Boy, that goes without saying on my send! Not only for the safety factor
but for the "Hey, I grabbed the wrong wrench". Saves lots of time.
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From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
Behalf Of jp
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 1:24 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Changing cards in Mikrotik
You should have someone with you on site when you climb towers.
Even if you are self employed and not subject to OSHA rules, it's still
a good idea. Most of the tower deaths or falls I read about very likely
could have been prevented or lessened with even very modest safety
guidelines. Futhermore, if you become some statistic used to calculate
insurance rates as a result of unsafe climbing, it will tend make all of
our workers comp insurance costs increase collectively.
That person on the ground should have a laptop to do the
configuring/testing.
They can also keep others away from the tower to protect them from
falling tools, read off signals while aligning antennas, answer your
phone calls, destroy wasp nests, and all the other things you don't want
to do.
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:42:35AM -0500, Data Technology wrote:
Yes I know it is easy to just sit down and configure the card but,
I do the tower climbing myself and with even a small 40-60 ft tower, by
the time you get down, get the gear off and get to a computer the
adrenalin is flowing and you may tend to make a mistake. And after a
160 ft tower you (me) are more tired and you can overlook something that
you would normally catch in an instance.
I guess there are pros and cons to both ways.
LaRoy
Scott Carullo wrote:
It takes less than one minute to configure an interface?
Just because you put a like card in there doesn't mean ROS should assume
its the same freq, same power output etc. I think its actually better
it
lets you set it up instead of assuming a like replacement. My 2 cents
Scott Carullo
Brevard Wireless
321-205-1100 x102
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From: "Data Technology" <w...@dtisp.com>
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 12:19 PM
To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
Subject: [WISPA] Changing cards in Mikrotik
As much as I Love Mikrotik, I HATE the fact that you have to
reconfigure
when you change out a card.
I don't see why Mikrotik did not design it to work like StarOS.
I have 1 StarOS AP still running and I had to change out a CM9 that
went
out.
This AP has not been touched in probably 4 years.
I just took out the old card, put in the new one and the users were
passing traffic before I could close the lid.
This was one of the few good things I liked about StarOS.
Ok, just feels good to rant and rave every now and then.
LaRoy McCann
Data Technology
www.dtisp.com
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