[WISPA] Mikrotik RB411

2011-02-05 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I just wanted to take this opportunity to mention that the Mikrotik RB411 boards are pieces of crap.Half of the ones I have failed during the cold spell this last week and it turns out that lots of other people have had the same problems.It is very frustrating to see that not all of the

Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik RB411

2011-02-05 Thread Chadd Thompson
How cold are you talking? -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Matt Larsen - Lists Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 12:42 PM To: Mikrotik discussions; WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] Mikrotik RB411 I just wanted to take

Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik RB411

2011-02-05 Thread Travis Johnson
Matt... we have over 1,000 of the regular 411 boards in the air... including many point to point backhaul links. We saw temps down to -30F this last week and didn't have a single failure. Travis Microserv On 2/5/2011 11:41 AM, Matt Larsen - Lists wrote: > I just wanted to take this opportunity

Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik RB411

2011-02-05 Thread Ryan Goldberg
We too have several hundred in the air in ARC cases here in northern MN, no issues. Ryan On Feb 5, 2011, at 1:57 PM, "Travis Johnson" wrote: > Matt... we have over 1,000 of the regular 411 boards in the air... > including many point to point backhaul links. We saw temps down to -30F > this l

Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik RB411

2011-02-05 Thread Bret Clark
We don't have a ton right now, but the ones that are up were no problem during the recent cold spell here in New England...now Tranzeo on the other hand; I will be glad when we get that crap out of the network!!! On 02/05/2011 03:01 PM, Ryan Goldberg wrote: > We too have several hundred in the a

Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik RB411

2011-02-05 Thread Chadd Thompson
General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik RB411 We too have several hundred in the air in ARC cases here in northern MN, no issues. Ryan On Feb 5, 2011, at 1:57 PM, "Travis Johnson" wrote: > Matt... we have over 1,000 of the regular 411 boards in the air... > including man

Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik RB411

2011-02-05 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
They started failing at 0F.Temps got to -25F in a few places. I'm running the R52 cards in ARC Wireless enclosures. Prebuilt by my vendor. Someone on another list suggested using a more powerful card as the extra heat is enough to keep the board warm. They are all running fine now, but

Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik RB411

2011-02-05 Thread Mike Hammett
How cold? It has gotten to probably -10 since I started deployment of 411s. Other than lightning, which damaged things other than the RB411, I haven't had a problem. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com On 2/5/2011 12:41 PM, Matt Larsen - Lists wrote: > I

Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik RB411

2011-02-05 Thread Scott Reed
I have had problems with SR9 cards when cold. On a few units, also in the Arc enclosure, I have put 2 14-volt light bulbs in series and powered them from the 24 volt POE to the 411. Not a problem since then with the 2 I have tried this on. On 2/5/2011 5:04 PM, Matt Larsen - Lists wrote: > The