Re: [WISPA] MT power supplies THE SOLUTION
Regarding cable That makes since. We really like the Arc wireless cable because it meets the need for 70% of the CPE side installs (residential and small business) with ease of use and the right price. The industry really needed a product like that. But the ARC cable is what it is, and is no substitution for high grade cable when it is needed. The Superior Essex we use now, has been proven to be awesome. We use it the other 25% of the time, when we have long runs or have to extend across gravel flat roof (where there is risk it will be submerged in water or walked on.). Many don't realize that it is not just the metal shielding that gives isolation from interference (environmental or self induced crosstalk). The non-metalic outer jacket and inner jacket of the wires also have isolating characteristics that contribute. There is something to be said for total thickness of a cable. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: Brian Rohrbacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 10:33 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] MT power supplies THE SOLUTION Good points. Likely I will not touch it again unless it breaks. I'll try to get a make on the good cable, but I know the cheap stuff I ran yesterday is the arc wireless shielded, flooded, drainwire, I picked up 6 months ago when it was $69 a roll. Brian Tom DeReggi wrote: So the question that arises, is why did that fix it? I see two possibilities 1) Poor quality cable or cable shields. (Loss running Ethernet data parallel to power) 2) Sharing a CAT5 jack on the 532 main board for Power and Data. Travis previously talked about the horrid RF interferrence that the 532 board generated when using 48V, due to the 532 onboard power converter/supply. I'm wondering if the distortion/loss was at the board itself apposed to cable? It would have been interesting to know, if you used one cable for both data and power, but terminated the data pairs to a different Ethernet port instead of the POE port used for power. What also would have been interesting would have been to know wether a 18V power supply would have worked on a shared single cable. Different ethernet chipsets do have different characteristics and ranges. So it is possible that just the different chip made the difference based on compatibilty or characteristics of chip. But the other reasons are just as probable. What brand (not just shield type) cable were you using? I realize that you would not likely pursue additional tests as you found a fix already, but it would be interesting to know, just so we can keep collecting data should we experience similar problems in the future. We had a similar situation that was due to chipset. We ran 10 mbps ethernet 550 feet to our subscriber. (different radio brand). We used a slightly higher power voltage to make up for cable loss. Our laptops worked great over the link. The customer's 3 identical routers could not stay connected for long. We were not sure if it was a speed autodetection issue, or the distance for the chip to work. We installed a 10mbps Cisco Switch in between their router and our cable dmarc in their premise, and it all worked. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: Brian Rohrbacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 9:20 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] MT power supplies THE SOLUTION I started with RB 532 on tower. It comes down 265 feet to poe injector to router. Major packet loss. 2) switched RB 532 out. No change. 3) Created test setup on ground with bad board and it looked fine. (from laptop--6ft cablepoe265 ft---RB) 4) Blamed it on the cable, and got a cable certifier from a friend. 5) Right before climb, I re did the test setup on the ground. This time I plugged the 265 feet into the actual router instead of my laptop. The problen was back. (I was bummed) 6) One final test. Get another 265 foot cable. I used 265ft for power and 265ft for data to eth 2 or 3. Problem solved. I can only speculate that the chipset on RB 532 poe port is diffrent from the chipset on eth 2/3. And for whatever reason it was not compatable with cable, hardware, ect.setup. I may never know for sure why, but I have the workaround. Good enough for me. FWIW I ended up pulling 2 new cables (all 3 certified fine). I used the original cable for data (it has real shield) I used my new 2 (cheapo foil shield) for power and slapped the other into eth3 for the heck of it. Lessons learned for next time. Measure cable, crimp, and power up on ground using the EXACT same everything as what the final deployment will have. And then test. Hope that sums it all up. Ok to directly answer your question. Yes. I did
Re: [WISPA] MT power supplies THE SOLUTION
