I have my MTs email a company Gmail account every week - full binary and text backup.
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 "When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth." --- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:42 AM, jp <j...@saucer.midcoast.com> wrote: > 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/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
