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Well…I have some good and bad news
about my new “gold sticker” aPPo units. BAD NEWS As you can see by the attached (small) pic…the RSSI at several clients has been steadily
going down hill since replacing the unit at 1400 yesterday. Believe me, I could paste about 15
clients that had 100% RSSI and since 1400 have steadily been going down hill. GOOD NEWS The unit is working…and has not
(yet) crapped out like the others did with bad chips. BAD NEWS With the steadily decreasing RSSI…I don’t
know how long anyone will hold up. GOOD NEWS There are some differences between this aPPo install and the last. I used a different antenna (same brand
and rating—but different), and a different (yet shorter) pigtail between the
antenna and the radio. So…this
could point to the antenna and pigtail…not the radio. BAD NEWS Maybe I’m wrong here…but if
the new pigtail and antenna were flaky, I would imagine that it would be a
sudden affect on the RSSI of my clients, not steadily falling??!?! So….bottomline
is….I am now holding my breath. More to come. Sully -----Original Message----- Well..I burned in my
settings for my head-end with simpleDeploy last night…I then added the
MAC list. No problems at
all…took 30 seconds. I just jumped up on the
roof and swapped out my crappy aPPo in about 15 minutes. ALL MY USERS CAME BACK ONLINE INSTANTLY
AND HAVE NOT YET DROPPED OFF!!
Woohoo!! Maybe I
shouldn’t yell so loud…it has only been 20 minutes so far. But…my 2 previous bad ones crapped
out in less than 10 minutes. Exception to the above
being: the users with bad airBridge units have not come back online yet, but
they were already down. My
sub-contractor is going to be swapping out 10 units tonight. Oh…one more thing
to add to the new aPPo’s….the two metal brackets that are connected
to the aPPo are now powder coated to match the aPPo box. In other words, they are no longer shiny
stainless steel. Just one more way
for you to identify new from old. Will keep you posted!! Sully P.S. I am feeling good about this!! Next week may be a busy week if these new
units hold up!!!!! -----Original Message----- Wow this
sounds VERY positive but .... I get the feeling im not gonna get these nice
pimp units from ecomm am I cause I ordered 2 days ago im gonna get stickered
ones aren't I L "Please update with cd" L From: I am sitting here burning in new settings
for 18 airBridge units and 2 aPPos, to be R&R'd tomorrow. I just wanted to pass on a couple quick
observations that I had noticed with this DIRECT SHIPMENT from 1.
Little RJ-45 cable protector has been
softened up and no longer takes a pair of vice-grips to disconnect it from the
NIC (could still be a bit thinner though) 2. They have now included, in the aPPo box,
2-types of COAX sealant for the RF
connector. Anyway...looks like sB really is listening
to even the seemingly
not so significant suggestions from the forum. Sully |
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