Re: [WISPA] Microtik Remote Weirdness

2009-01-21 Thread Leon D. Zetekoff, NCE
Hi Forbes...

YOu can also look at the connectors on the cable you might want to try 
and put new ones on there. Also, did you try a different POE injector at 
the tower?
Let us know what you come up with.

Leon

* Forbes Mercy wrote, On 1/20/2009 7:33 PM:
 Hi Forbes

 A few questions/comments:
 :
 How long is the ethernet run?

 About 50 feet

 We had a MTK client radio on an RB113 go irratic at times.

 We brought the 133 back into the office and had no problem accessing it
 with short length Cat 5 and the wireless worked great, same for the new
 433A board. So this leaves us with the 433AH and one card working at the
 50 foot length radio mount but not the 133 or 433a which work perfectly
 in the office.

 You can't upload into the MTK when using Winbox with the MAC address,
 only IPs.
 How about duplex/speed are they both matched? You might want to crank it
 to 10M/FULL and see if that helps.

 We can try this.

 Forbes


 -Original Message-
 From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
 Behalf Of Leon D. Zetekoff, NCE
 Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 4:21 PM
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 Subject: Re: [WISPA] Microtik Remote Weirdness

 * Forbes Mercy wrote, On 1/20/2009 7:00 PM:
   
 snip

 Took a back-up 433AH board up and used the same radio card, worked
 
 like
   
 a charm for both our access and customer throughput.  We didn't want
 
 to
   
 waste a three port/LAN board so ordered a 433a single port board.
 
 Once
   
 it arrived we logged into it by MAC in the office with no problem,
 programmed it and sent it up to the tower.  Once on the tower
 
 customers
   
 associated just fine but once again we couldn't access the management
 side.  We saw the MAC and the identity for it but we couldn't ping
 
 that
   
 IP (yes, the 433AH radio was unplugged) and trying to load by MAC
 
 would
   
 start the RouterOS download but at various places it would crash.

 Moved the 433A down to the hut and a laptop easily logged into it,
 
 even
   
 when plugged into the switch, but we still couldn't log into it from
 remote, although the laptop on scene was going through the same switch
 and by MAC just like we were trying, sigh.  OK we put the 433AH back
 
 in
   
 service and again everything worked great.  I'm stumped, we isolated
 
 the
   
 switch, Cat 5, and IP Address but those two single cards won't allow
 
 us
   
 to log in over using Winbox either by IP or by MAC while it allows it
 locally.   *banging head against the wall.  Any ideas?
 
 Hi Forbes

 A few questions/comments:
 :
 How long is the ethernet run?
 We had a MTK client radio on an RB113 go irratic at times.
 You can't upload into the MTK when using Winbox with the MAC address, 
 only IPs.
 How about duplex/speed are they both matched? You might want to crank it

 to 10M/FULL and see if that helps.

 Leon




 
 
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Re: [WISPA] Microtik Remote Weirdness

2009-01-21 Thread Paolo Di Francesco
Hi Forbes,

good news and bad news. Let me start with the good news.

You are not alone!

The bad news is the same of the good news, lately, we are having a lot
of problems on the ethernet. It looks like the ethernet port has a lower
speed (like 200Kbps) or that you cannot even log in it. Does it sound
familiar to you?

On some site, it can be some EM field close to you. That's why when you
try it in your lab everything works magically. You are out of that EM
field, and the interference is gone. Even using shielded cable does not
help, because it could attenuate the effect not fix at 100%. Moreover it
depends if the shield is grounded to the metallic shell of the box, etc.

Moreover, I suspect the overall quality of Mikrotik hardware is not very
good and it's getting even worse.

Suggestions:

1) try shielded cable
2) try some ferrule on the shielded cable
3) test electrical continuity of the circuit from the cable plug on one
side to the box (other side)
4) change power supply
5) if you are using an inject/splitter, change it

Let us know!

Thank you.


 We have a tower with a single radio operating on it.  We were using a
 Microtik 133 board with a single Prizim chipset in it.  One day it
 stopped responding to requests through the network using Winbox.  No
 customers were down so we assumed it was running bandwidth (too much
 snow to travel up there).  One night about 7 PM we started getting tower
 down calls, of course we hadn't been able to ping or get into it for
 weeks so we had no idea.
 
 Took a back-up 433AH board up and used the same radio card, worked like
 a charm for both our access and customer throughput.  We didn't want to
 waste a three port/LAN board so ordered a 433a single port board.  Once
 it arrived we logged into it by MAC in the office with no problem,
 programmed it and sent it up to the tower.  Once on the tower customers
 associated just fine but once again we couldn't access the management
 side.  We saw the MAC and the identity for it but we couldn't ping that
 IP (yes, the 433AH radio was unplugged) and trying to load by MAC would
 start the RouterOS download but at various places it would crash.
 
 Moved the 433A down to the hut and a laptop easily logged into it, even
 when plugged into the switch, but we still couldn't log into it from
 remote, although the laptop on scene was going through the same switch
 and by MAC just like we were trying, sigh.  OK we put the 433AH back in
 service and again everything worked great.  I'm stumped, we isolated the
 switch, Cat 5, and IP Address but those two single cards won't allow us
 to log in over using Winbox either by IP or by MAC while it allows it
 locally.   *banging head against the wall.  Any ideas?
 
