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Confirmed that turning off connection tracking eliminates issue...moving over 9Gbps traffic through.

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We are moving over 8Gbps on our 1072 at peak and have started seeing this random reboot watchdog error. We replaced with another 1072 thinking it was hardware related...once again, same random issue. Sometimes we go days without a reboot, sometimes a couple reboots in a day. It has been very disrupt...

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Yes... we confirm too.

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Our dude decided to act really weird today...we cant fix.

Random devices are red and detected as non-pingable...but when we ping...it's pingable. We reprobe...still won't go green...

Please help Mikrotik.

Also...will THE DUDE ever be developed further, or is it a dead project.?

Thanks!

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Ok.. We will try.. Thankyou.

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Hi All, We have been replacing all our 1100x2's with CCR's... same issue on a few CCR's... random ALL PORTS FLAP. We replaced the flapping CCR's with new CCR's...same issue. I'm sorry to say but I'm losing my faith in MT... This issue needs to get fixed. We are running 6.6 on all our CCR's. Nothing ...

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We have been using the dude for 5 years now, unfortunately, it is crashing almost daily and has become unreliable. Is there a way for us to export ONLY the monitored devices and then import them into a new dude installation? Or, is there a way for us to flush all remembered data and charts to maybe ...

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We use 3.30 now and have since removed pppoe.... Problem is gone.

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We solved by setting up a redirect for all dns to a Linux server running Bind9....
No more problems.

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We removed an old RB532 this afternoon and replaced with RB411AH. Everything was working fine until we were starting to get the Bridge port Vlans marked invalid. We had 4.5 on 1 end and 3.30 on the other. We decided to upgrade the board on the other end... but the same problem happend on the AP side...

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Thanks for the info. I think I may just upgrade my BH to a 411AH board. Most of the boards on this tower are 532's.... they are over 3 years old and taxed.

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0 4294... wlan1-... 79.119.123.127:3... 172.16.129.3:60913 udp 1466 1 4294... wlan1-... 79.119.123.127:3... 172.16.47.222:60913 udp 1466 2 4294... wlan1-... 118.94.9.240:24389 172.16.47.222:60913 udp 77 3 4294... wlan1-... 83.253.108.164:5... 172.16.47.222:60913 udp 51 4 4294... wlan1-... 79.119.123...

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The clients with this many connections are using their full bandwidth queue..... I know that the number of connections are effecting cpu, because when I dissconnect them from the ap.... cpu levels start moving down.

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We are having some problems with clients opening upwords of 300 UDP connections... looks like P2P. I'm wondering if anyone has attempted to limit the total number of UDP connections on MT. This has been putting a strain on our AP and BH links. I've tried a bunch of different settings, but have been ...

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Great! I did manage to get it to work... I created vlan's on each end of the interface. I will try removing the vlans and give it a shot. One thing I did notice is that testing bandwidth from RB to RB I was getting 60Mbps TCP. Soon as I used btest from PC to PC on ethernet of the links I am getting ...

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I am testing 2 rb411ah boards with R52N cards. We used the wiki set-up for a MPLS / VPLS transparent bridge. We are using arc dual pole antennas and can achieve 100Mbps UDP test and 55Mbps TCP on the bench. We are very happy with the results using MPLS! We want to replace our current 22 Km WDS Bridg...

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Hello, We are seeing traffic on our AP which is TX broadcast across every client on our AP's. Ever few seconds we see traffic fron 1000bps to 100k, it varies. We are running a bridged configuration with 2 vlans to each mikrotik client. No stp/rtp. I have run torch and don't see any unusual traffic o...

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Sweet! Thanks!

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Would you mind posting the rule for that??

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Is there not a way to add their IP to a address list based on the type of information in the log?? This is the message I see in our logs: 09:26:42 pptp,ppp,info <pptp-0>: waiting for call... 09:26:42 pptp,ppp,info <pptp-0>: terminating... - cntrl message too big 09:26:42 pptp,ppp,info <pptp-0>: disc...

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I have noticed in my logs continuous connection attempts using pptp to my core network. How would I detect too many failed attempts and then block them??

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This is unfortunate. Using small channels allows us to have more sites in sectorized senarios... it is also easier to steer around interferance.

Thanks for the info.

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Any progress on getting this issue fixed?

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Yes.... And that is over 7000 dns entries.... And you figure 1000's of requests per second... The response times across the network is brutally slow. If I set the cache to 600 all is fine.

I agree with the one post on this thread... MT is a routing device not a DNS server.

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Dedicated Dns server it is!

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Any recommendations? Linux box??

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We run our DNS off of our Mikrotik CORE router. What is the recommended cache size? If I set to 5000, DNS queries are brutally slow once the cache is fulll.... We use OPEN DNS for our dns queries. Our CORE router has a max CPU usage of 11%. What has prompted me playing with all this is that we used ...

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Super. I will play. Downloaded Scrutinizer.

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Netflow looks like it only works with Cisco... Is that the case?

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We Nat all our traffic for users through a single static IP, their internal RFC number is dynamically assigned by our Core Mikrotik Router. Is there any way to keep a database of all nat'd traffic in case law enforcement requires us to track down who connected to a site on a certain day and time. We...

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I could not get that to work.

