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-----Original Message-----
From: Nate Burke
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 9:57 AM
To: Animal Farm
Subject: [AFMUG] EPMP Minimum System Specs
Ok, Cambium, this is a little sad. My Field Laptop, a Lenovo S10-3t,
Atom Processor with Windows 8.1 cannot load the EPMP WEB Pages in a
timely manner. We're talking 40-60 seconds for initial load, and 20-30
seconds per screen refresh/menu change. Since I'm going to have to go
to the boss, and tell him that I need a new laptop to do any field
troubleshooting for these new radios, what are the minimum system specs
for a machine to view the EPMP Screens? Unless Cambium is going to get
their Web interface under control as of Yesterday.
They still swear that the GUI was all developed in house and not
purchased (something I still can't believe). I'd like to know who the
engineers/managers are who signed off on that design. I can only
imaging that there was a group of guys sitting around the conference
table, watching the presentation on the GUI on the projector up front,
all nodding their heads in agreement, "I think this is a wonderful
layout, the field tech's won't mind waiting a couple extra minutes for
the pages to load so they can look this pretty!!"
I think that Cambium should step up and get engineers from ALL aspects
of product development out into the field. 40 seconds waiting for the
page to load is fine when you're sitting in the office, but not when you
have the laptop balanced on a stack of firewood in the freezing rain
trying to get to the monitoring page to see why a radio isn't linking
up. I think that every WISP on this list would be more than happy to
host an engineer for a day. Heck, even if they go into the parking lot
and assemble it on the tailgate of someone's Pickup, they'll get some
idea of what we experience.
I have a feeling that if all steps of the Dev process took a week in the
field, We'd have a radio that had a GUI that responded instantly on any
device, and radios that assembled and mounted (and unmounted) with 1
gloved hand.
</rant>
Nate