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Re: [WISPA] Microtik Remote Weirdness

2009-01-21 Thread eje
Consider the volume we sell I will have to disagree. We see no more RMA rate 
now then a year or two ago and in fact less then some manufacturers estimate 
about 1 to 2% rma rate. 

Consider how they grown and managed to get price down I'm surprised its not 
more/higher. 

/Eje 
Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile

-Original Message-
From: Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.com

Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:19:48 
To: WISPA General Listwireless@wispa.org
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Microtik Remote Weirdness


 Moreover, I suspect the overall quality of Mikrotik hardware is not very
good and it's getting even worse.

To begin with they're not the best by they are far from not very good in
my opinion.  As far as progression, though, they have majorly improved.  The
RB4xx series is BY FAR superior to the RB1xx and RB5xx boards.  I think the
532s were absolute junk, while the 1xx were decent.  The 4xx has been
flawless in my area.  I have had no DOAs and only one hit by lightning.  No
random failures!

Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373

Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
--- Henry Spencer


On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Paolo Di Francesco 
difrance...@teleinform.com wrote:

 Hi Forbes,

 good news and bad news. Let me start with the good news.

 You are not alone!

 The bad news is the same of the good news, lately, we are having a lot
 of problems on the ethernet. It looks like the ethernet port has a lower
 speed (like 200Kbps) or that you cannot even log in it. Does it sound
 familiar to you?

 On some site, it can be some EM field close to you. That's why when you
 try it in your lab everything works magically. You are out of that EM
 field, and the interference is gone. Even using shielded cable does not
 help, because it could attenuate the effect not fix at 100%. Moreover it
 depends if the shield is grounded to the metallic shell of the box, etc.

 Moreover, I suspect the overall quality of Mikrotik hardware is not very
 good and it's getting even worse.

 Suggestions:

 1) try shielded cable
 2) try some ferrule on the shielded cable
 3) test electrical continuity of the circuit from the cable plug on one
 side to the box (other side)
 4) change power supply
 5) if you are using an inject/splitter, change it

 Let us know!

 Thank you.


  We have a tower with a single radio operating on it.  We were using a
  Microtik 133 board with a single Prizim chipset in it.  One day it
  stopped responding to requests through the network using Winbox.  No
  customers were down so we assumed it was running bandwidth (too much
  snow to travel up there).  One night about 7 PM we started getting tower
  down calls, of course we hadn't been able to ping or get into it for
  weeks so we had no idea.
 
  Took a back-up 433AH board up and used the same radio card, worked like
  a charm for both our access and customer throughput.  We didn't want to
  waste a three port/LAN board so ordered a 433a single port board.  Once
  it arrived we logged into it by MAC in the office with no problem,
  programmed it and sent it up to the tower.  Once on the tower customers
  associated just fine but once again we couldn't access the management
  side.  We saw the MAC and the identity for it but we couldn't ping that
  IP (yes, the 433AH radio was unplugged) and trying to load by MAC would
  start the RouterOS download but at various places it would crash.
 
  Moved the 433A down to the hut and a laptop easily logged into it, even
  when plugged into the switch, but we still couldn't log into it from
  remote, although the laptop on scene was going through the same switch
  and by MAC just like we were trying, sigh.  OK we put the 433AH back in
  service and again everything worked great.  I'm stumped, we isolated the
  switch, Cat 5, and IP Address but those two single cards won't allow us
  to log in over using Winbox either by IP or by MAC while it allows it
  locally.   *banging head against the wall.  Any ideas?
 
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Re: [WISPA] Microtik Remote Weirdness

2009-01-21 Thread Josh Luthman
Who RMAs a $100 board???

On 1/21/09, e...@wisp-router.com e...@wisp-router.com wrote:
 Consider the volume we sell I will have to disagree. We see no more RMA rate
 now then a year or two ago and in fact less then some manufacturers estimate
 about 1 to 2% rma rate.

 Consider how they grown and managed to get price down I'm surprised its not
 more/higher.

 /Eje
 Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile

 -Original Message-
 From: Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.com

 Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:19:48
 To: WISPA General Listwireless@wispa.org
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] Microtik Remote Weirdness


  Moreover, I suspect the overall quality of Mikrotik hardware is not very
 good and it's getting even worse.

To begin with they're not the best by they are far from not very good in
 my opinion.  As far as progression, though, they have majorly improved.  The
 RB4xx series is BY FAR superior to the RB1xx and RB5xx boards.  I think the
 532s were absolute junk, while the 1xx were decent.  The 4xx has been
 flawless in my area.  I have had no DOAs and only one hit by lightning.  No
 random failures!

 Josh Luthman
 Office: 937-552-2340
 Direct: 937-552-2343
 1100 Wayne St
 Suite 1337
 Troy, OH 45373

 Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
 --- Henry Spencer


 On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Paolo Di Francesco 
 difrance...@teleinform.com wrote:

 Hi Forbes,

 good news and bad news. Let me start with the good news.

 You are not alone!

 The bad news is the same of the good news, lately, we are having a lot
 of problems on the ethernet. It looks like the ethernet port has a lower
 speed (like 200Kbps) or that you cannot even log in it. Does it sound
 familiar to you?

 On some site, it can be some EM field close to you. That's why when you
 try it in your lab everything works magically. You are out of that EM
 field, and the interference is gone. Even using shielded cable does not
 help, because it could attenuate the effect not fix at 100%. Moreover it
 depends if the shield is grounded to the metallic shell of the box, etc.

