Wow what an amazing series of responses! As frustrating and how ever much gray hair I achieved this weekend is now minimized by how much help I got on this issue, thank you so much, anytime I need validation as to why this is a great organization, this is the answer right here. OK the quick and dirty: I now realize from your responses that maybe I can get away with three cards on one board but not splitting 120 customers, too much load to go with too much RF, too much power demand, in other words too many places to fail. I'll pull off one sector XR2 and leave one SR2 and one XR2. I hope I can put both in the same box without the RF issue if I separate them enough (those 10X10 boxes). I'm waiting for the new AirMax line before I split out one more sector for this busy tower.
I've never heard of the export, especially the auto-export of the configuration. I want to get to know this because I can't think of the countless hours I've wasted this summer re-entering MAC/customer info as we've updated almost our entire network to XR2 chips this year. I also upgraded nearly every tower to 18v POE's and am about to try a 12v to 18v boost for my solar site, it makes me a little worried about power demands but much like most of our industry I'll try it, test it, and hope it works. As for the other suggestions I have tested for traffic, put in the typical firewalls for udp and esp floods, site checked for interference and made sure my antennas were properly spaced. It worked great until I put in the XR2's on the same radios which is why I upgraded the board when the 133 couldn't keep up, I assumed the 433ah would, guess I was wrong. Again I appreciate all the help you gave me, I needed this fresh persepective after a weekend of getting so frustrated I probably wouldn't have seen the most obvious thing. Thanks, Forbes Mercy Washington Broadband, Inc. ________________________________ From: [email protected] on behalf of Dennis Burgess Sent: Mon 8/24/2009 8:21 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Gettin sick of Microtik Only way to go. Not only does it decrease the load on each board, but it also prevents RF issues with high power radios in a single box. All of our towers have individual 411Ahs on individual sectors with individual radio cards. ----------------------------------------------------------- Dennis Burgess, CCNA, A+, Mikrotik Certified Trainer WISPA Board Member - wispa.org Link Technologies, Inc -- Mikrotik & WISP Support Services WISPA Vendor Member Office: 314-735-0270 Website: http://www.linktechs.net LIVE On-Line Mikrotik Training The information transmitted (including attachments) is covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. 2510-2521, is intended only for the person(s) or entity/entities to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient(s) is prohibited, If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Barnes Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 10:23 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Gettin sick of Microtik 2nd Idea. What is the possibility if splitting the sectors out to individual RB411AH boards? Less of a single point of failure for the whole tower. 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/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! 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