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Time to look for interference.
Do you have a Spectrum Analyzer or access to
one? (we've got two types available for rent)
Or get yourself a Teletronics Site Survey
kit. Cost is about $250. My guess is that you've got an interference
issue there.
marlon
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 6:45
AM
Subject: [smartBridges]
Frustrations
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Steve Good |
| Sent: |
Sat 8/2/2003 10:10 PM |
| To: |
[EMAIL PROTECTED] |
| Subject: |
[smartBridges] Frustrations |
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Ok guys I need some help here. I am
frustrated.....here is the setup.... on one tower we have 2 ABpro
with 180 antennas and then also a ABTotal (it is the bridge back to our site
where the POP is. At the POP we have 2 ABpro's. Here is the
problem.... on the tower we have wap5 (bridge) wap3(one customer on it) wap4
(trying to get customers on it) I have tried to set two clients up
no with no luck. I have 3 radios that I have tried.. These 3 ABTotals are
really starting to suck in my opinion.... The flakiness is hard to deal with
when you have sites that are set up 150miles from the main office. of the 3
radios here is the problems..
1. The radios can see wap4 and accociate with it. The clients can
ping both wap4 and wap3 and wap5. But not anything on the
other side of the bridge. These radios get a address when I run the
repair connection in XP but it says the repair failed. I can not get any kind
of traffic to pass.I have updated the firmware, reset, reset,reset and reset
again and again and again and the damn things still do it. But
here is the kicker... I take these same 3 radios and try to connect to wap3
wap1 or wap2 (1&2 on the other side of the bridge) the radios work like a
champ..... Now to further complicate it.. I can take one of the 3 radios and
plug it into my laptop and it works on wap4... plug it back into the customers
machine and the friggin thing does not work. So that proves that wap4 is
working and passing traffic.. just not taking anything from these 3 radios
when in a customer machine. one machine is a gateway laptop w/built-in network
card.. and other is a dell also with a built in card.
I also decided to take my radio from home that has not had 1
issue since I installed 2 months ago and I put it up at the custmers site and
it would work on my laptop but not their machne..... both customers machines
are XP home... my laptop XP Pro...I have alot of good to say about AB products
and alot of bad... There is not a good troubleshooting area on their website
to help out. I am sure with all the issues we have we can give them the info
for it.. I dont want to ahve to save 1600 messages just to go back and look to
see if someone else has the same one... It is just frustrating when you have
to tell a customer that you have tried 3 radios and none of them work and you
have to come back. It really makes them wonder about the quality of the
equipment. If any one has any ideas I would really like to hear
them...
Thanks,
Steve Good
| From: |
John Hokenson
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |
| Sent: |
Sat 8/2/2003 9:03 PM |
| To: |
[EMAIL PROTECTED] |
| Subject: |
Re: [smartBridges] Towers |
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I have to side with Marlon....you get too much
off topic stuff going and Smartbridges will stop listing to the list and you
have lost your factory tech support on the list.
USe the other lists.
JH
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2003 6:12
PM
Subject: RE: [smartBridges]
Towers
Marlon
I'm not trying to argue, but I
respectfully disagree
I still say if you are using sB radios and anything that
concerns them are relevant, ie towers, servers, routers, backhauls,
battery backup, solar power, antennas,
etc.
Why should you have to monitor several sites if you are using sB
radios, this one is hard enough to keep with
Don't take this the wrong way, I may need your advice
sometime
My
observation
Joe K
righto. But this particular list is
there for support of the RADIO's not everything else. There are 2
other good email lists and a web based forum designed for generic
questions.
That help?
marlon
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2003
4:14 PM
Subject: RE: [smartBridges]
Towers
OK Marlon
I've seen this happen more than once on this
site
For some reason or another someone only wants to talk about the
subject they want to talk about
I would think if you are a smartBridges user and you were using
them on a tower and you wanted to ask about a tower or
anything concerning these radios you should be able to post a
question
Some of us may not be as learned as others
Why not ask questions to the people using the same radios as you
are
My observations
Joe K
btw guys, i didn't notice what list this
is on. These generic questions really belong on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list rather than the TT
tech support one.
thanks
marlon
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2003
11:26 AM
Subject: Re: [smartBridges]
Towers
$2500 is not expensive compared to
spending $500 a month to be on someone else's towe.
JH
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, August 02,
2003 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: [smartBridges]
Towers
Ouch. Thats what I have been
finding out. Much simpler and cheaper to run off other
towers unless you have the cash to outlay :(
Any other suggestions?
Dennis
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, August 02,
2003 1:00 PM
Subject: Re: [smartBridges]
Towers
We built our own tower and it was
rather inexpensive. I have a friend who was in the two way
radio business for 40 years and built lots of towers, so he was
very helpful. We bought the 100' steel tower (Rohn 25G)
from Hutton (www.huttononline.com),
picked it up locally, for less than $1k. We used friends /
relatives for labor (free) so the only additional cost was the
concrete, rebar, guy wires, and miscellaneous hardware. It
was not that difficult to build, took us about 4 days, mainly
due to the over 100 degree heat. Total investment was less
than $2.5k. If you need any help with how to build one,
what parts to buy, want to see pictures of ours going up, etc.,
just email me offline ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
and I will be happy to help.
Gloria
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, August
02, 2003 12:50 PM
Subject: [smartBridges]
Towers
I was wonder what everyone is
doing for towers? I have high trees in my area, 70 foot
high in some cases. I'm running off a radio station
tower now, but what other options are there? I have
found a 100 foot telescoping tower for like $3,200 bucks, but
you need a crane and a big ass crew just to get the thing up,
not to mention the guy wires.
Anyone have any
suggestions?
Dennis
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