For the 4xx boards I use 18v and 24v power supplies. No problems on either of them.
On 8/24/09, Steve Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > Forbes, I had this same issue with 411a. I was running 3- 411a boards with > 12v they worked great for about a week then all the sudden the clients > started all dropping off and back on. Then it started locking up ever night > I got to the point that I made it part of my early morning coffee to drive > the 15 miles and reboot every day. After 2 weeks of messing we realized > that the units were struggling for power. We went to a 24V POE and that > same tower has now been up with 40 clients for 165 days. The XR series > really tasks the boards. That is what fixed it for me. I think those XR > boards really eat the power. > > Steve Barnes > Manager > PCS-WIN<http://www.pcswin.com/> > RC-WiFi Wireless Internet Service<http://www.rcwifi.com/> > > Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of > trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition > inspired, and success achieved. > - Helen Keller > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Forbes Mercy > Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 2:08 AM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: [WISPA] Gettin sick of Microtik > > I had a whole lot planned for this weekend, instead I spent 15 hours of it > working on an AP that won't behave. It's the third long fix period I've had > to do for Microtik this weekend, while I do have 20 AP's and backhauls under > that brand, none work easily, and the frustrations are plentiful. > > SO Last week we upgraded a prizim chip to an XR2 on a three radio card 133c. > We started to have problems with the new card randomly dropping then after > disable/enable would come back up. As the week went on it happened more > frequently. First solution, change out the new card, no difference. The > next was a new power supply. Figured that was it since the 133 was running > on a 12v, we upgraded to an 18iv, no change. So this weekend upgraded to a > 433ah board and the three cards (2 XR2's and 1 SR1 as you know you can't put > three XR2's in a 433 cause they made the slots too close together), no > change, now the board wouldn't drop the connections it just increased > latency dramatically after a few minutes, then resume low pings (average at > this tower is 4ms) for about 50 cycles then get worse until about 4000 then > time outs. > > Today after manually entering the 120 people on the new board (four hours > since you can't cut/paste to a Microtik) the ethernet port dropped. I > should point out I'm on my third trip up my steepest mountain where my jeep > struggles to get up it. Power cycle and it's up (yes I'm well aware of > remote reboot systems but its never been a problem so it was low priority). > Tonight my after hours is slammed with "my Internet is so slow" calls from > that tower and sure enough 4000ms pings. I've spent all weekend on it and I > don't know what else to do, any ideas out there? I know these radio's > pretty well so I've tried the simple stuff (adjust power, change > frequencies, blah blah) HELP! > > Not a pretty weekend, > Forbes > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ > -- Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 "When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth." --- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
