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There has has been resolved but with a caveat. When my lightbeam is setup for pppoe authentication I am unable to reach the hap ax. I can reach the hap lite units. When I change to dhcp authentication I can reach both the hap ax and hap lite. I don't have a clue why pppoe auth will now allow the por...

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Ubiquity Light beam setup in routing mode and obtains dhcp address from my billing system. The light beam ethernet IP is 192.168.30.1/24. The hap lite and hap ax lite are in bridge mode with ip of 192.168.30.2/24 with gateway of 192.168.30.1. Service ports 8291 for winbox access and for testing 8080...

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This still does not work. Disable all packages but system, npk file does not fit. try to uninstall individual packages and says can not uninstall. Load up netinstal it see's the unit, click it, select your package, says installing. says complete, reboot still old package. Download the individual pac...

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I just had a ccr1007 loose all connectivity until reboot. I plugged in my laptop and access the router and could ping any ip on the router itself but any ip off the router even the switch sitting beside it would not ping. Rebooted and it all restored. This unit had been running 6.45.6 for a long tim...

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Along the same idea, I'm wanting a script that would monitor voltage and if it droped below a set value it would disable the poe on a single ethernet port. Anyone have that script?

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Where is the top secret vault contining information on what wireless-cm2 is/does?

Are people using it?

-Michael

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The 5.8mhz link set routed ospf to the routerboard. The routerboard has a 2.4mhz ap and a 900mhz ap atached to it's ethernet port. I have a subnet /27 assigned to the bridge and have included the ether1 and the 2.4mhz wlan as ports. Clients on the ethernet1 and 2.4mhz both have internet access and I...

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Does setting Adaptive noise Immunity on the access point to "ap and client mode" tell the clients to use Adaptive noise Immunity as well? Or would I need log into each client and set Adaptive noise Immunity to "client mode"?

-Michael

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While you didn't say how you were connecting to the sxt. If your using a laptop --> cable ->sxt and the ping isn't instant like 1ms then you have a cable or eithernet internface issue. I would suggest logging itno the sxt and reviewing log for ethernet drops/retrains and review the ethernet stats un...

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There isn't a way to answer this because it depends on many things. First the differance between sx2 and sxt 2 lite is that the transmit side of the unit is 500mw vs 1000mw. In my testing it made little to no differance in signal strenth reception by the clients. maybe 2db. Just because you have an ...

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Pretty sure this is just a bad cable issue.

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Running 802.11G with one antenna connector to n-type and then to omni. Chain 0 is selected

At the moment I have it set to 802.11G would Chaning to 802.11N and also enabling chain1 be of any benfit or does it only work if your runing a dual pol antennas on both sides?

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Each of my customers autenticates through pppoe and that service is running on each of my relays. Each relay sends radus auth packets to my billing server. Under the ppp profile and limits you can select rate limit (rx/tx). If I set that to say 1M/3M and reset the wireless interface I see each of th...

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Since my posting I have found out that my RB750UP units show information under interface>Ether2 to Ether5 ports. My Ether2 gives poe output current (173mA), voltage( 23.3V) and power (4.3W). The unit that is being powered is a RB411AH and I"m unsure of the radio card but it's listed as AR92xx. ...

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I discovered that my RB453G has additional system health information which not only reports the voltage being supplied to the unit but also the current (278 mA) and it's power consumption (4.6 to 5.0W). I find this very usefull especially when dealing with solar powered relays. Which other units off...

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I discovered a few days later that the issue was the ethernet adapater was using a generic windows driver, once I loaded a new driver from the vendor's website it all worked fine.

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I purchaced a Nextbook Tablet and added an external mini-usb to ethernet adapater. http://www.walmart.com/ip/39092206?wmlspartner=wlpa&adid=22222222227028240449&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=47345394392&wl4=&wl5=pla&wl6=93454217072&veh=sem I've used both the older winbox a...

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Just found a differnt topic about the rb112 etc etc. http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php ... 12#p454958 so guess that answers my question about that.

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I used to keep all of our equipment on the same version but for the past year I stopped after having several unit failures or issues after upgrading. Several times I have had to try to downgrade and have the unit 'brick' on us and I have to send someone to the tower to replace a unit. That got very ...

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Ok, thanks. At least now I know why 6.x bricks the units and that I'll be unable to upgrade further. - Michael

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3 rb133c's (using mipsle code)
These units are probaly to old to run ros v6
in general units support 2v updates and these boards are from around 2006
http://routerboard.com/pdf/rb133ugA.pdf

Then why would they release 6.x code for them then?

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Our system is running a mixture of 6.1 on the AP's and 5.6 on the clients. I pulled copies of 6.9 and decided to first upgrade the miscellaneous units that I had here in the office. Out of 13 units upgraded to 6.9, 6 units would not restart or respond after reboot. 3 rb133c's (using mipsle code) 1 r...

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I decided to be carefull before deploying 6.19. I have some spare's here at the office so I've upgraded 12 units and bricked 4. Two Rb133c's, one RB SXT 2nd (new out of the box), and one RB912UAG-2HPnd (new). They will light up quickly one beep and then nothing. How can I unbrick these units? -Michael

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I have talked to my vendor and read these forms and for the most part I here NV2 is a good protocol that works well for people. But I have had nothing but issues with it and I'd really like to understand why. Now If I run a link in 802.11 I'll get pings across the link 2-5ms but once the data rate p...

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I see that you wrote in the 192.x.x.x address. Can this be used on a routed network as well?

In other words do you have to be on a nat'ed network or can you just redirect from your routed network?

-Michael

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Your question really does not give enough detail to understand what is not working. Please explain.

Though I will mention that I never personally got transio and Mikrotik to play nice with each other and eventually got rid of the two transio units on my network.

-Michael

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I suspect many people just roll there eyes at your question and move on. And the other person's comment about Tx power not being much of a factor in this case but rather the Tx power of the devices that you want to connect to your network. For example I run a 33 mile link at 450mw radios on 2.4mhz 1...