I ended up creating a probe for each of my backhauls from the SNMP walk.

This works well. It would however, be much more simplistic to have this probe set-up as a function / probe. Any other ideas??

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I am charting signal strength for my backhauls but I wish to have a notification triggered if my signal falls below -80dB. Can someone point me in the right direction? Rather than be notified when a service is actually down, I would like to know if it is getting bad in the first place. Thanks! &...

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Over the past few weeks an issue has come into my network. I am unable to find the root cause. We force all clients to use our DNS server...., we run DHCP and DNS on our core router.... we are fully bridged and use VLANS to the client units. Clients using DLINK brand routers with the "DNS RELAY...

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We use versions 3.2 to 3.24. The issue happens on ALL versions.... I have tried upgrading an AP and all clients on it to the same version but the same issue occurs.... very random... seems to happen especially when a bad thunderstorm rolls through our region. I have over 800 client units on RB133 an...

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We operate a fully bridged network and 80% MT. Our bridged network uses 2 vlans on each MT. One is for Management the other is for Internet. For no explainable reason occassionaly the management IP and Internet IP get marked INVALID (I) on random client units. We have to login to the AP and MAC teln...

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We currently use Dlink an Linksys routers during our installs.... is there a way to eliminate this and use the MT as a router. We have many clients that don't want a router and we don't like bridging from our VLan to the client... we would rather have a layer of security in between.

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I was wondering how I could introduce failover to my network. We have six backhauls from our central tower. Here is an example of what I would like to make happen: http://www.silowireless.com/failover.jpg Our network is entirely bridged with VLAN's. I obvoiusly don't want to cause network loops. I w...

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We masquerade over 600 users through a single IP.... we have been getting notices from our Backbone provider that P2P files (DVD's) are being hosted on our network. They are very specific about which files are being hosted and want them pulled from the network.... how can I track down the violator.....

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Hey everyone... we are over 650 clients now on our WDS bridged MT network! we are using PPPoE to a single Microsoft Radius server and our Core MT router is an x86 dual core Dell machine showing about 7% CPU usage. We also use a QUEUE tree for QOS and Vlans for management / internet access and public...

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We have many RB532, 333 and 433's in the field as AP's. We have a problem with one and I can't seem to figure out what the heck is going on with it. We operate a bridged network and this particular AP will allow me to connect to the management ip but it comes up with a connection refused message.......

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I wish they would correct this problem... we probably create more self interference than we even know.

Thanks for the explanation.

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I am using RB433ah's with a maximum of 2 R52h cards for PTMP Here is my problem / question. When I set card 1 to 5760 @ 10mhz channels spacing... why when I scan with the other card do I see that card using 5760 and 5800?? When I set card 2 to 5810 10Mhz spacing and I scan with card 1 it see's card ...

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http://www.silowireless.com

500+ clients
99.5% Mikrotik CPE, AP and Backhauls using XR / SR 5 and 9 and R52H... using a little Moto for 900Mhz

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We encounter the same issue. Here is a background on our network: Over 550 MT clients on 3.2-3.10 combination of RB133 and 411's. using R52h's and SR5. All WDS Bridged network to MT core router on a DUAL CORE Dell Server Microsoft Enterprise Server runnig IAS for Radius. Local PPPOE client running o...

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Post your mail address and I will send you some photo's of what I use in the field.

BTW... the retested cards that I let burn for a day stayed associated... the R52H issue seems to be totally random.

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Here is an UPDATE: We were running short of cards, so I decided to test every one of the R52H's (40 in total) we had ready for RMA just to make sure our techs didn't slip in some good ones. We tested every card on the same RB411 and external antenna set-up. Out of all 40 cards we found 13 that would...

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We use a custom enclosure imported from China.

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I'm mainly using the mac telnet for cpe.

Unfortunately, I can't even paste commands into the terminal.exe window

Thanks for your help.

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Played around for a while....

This works!!!

c:\path to terminal\terminal.exe [Device.MacAddressesColum]

Now if I could only get the login and password to insert automatically too along with a command script.... I'll play some more

Thanks for your help.

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tried that....

Bad Id is the error

Thanks...

There is probably a command switch needed... Mikrotik would you care to divulge the syntax?

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You must use wds bridging. Create your vlans on wlan interface
Create a bridge for each vlan, in ports add vlan to appropriate bridge. We use wds bridging network wide... works very well.

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I am trying to create a tool for mac telneting into client devices in the dude. Is there an easy way to do this? Does the nieghbour viewer or terminal program have a syntax that I can use to access my client units by mac?

THanks

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I have a problem with the dude b8. All my 133 and 411 cpe boards show up as mipsle rather than mipsbe for any 411's. When I try to use the upgrade option in devices all mipsbe devices are having the mipsle packages uploaded instead. I don't have any snmp running on the dude. Would this cause the iss...

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I actually am very pleased that the 133, 411, 333 and 433's all have the same hole spacing.. it has made things very neat for me.

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We have continued failures, with no thunder storms.... seems to be random. I have a stack of 30+ cards to send back.

Mikrotik needs to address this issue.

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Same thing happening to me here: I have over 400 units in the field and used sr5 until a few months ago... switched to the R52H because of reasonable cost. NEVER and I mean NEVER had a failure on an SR5 out of the box.... or at an installation... 15%+ of all our R52H's are failing out of the box OR ...

