What happened to thread
http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?t=8719 ???
There was very interesting discussion about radios loosing signal by 30dB in Atheros 5213 cards. Somebody lost a bunch of cards and the issue looks like being incomfortable to forum administrators.
This have to be explained. Removing posts which describe potential huge problems in my oppinion is very bad. I can't no longer trust MT team when they censor such messages. Until this problem will be solved I'll switch with my shopping for other systems.
A lot of people on these forums have a knee jerk reaction to blame the manufacturer for their own misconfiguration, misapplication, or just ignorance when it comes to RF and IP. I'm not saying the manufacturers are incapable of making mistakes, it just doesn't happen as often.
If there truely was such a problem with this chipset I believe you'd see a lot more posts related to it. I use the AR5213 chipset quite extensively, and have noticed no such loss of signal. Hell there isn't even a Atheros card that puts out 30dBm (1WATT) of power! So how do you lose more than what you started with?
Such a loss in signal would tell me that there was a bad physical layer component (possibly a radio), or moisture in the LMR connection, etc etc...
I applaud the mikrotik team for removing such posts, as long as it was removed due to lack of supporting data for the claim. We want this forum to have HELPFUL information, not rediculous claims with no real data to back it up.
-Bill