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I just looked at that Resources for a 532. 2 Ports are VIA Technologies. The 3rd is Integrated Device Technologies.
Scott Reed Owner NewWays Wireless Networking Network Design, Installation and Administration www.nwwnet.net ---------- Original Message ----------- From: Brian Rohrbacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: WISPA General List <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:20:58 -0400 Subject: Re: [WISPA] MT power supplies THE SOLUTION > I started with.... RB 532 on tower. It comes down 265 feet to poe > injector to router. Major packet loss. > 2) switched RB 532 out. No change. > 3) Created test setup on ground with "bad board" and it looked fine. > (from laptop--6ft cable----poe----265 ft---RB) > 4) Blamed it on the cable, and got a cable certifier from a friend. > 5) Right before climb, I re did the test setup on the ground. This > time I plugged the 265 feet into the actual router instead of my > laptop. The problen was back. (I was bummed) > 6) One final test. Get another 265 foot cable. I used 265ft for power > and 265ft for data to eth 2 or 3. > Problem solved. > I can only speculate that the chipset on RB 532 poe port is diffrent > from the chipset on eth 2/3. > And for whatever reason it was not compatable with cable, hardware, > ect.....setup. > I may never know for sure why, but I have the workaround. Good enough > for me. > > FWIW I ended up pulling 2 new cables (all 3 certified fine). I used > the original cable for data (it has "real" shield) I used my new 2 > (cheapo foil shield) for power and slapped the other into eth3 for the > heck of it. > > Lessons learned for next time. > Measure cable, crimp, and power up on ground using the EXACT same > everything as what the final deployment will have. And then test. > > Hope that sums it all up. > > Ok to directly answer your question. Yes. I did this on the ground > test unit. > > Brian > Rohrbacher > > Paul Hendry wrote: > > >Brian, > > > >Just out of interest, did you try running both power and data over the new > >cable and did you still see the same issue? > > > >P. > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > >Behalf Of Brian Rohrbacher > >Sent: 15 September 2006 02:43 > >To: WISPA General List > >Subject: Re: [WISPA] MT power supplies THE SOLUTION > > > >First off. I'm back to a 48v 420mA power supply. > >To the solution. > >I ran another cat5 up the tower and plugged it into the RB 532. > >Now I have one cable for poe and one cable for data, and it all works fine. > >And check this. My headache went away as soon as the problem did. :) > >Problem solved. NEXT! > > > >Brian > > > >Tom DeReggi wrote: > > > > > > > >>Amps don't mean a thing without disclosing Volts, Consider Watts > >>instead. 1300mA at 3V is much different than 1300mA at 18V. > >>The mPCI slot (SR5) is 3.3V. Power to the Motherboard is from > >>12-48V. W=V*A > >> > >>Tom DeReggi > >>RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc > >>IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband > >> > >> > >>----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark McElvy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> > >>Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 8:19 AM > >>Subject: RE: [WISPA] MT power supplies > >> > >> > >>I am surprised no one has mentioned this. I looked up power consumption > >>on the SR5 and it shows 800 to 1300 mA each. You state your power supply > >>is 700mA. I did not look up power consumption for the RB532 but I would > >>think you would need at least a 3A supply. > >> > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > >>Behalf Of Brian Rohrbacher > >>Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 11:51 AM > >>To: WISPA General List > >>Subject: Re: [WISPA] MT power supplies > >> > >>So, does anyone know if it looks like I would be fine on the power side > >>of things? > >>I have tweaked the ethernet port settings for no gain. > >> > >>Next step is to get climbing 280ft to replace board, but I'd like to > >>confirm power first. > >> > >>Brian > >> > >>Brian Rohrbacher wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>I have a RB 532 on 300 foot of cat 5 with 2 sr5. > >>>I'm using poe 48v .700a power supply. > >>>I'm seeing weirdness. > >>> > >>>Do I have enough "juice" > >>> > >>>Brian > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > -- > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ ------- End of Original Message ------- |
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