This is a KNOWN problem with CPQ/SL2 radios that run NAT. Tranzeo blames having too many connections running "bitorent, etc etc." But even on machines without running P2P software this problem still persists. They say that the "NAT tables get full."
I brought this up almost 6 months ago in a thread titled "Latest Tranzeo Firmware = Broken NAT" back around June, 9th 2009 on this list if you want to look at the back logs. Tranzeo never did fix the problem, they came out with version 4.0.5 which they say was specifically for this and it didn't fix it completely. Been talking to a few other WISPS and have confirmed that they are seeing it too. That's the only thing that kept me from loosing my insanity. To date they and I are doing the same thing, which is switching customers to bridge mode as they complain. I told Tranzeo that it was this problem and them not fixing it which was the reason I was not going to do their 3.65ghz gear. Kurt Fankhauser WAVELINC P.O. Box 126 Bucyrus, OH 44820 419-562-6405 www.wavelinc.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marlon K. Schafer Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 10:30 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] Tranzeo Troubles 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: [email protected] 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: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
