I have one of those too, but it was "my fault". The advice from UBNT to fix the issue of them constantly resetting due to the lack of clearance around the reset button was to "enlarge the hole". I enlarged it and the reset button popped out. I just figured "Problem solved!".
Bob- -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of RickG Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 11:56 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Baby, it's cold out there! Bullet5M has the flu. LOL! I just had a Bullet2 that is missing the reset button! -RickG On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Jeremy Parr <jeremyp...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2010/1/6 Robert West <robert.w...@just-micro.com>: > > 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: 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/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
