I moved to the Marina in mid August and in mid September I had my T1 line and first AP in place at the yacht club (though I've only recently given them more logical ESSIDs...) I'm convinced that the interference I'm getting can not be attribute to darkersun, and it's just coincidental that I picked up one AP of theirs (DarkerSun-Touchless) for the first time at about the time my problems began.
I am running on channels 1 and 11 in vertical polarization. I'll have to get new antennas then to go horizontal...
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 10:41, Jeff King wrote:
/Peter:
I'm not the one that was having the problem, I just gave Scott some suggestions since no-one else had responded to him on the list.
But your information fills in alot of gaps. Scott never got back to me, but looking at the marina, AND if scott is using Sector antennas, the only way he could cover the marina AND he is on the Berkley Yacht Club would be if at least one of them was directly facing you AP's.
So that explains alot.
So, besides your excellent suggestions, if the Marina is the only thing he wants to cover, he should introduce some aggressive downtilt into his antennas. That should take your AP's and any others ouf of the direct beam of his antenna but still give excellent signals to the marina. Or, alternately, relocate the AP's and sector antennas so they point out at the bay, putting the back side towards your antennas and the rest of Berkeley. Minimizing the coverage area to just what you target is the best long term solution for anyone in this situation. If it is not you, it will be someone else.
Regards,
-- Jeff King, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/13/2003
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 09:48:17 -0700, Moebius wrote:As the owner of all of the DarkerSun access points in the Berkeley area, I can provide some data and perspective as to what the Marina is seeing:
1) I noticed the the Berkeley marina SSIDs showing up about 2 weeks ago..
2) All of my Berkeley AP's have been in place for over a year now.. We provide broadband internet to the berkeley and Oakland area.
3) The APs consist of 14db 90 degree Maxrad sectors setup with a downtilt pointed at the mid-flats of the Berkeley Oakland area. We currently have 6 high level APs in operation, they are fed at. Our customers use 14db panels to connect into the sectors from downtown, and the hills. All of the APs are located on tower sites atop the Berkeley hills.
4) I am surprised to hear that the Berkeley marina operation is suddenly having trouble, since our system has been running from well before the Berkeley marina went on the air so you have been receiving the same basic level of packet traffic from our network since day 1, and your access point is located about 6 miles away from our closet AP (although it is a perfect line of sight)
5) What I would suggest if you want to get the least amount of packet traffic from my operation is to run on channel 6 in vertical polarization or on channel 1 or 11 in horizontal polarization. Channels 1 and 6 have Vertical sectors that can see the Marina, and Channel 6 has a horizontal 24 db dish pointed torward Angel Island. Cross polizarization should get me our of your hair. Also, since 6 is a 24db horizontal aimed above you, it should be pretty quiet.
7) Give me a call if you want to talk more about it.. (510) 207-0000 Regards, Peter Kranz (AD6SG)
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