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I have recently deployed 3 seperate sites using the RB333 board. I have 2 HPOL 120 DEG 5Ghz sectors and 1 5Ghz panel that acts as a Backhaul from a Virtual AP at the main tower. I run Nstreme, best fit and 10Mhz spacing. When both sectors are running the backhaul is luck to get 1Mbps.... When I disa...

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I have over 400 devices on my network... we are using WDS bridging.... could this be the root of the problem?? Should we look at routing the network instead? I will take one of my sites and upgrade them all to 3.10 and see if the problem continues on that site.

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We are getting many random CPE units with their IP addresses gettting marked invalid. We use VLANS, so the only way to get them working again is using /int vlan set wlan-vl2 disabled=yes ..., then disabled=no We use 2 vlans on each CPE, one for management one for Internet traffic. We are using RB133...

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Good to hear! Just as a note, If anyone needs SR9 cards I have a bunch (30+), I have discontinued 900 service on one of my sites due to a Canopy co-locate.

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I would love to have windows drivers so I can run nstreme on my windows laptop... is this possible??

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Move to 5Ghz no turbo.... you should get around 17-22Mbps... I use Nstreme with polling and dynamic. Works well... and stable.

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I find that about 30 clients per radio is pretty much the max. So for the RB333 around 90 customers is realistic. I curently have an AP with 2 sr5 and one sr9. Sr9 has 33 clients on SR5 has 24 clients and Other has about 10. SR5's have Nstreme and polling enabled, sr9 has no nstreme. I find that you...

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In Vista drop to command prompt as administrator and try this:

netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled

I'm not sure if this will fix your problem, but we had problems connectiong to our Terminal Servers after getting Vista Computers... something to do with IPv6

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I have recently changed some of my AP set-ups to use 5Ghz at 5-5Mhz channel spacing. When running bandwidth tests from various clients it causes other clients to disconnect then reconnect. Anyone see this before? Noise flor on AP reporting -107 and the AP is 3.0 Rc9. SR5 card in AP, SR5 and R52 clie...

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I have been trying the 8602 Plus-s card on ROS. My AP is SR5 at 5-5mhz. I can't get the 8602 to link at 5-5mhz channel spacing... anyne else experience this. R52 @ 5-5Mhz and sr5 @ 5-5mhz links fine. Any input is appreciated, or is this a ROS problem.?? I am using ROS 3 RC9 on this particular AP. Th...

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I just wish that MT or Ubiquity would write some magical driver that would deal with this issue. I have been running ok with Trango gear around me, but I'm stuggling with a Canopy Co-location... about 100ft away from me. I find that the SR9 is very sensitive to any type of interferance... but I'm he...

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I still use 900mhz. Actually hundreds of clients running 900mhz. Just not 802.11 based. What are you running? I'm at my wits end with the SR9. I have a site with 3 sectors , 2 APs have about 32 clients and 1 has 11. I run 5Mhz channel width, no nstreme. I am finding that my clients are getting very...

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Already using DCI filters with 5.5mhz channel width.

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Not the diversity... I have changed out the cards just in case.

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Noise floor reported by SR9 is -100 signal range is -59 to -77 on the weakest link. I don't know if you see this, but even with the matching ROS, I'm using 3.2 on the AP and CPE's, I seem to get very High CCQ on the RX, but CCQ on the client TX side is always 30-60% very rarely 80's-100. Anyone else...

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Once you FTP the packages, you must run a /sys package downgrade and it will ask you to reboot, or from winbox go to packages choose routerboard and click downgrade.... then you will actually downgrade.... BUT BE WARNED, going from 3.x to 2.9.X will disable your wireless interface.

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In another post I mentioned that I am exeriancing extreme ping times on my RB333 but only on my SR9 cards with 32 clients. All wireless parameters are good but I can't solve this issue. Is there a way for my to block all P2P or UDP traffic except for port 53. Will doing this block messenger too? I w...

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I am experiencing triple digit pings on 2 sectors that I have upgraded to 3.2. All clients are now 3.2. Anyone experience this problem?? It is on a SR9 card. I use 2 cards in my AP. THe Sr5 card has alittle over 20 clients and the SR9 has a little over 30 clients. PING IS ONLY HIGH ON SR9. Ping is V...

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This is a big problem for me. Normis can you please let me know if you see this? RB133c with 3.3, after upgrade to 3.3 my 2 vlans are marked invalid. Once I mac telnet in and disable and enable vlans all is well. Once I reboot, marked invalid again.

Thanks

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OMG. I upgraded all of my SR9 client stations to 3.2 and my AP is 3.2. on a RB333. On CPE side I use 133c boards with advanced-tools,routerboard,system,ppp,security and wireless packages. This sector has 31 clients and the pings are triple digit!!!!!! I can't downgrade to 2.9.x because the wireless ...

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If you are not running anything too complex on the APs, I would say upgrade the APs to 3.3. We noticed good results. However, we have seen the bridges on a few 2.9 ->3.x upgrades go a little wierd, and had to be recreated. We also think 3.x on 175Mhz procs (112/133C) doesn't seem to hold well. But ...

