I'm sure most have you have had these: nights of sleep lost trying to resolve some "issue" you have with your wireless stuff? can someone keep me from that tonight and answer 2 questions for me?
here's my rig: My house: internet>router>wap11>amp>omni other end of my hood: 2 wap 11's, one with a 15 db patch in client AP mode and another in AP mode with a half watt amp and an omni connected w/ a crossover between. Clients connect to the 2 non client AP's from there homes. all is happy here, sometimes. firmware has been all over the place, but we are standard right now w/ 1.4i.4. I've tried all sorts of combos on this and I've had a lot of luck but nothing consistent. I've got all 1.1 versions, but I THINK there might be a 1.0 out there... I have 2 problems that I must solve before I can sleep at night: 1st: why can't I truly roam between AP's? If I walk to the away AP and attempt to connect to anything not directly associated with that AP, I have to wait for between 2 and 10 minutes for my packets to magically begin passing. restarting all AP's in different orders doesn't even get it. Only thing that sometimes helps is using the atmel tool to connect to the backhaul wap11 and running the site survey tool (???). this is only about 35-45% effective and cannot be rushed. it doesn't work immediately upon associating with the AP, it always takes at least 2 minutes. this doesn't happen when I return to my "base station" or primary AP. Is there some routing table somewhere that is needing flushing or refreshing? 2nd: why does my backhaul AP seem to go to sleep for NO apparent reason? this problem kills me and I think I've tried it all. the only thing that fixes it is this: get in my car, drive to the other side of the hood, restart the AP while sitting in my car by associating with the properly functioning non backhaul AP and using the atmel snmp tool and waiting for between 2 and 10 minutes for my packets to pass freely again (yes, I've almost been arrested while wardriving my own network). I just discovered something that may be a clue: while typing this I ran a continuous ping test on the backhaul AP in the background, everything is running fine when all of a sudden the link starts losing packets, not completely losing the connection, but losing about half my packets. I used my atmel tool again to bounce the backhaul. Even though it was losing packets I still got through with a few re tries(I've found atmels soft restart to be the most effective for some reason). the link went down for 2 seconds, caught 2 pings, lost 2 pings and picked up clean, haven't lost a packet in 15 minutes!! I'm not sure what this tells me but I'd love to hear anyone's explanations or experiences. sorry to go on and on, I tend to ramble. thanks for hangin in there if you did. -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
