cpq.  This one was a 15dB version.
marlon

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "RickG" <rgunder...@gmail.com>
To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 8:03 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Tranzeo Troubles


> 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
>>
>>
>>
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