5.7 Backhaul, keeps droping for 4-5secs at a time? Help...

Hi have a 5700 20mb Backhaul… All appears to work fine,
but every 2 mins or so the link drops for 4-5 seconds and then
restarts all by iteself.

I really need so stop this quickly… Does anyone have experience of
this type of problem. There is nothing in the logs of either end. Here are some of the details of the link.


LUID: 002 : MAC: 0a-00-3e-f1-76-f9 State: IN SESSION (Encrypt Disabled)
Site Name : SPR01-BH1s
Software Version : CANOPY 7.1.4 Apr 26 2005 11:07:45
Software Boot Version : CANOPYBOOT 3.0
FPGA Version : 020205 (DES) P9
Session Timeout: 14, AirDelay 116
Session Count: 24, Reg Count 30, Re-Reg Count 9
RSSI (Avg/Last): 858/872 Jitter (Avg/Last): 10/8 Power Level (Avg/Last): -70/-69


Current entry index: 0

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Index: 0 Frequency: 5790.0 MHz ESN: 0a-00-3e-f1-74-55
Jitter: 3 RSSI: 1025 Power Level: -59 Beacon Count: 35 BRcvW: 0
Type: SinglePoint Avail: 1 Age: 0 Lockout: 0 RegFail 12 Range: 5684 feet TxBER: 0 EBcast: 0
Session Count: 23 NoLUIDS: 0 OutOfRange: 0 AuthFail: 0 EncryptFail: 0 Rescan Req: 1
FrameNumber: 1852 Color Code: 51 BeaconVersion: 1 SectorUserCount: N/A
PercentDataDwn: 50 PercentDataUpHi: 0 NumDAckSlots: 1 NumContSlots: 1 NumUAckSlots: 1

You can very likely stabilize the link by dropping the BHs down to 10Mbps.

Do the Session Count, Reg Count, and Re-Reg Count increment each time the link drops and reconnects? The master shows received Power Level and Jitter that’s significantly worse than what the slave shows. You could run the Spectrum Analyzer at each end to compare the interference levels and maybe switch to a differnent frequency.

Thanks Teknix,

I had the same thought and dropped the rate to 10, I also
went through ever frequency and tested it, here is the new results,
but the problem persists.

Index: 3 Frequency: 5815.0 MHz ESN: 0a-00-3e-f1-74-55
Jitter: 4 RSSI: 864 Power Level: -68 Beacon Count: 31 BRcvW: 0
Type: SinglePoint Avail: 1 Age: 0 Lockout: 0 RegFail 34 Range: 5684 feet TxBER: 0 EBcast: 0
Session Count: 42 NoLUIDS: 0 OutOfRange: 0 AuthFail: 0 EncryptFail: 0 Rescan Req: 1
FrameNumber: 2039 Color Code: 51 BeaconVersion: 1 SectorUserCount: N/A
PercentDataDwn: 50 PercentDataUpHi: 0 NumDAckSlots: 1 NumContSlots: 1 NumUAckSlots: 1

LUID: 002 : MAC: 0a-00-3e-f1-76-f9 State: IN SESSION (Encrypt Disabled)
Site Name : SPR01-BH1s
Software Version : CANOPY 6.1 Dec 08 2004 09:22:02
Software Boot Version : CANOPYBOOT 3.0
FPGA Version : 111504 (DES)
Session Timeout: 11, AirDelay 116
Session Count: 47, Reg Count 84, Re-Reg Count 26
RSSI (Avg/Last): 1097/1092 Jitter (Avg/Last): 4/1 Power Level (Avg/Last): -60/-60LUID: 002 : MAC: 0a-00-3e-f1-76-f9 State: IN SESSION (Encrypt Disabled)
Site Name : SPR01-BH1s
Software Version : CANOPY 6.1 Dec 08 2004 09:22:02
Software Boot Version : CANOPYBOOT 3.0
FPGA Version : 111504 (DES)
Session Timeout: 11, AirDelay 116
Session Count: 47, Reg Count 84, Re-Reg Count 26
RSSI (Avg/Last): 1097/1092 Jitter (Avg/Last): 4/1 Power Level (Avg/Last): -60/-60



It does appear that the Reg count and Re-Reg are incrementing.

Any ideas?

Mark Anderson

I see references to both v6 and v7 software in your listings. Try upgrading or downgrading both units to the same software, boot, and FPGA versions.