1st lesson; don't try new things (untested hardware combinations) with remote locations. Don't do upgrades on Friday either, as you might not have the staff or time to deal with problem potential from surprises over the weekend. This isn't MT specific advice.
You could try running it on two RBs instead of one incase there is power or interference from the card's proximity. I mostly use telnet/ssh to configure the MTs and I can surely copy and paste in that. We also keep a database of MTs and use a cron script that goes in and exports each MT once a week and deposits it's configuration to a central location. Then we have backups of all our MT configs that we can reference for copy&paste/upgrades/reprogramming. On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 11:07:33PM -0700, Forbes Mercy wrote: > I had a whole lot planned for this weekend, instead I spent 15 hours > of it working on an AP that won't behave. It's the third long fix > period I've had to do for Microtik this weekend, while I do have 20 > AP's and backhauls under that brand, none work easily, and the > frustrations are plentiful. > > SO Last week we upgraded a prizim chip to an XR2 on a three radio card > 133c. We started to have problems with the new card randomly dropping > then after disable/enable would come back up. As the week went on it > happened more frequently. First solution, change out the new card, no > difference. The next was a new power supply. Figured that was it > since the 133 was running on a 12v, we upgraded to an 18iv, no change. > So this weekend upgraded to a 433ah board and the three cards (2 XR2's > and 1 SR1 as you know you can't put three XR2's in a 433 cause they > made the slots too close together), no change, now the board wouldn't > drop the connections it just increased latency dramatically after a > few minutes, then resume low pings (average at this tower is 4ms) for > about 50 cycles then get worse until about 4000 then time outs. > > Today after manually entering the 120 people on the new board (four > hours since you can't cut/paste to a Microtik) the ethernet port > dropped. I should point out I'm on my third trip up my steepest > mountain where my jeep struggles to get up it. Power cycle and it's > up (yes I'm well aware of remote reboot systems but its never been a > problem so it was low priority). Tonight my after hours is slammed > with "my Internet is so slow" calls from that tower and sure enough > 4000ms pings. I've spent all weekend on it and I don't know what else > to do, any ideas out there? I know these radio's pretty well so I've > tried the simple stuff (adjust power, change frequencies, blah blah) > HELP! > > Not a pretty weekend, > Forbes > forbes.me...@wabroadband.com > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- /* Jason Philbrook | Midcoast Internet Solutions - Wireless and DSL KB1IOJ | Broadband Internet Access, Dialup, and Hosting http://f64.nu/ | for Midcoast Maine http://www.midcoast.com/ */ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
