I've not heard that Karlnet fixed the KN-50 problem. I'd love to stop
pulling those stupid cards out and replacing them with REAL Hermes cards.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Norm Young" <lists@applegatebroadband.net>
To: <bradlists@mnns.com>; "Karlnet Mailing List" <karlnet@wispnotes.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 3:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Karlnet] KN-50 Software Issues - Only with Hermes/Ruby
basedradios?
> Hi Brad,
>
> My understanding is that the Ubicom based radios don't have this problem,
> and are 100mW. The KN-50s did have this problem, but has now been
> addressed by Karlnet. (I have several new KN-50 cards ready to go into
> units this morning.) I like the KN-50s, been using them for about as
long
> as they've been out, and really like the MapleNet i19 and BWR modules they
> come in. Very slick installs. To recap the Ubicoms have 100mW Prism
2.5
> radios that do what Prism 2.5's do--namely have good power but don't
report
> signal/noise correctly. (Anyone know if there's a set dB you can subtract
> to make it correct?) The KN-50's have been very robust in the field, have
a
> 33mW radios, and report signal/noise correctly. Only downside is that I
> require all my KN/Ubicom customers to purchase a router which I set the
> password on and maintain. It would be nice if I could NAT to one IP on
> these units...but, pretty darn good for $300/complete CPE.
>
> Norm
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brad Gass" <bradlists@mnns.com>
> To: "Karlnet Mailing List" <karlnet@WISPNotes.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 12:03 PM
> Subject: [Karlnet] KN-50 Software Issues - Only with Hermes/Ruby based
> radios?
>
>
> All,
>
> I'm currently planning, and about to seriously get into deploying a
> significant number of new wireless clients, and I want to use the KN-50
> units, but want to get some clarification on the issues reported with
> them.
>
> First, before I go any further, I do understand that Prism based radios
> don't properly report signal strength on the client side, and the other
> issues involved.
>
> But are the issues with packet loss on the KN-50 based units specific to
> those containing Hermes/Ruby based radios, or are they also present in
> units with Prism radios? Does it matter what the base station is running
> for a radio - Hermes/Ruby or Prism based? WEP?
>
> Reason I ask is that I have several (a mix actually) Ubicom based Karlnet
> clients running, and have had them running for some time now, and none of
> them exhibit the packet loss bug that seems so prevalent and serious of
> late. But, none of them are real KN-50's, and all have Prism radios in
> them, and all are running 128 bit WEP, with Hermes radios in the base
> station.
>
> So, my question is does this bug appear with Prism radios in teh KN-50's
> too? Does the current KN-50 software load support the use of Prism based
> radios if I were to swap the Hermes/Ruby radios out for Prism based ones?
> Does WEP seem to compound the bug any (more)?
>
> Just having a bit of trouble finding out exactly under what conditions or
> hardware configurations this issue appears, and trying to find a
> workaround before deploying any more Karlnet hardware - or not deploying
> it at all.
>
>
> Brad
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