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You know what drives me crazy? After reading this? I can only get N-stream 2xmimo links to work. Nv2 will not stay connected. Using 6.1. RB711 with the built in radio's.
(on any of my 14 5.8Mhz point to point links)
-Michael

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I had this issue once and I believe the issue was with STP - Spanning Tree Protocol. Go to bridge and pull up the interface. Under stp change protocol mode from name to either stp or rstp. I don't remember which one to use but I think rstp is the correct one.

Regards,
-Michael

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I am using RB433 with the Mikrotik 2Hn radio's running 5.14. I just received a batch of STX Lite 2's and when trying to connect them it would only scan and connect to 20mhz channels. I was a bit baffled. Then after some forum searching saw this post and downloaded the current 6.x beta to the STX Lit...

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I have close to 200 clients on 12 relays. All AP's are RB 433AH's. Client units are rb411(80%), rb133(18%), and rb133(2%). Most cards in use on the network are Enginuis 8602-s Plus cards. With a few r52, xr2's, and two DBII F-20 cards. All units were upgraded to 4.17 and clients were set to accept &...

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I have 13 wireless towers in my county and I have trouble tickets open on most of the towers. Looking over them I find the ack time between 350-450. I knock a few people off here and there and they return with better ack and the bandwidth speed to the customers return... for a while... I've been won...

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I'm not failure with the phone you specify but I use a different brand. I use the sip phones with the Mikrotik units with no issues and do not modify the configuration of the Mikrotik from my basic configuration of Station Receive and nat routing behind that. The issues I've seen with sip phones hav...

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Your not going to do 200Meg on 2.4 but you may get it out of 5.8 or close to it. I would use an RB433AH on each side with: Ubiquiti XR5 miniPCI Card http://www.titanwirelessonline.com/Ubiquiti-XR5-p/mp-xr5.htm RFelements 5.8GHz 27dBi Dish Antenna http://www.titanwirelessonline.com/RFelements-5-8GHz-...

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Your bandwidth isn't necessarily linked with the size of the routerboard. The RB you choose depends on the amount of work the unit has to do. Is it just a point to point link? or multipoint? running any special routing protocols, running pppoe clients? Your bandwidth would be governed by which radio...

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Has anyone done any trials with running nstream on your 2.4Ghz Clients? At the moment I'm running 10Mhz channels and seem to do ok but I have to log in several times a day and kick people with high ack times in order to maintain capacity and speed. I tried manually setting the ack but that created i...

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My primary relay tower is on a very large FM tower running 100,000 watts and the only issue I had was with the rb411ah's. I could only run 10meg 1/2 duplex on the Ethernet cable but when i use 433 or 433ah i can run 100meg full duplex on the very same ether cable. I keep all external coax to 3ft len...

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I don't belive pppoe would have any bearing on "connection issues" because it's a different network level. PPPOE just runs on top of your connection layer (that being wireless, ethernet, or even dial-up (like you would want to). In the past when I had an AP that would lock up it didn't mat...

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I am running 75 pppoe connections on a single rb433ah and a single omni with no problems on the pppoe side of things. I do have issues with wireless throughput because I have over loaded the unit. I can still get 5meg throughput on off hours but can pull down to 512k to 1meg during peak usage. I typ...

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I have noticed that when individual unit ack time gets high everyone on the link suffers. And if I bump that client off they return with a better ack. And a very short time later the system is running a lot smoother. The people with the high ack time are not the same each time, even my own link wish...

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Thank You, the suggested charger seems like a good answer to that issue. The second question is not to check that the charger/battery has failed but if the power is out. This gives me time to call the power company and inform them that the line is down again and gives them time to restore power with...

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I have a location on a mountain top that has electricity that gets knocked out every time a thunderstorm passes by. It's a long electrical line up the side of the mountain. There is a cabin at this location which is a summer home of a local person. I would normally just install a full solar system a...

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I've read several forum posts as well as the mikrotik documentation. I even paid someone to write some firewall rules once but I simply do not understand the syntax. I'd would like to see a simple firewall rule/script that would block a single port on an incoming ethernet port. Such as blocking inco...

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I have pppoe clients that are authenticated through radius and instead of just turning a client off in the billing system is there a way (even if I manually need to log into the relay) to have them redirected to a web page that asks them to contact our office? Reason is, when people do not pay there...

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All of my access points use the xr2 card and all of my clients the engenius nmp cards, never had a problem with them.

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Relay is a 12db NMP-5404 radio on a 100 foot tower. Client is a 15db NMP-5404 radio on a house approx 2 miles away. Signal is -67 with noise -99 Most of the time this connection is up 100% and works great. Every once in a while it will drop and not be able to connect for a few hours then will connec...

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This seems familiar issues that I had once. But can't exactly remember how it was solved. Make sure polling is turned on and your ack is set to dynamic. You might even play around with your ack and set it manually depending on how close the clients are. Try 60-90 if there 2-5 miles out.

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I read this topic with much interest. I have deployed several hundred ap's now using a single omni and a 5.8mhz back all link on each radio. I am to the point I need to sectoral two of my relay sites because they are both pushing 50 ap's each. I have been running voip services to my customers over t...

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I currently have 50 clients attached to a single omni and I need to setup a three sectored system. Is there a script that I can place on the client units to say scan for ssid1, ssid2, ssid3 and connect to the one that has strongest signal and if it can't connect successfully to return to the origina...

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I too found out that enabling nstream would degrade voip considerably.

-Michael

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Today it is cold, and icy and the temperature is about 25F on ground level. The tower is on a mountain and the relay is in a fairly large box 100 feet in the air. The relay at times has gone completely off-line in the evenings and will return in the morning once the temperature rises and the sunlite...

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Almost one year later.... it's 9F outside and our main tower is completely down. So I decide to jump up to these forms and do a search and what do I find a post I made about this one year ago. Ok so now I have ten towers and my main one thats the highest of them all still goes down in the cold. It w...

