5.6.2 has no power changes.
Power changes came into play 5.6.3beta-something
Josh Luthman
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On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 5:50 PM, Mathew Howard <mhoward...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If they were that weak, I'm guessing the clients weren't running at 30dbm
> EIRP. before v5.6.x, clients could run at full power regardless of whether
> it was legal in that particular band. So if, for example, we're talking
> about a NanoBridge M5-25, it could've been (and probably was) running at
> 23dbm Tx Power, but legally it can only run at 5dBm in the DFS band, so
> when you upgraded to 5.6.2 it forced it to the legal limit so you lost some
> 18db... if it was at -86, that's obviously not going to work.
>
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> -89 is not a "usable" power level IMO.
>>
>> bp
>> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>>
>>
>> On 10/7/2015 12:57 PM, Justin Marshall wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
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>> I recently updated a UBNT Rocket M5 to 5.6.2 from 5.5.4. Since this
>> update, one of the clients will not connect.
>>
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>> This AP originally had 6 SM�s connected at 5490.� After the upgrade
>> from 5.5.4 to 5.6.2, 2 of the SM�s didn�t come back. �These 2 were
>> not at the best signal (-86 and -89).� If I swapped frequencies to 5740
>> the 1 connected at -86 popped back up at an -88 and the other SM�s are
>> ~-2 db.� But still no sign of the one that was at -89.
>>
>> �
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>> This led me to believe UBNT probably lowered the output power for DFS
>> frequencies somewhere between 5.5.4 and 5.6.2�
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>> One would think that downgrading the SM�s and AP back down to 5.5.4
>> would put things back the way they were but that doesn�t seem to be the
>> case.
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>> I even sent a tech onsite to swap out the unreachable SM with one that
>> had 5.5.4 on it.� He said the one with 5.5.4 and the one with 5.6.2 both
>> see the AP at -89 under �Site survey� but won�t register to the AP.
>>
>> �
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>> I�m at a loss here� Does anyone have any suggestions of things to
>> try, or a magic firmware version (folks on the UBNT forums say 5.5.4 is
>> best for DFS frequencies) that might make this AP act the way it did prior
>> to upgrading to 5.6.2?
>>
>> I�ve already tried every other 5 Ghz Frequency available (with a mix of
>> different country codes), most with worse results.
>>
>> �
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>> Thanks,
>>
>> Justin
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>> just...@pdmnet.net
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>> �
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