Couldn't find it. Under cable settings is default, standard, and short. From the manual it looks like default = long cable and it looks like default is the default. But I have no idea how to see what mode it is on. Brian Rick Smith wrote: Brian, did you try the long cable setting on that particular interface ? Brian Rohrbacher wrote: I started with RB 532 on tower. It comes down 265 feet to poe injector to router. Major packet loss. 2) switched RB 532 out. No change. 3) Created test setup on ground with bad board and it looked fine. (from laptop--6ft cablepoe265 ft---RB) 4) Blamed it on the cable, and got a cable certifier from a friend. 5) Right before climb, I re did the test setup on the ground. This time I plugged the 265 feet into the actual router instead of my laptop. The problen was back. (I was bummed) 6) One final test. Get another 265 foot cable. I used 265ft for power and 265ft for data to eth 2 or 3. Problem solved. I can only speculate that the chipset on RB 532 poe port is diffrent from the chipset on eth 2/3. And for whatever reason it was not compatable with cable, hardware, ect.setup. I may never know for sure why, but I have the workaround. Good enough for me. FWIW I ended up pulling 2 new cables (all 3 certified fine). I used the original cable for data (it has real shield) I used my new 2 (cheapo foil shield) for power and slapped the other into eth3 for the heck of it. Lessons learned for next time. Measure cable, crimp, and power up on ground using the EXACT same everything as what the final deployment will have. And then test. Hope that sums it all up. Ok to directly answer your question. Yes. I did this on the ground test unit. Brian Rohrbacher Paul Hendry wrote: Brian, Just out of interest, did you try running both power and data over the new cable and did you still see the same issue? P. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Rohrbacher Sent: 15 September 2006 02:43 To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] MT power supplies THE SOLUTION First off. I'm back to a 48v 420mA power supply. To the solution. I ran another cat5 up the tower and plugged it into the RB 532. Now I have one cable for poe and one cable for data, and it all works fine. And check this. My headache went away as soon as the problem did. :) Problem solved. NEXT! Brian Tom DeReggi wrote: Amps don't mean a thing without disclosing Volts, Consider Watts instead. 1300mA at 3V is much different than 1300mA at 18V. The mPCI slot (SR5) is 3.3V. Power to the Motherboard is from 12-48V. W=V*A Tom DeReggi RapidDSL Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: Mark McElvy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 8:19 AM Subject: RE: [WISPA] MT power supplies I am surprised no one has mentioned this. I looked up power consumption on the SR5 and it shows 800 to 1300 mA each. You state your power supply is 700mA. I did not look up power consumption for the RB532 but I would think you would need at least a 3A supply. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Rohrbacher Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 11:51 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] MT power supplies So, does anyone know if it looks like I would be fine on the power side of things? I have tweaked the ethernet port settings for no gain. Next step is to get climbing 280ft to replace board, but I'd like to confirm power first. Brian Brian Rohrbacher wrote: I have a RB 532 on 300 foot of cat 5 with 2 sr5. I'm using poe 48v .700a power supply. I'm seeing weirdness. Do I have enough juice Brian -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
RE: [WISPA] MT power supplies THE SOLUTION
Brian, Just out of interest, did you try running both power and data over the new cable and did you still see the same issue? P. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Rohrbacher Sent: 15 September 2006 02:43 To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] MT power supplies THE SOLUTION First off. I'm back to a 48v 420mA power supply. To the solution. I ran another cat5 up the tower and plugged it into the RB 532. Now I have one cable for poe and one cable for data, and it all works fine. And check this. My headache went away as soon as the problem did. :) Problem solved. NEXT! Brian Tom DeReggi wrote: Amps don't mean a thing without disclosing Volts, Consider Watts instead. 1300mA at 3V is much different than 1300mA at 18V. The mPCI slot (SR5) is 3.3V. Power to the Motherboard is from 12-48V. W=V*A Tom DeReggi RapidDSL Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: Mark McElvy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 8:19 AM Subject: RE: [WISPA] MT power supplies I am surprised no one has mentioned this. I looked up power consumption on the SR5 and it shows 800 to 1300 mA each. You state your power supply is 700mA. I did not look up power consumption for the RB532 but I would think you would need at least a 3A supply. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Rohrbacher Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 11:51 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] MT power supplies So, does anyone know if it looks like I would be fine on the power side of things? I have tweaked the ethernet port settings for no gain. Next step is to get climbing 280ft to replace board, but I'd like to confirm power first. Brian Brian Rohrbacher wrote: I have a RB 532 on 300 foot of cat 5 with 2 sr5. I'm using poe 48v .700a power supply. I'm seeing weirdness. Do I have enough juice Brian -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.3/447 - Release Date: 13/09/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.4/448 - Release Date: 14/09/2006 -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] MT power supplies THE SOLUTION
