Good call John... I do the same thing. I usually run our airBridge Indoor units at my house for around a week before deploying them just to make sure the units are working properly. While I've never had a failure yet, I still think it's a best practice to test before unloading something on a customer. I do realize this is not an option for larger operations, but it works well for me.
Ryan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Hokenson Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 8:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [smartBridges] We've just about had it One thing we have done to avoid a lot of this kind of pain is to do extensive testing in the shop with the various iterations before we deploy. While I am the first to admit the quality and reliability is no where CLOSE to our Alvarion equipment, it also costs about 1/4 to 1/5 as much. So with that in mind, just take it slow and ring out the problems before you have the product in front of the client. JH ----- Original Message ----- From: "Laurence Laforga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 7:27 PM Subject: RE: [smartBridges] We've just about had it > Well, being part of this list has helped tremendously for a startup > like us. We only have a couple of units, primarily and AB indoor and > only one APPO. It's worked great but as we're looking to add a couple > of APs, we've been hesitant with all these issues regarding the > existing product line and the fact that a new line is due out soon. > We're taking a "wait and see" approach for the time being. > > Laurence Laforga > Waipahu.Net, LLC. > > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > > > > > LOL... Almost sounds like what I've been doing... There's one tower > that > > I've been up on so many times trying to fix it's sad. At first, I > always > > had people out there wondering why I was up there. Now they don't > think > > anything about it. I'm up on it about 3 times a month at least. > > > > We finally just decided to mount the ant's at the top, run the RF > cable down > > the side (at around $1.50/foot) and put amp's on it to regain the > signal. > > At least now when I need to replace a unit, it only takes about 10 > min... > > > > I keep saying it... STOP the new features, and START getting us some > stable > > stuff. I could care less if it can jump over the moon and cook me > > breakfast, lunch, and dinner... if I have to > > reset/replace/re-config/touch/look/whatever to the unit more than > once every > > few months... the TCO AND LOSS OF CUSTOMERS get's to be too high... > > > > I've experanced soooo many "weird" problems... I get everything > setup and > > working great... and it stays that way for a few days... then goes > the > > oppsite very quickly... I power cycle a few units here and there... > do a > > "reset to factory" there and here... reconfig them... and wham... > it's all > > working for a while... > > > > Want to see something "weird" Here's the ESSID currently on one of > my AP's > > "mc_q120_`lwt" Last week, that was "mc_w120_bnwt" Now the 'w' > being a > > 'q' I could probably write off as being fat fingerd (although I did > check it > > after it was set)... but what about the 'b' and 'n'? > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bobby Bounds > > Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 19:53 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [smartBridges] We've just about had it > > > > > > [Shawn Mitchell] <SNIP> > > > > We installed a new AP Pro Indoor that we discovered turned out to > be > > shorting out against it's case. It is difficult to remotely monitor > and > > reset this equipment. This causes expensive truck rolls. The worst > part is > > that it makes you look really stupid in front of the customer when > you have > > to show up every week and/or ask them to cycle power on their > equipment many > > times per month. Maybe if there was phone support we could have > avoided > > mistakes on our part. Don't see how SB could afford that considering > the low > > price point of their products. The issue for us is the reliability > of our > > infrastructure. I just don't see SmartBridges equipment being > reliable > > enough for a WISP infrastructure. > > > > <SNIP> > > > > > > > > Bobby Bounds > > > > Airwave Internet, LLC > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Laurence Laforga > President > TIRGON Communications > The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List > To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> > To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) > Archives: http://198.63.203.6 The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://198.63.203.6 The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://198.63.203.6