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I have had the same issue and I figured it out that the newer vista machines have changed the default mtu from 1500 to 1496. To check this open up command prompt and type "netsh interface ipv4 show subinterfaces" and it will show you the interface and it's mtu, notice the 1496. To change i...

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Is there any way to have your MT units check for firmware upgrades to a centralized server (that I would run) and automaticly upgrade if needed?

Regards,
Michael

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On my main tower I have a single 15dbi omni 2.4ghz and I have clients in a 13 miles in each direction (26 mile radius). Using nmp- cards 400mw and a single rb532. I have more issues out of my 5.8ghz links which typically are less than 3 miles with gird antani's on both sides than I do 2.4ghz. But on...

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I have seven relays installed with the backbone setup with 802.11A 5.8ghz 22dbi grid's and clients 802.11b/g omni down to clients setup with panel antanni's. On average I have 12 clients per relay at this time. One one particular tower which is on a mountain top and 100 feet up a fm radio station to...

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The reason I was asking about sectored antani's is I was wanting to know if it would have better performance than an omni. As in obtaining better signal strengths or distances. Two examples: One site is on the side of a small mountain that over looks the town. But on the back side of that antani you...

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I have an RB532A with cpu freq 264. It has two Atheros AR5413 cards powered by 48V POE. The unit resides 100 feet up on a FM radio station tower. One Radio is set to 5.8ghz with a directional. The other Radio is set for 2.4ghz win an omni. And watchdog is turned on and watching an IP address of a cl...

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This issue was solved by replacing the radio. It did turn out to be a bad radio card.

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The same issue happend today, but this time I was monitoring the system and was actually able to go to a client location while it was happening. It happed for just over an hour from like 9:50 to 11:10. rb112 with 400mw card and 15db grid antani pointing to an rb532a with 400mw omni at a range of .75...

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Would you set all three radio's to the same ssid, and set them in a bridge? And if your using two routerboards would you bridge radio-->Radio-->ethernet-->ethernet-->radio?

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I am running voip over 2.4ghz and for the most part it works well. There are times however, of high traffic clients that do cause a short period of degradation to voip calls. I believe if I was able to give a priority to the voip packets and just slow down (que) the rest it would be perfected. There...

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would extentions have anything to do with this? like some are set to pre-2.9.25 and others set to post-2.9.25 and if so whats the differance?

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Today one of our towers had a disconnection issue with some but not all of our clients. Out of 20 users, we had about 8 get disconnected over and over for about an hour then everything goes normal and everyone is connected again. Here is a sample log. jan/12 21:05:20 pppoe,ppp,info pppoe-out1: disco...

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I have many connections that have been up for 40+ days (last time I reset the unit after an upgrade). But this one connection above shows good signal but keeps dropping out. But I think the suggestion that it is interference in the house from a phone or perhaps a microwave is probably a good place t...

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I have a link that has -70 dbm signal with ccq 87/82 on 2.4ghz 802.11b. s/n 23

15db panel antani's both sides.

Why would this connection drop like 20 times a day?

-Michael

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I have used Mikrotik for our wireless network for over a year now and have been quite pleased with the results, but one of the things I've never been able to figure out is how to setup filters, firewalls, and scripts to do a few specfic things. About two months ago we switched our internet feed from...

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I currently have an omni on a large tower and I have been thinking about switching out to three 120 deg sector antani's. My question is how should I set this up? 1) Three sectors into a splitter then to the single radio & routerboard like I have now. (400mw) 2) Three sectors into a three radio's...

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Is netstream compression for wireless links? It may allow you to achieve higher throughput of sending files and viewing websites but likely will not be of much use in real time voice or video streams? Does it effect wireless link distance or connections in high noise area's? I've been confused about...

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The 5ghz back bone link is normal routable ip address, and each 2.ghz client side link also are using routable ip address as well. Each are setup on there own subnet. I am guessing I would use one large set of ip address such as a /24 and all 2.4ghz setup on the same ssid. Then one router would hand...

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I was able to get this to work by setting up dst-nat Add rule Under General select chain dst-nat in interface pppoe-out Under Action Select dst-nat To Address 192.168.1.2 to ports 0-65535 And set the computer to a static address 192.168.1.2 ---------------- Is there anyway to allow the computer to s...

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Guess I need to ask in a different way or explain more. The mikrotik unit pulls a routable ip address and has a 192.168.1.0/24 setup on the ethernet port. I setup src-nat and masqurade. A computer that gets a dhcp address in the 192.168.1.0/24 subnet wants to access a x10 camera placed at his home. ...

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At the moment I have four towers. Each has a 5.8ghz feed and then a 2.4ghz relay down to fixed station clients. I provide hotspot services in some area's and pppoe for fixed wireless stations. I have another business in the area that are currently using a cell provider data network and wish to switc...

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A customer wishes to use x10 video software on his computer to monitor a remote location. Mikrotik unit pulls a pppoe ip address, and uses src-nat and while web surfing is fine he can't access the remote computer. Doing a test from the x10 site http://kbase.x10.com/wiki/Port_Forwarding_For_X10_Softw...

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I am working on a 2.4ghz to 2.4ghz relay. Using 2.9.32 code and Atheros AR5413 radios. One card is setup to recieve on ch 6 the other is set as an access point on ch 1. The first setup I did was a Rootoo flat panel antenna with an rb112 with both cards inside the rootoo compartment and an n-type con...

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I am using: RC-EN-NMP8602 • Up to 400mW transmission power for maximum range, throughput speeds, and signal strength • Complete IEEE802.1x client support with EAP-TLS, EAPTTLS supplicants • 802.11e standards supported for Wireless Multimedia Enhancements QoS 802.11a/b/g I tested the R52 that I recie...