I was on 48v from the start. But I tested 4 48v power supplies300, 420, 700, and 1000mA units. None of that had any effect. The seperate cables. One for power, one for data fixed it. Brian George Rogato wrote: Good call Brian, Being an electrician all of my previous working life, voltage drop is a serious consideration at 300', even with 120 volts. Solution has always been to increase the voltage to reduce the amperage to control voltage drop. That is why you see transformers all over the place. I like 48 Volts a whole lot more than 24 volts. George Brian Rohrbacher wrote: First off. I'm back to a 48v 420mA power supply. To the solution. I ran another cat5 up the tower and plugged it into the RB 532. Now I have one cable for poe and one cable for data, and it all works fine. And check this. My headache went away as soon as the problem did. :) Problem solved. NEXT! Brian Tom DeReggi wrote: Amps don't mean a thing without disclosing Volts, Consider Watts instead. 1300mA at 3V is much different than 1300mA at 18V. The mPCI slot (SR5) is 3.3V. Power to the Motherboard is from 12-48V. W=V*A Tom DeReggi RapidDSL Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: Mark McElvy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 8:19 AM Subject: RE: [WISPA] MT power supplies I am surprised no one has mentioned this. I looked up power consumption on the SR5 and it shows 800 to 1300 mA each. You state your power supply is 700mA. I did not look up power consumption for the RB532 but I would think you would need at least a 3A supply. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Rohrbacher Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 11:51 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] MT power supplies So, does anyone know if it looks like I would be fine on the power side of things? I have tweaked the ethernet port settings for no gain. Next step is to get climbing 280ft to replace board, but I'd like to confirm power first. Brian Brian Rohrbacher wrote: I have a RB 532 on 300 foot of cat 5 with 2 sr5. I'm using poe 48v .700a power supply. I'm seeing weirdness. Do I have enough juice Brian -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] MT power supplies THE SOLUTION
I started with RB 532 on tower. It comes down 265 feet to poe injector to router. Major packet loss. 2) switched RB 532 out. No change. 3) Created test setup on ground with bad board and it looked fine. (from laptop--6ft cablepoe265 ft---RB) 4) Blamed it on the cable, and got a cable certifier from a friend. 5) Right before climb, I re did the test setup on the ground. This time I plugged the 265 feet into the actual router instead of my laptop. The problen was back. (I was bummed) 6) One final test. Get another 265 foot cable. I used 265ft for power and 265ft for data to eth 2 or 3. Problem solved. I can only speculate that the chipset on RB 532 poe port is diffrent from the chipset on eth 2/3. And for whatever reason it was not compatable with cable, hardware, ect.setup. I may never know for sure why, but I have the workaround. Good enough for me. FWIW I ended up pulling 2 new cables (all 3 certified fine). I used the original cable for data (it has real shield) I used my new 2 (cheapo foil shield) for power and slapped the other into eth3 for the heck of it. Lessons learned for next time. Measure cable, crimp, and power up on ground using the EXACT same everything as what the final deployment will have. And then test. Hope that sums it all up. Ok to directly answer your question. Yes. I did this on the ground test unit. Brian Rohrbacher Paul Hendry wrote: Brian, Just out of interest, did you try running both power and data over the new cable and did you still see the same issue? P. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Rohrbacher Sent: 15 September 2006 02:43 To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] MT power supplies THE SOLUTION First off. I'm back to a 48v 420mA power supply. To the solution. I ran another cat5 up the tower and plugged it into the RB 532. Now I have one cable for poe and one cable for data, and it all works fine. And check this. My headache went away as soon as the problem did. :) Problem solved. NEXT! Brian Tom DeReggi wrote: Amps don't mean a thing without disclosing Volts, Consider Watts instead. 