Sounds like 802.11 wonder and the one customer is bogging down the AP.

Josh Luthman
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On Oct 6, 2011 8:52 PM, "Scott Reed" <sr...@nwwnet.net> wrote:
> Earlier this week one of the APs running 900MHz with SR9 in RB433s with
> RB133 and RB411 clients started dropping clients and they would come
> right back. I tried different frequencies, etc. Then it cleared up in
> the morning. OK, maybe it is RTK or the weather or ...
> Happened again the next night night. Replaced the AP electronics,
> antenna and 65' of LMR400. Nothing I did seemed to make a bit of
> difference. I did have a couple of clients that were actually off wrong
> sector, behind this one. Changed them to the proper AP this morning.
> 5:30 tonight 2 customers called within 2 minutes. Both off the AP in
> question. I looked. None of the 14 clients would stay registered for
> more than 10 seconds. Wildest registration table I have ever watched.
> Nothing seemed to make a difference. I finally moved everyone to the
> access list and disabled them. Enabled them one-by-one. Found tow that
> would drop and come back and then apparently knock down everyone else.
> Left them disabled and enabled all the others. Let it run that way 1
> hour with no drops. Enabled on of the 2 clients that was disabled. It
> has now been up for over 52 minutes.
> Turn on the last one and all goes out to lunch. Turn it off and
> everything is OK.
> Obviously that CPE has a problem.
> Two reasons for the post:
> 1) Clients can cause the whole AP to misbehave.
> 2) Anyone have any trouble shooting tips on how to know whether to
> check AP or clients first?
>
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