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Re: [Karlnet] Is this interference?

To: "Roger Boggs" <rogerboggs@att.net>
Subject: Re: [Karlnet] Is this interference?
From: "Brett Hays" <bretth@htonline.net>
Reply-to: Brett Hays <bretth@htonline.net>, Karlnet Mailing List<karlnet@WISPNotes.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 22:19:06 -0500
List-post: <mailto:karlnet@WISPNotes.com>

> Seems like relatively light use given the problems you're seeing.  Got any
> way to track time of day usage numbers on a customer by customer basis?

Not at this time, looking to put in traffic shaping soon and will be able to
do this then.

> If not, it is kind of a headscratcher.  Any way - just for grins - that
you
> can go up to the base station and turn OFF polling and see what happens?
I've seen numerous
> Karlnet networks take off and start flying when polling was turned off.
Go
> figure.  Used to change the reported signal and noise figures quite a bit
too.

Well, it's over for the night now.  The next time it starts, I will turn off
polling just for giggles and see what happens.

>
>
> At 09:18 PM 6/3/03 -0500, you wrote:
> >Looks like my heaviest user on this AP has used 417MB of download this
month
> >and 55MB of upload.  Doesn't really seem like enough to be causing this
> >problem does it?
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Roger Boggs" <rogerboggs@att.net>
> >To: "Brett Hays" <bretth@htonline.net>; "Karlnet Mailing List"
> ><karlnet@WISPNotes.com>
> >Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 8:54 PM
> >Subject: Re: [Karlnet] Is this interference?
> >
> >
> > > Yup.  Could well be.  How's the throttling being done?  Is this a
> >turbocell
> > > client
> > > or an 802.11b client?  RTS/CTS settings?
> > >
> > > Are these business clients with networks or individual clients and
single
> > > workstations?
> > > Somebody stays after work and comes in weekends to download all his
music
> > > and burn
> > > CDs cause it's faster than his dialup at home.
> > >
> > > At 08:56 PM 6/3/03 -0500, you wrote:
> > > >All clients are throttled to 768k.
> > > >
> > > >Would this still be a possibility given that fact.
> > > >
> > > >----- Original Message -----
> > > >From: "Roger Boggs" <rogerboggs@att.net>
> > > >To: "Brett Hays" <bretth@htonline.net>; "Karlnet Mailing List"
> > > ><karlnet@WISPNotes.com>
> > > >Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 8:35 PM
> > > >Subject: Re: [Karlnet] Is this interference?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > One client hogging the whole network.  No bandwidth
limiting/shaping
> >in
> > > > > place I'm guessing....
> > > > > Find the Kazaa kid and put him at 128Kbps transmit/receive and see
if
> >that
> > > > > helps.
> > > > >
> > > > > At 08:35 PM 6/3/03 -0500, you wrote:
> > > > > >I ask because I have never really seen it for sure.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >We have one access point where only in the evenings or on
weekends as
> >a
> > > > > >rule, we will have periods lasting as long as 30 minutes where
some
> > > > > >clients fall offline (usually random ones).  This ap was on
channel
> >10,
> > > > > >but I switched the ap and all clients to channel 4, seems to
behave
> >the
> > > > > >same on either channel.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >If I go into station entries in configurator (radio stats) these
are
> >the
> > > > > >figures:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >During normal times:  (21 clients on)
> > > > > >noise from -45 to -72
> > > > > >signal from -45 to -65
> > > > > >
> > > > > >During the outages  (of the clients still online)
> > > > > >noise from -58 to -60
> > > > > >signal from -45 to -52
> > > > > >
> > > > > >I am wondering if it is interference of some sort or an amp going
> > > > > >flaky.  We do have a 1 watt amp on this AP, but it's a two piece
and
> >I
> > > > > >don't want to go up and replace it if it's not the problem.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >Can anyone offer any advice?  This problem is driving me batty!
>
> Roger Boggs
>
>


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