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One's Too Many
Jan 19, 2003, 6:08:34 PM1/19/03
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I bought a WET11 at the advice of the wireless ISP. The ISP says to
use channel 8 in "infrastructure" mode, but you cannot fixate a
channel number in this mode on the WET11, only in "ad-hoc" mode. In
"ad-hoc" mode, The WET11 seems to lock onto the ISP's AP, which is
either an Orinoco or a Cisco.. i'm not certain, and the browser page
for the WET11 tells me I've got a transmission rate of 11 with a link
quality of mid 50's to low 60's percent and at the bottom of the page
the "results of the last scan" show the ISP's tower AP info with
signal strength of 87-89% and "infa" as the mode. However, of course
there is no network traffic can successfully travel over the link.
When I switch my WET11 to "Infrastructure mode", then it cannot
connect to the ISP's AP at all in the top portion of the info screen,
but the bottom part with the "results of last scan..." still show the
ISP's tower AP info with signal strength in the upper 80's. I've tried
switching firmware back and forth between 1.3.2 and 1.4.3 till I'm
blue in the face, with no joy. Any ideas? Should I try a different
brand of radio bridge? I'm about ready to give up and pay thru the
nose for a half-crippled DSL line from the phone company so I can get
broadband.
use channel 8 in "infrastructure" mode, but you cannot fixate a
channel number in this mode on the WET11, only in "ad-hoc" mode. In
"ad-hoc" mode, The WET11 seems to lock onto the ISP's AP, which is
either an Orinoco or a Cisco.. i'm not certain, and the browser page
for the WET11 tells me I've got a transmission rate of 11 with a link
quality of mid 50's to low 60's percent and at the bottom of the page
the "results of the last scan" show the ISP's tower AP info with
signal strength of 87-89% and "infa" as the mode. However, of course
there is no network traffic can successfully travel over the link.
When I switch my WET11 to "Infrastructure mode", then it cannot
connect to the ISP's AP at all in the top portion of the info screen,
but the bottom part with the "results of last scan..." still show the
ISP's tower AP info with signal strength in the upper 80's. I've tried
switching firmware back and forth between 1.3.2 and 1.4.3 till I'm
blue in the face, with no joy. Any ideas? Should I try a different
brand of radio bridge? I'm about ready to give up and pay thru the
nose for a half-crippled DSL line from the phone company so I can get
broadband.
notek
Jan 20, 2003, 5:16:48 PM1/20/03
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Uzytkownik "One's Too Many" <onez...@yahoo.com> napisal w wiadomosci
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hardware as Cisco) with 1,5 firwmare.
After reflashing to 1.3.2 (in bridge was 1.3.2 but some older version) the
problem resolve. But I use european firmware. Signal strength is OK.
Ray
Jan 20, 2003, 8:28:07 PM1/20/03
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On 19 Jan 2003 15:08:34 -0800, One's Too Many <onez...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I bought a WET11 at the advice of the wireless ISP. The ISP says to
> use channel 8 in "infrastructure" mode, but you cannot fixate a
> channel number in this mode on the WET11, only in "ad-hoc" mode.
> I bought a WET11 at the advice of the wireless ISP. The ISP says to
> use channel 8 in "infrastructure" mode, but you cannot fixate a
> channel number in this mode on the WET11, only in "ad-hoc" mode.
That makes sense, you want it set up as a client on an infrastructure
network so as long as you have the network ID right it should pick up on the
channel without help.
> Any ideas? Should I try a different brand of radio bridge? I'm about
> ready to give up and pay thru the nose for a half-crippled DSL line from
> the phone company so I can get broadband.
How about giving your WISP another call and having them walk you through the
setup step by step? If they can't or won't do that then yeah, take your $
elsewhere.
--
Ray
One's Too Many
Jan 22, 2003, 5:28:49 PM1/22/03
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The WISP was at a loss to troubleshoot this too, and thought maybe I
just lived in an area where there was too much RF interference for the
tower's AP to pick me up out of the noise. Just on a lark, I decided
to see how much voltage drop I was getting over my long
power-over-cat5 cable, suspecting that my transmitter wasn't strong
enough for the tower to hear me and discovered that I was down to
under 4 volts at the WET11. I found a bigger heavy-duty wall-wart
power supply rated at 7.0VDC at 2.5 amps and used it instead, now I
get right at 5.5VDC at the WET11 up on the antenna pole. At nearly 5
miles from the WISP's tower, I finally can lock on in "infrastructure
mode" and get a solid 5.5Mbps with 93% signal strength and 75% link
quality.... and I haven't even fine-tuned the aiming of my outside
antenna yet. Plenty good enough for internet traffic, considering the
tower is only fed by a single T-1 internet line.
just lived in an area where there was too much RF interference for the
tower's AP to pick me up out of the noise. Just on a lark, I decided
to see how much voltage drop I was getting over my long
power-over-cat5 cable, suspecting that my transmitter wasn't strong
enough for the tower to hear me and discovered that I was down to
under 4 volts at the WET11. I found a bigger heavy-duty wall-wart
power supply rated at 7.0VDC at 2.5 amps and used it instead, now I
get right at 5.5VDC at the WET11 up on the antenna pole. At nearly 5
miles from the WISP's tower, I finally can lock on in "infrastructure
mode" and get a solid 5.5Mbps with 93% signal strength and 75% link
quality.... and I haven't even fine-tuned the aiming of my outside
antenna yet. Plenty good enough for internet traffic, considering the
tower is only fed by a single T-1 internet line.
Lesson learned: don't underpower your WET11, and you might even be
able to stretch the range by overpowering it a slight amount.
Ray <nm...@sonictech.net> wrote in message news:<slrnb2p8h...@homer.sonictech.net>...
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