HA HA Doesn't your wife answer the phone @ the office...
Time to take her next door for some chinese food and have a chat ;-) On Mar 27, 2010, at 11:41 AM, Robert West wrote: > AH! And to top it ALL off, here I am, up on the top of a grain leg, > out of > breath, cranky and freezing and the cell phone rings......... It's > the > office calling me..... "So and so just called and her internet isn't > working"...... "Uh, and you somehow don't remember that I'm out > here trying > to fix it?!!!!" > > There have been many times I felt like tossing the cell off the top > of a > tower and that was one of them. > > Bob- > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On > Behalf Of Robert West > Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2010 11:30 AM > To: 'WISPA General List' > Subject: Re: [WISPA] UBNT Bullet Takes Down Entire Network....... > Sigh.... > > The main thing that was throwing me is, even when I took the bad AP > off > line, the rest of the network took a long time to recover. 5 > minutes or so > and I wasn't waiting that long most of the time to see results, I > was in a > bit of a hurry so when it didn't settle, I moved onto the next. > > Bob- > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On > Behalf Of Josh Luthman > Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2010 11:17 AM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] UBNT Bullet Takes Down Entire Network....... > Sigh.... > > Bridge loop, probably. > > 100M spitting out on to a backbone that can't handle that much > bandwidth. > > I had a Redline backhaul create a loop and it flooded the traffic > through > the rest of the network, taking out everything up until the 100M > fiber tower > at which point I had ~60M to use. > > Josh Luthman > Office: 937-552-2340 > Direct: 937-552-2343 > 1100 Wayne St > Suite 1337 > Troy, OH 45373 > > "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to > continue > that counts." > --- Winston Churchill > > > On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Mike <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'd be curious how you figured out it was THAT unit causing the >> grief. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:wireless- >> [email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Robert West >> Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2010 10:06 AM >> To: 'WISPA General List' >> Subject: Re: [WISPA] UBNT Bullet Takes Down Entire Network....... >> Sigh.... >> >> Yep. And it went everywhere. Must have got in through the inside >> of the > N >> connector, that tape was wound pretty tight and I didn't see any >> water >> inside the tape. Took the Bullet apart, wasn't much water but the >> board >> was >> "moist" like condensation. Dried it all out, works fine now. >> Smeared > some >> RTV sealant on it to make me feel good but man, that was not much >> fun to >> ferret out. >> >> Bob- >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:wireless- >> [email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Josh Luthman >> Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2010 11:01 AM >> To: WISPA General List >> Subject: Re: [WISPA] UBNT Bullet Takes Down Entire Network....... >> Sigh.... >> >> So much time spent learning how to deploy cheap Ubnt stuff. Not as >> bad as MikrotikN but geez. >> >> So the antenna full of water caused the bullet to go nuts and >> caused a >> packet storm, is that right? >> >> On 3/27/10, Robert West <[email protected]> wrote: >>> HA! Had lots and lots of rain the other night. At around 2am I >>> get an >>> alarm, everything is losing connection. Everything. EVERYTHING! >> Started >>> on it at 7am, was everyplace trying to isolate sections, was >>> driving me >>> nuts. Finally, found one Bullet 5M that had a 5GHz stick antenna >>> on it >> (Was >>> for tech access on AP down on the ground, was a weird fix) and the >>> thing >> had >>> just enough water in it to cause it blast the network. Water? >>> Well, > I'm >> a >>> freak for taping a waterproofing everything but on this, installer >>> boy >>> (That's his official name) taped it alright but since it was a stick >> antenna >>> on it, taped the N connector on the bullet and then all the way up >>> to > the >>> clamp on the antenna! Hmmmmmm.. That seems to cover the DRAIN >>> HOLES on >> the >>> bottom of the antenna. (We'll have a talk. Another one.) >>> Antenna, of >>> course, full of water. Must have filled up then had enough >>> pressure to >> seep >>> through the tape somehow into the Bullet. Nice. So here it is, >>> this >> little >>> nothing off in the corner doing it's dirty work all over the >>> network. >>> >>> >>> >>> It hates me. >>> >>> >>> >>> Had to share. >>> >>> >>> >>> Robert West >>> >>> Just Micro Digital Services Inc. >>> >>> 740-335-7020 >>> >>> >>> >>> Logo5 >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Josh Luthman >> Office: 937-552-2340 >> Direct: 937-552-2343 >> 1100 Wayne St >> Suite 1337 >> Troy, OH 45373 >> >> "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to >> continue that counts." >> --- Winston Churchill >> >> >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ---- >> WISPA Wants You! 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