 Moreover, I suspect the overall quality of Mikrotik hardware is not very
 good and it's getting even worse.

 Suggestions:

 1) try shielded cable
 2) try some ferrule on the shielded cable
 3) test electrical continuity of the circuit from the cable plug on one
 side to the box (other side)
 4) change power supply
 5) if you are using an inject/splitter, change it

 Let us know!

 Thank you.


  We have a tower with a single radio operating on it.  We were using a
  Microtik 133 board with a single Prizim chipset in it.  One day it
  stopped responding to requests through the network using Winbox.  No
  customers were down so we assumed it was running bandwidth (too much
  snow to travel up there).  One night about 7 PM we started getting tower
  down calls, of course we hadn't been able to ping or get into it for
  weeks so we had no idea.
 
  Took a back-up 433AH board up and used the same radio card, worked like
  a charm for both our access and customer throughput.  We didn't want to
  waste a three port/LAN board so ordered a 433a single port board.  Once
  it arrived we logged into it by MAC in the office with no problem,
  programmed it and sent it up to the tower.  Once on the tower customers
  associated just fine but once again we couldn't access the management
  side.  We saw the MAC and the identity for it but we couldn't ping that
  IP (yes, the 433AH radio was unplugged) and trying to load by MAC would
  start the RouterOS download but at various places it would crash.
 
  Moved the 433A down to the hut and a laptop easily logged into it, even
  when plugged into the switch, but we still couldn't log into it from
  remote, although the laptop on scene was going through the same switch
  and by MAC just like we were trying, sigh.  OK we put the 433AH back in
  service and again everything worked great.  I'm stumped, we isolated the
  switch, Cat 5, and IP Address but those two single cards won't allow us
  to log in over using Winbox either by IP or by MAC while it allows it
  locally.   *banging head against the wall.  Any ideas?
 
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Re: [WISPA] Microtik Remote Weirdness

2009-01-21 Thread Paolo Di Francesco
Hi Josh,

to be honest the 4xx are giving us problems. We have a lot of boards
with strange behaviors, I have a desk full of suspected of...,
probably does not do this or that.

I cannot tell you if the 5xx (e.g. 532) series were worse. We still have
some 532/532A installed with 2.9.x and they work great, I admit the same
is not for the 333/4xx series.
Maybe it's because the number of nodes in our network has grown
considerably and they are new boards.

Just to tell you the one that we had today:

- the 333/433 board looks burned with a +24V power supply, but it was
working nicely with +18VDC. Same board family and same power supply
family working in other sites
- the 333/433 has ethernet problems with +24 but it works nicely with
+18VDC. Don't ask me why...

However, it surprised me to read about this:

http://forum.routerboard.com/viewtopic.php?f=3t=3868

Now, do you think that I will go up on the tower to open the box and see
what is the capacitor on the board?

Another thing is that I still don't understand why the power supply is
not 48VDC as most of the telco world. It would have simplified many
things but the most irritating is that we have to keep different power
supplies accordingly to different board series. Fortunately lately this
has more or less changed.

I will not talk about the software issues, it's too easy to talk about
the bugs. Every release has new undiscovered bugs of the previous one.

Honestly I would have preferred less features and more stability, but
it's their choice.

Just my 2EuroCents.

P.S. I did not yet send the boards back to mikrotik, I don't have time
for that, maybe in the near future.

  Moreover, I suspect the overall quality of Mikrotik hardware is not very
 good and it's getting even worse.
 
 To begin with they're not the best by they are far from not very good in
 my opinion.  As far as progression, though, they have majorly improved.  The
 RB4xx series is BY FAR superior to the RB1xx and RB5xx boards.  I think the
 532s were absolute junk, while the 1xx were decent.  The 4xx has been
 flawless in my area.  I have had no DOAs and only one hit by lightning.  No
 random failures!
 
 Josh Luthman
 Office: 937-552-2340
 Direct: 937-552-2343
 1100 Wayne St
 Suite 1337
 Troy, OH 45373
 
 Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
 --- Henry Spencer
 
 
 On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Paolo Di Francesco 
 difrance...@teleinform.com wrote:
 
 Hi Forbes,

 good news and bad news. Let me start with the good news.

 You are not alone!

 The bad news is the same of the good news, lately, we are having a lot
 of problems on the ethernet. It looks like the ethernet port has a lower
 speed (like 200Kbps) or that you cannot even log in it. Does it sound
 familiar to you?

 On some site, it can be some EM field close to you. That's why when you
 try it in your lab everything works magically. You are out of that EM
 field, and the interference is gone. Even using shielded cable does not
 help, because it could attenuate the effect not fix at 100%. Moreover it
 depends if the shield is grounded to the metallic shell of the box, etc.

 Moreover, I suspect the overall quality of Mikrotik hardware is not very
 good and it's getting even worse.

 Suggestions:

 1) try shielded cable
 2) try some ferrule on the shielded cable
 3) test electrical continuity of the circuit from the cable plug on one
 side to the box (other side)
 4) change power supply
 5) if you are using an inject/splitter, change it

 Let us know!

 Thank you.


 We have a tower with a single radio operating on it.  We were using a
 Microtik 133 board with a single Prizim chipset in it.  One day it
 stopped responding to requests through the network using Winbox.  No
 customers were down so we assumed it was running bandwidth (too much
 snow to travel up there).  One night about 7 PM we started getting tower
 down calls, of course we hadn't been able to ping or get into it for
 weeks so we had no idea.

