review your AP logs, you might be suprised On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Josh Baird <joshba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> GPS pucks are perfectly reliable for us. > > On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Steve Jones <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> packetflux is the only way to sync, everything else is garbage, GPS pucks >> aren't reliable, CTMs and CMMs are a waste of money and are no where near >> as versatile, cambium cant get their pucks to work, so I wouldn't trust >> their little syncpipe knockoffs either. Ala-cart sync, switch agnostic, no >> worries. Small sites you can split one injector to power and/or sync a mix >> of voltages and pinouts, PLUS (this is a big thing) two Fridays ago, after >> hours, had an issue with getting one working, got direct communication from >> packetflux and got things going, good luck with that from cambium and their >> new tiered support >> >> On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 1:54 PM, George Skorup <george.sko...@cbcast.com> >> wrote: >> >>> It's not only the antenna. Newer 1000 boards and all 2k's have a >>> GPS+GLONASS receiver. They also updated the 450AP a couple years ago with a >>> revision that includes this receiver. GPS-only kinda always sucked. With >>> GLONASS added, you have a lot more sats available, so the probability of >>> maintaining lock is much, much better. I really wish Forrest would start >>> using this in his pipes and boxes. >>> >>> Typically moving the antenna a few inches or a foot says there's some >>> multipath going on. And sometimes the receivers just get confused and need >>> a power-cycle. I have some SyncPipes on 1-foot stand-offs with another 300' >>> of tower above them and rain will make them see no sats. >>> >>> What has worked better for me than anything else is a SyncInjector and >>> pipe/box on the ground away from tower steel and lots of RF. Even then, >>> those get confused sometimes too. Usually when I see really bad fading at >>> night during the summer, I'll see that tracked sats will go from the normal >>> 9-12 down to 5-7, but they rarely lose lock. >>> >>> Once upon a time, I had a SyncInjector and a pipe running in the server >>> room for 4-5 days (because I forgot to run a cable outside for the pipe). >>> It worked fine... until it rained. >>> >>> >>> On 7/26/2017 1:31 PM, Nate Burke wrote: >>> >>>> When we first started using EPMP, (5ghz, with GPS) we had some AP's >>>> would keep losing satellites. Then after our first couple installs, >>>> everything just Worked after that. Slap the GPS antenna on any random >>>> surface, and lots-o-satellites with no issues. Now the New AP's we're >>>> getting out of Distribution have the GLONASS label on the antennas, and >>>> we're back to having hit and miss GPS again at new sites. Are the new >>>> antennas less sensitive? At one location, 1 out of the 4 APs was going >>>> from 12 satellites tracked (20 visible) to 0 Satellites tracked (still 20 >>>> visible) at random times. We moved the GPS Puck about 4 inches vertically, >>>> and now it has a steady 17 satellites tracked. >>>> >>>> Has something changed with the Antennas? >>>> >>> >>> >> >
