I try to keep mine in the -65 to -75 range. Why? Multipath will often be around 30db less than your main signal. You want to try to keep the main signal low enough that the average multipath is below the receiver threshold. marlon
----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Trimmell" <[email protected]> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 9:23 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] 2 set of bullet5's and 2 hp2524's + LACP = Problems? > Did you get what he was saying about the signal strength? You're going > to want your signal around -60 or so. I think anything above -50 really > causes noise problems. I had to go through and audit many units on our > network just because of the pollution is causes when several backhauls > and clients are talking too loud between one another. > > -20 to -30 would definitely cause you RF problems in the future and your > "neighbors" if any. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Ryan Ghering > Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 11:54 AM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] 2 set of bullet5's and 2 hp2524's + LACP = > Problems? > > I didn't have the radios is WDS mode, its works perfectly now. Although > I > still can't get to the units after LACP is linked. Gota find a way > around > that. > > Ryan > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Bret Clark > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Make sure all your ports at set in at the same ethernet link speed > that >> are running lacp. For testing does it work if you run RSTP instead? >> >> [email protected] wrote: >> >> Are the bullets in WDS mode, if not you will have proxy ARP for one > direction >> and not the other. This will really mess with routing/link protocols. >> >> Fire up wireshark and post a short capture (starting before adding the > links to >> right after adding them). >> >> If you add just one link or the other, does it still behave the same > way. >> >> Ryan Ghering wrote: >> >> >> Hello all, I got an issue that I haven't delt with before. >> >> note we HAVE done this scenario before just with diff radios and it > worked. >> >> The Setup.. >> >> we have a 3/4 mile long radio shot to one of our towers that we wanted > to >> increase bandwidth to as well as give it some redundancy. So >> we bought 2 links of bullet5's and 2 pac wireless 2 foot dual pole > dishes. ( >> and yes the output DBM is set to EIRP max with the dishes. ) >> >> We get the link up the radios work awesome. -28 to -30 dbm strength. > in >> 54mbps mode. Speedtest on both links shows 26 mbps per radio. >> >> I add in the switches which one is set active for the LACP link on > ports 22 >> 23 and 24 port 22 is the old backhaul which is a simple cisco 1242 > bridged >> radio link >> port 23 and 24 are the bullets. ( same on both switches btw ) the > other >> switch is pretty much in default mode, as per HP's config example. >> >> I enable the switch ports for the bullets to allow them to link up the > lacp >> and it works fine for a moment then the arp flood from hell happens. >> Devices all over my network stop responding for long periods of > time.random >> customers stop passing traffic. >> >> Nothing I do gets me past this point. >> >> A more in depth look at the network for this link for you. >> >> Border-Router -> Extreme layer3 switch -> Core router -> HP2624 Switch > -> >> Packetshaper 4500ISP -> Extreme layer3 switch -> hp2524 (lacp) -> > Cisco + >> Bullet5's --- Cisco + Bullet5's -> HP2524 (lacp) -> Canopy CMM -> > Various >> AP's. >> >> I don't need the Cisco backhaul anylonger however it would be nice to >> maintain as backup. (Which BTW is linked up at 54mbps as well.) >> Also I can't seem to ping any devices in the LACP link after they > connect. >> >> Anyone have any ideas why this is going on? and how to fix it? >> >> Thanks in advance >> Ryan Ghering >> Network Operations Manager >> Plains.Net >> >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -------- >> 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! 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