 Took a back-up 433AH board up and used the same radio card, worked like
 a charm for both our access and customer throughput.  We didn't want to
 waste a three port/LAN board so ordered a 433a single port board.  Once
 it arrived we logged into it by MAC in the office with no problem,
 programmed it and sent it up to the tower.  Once on the tower customers
 associated just fine but once again we couldn't access the management
 side.  We saw the MAC and the identity for it but we couldn't ping that
 IP (yes, the 433AH radio was unplugged) and trying to load by MAC would
 start the RouterOS download but at various places it would crash.

 Moved the 433A down to the hut and a laptop easily logged into it, even
 when plugged into the switch, but we still couldn't log into it from
 remote, although the laptop on scene was going through the same switch
 and by MAC just like we were trying, sigh.  OK we put the 433AH back in
 service and again everything worked great.  I'm stumped, we isolated 

Re: [WISPA] Microtik Remote Weirdness

2009-01-21 Thread Josh Luthman
The 333 board sucked.  That simple.

I have dozens of customers with RB411 CPEs and our power is pretty good -
never had to reboot the CPE for the last 6 months (we started deploying them
6 months ago).  The 133 did have that power problem and I saw it many times,
however, a $50 UPS can fix that.  Not to mention if someone has a PC they
should have one already...

Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373

Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
--- Henry Spencer


On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Paolo Di Francesco 
difrance...@teleinform.com wrote:

 Hi Josh,

 to be honest the 4xx are giving us problems. We have a lot of boards
 with strange behaviors, I have a desk full of suspected of...,
 probably does not do this or that.

 I cannot tell you if the 5xx (e.g. 532) series were worse. We still have
 some 532/532A installed with 2.9.x and they work great, I admit the same
 is not for the 333/4xx series.
 Maybe it's because the number of nodes in our network has grown
 considerably and they are new boards.

 Just to tell you the one that we had today:

 - the 333/433 board looks burned with a +24V power supply, but it was
 working nicely with +18VDC. Same board family and same power supply
 family working in other sites
 - the 333/433 has ethernet problems with +24 but it works nicely with
 +18VDC. Don't ask me why...

 However, it surprised me to read about this:

 http://forum.routerboard.com/viewtopic.php?f=3t=3868

 Now, do you think that I will go up on the tower to open the box and see
 what is the capacitor on the board?

 Another thing is that I still don't understand why the power supply is
 not 48VDC as most of the telco world. It would have simplified many
 things but the most irritating is that we have to keep different power
 supplies accordingly to different board series. Fortunately lately this
 has more or less changed.

 I will not talk about the software issues, it's too easy to talk about
 the bugs. Every release has new undiscovered bugs of the previous one.

 Honestly I would have preferred less features and more stability, but
 it's their choice.

 Just my 2EuroCents.

 P.S. I did not yet send the boards back to mikrotik, I don't have time
 for that, maybe in the near future.

   Moreover, I suspect the overall quality of Mikrotik hardware is not very
  good and it's getting even worse.
 
  To begin with they're not the best by they are far from not very good
 in
  my opinion.  As far as progression, though, they have majorly improved.
  The
  RB4xx series is BY FAR superior to the RB1xx and RB5xx boards.  I think
 the
  532s were absolute junk, while the 1xx were decent.  The 4xx has been
  flawless in my area.  I have had no DOAs and only one hit by lightning.
  No
  random failures!
 
  Josh Luthman
  Office: 937-552-2340
  Direct: 937-552-2343
  1100 Wayne St
  Suite 1337
  Troy, OH 45373
 
  Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
  --- Henry Spencer
 
 
  On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Paolo Di Francesco 
  difrance...@teleinform.com wrote:
 
  Hi Forbes,
 
  good news and bad news. Let me start with the good news.
 
  You are not alone!
 
  The bad news is the same of the good news, lately, we are having a lot
  of problems on the ethernet. It looks like the ethernet port has a lower
  speed (like 200Kbps) or that you cannot even log in it. Does it sound
  familiar to you?
 
  On some site, it can be some EM field close to you. That's why when you
  try it in your lab everything works magically. You are out of that EM
  field, and the interference is gone. Even using shielded cable does not
  help, because it could attenuate the effect not fix at 100%. Moreover it
  depends if the shield is grounded to the metallic shell of the box, etc.
 
  Moreover, I suspect the overall quality of Mikrotik hardware is not very
  good and it's getting even worse.
 
  Suggestions:
 
  1) try shielded cable
  2) try some ferrule on the shielded cable
  3) test electrical continuity of the circuit from the cable plug on one
  side to the box (other side)
  4) change power supply
  5) if you are using an inject/splitter, change it
 
  Let us know!
 
  Thank you.
 
 
  We have a tower with a single radio operating on it.  We were using a
  Microtik 133 board with a single Prizim chipset in it.  One day it
  stopped responding to requests through the network using Winbox.  No
  customers were down so we assumed it was running bandwidth (too much
  snow to travel up there).  One night about 7 PM we started getting
 tower
  down calls, of course we hadn't been able to ping or get into it for
  weeks so we had no idea.
 
  Took a back-up 433AH board up and used the same radio card, worked like
  a charm for both our access and customer throughput.  We didn't want to
  waste a three port/LAN board so ordered a 433a single port board.  Once
  it arrived we logged into it by MAC in the 

Re: [WISPA] Microtik Remote Weirdness

2009-01-21 Thread Blair Davis




I do.

