They connect and pass data @ -90!!!  Just finished reconfiguring a SCADA
network and needed to make a change on another radio. On a hunch i changed
SSID and connected.   Saved me a trip to that well site.   These are all
Bullet M5s

Jaime Solorza
On Oct 7, 2015 2:11 PM, "Jeremy" <jeremysmi...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I would not expect -86 and -89 to stay connected, on any firmware.
>
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Justin Marshall <just...@pdmnet.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Sorry,
>>
>>
>>
>> That should have read:
>>
>> This AP originally had 6 SM’s connected at *5690*
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *Justin Marshall
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 07, 2015 3:57 PM
>> *To:* af@afmug.com
>> *Subject:* [AFMUG] Client can't connect since UBNT 5.6.2 Firmware upgrade
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>
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