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How badly are u suffering? Why can't you compete?
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 4:26
PM
Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Why not to
use smartBridge...
Nope, wasn't me who called. I started out with
Breezecom about 3 years ago and remained pretty small. I'm taking it in the
backside now with Comcast here giving it all away for free.
Scumbags.
Wouldn't it be so nice to have that monopoly?
Run wires to every home and then call it a private network so nobody else has
access to the wire. Funny, 230' of their cable runs across my lawn and I don't
see any rent money for that "private network". What a waste the FCC
is.
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Rick Kosick
StarLinX Internet Service
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 11:10
AM
Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Why not to
use smartBridge...
Hi Rick,
I'm in NYC. Yeah, both our areas (NY
& PA) were hit bad yesterday!
PA? There was a guy in PA
that wanted to setup a WISP and had called me for tips awhile back...that
wasn't you, right? If I remember correctly, his name was also
Rick.
Sevak
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 11:02, Rick Kosick wrote:
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No luck. I downgraded to lower firmware and
nothing.
I am going to try and reset it by using the button on
PowerShot and trying from scratch. Otherwise, I have to dump the equipment
and move to something else. Way too much time spent on this
what-should-be-simple setup. It did work for about 5 mins until I tried
enabling WEP. Ever since though, nothing.
Where are you located
that you have 55MPH wind? I'm in PA and have the same problem. Trees down
everywhere :-(
Where can I get 1.4j.9? Maybe that will do
it?
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Rick Kosick
StarLinX
Internet Service
----- Original Message -----
From: Sevak
Avakians
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 10:47
AM
Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Why not to use
smartBridge...
Hi Rick,
Turns out that I'm also having
problems getting 2 aPPOT units to bridge. At first, I was having
trouble with one of the appot to broadcast it's ssid. The other
appot did not take up the ssid changes I made to it. Whenever
sniffing wirelessly, its ssid appeared as airPointProOutdoorTOTAL.
After re-flashing the rom, rebooting, and switching from wireless bridge
mode to client bridge mode then back to wireless bridge mode, the ssid
appears properly on the second unit. (Note, that the ssid as seen
from the monitor program would always appear as the correct one.
It was only from looking at the wireless broadcast that I could see that
the ssid was incorrect.)
Well, anyway it is way too windy here
today for me to continue (55 mph winds!), so I'll take another look at
it tomorrow.
Any luck with your setup???
Sevak
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Thu, 2003-11-13 at 09:19, Rick Kosick wrote:
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Software: 1.6
Firmware: 1.4j.8
Both
sides.
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Rick
Kosick
StarLinX Internet Service
----- Original Message -----
From: Sevak
Avakians
To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 9:11
AM
Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Why not to use
smartBridge...
Rick, if you got the firmware off the website,
it may not be the latest. Usually sb has a beta version that
they post on this list and most of us use before it is posted to the
website.
Check the version number using simpleNMS or the
firmware upgrade utility.
Sevak
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at
09:05, Rick Kosick wrote:
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I
don't know the actual version number but I just downloaded it off
the website in the past few days and it is the very latest on both
sides.
This part about it bringing the switch to its
knees is VERY disturbing because a switch, by its design, should
not allow that to happen normally. I can see it happening to a
hub.
I was working on this remotely (from home) at
late hours both times and had to drive to the NOC to remedy it
because I couldn't access any machines via PC Anywhere. The whole
network crashed basically.
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Rick Kosick
StarLinX
Internet Service
----- Original Message
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From: Blazen
Wireless
To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003
8:59 AM
Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Why not to use
smartBridge...
Interesting what firmware were you using which should not
affect your switch like that just curious to
know..
----- Original Message -----
From:
Rick
Kosick
To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003
5:39 AM
Subject: [smartBridges] Why not to use
smartBridge...
So far
I've come up with three good reasons to not continue to use
smartBridges but I'm open to suggestions for fixing these
problem. Pardon my frustration but I have 3 years of wireless
experience and its taking me more than 10 hours of fiddling to
get a simple Wireless Bridge to Wireless Bridge up and running
and I am sitting here with more problems than solutions right
now.
1) Last
week I plugged the ethernet side of an APPO into an APCC PNET4
ethernet surge supressor where there where three other devices
plugged in. This caused severe packet loss on the other
devices. Pinging the other devices between each other would
result in 4 out of 10 pings timeing out.
SOLUTION: Bypass the ethernet surge
supressor.
2) Right
now I have two APPO's configured in Wireless Bridge mode
(which won't work, see #3). At my NOC side its plugged into a
D-Link DES3226 Managed Switch. If I put the APPO into Access
Point mode, it KILLS the traffic on my switch entirely to
the point where workstations and servers can barely reach each
other. As soon as I unplug the APPO's ethernet connection from
the switch, immediately everything goes back to normal. This
has happened twice now in my quest to get my wireless link
working.
SOLUTION: No idea. Maybe avoid Access
Point mode?
3) I have
to admit I did enjoy 3 minutes of Wireless Bridge mode where
everything worked as it was expected, but I got adventerous
and enabled WEP. This did not work out for some reason and
now, after disabling WEP... I cannot get the Wireless Bridge
mode to work again. I've reset to Defaults and started over,
still nothing. I simply cannot get Wirless Bridge to Wireless
Bridge mode to work at this point. I've been through the
"recycling both sides", "double checking MAC#'s", etc. You'd
think that if this was going to work at all, I would have
accidentally made it work by now.
SOLUTION: None as of
yet.
Clearly, when considering points #1 and
#2 above, there is more happening on the ethernet side of the
link than just ethernet. Something is different than a
standard ethernet connection because this radio clearly caused
major packet loss between the other devices plugged into am
ethernet surge supressor. Maybe power is leaking through
from the PowerShot device? And, its ability to completely
bring a managed switch to its knees just reassures
this..
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Rick
Kosick
StarLinX Internet Service
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