Josh Luthman wrote:

  Who RMAs a $100 board???

On 1/21/09, e...@wisp-router.com e...@wisp-router.com wrote:
  
  
Consider the volume we sell I will have to disagree. We see no more RMA rate
now then a year or two ago and in fact less then some manufacturers estimate
about 1 to 2% rma rate.

Consider how they grown and managed to get price down I'm surprised its not
more/higher.

/Eje
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From: Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.com

Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:19:48
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Subject: Re: [WISPA] Microtik Remote Weirdness


 Moreover, I suspect the overall quality of Mikrotik hardware is not very
good and it's getting even worse.



  
To begin with they're not the best by they are far from "not very good" in

  

my opinion.  As far as progression, though, they have majorly improved.  The
RB4xx series is BY FAR superior to the RB1xx and RB5xx boards.  I think the
532s were absolute junk, while the 1xx were decent.  The 4xx has been
flawless in my area.  I have had no DOAs and only one hit by lightning.  No
random failures!

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On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Paolo Di Francesco 
difrance...@teleinform.com wrote:



  Hi Forbes,

good news and bad news. Let me start with the good news.

You are not alone!

The bad news is the same of the good news, lately, we are having a lot
of problems on the ethernet. It looks like the ethernet port has a lower
speed (like 200Kbps) or that you cannot even log in it. Does it sound
familiar to you?

On some site, it can be some EM field close to you. That's why when you
try it in your lab everything works magically. You are out of that EM
field, and the interference is gone. Even using shielded cable does not
help, because it could attenuate the effect not fix at 100%. Moreover it
depends if the shield is grounded to the metallic shell of the box, etc.

Moreover, I suspect the overall quality of Mikrotik hardware is not very
good and it's getting even worse.

Suggestions:

1) try shielded cable
2) try some ferrule on the shielded cable
3) test electrical continuity of the circuit from the cable plug on one
side to the box (other side)
4) change power supply
5) if you are using an inject/splitter, change it

Let us know!

Thank you.


  
  
We have a tower with a single radio operating on it.  We were using a
Microtik 133 board with a single Prizim chipset in it.  One day it
stopped responding to requests through the network using Winbox.  No
customers were down so we assumed it was running bandwidth (too much
snow to travel up there).  One night about 7 PM we started getting tower
down calls, of course we hadn't been able to ping or get into it for
weeks so we had no idea.

Took a back-up 433AH board up and used the same radio card, worked like
a charm for both our access and customer throughput.  We didn't want to
waste a three port/LAN board so ordered a 433a single port board.  Once
it arrived we logged into it by MAC in the office with no problem,
programmed it and sent it up to the tower.  Once on the tower customers
associated just fine but once again we couldn't access the management
side.  We saw the MAC and the identity for it but we couldn't ping that
IP (yes, the 433AH radio was unplugged) and trying to load by MAC would
start the RouterOS download but at various places it would crash.

Moved the 433A down to the hut and a laptop easily logged into it, even
when plugged into the switch, but we still couldn't log into it from
remote, although the laptop on scene was going through the same switch
and by MAC just like we were trying, sigh.  OK we put the 433AH back in
service and again everything worked great.  I'm stumped, we isolated the
switch, Cat 5, and IP Address but those two single cards won't allow us
to log in over using Winbox either by IP or by MAC while it allows it
locally.   *banging head against the wall.  Any ideas?

Forbes




  
  
  
  
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Re: [WISPA] Microtik Remote Weirdness

2009-01-21 Thread Blair Davis




You are not alone!

I've use a 48VDC to 15VDC converter in my boxes. All my tower gear is
48VDC and staying that way.

Paolo Di Francesco wrote:

  
Another thing is that I still don't understand why the power supply is
not 48VDC as most of the telco world. It would have simplified many
things but the most irritating is that we have to keep different power
supplies accordingly to different board series. Fortunately lately this
has more or less changed.

  







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Re: [WISPA] Microtik Remote Weirdness

2009-01-21 Thread Tom DeReggi
What 48V to 15 V converters do you use?

Tom DeReggi
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  You are not alone!

  I've use a 48VDC to 15VDC converter in my boxes.  All my tower gear is 48VDC 
and staying that way.

  Paolo Di Francesco wrote: 
Another thing is that I still don't understand why the power supply is
not 48VDC as most of the telco world. It would have simplified many
things but the most irritating is that we have to keep different power
supplies accordingly to different board series. Fortunately lately this
has more or less changed.

  



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[WISPA] Microtik Remote Weirdness

2009-01-20 Thread Forbes Mercy
We have a tower with a single radio operating on it.  We were using a
Microtik 133 board with a single Prizim chipset in it.  One day it
stopped responding to requests through the network using Winbox.  No
customers were down so we assumed it was running bandwidth (too much
snow to travel up there).  One night about 7 PM we started getting tower
down calls, of course we hadn't been able to ping or get into it for
weeks so we had no idea.

Took a back-up 433AH board up and used the same radio card, worked like
a charm for both our access and customer throughput.  We didn't want to
waste a three port/LAN board so ordered a 433a single port board.  Once
it arrived we logged into it by MAC in the office with no problem,
programmed it and sent it up to the tower.  Once on the tower customers
associated just fine but once again we couldn't access the management
side.  We saw the MAC and the identity for it but we couldn't ping that
IP (yes, the 433AH radio was unplugged) and trying to load by MAC would
start the RouterOS download but at various places it would crash.

