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"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." --- Albert Einstein On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Kristian Hoffmann <[email protected]>wrote: > Thanks for all the suggestions. We do field testing of new APs and such > in our boom trucks, but I'm thinking more along the lines of bench > testing radios in an isolated environment. We have a company nearby > with 2.4GHz cameras that eat up 2/3 of the spectrum. From my desk, I > get about -85dBm from the 2.4GHz equipment on our tower, but the guy > next door's cameras show up at -50dBm. Point being, I need to do a > conductive test (no antennas) to get any reasonable test results from > 2.4GHz radios. > > It sounds like as long as I have enough attenuation between the radios, > a conductive test won't have any adverse affects. > > Thanks again, > > -Kristian > > > On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 09:38 -0500, jp wrote: > > Your plan sounds good. > > > > We have a guy take the radios and a laptop up to the third floor of our > > building where we have LOS to multiple APs of ours of multiple > technologies. > > He'll make them associate, evaluate signal levels, run some traffic over > it, > > and if it's good, set it back to defaults. Part of sending a guy away > from his > > desk to test them is to eliminate the constant interruptions that have > > prevented the person from getting to that big stack of questionable gear. > > > > Many radios are "broken" due to bad pigtails/jumpers, bad power supplies, > etc.. > > If it's an Alvarion radio, we look into the log files as well for clues. > > > > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 01:43:56PM -0800, Kristian Hoffmann wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > We tend to get radios back from techs with notes that say something > like > > > "bad radio" or "low signal." Things that aren't obviously broken tend > > > to sit around and collect dust. > > > > > > Does anyone have a efficient way to test 802.11a/b/g radios? Most of > > > our equipment is MikroTik, so my plan was to do a conductive test > > > between a known good radio and the radio in question with 80 dB or so > of > > > attenuator stacked between them, check the rx signal on both ends, and > > > run a bw test for a set amount of time. Is there anything else that I > > > should take into consideration, or perhaps a completely different > > > approach? > > > > > > I was looking at these attenuators... > > > > > > http://www.minicircuits.com/pdfs/UNAT-30+.pdf > > > > > > I don't think precision is really an issue as long as they're > consistent > > > from one test to another. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > -- > > > Kristian Hoffmann > > > System Administrator > > > [email protected] > > > http://www.fire2wire.com > > > > > > Office - 209-543-1800 | Fax - 209-545-1469 | Toll Free - 800-905-FIRE > > > > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > 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/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
