Lonnie Nunweiler wrote: > I agree it could be noise but a bridge runaway will give you the 10+ > second pings and with that much traffic being echoed ALL of your AP > and Clients are spewing. It would look like a massive RF flood on the > Spectrum Analyzer. Think about what the air wave look like when you > have full radio usage. To nearby units and competitors it would be a > massive increase in the noise floor. That's certainly possible, but then how do I track down which specific piece of hardware is responsible? As much as you'd enjoy the extra StarOS software sales, I'm not sure it's feasible to wholesale-replace twenty APs. :)
If it were, say, a specific radio running amok, I expect that the problem would temporarily disappear for a few seconds while the AP in question is being rebooted. This hasn't (so far) proven to be the case. Example: If the problem were in "AP3", then I'd expect the noise problem in "AP4" (almost ten miles away, running ten channels away) to disappear for at least a few seconds while AP3 reboots. I've tested this with virtually every combination of APs, rebooting all the affected ones (and even a few others) in turn, and watching customers on other APs for a change, and haven't seen one. If it were some kind of network flood, why does it only affect certain tower locations, all of which are at least in vague geographical proximity? (And not other towers twenty miles away?) http://www.thedave.us/pics/mvn/wispamap.jpg is a real quick map of the affected areas. The big green dots are "towers that are doing alright", the big red dots are "towers where weird stuff is happening". (The green dot that's right in the center of the three red dots is a 900MHz tower that I probably shouldn't have put on the map, as the Waverider stuff there has been humming right along all the while.) The next-nearest couple of towers (the green dots near Dix at the far north, and Woodlawn to the east) have occasionally exhibited the same behaviour, but not nearly as often as the three I marked in red. Just about the only explanation that makes much sense to me is, basically, "someone on the north edge of town, or a bit further north, is intermittently spamming RF." Maybe it's something on my network, or someone else's. As always, I'm open to suggestions, ideally ones that come with meaningful ways to test. If/when we find the source, I'll try to follow up with everyone, just to put the whole thing to rest. David Smith MVN.net -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
