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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Today Kenny and I made a trip up to Buck Mountain for some improvements. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The primary two focus items were to re-purpose the former Buck to Gold PtP dish from Gold to Camp Murray. The second RF item was to raise S2 a bit on the structure to improve signal path.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Some additional signal path maintenance was done.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Even before arriving onsite, the Buck-CampMurray path was close enough to the Buck-Gold and Gold-CampMurray paths to get the Buck-CampMurray path “talking” with OSPF active at a measly 6.5Mbps. After peaking the dish, that speed went up to 28.8Mbps. After the other maintenance and some time to train the signal and settle out, the Buck-CampMurray link runs between -68 and -72, with a speed of 78-86Mbps. This is without signal-peaking the Camp Murray end. Both ends of that link are running RouterOS 7, and the Camp Murray end is running a 912 instead of a 921 (for you hardware geeks).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>There is still room for improvement at the Camp Murray end, but in truth we appear to be in a pretty good spot even if we can’t get to it for a while!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This now gives the Buck Mountain site two pretty equal link paths to Camp Murray and Capital Park. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If you have a client that attaches to S2.Buck, check your connection and let us know how it’s going. We know that one client needed a restart before reconnecting.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Traffic was UGLY coming back, but a good day’s results nevertheless.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks Kenny for putting together the time, site access, climbing, etc.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Rob Salsgiver – NR3O<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>