Our company just purchased 2 dishes to setup a failover connection between 2 of our locations. This technology is new to our company and when it was installed it would appear that the software was not installed/configured. I am looking for advice on this process and or the best way to proceed so any help would be greatly appreciated. I would also like to get (if this is not an issue to ask on here) a recommendation of someone to use for support with this product. Thanx in advance for any assistance.
Michael Farrington
Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority
Ok I have setup the wireless and the ether1 on the routerboard. Do you know of any way of testing this before reinstalling the boards back in the dishes. Here is my configuration, I have configured a wireless port to be a bridge on the 5ghz frequency and configured ether1 with a network address. Not having worked with this equipment before I wouldnt want to mount these boards back in the dishes and have them not work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Michael Farrington
Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority
As I understand well you made a bridge on the wireless interface, with the Ethernet interface..
I believe that the bridge clones the lowest IP of the interfaces (in your case there is only one IP assigned) and uses that IP for himself.
So your router is now for the outside world (the network, IP level) just one interface with one IP.
To test the bridge you could first ping that bridge IP from any connected device, wireless or ether.
If that works you can have traffic running from one device (f.i. a wireless client) through your bridge to another node that is connected to your ethernet port. Make sure they are all in the same network.
To test the wireless you have to have an other unit connect to this wireless interface first. You have to configure the wireless settings properly first.
Ok we are planning to test our connection tomorrow. I have one other question at this time and that is having to do with aligning the dishes. I see in the Winbox software it has an alignment utility and wondered how well that worked and if you had any experience with it? Let me know if you have any input on that.
Well, I must admit I don´t know neither how that tool actually works. I tried it but no luck and soon gave p.
What I do use is the ´scan´ tool.
If it runs it shows all AP working stations with signal strength and more
Click on the one you want and ´connect´ and your MT client will put the needed radio settings in and connect. (Yo have to switch ´scan´ off. If it runs the radio can´t perform any other task, nor can it connect to a AP)
Or, if you are already sure, just log in the AP you want and do some fine tuning of the client antenna by looking to the signal strength. The lower, the better.
Maybe you should try to get with a Certified MT Consultant to help you out. LOTS can be done with a public IP! We quite often configure units remotely and then wait for them to be installed. Then help the troubleshooting if there is still an issue!
with the 333, you should just use presudo bridging also, much simpler.
To set best alighment, run bandwidth test util on full-duplex (‘both’), make small adjustment on antenna and wait a few seconds. Keep adjusting till you get best send/receive speed…
Repeat process on other side.
I can´t find any term ¨presudo bridge¨ in the latest ref. manuals, nor anything like it or what I could possibly think off that could be a candidate in my rosv3.2 running rb333? And what do you mean with a ¨V3¨ in this case?
You are talking ´riddles´ here… But may be that´s what a consultant is all about, first talk riddles and then tell in plain English what you mean where after a bill can be presented…
No offence, but in my humble opinion is this forum mend to help each other, not to sell a business…
