I put up part of a backhaul yesterday evening on a tower, an aPPO. I used a waterproof connector from Demarc that is just like the one sB uses except it has a little coupler inside. I used plenty of dum-dum on the two ends where the cat 5 passes in and out. And then taped the whole thing from end to end with good 3M tape. Seems odd when you have to water-proof the water-proof connectors.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

We had a customer with this problem today. The customer called yesterday saying that they were offline. I went over to find that their Airbridge Total had somehow been reset to the default settings. I re-configured it, and it was back online. Then today, I get another call from them saying it wasn't working. I went over again, and this time found that the bridge seemed to be repeatedly resetting itself. The power LED was solid. The blue LED would come on for a second or so, then it would go dim, then it would go out. Then it would come on, and the pattern would repeat again. It was what you would expect to see if someone was repeatedly pressing the reset button the powershot. At first I thought the bridge was bad, so we went to replace it. When we opened the the waterproof connector, there were water droplets everywhere inside. We've been getting occasional short, but heavy rain showers for the last few days. After drying the connectors off, and re-connecting them, the bridge started acting normally again.

Craig


Quoting Roger Hartley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:



A few days ago, I had one of my most important customers go completely off the air. I did a lot of trouble shooting and found out it was the airBridge Total "waterproof" connector had allowed water in. Maybe I don't know the correct way to install it, I thought I did. But after drying out the connectors, recrimping the end towards the house, it still wouldn't work. I cut off about a foot of the cable going into the house and pulled out some of the individual wires, they were wet inside the jacket. This customer now has gel-filled cable going from the connector to the router ... *and* I used waterproofing mastic and tape on the waterproof connector.

Laurence Laforga wrote:


Is that one gel-filled? I recall someone saying that the gel-filled is ideal for underground type of install and that just the UV rated ones are required and cheaper for outdoor installs on roofs and such.



I use the Tyco brand for CSC and don't have a problem with crimping.



-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Patrick
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 8:49 AM
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Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Cat5 for outdoor installs


I concur that it is a PITA to crimp! Anyone know if there are

connectors



that fit it better to make crimping easier?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Hartley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Cat5 for outdoor installs





prefix: cwc
part # 5exho4p24bkrmohpv

This is the gel-filled type. Seems to be very good quality, but

a PITA



to crimp.

David Ross Buckley wrote:



I recall some posts awhile back about recommended cat5 cable

for outdoor



installs. I believe someone even gave a part number from

Graybar. If



possible can we get that number again, it would be greatly

appreciated.



Thanks in advance.


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