Moved the 433A down to the hut and a laptop easily logged into it, even
when plugged into the switch, but we still couldn't log into it from
remote, although the laptop on scene was going through the same switch
and by MAC just like we were trying, sigh.  OK we put the 433AH back in
service and again everything worked great.  I'm stumped, we isolated the
switch, Cat 5, and IP Address but those two single cards won't allow us
to log in over using Winbox either by IP or by MAC while it allows it
locally.   *banging head against the wall.  Any ideas?

Forbes



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Re: [WISPA] Microtik Remote Weirdness

2009-01-20 Thread Leon D. Zetekoff, NCE
* Forbes Mercy wrote, On 1/20/2009 7:00 PM:
 snip

 Took a back-up 433AH board up and used the same radio card, worked like
 a charm for both our access and customer throughput.  We didn't want to
 waste a three port/LAN board so ordered a 433a single port board.  Once
 it arrived we logged into it by MAC in the office with no problem,
 programmed it and sent it up to the tower.  Once on the tower customers
 associated just fine but once again we couldn't access the management
 side.  We saw the MAC and the identity for it but we couldn't ping that
 IP (yes, the 433AH radio was unplugged) and trying to load by MAC would
 start the RouterOS download but at various places it would crash.

 Moved the 433A down to the hut and a laptop easily logged into it, even
 when plugged into the switch, but we still couldn't log into it from
 remote, although the laptop on scene was going through the same switch
 and by MAC just like we were trying, sigh.  OK we put the 433AH back in
 service and again everything worked great.  I'm stumped, we isolated the
 switch, Cat 5, and IP Address but those two single cards won't allow us
 to log in over using Winbox either by IP or by MAC while it allows it
 locally.   *banging head against the wall.  Any ideas?
Hi Forbes

A few questions/comments:
:
How long is the ethernet run?
We had a MTK client radio on an RB113 go irratic at times.
You can't upload into the MTK when using Winbox with the MAC address, 
only IPs.
How about duplex/speed are they both matched? You might want to crank it 
to 10M/FULL and see if that helps.

Leon





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Re: [WISPA] Microtik Remote Weirdness

2009-01-20 Thread Forbes Mercy
Hi Forbes

A few questions/comments:
:
How long is the ethernet run?

About 50 feet

We had a MTK client radio on an RB113 go irratic at times.

We brought the 133 back into the office and had no problem accessing it
with short length Cat 5 and the wireless worked great, same for the new
433A board. So this leaves us with the 433AH and one card working at the
50 foot length radio mount but not the 133 or 433a which work perfectly
in the office.

You can't upload into the MTK when using Winbox with the MAC address,
only IPs.
How about duplex/speed are they both matched? You might want to crank it
to 10M/FULL and see if that helps.

We can try this.

Forbes


-Original Message-
From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
Behalf Of Leon D. Zetekoff, NCE
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 4:21 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Microtik Remote Weirdness

* Forbes Mercy wrote, On 1/20/2009 7:00 PM:
 snip

 Took a back-up 433AH board up and used the same radio card, worked
like
 a charm for both our access and customer throughput.  We didn't want
to
 waste a three port/LAN board so ordered a 433a single port board.
Once
 it arrived we logged into it by MAC in the office with no problem,
 programmed it and sent it up to the tower.  Once on the tower
customers
 associated just fine but once again we couldn't access the management
 side.  We saw the MAC and the identity for it but we couldn't ping
that
 IP (yes, the 433AH radio was unplugged) and trying to load by MAC
would
 start the RouterOS download but at various places it would crash.

 Moved the 433A down to the hut and a laptop easily logged into it,
even
 when plugged into the switch, but we still couldn't log into it from
 remote, although the laptop on scene was going through the same switch
 and by MAC just like we were trying, sigh.  OK we put the 433AH back
in
 service and again everything worked great.  I'm stumped, we isolated
the
 switch, Cat 5, and IP Address but those two single cards won't allow
us
 to log in over using Winbox either by IP or by MAC while it allows it
 locally.   *banging head against the wall.  Any ideas?
Hi Forbes

A few questions/comments:
:
How long is the ethernet run?
We had a MTK client radio on an RB113 go irratic at times.
You can't upload into the MTK when using Winbox with the MAC address, 
only IPs.
How about duplex/speed are they both matched? You might want to crank it

to 10M/FULL and see if that helps.

Leon






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Re: [WISPA] Microtik Remote Weirdness

2009-01-20 Thread Forbes Mercy
Oops let me correct myself I've been saying 433a, it's actually a 411a.
The board that is working is the 433ah.

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From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
Behalf Of Leon D. Zetekoff, NCE
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 4:21 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Microtik Remote Weirdness

* Forbes Mercy wrote, On 1/20/2009 7:00 PM:
 snip

 Took a back-up 433AH board up and used the same radio card, worked
like
 a charm for both our access and customer throughput.  We didn't want
to
 waste a three port/LAN board so ordered a 433a single port board.
Once
 it arrived we logged into it by MAC in the office with no problem,
 programmed it and sent it up to the tower.  Once on the tower
customers
 associated just fine but once again we couldn't access the management
 side.  We saw the MAC and the identity for it but we couldn't ping
that
 IP (yes, the 433AH radio was unplugged) and trying to load by MAC
would
 start the RouterOS download but at various places it would crash.