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I thought I would have some fun this weekend. We had some rain and light snow. I have wireless to my roof which is using nmp card. It has been connected 7d 12 hours. Which corresponds to my log as the last time I rebooted the unit. I setup a test unit in my living room, big open window pointing at a...

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I can suggest three things. Use another Mikrotik and test from the same location as your current client that is not working. Rule out there is a problem with your client. If the other mikrotik doesn't recieve a signal from your omni then.. Check the pigtails to make sure they are rated for the corre...

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I am serving a 10 mile area in mountains area, shooting through several tree lines. Just the other day I did a test with the Senyo card by setting it on my couch in my home, shooting through a wall, through a tree, connecteding at 5.5m to our base station 4.5 miles away (on the mountain). I have ord...

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I just deployed my 50th NMP-8602 unit. I am using rb532's, rb112's and the latest smaller one's. I havn't had a single issue with them, I started out using sr5's the eight or so I had would always have bad signal quality. Switched out to the NMP-8602 and i've never had an issue thats been caused by ...

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:evil: Could a mod just delete this topic.. because after I reveal my problem was XP firewall.. I'm to embarrised to look at this again :roll:

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Yup, cleared the cace, downloaded a new winbox. It is only blank on about 1/2 my units. And it's only blank when using my winxp machine. I can remote over to one of my in win2k servers and log right in.

:\ confusing

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After even further investigation it has been determined that the v48 power supply plug is at fault. The center whole that goes over the post is larger than other 18V powersupplies we have. As the cord was wound up under the unit the heat/cold and or wind moving the guy wire antani would cause the wi...

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I have a problem when using winbox to two of my relays. It logs in and accepts password but everything is blank. You can click on interface and it shows no interfaces. etc etc. This is a computer issue I know, because I can remote into one of my computer servers and it works just fine. Does winbox u...

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I had a wireless client (not a customer of my service) use up all 100 dhcp address in the pool today. I had to manually delete all of the registrations. How do I ban a particular mac from being able to register/request anything on the network? I did some research on the forums and several people sai...

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We were having the reboot problem before we added the heater. The heater was added only a few weeks ago in order to try to eliminate the problem. NOW.. I have found the problem. :twisted: I replaced the unit and upon inspection of the old unit back in the office. The power connector has a solder joi...

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I am convenced that this issue is related to the cold. The lowest the tempature has gotten over night was 47F. The unit is not even on a battery backup, and we had one very violant thunderstorm and rain last night (very odd for winter here). The unit has now been up for 1d 7 hours. I also have to be...

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I thought I would follow up on this topic. Mikrotik support feels that the radio's that I am using is drawing to much power and this is what is causing the reboot. There remedy was for me to drop back to the 65mw radio cards.. r52's I think. Tommorw I plan to work on the tower, I havn't decided if i...

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I have the NTP packaged turned on, I go to ntp client. I enter the ip address of my Windows3k domain server and select unitcast. It says "started" and then a few moments later switches to "reached" But the time and date on the rb units don't get set.. the logs don't show the date...

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umm.. did I give to much info... ethernet a-Radio a---> radio b- ethernet b --->ethernet c-- Radio c. The feed ip is 192.168.1.254 Radio A is 192.168.2.1 Radio B is 192.168.2.2 Then what? Ethernet b = 192.168.2.3 Ethernet c = 192.168.2.4 Radio c = 192.168.3.1 Does that work? and what do I just setup...

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This particular rb532 has three of the Senao cards which have been installed and in operation for two years. The unit only reboots in winter, around 32 Degress and at night time between 11pm and 7am. It almost always reboot around 10:45, then be ok untill 11:15 then reboot again. and then randomly a...

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I will use public ip as an example setup. My current system starts with rb532 with two 400mw cards 192.168.1.254/254 eth0 mikrotik unit. 192.168.2.1/254 wireless1 (802.11a) - Link to relay 192.168.3.1/254 wireless2 (802.11b) - To Clients I use the 802.11a link to a tower rb532 with three 400mw cards...

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My most recent clients are all running rb112, my early customers are running Linksys routers (loaded with sveasoft code). I no longer use the Llinksys/sveasoft due to the issue of being very difficult to get the right version of the linksys unit that you can load the svasoft code on. Linksys keeps c...

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After a few more days the unit still reboots a few times a day but no like it was before.

Mikrotik support feel that the three radio's that I am using on the board are consuming to much power. I'll test this later by moving one of the radios to another rb unit once the weather allows.

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The one specfic tower has one RB532 with two Sanyo 400mw a/b/g/ card. One is set to 5.8ghz and is the backbone link. The other card is 802.11b (not g). I use RB112's with a single Sanyo Card at each client location. Then I go to sipura voip units. I am running g.711U on most all except a few people ...

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I am running 5.8ghz links to each tower, then 2.4ghz relay down to clients. I have one tower with 60 cpe's and 28 sip telephones tied into a voice server back at my office with an outgoing pri for local calls and the rest are sent across the internet to an LD provider. Rarely do I have problems, mab...

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I am happy to report that that the unit has been up for 16 hours and no reboots. the only change I made was the one suggested above about the power-saving mode. I did upgrade the code but it still rebooted several times within the hour after the upgrade. I made the system/mikrotik/settings/ change t...

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Actually, after the unit rebooted the one time it hasn't done it anymore. I made the change, the unit rebooted about 30 mins later and now is stable for 5 hours. 8)

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The standby change and the upgrade to the latest code did not solve the problem. I sent a supout.rif file to Mikrotik hopefully they can come up with an answer. Any other suggestions?

-Michael

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Thank you for the suggestion, I just upgraded to the latest code (I was on 2.9.34 now on 2.9.39 for this unit only now. And I made the change you suggested. I really hope this fixes. I have other towers running 2.9.34 that were not rebooting so thought I would just leave the code alone for now. But ...

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Ok, no replys :( Here are pictures of the tower and instalation: http://www.smyth.net/bwa/ Today high tempature was 20F, and I went up the tower took some pictures and chaged out the 48V power to an 18V power, returned to the office and the links were down. Returned to the tower and discovered the d...

