Not power changes, but it does automatically limit the clients to 30dbm
EIRP on DFS channels now... in 5.5.x, clients just ran full blast if you
didn't manually set it.
On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 4:53 PM, Josh Luthman <j...@imaginenetworksllc.com>
wrote:
> 5.6.2 has no power changes.
>
> Power changes came into play 5.6.3beta-something
>
>
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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,
>>>
>>> �
>>>
>>> �
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> �
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> �
>>>
>>> This led me to believe UBNT probably lowered the output power for DFS
>>> frequencies somewhere between 5.5.4 and 5.6.2�
>>>
>>> �
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> �
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> �
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> �
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Justin
>>>
>>> just...@pdmnet.net
>>>
>>> �
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
