Don't know about heat, however humidity could have an
effect.

--- Casey Halverson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> How high are each of your antennas?  Is there an
> altitude difference between the two or are they
> level?
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Loren Zemenick
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 8:17 AM
> To: Wireless
> Subject: [BAWUG] Why might a 5 mile link degrade
> during hot weather?
> 
> 
> I have a 5 mile 802.11b link that works fine until
> air 
> temperatures exceed
> around 85 F. Over a period of about an hour, the
> percentage of 
> missed pings
> grows from zero to 100 percent. Link endpoints are
> Linksys 
> WAP11 (ver 2.6)
> configured as a point-to-point bridge with 24 Dbi
> horzontally polorized
> antennas.  The WAP11's and power supplies have been
> cooled with 
> no effect.
> Some trees are in the Frenel zone.  The problem
> happens weekdays and
> weekends. With WAP11's I don't know of a way to
> measure signal 
> strength or
> quality.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions as to what might be
> causing 
> the outage or
> how to troubleshoot the problem?
> 
> Regards,
> Loren Zemenick
> 
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