[HamWAN PSDR] Getting online

[Tom Hayward]

Your signal just isn't strong enough to connect. The sensitivity
threshold on that receiver is specified at -95 dBm, but the -87 dBm
you're seeing is about the weakest I've ever seen anyone able to
connect. A usable signal would be above -80 dBm and a good signal
would be -70 dBm and above. It would be great if you could come up
with an additional 17 dB, either through improved aiming, mounting
location, or a higher gain antenna.

Tom KD7LXL

On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 8:36 PM, Eric Wolak <ag6ie at wolak.net> wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I'm new to the area and excited to get involved in PSDR. I got myself a
> MikroTik SXT 5nD r2 and I have good line of sight to the CapitolPark
> cell. After working my way through the Client Node Configuration
> instructions, I can see the AP with an SNR of 38 dB, but I'm unable to
> connect.
>
> [admin at AG6IE-CapitolPark] > /interface wireless scan 0
>        ADDRESS           SSID                        CHANNEL
>                 SIG   NF SNR RADIO-NAME
>        ROUTEROS-VERSION
> A RT B D4:CA:6D:30:75:89 HamWAN                      5920/5/an
>          -87 -125  38 CapitolPark-S1/K7WAN
>
> [admin at AG6IE-CapitolPark] > /log print
> ...
> 00:50:58 wireless,info D4:CA:6D:30:75:89 at wlan1: failed to connect, on
> 5920000, registration timeout
>
> [admin at AG6IE-CapitolPark] > /interface wireless print
> Flags: X - disabled, R - running
>  0    name="wlan1" mtu=1500 l2mtu=1600 mac-address=4C:5E:0C:5B:A6:FB
>  arp=enabled interface-type=Atheros AR9300 mode=station-bridge
>  ssid="HamWAN" frequency=5920
>       band=5ghz-onlyn channel-width=5mhz scan-list=HamWAN
>       wireless-protocol=nv2 vlan-mode=no-tag vlan-id=1 wds-mode=disabled
>       wds-default-bridge=none
>       wds-ignore-ssid=no bridge-mode=enabled default-authentication=yes
>       default-forwarding=yes default-ap-tx-limit=0
>       default-client-tx-limit=0 hide-ssid=no
>       security-profile=default compression=no
>
> Did I miss some setup step? Do I need to get my MAC address whitelisted
> or something?
>
> I wiped the settings and started over, and now I'm getting a different
> failure:
>
> [admin at AG6IE-CapitolPark] /interface wireless> scan 0
> failure: other tool running
>
> I rebooted, and then tried to use the WebFig interface to scan and
> connect. Again I saw the network, but the connection never succeeded.
> Got this in the log:
>
> 00:22:35 wireless,info D4:CA:6D:30:75:89 at wlan1: failed to connect, on
> 5920000, registration timeout
>
>
> -Eric AG6IE
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