Does GPS Sync rely on some central server?


@Forrest Christian wrote:

Forrest from PacketFlux here.

To shed some light onto the problem, and a workaround, but not the underlying cause:

It appears that something either in the firmware of the GPS receiver module, or something transmitted by the GPS constellation around 2PM Mountain Standard Time today caused the GPS receiver modules commonly used by Cambium, PacketFlux, and others in recent products to lock up and quit receiving GPS.   This seems to be at a minimum affecting certain ePMP radios, certain uGPS receivers (like often used with the CMM5), and certain PacketFlux GPS Receivers.  (These all share a similar or identical GPS module)

It appears that power cycling or otherwise causing the GPS receivers to be reset resolves the issue, at least for now.


I can confirm that rebooting all of our packetflux rackinjectors resolved our issues. Furthermore, all of our PMP AP's that had autosync - freerun enabled, and ePMP with long hold off timers had very few issues. I didn't even know we were having issues until I actually looked at the event logs.