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Hi, Here are some suggestions: First off, upgrade your AP to 3.3, then upgrade all your clients to the same version. We have found best results with clients on 175Mhz procs to run on 2.9.50, with APs (266Mhz or better) on 3.3. After the update, do a NEW TERMINAL on each client, then do a sys rout u...

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One thing that I'm not sure of is if a cavity will help me or not... When I do a scan in 3.3, it reports noise floors of -80's for 907, -70's for 912, -60's for 917, and -80's again for 922. So it apears that the majority of the noise is around 917, and if I'm understanding things right, the lower ...

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I am runnig a RB333 with 1 Sr9 and 1 SR5. The sr5 has about 25 clients. Nstreme is running and I'm using 5Ghz. Performance is in the 8-10Mbps range. The Sr9 is running 35 clients with the radio set to 5mhz channel spacing no nstrem. I have a clean noise floor and performace is in the 2-3Mbps range. ...

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Hello All, I have an XR9 system on a tower hooked to a 12dbi pac wireless horizontal 120 degree sector. My noise floor has always been somewhere in the -90's, usually around -93 or so. All of a sudden the noise floor spends most of it's time around -80. I spent the past 2 days driving around the to...

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We operate a WDS bridged network. Lately with 3.0 versions from RC10 to 3.2 we have have random cpe's VLAN interfaces IP addresses getting marked invalid. The only way to get these units working again is to Mac into the units, disable then reenable the vlans?

Anyone else experience this?

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I am having issues with the SR9 and version 3.2. I get some clients that stop moving tcp traffic but still remain connected to the AP with great signal quality and average to good CCQ. -71/-72 TX/RX -55/-93 CCQ Funny thing is that if I use MAC telnet I can still get into the unit. Any ideas?? This i...

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updated drivers

Does this mean improved drivers or more devices supported.??

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Well everyone... I have seven sites now and now I am causing self interference. I have confirmed this by switchnig frequencies around this evening. I run SR9's on 5 Mhz channel width. I have brought the issue under control... BUT, I have one question... I run my entire network with the same SSID... ...

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ok, 3.2 now works to an extent. If the client is ROS 3.2 it can see AP's that are 3.xx or 2.9.xx. If the client is 2.9.xx it can only see 2.9.xx AP's.. At least that's what I recall from my tests on Friday. I could be wrong so someone may want to confirm that, or I may test again today. This is for...

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As far as I can see the polling hits my entire network with pings to see if my client units are up. Is there a way to randomize the polling so the individuaal units on my network are pinged randomly.

Thanks

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The 900MHz band will not work unless all devices are 3.x or 2.9.xx. You can't mix and match in this band, I believe it's because they're using a newer wireless driver in 3.xx. 2.4GHz seems to be backwards compatible, I can connect to a 3.xx AP with 2.9.xx clients, with no apparent problems. 5GHz is...

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Hi everyone, I have an AP with 2 cards SR9 / SR5 with about 30 clients per radio.. currently running 3.0 RC13. I'm finding performance is suffering lately. .. will I see a big increase moving to a RB333?? If so, I'm going to swap boards tomorrow. Thanks in advance Looks like a nice increase in pack...

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Hi everyone,

I have an AP with 2 cards SR9 / SR5 with about 30 clients per radio.. currently running 3.0 RC13. I'm finding performance is suffering lately. .. will I see a big increase moving to a RB333?? If so, I'm going to swap boards tomorrow.

Thanks in advance

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Hey everyone, I was doing an install today (900mhz SR9/133c)and I had to call the office. The customer let me use their cordless VTEK 5.8Ghz phone. They commented that it has been very "staticy lately" I was in winbox, and the minute I hit the talk button on the phone the SR9 link went dow...

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Superpass 11.5dBi120deg hpol for AP, Superpass 10dBi 60deg Hpol for client. How do you like the superpass antenna's? Expecially the 2.4ghz and 900mhz antenna's... Do they perform well? I was interested in there product but was not sure if it was good quality.. Thank you - Jordan I've been very happ...

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Greetings hytanium , best of luck with the xr9's; we are having good luck with everything on 2.9.50. We haven't decided to take the time and switch everything to 3.0 yet, but if you could post your findings back here with your success (xr9 + 3.x) it would be greatly appreciated! Cheers I will do so.

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I know that I'm jumping the gun on this, but my entire wisp is MT and Ubiquity. I have over 200 rb133c clients that state they are upgradable to 3.0
when 4.0 is in the works is there any special pricing to do a mass upgrade?

Thanks

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same here 250+

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SR9 AP 3.0 with 2.46 clients seems to associate and move traffic fine.

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Thanks! I use the same SSID across my network... I too would like to know... is there a way to LOCK the cpe to the BSSID.

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Superpass 11.5dBi120deg hpol for AP, Superpass 10dBi 60deg Hpol for client.

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Yes, had a total of 17-20 deaf so far, but Ubiquity has alway's stood behind their product. My CPE units are designed around a DC ground antenna and in fact I have never had a unit go bad that was ungrounded (Example... mounted on a chimney). It seems that the bad cards happen in batches. I am about...

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About 160 are SR9.

Using RB133c for client.

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Moving 250+ clients to a newly released 3.0 is probably not the smartest idea for me right now.

