We had a similar issue with some gear we had on the roof of the Pink Palace many years ago...can't remember what it was....but with a high gain antenna in such a densely populated area, it would pack up a couple times a day, I believe the manufacturer chalked it up to the mac table issue...can't remember for the life of me what gear it was though.
-M@ On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Joe Lagreca <[email protected]> wrote: > I doubt DDWRT would have done better. A friend of mine is running > DDWRT downtown right now for a comicon venue, and it keeps loosing > wireless, with the need to reboot it to bring back functionality. > We've not diagnosed it, but I bet it is suffering from the same thing > Fanady's router suffered from. > > Joe LaGreca > Founder & Owner, BIG Net Online > (619) 393-1733 x200 Office > (619) 318-3246 Cell (Voice ONLY) > (858) 876-2942 (SMS ONLY) > www.BIGnetOnline.com > > > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Steve Shapery <[email protected]> wrote: > > There’s a similar issue with the first generation of LWAPP access points > > from Cisco – they took the same concept that the legacy home equipment > had, > > and only allocated enough room in memory to keep track of 32 MAC > addresses > > simultaneously. > > > > > > > > I’d wager that if you had a DDWRT device, it would have been okay… > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matt Fanady > > Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 10:26 AM > > To: SoCalFreeNet.org General Discussion List > > Subject: [SCFN] The difference between consumer grade AP's and Enterprise > > grade > > > > > > > > Just an interesting tidbit. I was asked to help out with the soccer game > at > > Qualcomm Stadium last night. They had a special area on the field for > the > > photographers and wanted to be able to have the photographers connected > to > > the net to upload their pictures to their respective news agencies > without > > leaving the field. Just off the tunnel that the players come out is the > > "media room" where we have just a little Netgear wireless router/access > > point for the photographers to use during Chargers games, so I just > grabbed > > that, ran 280 ft of CAT-5 out to the field plunked down the Netgear, and > set > > it to WPA2 encryption. I tested it thoroughly the day before the game. > The > > next day, a few minutes after the game started, I got called down to the > > field because the wireless wasn't working. Everyone was associated with > the > > SSID, but it wouldn't pass any traffic. So I power cycled it, and went > back > > upstairs, and was called back down within minutes. With all the fans in > > attendance, many of them with wireless enabled smartphones, keeping track > of > > all the wifi in the air must have been too much for the little Netgear, > the > > thing couldn't pass traffic for more than 5 minutes between reboots. > > > > > > > > So, plan B, went up to the media booths which weren't really being used > for > > this game, and snagged a crusty old Cisco Aironet 1121B (yes, 802.11b) > and > > put it in place of the Netgear on the field, even left it unsecured as I > > didn't have time to much about with it. Long story short, not a peep out > of > > it the rest of the game. > > > > > > > > I had been told many years ago, that what happens is the mac table of the > > cheaper wifi gear gets full trying to keep track of all the mac addresses > it > > sees flying around the air, but I haven't confirmed this. Long story > short, > > an old crusty Aironet is better than a fancy new consumer grade AP for > large > > events any day of the year. > > > > > > > > -M@ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > SoCalFreeNet.org General Discussion List > > To unsubscribe, please visit: > > http://socalfreenet.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_socalfreenet.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > SoCalFreeNet.org General Discussion List > To unsubscribe, please visit: > http://socalfreenet.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_socalfreenet.org >
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