Re: [WISPA] Rad-Win 2000 firmware upgrades
*UPDATE* The new 2.4.50 firmware does work with hardware version 3. It does not make any performance increase, that only happens for Hardware version 4. It is more sensitive on the Ethernet Cable side and best to hard code to FDX. The issue I had was that the router was hard coded FDX but the Radwin was auto and it was falling to half some of the time and loosing connection. Sounds like I may have a questionable crimp. Steve Barnes Manager PCS-WIN RC-WiFi Wireless Internet Service -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Steve Barnes Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 1:46 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] Rad-Win 2000 firmware upgrades Danger, Will Robinson, Danger. For those of you who have the Rad-Win 2000 series and are looking forward to the firmware upgrade to take them to 100Mb Fdx. Be careful. The firmware came out and I (stupidly) applied it. IT went on without a hitch and rebooted the radios. They came up and started passing traffic. No improvement in speed (rats). Then one end locked up. I rebooted it and it started working. HMMM! That's concerning. 1hour later the other end locked up. Hmmm! Call Tech support. They had me do a hardware Inventory and found out that my Rad-wins are hardware version 3 the upgrade was for hardware version 4 and above. Nowhere did it state this and nowhere did the firmware updater check to make sure that I had new enough units. Why did the firmware go on in the first place if they weren't compatible? Now tech support is working on how to downgrade. What I get for wanting more for free and not waiting for more testing. P.S. I love my Rad-Win units. They have worked 110% of the time and very consistent. Steve Barnes Manager PCS-WIN RC-WiFi Wireless Internet Service WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] Rad-Win 2000 firmware upgrades
Hardcoding one side of an ethernet link to 100/FDX and leaving the other on autonegotiate will result in a duplex mismatch due to the way the autonegotiation works. Cisco has a nice article about this: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps700/products_tech_note09186a00800a7af0.shtml Patrick Shoemaker Vector Data Systems LLC shoemak...@vectordatasystems.com office: (301) 358-1690 x36 http://www.vectordatasystems.com Steve Barnes wrote: *UPDATE* The new 2.4.50 firmware does work with hardware version 3. It does not make any performance increase, that only happens for Hardware version 4. It is more sensitive on the Ethernet Cable side and best to hard code to FDX. The issue I had was that the router was hard coded FDX but the Radwin was auto and it was falling to half some of the time and loosing connection. Sounds like I may have a questionable crimp. Steve Barnes Manager PCS-WIN RC-WiFi Wireless Internet Service -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Steve Barnes Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 1:46 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] Rad-Win 2000 firmware upgrades Danger, Will Robinson, Danger. For those of you who have the Rad-Win 2000 series and are looking forward to the firmware upgrade to take them to 100Mb Fdx. Be careful. The firmware came out and I (stupidly) applied it. IT went on without a hitch and rebooted the radios. They came up and started passing traffic. No improvement in speed (rats). Then one end locked up. I rebooted it and it started working. HMMM! That's concerning. 1hour later the other end locked up. Hmmm! Call Tech support. They had me do a hardware Inventory and found out that my Rad-wins are hardware version 3 the upgrade was for hardware version 4 and above. Nowhere did it state this and nowhere did the firmware updater check to make sure that I had new enough units. Why did the firmware go on in the first place if they weren't compatible? Now tech support is working on how to downgrade. What I get for wanting more for free and not waiting for more testing. P.S. I love my Rad-Win units. They have worked 110% of the time and very consistent. Steve Barnes Manager PCS-WIN RC-WiFi Wireless Internet Service WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
[WISPA] Rad-Win 2000 firmware upgrades
Danger, Will Robinson, Danger. For those of you who have the Rad-Win 2000 series and are looking forward to the firmware upgrade to take them to 100Mb Fdx. Be careful. The firmware came out and I (stupidly) applied it. IT went on without a hitch and rebooted the radios. They came up and started passing traffic. No improvement in speed (rats). Then one end locked up. I rebooted it and it started working. HMMM! That's concerning. 1hour later the other end locked up. Hmmm! Call Tech support. They had me do a hardware Inventory and found out that my Rad-wins are hardware version 3 the upgrade was for hardware version 4 and above. Nowhere did it state this and nowhere did the firmware updater check to make sure that I had new enough units. Why did the firmware go on in the first place if they weren't compatible? Now tech support is working on how to downgrade. What I get for wanting more for free and not waiting for more testing. P.S. I love my Rad-Win units. They have worked 110% of the time and very consistent. Steve Barnes Manager PCS-WIN RC-WiFi Wireless Internet Service WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