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I have a really weird problem.... I have a cuple of stations that have -66 / -70 sig and 80/95 CCQ connected to a tower using 912. An ajacent site is on 907 and for some reason, these stations disaccociate with 912 and try to connect to the 907 and drops the 912. Why would it do this? How can I stop...

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Save the hike... telnet to the unit and disable the wlan interfaces..... reboot then re-enable. With the 3.0 releases I've always had to disable the wireless interfaces on the 532 boards then upgrade reboot then enable the interfaces, otherwise they simply dissappear. I've saved many trips to the to...

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Are you serious? Wow, that would have really messed me up!

I've upgraded to 3.0 RC13 and have a bunch of 2.9.46 clients with SR9 that work fine... but your telling me the move to 3.0 will kill them... anyone else confirm this??

Thanks

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We use the RB133c CPE. Going back to RC13 fixes problem. Here is our config /sys iden set name="CPE" /int vlan add name=wlan1-vl2 int=wlan1 vl=2 dis=no /int vlan add name=wlan1-vl50 int=wlan1 vl=50 dis=no /int wire set wlan1 mtu=1600 mode=station-wds band=2ghz-5mhz frequency=922 tx-power-m...

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I upgraded a CPE to RC14-Everything is working well except PPPoE DNS servers are not handed off to the client device. Moving back to RC13 on the client all works well again.

Anyone else having this problem?

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Looks like a R52 specific problem.

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I did a netinstall with a SR9 installed... no problems.

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Using RB532 on each end.

Connection tracking is on because we use 172.16.XX.XX Ip's and masq out a single public IP. (I'm not the network guru but that is why I think connection tracking is on.)

EDIT - Actually connection tracking is off on the Backhauls.

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Hello, I have a backhaul link that has a teriffic TX/RX signal strength and 100% TX/RX CCQ. The link is 8Km and the most I get is TCP 26Mbps both directions half duplex. Here is my config. I see many people claiming 50+ Mbps speeds. What am I doing wrong? /interface wireless set 0 ack-timeout=dynami...

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We have 8 sites all using sector approach. Each tower uses 3 RB532A with a SR5 and a SR9. When sectoring you MUST get good vertical seperation on the tower with antennas in the same frequency range. I separate my antenna's at least 4-5 feet to avoid self interferance. ( If you use a combination of v...

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How about a good quality electrical tape?

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I alway's add my new packages in the dude for upgrading my core AP's. In the dude with the new RC13 package, it shows and allows me to click, but it won't upgrade, if I look in the devices/routeros the error is "no packages available".

How can I fix this?

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Thanks for all your posts on this problem. I finally got the tower owner to shut the other guy down until he switched to another frequency for clients and bh. I will let you all know that his equipment was about 20 feet below my accesspoint. It did make a difference on what channel I was using but ...

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I run almost 200 RB133c clients on my WDS network. We run 2 Vlans to each client, one for Internet and the other for Management. I have been running the DUDE Beta since we started the network 6 months ago. At about 130 clients we started to see increased CPU messages and slower performance on the ne...

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Can someone please tell me what the advantage is for diversity... the only think I can see is if you want to use the same radio to build a repeater... is this correct?

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Actually, it is causing all my AP's and clients to have poor performance... the machine it runs on is a dual processor dual core machine with 4GB of ram... it is killing my wireless performance.

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Hello All, I've been running the Dude since June and love it. Unfortunately as of late I have found that it seems to effect the overall performance of my network because of the polling. I turned off polling and now there has been an unbeleivable performance increase. Anyone else found this to happen...

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I will do so on te next incident... but I know that I am not the only one that has run into this problem... it is quite common with RCx

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I run SR9 and SR5 on the 532A board. During an upgrade from 29.x to RC7 or above or from RCx to RC10 after reboot the wlan1 and wlan2 interfaces do not appear. Rebooting does not make them return The only way to get the interfaces back is to disable them is telneting and using int wireless set wlan1...

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Forepoint,

So why does the canopy cause issues with my 917 and 922?? They are 906.

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For all of you that have been following my thread....I've exhausted my options at this site.... Tonight I tried the new XR9 at 912 .....,when the Motorola is runnig it still shuts me down. :.( I am going to put the SR9 back and switch to vertical polarity and see if the Motorola still shuts me down ...

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Here is an update on that Moto system running on 906 Hpol We switched to DCI filters on each sector and 922, 917 are performing flawlessly with the Moto on full power. 912 recieves fine but TX is practically dead. I am going to switch out the 912 sector with the new XR9 and a test client and see if ...

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I keep getting a bad ID(6) when running bandwidth test in RC9 AP and client. Any ideas?

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I have installed RC9 on one of my sectors and upgraded 6 clients.

Every time I try to run a bandwidth test from the client or using the dude I get a "Bad ID(6)"

What does this mean?

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I have another site that started with a noise floor drop every hour, on the hour. This causes most of my CPE's to disconnect (SR9)... the outage lasts for about 30 seconds. I am hoping to get some time to take my spectrum analyzer to the site and see if this happens out of band or inband... but I am...

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Just AP

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You guess right... hpol they are.

