I have just installed an RB532 in place of an Entersys R2 AP on our network. We were having some issues with the low power (32mw) cards in the R2 and we wanted the additional features the 532 offers.
However, we seem to be running into some problems with the new AP. We can get about 10 of our previous customers on, but the farther away customers are not associating. Any time the wireless card is reset, they all show up with signal of -100, then they go away. I’m owndering if there may be an issue with either timing or power output on these cards. We are using hte same antenna and cables as used with the R2, so the only thing changing are the pigtails and the AP.
Any advise will be helpful. I have tried setting tx-power to 30, with no results.
I don’t know if your problem is because of RC5, or just because of the “standard” behaviour of Atheros cards with MT RouterOS… Almost everything that I have read that has been written by people replacing Prism(etc.) cards with Atheros cards all report significant connection issues, even at equal signal output level settings. From what I have gathered by reading this forum, alot of the problems with Atheros cards had gone away if they used the legacy wireless package instead of the one included with the latest releases of RouterOS. I know that I still have problems with Atheros cards even through two RC upgrades, that others have had corrected by installing a legacy wireless package. Here is a post describing my Atheros problems, and also a reference to the legacy wireless package…
Ok. I changed cards to Prism with similar results. Clients were getting on for a couple of hours then everything went to heck again. It seems to only want ot let on 10 of the 40 clients. Everything looks like it is set up ok. I have 2 Prism cards, bridged. Has anyone else seen this problem? It did the same thing on rc4 as well. Should I try using an older wireless module? If so, which one?
On a side note, the few customers that could connect were rockin’ and pages snapped up. No lag as with the R2’s.