1300mA at 3V is much different than 1300mA at 18V. The mPCI slot (SR5) is 3.3V. Power to the Motherboard is from 12-48V. W=V*A Tom DeReggi RapidDSL Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: Mark McElvy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 8:19 AM Subject: RE: [WISPA] MT power supplies I am surprised no one has mentioned this. I looked up power consumption on the SR5 and it shows 800 to 1300 mA each. You state your power supply is 700mA. I did not look up power consumption for the RB532 but I would think you would need at least a 3A supply. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Rohrbacher Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 11:51 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] MT power supplies So, does anyone know if it looks like I would be fine on the power side of things? I have tweaked the ethernet port settings for no gain. Next step is to get climbing 280ft to replace board, but I'd like to confirm power first. Brian Brian Rohrbacher wrote: I have a RB 532 on 300 foot of cat 5 with 2 sr5. I'm using poe 48v .700a power supply. I'm seeing weirdness. Do I have enough juice Brian -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] MT power supplies THE SOLUTION
Brian, did you try the long cable setting on that particular interface ? Brian Rohrbacher wrote: I started with RB 532 on tower. It comes down 265 feet to poe injector to router. Major packet loss. 2) switched RB 532 out. No change. 3) Created test setup on ground with bad board and it looked fine. (from laptop--6ft cablepoe265 ft---RB) 4) Blamed it on the cable, and got a cable certifier from a friend. 5) Right before climb, I re did the test setup on the ground. This time I plugged the 265 feet into the actual router instead of my laptop. The problen was back. (I was bummed) 6) One final test. Get another 265 foot cable. I used 265ft for power and 265ft for data to eth 2 or 3. Problem solved. I can only speculate that the chipset on RB 532 poe port is diffrent from the chipset on eth 2/3. And for whatever reason it was not compatable with cable, hardware, ect.setup. I may never know for sure why, but I have the workaround. Good enough for me. FWIW I ended up pulling 2 new cables (all 3 certified fine). I used the original cable for data (it has real shield) I used my new 2 (cheapo foil shield) for power and slapped the other into eth3 for the heck of it. Lessons learned for next time. Measure cable, crimp, and power up on ground using the EXACT same everything as what the final deployment will have. And then test. Hope that sums it all up. Ok to directly answer your question. Yes. I did this on the ground test unit. Brian Rohrbacher Paul Hendry wrote: Brian, Just out of interest, did you try running both power and data over the new cable and did you still see the same issue? P. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Rohrbacher Sent: 15 September 2006 02:43 To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] MT power supplies THE SOLUTION First off. I'm back to a 48v 420mA power supply. To the solution. I ran another cat5 up the tower and plugged it into the RB 532. Now I have one cable for poe and one cable for data, and it all works fine. And check this. My headache went away as soon as the problem did. :) Problem solved. NEXT! Brian Tom DeReggi wrote: Amps don't mean a thing without disclosing Volts, Consider Watts instead. 1300mA at 3V is much different than 1300mA at 18V. The mPCI slot (SR5) is 3.3V. Power to the Motherboard is from 12-48V. W=V*A Tom DeReggi RapidDSL Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: Mark McElvy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 8:19 AM Subject: RE: [WISPA] MT power supplies I am surprised no one has mentioned this. I looked up power consumption on the SR5 and it shows 800 to 1300 mA each. You state your power supply is 700mA. I did not look up power consumption for the RB532 but I would think you would need at least a 3A supply. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Rohrbacher Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 11:51 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] MT power supplies So, does anyone know if it looks like I would be fine on the power side of things? I have tweaked the ethernet port settings for no gain. Next step is to get climbing 280ft to replace board, but I'd like to confirm power first. Brian Brian Rohrbacher wrote: I have a RB 532 on 300 foot of cat 5 with 2 sr5. I'm using poe 48v .700a power supply. I'm seeing weirdness. Do I have enough juice Brian -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] MT power supplies THE SOLUTION