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DCI

dci.ca

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Interesting. I'm still trying to wrap my head around *how* this would help, not arguing that it does. Just trying to figure out why... I see that it would take less air time for just general link traffic, but will the speed still drop to 6Mb during noise or poor signal or will it just cut out? Afte...

hytanium

That's a great suggestion. I will have to try that when I get a chance.

hytanium

On the post you reference Sten says: basic-rate is used for broadcast and multicast packets (which are not ACKed and therefore must be sent at an reliable rate). basic-rate is also used for association and beacons. supported-rates are simply used for unicast packets (which are ACKed) for each basic...

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Ok, I've been posting, asking questions, reading and banging my head against the walll over the frequent disconnects and wonky Ack's with the SR9. FINALLY!!! I have found out what I was doing wrong with my AP set-up. I suggest others to try this and confirm. I run 5mhz channel spacing with the SR9, ...

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About 45 spread over 3 sectors.

hytanium

You're pretty much dead on hence the reason we've been asking for some time for there to be a "b" mode that only uses 5mhz

So based on your comments, the SR9 is capible of 5mhz B? Is 5Mhz B something that MT needs to address in their OS?

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They or you need to use opposite polorization from the other. I really don't understand the issue people are talking about. I have canopy 900 gear 30' from my SR9's with no issues... They are running horizontal... i doubt I can get them to move to vertical. The spectrum is absolutely clean. I'm tel...

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I use ROS3 rc6 with rb133/c and its perfect for me. Radios are r52's and also a XR2 What packages do you have enabled?? The default ones: advanced-tools dhcp ntp ppp routerboard routing security system wireless (ipv6 and hotspot installed but disabled) I will try the package again with the SR9. If ...

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Hello All 900Mhz'rs My newest issue is colo interferance. A new competitor has moved in with Moto Canopy at one of my sites. If they turn on their unit all traffic on my 912, 917 and 922 sectors stop... they are at 906. They have it shut off right now since I was the first at the site they are being...

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Standard B mode requires 20mhz of frequency spectrum. 1. That doesn't play well with others. 2. Makes it impossible to sectorize 3. 5mhz has a 6db increase on signal gain over 20mhz Yes, I run sectored @ 120deg x 3. On average I get 2Mb + out of my client connections but I sell 300Kb to 1.5 connect...

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The little I've tested the XR9, it still seems to get better throughput and pings in 20mhz B mode at -90 signal than it does in 5mhz mode at -85. Granted I really haven't done much testing which I plan to do more of this week. I am actually very glad that they switched to the MMCX connector as I ha...

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I noticed this as well. B mode worked much better than G mode, even setting in B/G mode did not work due to interference. B only worked fine. If I could choose B with 5MHz channel, I'd be set, however, the lowest speed in 5MHz mode is 6Mb, which cut out with noise. I got *much* better signal in G/5...

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I use ROS3 rc6 with rb133/c and its perfect for me.

Radios are r52's and also a XR2

What packages do you have enabled??

hytanium

Are there plans to make this version work with v3 ROS? I have tried running the version 3 with very little success. Soon as I pop in an SR9 or 5 the unit dies...... I've also tried with very few packages.

Anyone?

hytanium

Interference may be the cause of the low signal but the low signal is what causes the high ack timeouts. Thanks for clearing that up. That's what I was getting at, but didn't clarify. Its kind of a snowball effect too, as the ACK goes up, the link gets more erratic, so it doesn't retransmit as ofte...

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Thanks for all your suggestions.....

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I have a new site that I want to link. 34km. I will be using Xr5 and 2 32" 30dBi parabolic antenna's. I put the link in RadioMobile and it seems that with the elevation between the two points the center of the link is 60m from the ground.... will it work? The most I've ever backhauled is about ...

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I have a number of sites runnig the sr9 and about 100 sr9 cpe's deployed. CPE's are rb133c boards and 10db panels. I am running 2.9.46 and no nstrem. I have the cpe's set at 5mhz channel spacing and run 3 sectors per site. I am finding some of the ack timeout values creeping up to 400+ and complaint...

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What do I need to set the power to on the XR5 to stay within the 1W power regulation in Canada w/ DFS?? According to documents I have found my tranmitter is not allowed to produce more than 250mW?? Anyone runnig 5.4 on MT in Canada??

hytanium

I run 3 sectors on RB 532B, Sr9 and SR5 in the same enclosure. Works fine. You must use different frequencies for each sector for each band. If we had gps timing like Motorola we could use same frequencies on each sector... not possible with MT... unless someone can correct me.

hytanium

Found the correct link!

http://cablefreesolutions.com/software/ ... ger3v2.exe

hytanium

I would like this too!

andreas[at]silowireless.com

hytanium

I'm having a simular issue. -100 to -104 noise floor reported, 3 sectors, 3 sr9's in seperate boxes, seprate rb532a's and about 3 ft seperation from each other. Also each has a cavity filter. At the client getting very spotty bandwidth down and extemely poor upload... sometimes no traffic. The same ...

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Like I was mentioning in the previous post, If I set the SR9 to default: in the Advanced Status tab of a WDS client its shows: 6Mbps-26dbm 9Mbps-26dbm 18Mbps-26dbm 24Mbps-26dbm 36Mbps-24dbm 48Mbps-21dbm 54Mbps-19dbm If I set the SR9 to Cardrates @ 28dbm: in the Advanced Status tab of a WDS client it...

