Sam,
Do you know if this is a NEW HARDWARE REPLACED unit?  Or is it another
firmware upgrade (crap chip) unit?

My new hardware fixed units have been working great...but they have only
been up for a week now.

Sully

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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sam
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 8:11 AM
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Subject: [smartBridges] Another one bites the dust

Last night I got a call from my customers on my newest AP (APPO). They
had 
stopped working. I drove over to the tower and found the access point 
(APPO) with the blue light blinking steadily. off. on. off. on. Like 
clockwork, once a second.

I had another unit do this (fortunately while it was on the bench) and 
ended up RMAing it as I could not log into it no matter what I tried 
(recovery util, reset, "Super" password, etc.)

So I'm now paying another $300.00 to have the tower crew come out and
replace yet another failed APPO. (This one worked for almost three
weeks!  
woohoo!) 

I am certain that once I get this one down I'll find the same thing has
happened. I did try to log into it with my laptop directly connected to
it
(if anyone asks if I had it in the right subnet I'll send Dr. Kevorkian
to
your house) and still no go. Tried the reset utility, ad nauseum.

The APPO has the most-recent firmware on it. It hasn't rained here in 
weeks. And it was 75 degrees out when it failed. 

My question for Smartbridges: Is it possible to just get refunds for
these
units rather than replacements? At $300 a pop for labor to replace them
(plus shipping to send the things back) I'd rather pay for something
more
reliable with the refund than to risk putting up another APPO that will
fail in three weeks. And no, I don't have the original box that it came
in
- this was an RMA for another unit that had failed, which itself was an
RMA for another previously failed unit.

The circle has to stop.

Thanks
Sam


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