I've got one tower with a single client so I opted for a Bullet on it as an experiment. It works surprisingly well although I prefer all the bells & whistles on a RB or WRAP. At any rate, I bet your right and its the lightning protector. I've had some strange issues with lightning protectors in the past. -RickG
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Michael Baird<m...@tc3net.com> wrote: > Well I'm using BulletHP's, but I have them on other towers, and they > work fine. I have the Ubiquity 3.4 firmware on them, it's not the > radio's, not the antenna's, it's definitely something with this tower > configuration. The only thing we did differently is use RFlinx Lightning > arrestors inline, but I don't see how they would affect only receive and > not transmit, it has to be the configuration of the antenna's on the > tower. As has been suggested I think it has to do with them being to > close together, they are too hot, and even though the channels are > non-overlapping on the 3 AP's, the attenuated portion is still too > strong and messing up the RSL's badly on the AP's. > > Regards > Michael Baird >> What sort of ubiquiti APs? You'll have serious loss on anything >> but a bullet, and I wouldn't put one of them 145' up a tower. >> >> Also see that the firmware is up to date. They've had some issues >> misreporting signal in various versions. >> >> On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 04:09:40PM -0400, m...@tc3net.com wrote: >> >>> We've just installed a 3 sector 2.4 setup, at 145' with maxrad 120's. >>> I'm noticing the receive sensitivity on the AP's are about 15-20 db's >>> different then what I see on the CPE's, tried a Tranzeo/Ubiquity >>> radio. I'm using Ubiquity AP's, and they work fine on another 3 sector >>> setup I have, however this tower is an A-Frame. The tower owner won't >>> allow outside climbers so his guy did it, and he put one on each leg >>> at 145' back to back. If the radios were too close together even on >>> different channels, would the RX performance on the AP exhibit this >>> behavior? Only other change on this tower was RFLinx Quarter-wave >>> arrestors in line. >>> >>> If I'm 3-5 miles away I can see on the CPE a RSSI of -65 to -75 for >>> example, on the AP the reading would be in the -90 to not even below >>> the noise floor. >>> >>> Any thoughts would be appreciated as always. >>> >>> Regards >>> Michael Baird >>> >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> 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/