I just looked at that Resources for a 532. 2 Ports are VIA Technologies. The 3rd is Integrated Device Technologies. Scott Reed Owner NewWays Wireless Networking Network Design, Installation and Administration www.nwwnet.net -- Original Message --- From: Brian Rohrbacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:20:58 -0400 Subject: Re: [WISPA] MT power supplies THE SOLUTION I started with RB 532 on tower. It comes down 265 feet to poe injector to router. Major packet loss. 2) switched RB 532 out. No change. 3) Created test setup on ground with bad board and it looked fine. (from laptop--6ft cablepoe265 ft---RB) 4) Blamed it on the cable, and got a cable certifier from a friend. 5) Right before climb, I re did the test setup on the ground. This time I plugged the 265 feet into the actual router instead of my laptop. The problen was back. (I was bummed) 6) One final test. Get another 265 foot cable. I used 265ft for power and 265ft for data to eth 2 or 3. Problem solved. I can only speculate that the chipset on RB 532 poe port is diffrent from the chipset on eth 2/3. And for whatever reason it was not compatable with cable, hardware, ect.setup. I may never know for sure why, but I have the workaround. Good enough for me. FWIW I ended up pulling 2 new cables (all 3 certified fine). I used the original cable for data (it has real shield) I used my new 2 (cheapo foil shield) for power and slapped the other into eth3 for the heck of it. Lessons learned for next time. Measure cable, crimp, and power up on ground using the EXACT same everything as what the final deployment will have. And then test. Hope that sums it all up. Ok to directly answer your question. Yes. I did this on the ground test unit. Brian Rohrbacher Paul Hendry wrote: Brian, Just out of interest, did you try running both power and data over the new cable and did you still see the same issue? P. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Rohrbacher Sent: 15 September 2006 02:43 To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] MT power supplies THE SOLUTION First off. I'm back to a 48v 420mA power supply. To the solution. I ran another cat5 up the tower and plugged it into the RB 532. Now I have one cable for poe and one cable for data, and it all works fine. And check this. My headache went away as soon as the problem did. :) Problem solved. NEXT! Brian Tom DeReggi wrote: Amps don't mean a thing without disclosing Volts, Consider Watts instead. 1300mA at 3V is much different than 1300mA at 18V. The mPCI slot (SR5) is 3.3V. Power to the Motherboard is from 12-48V. W=V*A Tom DeReggi RapidDSL Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: Mark McElvy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 8:19 AM Subject: RE: [WISPA] MT power supplies I am surprised no one has mentioned this. I looked up power consumption on the SR5 and it shows 800 to 1300 mA each. You state your power supply is 700mA. I did not look up power consumption for the RB532 but I would think you would need at least a 3A supply. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Rohrbacher Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 11:51 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] MT power supplies So, does anyone know if it looks like I would be fine on the power side of things? I have tweaked the ethernet port settings for no gain. Next step is to get climbing 280ft to replace board, but I'd like to confirm power first. Brian Brian Rohrbacher wrote: I have a RB 532 on 300 foot of cat 5 with 2 sr5. I'm using poe 48v .700a power supply. I'm seeing weirdness. Do I have enough juice Brian -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ --- End of Original Message --- -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] MT power supplies THE SOLUTION
Good points. Likely I will not touch it again unless it breaks. I'll try to get a make on the good cable, but I know the cheap stuff I ran yesterday is the arc wireless shielded, flooded, drainwire, I picked up 6 months ago when it was $69 a roll. Brian Tom DeReggi wrote: So the question that arises, is why did that fix it? I see two possibilities 1) Poor quality cable or cable shields. (Loss running Ethernet data parallel to power) 2) Sharing a CAT5 jack on the 532 main board for Power and Data. Travis previously talked about the horrid RF interferrence that the 532 board generated when using 48V, due to the 532 onboard power converter/supply. I'm wondering if the distortion/loss was at the board itself apposed to cable? It would have been interesting to know, if you used one cable for both data and power, but terminated the data pairs to a different Ethernet port instead of the POE port used for power. What also would have been interesting would have been to know wether a 18V power supply would have worked on a shared single cable. Different ethernet chipsets do have different characteristics and ranges. So it is possible that just the different chip made the difference based on compatibilty or characteristics of chip. But the other reasons are just as probable. What brand (not just shield type) cable were you using? I realize that you would not likely pursue additional tests as you found a fix already, but it would be interesting to know, just so we can keep collecting data should we experience similar problems in the future. We had a similar situation that was due to chipset. We ran 10 mbps ethernet 550 feet to our subscriber. (different radio brand). We used a slightly higher power voltage to make up for cable loss. Our laptops worked great over the link. The customer's 3 identical routers could not stay connected for long. We were not sure if it was a speed autodetection issue, or the distance for the chip to work. We installed a 10mbps Cisco Switch in between their router and our cable dmarc in their premise, and it all worked. