I have never had problems with associating with the Cisco using Short Pre- amble. We do see some weird (but acceptable) behaviour on hardcoded SBTotals. If we change the cisco's broadcast channel, the ABTotals follow the change, even though we thought we had hard coded all their settings.. Not a biggey now, but strange behavior since the CPE's were hard coded with all that info...
One thing of interest.. I did get a APPro to repeat the AP350's signal but I had to have the Cisco Extensions turned on at the AP350. I know y'all recommend turning these off, but from what we see, they are doing no harm, and give us this added feature. Can you tell me why you recommend these to be off (since most of the info in the extension is above the protocol, and therefore will just be ignored (i think) by the ABTotals? Lastly, a comment on the Simple Monitor's controlling the PPPoE login.. I would much rather see bandwidth shaping capabilities on the CPE device than this. PPPoE usernames/passwords are accepted requirements for most end-users (especially since you will need them to have them, for off-net mail usage), so having them type these in is no big deal. BUT bandwidth shaping (limiting)at the CPE would be KILLER!! Think of it.. the radio link will now not be jammed with traffic trying to get buffered by the upstream system, and these dead packets would not clutter my poor AP's. Broadlink in their deployment actually deployed Linux servers in their client CPE's and ran a limiting software on them that REALLY helped them get 60-120 users per AP. (Cisco's normally only handle about 30). There packet loss retry ratio's were much lower then what I get as a consequence and therefore get a much better use of their available microwave transmission space. If you are looking for recommendations... Thanks for the help. Scott -----Original Message----- From: phantam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 15:20:05 -0400 Subject: RE: [smartBridges] QoS on SBTotals > Sounds great! Seeni I have 2 questions A. For the AP's is there any > possibility of VLAN's being implemented either on the current AP's or > in the > simpletraps this is something really has over the rest and I think > would be > a great added feature. > > B. On the Airbridges to implement PPPoE, NO I did NOT say support I > said > PPPoE, as in the ability to enter the clients username and password in > simplemonitor and it will authenticate the user. THIS WOULD BE A KICK > A** > Feature and would definitely be worth it. Whats the practicality and > probability of this? > > This would in my vision make both products worth their weight in gold > and > both would really meet that "carrier grade" product specifications like > it > says on the website. > > Also whats the schedule on the firmware to bring the Airpoint up to > grade > with the pro's and also are we going to get an acknowledgement of the > freezing problem from the atmel chip and a fix for it in the new > version > PLEASE. > > Chris > > -----Original Message----- > From: Seeni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 3:13 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > At the moment, we do not have Qos features on the sB devices. In future > release, we will include this option together with multiple SSID > support. > In order to associate ABO with Cisco350 AP, please try to set the > preamble to "long" and this setting automatically transmitted to ABO > once associated. By default, Cisco preamble setting is "short". > If you are having trouble in the association with ABO, then change to > "short". > > Seeni, SB support > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of shoffman > Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2003 1:42 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: [smartBridges] QoS on SBTotals > > I am using a Cisco AP350 as my AP and using the SBTotal (and some > outdoors) for CPE. I am trying to fine tune the cisco to interoperate > better with the SB's. One thing that Cisco has is the QoS capabilities > from IEEE 802.11e. : > > QoS Basis Service Set (QBSS)-Based on IEEE 802.11e DRAFT version 3.3 > > The issue is, if I have the AP350 broadcast this info, will the SB's > use > > it? or should I just turn that off to conserve on overhead? > > Thanks > Scott Hoffman > > 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
