LOL! I just had a Bullet2 that is missing the reset button! -RickG On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Jeremy Parr <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2010/1/6 Robert West <[email protected]>: > > Was out last night at 11:30, up on top of a grain bin trying to figure > out > > why my network was dropping out. Using UBNT for the backhaul in this > > section so I was using the Ubiquiti Discovery tool. I would see NO UBNT > > equipment, then I'd see a few then all then none, etc. Finally traced it > > down to a Bullet5 M HP. The thing was in a constant reset mode but not > one > > I'd seen before. Some of the early units (and this is an early unit) > would > > have the reset button stuck in because of the lack of clearance around > the > > hole that the reset button is in.. but this one, the RSSI lights were > > pegged to the max but that's normal on this install. I Could "see" the > > signal with my laptop but couldn't talk to the unit through the lan. I > took > > the antenna off of it and the RSSI stayed all the way pegged. Tried to > > reset it, no go. Finally went down to the van, got another Bullet, > replaced > > it and configured it all the while fighting the wind.. Sheeeesh... took > it > > home and when I fired it up I lost all the 5ghz signal from my other > > equipment in the room. Tried other channels, all gone. My guess is, the > > Bullet was stuck in some some sort of loop and was broadcasting all > across > > the spectrum at once. That would explain why, out in the field, I would > > lose everything like a roller coaster. After about an hour of warming up > I > > was able to reset it, flash the firmware just to be sure it wasn't a > > firmware issue and set it out in the cold to test it. Working fine this > > morning as a test unit but I've never seen one blast the entire spectrum > at > > once. Or at least all the channels in such a quick succession. > > Is this the thread where we try to one up each other with the odd > things that our Ubiquiti gear does? If so, I had a Nanostation talking > to a Rocket, both in bridge mode, with Mikrotik's on the wired side at > both ends, showing up as a hop in a traceroute. Traceroute would show > other hosts on the network (correctly) then the MT on the Rocket end, > then the Nanostation, and then the MT on the Nanostation end. I double > and triple checked that the radios were set as bridges. > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/
