Luke Pack wrote:
We were looking into a solution here... we had an Orinoco AP-1000 and that got blown, so we replaced it with a Mikrotik with an SR2 card. The Mikrotik cannot come near to the quality of the Orinoco. This has actually happened before on another tower with all known good equipment. I have people not on the tower, and those who are, have much worse signals. The Mikrotik is set to auto, with regulatory domain as United States. Tx power is at default. Anyone know what the problem could be?
This may be an unpopular opinion in some parts, but I've never had the best of luck with Mikrotik's software as an access point - too much generally odd behaviour like what you're describing. I love their software for weird routing and firewalling tasks, and have a lot of their hardware deployed (much of running non-Mikrotik software), but it seems to make for a lousy AP.
As has previously been mentioned, if you can still find a RouterBoard 200, they have PCMCIA slots. (You may also want to look into other software for it. The RB200 is a standard x86 board; you can install, say, StarOS on a flash card and probably get the results you need.)
If you want to get really really fancy, get a Soekris 5501 and case, and a PCI-to-PCMCIA adapter. That way the card slides right into the top of the case so it even LOOKS like an AP-1000. :)
Consider also experimenting a bit with the radio card you use. The CM-9 doesn't have as much raw naked power as the SR2, but it has slightly better receive sensitivity. More important, it just "feels" more reliable.
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