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andymcknight   06-26-2006 at 12:32:23 PM

Hi Guys,

I'm using two WAP54GPE boxes to run a wireless bridge between two sites a street apart (150 yards or so). The bridge is up and running.

I'm having an intermittent problem with the connection though. If I run a ping test through the bridge I constantly get replies of 1/2ms - the connection is next to perfect. However, every now and then (seems to be a few days apart) the connection will slow up. Running a ping test gives the same 1/2ms result but after around 100 pings or so the reply times drop to between 3000 and 6000ms for approx 20 pings then pick up at 1/2ms again. This happens every 100 pings or so until both boxes are rebooted. The bridge then comes up fine.

This doesn't appear to be an interference problem as I can't see a reboot fixing that. It seems to be something in the bridge. Maybe some sort of memory fault?

Anyone seen anything similar before or have any ideas what could be done to resolve this?

Thanks,

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blue68f100   06-26-2006 at 10:40:12 PM
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I've seen some routers and AP need to have all loging turned off, execpt errors. This will clear/release some ram. More than likely it is a firmware problem.

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andymcknight   06-27-2006 at 11:33:10 AM
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Thanks for the suggestion. I've stripped down the logging this morning so hopefully that'll make a difference.

I'm running firmware version 1.24, there's a 1.28 available. I'll apply that in a couple of days to give me some time to check if changing the logging has helped.

Thanks again,

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andymcknight   06-28-2006 at 02:55:17 PM
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I've stripped down the logging this morning so hopefully that'll make a difference.


For the record, it didn't. I'll apply the firmware update and see if that makes a difference.

It's a strange problem though. When I checked the link this morning it was dropping packets (approx 15%) and going through spurts of replies taking 3000-6000ms. I rebooted one end of the bridge (the end I'm on) and the packets all started flowing at 1/2ms but I was still losing ~15% packets. Rebooting the other end of the bridge fixed that problem.

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blue68f100   06-28-2006 at 03:05:00 PM
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It seams to be an on going problem with residential AP used in bridge mode. Since very few people using the function and it's still buggie.

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