OK, strange stuff today. Had a customer that's been complaining about intermittent connection issues. The other day I went out there and moved him from g mode to b mode. Adjusted the power levels and such and things ran much better. He's getting 4 megs by 4 megs pretty consistently.
He called again, a few days later and he's having trouble again. I finally had time to get back there today. Hooked up my computer and ran all the tests I normally do. No problems at all. Hooked up the Linksys (and his computers) and bang, down it goes. Disconnected his laptop and it starts working again. Hook his up, down the link goes. Here's the strange part, I could always ping the public IP on the radio, and so could a person outside of my network. So the RF part was working fine, but we still couldn't get traffic through the radio. Eventually I figured out that with him disconnected and me wired to the Linksys I could consistently duplicate the outage by opening MySpace. Or some Fox News sites. I upgraded the firmware on both the radio and the router, same problem existed. I ended up turning the radio into a bridge and BAM, off everything went. And the customer INSTANTLY noticed that things ran faster too. For years I avoided running radios as routers because "You'll never put as good of a router into a radio as I can put behind it." sigh Looks like I was right about that, again. grin So, if you are seeing strange, unexplainable things at some customers try bridging instead of routing on your cpe devices. laters, marlon -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
