At 10:42 PM 5/31/2002 -0400, you wrote: >2nd: why does my backhaul AP seem to go to sleep for NO apparent reason? >this problem kills me and I think I've tried it all. > I just discovered something that may be a clue: while typing this I ran a >continuous ping test on the backhaul AP in the background, everything is >running fine when all of a sudden the link starts losing packets, not >completely losing the connection, but losing about half my packets.
In my experience, WAP11 fade like this when the link isn't high quality. Shorten antenna cables and get better antennas. You might also have interference problems. Did you mention distances? Also, I'd suspect that the WAP11 isn't sensitive enough to properly drive and listen through an amp. Firmware 1.4i1 works well for me. I have a backhaul bridge across a few hundred feet on two 11 or 13 dB panels, and several APC at similar distances. This is an entirely subjective opinion, but I think links run better when there's a small amount of traffic. On the non-mobile links, run small-size pings or something like MRTG all the time. - John -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
