Marlon, I was thinking about what you said about high gain omni antennas sending more signal UP. With respect to direction, what's the difference between between a high gain unit and a lower gain unit?
-RickG On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Marlon K. Schafer <o...@odessaoffice.com>wrote: > 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" <rgunder...@gmail.com> > To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> > 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: wireless@wispa.org > > > > 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: wireless@wispa.org > > 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: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
