John, You are losing association. Thats plane and simple. The ABO's do that crap if they lose association and can't re-associate quickly (they change their ESSID to garbage).. Thats why we started burning in the AP's name as the default config.. But as far as I know.. ABO's going like this do not affect the AP's (We use Cisco and we didn't see this crap).
What Pre-amble length are you using. On the Cisco's (per AB's suggestion) we switched to long and it helped... but the fact that you WET-11 light is blinking indicates I think you are having signal issues. Scott -----Original Message----- From: "John K. McReynolds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 08:58:57 -0600 Subject: [smartBridges] Hosed network > This will start off-topic, but then get back on topic... > > We have an Orinoco AP2000 at a water tower. We have one radio card in > this > unit. We also have a YDI ECII acting as the backhaul. The two units > are > connect via eachother's ethernet ports. No switch or router in > between. This > has worked great for sometime now...until the last week or so. > > About a week ago, we started noticing a massive slow down on our > network...then > the AP could not be reached with a ping or any admin tools...i.e., the > network > was down. So, figuring maybe it was equipment failure, I replaced all > the AP > equipment at the tower...different AP2000, different card, different > coax > jumper...and bang! It was back to normal. I did change channels > however. > > Now, here we are a week later (today). Same thing is happening. > > We have WET11's and ABO's as CPE on our network. I personally have a > WET11 at > my home...the WAN light now comes and goes...this morning it is totally > off. > > We have also noticed that after the first "outage", the ABOs had lost > association and upon further inspection, the AP that each was > associated with > was just a bunch of random garbage...like sHOFW3EHNFSALX, instead of > the name > of our AP. We re-associated them and they worked fine. > > So, time for my questions: > 1) Is there some setting that the ABOs need to have to "play nice" with > an > AP2000? > 2) If an ABO freaks out and loses its association, could it hose the > AP2000 > also? > 3) Should I put a switch or router between the ECII and the AP2000? > > I am really in need of assistance here...I am about to my ropes end > with this > stuff...any pointers or suggestions will be more than welcomed. > > Many thanks in advance, > > JOHN > 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://archives.part-15.org 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://archives.part-15.org