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Please,...can someone give me a clear answer? I run the SR5 @ 26dbm cardrates setting and SR9 @ 28dbm cardrates setting on version 2.9.45. It this right? Or is this wrong. Ubiquity just published a study on thier website suggesting we choose default for these cards... For example the SR9 shows in wi...

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I plan too. Thank-you for the suggestion.

hytanium

This may be an extremely Dumb question, but I need to ask as I have little experience with Backahaul's. :? I use 5.8Ghz with XR5's for backhaul (bh). From my Main tower, I have 2 sites that I bh to and I am adding a 3rd. 1st site is set to 5760 tubo and second is 5800 turbo. I use 2ft parabolic dish...

hytanium

I had good results using the SR9 with the early Beta 3's. I was using the RB112 but the Rb133c, I have yet to get working sucessfully.

I have managed to get it working without NTP and wireless... not much use to me as a CPE without the wireless ;.)

I will have to wait.

hytanium

I have tried almost every combination of install with very poor results.

I hope that the RB133 will work with the BETA's soon.

hytanium

OK, I figured out something. It's one client unit that has good signal -70/-69 but CCQ is 20 / 54. This particular unit is using an external 15dbi Cushcraft yagi... It seems to be associating and disassociating alot... and it seems that this causes the AP to stop moving traffic... soon as i disable ...

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I have been experiancing a strange problem which persists for half a day,... sometimes. 900Mhz SR9 @ 2427 - 5Mhz 120deg sector 11dbi 6 Clients on this sector. CPE is 10dbi Sr9 and RB133 Clients show as being connected, but no traffic passes. If I do a quick scan clients reconnect and all is normal. ...

hytanium

What are your NSTREME settings?

I had a similar problem.. changed from best-fit to dynamic-size and things are working well now. I have polling also enabled.

hytanium

I changed the card and the issue seemed to dissappear! So I suspect that the card was leaking som nasty RF... that's my only explaination. Regarding the power offset... I set the TX power at Card Rates @ 28. The rates appear in the interface as expected and perform as expected. If I set the AP and C...

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I am running the cards @ 2Ghz-5mhz spacing b rates all checked on, g rates on upto 36Mbps. I will try swapping out that card tomorrow if the rain holds out. I may also cut the tape and sealant, remove cables, inspect connection to see if there are any signs of moisture.. maybe replace the pigtail wh...

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I have a tower with 3 HPOL 900Mhz 120 deg sectors and cavity filters on each. The first sector I run is at 2422-922 other at 2427-917. I am using MT 2.9.43. I am trying to get the third sector up at 2437-907, noise floor is -102 and client station is @ -103 noisefloor and tx/rx signal at -71/-72 ......

hytanium

Beta 9 on 133c kills the board, can't even mac terminal in.

I tried on 4 different boards, all with minimal packages.

hytanium

Scratch that... going to Beta 9!

hytanium

I will try again, using net install with only the packages I need and see if this makes the system stable.

hytanium

These are the enabled packages:

Advanced tools
ntp
ppp
routerboard
security
system
wireless

I can now boot into but if I bring up a terminal and try running a command, each command spikes the CPU to 100% and takes quite some time to execute.

Something is not right.

hytanium

I was hoping that the CPU issue would be solved in Beta 8... still is a big problem. Did a netinstall as well and same results. Disabled unused packages as well. Half the speed of 2.9.43.

Any idea what may be chewing up the CPU cycles?? Is anyone else experiancing the same?

hytanium

Jober, The cavity filters definately do the trick, especially in urban areas with AP's at high elevations. The filters remove all out of band noise. Has anyone tested 900 full band filters? They are about the same price as Ubiquiti's. I bought the Ubiquiti filter, but you have to choose a center fre...

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I have a 9 db Yagi at a little over 200 ft right now. Had to buy a cavity filter to get above -70 Noise floor from paging system, now sitting pretty steady between -93 to -97 noise floor. The tower is on the city, when I travel out to rural areas with rolling hills and stands of trees and point a 13...

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Oldman,

How many customers can you support at 5mhz with an SLA of 500Kbps? How about 10MHz.

I also want to know, can you run 10Mhz and support 3 sectors or does the overlapping create self interferance??

hytanium

What about re-using same frequency by switching polarity, ... will this work? Also to my understanding I have 4 channels with the SR9 @ 10 Mhz but they are overlapping.. correct.. so does it truely cause problems or will the bands "share" effectively even though they overlap? Based on what...

hytanium

Based on my testing with the SR9, the card does produce a reliable 3-4Mb link (1/2 Duplex) in 5 Mhz channel spacing and 12 Mbps at 10Mhz spacing. 802.11b is useless in my application. I am trying to maximize NLOS penetration and enabling 802.11b (According to what I have read) puts the card in DSSS ...

hytanium

So from what I can see, as long as I am using 5mhz or 10mhz options on the SR9 I have 4 non-overlapping channels.

Now, if subscriber capacity dictates moving to 60 deg sectors, how can one add more radios into the mix? Impossible / possible?