 Moved the 433A down to the hut and a laptop easily logged into it,
even
 when plugged into the switch, but we still couldn't log into it from
 remote, although the laptop on scene was going through the same switch
 and by MAC just like we were trying, sigh.  OK we put the 433AH back
in
 service and again everything worked great.  I'm stumped, we isolated
the
 switch, Cat 5, and IP Address but those two single cards won't allow
us
 to log in over using Winbox either by IP or by MAC while it allows it
 locally.   *banging head against the wall.  Any ideas?
Hi Forbes

A few questions/comments:
:
How long is the ethernet run?
We had a MTK client radio on an RB113 go irratic at times.
You can't upload into the MTK when using Winbox with the MAC address, 
only IPs.
How about duplex/speed are they both matched? You might want to crank it

to 10M/FULL and see if that helps.

Leon






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Re: [WISPA] Microtik Remote Weirdness

2009-01-20 Thread Josh Luthman
We knew what you meant because the 433 has three ports and 411 has one.

I do suggest putting a 433ah up there if you plan to have some good
usage.  Saving 50 dollars isn't worth playing with the board upgrade
game for the capacity it provides.

If the 433ah does work then your line is probably good, does usage
change?  If so the 100m/full change would be my suggestion too.

Note the 4xx boards are very similar hardware (only changes are
memory, ports and some models have bigger CPUs).

On 1/20/09, Forbes Mercy forbes.me...@wabroadband.com wrote:
 Oops let me correct myself I've been saying 433a, it's actually a 411a.
 The board that is working is the 433ah.

 -Original Message-
 From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
 Behalf Of Leon D. Zetekoff, NCE
 Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 4:21 PM
 To: WISPA General List
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] Microtik Remote Weirdness

 * Forbes Mercy wrote, On 1/20/2009 7:00 PM:
 snip

 Took a back-up 433AH board up and used the same radio card, worked
 like
 a charm for both our access and customer throughput.  We didn't want
 to
 waste a three port/LAN board so ordered a 433a single port board.
 Once
 it arrived we logged into it by MAC in the office with no problem,
 programmed it and sent it up to the tower.  Once on the tower
 customers
 associated just fine but once again we couldn't access the management
 side.  We saw the MAC and the identity for it but we couldn't ping
 that
 IP (yes, the 433AH radio was unplugged) and trying to load by MAC
 would
 start the RouterOS download but at various places it would crash.

 Moved the 433A down to the hut and a laptop easily logged into it,
 even
 when plugged into the switch, but we still couldn't log into it from
 remote, although the laptop on scene was going through the same switch
 and by MAC just like we were trying, sigh.  OK we put the 433AH back
 in
 service and again everything worked great.  I'm stumped, we isolated
 the
 switch, Cat 5, and IP Address but those two single cards won't allow
 us
 to log in over using Winbox either by IP or by MAC while it allows it
 locally.   *banging head against the wall.  Any ideas?
 Hi Forbes

 A few questions/comments:
 :
 How long is the ethernet run?
 We had a MTK client radio on an RB113 go irratic at times.
 You can't upload into the MTK when using Winbox with the MAC address,
 only IPs.
 How about duplex/speed are they both matched? You might want to crank it

 to 10M/FULL and see if that helps.

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Re: [WISPA] Microtik Remote Weirdness

2009-01-20 Thread Adam Goodman
Could it be that the board is getting to low a voltage?



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On Jan 20, 2009, at 7:00 PM, Forbes Mercy forbes.me...@wabroadband.com 
  wrote:

 We have a tower with a single radio operating on it.  We were using a
 Microtik 133 board with a single Prizim chipset in it.  One day it
 stopped responding to requests through the network using Winbox.  No
 customers were down so we assumed it was running bandwidth (too much
 snow to travel up there).  One night about 7 PM we started getting  
 tower
 down calls, of course we hadn't been able to ping or get into it for
 weeks so we had no idea.

 Took a back-up 433AH board up and used the same radio card, worked  
 like
 a charm for both our access and customer throughput.  We didn't want  
 to
 waste a three port/LAN board so ordered a 433a single port board.   
 Once
 it arrived we logged into it by MAC in the office with no problem,
 programmed it and sent it up to the tower.  Once on the tower  
 customers
 associated just fine but once again we couldn't access the management
 side.  We saw the MAC and the identity for it but we couldn't ping  
 that
 IP (yes, the 433AH radio was unplugged) and trying to load by MAC  
 would
 start the RouterOS download but at various places it would crash.

 Moved the 433A down to the hut and a laptop easily logged into it,  
 even
 when plugged into the switch, but we still couldn't log into it from
 remote, although the laptop on scene was going through the same switch
 and by MAC just like we were trying, sigh.  OK we put the 433AH back  
 in
 service and again everything worked great.  I'm stumped, we isolated  
 the
 switch, Cat 5, and IP Address but those two single cards won't allow  
 us
 to log in over using Winbox either by IP or by MAC while it allows it
 locally.   *banging head against the wall.  Any ideas?

 Forbes


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Re: [WISPA] Microtik Remote Weirdness

2009-01-20 Thread Dennis Burgess - LinkTechs
Remember the 411AH and the 433AH are EXACTLY the same with two 
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Josh Luthman wrote:
 We knew what you meant because the 433 has three ports and 411 has one.

