<p dir="ltr">That's great! It also confirms the software I wrote to let me know when new people connect is working. I got an email at about 6:30.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Tom </p>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 25, 2016 19:31, "Eric Wolak" <<a href="mailto:ag6ie@wolak.net">ag6ie@wolak.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thanks, Tom! A bit of wiggling and a better spot and I got up to -80 dBm<br>
and connected flawlessly.<br>
<br>
On Mon, Nov 7, 2016, at 09:31 PM, Tom Hayward wrote:<br>
> Your signal just isn't strong enough to connect. The sensitivity<br>
> threshold on that receiver is specified at -95 dBm, but the -87 dBm<br>
> you're seeing is about the weakest I've ever seen anyone able to<br>
> connect. A usable signal would be above -80 dBm and a good signal<br>
> would be -70 dBm and above. It would be great if you could come up<br>
> with an additional 17 dB, either through improved aiming, mounting<br>
> location, or a higher gain antenna.<br>
><br>
> Tom KD7LXL<br>
><br>
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 8:36 PM, Eric Wolak <<a href="mailto:ag6ie@wolak.net">ag6ie@wolak.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> > Howdy,<br>
> ><br>
> > I'm new to the area and excited to get involved in PSDR. I got myself a<br>
> > MikroTik SXT 5nD r2 and I have good line of sight to the CapitolPark<br>
> > cell. After working my way through the Client Node Configuration<br>
> > instructions, I can see the AP with an SNR of 38 dB, but I'm unable to<br>
> > connect.<br>
> ><br>
> > [admin@AG6IE-CapitolPark] > /interface wireless scan 0<br>
> > ADDRESS SSID CHANNEL<br>
> > SIG NF SNR RADIO-NAME<br>
> > ROUTEROS-VERSION<br>
> > A RT B D4:CA:6D:30:75:89 HamWAN 5920/5/an<br>
> > -87 -125 38 CapitolPark-S1/K7WAN<br>
> ><br>
> > [admin@AG6IE-CapitolPark] > /log print<br>
> > ...<br>
> > 00:50:58 wireless,info D4:CA:6D:30:75:89@wlan1: failed to connect, on<br>
> > 5920000, registration timeout<br>
> ><br>
> > [admin@AG6IE-CapitolPark] > /interface wireless print<br>
> > Flags: X - disabled, R - running<br>
> > 0 name="wlan1" mtu=1500 l2mtu=1600 mac-address=4C:5E:0C:5B:A6:FB<br>
> > arp=enabled interface-type=Atheros AR9300 mode=station-bridge<br>
> > ssid="HamWAN" frequency=5920<br>
> > band=5ghz-onlyn channel-width=5mhz scan-list=HamWAN<br>
> > wireless-protocol=nv2 vlan-mode=no-tag vlan-id=1 wds-mode=disabled<br>
> > wds-default-bridge=none<br>
> > wds-ignore-ssid=no bridge-mode=enabled default-authentication=yes<br>
> > default-forwarding=yes default-ap-tx-limit=0<br>
> > default-client-tx-limit=0 hide-ssid=no<br>
> > security-profile=default compression=no<br>
> ><br>
> > Did I miss some setup step? Do I need to get my MAC address whitelisted<br>
> > or something?<br>
> ><br>
> > I wiped the settings and started over, and now I'm getting a different<br>
> > failure:<br>
> ><br>
> > [admin@AG6IE-CapitolPark] /interface wireless> scan 0<br>
> > failure: other tool running<br>
> ><br>
> > I rebooted, and then tried to use the WebFig interface to scan and<br>
> > connect. Again I saw the network, but the connection never succeeded.<br>
> > Got this in the log:<br>
> ><br>
> > 00:22:35 wireless,info D4:CA:6D:30:75:89@wlan1: failed to connect, on<br>
> > 5920000, registration timeout<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > -Eric AG6IE<br>
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