failed. Would that affect both the RX
and TX BER, Or have both ends failed simultaneously? is there a secret
Telnet command to check the heater status?
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