RE: [smartBridges] Overheating Airpoint Outdoor Pro ?

[Shawn Mitchell]

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This is somewhat what I was seeing on the APP's that were over heating for me.  Except they would work for about an hour or two.  you could get into them just fine from the ethernet side, but the wireless side was so totaly useless...   Get a copy of the fixed fw and load it on it.  I think you'll see the problems go away.  Make sure you let it cool down for about 15-20 min before you load it though... -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Christos Ventouris Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 11:33 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [smartBridges] Overheating Airpoint Outdoor Pro ? Hi Scott,   I’ve already tried that. I’ve performed a site survey and there are no other clients or APs working on the same channel or other interfering channels.   -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Damron Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 7:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [smartBridges] Overheating Airpoint Outdoor Pro ?   Possibly you have some interference, and not an overheating issue.  I have seen this myself, and it happened when some wise guy decided to put up a linksys AP and share out his connection with his neighbors.  It was running on the same channel as our AP.  You might do a little war driving and see what you can see before you assume it is the AB.   Scott -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christos Ventouris Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 9:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [smartBridges] Overheating Airpoint Outdoor Pro ? Hello All,   I have an Airpoint Outdoor Pro (later reffered as AP) which I’ve been using for 2 months now with no problems. It is operating in Client Bridge mode with Firmware version 1.6j6.   It’s been over 10 days I am having serious problems with it. The Link Quality graph on the Link Status graph appears spiky with values ranging from 90% to 60% at all times and changing constantly every 2 secs (Usually It was steady on 90-95%). I’m using the FTP service on a remote computer to check the speed of the link and I was surprised to see that I was downloading with an average of 3-10kb/sec and the transfer rate was also going up and down until in a couple of minutes the transfer failed. Note that my AP is never disassociated from the host AP (I tried the v1.6j8 firmware with no change in my situation)   After a lot of tests I got angry and unplugged the AP from the power and let it cool for about 20 minutes. When I plugged it back on It seemed to be working perfect , with the Link Graph I was used to have and FTP transfer rates I always enjoyed, but only for a minute or less. It fell back to this state I described earlier. I repeated the on/off test for the same period and I had the same results.   I believe that something is overheating. But I wonder, is it the power supply that goes nuts or the AP itself ? Anyone with experience on this matter would be very helpful.   Thank you,   Christos Ventouris.