Personally I'm doing the GPS pucks with epmp 1000. Works with Netonix and an AC poe...
Forrest said he was shipping like right after...Wispamerica? They're on the site - http://store.packetflux.com/packetflux-rackinjector/ Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 9:44 AM, Craig Schmaderer <[email protected]> wrote: > So this list never fails me. Everything I have is 450 and 100 stuff in > my network, but I decided to take a crack at ePMP for a small rural tower > site. Right out of the box I have 2 of the ePMP 2000 working fine with the > pucks, but the other two are completely hit or miss or barely work. So I > opened up a ticket with cambium thinking that I was just stupid, remember I > am green to the entire ui on Epmp. They want me to try to install new > pucks, I was like are you serious? So after seeing this post this morning, > I guess I will just get a sync pipe like I was going to do, but I thought > the word on the street was the internal gps was fine….. Josh, do you > have any of the rack injectors yet? Is Forest shipping them? > > > > *From:* Af [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Josh Luthman > *Sent:* Wednesday, July 26, 2017 6:14 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] EPMP1000 GPS Antenna Issues > > > > I graph/poll the SNMP sync stat. There's one AP that gives me some hassle > but all of the other ones are just fine. > > > > > Josh Luthman > Office: 937-552-2340 <(937)%20552-2340> > Direct: 937-552-2343 <(937)%20552-2343> > 1100 Wayne St > Suite 1337 > Troy, OH 45373 > > > > On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 3:41 PM, Steve Jones <[email protected]> > wrote: > > review your AP logs, you might be suprised > > > > On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Josh Baird <[email protected]> wrote: > > GPS pucks are perfectly reliable for us. > > > > On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Steve Jones <[email protected]> > wrote: > > packetflux is the only way to sync, everything else is garbage, GPS pucks > aren't reliable, CTMs and CMMs are a waste of money and are no where near > as versatile, cambium cant get their pucks to work, so I wouldn't trust > their little syncpipe knockoffs either. Ala-cart sync, switch agnostic, no > worries. Small sites you can split one injector to power and/or sync a mix > of voltages and pinouts, PLUS (this is a big thing) two Fridays ago, after > hours, had an issue with getting one working, got direct communication from > packetflux and got things going, good luck with that from cambium and their > new tiered support > > > > On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 1:54 PM, George Skorup <[email protected]> > wrote: > > It's not only the antenna. Newer 1000 boards and all 2k's have a > GPS+GLONASS receiver. They also updated the 450AP a couple years ago with a > revision that includes this receiver. GPS-only kinda always sucked. With > GLONASS added, you have a lot more sats available, so the probability of > maintaining lock is much, much better. I really wish Forrest would start > using this in his pipes and boxes. > > Typically moving the antenna a few inches or a foot says there's some > multipath going on. And sometimes the receivers just get confused and need > a power-cycle. I have some SyncPipes on 1-foot stand-offs with another 300' > of tower above them and rain will make them see no sats. > > What has worked better for me than anything else is a SyncInjector and > pipe/box on the ground away from tower steel and lots of RF. Even then, > those get confused sometimes too. Usually when I see really bad fading at > night during the summer, I'll see that tracked sats will go from the normal > 9-12 down to 5-7, but they rarely lose lock. > > Once upon a time, I had a SyncInjector and a pipe running in the server > room for 4-5 days (because I forgot to run a cable outside for the pipe). > It worked fine... until it rained. > > > > On 7/26/2017 1:31 PM, Nate Burke wrote: > > When we first started using EPMP, (5ghz, with GPS) we had some AP's would > keep losing satellites. Then after our first couple installs, everything > just Worked after that. Slap the GPS antenna on any random surface, and > lots-o-satellites with no issues. Now the New AP's we're getting out of > Distribution have the GLONASS label on the antennas, and we're back to > having hit and miss GPS again at new sites. Are the new antennas less > sensitive? At one location, 1 out of the 4 APs was going from 12 > satellites tracked (20 visible) to 0 Satellites tracked (still 20 visible) > at random times. We moved the GPS Puck about 4 inches vertically, and now > it has a steady 17 satellites tracked. > > Has something changed with the Antennas? > > > > > > > > > > >