Cheers

hytanium

We are planning on 3 AP's @ 900Mhz with Cavity filters and 3 120deg sectors. 1. Can we use the same Frequency for all 3 AP's? 2. Can I use the same SSID for all 3? - We would like to put up a 4th unit at the same Freq as well with an Omni so if 1 sector is out, the clients would switch to the omni o...

hytanium

FYI, your wireless interface will be disabled after the downgrade, learned that the hard way.

hytanium

Has anyone tested Beta 7 with SR9?

I was unsucessful. My signal decreased and my noisefloor was terrible. Downgrade to Beta 6 and all works well. Are there some new wireless features not showing up in Winbox that I need to change possibly?

Thanks in advance

hytanium

Upgraded my AP and CPE from Beta 6 to 7.

Previously my link was -60/-61 dB Rx/Tx
Noise floor -95
Rarely a disconnection

Beta 7 - Barely could hold the link up -73/-90 dB
Noise floor was -89

I am using a cavity filter on 10mhz channel @ 912

Is there a problem with this build and Sr9?

hytanium

I have a SR9 AP on a 260ft tower with a 9 dbi Yagi. The AP was registering a -72 Noise floor and my client links were linking but unusable.

Get the Ubiquiti Cavity filter. I put it on the AP and Voila! -95 to -97 Noise floor. The cavity filter works wonders.

hytanium

Can you post an example configuration?

hytanium

For all you seasoned vetrans in the Mikrotik world... I have been doing alot of testing over the past 3 months and have decided to move forward with my WISP plans. I will be backhauling 5.8 from a 240ft tower to my first site. I will be running 3 SR9 Ap's (RB532) with 9db 120deg sectors. Some of my ...

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I want to backhaul using RB532 and Sr5 to a site, lets call this MainSITE and SiteA. From SiteA I want to broadcast 900Mhz for clients. From SiteA I want to Backhaul to SiteB using sr5 again. At site B I want to broadcast 900Mhz. Again from SiteA I want to Backhaul using Sr5 to SiteC and broadcast a...

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Why would one use 2.4 vs 5.8 during a wireless network build. Is it because 5.8 has a smaller fresnel zone? I am planning a network using RB 532 boards. I will use 5.8 for PtMp AP and Backhaul. Clients using 900Mhz and some clients using 5.8Mhz on RB112 for CPE. Can I locate the 900Mhz card and 5.8 ...

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I only have a few cards in the field, these are from other providers on the 900 band, and i know they are not using MT.

hytanium

Hello, Over the past week, I have seen Mac addresses that are very simular to mine, only out by 1-2 digits. Detected by the AP when doing a scan. Has anyone else seen this kind of action. I am using WDS AP Bridge for a P2P. Yes my WDS is set to Static on the AP. This is the standard example offered ...

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Thank-you! That was what I was looking for. I wanted to cut down on noise...

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I was wondering if anyone has ever used a combination of 3 9db 120o yagi's instead of 1 omni for 360o coverage? Are there any Pro's/Con's? If so, are there connector blocks to tie all 3 together or would you suggest a custom cable.

This is for a 900Mhz set-up using SR9.

Thanks

hytanium

I figured out my issue...

See post

http://forum.mikrotik.com//viewtopic.php?p=63549#63549

hytanium

I was having simular issues with RB112 and my SR9. After almost 2 weeks of trying new pigtails, new Sr9 cards and various other combinations, my issue ended up being the Routerboard. HOW DID I FIND THIS OUT??? .....I decided to take my equipment out of the enclosure and re-mount it into the enclosur...

hytanium

Could you elaborate on how to reset pin?? Is this something on the ubiquiti SR9 card itself??

hytanium

I have reverted back to 2.39, same issue is happening. I have figured out that when I shutdown the Ap, unplug the power and it reboots I am able to reassociate the link... but how long it lasts is very random. I basically locks, and I have to go through the same procedure. I think I will switch the ...

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I am runnig Beta 5. I'm wondering if anyone else hase encountered this problem. Configuration is AP wds bridge with no Nstream enabled. Before switching to Beta 5 I was connecting NLOS over 7.5km with -97 Noise floor and signal between -65 -73 AP is Yagi 9db - SR9 RB 112 and CPE is Yagi 13db - SR9 a...

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GOt it to work.

se this post. http://forum.mikrotik.com//viewtopic.php?t=13358

hytanium

Ended up that my storage was corrupt. Formatted the nand and reloaded RB100 bios fw... reloaded router OS.... then
Ftp'd appropriate Beta 5 packages reboot...

Voila! back in business.

Very nice to have the 900Mhz fq settings now.

hytanium

I have a client with a 7 floor apartment complex (students) that wants to provide Internet access to all 7 floors. The apartment is concrete / bar between floors. Each floor is 60ft / 60t with 4 900sqft units. Users need to connect using their wifi cards on laptops /workstations. Aprox. 100 users I'...

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I will try loading it again.

hytanium

I did disable/remove packages after the fact... still 100% CPU.

hytanium

As pointed out in previous post, I cant seem to get Beta 5 to run on a RB112. The board runs slow an CPU is spiked to 100%, eventually I get kicked out of Winbox.

Any suggestions?

hytanium

I managed to get back up and running on .39. Tried the Beta 5 load, and once again 100% CPU .... will not run...

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