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I have a rb532 with two sanyo cards, one set for 2.4 the other 5.8. The unit is in an enclosed outdoor box that is about 2 foot by 2 foot attached to the bottom of my tower. Several weeks ago the unit strated rebooting but only when the tempature droped to frezzing. I checked the site everything see...

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On my cisco routers I setup some basic firewalling rules.. or a better term would be filters. The things I filter are netbios packets ports 135 to 139, I also setup rules that only allow packets that destioned to the network and only allow packets out that are coming from that network. Example: Ethe...

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I ran a packetter at the head end of my internet connection and I can setup reports to show were traffic is going and coming. As an example lets say I want to report on who is using web sites. I setup to track http talker and listners, and I want to see who is transmistting hte most http data. So I ...

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I had this issue happen to me one time, and I thought it was a bad RB or cards... I switched out the cards and the problem was still there... On a suggestion from somone else on the boards, I /system reset the configuration and reprogramed it. Came right up and never had to do it again.

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I have a 1/2 mile 5.8ghz link. I have good singal Strength at 67/68 and the only connect I can make is at 6mb. There are no other 5.8ghz singals in the air (we are very rural). I need to increase the capacity of this link and was thinking about turning on netstream. Has anyone tried running voip aco...

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Ok, thanks for the confirm.

I am running pppoe autentication for my dedicated users and a hotspot service in order to pickup some clients that are in the town for a few days, want service, then leave. They get the hotspot page that says call for service etc etc.

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At the moment I am routing all public ip's, sending 5.8ghz links to each tower, and then sending 2.4ghz to clients. Is there a better way of doing this? should I setup all the 2.4ghz on a WDS with the same ssid so that people can roam between sites? And if so how should I configure this, and off-loa...

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Go to ip, hotspot, ip bindings. Click add

enter mac address of device, select pass-through. Thats all there is to it. You can optionally set an perminate ip here as well.

-Michael

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I had this exact problem once. I solved it by /system reset. Basicly blanked the setup of the mikrotik unit and reprogramed it. Never had it happen again and never had to do it more than that one time. Thought it was kinda strage. And it happend on an sr2 card as well. Though i don't use sr2 cards a...

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I talked to PacWireless today and basicly asked the same questions I have posted here. There suggestion was: Grid Antani's because they have less wind loading and less likely for ice buildup? For the reduancy links, same suggestion as the above person made about making one horizontal and one vertica...

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For area's stay around 0C, 32F all winter what is a good antani to use? Panel? Grid? Dome? Considering wind gusts and icing conditions I'm not too sure what is best for my application. Tower to tower link 3 miles across the valley. ---------------- If I want to install redundancy links what protools...

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I have experianced a simular issue as well but I was able to minimize it's effects. It seems part of the problem with the ping going up and down is when your bandwidth is going up and down alot and quickly. If you watch your links you probibly see it go from 11 to 5.5 to 2 then 1 then back to 5.5 th...

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No really havn't seen a program that is fully working.. mostly because each time there is a bug fix released, they releast new features that have additonal bugs in them. But good to know your only doing bug fixies in 2.9 now. I'll probibly stop at the last one before v3 for a little while :) Just th...

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I set the repeater up last night using wds, when I got to the office this morning I found out all of my hotspot/pppoe users could no longer log into the main tower so I had to disable wds. Reason for hotspot is that people can see this banner ad and call for service you can give them a temporary use...

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I set the repeater up last night using wds, when I got to the office this morning I found out all of my hotspot/pppoe users could no longer log into the main tower so I had to disable wds. Reason for hotspot is that people can see this banner add and call for service you can give thema temporary use...

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Ok thers been no more replays so let me post additional information. What we have is a 15db omni on a fm tower. It is I'm guessing 500 feet in the air on top of a mountain. The omni is 1/2 the way up the tower and has 15 other clients attached. Most all are connected at 5.5mb. There a few at 1mb due...

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Yes, I got this working last night. It wasn't hard but it was tedius. And I'm not quite done with the settings. I was able to surf the internet using my pda connected to the relay link. 5g feed -->RB -->2.4ghz -->RB -->2.4ghz. The first 2.4ghz link has hotspot on it so that potential users will see ...

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Doing a /system backup filename Backs up your unit saves a copy to the flash. But if you need to replace the entire unit you can't use that backup on another unit. I understand it's tied to mac address or something? So how do you save all your "coding" without sitting down with a piece of ...

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I have noticed every few weeks or so thers a new version of code that contains fixes, updates, and expantions. I would like to suggest releasing code that is fully working without expantion sets and calling them general release code or something. Specificly I've been told if there isn't a new featur...

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Could you list the model number of the one that Gerard is using and having problems with and the one that Equis says is working? i've seen 14, 15's, 18's and 19's listed on the rooteanna... I was planning on switching over to these rootoes and order 10 today.. but if thers clearance issues I want to...

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Ok so if you have good signal quality but lots of re-transmits what do you do to improve or remove the interferance?

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I have sanyo radio's and there is an optionto run 802.11b/g or 802.11b only or 802.11g only.

At the moment I have selected 802.11b and whenever I select 802.11b/g all the b clients drop. Is this normal or I am I not understanding the way b/g is suppost to work?

-Michael

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Looking over the radio spec sheets thers normally a little charge that lists db and rate. Am I readling it correctly that if your link says you have a signal strenth that matches or is lower than the specified number then you should be able to obtain the stated rate? Example: Output Power / Receve S...

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sergejs: Did you just say that when you plug the u.fl into any of the radio cards it should not touch the metal part of the radio card? Because I bet just about everyone of my units the little cable wraps around and touches the metal part of the radio. There just so fragile. If so I'll have to go ba...

