[HamWAN PSDR] Getting online

[Eric Wolak]

Thanks, Tom! A bit of wiggling and a better spot and I got up to -80 dBm
and connected flawlessly.

On Mon, Nov 7, 2016, at 09:31 PM, Tom Hayward wrote:
> 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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