Title: RE: [smartBridges] Brand New APPO's!

Proxim can *BEEP BEEP BEEP* there radio's drastically got everything messed up and nearly drove us nuts... the sb ap's saved us and haven't skipped a beat as far as I can tell so far and the new ones will hopefully even be better because I can see with the POEO that sb is moving in the right direction.

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: George [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 11:56 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I am ass u me ing .
But after look at the page, it doesn't say that it does do routing.
Go figure.
George
http://www.demarctech.com/products/reliawave-rwb/rwb-mcpe.htm

The Wirefree Network wrote:

>May be a stupid question...but why do you think there is a built in
>router?
>
>Sully
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of George
>Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 6:10 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Brand New APPO's!
>
>I think the cost difference is made up by :
>A- Higher quality
>B- Bandwidth controll at the end user
>C- Routing, assuming they do routing, then you can eliminate a soho
>gateway router. This is especially important for your small office
>customers. They can't be going down because of an inadequate radio, nor
>can they be going down because of a cheapo gateway router.
>
>Gateway routers........ the next bunch of manufacturers that need to get
>
>the butts reammed for selling crap.
>
>I haven't used Ray and Tony's stuff yet. I would if I had a need,
>
>I use Star-Os for my AP's but I also use them for my business class
>cpe's and for my multi tenant cpe, they do mucho routing and bandwidth
>controll as well as have the space for 3 nics and 1 wireless cards. or 3
>
>wireless cards and 1 nic, or mix and match , or even put in a multi port
>
>nic card and you have as much as 9 ports plus a wireless feed, all with
>routing and other benefits.
>
>
>
>George
>
>Joe Email wrote:
>

>
>>Shawn
>>How is this Reliawave any cheaper
>>We pay $229.00 aBO and $55.00 for 18 dBi antenna = $284.00, For Total
>>$289.00
>>Hey, I want them to fix these problems as much as anyone, that is why
>>we have been holding off on deploying
>>We purchased 2 of the YDI etherant 2's at the first of the year, those
>>   
>>
>

>
>>things haven't blinked yet, they cost about $100
>>more than the airBridge
>>I am looking at other options as well
>>A few days ago, I told them they needed to swap out any units directly
>>   
>>
>

>
>>and today already, they said they would
>>I am like you guys, they still have some bad chips in the pipeline
>>I am getting ready to install 3 aPPO's about 300' on a tower but I am
>>really scared to, the last time I had 3 radio's put
>>on a tower at this height, it cost me $700
>>Joe K
>>
>>    -----Original Message-----
>>    *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>    [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]*On Behalf Of *Shawn
>>   
>>
>Mitchell