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I had thoughts of that too. but I have 20 802.11b clinets off that tower. When I tell the tower Mikrotik unit to use 802.11b/g all of the b clients drop. 5g isn't really an option at the moment because teh 5g antani on the fm tower is a directional that points back to the feed site. And my installer...

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On a FM Radio tower we have a 12.5db Omni antani with a 3db downtilt and at my home which I want to make into a relay I have tried several directional antani's. The 14db Backfire directional signal shows recieve -74 transmit -79 and the other day I switched it for a vagi directional and shows a sign...

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Ok I think I understand. The repeater is at my home which I also pull internet from the ethernet interface. I setup nat behind it. Ap ---> Recieve radio -->RB --> Repeating Radio \ Nat Internet. The recieve radio at the moment authenticates via ppoe. So I"m assuming what I need to do is mark th...

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Main Access point has dhcp services, hotspot, and ppoe. Repeater logs into the access point via ppoe. I followed the instructions and setup the wds. Repeater was no longer able to log in via ppoe. And no longer able to ping anything. I am sure it's just my lack of knowlege as to how wds works. Shoul...

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Ok looks pretty strait forward. Will the end users that are attached to the repeater be prompt for the hotspot service, recieve dhcp address, and pppoe connectivty from the main gateway (shown in the drawing?)

-Michael

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Thank You! I saw that example before and I spent two days trying to find that link and searched up and down the wiki... I'll go read and post some more questions I'm sure :P

-Michael

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From our main tower we have 2.4ghz network that has pppoe and hotspot service. I want to extend that service to a blind spot behind a hill. So I have gone past the hill and want to be able to shoot the back side. At the moment I have two 2.4ghz cards. One is a directional pointing to the tower. The ...

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Ok let me detail this out in simple terms and see if what I say is correct. The 802.11B signal lets say has an ssid of "test1234" and wds has to be turned on and this unit has a routable ip address assigned to this signal. On the far end I have another rb532 and I place two radios in it, s...

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I am using the same card (Atheros AR5213) and I do not belive it has the ability to use the turbo mode. I had an sr5 radio and some 65mw cards i got form microtik that could though. I have settled ont he 5313 cards though because for me.. they seem more reliable and stable.

-Michael

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Is there such a program that you can enter your card output power, your cable loss, your antani gain and give a theoretical distance calculation? I would assume if I have a 400mw card a 3 foot cable, and a 10dbi omni that I should be able to reasonably determine the theroetical distance that it coul...

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An additional question is, do all of the clients have to be wds capiable?

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When I want to extend my network using wds such as with the wireless roaming i'm looking at the examples on the mikrotik site. The show as a "package" a unit that has a grid antani and an omni with an rb112 and two radio cards. So do you set both cards to wds with the same ssid on them? an...

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I don't have an answer for your problem but I use the 5413 (two cards in each router board) and I have six rb's working. No problems, in fact they are working alot better since I removed all sr2/sr5 cards from my system.

-Michael

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I have set my units to autenticate two ways. 1) Hotspot service that presents a client with a user/password and a screen that says call my telephone for service. This normally picks up a few customers that are just passing through the area and want service a short time. 2) PPOE service for my dedica...

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Whats the point of doing a backup of a mikrotik unit if the backup can not be moved to another unit?

If you save a backup, and then your router goes dead. You try to restore your items to a new unit it won't work.

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I belive most people will just dis-miss and not even answer this question. It depends on where you are starting one up, how many customers your goingto have, how many sites you need, what type of antanit's you have, where you are going to place the relays? (on buildings, cell sites, homes, town tele...

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I have had several thunderstorms go by our office and this has burned out several of our ethernet ports on our cisco ethernet switch. I have been using these POE injectors: http://www.wisp-router.com/product_info.php?cPath=38&products_id=192 And a DC powersupply. I just ordered a new POE connect...

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I am pretty sure I read another topic in the forms about this issue, and a link was provided to the mirkotik documentation that said that Prsim 2.5 cards could not do station WDS. There was an issue how it handles SSID i belive. -Michael p.s. Here's the link http://www.mikrotik.com/Documentation/nst...

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I belive there are a lot of us out here trying to do this very thing but trying to get educated how to do it has been the most difficult and time consuming process I have ever done. At this time I am simply doing a routed ip network. Mikrotik unit on the roof has both 2.4ghz and 5.8ghz card. Route i...

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Set wlan1 to station mode Set a public ip on the ether1 such as 192.168.1.1 Setup a dhcp server on the ether1 that gives out a range of ip such as 192.168.1.100 to 192.168.1.200. Setup a default gateway as 192.168.1.1 Go to firewall, go to nat, set general "srcnat" set sorce address as 192...

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My thoughts were to use 2.4ghz channel 6 (the middle frequency). At the top of the poll place an 9db omni and below that a directional pointing to the tower on the mountain. The Radio is setup as wds slave (I think), Which allows clients to connect to the highest signal level. So if it's off the omn...

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I can pickup signal from my tower on the mountain on 2.4ghz and would like to setup using wds/mesh and repeat the signal to the neighborhood. The signal is sent from the mountain to the house and then back in the direction of the mountain but to the lower area were the mountain can not see. Using an...

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How do you get licenced for 3.5mhz?

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I feel I could setup the router o/s and the voip card in the same computer server. but was hoping there was some solution to basicly allow rb's to also provide two telephone jacks.

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OK I found this listing of: VoIP Packages required: telephony Description H.323 Protocol VoIP Analog Gateways QuickNet LineJack ISA QuickNet PhoneJack ISA Voicetronix V4PCI - 4 analog telephone lines cards Zaptel X.100P IP telephony card (1 analog line) -------------- So I assume the SIP H.323 packa...

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Is there a pmcia or other add-on that would allow a Mikrotik unit act as a voip gateway?

Thus you could deploy a cpe unit with a wireless card and also plug in telephones to it? (I would set this unit up via SIP protocol back to an Asterisk voip server).

