Isn't that RX errors?

Josh Luthman
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On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Mark Radabaugh via Af <[email protected]> wrote:

>  We changed out a 430 5.7 90 degree sector AP this morning for a 450 5.7
> 90 sector this morning with 13.2 running on the 74 430 SM's on the
> sector.   With 74 SM's on a 430 you can probably guess why we changed it :-)
>
> ALL 430 SM's came back online cleanly, with very minimal downtime for the
> customers.  SM signal strengths look unchanged across the board.
>
> We did swap 5 of the highest usage customers to 450 SM's after the AP swap.
>
> I would not have expected as big of a difference in peak bandwidth usage
> without swapping significantly more customers to 450 SM's than we did but:
>
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> It looks like peak bandwidth went from just over 30Mb to just over 40Mbps
> already.    The TX errors are overrun which we start seeing as the AP nears
> or reaches capacity.  I expect that to go away as we swap out more SM's.
>
> In any case it appears it's very safe to change out a 430AP for a 450.
> We have done this swap several times before with prior software versions
> and have usually had to visit a handful of customers to get them back
> online.   This time we planned a little better (making sure 450
> compatibility was enabled on all of the SM's), all units had 13.2 on them,
> and that the antenna was aimed with the same angle and downtilt.   I
> believe the new software made this a smoother process.
>
> Thanks Cambium!
>
> Mark
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> --
> Mark Radabaugh
> Amplex
> [email protected]  419.837.5015 x 1021
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