Not sure if it's related or not, but high gain omni antennas are usually a great big no no. They tend to send more signal UP than in the direction of the customers.
I'd replace it with an 8 or 9 db unit just on principal. You'll probably find that most customers will actually get a BETTER signal. laters, marlon ----- Original Message ----- From: "RickG" <[email protected]> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 7:23 PM Subject: [WISPA] tower issue > OK, here a good one! (aka, how I spent my weekend in a blizzard!) > > One of my towers has a single WARP/StarOS connected to a 5GHz grid for > backhaul and a 15dBi omni for the local connections. > On Saturday, after making some small changes, I rebooted it and it would > not > allow me to connect via wireless any longer - or my customers :( > So, I go to the tower, connect up via ethernet and everything is a usual > but > I see all associations but only a few client have ip addresses. I can ping > the few clients but the packet loss is huge 80-90%. I then reload my > backup > but still get the same thing. I try changing channels, but still the same. > I > then systematically begin replacing parts starting with the radio card. > Eventually, I replaced EVERYTHING but still have the problem. One note: > occasionally, twice of maybe three times, after a reboot, all came back > normal. The third time, I left well enough alone for now but of course, > you > know what will happen the next time I reboot. > > Any ideas??? > > -RickG > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