Regards,
Michael

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I belive routing would be best but at the moment it's a bridge. Right now I'm on a calss C and the ether1 is set to 192.168.1.254/26 (changed first part to 192 address) myside 192.168.2.65/26 (wlan1) and all of there network machines set this as as gateway There side has a wet-11 bridge set to 192.1...

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x.x.88.253/24 Mikrotik unit (ap) x.x.89.65/26 Wlan1 x.x.89.127/26 Far side is a wet-11 bridge x.x.89.65/26 And all computers are set to gateway x.x.89.65/26 ------------------ I want to replace the wet-11 bridge with another mikrotik. How do I setup the far side mikrotik? And how do I setup the rout...

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Thus I have a 48v supply that provides .62A I will be better off using the 12v that provides 1A if I intend to use three cards in a single unit?

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Thanks for the suggestion. The 25 foot cable is rg-400. At the moment I plan to add another radio card and place two directional antani's just below mid tower. One pointing to the office and one to the mountain. I can get away with 6 foot cables I belive. What I do not know is if I can run three (At...

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I have two access units each with 802.11b and 802.a cards. I am sending the backbone on the A side and plan to add additoinal units (differnt post talks about this). Should I consider not doing any 802.a links and just setting everyting up using wds on 802.11b (roaming)? Is there an advantage/disadv...

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I have a T1 internet --->rb532a --->(5ghz link) --->rb532a (this unit is setup as AP and a Omni 10db) I want to ad another rb5232a and the unit is in place 4 miles on another mountain a few 100 feet higher than the AP unit. I am using a directional 22db antani and I can not establish the link. The a...

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Is there a reason to use 48v power over 12v on the rb562a with dual 400mw cards?

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Hi, I hate to create another topic after just starting one but I lack the "terminology" to understand what is going on with the equipment and most importantly why. You see, I have a small wireless system setup and running and I would like to improve it. I have two Mikrotik 532a's. Each has...

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Setting up a 2.4 and a 5.8 radio at each location is there a bennfit to linking all of radios using 5.8 instead of just doing a mesh on 2.4 and not using 5.8 at all?

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And right after this post I find a great document

http://www.mikrotik.com/download/MUM-ULDIS-Mesh1.ppt

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Sounds like an autentication problem to me but without detailed setup information I don't think anyone can help.

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Yes this is possible it's not done with the mikrotik o/s but rather the type of radio you are using. The radio card is what allows you to set this. So if you go to the winbox wireless interface and select the frequency box and the option is not listed then your radio can't do it. You will need to or...

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Hi there, I have reviewed the manual and read through these forms about wds but many times the examples or questions in the forms just confuse me. So Let me give you an example setup and ask if my assumptions are correct. 2.4ghz Access point that has a dhcp/hotpsot/radius/ppoe setup. I Leave the int...

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Well at my tower I had rb112 with sr2 and sr5 cards and 12v adapter plugged directly into the rb112. After the lockups I replaced the 12v witha 48v. No change. Then Mikrotik and my reseller told me that I could not run radius/dhcp/hotpsot/ppoe on the rb112 because it is a CPE (customer premes equipm...

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I belive tihs turned out to be several problems but primarly I am guessing.. and I hope somone could confirm. After climing down the tower my wife noticed the connectiong start/stoping. Going back up the tower and wiggling the connectors I found one of the u.ul connectors to be faulty. quest is if t...

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Ok, it turned out that I had two problems. The rb112 is only meant for customer premis equipment (cpe) and is not meant to be a main router. I was running dhcp, routing, pppoe server, radius, and hotspot. I was told this by both Mikrotik and the reseller that I purchaced the cards with. I sent these...

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I have had a pair of routerboard 230's in service for at least a year running hotspot, dhcp, ppoe server, and normal ip routing. These boards performed great for me. Then one stormy evening they both got hit by static lightnightning (as well as many other pices of equipment including fm/am radio sta...

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I had an rb230 die on me, the router and raidio works but can't use the ethernet port other than powering up the unit. No ip connectivity. I replaced it with an rb112 and I have had two of these units die on me. I now have yet another rb112 working for 48 hours now, I also replaced the poe injector ...

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That was my feeling too. I have several radio cards the sr5, sr2, and some generic 400mw cards. I can place any of them into the rb112 and you here a high electronic ticking. You can turn the radio off via software and it goes away, you can lower the tx power and it lowers as well. at 27db it's fair...

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Is it normal for your radio's to making a electronic ticking noise? (400mw on 112 boards?)

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I have had four routerboards die on me in less then 7 days. They are on my roof powered by a POE 48V units. The first unit was the older rb230, then an rb500,and now a second rb112. After the Third one died I switched out everything the rb, the ethernet run, the powersupply. The only thing in common...

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DS3 Internet --->ciso router -->RB112 <--5g link --> rb112
--ethernet --
rb112 <--5glink--> rb112.

From our office to the relay tower and then from that tower to another. I assume I will connect the two rb112's with a cross-over cable on the ethernet ports.

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The rb-112 is screwed to the back panel metal to metal. The n-type conectors also touch to the metal case. The case is isolated for the most part execept for the two bolts that go from case to tower but there is a lot of paint so i doubt the is any real conductivity between the case and tower. The e...

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Any time that I drop the power of the 400mw cards the link just drops out. The older 65mw cards I had worked solid at 65mw 6 meg connection but would never do 12 megs. The transmit signal strenth seems to be my protlbme at the tower. I'm wondering if I'm using the wrong type of cable? I'm using lmr-...

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Looking at your tower site it has a noise-floor: -78dBm and then your remote station says it has a transmit strenth of tx-signal-strength: -82dBm. I would suggest that is why you are having some outages. How to fix? I'm not too sure I am having a simular issue. You can try some noise filters on your...

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YES! I finally made some progress! I had another 5.8mhz Grid antani arrive just the other day and since it was so nice figured I'd go set it up. I used a 6ft cable at the tower and bolted the directional up to the leg of the tower and I am getting -54/-69 strenth (on the station). It came up to 36Me...