 I do suggest putting a 433ah up there if you plan to have some good
 usage.  Saving 50 dollars isn't worth playing with the board upgrade
 game for the capacity it provides.

 If the 433ah does work then your line is probably good, does usage
 change?  If so the 100m/full change would be my suggestion too.

 Note the 4xx boards are very similar hardware (only changes are
 memory, ports and some models have bigger CPUs).

 On 1/20/09, Forbes Mercy forbes.me...@wabroadband.com wrote:
   
 Oops let me correct myself I've been saying 433a, it's actually a 411a.
 The board that is working is the 433ah.

 -Original Message-
 From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
 Behalf Of Leon D. Zetekoff, NCE
 Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 4:21 PM
 To: WISPA General List
 Subject: Re: [WISPA] Microtik Remote Weirdness

 * Forbes Mercy wrote, On 1/20/2009 7:00 PM:
 
 snip

 Took a back-up 433AH board up and used the same radio card, worked
   
 like
 
 a charm for both our access and customer throughput.  We didn't want
   
 to
 
 waste a three port/LAN board so ordered a 433a single port board.
   
 Once
 
 it arrived we logged into it by MAC in the office with no problem,
 programmed it and sent it up to the tower.  Once on the tower
   
 customers
 
 associated just fine but once again we couldn't access the management
 side.  We saw the MAC and the identity for it but we couldn't ping
   
 that
 
 IP (yes, the 433AH radio was unplugged) and trying to load by MAC
   
 would
 
 start the RouterOS download but at various places it would crash.

 Moved the 433A down to the hut and a laptop easily logged into it,
   
 even
 
 when plugged into the switch, but we still couldn't log into it from
 remote, although the laptop on scene was going through the same switch
 and by MAC just like we were trying, sigh.  OK we put the 433AH back
   
 in
 
 service and again everything worked great.  I'm stumped, we isolated
   
 the
 
 switch, Cat 5, and IP Address but those two single cards won't allow
   
 us
 
 to log in over using Winbox either by IP or by MAC while it allows it
 locally.   *banging head against the wall.  Any ideas?
   
 Hi Forbes

 A few questions/comments:
 :
 How long is the ethernet run?
 We had a MTK client radio on an RB113 go irratic at times.
 You can't upload into the MTK when using Winbox with the MAC address,
 only IPs.
 How about duplex/speed are they both matched? You might want to crank it

 to 10M/FULL and see if that helps.

 Leon




 
 
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Re: [WISPA] Microtik Remote Weirdness

2009-01-20 Thread Josh Luthman
The board works at 18v and there's only one wireless card.  At 50ft or
even 500ft you're not losing 1v.

I'm betting you have a 24v poe?

On 1/20/09, Dennis Burgess - LinkTechs dmburg...@linktechs.net wrote:
 Remember the 411AH and the 433AH are EXACTLY the same with two
 exceptions, less Ethernet and wireless ports and micro-sd slot.


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 Josh Luthman wrote:
 We knew what you meant because the 433 has three ports and 411 has one.

 I do suggest putting a 433ah up there if you plan to have some good
 usage.  Saving 50 dollars isn't worth playing with the board upgrade
 game for the capacity it provides.

 If the 433ah does work then your line is probably good, does usage
 change?  If so the 100m/full change would be my suggestion too.

 Note the 4xx boards are very similar hardware (only changes are
 memory, ports and some models have bigger CPUs).

 On 1/20/09, Forbes Mercy forbes.me...@wabroadband.com wrote:

 Oops let me correct myself I've been saying 433a, it's actually a 411a.
 The board that is working is the 433ah.

 -Original Message-
 From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
 Behalf Of Leon D. Zetekoff, NCE
 Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 4:21 PM
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 Subject: Re: [WISPA] Microtik Remote Weirdness

 * Forbes Mercy wrote, On 1/20/2009 7:00 PM:

 snip

 Took a back-up 433AH board up and used the same radio card, worked

 like

 a charm for both our access and customer throughput.  We didn't want

 to

 waste a three port/LAN board so ordered a 433a single port board.

 Once

 it arrived we logged into it by MAC in the office with no problem,
 programmed it and sent it up to the tower.  Once on the tower

 customers

 associated just fine but once again we couldn't access the management
 side.  We saw the MAC and the identity for it but we couldn't ping

 that

 IP (yes, the 433AH radio was unplugged) and trying to load by MAC

 would

 start the RouterOS download but at various places it would crash.

 Moved the 433A down to the hut and a laptop easily logged into it,

 even

 when plugged into the switch, but we still couldn't log into it from
 remote, although the laptop on scene was going through the same switch
 and by MAC just like we were trying, sigh.  OK we put the 433AH back

 in

 service and again everything worked great.  I'm stumped, we isolated

 the

 switch, Cat 5, and IP Address but those two single cards won't allow

 us

 to log in over using Winbox either by IP or by MAC while it allows it
 locally.   *banging head against the wall.  Any ideas?

 Hi Forbes

 A few questions/comments:
 :
 How long is the ethernet run?
 We had a MTK client radio on an RB113 go irratic at times.
 You can't upload into the MTK when using Winbox with the MAC address,
 only IPs.
 How about duplex/speed are they both matched? You might want to crank it

 to 10M/FULL and see if that helps.

 Leon




 
 
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