You merged about 3 or 4 of my points. 1. Outdoor equipment will see everything it can in the ISM band. The closer it is, the stronger the RSSI...regardless of channel. Doesn't mean that it will affect your LQ though.
2. If you lock the BSSID in on the client device, then if your aPPo goes bad and you swap it...you will need to do a roll out to ALLLLLLL your clients. Cause the MAC address is different on each of the aPPo's . 3. Locking in the BSSID, and then changing channel's on the aPPo should still work. But I still don't recommend locking in the BSSID! Sully -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Blazen Wireless Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 6:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [smartBridges] GOT MRTG TO WORK I THINKG No I use all outdoor stuff and I see their wireless link on chan 11 at 100% RSSI and 80-90% on link so that has to affect my stuff in some way but the buy was downloading just fine a few min ago. Your saying that if I have BSSID with MAC of one of my APPOS and I change the channel on my APPO the ABO CPE will not follow?? SB is that correct I thought it would.. ----- Original Message ----- From: "The Wirefree Network" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 6:08 PM Subject: RE: [smartBridges] GOT MRTG TO WORK I THINKG Welcome to the ISM bands. This is by law the way it MUST be. If you want something better, go proprietary on purchased freqs. They work SWEET...if you have a few thousand for each CPE. It really doesn't matter that the sB device is seeing the other wireless devices AT ALL. All that matters is SSID. If you leave your BSSID set to all 0's, then if your aPPo goes down (and it will if you are on the crap chipset), you can swap it out and all the CPE units will reassociate (in theory). Also...being that the CPE units are just looking for SSID, if you decide to change the channel on your head-end, they will all flip over as well. The only things that matter when it comes to other wireless devices in your neighborhood is channel separation AND physical seperation. Regardless of what channel your sB device is set to, if you select the option "choose from available AP's", it will sniff the entire 2.4 GHZ ISM band, and report back with the RSSI on each. That is a good thing. Now you can use ALL of your clients devices like site survey equipment. I periodically will log into a clients device and choose that option to see who is moving in on me. Also...if I have a client up and running well, and their neighbor wants service...I just the existing sB device to do a PRE-site survey. If you are using channel 1, and your clients internal network is using channel 11, you would be fine. However...let's say you are using an internal airBridge (ch 1) for their connectivity to the home, and the clients wireless linksys router is sitting right next to it on ch 11...YOU WILL GET BLEED OVER!! By bleed over I mean collisions...and poor LQ, etc..etc... Same thing plays with cordless 2.4 Ghz phones. Sully -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Blazen Wireless Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 5:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [smartBridges] GOT MRTG TO WORK I THINKG Okay now this is a good thing I think the customer has a wireless router BELKIN I just changed it remotely to Chan 13 (don't ask) now I do not have a dip in signal as bad as I did before. RSSI is a steady 100% in the radio as it has been when their wireless router was set to Chan 11. RSSI would drop to 40% when customer router was set to Chan 11? you would think it would not be anywhere close as I am on CHAN 3 on my AP. Could this be a problem? I know this sounds stupid is the SB product TOO sensitive to things around it and if so WHY I know for better reception but at the sacrifice of what? units locking up or losing association?? I will keep an eye on this unit. On the other ones and many other units in the field I see tons of linksys and other APS at least 5-6 channels apart from my Chan 3 if not more and their signal strength is down low something like 45% in RSSI and sometimes as low as 15% on the link quality. I would think this would NOT interfere with the SB stuff since the channel separation is very great? If it is interference then WHY? I cant go to my customers neighbor hood and yell to everyone to turn off their wireless routers. Is there a way to prevent the S product from even seeing those other units at all? will changing the BSSID to the mac of the AP help at all instead of all zeros or roaming allowed? could this be confusing the SB and having it try to associate to other APS which are not mine but the signal is to weak to associate to?? I am throwing every thought I have out here.. ----- Original Message ----- From: Blazen <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wireless To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 5:14 PM Subject: Re: [smartBridges] GOT MRTG TO WORK I THINKG What causes CTS failures I see about 5000 in the remote APPO I am using for Backhaul I have everyone set at about 1000 on their radios for CTS APPO in AP Mode set to 2346 ----- Original Message ----- From: Blazen <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wireless To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 5:05 PM Subject: Re: [smartBridges] GOT MRTG TO WORK I THINKG I am so frustrated the new unit I just installed lasted about 30 min then went to crap it disassociated for no reason what so ever. NICE. Now I am trying to ping my remote ap and I get maybe best 200-300 ms and there is ONE other person online on that radio right now. What gives it seems like these things are going downhill FAST! How long are these APPO's designed to last? ----- Original Message ----- From: The Wirefree <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Network To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 2:04 PM Subject: RE: [smartBridges] GOT MRTG TO WORK I THINKG Come on now Martin...all the info needed for MRTG is in the sB help files. Search the part-15/sB archives and you will find MRTG info galore. The sB help file on this is pretty intuitive (I know cause I help write it). It also points you to the MRTG website which is JAM full of info. The MRTG website will point you to MRTG w/firedaemon...which will make this a service (way better). I also cut and pasted one of my more recent MRTG emails below. It may be of some help. Sully -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Blazen Wireless Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 1:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [smartBridges] GOT MRTG TO WORK I THINKG I follow the install instructions and can do a dos command and it polls the info from whatever IP of SB product I give. Now the problem is how do I graph this or display what it polls and how do I automate this whole process?? HELPPPPPP this is on a windows machine Martin -----Original Message----- From: The Wirefree Network [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 4:33 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Network Management + MRTG I just came across a really cool freeware tool called openxtra. They have bundled some freeware tools together that are really useful. Including MRTG, PERL, FIREDAMEON, Ethereal, NET-SNMP, WinPCAP and NMAP. http://www.openxtra.com/products/openxtra-basics This may be a great starting place for those of you that have not been able to get MRTG working yet. Sully 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://archives.part-15.org 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://archives.part-15.org
