For the large number of us who use Mikrotiks and haven't seen the
problems you are having, it just has me suspicious that the problems
you've seen with the Mikrotiks are a result of an indirect problem. Then
again maybe the Mikrotik's just don't do well in a large bridge environment?
On 09/17/2010 04:27 AM, Forbes Mercy wrote:
How my day ended, I really don't mean to slight Mikotik or it's
dealers. People who route their networks will have a fraction of the
problems I have but I have to admit the excuse of "must be your
employees" or " that never happens" got old about 20 outages ago.
Today I had 8 major outages, 4 of them we found a bridge or ports
erased and the IP displaying 0.0.0.0. This was an easy fix, log in
and add the bridge and ports then click on the IP and it came back
legitimate again. Shame we had to make the trip to the towers to do
that. The other 4 not so easy, they showed the IP correctly but not
in Winbox and they had the MAC address as 00.00.00.00.00, well 12
times, you get it. Those we had to pull the backhaul and reset it
then reprogram it. A hellish day but we didn't miss the fact that the
UBNT units never crashed no matter what this crazy bridging issue
was. It was just a real bad day to be in this business but I
appreciate the help that I got from Mikrotik dealers who really care
to help resolve this but are as equally frustrated as I was, while
aging about 3 years in one day. Like watching a baby sleep the night
is uneventful after a 15 hour work day and my with my added worry
about taking 4 vacation days this weekend. I wish I could trust the
equipment from overreacting to every damn bit of unfriendly traffic by
shutting down the LAN port or resetting the radio but I can't, it's my
employees problem now but it will certainly take away from the joy of
my time off since I know their attitude is more like, 'let them wait'
then my feeling of 'people down is lost income', employees....
Forbes
On 9/16/2010 7:44 PM, RickG wrote:
For me, the StarOS/WRAP combo performed very well since 2004. The
only issues I had were coax related. Otherwise, I agree, I dont like
equipment you have to put together. I save my tinkering around for
personal stuff but much rather have a fully designed radio for
commercial purposes.
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Mark Nash - Lists <markl...@uwol.net
<mailto:markl...@uwol.net>> wrote:
There's something to be said for "losing faith" in a technology.
For me,
it's the "build-it-yourself" radios. All of them. Mikrotik &
StarOS. For
me, I see such a high service call rate for repairs, the need to
put in
redundant backhauls sooner than later because we can almost guarantee
something's going to malfunction.
Ubiquiti has brought to us good enough pricing to have us make
the "leap of
faith" and hopefully their product is more stable over time,
keeping much of
the success or failure of a unit out of the hands of the installer.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Forbes Mercy" <forbes.me...@wabroadband.com
<mailto:forbes.me...@wabroadband.com>>
To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org
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Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 11:04 AM
Subject: [WISPA] I'm pulling Mikrotik
> I have about 30 seconds to leave this, I'm going to pull every
> Mikrotik I have, that's about 30 radios and replace them with
UBNIT.
> I'm sick and tired of spending all last night because two
radios just
> dropped their IP setting to 0.0.0.0 and the other MAC to
0.0.0.0, today
> another system storm crash, what stayed up, my two Ubiquiti
towers. You
> can say what you want but I have daily outages, we never find
the cause
> and I'm sick of it... flame away I don't care I'm just sick of
Mikrotik.
>
>
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