>
>>    *Sent:* Saturday, August 23, 2003 4:48 PM
>>    *To:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>    *Subject:* RE: [smartBridges] Brand New APPO's!
>>
>>    http://www.demarctech.com/products/reliawave-rwb/rwb-mcpe.htm
>>    You test that unit any? It's a full outdoor CPE cheaper than SB's
>>    airBridge... and it also is a lot more sensitive than the
>>    airBridge... 11meg at -91dBm, 1 meg at -96dBm Also supports rate
>>    limiting on the unit, PoE, and a few others things...
>>    Has something I really wish the airBrige had... a web based
>>    management. I don't like installing software on my PC, or the
>>    customers PC. I like Linux running on my laptop... allows me to do
>>    MUCH more...
>>    Anyone here have any experience with their products that can give
>>    a good full review on them?
>>
>>        -----Original Message-----
>>        *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>        [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]*On Behalf Of *Ray
>>        *Sent:* Saturday, August 23, 2003 13:32
>>        *To:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>        *Subject:* Re: [smartBridges] Brand New APPO's!
>>
>>        You can also look at the Reliawave units at www.demarctech.com
>>        <http://www.demarctech.com>
>>
>>            ----- Original Message -----
>>            *From:* Marlon Schafer (509-982-2181)
>>            <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>            *To:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>            <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>            *Sent:* Saturday, August 23, 2003 10:47 AM
>>            *Subject:* Re: [smartBridges] Brand New APPO's!
>>
>>            You are preaching to the chior on those points.... Trust
>>            me, I've known of SB longer than most anyone here. I
>>            helped (it can easily be argued) get the off and running,
>>            certainly in the wisp market.
>>            I use a ton of sb gear and may well have outspent you too.
>>            We're seeing trouble too. I've warned the owner of SB for
>>            at least a couple of months now that this problem has to
>>            go away NOW. It's costing customers. And in my market
>>            there aren't that many to start with!.
>>            The alternative to an abo total though is a $400 to $500
>>            Zcomax or Telex unit (the telex ones seem very nice if my
>>            pre production unit is any indication!). At some point
>>            we'll have to decide if the warranty work or up front
>>            costs is a greater cost to us.
>>            I certainly don't expect low end pricing to be equal to
>>            high end gear.... Much as I'd like to have both ;-).
>>            Course, I've been in this game long enough to have
>>            purchased indoor bridges at $1400 each! Even $500 for a
>>            complete kit sounds good ;-).
>>            marlon
>>
>>                ----- Original Message -----
>>                *From:* Blazen Wireless
>>   
>>
><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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>>                *To:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>                <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>                *Sent:* Saturday, August 23, 2003 9:07 AM
>>                *Subject:* Re: [smartBridges] Brand New APPO's!
>>
>>                Marlon,
>>                Please if you look at the history we had GREAT WORKING
>>                units coming form SB then all of a sudden WHAM it went
>>                into the TANK WHY? nothing changed on our ends yet SB
>>                claimed nothing was wrong then LOW AND BEHOLD OHH GEE
>>                a chip problem we overlooked! get the picture? Now
>>                they claim the problems are fixed but the true
>>                diahards are seeing otherwise since we use 100% SB
>>                product you bet your ass I am going to bitch I have
>>                sunk well over $15K in SB product from various vendors
>>                I have that right to bitch when something does not
>>                work and it was before all this whole thing...
>>
>>                    *From:* Marlon Schafer (509-982-2181)
>>                    <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>                    *To:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>                    <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>                    *Sent:* Saturday, August 23, 2003 8:55 AM
>>                    *Subject:* Re: [smartBridges] Brand New APPO's!
>>
>>                    It's an amazing thing isn't it. We buy very nice
>>                    devices at below market rates and then have the
>>                    guts to get made when they don't perform better
>>                    than anything else we've ever run! lol
>>                    If only we didn't have to compete against cable
>>                    and dsl companies that have the money to buy
>>                    customers....
>>                    marlon
>>
>>                        ----- Original Message -----
>>                        *From:* The Wirefree Network
>>                        <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>                        *To:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>                        <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>                        *Sent:* Friday, August 22, 2003 8:39 PM
>>                        *Subject:* RE: [smartBridges] Brand New
>>   
>>
>APPO's!

>
>>                        Of course they work out of the box. The
>>                        firmware upgrade was not to enable the device.
>>                        It was to correct the "timing" issue which was
>>                        causing disassociation (heat related). So.it
>>                        will work out of the box. It just may crash
>>                        soon after..that is why the sticker says
>>   
>>
>upgrade.

>
>>                        With that said, I had the same problems with
>>                        my units. They initially started flashing all
>>                        the lights. Wooohoo.all my clients are coming
>>                        online. Within 5 minutes, the blue light
>>                        stopped and soon there after the LAN side
>>                        locked up as well. Bad units..RMA them.
>>
>>                        But hey.I am not on sB's payroll.and I don't
>>                        approve the RMA's.so don't listen to me. I
>>                        have just spent enough time playing with these
>>                        units. Prior to June.you plugged them in and
>>                        they just worked. BAMMM!
>>
>>                        Sully
>>
>>                        -----Original Message-----
>>                        *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>                        [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] *On
>>                        Behalf Of *Shawn Mitchell
>>                        *Sent:* Friday, August 22, 2003 8:16 PM
>>                        *To:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>                        *Subject:* RE: [smartBridges] Brand New
>>   
>>
>APPO's!

