UBNT does the same thing. It’s a cabling issue rather than a device issue.
Justin Wilson [email protected] --- http://www.mtin.net Owner/CEO xISP Solutions- Consulting – Data Centers - Bandwidth http://www.midwest-ix.com COO/Chairman Internet Exchange - Peering - Distributed Fabric > On Mar 23, 2016, at 12:04 PM, John Woodfield <[email protected]> wrote: > > +1 > > > John Woodfield, President > Delmarva WiFi Inc. > 410-870-WiFi > > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Joe Novak" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2016 11:57am > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] ePMP rant > > the only time I have ever seen this stuff default is when water gets in the > cable and resets the radio. every time we have traced it back to a failing > cable. > Other then that... indirect lightening hits used to cause a lot of problems > with UBNT. almost all our cable is now shielded with drain wire and the > problem has mostly gone away. > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Adam Moffett <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > My problem with M series is they seem to have a tendency to revert to default > config during a thunderstorm. > > I've also seen more than one once where after a thunderstorm the UBNT item at > the tower is dead, but everything else is still up. Someone could argue > that's just dumb luck, but I don't think so. > > It's always been a decent option for cheap point to point, like when you need > to extend a network between two buildings, or you have Line of Sight to your > tower from a barn or detached garage. > > I also understand the Micro POP use case. > > That said, my experience with M series was so unimpressive that I haven't > bothered looking at their AC products very closely. Maybe I will. > > > On 3/23/2016 10:48 AM, Stefan Englhardt wrote: > I hear a lot of people praising the old UBNT M gear for it’s consistant and > stable behavior now. > We tested it as soon as it came to market and considered it junk. > > UBNT throws out hardware and then do the SW. At some time it is usable and > stays usable. > Their AC gear is now usable (not in mixed mode as I have heard). > > Starting with UBNT AC we had no RMA so far with 100 devices. With ePMP we had > to test > the first batch as there were some defective devices. > > > Von: Af [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>] Im > Auftrag von John Woodfield > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 23. März 2016 13:23 > An: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Betreff: Re: [AFMUG] ePMP rant > > Thats a first, someone who claims UBNT is more stable than ePMP. > > > > John Woodfield, President > Delmarva WiFi Inc. > 410-870-WiFi > > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Stefan Englhardt" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2016 3:23am > To: "[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > Subject: [AFMUG] ePMP rant > > We pull the plug now on our ePMP installations. We still have disconnects. > Every day a disappointed customer calls. > We dont look at this anymore. We give them a Mikrotik or a UBNT AC to make > them happy and take the ePMP SM back. > > We had several problems with SW quality in the past. We had bad SMs we need > to RMA. At some time it seems stable. Now problems > came back. Not sure it is SW or HW. We dont want to bother any longer. This > gear is low quality no matter what is said by marketing. > > We go UBNT AC now. Blazing fast webinterface, background channel scan and > more speed on 20MHz Channels. Everywhere we use it > we have much better results than with ePMP. These ePMP fans want to tell 11ac > is not needed as 256QAM is never achievable. > we see it at most of our installed cpes. If signal is to weak for 256QAM > there are cheap dish-cpes. >
