Oddly enough, I have spares for the clients, but not for the towers... never had a bad tower radio before. This one could be classified as DOA since it hasn't even been up there a week before it started doing this.
There was only 1 wireless client (is a repeater) total between North and South sectors... I just replaced the PacWireless sectors, SR5s, and u.fl pigtails with MTI sectors, XR5s, and MMCX pigtails. Just didn't have the coverage I was experiencing with the East and West sectors, which have significantly more people. ---------- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com From: Travis Johnson Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2008 3:02 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Bad radio? You don't keep spare radio cards in stock? That's probably something you should consider. Travis Microserv Mike Hammett wrote: I changed the freq a bit and didn't see any significant change. I climbed and swapped the pigtails with North and changed all the settings so they were fully swapped. Everyone on the south sector (which did have the questionable radio) is now happy. Now the North sector is showing the same symptoms on my test CPE. It's a good thing everyone except two are on East and West until I get this sorted out. Time to contact Streakwave about a bad radio... ---------- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -------------------------------------------------- From: "RickG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2008 1:05 PM To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Bad radio? It would be interesting to switch the freqs around and see what happens. It's probably a bad radio or cable though. -RickG On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Mike Hammett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does this seem like the radio isn't loud enough? I setup the test CPE on the TV tower at my house and pointed it at the tower. Radio Mobile reports the azimuth as 250 degrees, so well within the south sector's coverage and only at a distance of 230'. I am well below the vertical beamwidth of the sectors, explaining the relatively low signals, but ICS2 is horrible. 1 = North, 2 = South, 3 = West, 4 = East. It makes no sense that South is that much worse signal wise than the others, especially considering that it should be on the South sector anyway. 3 and 4 are SR5s while 1 and 2 are XR5s. I just replaced the towers with the XR5s. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Test Platform] > /interface wireless scan wlan1 Flags: A - active, B - bss, P - privacy, R - routeros-network, N - nstreme ADDRESS SSID BAND FREQ SIG NF SNR RADIO-NAME AB R 00:15:6D:50:16:C6 ICS3 5ghz 5745 -72 -99 27 00156D5016C6 AB R 00:15:6D:50:17:09 ICS4 5ghz 5765 -68 -99 31 00156D501709 AB R 00:15:6D:64:0B:59 ICS1 5ghz 5785 -77 -99 22 00156D640B59 AB R 00:15:6D:64:0B:55 ICS2 5ghz 5825 -85 -99 14 00156D640B55 Here is a listing of the signals when connected: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Test Platform] > /interface wireless monitor wlan1 status: connected-to-ess band: 5ghz frequency: 5785MHz tx-rate: "6Mbps" rx-rate: "6Mbps" ssid: "ICS1" bssid: 00:15:6D:64:0B:59 radio-name: "00156D640B59" signal-strength: -77dBm tx-signal-strength: -74dBm noise-floor: -107dBm signal-to-noise: 30dB tx-ccq: 58% p-throughput: 5481 overall-tx-ccq: 58% authenticated-clients: 1 current-ack-timeout: 28 wds-link: no nstreme: no framing-mode: none routeros-version: "2.9.51" last-ip: 10.10.1.1 802.1x-port-enabled: yes compression: no current-tx-powers: 6Mbps:24(24),9Mbps:24(24),12Mbps:24(24),18Mbps:24(24),24Mbps:24(24),36Mbps:22(22),48Mbps:20(20),54Mbps:19(19) notify-external-fdb: no [EMAIL PROTECTED] Test Platform] > /interface wireless monitor wlan1 status: connected-to-ess band: 5ghz frequency: 5825MHz tx-rate: "6Mbps" rx-rate: "6Mbps" ssid: "ICS2" bssid: 00:15:6D:64:0B:55 radio-name: "00156D640B55" signal-strength: -86dBm tx-signal-strength: -76dBm noise-floor: -107dBm signal-to-noise: 21dB tx-ccq: 59% p-throughput: 5535 overall-tx-ccq: 58% authenticated-clients: 1 current-ack-timeout: 167 wds-link: no nstreme: no framing-mode: none routeros-version: "2.9.51" 802.1x-port-enabled: yes compression: no current-tx-powers: 6Mbps:24(24),9Mbps:24(24),12Mbps:24(24),18Mbps:24(24),24Mbps:24(24),36Mbps:22(22),48Mbps:20(20),54Mbps:19(19) notify-external-fdb: no -- [Q quit|D dump|C-z pause] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Test Platform] > /interface wireless monitor wlan1 status: connected-to-ess band: 5ghz frequency: 5745MHz tx-rate: "6Mbps" rx-rate: "6Mbps" ssid: "ICS3" bssid: 00:15:6D:50:16:C6 radio-name: "00156D5016C6" signal-strength: -74dBm tx-signal-strength: -70dBm noise-floor: -106dBm signal-to-noise: 32dB tx-ccq: 59% p-throughput: 5518 overall-tx-ccq: 59% authenticated-clients: 1 current-ack-timeout: 28 wds-link: no nstreme: no framing-mode: none routeros-version: "2.9.51" last-ip: 10.10.3.5 802.1x-port-enabled: yes compression: no current-tx-powers: 6Mbps:24(24),9Mbps:24(24),12Mbps:24(24),18Mbps:24(24),24Mbps:24(24),36Mbps:22(22),48Mbps:20(20),54Mbps:19(19) notify-external-fdb: no [EMAIL PROTECTED] Test Platform] > /interface wireless monitor wlan1 status: connected-to-ess -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! 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