>
>>                        Nish,
>>
>>                        My point is that they would work out of the
>>                        box WITH OUT upgrading them. The units both
>>                        had blue flashing lights, but one of them
>>                        didn't after they had been running sitting in
>>                        the sun for several hours.
>>
>>                        Yes, the Ethernet was working great.. I was
>>                        connected to it via simpleMonitor watching the
>>                        RF (wireless) counters... all sitting at 0...
>>                        I'm trying to tell you that you have have
>>                        solved some of the heat issues, but not all of
>>                        them. Your still sending out bad units and
>>                        telling people to put a bandaid on them. Intel
>>                        tried the same thing with their old Pentium
>>                        60Mhz CPU's years back, and in the end they
>>                        switched them out with good ones.
>>
>>                            -----Original Message-----
>>                            *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>                            [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]*On
>>                            Behalf Of *Nish Park
>>                            *Sent:* Friday, August 22, 2003 21:54
>>                            *To:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>                            *Subject:* RE: [smartBridges] Brand New
>>                            APPO's!
>>
>>                            Shawn,
>>
>>                            I read the email a few times and watched
>>                            the movie also. I am not sure what point
>>                            you are trying to make. As the label says,
>>                            you need to upgrade the F/W before it will
>>                            work properly. There are no units with
>>                            "bad" chips in them. The thermal issue can
>>                            be solved by either the new hardware or
>>                            the new firmware.
>>
>>                            (ps. After the firmware upgrade you may
>>                            want to associate a client to check the
>>                            operation. In the movie it looks like you
>>                            may have a unit with bad Blue LED.
>>                            Ethernet LED is flashing as per normal so
>>                            it looks like the units is working ok but
>>                            for some reason the Blue LED may have come
>>                            off the solder joint).
>>
>>                            Nish
>>
>>                            -----Original Message-----
>>                            *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>                            [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>                            *On Behalf Of *Shawn Mitchell
>>                            *Sent:* Saturday, August 23, 2003 9:20 AM
>>                            *To:* '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
>>                            *Subject:* RE: [smartBridges] Brand New
>>                            APPO's!
>>
>>                            I'm resizing the images and stuff right
>>                            now... I'll have them put up pretty soon,
>>                            but you'll see my point exactly on what
>>                            I've been dealing with over the last few
>>                            months.
>>
>>                                -----Original Message-----
>>                                *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>   
>>
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]*On

>
>>                                Behalf Of *Chris Chance
>>                                *Sent:* Friday, August 22, 2003 18:38
>>                                *To:* '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
>>                                *Subject:* RE: [smartBridges] Brand
>>                                New APPO's!
>>
>>                                How the hell... whats that bug u speak
>>                                of sounds kinda funny since u said u
>>                                passed traffic
>>
>>                                -----Original Message-----
>>                                From: Shawn Mitchell
>>                                [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>                                Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 7:05 PM
>>                                To: smartBridges
>>
>>                                And they have bad chips in them!
>>
>>                                The white sticker on the box say's
>>                                "Before these will work correctly, you
>>                                must upgrade them"... So I think to
>>                                myself, "Smartbridges said they pulled
>>                                back all the ones they still had with
>>                                bad chips, so these must not have any
>>                                heat issues... right.." WRONG!
>>
>>                                Here's a nice little 30 second movie:
>>                                http://www.iodamedia.net/new-appo.avi
>>
>>                                One on the bottom is running the .8
>>                                code, one on top is running the code
>>   
>>
>it

>
>>                                came with, .5
>>
>>                                Now, they got deliverd at around
>>                                12:30pm CDT. I wasn't there, called
>>   
>>
>them

>
>>                                on the phone and told them to sit them
>>                                outside in the sun, plugged in just
>>                                for grins.
>>
>>                                This day (yesterday) happen to be
>>                                breaking record temps all over the
>>   
>>
>place.

>
>>                                It showed 102*F on the temp readout on
>>                                my jeep. These units were warm, but
>>                                not hot to the touch. "burnning" to
>>                                the human touch is around 50*C
>>   
>>
>(122*F).

>
>>                                MUCH lower than what the units are
>>                                rated at.
>>
>>                                But anyway, you can very plainly see
>>                                that on the bottom unit, it's working
>>                                just as normal (RFtxrx light blinks),
>>                                but on the top one... it's totaly off.
>>                                DEAD...
>>
>>                                well, I didn't replace the two AP's
>>                                that I needed to replace still. I
>>                                tested them today.. I'm going to put
>>                                up the screen shots from it.. it's
>>                                quite funny, and let's just say I
>>                                found a few FW bugs in the airBridge,
>>   
>>
>or

>
>>                                else SB you make good enough of a
>>                                radio that it connected to an AP 5
>>   
>>
>miles

>
>>                                away, through/around a large hill, and
>>                                through 20+ multistory brick
>>                                buildings (with a RSSI of -20
>>                                something and a LQ of 90%+ and passing
>>                                traffic
>>                                for a while)
>>
>>   
>>
>
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