On 2014-08-08 22:22, Dean Gibson AE7Q
wrote:
On 2014-08-08 16:48, Tom Hayward wrote:
Can you check that your scan-list is set
to "HamWAN" (so it's actually using the channel list)?
/interface wireless set [find] scan-list=HamWAN
Tom KD7LXL
Ack, that was the problem. I had set it up that way a week ago,
but due to the marginal conditions, I subsequently had specified
the specific channel (as suggested by Bart early on). I'm back to
using the entire list.
I take it that once the conversion is complete, I can remove the
three channels with the 15MHz spacing?
An FYI:
It turns out that you can specify multiple scan-lists (and/or
channel names) in the "/interface wireless set wlan1-gateway
scan-list=..." command (but apparently not in the individual channel
declarations). So, here's what I use:
/interface wireless
channels remove [find]
channels add band=5ghz-onlyn width=5 frequency=5920
list=HamWAN-360-all name=HamWAN-360-old comment="Sector
1/360 (300-060)"
channels add band=5ghz-onlyn width=5 frequency=5905
list=HamWAN-120-all name=HamWAN-120-old comment="Sector
2/120 (060-180)"
channels add band=5ghz-onlyn width=5 frequency=5890
list=HamWAN-240-all name=HamWAN-240-old comment="Sector
3/240 (180-300)"
channels add band=5ghz-onlyn width=5 frequency=5920
list=HamWAN-360-all name=HamWAN-360-5MHz comment="Sector
1/360 (300-060)"
channels add band=5ghz-onlyn width=5 frequency=5900
list=HamWAN-120-all name=HamWAN-120-5MHz comment="Sector
2/120 (060-180)"
channels add band=5ghz-onlyn width=5 frequency=5880
list=HamWAN-240-all name=HamWAN-240-5MHz comment="Sector
3/240 (180-300)"
channels add band=5ghz-onlyn width=10 frequency=5920
list=HamWAN-360-all name=HamWAN-360-10MHz comment="Sector
1/360 (300-060)"
channels add band=5ghz-onlyn width=10 frequency=5900
list=HamWAN-120-all name=HamWAN-120-10MHz comment="Sector
2/120 (060-180)"
channels add band=5ghz-onlyn width=10 frequency=5880
list=HamWAN-240-all name=HamWAN-240-10MHz comment="Sector
3/240 (180-300)"
set wlan1-gateway band=5ghz-onlyn wireless-protocol=nv2
frequency-mode=superchannel ssid=HamWAN
radio-name="AE7Q/MillCreek-Paine"
To scan everything:
/interface wireless set wlan1-gateway
scan-list=HamWAN-120-all,HamWAN-240-all,HamWAN-360-all
To scan just my sector:
/interface wireless set wlan1-gateway
scan-list=HamWAN-120-all
To scan just one channel:
/interface wireless set wlan1-gateway
scan-list=HamWAN-120-5MHz
Note that there is a potential "gotcha" in the naming scheme: If,
instead of using "HamWAN-120-all" as a list name, I used just
"HamWAN-120" in the relevant places, I get an (unhelpful) error
message from the "/interface wireless set wlan1-gateway
scan-list=..."command. Apparently a list name cannot be a substring
of a channel name (probably an incorrect use of the "strncmp"
function).
I'm doing this because I have a marginal connection, and once it is
lost, it takes some time to scan all the channels for a signal.