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: Brian Rohrbacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 9:20 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] MT power supplies THE SOLUTION I started with RB 532 on tower. It comes down 265 feet to poe injector to router. Major packet loss. 2) switched RB 532 out. No change. 3) Created test setup on ground with bad board and it looked fine. (from laptop--6ft cablepoe265 ft---RB) 4) Blamed it on the cable, and got a cable certifier from a friend. 5) Right before climb, I re did the test setup on the ground. This time I plugged the 265 feet into the actual router instead of my laptop. The problen was back. (I was bummed) 6) One final test. Get another 265 foot cable. I used 265ft for power and 265ft for data to eth 2 or 3. Problem solved. I can only speculate that the chipset on RB 532 poe port is diffrent from the chipset on eth 2/3. And for whatever reason it was not compatable with cable, hardware, ect.setup. I may never know for sure why, but I have the workaround. Good enough for me. FWIW I ended up pulling 2 new cables (all 3 certified fine). I used the original cable for data (it has real shield) I used my new 2 (cheapo foil shield) for power and slapped the other into eth3 for the heck of it. Lessons learned for next time. Measure cable, crimp, and power up on ground using the EXACT same everything as what the final deployment will have. And then test. Hope that sums it all up. Ok to directly answer your question. Yes. I did this on the ground test unit. Brian Rohrbacher Paul Hendry wrote: Brian, Just out of interest, did you try running both power and data over the new cable and did you still see the same issue? P. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Rohrbacher Sent: 15 September 2006 02:43 To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] MT power supplies THE SOLUTION First off. I'm back to a 48v 420mA power supply. To the solution. I ran another cat5 up the tower and plugged it into the RB 532. Now I have one cable for poe and one cable for data, and it all works fine. And check this. My headache went away as soon as the problem did. :) Problem solved. NEXT! Brian Tom DeReggi wrote: Amps don't mean a thing without disclosing Volts, Consider Watts instead. 1300mA at 3V is much different than 1300mA at 18V. The mPCI slot (SR5) is 3.3V. Power to the Motherboard is from 12-48V. W=V*A Tom DeReggi RapidDSL Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: Mark McElvy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 8:19 AM Subject: RE: [WISPA] MT
Re: [WISPA] MT power supplies THE SOLUTION
First off. I'm back to a 48v 420mA power supply. To the solution. I ran another cat5 up the tower and plugged it into the RB 532. Now I have one cable for poe and one cable for data, and it all works fine. And check this. My headache went away as soon as the problem did. :) Problem solved. NEXT! Brian Tom DeReggi wrote: Amps don't mean a thing without disclosing Volts, Consider Watts instead. 1300mA at 3V is much different than 1300mA at 18V. The mPCI slot (SR5) is 3.3V. Power to the Motherboard is from 12-48V. W=V*A Tom DeReggi RapidDSL Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: Mark McElvy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 8:19 AM Subject: RE: [WISPA] MT power supplies I am surprised no one has mentioned this. I looked up power consumption on the SR5 and it shows 800 to 1300 mA each. You state your power supply is 700mA. I did not look up power consumption for the RB532 but I would think you would need at least a 3A supply. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Rohrbacher Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 11:51 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] MT power supplies So, does anyone know if it looks like I would be fine on the power side of things? I have tweaked the ethernet port settings for no gain. Next step is to get climbing 280ft to replace board, but I'd like to confirm power first. Brian Brian Rohrbacher wrote: I have a RB 532 on 300 foot of cat 5 with 2 sr5. I'm using poe 48v .700a power supply. I'm seeing weirdness. Do I have enough juice Brian -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
