text messaging, not walkie-talkie. ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "JC Randall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 18:43:48 -0700
>Look into NEXTEL for $7.50 you can have unlimited two way messaging. Or >one half of a two way:-) > > > >JC > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of The Wirefree Network >Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 6:22 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: [smartBridges] SH!T is hitting the FAN!! > > > >Just thought I would let you all know that the airPoint (cb mode) just >came back online by itself, without user interaction, at 1730 PST. I >guess it cooled down on its own with the temperature drop of late day. > > > >I use MRTG to poll it every 5 minutes and I also use IPCheck to ping it >every 5 minutes. > > > >Whoopss�hahaha�I guess it heard me talking about it�it just dropped again, >after being back online for almost 2 hours. > > > >Geesshhh�.I am going to have to send smartBridges my cell phone bill for >the hundreds of text messages I receive when a freaking unit goes off >line. Hahahahha. > > > >Actually, I only send text messages on KEY devices (head end, repeaters, >servers, routers, etc). But�being that each of my repeater locations has >2 radios back to back and then the head end�anyway�quite a few radios >which generate quite a few text messages. )-; > > > >Sully > > > >P.S. Just came back up�guess it is at it�s temperature threshold. > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of The Wirefree Network >Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 10:57 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [smartBridges] SH!T is hitting the FAN!! > > > >Damn it! This is getting ridiculous. I know that sB has been very >responsive�and has also sent me directly a bunch of new units (which >should be here Monday or Tuesday), but DAMN IT! > > > >At approximately 9:45 am my head-end unit went down taking everyone with >it. I received a page, and was able to do a manual power reset on it >within a few minutes (it was not responding to anything on the Ethernet or >Wireless side). This brought it back online and all the clients as well >(except a couple of troubled airBridge units with crappy chips in them). >Then 5 minutes later, four client airBridge units lost association never >to regain it. I had to call the clients and have them do a manual power >reset to get them back online. > > > >OF SPECIAL NOTE: My new airPoint (indoor) which I am using at a client�s >house in CB mode has also lost association. I used the aPi because I >thought it had not been affected by the �crappy chip syndrome�. But�it is >down. It went down within minutes of the others. > > > >Okay�I will try to make this short�I have been going back and forth with >this for 50 minutes now. The head-end keeps going down every few minutes. >At first the clients will start dropping off the associated list then it >just craps out all together. I have now unplugged it for 10 minutes >hoping that when I plug it back in, it will stay up. I am sure all my >clients are BITCHING at me right now!!!!!!!! > > > >The client units are dropping like flies. I have 18 airBridge units >deployed from the June batch. Of them, 12 have lost association in the >past 1 hour. I guess the other 6 must have received the good chips on the >other production line (no joke). > > > >Oh�I guess I should tell you this. It is a SCORCHER here in Monterey. >Not!!!! > >74�F > >Fair Feels Like 74�F > >UV Index: 4 Low > >Dew Point: 59�F > >Humidity: 59% > >Visibility: Unlimited > >Pressure: 29.98 inches and steady > >Wind: From the East Southeast at 6 mph > > > >>From 0945 to 1045 every day is a scary time for me. It is not the hottest >part of the day, but it is the time when all my units become FLAKY! It >was around 63 last night and when the morning sun hits these units all of >a sudden�and the temperature starts rising quickly�then the units lose >association. It is not that they are HOT�cause they are not. It is the >temperature change that does it. I just jumped up on the roof and felt my >head-end�.it is just warm. > > > >If the units I receive on Monday-Tuesday don�t fix this problem�I am done. >Truly done with sB. No self-respecting business man many would put >loyalty to a supplier over the existence of his own company. If they >do�they are sure to die. > > > >PLEASE DON�T ANYONE EVEN TRY TO TELL ME HOW TO TROUBLESHOOT THIS PROBLEM. >IT IS NOT MY PROBLEM!!!! > > > >Sully > > > >p.s. The 10 minute �cooling down period� has allowed everyone to >reassociate and stay online for 5 minutes now. Except the �crappy chip� >airBridge units and the newly installed airPoint indoor. > > > > --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus By Avolve.net] 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