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Forgot to mention the orginal link was the Mikrotik 230's on both sides with 65mw 802.11a cards. I have switched both units to the Mikrotik 112 units using the 400mw cards. So going up in power didn't change anything. I have switched out the bigtails, and I have two of the lmr-400 cables running up ...

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I am using lmr-400 at both locations. At the station on the building it's 6 feet long into a 22db grid vertical polorized. No lightnight protection, goes to the outside box with n-female to n-femail plug on the case and then a pigtail directly to the card. On the tower 25 feet lmr-400 omni vertical ...

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Link is setup at Freq 5805 the station is a rb500 with the 400mw card. tx/rx is -73/-90 noise floor is -115 Signal to noise 23 rx/rx ccq 4/12 Using a 22db grid for 5805 freq with 6 foot cable 1/2 mile away is the tower using a 10db Omni using a 400mw card and 25 foot cable with the below stats. tx/r...

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Cmit & Sergejs,

Thank you both for your help. I have the link setup using wds and works just fine. I had to take a break for a day and then come back and re-read your suggestions. And then it finally "clicked".

-Michael

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The local ethernet ip/subnet is not the same as the far end. I had thought I could put both wireless interfaces and the far ethernet on the same ip/subnet. 192.168.1.1/24 Local ethernet and wlan--- wlan -- ether1 (far end) all on the same ip/subnet. 192.168.2.1, .2 and .3 etc etc so is it best then ...

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All of the examples show ether1 --- wan1 --- wan1 --- ether 1.
and ether 1 being the same ip address/subnet. and there not.
ether 1 is my bussiness calls C address. The unit down the street is another bussiness that I sell acccess too and there on there own private .26.

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Not sure that I am explaining myself well enough because I could not follow your latest suggestion :( This is in place now: Internet ---> Cisco router (192.168.1.1/24) ---> Mikrotik (192.168.1.254/24) ---> wlan1 (192.168.2.65/26) --> linksys wet11 bridge (192.168.2.65/26) --> Routable Servers This i...

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I just realized that I did not need to bridge at all. I routed with using a public ip in the wlan1 links. Works on my test system. I'll probibly wait until tommorw to try it out on the actual link. Just in case some one tells me a better way.. or that I got it right.

-Michael

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Thank you I have printed out the documentation and I will see if I can walk through it and get it working on my test system in our show room. --- My current setup is as follows: Mikrotik with ethernet of 192.168.1.1/24 and wlan of 192.168.2.65/26 The remote link is a linksys wet-11 bridge set to 192...

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ok.. re-read the docs.. saw that you do need to set it up on both routers. And to my luck my two new rb 100's just arrived. So now I can setup in a test enviornment and figure this out.

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ummf.. And here I thought this was going to be simple to setup :( right now I have a mikrotik unit set to ap mode and down the street we have a linksys wet-11 bridge. I need to replace the wet-11 because it has no encryption and no one can remember the password on the wet-11. To complicate things th...

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I have read through the forms and the documentation and I seem to be missing some type of configuration setting. Mikrotik Ethernet (192.168.1.254/24) with wlan1 (192.168.2.65/26) On the other side Mikrotik wlan1 (192.168.2.66/26) and Computer (192.168.2.67/26) ---- The 192.168.2.66 unit is setup as ...

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Yes, that is the information I was looking for. I do not want to over-power or push the limits on anything but I did want to know what would be the limits as to what you could enter in the tx levels. ----------- Hey Bruno, I mean Normis :twisted: Does ppoe continue to work over wds network? Thanks -...

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Actually Joe, that wasn't quite the answer I was looking for. Let say I have an sr5 card. How do I know what the max numbers I could use use for each setting? ----------------------- Still don't know If I can turn on wds on the access point and my normal linksys customers will still connect as norma...

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I've posted several questions over the last few weeks if not months now. And I am sure I wrote up this issue on the forms but I did not get it resolved until yesterday and I thought I would share. I have a 2.4ghz omni link on tower using Mikrotik. Our clients use Linksys GS (now Linksys GL) units lo...

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I had this problem recently while trying to setup a new mikrotik router. My clients would connect and pull a dhcp address but could not ping. Eventually I found out that in my dhcp settings the broadcast address were all messed up. fixed that and all was fine.

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How do you know what settings to use for each type of card?

powers=1Mbps:24,2Mbps:24,5.5Mbps:24,11Mbps:24,6Mbps:24,9Mbps:24,12Mbps:24,18Mbps:24,24Mbps:24,36Mbps:17,48Mbps:17,54Mbps:17

is for which of the radio cards?

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I need to re-ask/restate a few questions: 1) How do I know that my cards are putting max power out? Prisim cards have a selector of 30mw, 100mw and 200mw. But the ar cards do not. 2) If I turn on WDS on my routers can my clients connect normaly or do they need to change the way they connect? (curren...

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In my opinion 802.11g is for indoor use and has a higher throughput. The 802.11b works better outdoors and gives me longer range but at a lower throughput. I am doing 2 meg 802.11b links to 35 customers with the longest being 5 miles away. (omni at tower site and echo backfire dish (16 db) at each c...

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Ok this is the current set of pictures (directory browsing is turned on so you can see the pictures)

http://www.smyth.net/wireless/

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Some additional information the 5ghz 5825 shows a ccq of 33% and ack of 33 below is the card setups: 0 R name="wlan1" mtu=1500 mac-address=00:01:24:70:33:25 arp=enabled disable-running-check=no interface-type=Atheros AR5211 radio-name="000124703325" mode=ap-bridge ssid="Smyt...

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Had some nice weather so I was busy doing some tests today. I reconfigured the 5.8ghz antani's. At the office 22dbi grid vertical polorized. At the tower a 10dbi omni. Both sides using AR5211 cards (65 mw I belive). The signal strenth became a solid -79. After reading about power amp's in a differen...

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