Thanks to help from Tom, Rob and Andrew rectifying issues both on my end and sector configuration I'm up and running. I have more questions of course. If there's a repository of simple FAQ's please forgive my asking these here and point me towards them if you please. 1. I have 4 of 5 LED's lit. Should I continue tweaking until I have all 5? 2. I didn't know how to stop /ping once I started it. Would it have eventually stopped on it's own or?I tried Q to now avail, finally just exited out. 3. I read something about POE voltages. Is that something I should be concerned with? Mine appears to be at 22.9. 4. I didn't understand the part about licensing from MikroTIK. As a client is this something I need to be concerned with? Any next steps? I'm going to try some Telnet Winlink next, I don't expect that to be any challenge at all. Many thanks again for all the help I've gotten from both the collective and individual members. Ric Merry. K7iTE. Mount Vernon WA
On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 8:21 AM Ric Merry <ricmerry@gmail.com> wrote: 1. I have 4 of 5 LED's lit. Should I continue tweaking until I have all 5?
Now that you are able to access the modem via Winbox, you can get a more fine grain visibility into the signal strength than the LED's provide. Whether you want to spend the time to further fine tune is a personal choice, I don't know if you'll ever get all five LED's, but they are not going to provide the best visibility into the signal strength.
2. I didn't know how to stop /ping once I started it. Would it have eventually stopped on it's own or?I tried Q to now avail, finally just exited out.
control-c
3. I read something about POE voltages. Is that something I should be concerned with? Mine appears to be at 22.9.
That sounds about right. I think the main concern is when the length of the CAT5 is out at the limits of PoE and the voltages drop off. Doesn't sound like that is anything you need to worry about.
4. I didn't understand the part about licensing from MikroTIK. As a client is this something I need to be concerned with?
Not sure what you are referencing. You purchased a license for the Mikrotik OS when you bought the modem.
Any next steps? I'm going to try some Telnet Winlink next, I don't expect that to be any challenge at all.
Be sure to stay on top of Mikrotik upgrades, there are important security fixes pushed out that are important to pick up. This isn't automatic like Windows. (At least not yet) thanks, Kenny
Ric, 1) The LEDs are a fairly crude measure of signal strength. You can fine-tune the alignment for maximum signal strength, as displayed by the The "signal-strength" field on the "/interface wireless monitor 0" display. I suspect a lot of folks would be pretty happy with 4 out of 5 LEDs lit. 2. Control-C will end the pings, and will also end other commands such as the monitor command above. Also, you can tell the router to only issue x number of pings with the command (From Winbox): /ping a.b.c.d count=5 (or whatever number) Also if you just want one "snapshot" of the state of the radio: /interface wireless monitor 0 once 3) 22.9 as measured at the radio is plenty. I believe that AWG 24 wire (such as in CAT5) has a resistance of about 1 ohm per 12 meters, so there should be a fairly predictable voltage drop, depending on the length of cat5 cable, and the current draw of the radio. 4) A client license comes with purchase of a Mikrotik Routerboard. Other devices may vary--such as a PC that requires a license purchase to run RouterOS. John KX7JM John C. Miller mailto:john@jmit.com (530)873-9005 ---- On Fri, 01 Nov 2019 08:20:56 -0700 Ric Merry <ricmerry@gmail.com> wrote ---- Thanks to help from Tom, Rob and Andrew rectifying issues both on my end and sector configuration I'm up and running. I have more questions of course. If there's a repository of simple FAQ's please forgive my asking these here and point me towards them if you please. 1. I have 4 of 5 LED's lit. Should I continue tweaking until I have all 5? 2. I didn't know how to stop /ping once I started it. Would it have eventually stopped on it's own or?I tried Q to now avail, finally just exited out. 3. I read something about POE voltages. Is that something I should be concerned with? Mine appears to be at 22.9. 4. I didn't understand the part about licensing from MikroTIK. As a client is this something I need to be concerned with? Any next steps? I'm going to try some Telnet Winlink next, I don't expect that to be any challenge at all. Many thanks again for all the help I've gotten from both the collective and individual members. Ric Merry. K7iTE. Mount Vernon WA _______________________________________________ PSDR mailing list mailto:PSDR@hamwan.org http://mail.hamwan.net/mailman/listinfo/psdr
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