Is the ACK timeout set weird on the Tranzeo's?  Someone had mentioned they
couldn't use the UBNT Locos because the ack timeout was limited to 3 miles.
Maybe the Tranzeo is at that distance mark.

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On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Steve Barnes <[email protected]> wrote:

> I had something similar last spring.  A client with a Tranzeo connected to
> a MT AP that could not ping most of the time to the tower or my DNS server.
>  However, Setting at my desk across the wan I could be logged in to the
> Radio while the pings consistently dropped for my tech at the other end.
>  After multiple Tranzeo radios I built a MT 411a with a Arc Panel and a XR2,
> the exact same setup and firmware as the tower.  Problem Solved.  40 other
> Tranzeo's on the tower no issues.  Even went up the road with one of the
> radios that would not work at that location and worked with it for 1 hour no
> problems.  Never figured out the issue, but the customer no longer calls and
> is happy so chalked it up to WIFI Black Magic.
>
> Steve Barnes
> Manager
> PCS-WIN
> RC-WiFi Wireless Internet Service
>
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Mark McElvy
> Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 3:20 PM
> To: WISPA General List
> Subject: Re: [WISPA] New install driving me crazy....
>
> So I go back out to the customer to do some testing. Customers router is
> on channel 11 and I am on 5.
> The client radio can see two of my AP's, one on channel 5 and the other
> on 6. The tower I am connected to now is 2.7miles away @ 324 degrees and
> the other tower is 5.5 miles @ 355 degrees. I tried turning to left of
> the tower, away from the distant tower till I was @ about -70 and I get
> the same result.
>
> Here is something I find interesting. I started a constant ping to the
> AP and the border router. I can RDP to my monitoring server and connect
> to my exchange server in the office while getting no ping response but
> cannot browse. If the pings start responding, I can browse. The pings
> will respond for a minute or so then stop for a few minutes. I am not
> seeing this at my other customers on this AP.
>
> Still think multipath? I tried to connect to the distant AP with a
> signal @ -80 but it did not want to associate.
>
> Mark McElvy
> AccuBak Data Systems, Inc.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Marlon K. Schafer
> Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 8:45 AM
> To: WISPA General List
> Subject: Re: [WISPA] New install driving me crazy....
>
> Is that a bigger or smaller antenna size than what you have now?
>
> If you moved up by 10' and increased your signal levels, what 1000% or
> so,
> I'd REALLY say that this is looking like a multipath issue.
>
> Often with multipath I've seen the signals hold well but performance
> suck.
> It'll sometimes kill the signal though.
>
> I had one install that has some power lines in the way.  Fought
> intermittent
> outages etc. for over a year.  His signal was OK, but not great.
> Finally
> something changes a bit and his signal dropped too low.
>
> Hmmm, bad radio.  So I pulled his radio out and put in a brand new one,
> still crappy signal.
>
> Double hmmmmm
>
> I put the old radio back in, left it off the mount and moved it around
> to
> see what would happen.  (I always leave 6 to 10' of cable on the mount
> just
> for things like this.)
>
> Triple hmmmmm
>
> Move the radio to the west 6' and DOWN 2' and he's got great signal,
> faster
> speeds than ever and is happy as a clam.  Now one of my biggest PITA
> customers just never calls anymore.  It was a very amazing
> transformation to
> his service.
>
> Again, there were some powerlines *close* to the path but not in it.
> Things
> actually looked pretty good to me.  But not to the radio.
>
> Your symptoms look like multipath to me.  We don't see it's effect very
> often, the systems handle it quite well today.  But when it hits it can
> hit
> hard.
>
> laters,
> marlon
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark McElvy" <[email protected]>
> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 4:50 AM
> Subject: Re: [WISPA] New install driving me crazy....
>
>
> > Well before moving to the current setup, I originally had a CPQ-19, 10
> > ft lower. It had a -80 with the same result and I was seeing a lot of
> > retries.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
> On
> > Behalf Of Marlon K. Schafer
> > Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 9:30 PM
> > To: WISPA General List
> > Subject: Re: [WISPA] New install driving me crazy....
> >
> > Change from b to g or g to be mode.
> >
> > Turn your power WAY down.  That's way too hot of a signal.
> >
> > Any metal, trees, houses, power lines etc. anywhere near the signal
> > path?
> >
> > This looks a LOT like multipath.
> > marlon
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mark McElvy" <[email protected]>
> > To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 2:30 PM
> > Subject: [WISPA] New install driving me crazy....
> >
> >
> >> Installing a new customer, Tranzeo CPQ-19 to a MT AP, -60 signal
> > up/dn,
> >> -102 noise. About half the time I don't get name resolution and can't
> >> browse pages. This happens with two different radios. It is kind of
> >> acting like I am loosing routing or something. I also notice I will
> > get
> >> very high ping times sporadically along with drop pings. Best of my
> >> knowledge no one else having issue on this AP, about a dozen users.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Mark McElvy
> >> AccuBak Data Systems, Inc.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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