I would check pigtails and jumpers or possibly a radio card replacement
just to be sure. I have had good luck with MT as APs using both atheros
based cards as well as prism based cards. All clients radios were prism
based (CB3, Tranzeo). The RB200 boards have seemed a little more solid,
but they don't have the ompf of a 532 are they are close to twice the
price last I checked.
If I was going to suggest a StarOS implementation I would suggest the
WARs especially if the rumors of an "open certification kit" are true.
David E. Smith wrote:
Luke Pack wrote:
We were looking into a solution here... we had an Orinoco AP-1000 and
that got blown, so we replaced it with a Mikrotik with an SR2 card.
The Mikrotik cannot come near to the quality of the Orinoco. This
has actually happened before on another tower with all known good
equipment. I have people not on the tower, and those who are, have
much worse signals. The Mikrotik is set to auto, with regulatory
domain as United States. Tx power is at default. Anyone know what
the problem could be?
This may be an unpopular opinion in some parts, but I've never had the
best of luck with Mikrotik's software as an access point - too much
generally odd behaviour like what you're describing. I love their
software for weird routing and firewalling tasks, and have a lot of
their hardware deployed (much of running non-Mikrotik software), but
it seems to make for a lousy AP.
As has previously been mentioned, if you can still find a RouterBoard
200, they have PCMCIA slots. (You may also want to look into other
software for it. The RB200 is a standard x86 board; you can install,
say, StarOS on a flash card and probably get the results you need.)
If you want to get really really fancy, get a Soekris 5501 and case,
and a PCI-to-PCMCIA adapter. That way the card slides right into the
top of the case so it even LOOKS like an AP-1000. :)
Consider also experimenting a bit with the radio card you use. The
CM-9 doesn't have as much raw naked power as the SR2, but it has
slightly better receive sensitivity. More important, it just "feels"
more reliable.
David Smith
MVN.net
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