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I am using Pac Wireless 90 degree sectors that are
horizontally polarized, can't be changed. And all my customers off these
access points are using h-pol. Actually, we were still able to get this
customer up last night, even though his airBridge was seeing the Aironets from
the competitor on the same channel. His RSSI and link quality were good,
don't have the numbers in front of me right now, but he was happy. But
this is just the first round - they only went live on Monday. We were
installing this customer Monday evening when an Aironet on channel 11 popped up
in the airBridge simpleMonitor. So we associated him with channel 1 with
good signal. Last night I was on the phone with him and we were checking
his setup again since he had got his computers networked, and suddenly the
Aironet changed to channel 1, the same channel the customer was on.
Coincidence? I think not!
Gloria
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 10:39
AM
Subject: Re: [smartBridges] [good and
bad] New aPPo from Singapore
That is scummy!!!!! Gloria, your competitor is playing
VERY dirty!
At this point the gloves -I'm sure- are off! Did you try
polarizing your antennas differently? This way, even if your competitor
tries to match your channels, it won't affect your
signals.
Sevak
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 11:26, Martin
Moreno wrote:
geez what an ass I owuld never do that to a competitor no matter how much of an
ass they were some people!
Quoting Gloria Vester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> MessageSully,
> I am having just about the same thing with the new radios. One of my new
> ones went down last night and I started a continuous ping on it to get it
> back up and am leaving that running for a while. The other two have not
> failed yet. I have the added "advantage" of having a very aggressive and
> hostile competitor who went live Monday and is changing his radio channels to
> match mine whenever I am installing a customer. I sure don't need my
> equipment to fail now, not when I am at war. Hope things continue to go well
> for you. :-))
>
> Gloria
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: The Wirefree Network
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 10:16 AM
> Subject: RE: [smartBridges] [good and bad] New aPPo from Singapore
>
>
> Gloria,
>
> Glad to hear that you are up and running smoothly. I too am working well
> with the new (Singapore acquired) units (aPPo's and aBi's). Out of 13 units
> I have replaced in the field, all but one have been flawless. I started a
> continuous ping on that one to keep it up. This one unit has
> ever-so-slightly Non-LOS. It has about a 88% RSSI and average LQ of 88%.
> However, if you look at my MRTG charts, you will see that the LQ is actually
> swinging ALL OVER THE PLACE due to the NLOS.
>
>
>
> I am planning on jumping up there on Friday to point it at the new repeater
> location (if it has clean LOS).
>
>
>
> Sully
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Gloria Vester
> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 5:11 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [smartBridges] [good and bad] New aPPo from Singapore
>
>
>
> I think in my case I can conclusively say it was a radio issue. I had four
> radios on the water tower, all installed at the same time the same way,
> sharing the same UPS, etc., one of them hasn't failed once, the other three
> all went down at least once a day - Ethernet port died and the unit locked up
> solid. Replaced one of them with a new unit from distributor and it had the
> same problem. Replaced the POE's and power supplies, same thing. Got new
> radios from Singapore and put them up Friday night and they haven't gone down
> once. So I think that pretty well proves it was the radios. I am sending
> all four of them back to Singapore today so they can figure out what is wrong
> with them.
>
>
>
> Gloria
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: Tom Haynes
>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 11:59 PM
>
> Subject: RE: [smartBridges] [good and bad] New aPPo from Singapore
>
>
>
> Set up a constant ping (windows = ping -t xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx). Most down
> radios will come back up after several minutes of pings. Keep pininging and
> the rasios should stay up. If they do go down, the should comeback up in a
> few minutes. This is only a workaround to some other problem, wether it is an
> install issue or a radio issue is not yet knows. SB says install issue in
> most cases and installers say radio issue. In either cas SB will normally
> approve a an RMA if you feel it is a radio issue.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Steve Good
> Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 11:25 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [smartBridges] [good and bad] New aPPo from Singapore
>
> Gloria,
>
> I have been gone for a while and have not read the 1000 of
> messages I have.. Tell me about the pinging of the units (a history) I have a
> few units that keep going down and would love to hear this "pinging" session
> would help out for now.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Haynes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2003 11:20 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [smartBridges] [good and bad] New aPPo from Singapore
>
>
>
> After a few weeks of constant pinging, I stopped and the link has never
> gone down again. I don't even worry about it during a thunderstorm anymore
> :-)
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Gloria Vester
> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 8:52 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [smartBridges] [good and bad] New aPPo from Singapore
>
> Sully,
>
> Thanks for the info - appreciate you keeping us informed. A lot of us
> are getting some of these new units and are also holding our breath hoping
> they solve the problems. Of course, we are all hoping that we will one day
> be able to breath again and not have to baby-sit our APPOs and keep checking
> their status with fear in our hearts that something is going to be down. I
> am still pinging the hell out of mine to keep them alive until the new ones
> get here and am in constant fear that something might happen to the machine
> running the ping and I will lose one again. The last thing I do each night
> before I go to sleep is check to make sure the ping is still running and they
> are all up, and it is the first thing I check when I wake up. It sure would
> be nice to go to sleep one night not worrying that all the APPOs are going to
> be down when I get up. Best of luck to you - I sure hope for your sake, and
> all our sake's, that these new ones work the way they are supposed to.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gloria
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: The Wirefree Network
>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 8:33 AM
>
> Subject: [smartBridges] [good and bad] New aPPo from Singapore
>
>
>
> 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-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of The Wirefree Network
> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 2:43 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [smartBridges] New aPPo from Singapore
>
>
>
> 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-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Chris Chance
> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 12:14 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: [smartBridges] Received New Units today from Singapore
>
>
>
> 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: The Wirefree Network [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 1:51 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
> 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 SINGAPORE.
>
> 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.
> 3. The boxes themselves have GOLD stickers on it and so does the
> units. (looks like they were triple checked)
>
> Anyway...looks like sB really is listening to even the seemingly not so
> significant suggestions from the forum.
>
> Sully
>
Martin Moreno
Blazen Wireless
909-907-4106
www.blazenwireless.come
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