Dan You have 17 bad radios and 2 that may be good. How many do you have in production ? My own personal policy with cheap electronics that have issues, send it back or to the dumpster, but I won't put an iffy anything out there with my name on it. Curious what percent you have that is problematic. George
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan @ Wyoming.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 11:57 PM Subject: [smartBridges] List of my Radio's > Well I have finally had time to go through the stack of Radio's in the > corner of my office. As you all know we have had some issues over the > last few months. I spent all day in my office on Friday going through > every radio one by one. There were 19 radio's stacked up in my office > that needed to be tested. I cut all of the 50' cables off of each ABO > unless it was already done so that they were easier to work with. I > recrimped every single radio with a new RJ-45 connector. I recrimped > several of them just to make sure it had a good crimp. These were all > test in my office to a new APPO. All of these radio's were tested and > defaulted with the same powershot, Coax cable, and Antenna. > > Of the 19 radio's 2 of them turned out to be good from testing in my > office. I still need to test them out in the field though. They may > have been swapped out with frustration of other issues that we have > been fighting or maybe they were freezing up. I will know more about > the 2 good radio's after I get to put them out in the real world. > > So that left me with 17 bad units. They all turned out to have 1 of 4 > problems. The 4 issues that I found were the following.... > > > Bad Ethernet (6) > Over Heating (4) > Dead Radio (3) > Wierd Issues (4) > > I will break out what I found from these issues. I will describe the > ABO's as either Old or New Style. The old style will be the ones with > the 50' cabel attached. The new style will be the new ones that just > came out with the pig tail like the Totals. > > Bad Ethernet......(6) > These are all on the old style ABO's. The ethernet will just not come > up. I recrimped several time, but still couldn't get an ethernet > connection. The power shot will still default the radio's, but still > no etherent connection. The wireless link still comes up and I can > access the radio with Simple Monitor. I even tried defaulting the > radio with Simple Monitor, but the ethernet still wont work. > > Over Heating........(4) > These are all on the new style ABO's. The radio works just fine when > first installed, but as soon as the radio warms up it will not > associate to the AP. The etherent seems to be fine most of the time, > but one of them did seem to have a weird ethernet issue also. If you > let them cool off then they will work fine. Sometimes it will only > run for 5 minutes before the link drops. For testing in my office I > just layed the ABO flat on my desk and set the box that the unit comes > in on top of the radio. Within an hour the radio has dropped its link > and will not come back up even if I reboot it. I bought ten of these > new style radios and now have 5 good ones in service, but had to swap > out 4 of them because of this over heating issue. I still have one on > the shelf and I hope it is good. > > Dead Radio's.......(3) > These are all the old style ABO's. Not alot I can say about these 3 > radio's. They are just dead. Ethernet won't come up. The wireless > link will not come up. One of the units will power up, but will not > do anything. I have tried to default it also, but still wont do > anything. The other two will not even power up so there isn't much I > can do. I have tried several new connectors just to make sure wiring > is good, but still wont power up. > > Wierd Issues.......(4) > Three of the radio's are the old style ABO's and one is a Total. All > four of these radio's kept freezing up and were all connected to the > same AP. We were trying to rule out interference so we got this > bright idea to change the Regulatory Domain to TELEC so that we can > have 14 channels. We were going to just see if our RSSI and JITTER > would come up or not. I made the changes in all four radios with > Simple Monitor from my office. Then I jumped into the AP and changed > it also. None of the radio's would come up. Then we had to make > truck roles. When we got on site we couldn't get into the radio's > with Simple Monitor. The MAC and IP have defaulted in all 4 radios. > None of them will default back to SB defaults either. Here is what > the Radio's show now. > > MAC 0000222222FE > IP 10.170.254.41 > NAME DEMO > > I can ping all 4 radios to their new IP's, but Simple Monitor will not > work so I can't get them to SB defaults. The wireless link will not > come up either. There are 5 radios that are connected to that same AP > and we have since changed out these 4 radios with new ones. The 4 new > radio's have been rock solid since, but the 5th one that didn't get > swapped out is still freezing up. The reason we didn't change the > Domain in the 5th radio was becasue it was a Friday and they were > closed and it had froze up so I couldn't get into it. The only thing > I can figure out on this wierd issue was (Friday the 13th). > > > Well that is what I have come up with in my testing. I will attatch a > TXT file that has each radio broke out with what they are doing along > with their MAC's. I am also copying SB support so they can track the > MAC's to see where the issues are coming from. I don't have dates of > when I got them, but we got all of them from EC in Denver. > > Are some of these issues what others are seeing in their radio's? We > sitll have a few radio's that are frezzing up, but can't seem to > figure out what the issues are. > > I am sending this to the list just in case someone knows someting else > that I can try on these units. > > Thanks........Dan > The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List > To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> > To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) > Archives: http://198.63.203.6 > The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://198.63.203.6
