I've had or our WISP customers have had dead radios from Alvarion to
Zecomax over the years and really, really expensive ones like
Bridgewave, Ceragon, Dragonwave. So far I haven't found a bullet proof
electronic device yet. All of them have there problems.
I just can't afford to spend $20K to light up a tower with the new
Alvarion WiMAX and do $100 installs to wait 4 years for ROI. I also
can't afford to use cheap junk, loose custs, and have a fleet of vans
for service calls. I need the best I can get for what I can afford.
We've lost a few ethernet ports and receivers over the years but I still
have to go with Mikrotik on cost/quality/features. I tried a rocket
link to a new tower we just lit up in Potosi MO. It ran great with low
latency and high throughput for about 3 weeks. I "plunged" head first
into a rock. Now the tower is running on the "backup" MT link. I can
see the the rocket in the MT neighbor list but can't ping, ssh, telnet,
or even mac-telnet into it. It's almost 1-1/2hr drive, 65 miles as a
crow flies, 9 hops, and 9ms as a packet flies across the Mikrotik
network to get to that tower. Guess I'll just let the MT run for now
until I get a round tuit.
#This is actual client traffic no bandwidth tests or file transfers when
I ran the tracert.
[ad...@wifimw Core] > tool torch interface=ether2
TX RX TX-PACKETS RX-PACKETS
20.4Mbps 2.4Mbps 2225 1398
[ad...@wifimw Core] > tool traceroute 10.0.40.1
ADDRESS STATUS
1 10.251.0.2 2ms 1ms 1ms
2 10.251.0.10 2ms 5ms 1ms
3 10.251.0.22 5ms 4ms 4ms
4 10.50.1.5 4ms 5ms 3ms
5 10.0.97.21 7ms 4ms 3ms
6 10.252.0.10 6ms 9ms 8ms
7 10.0.30.51 9ms 5ms 7ms
8 10.0.36.2 8ms 11ms 5ms
9 10.0.40.1 9ms 8ms 7ms
Jim Patient
Cell: 314-565-6863
Desk: 636-692-4200
YIM: jeffcosoho
www.wlan1.com
www.linktechs.net
www.wifimidwest.com
On 9/16/2010 6:48 PM, Chuck Hogg wrote:
I don't use the SS's, but we've probably blown 10 ethernet ports this
year on Canopy...out of almost roughly 700.
Regards,
Chuck
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Josh Luthman
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
While I have more Mikrotik then Canopy, I have had several ethernet
ports blown on Mikrotik and I have zero failure with Canopy, though
less then a hundred deployed.
Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Travis Johnson <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Same here. I think we had up to 1500 MT radios in the field. No
higher
> failure rate or issues than any other product (Trango, Canopy,
etc.).
>
> Travis
> Microserv
>
>
> On 9/16/2010 12:39 PM, Chuck Hogg wrote:
>
> At one point we had about 1300 MikroTiks in the field. I never
had this
> problem. I switched off of MikroTik to go to Canopy, but use
MikroTik for
> all my Routing, some backhauls, and at the base of every tower.
I've had
> 112's, 532's, 133's, 600's, 800's 411's, etc. I have seen it
drop the
> config during a few beta upgrades back in 3.0...but not since.
> Regards,
>
> Chuck
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Mark Nash - Lists
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> wrote:
>>
>> There's something to be said for "losing faith" in a
technology. For me,
>> it's the "build-it-yourself" radios. All of them. Mikrotik &
StarOS.
>> For
>> me, I see such a high service call rate for repairs, the need
to put in
>> redundant backhauls sooner than later because we can almost
guarantee
>> something's going to malfunction.
>>
>> Ubiquiti has brought to us good enough pricing to have us make
the "leap
>> of
>> faith" and hopefully their product is more stable over time,
keeping much
>> of
>> the success or failure of a unit out of the hands of the installer.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Forbes Mercy" <[email protected]
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>> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]
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>> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 11:04 AM
>> Subject: [WISPA] I'm pulling Mikrotik
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>>
>> > I have about 30 seconds to leave this, I'm going to pull every
>> > Mikrotik I have, that's about 30 radios and replace them with
UBNIT.
>> > I'm sick and tired of spending all last night because two
radios just
>> > dropped their IP setting to 0.0.0.0 and the other MAC to
0.0.0.0, today
>> > another system storm crash, what stayed up, my two Ubiquiti
towers. You
>> > can say what you want but I have daily outages, we never find
the cause
>> > and I'm sick of it... flame away I don't care I'm just sick
of Mikrotik.
>> >
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