Can anyone tell me what an XR5 puts out for signal if it has blown it's amp? I'm starting to believe something is causing the XR5s to blow their amps, reducing them to pre-amp power. What that is remains to be seen. I'm hoping it's the radio itself, pigtail, or the coax vs. the $350 MTI I waited 3 weeks for.
---------- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -------------------------------------------------- From: "Mike Hammett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 8:48 AM To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Bad radio? > okay, now 3 days later the new south radio (originally north) is > misbehaving > in the same way (Tx/Rx signals are off by 10 where on the other sectors > they're roughly balanced). The signals going back to the tower are 8 - 10 > db stronger than the received signals. An R52 (or possibly R52H) is > shooting back to the tower whereas an XR5 is shooting down to the CPE. If > it were different radio specs, it'd be unbalanced the other way around. > > The SR5s that I have installed have been functioning just fine for years > and > are installed in the same fashion as the XR5s. Did UBNT make a bad batch > of > XR5s or am I doing something wrong? > > > ---------- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Mike Hammett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2008 2:58 PM > To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Bad radio? > >> 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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