WRAP V2 vs V3

[Magician]

I have yet to convert my wraps to v3. I have one tower giving me troubles. It have 4793 on it with duel cm9's. One at 5 for backhaul and the other for 2.4 access. I currently have 26 clients on it. The problem I am seeing is that one client have 92% on his side and the wrap shows 79/19. Every 4-6 hours he will be a 30-45 minute spot that drops 12-30% pings to the tower? I have logged into his radio and the signal qualtiy still shows the same. I have switch radios / antenna / pigtail at his house and even brands of cpe. He has clear los and is on 1.2 miles to the tower. I also have rotated my channels from 1/6/11/9/4 during the problem spots with no changes? Could upgrading to V3 with its Atheros updates be any help?

What do you all think?

Ps . I at one point thought the wrap was under a heavy load, so from my office I opened ping's to both the 5 and 2.4 radios and had no loss while the customer was dropping packets?

[lonnie]

It sounds like he has local interference. Have you ever put in one of our units set to Client mode as a replacement?

V3 is a better driver and kernel so it will not hurt you, as long as you do not require WPA.

[Magician]

Ok, I will try wrap.. Although I did a site survey an only see channels 6/11 used and client lives in county with no neighbors and he doesnt use wireless router / phones in his house.

[rafamous]

I have a problem with interference with one of my backhaul links. Great signal on both ends but every now and then it goes to the dogs and I have to change the channel and it's fine for awhile.

It is running on Soekris at this time but am wondering if a switch to the WAR or Wrap board will help because of the cloaking.

Does cloaking help with interference in situations like this?

[lonnie]

It is worth a try. If it does not change anything you can always deploy the older unit somewhere else.

[rafamous]

Cool. Thanks.

[rafamous]

I have a question about V3. Have you had any time to work on the "not handing dhcp to cheap router (Linksys, netgear....)" challenge. I know it's not a very important challenge and there's easy work arounds. Just asking to know what I need to do on this end when I put V3 in place.

[lonnie]

There has been no time and I doubt we'll have time for quite a while. You better do the work around.

[Magician]

I upgraded to v3 a few hours ago. On the backhaul link of 10 miles at 5805 it went from -62 it is now a -57... way to go Lonnie!!! Also the 2.4 seems to be working well.. Time will tell. Also I need to upgrade the other end of ther 5ghz link. I have not had any speed problems with this link but should I still enable cloaking? Also should I run turbo mode? I currently can get 1800-2000K via this link.. Way to go guys it has impressed me.

[lonnie]

I do not advise Turbo mode for outdoors. It takes two channels so it creates a lot of interference, which is only half of the equation. It also requires 2 clear channels to work and that makes it pretty difficult to achieve. Even if you get it going you cannot ever count on always having two clear channels, so in future you could have your system start to get interfered with.

Glad you like V3. It is a big step forward from V2 in terms of the driver and kernel.

[Magician]

Now I can upgrade all my wraps to v3. On a side note ... the client that had the packet loss has been pinging the gateway for the last 12 hours and hasnt dropped a single ping!! This may be the luck of the draw time will tell but i am very impressed. Now upgrade wraps and one by one .

[therealboss]

Just wanted to let you know that I now have 2 WRAP 2E's running V3, 5.8 to 5.8 backhaul link. 20 Miles, 20+ link both ends, been running well for the past 12 hours. I know its early days yet but it looks rock solid and at last no packet loss, unlike this link had with V2.

Just have to switch from rip to mesh now and I will have all I need, well done on the super software.

:)

[lonnie]

I know it was a long time coming but that was a total rewrite with a few false paths followed. It is back on track now and we'll see some forward progress. The rewrite fixed a lot of issues and gives us a new base to start building from. Things are way more organized and modular. The previous system was great in the beginning but as time went and we added things it started to get real difficult to do anything without hurting something else.

We feel this new driver is the best yet and we are very pleased with it. I'm sure you are finding better performance and we know from the WAR boards (which use the same driver) it is stable.

Anyway, thanks for the feedback and I'm glad it is working well for you.

[rafamous]

Yesterday I upgraded a v2 to a v3 on a backhaul. Without a doubt I have gained at least 10 points in my signal strength and quality went from sometimes as low as 8 to 90-100. Now I'm going to upgrade all my others. I don't know why I waited to do the upgrade, should have done it sooner.

Thanks again StarOS Team.

Keep up the excellent work.