What is the CPE? On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Marlon K. Schafer <o...@odessaoffice.com>wrote:
> 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/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
