This year I moved from 1 PC doing everything to 4x RB411AH and 1x 493 just so I can better troubleshoot problems, which haven't happened in the 90 or so days of uptime they've had since.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -------------------------------------------------- From: "jp" <j...@saucer.midcoast.com> Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 9:42 AM To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Gettin sick of Microtik > 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/
