biggest thing to change is how you cable, grounding and shielding is extremely important for reliable operation. we use Shireen Ethernet cable http://shop.bizsyscon.com/outdoor-shielded-cat5e-ftp-cable-24-awg-wire-with-drain-wire-dc-1021.html for shielded cable, its not to expensive and we’ve had a great experience with it. been through at least 50 boxes without trouble. use shielded connectors (we use the UBNT brand) they work well and its a mechanical ground termination. next, Ethernet surge protectors are always good. cambiums 600SSB is good for 100 meg Ethernet, don’t use it for gigabit especially if your sending POE down the gigabit line, bad things can happen. we use tycon in our cabinets. you can do an RMA, but technically that’s not covered under warranty (wasn’t installed occurring to the manual) the little extra money and time it takes upfront will go a very long way to reduce the amount of time you spend dealing with ethernet problems durring the storm season, we’ve got thousands of radios deployed, its rare we see ethernet trouble anymore, years ago we didn’t use shielded cable, and those customers are almost always the units getting hit (our old pmp100 subs) and we replace the cable while we are there.
Thank a lot Chris for your time and valuable suggestion.
Its really helpful for me as well as other user too. We are really struggling with ethernet issue in rainy season. Can you provide any complete diagram plan or anything by which I can get a clear idea what procedure should take for Top- bottom(Tower-device-PC) side to minimize ethernet/ port burn (most cases) issue. Specially tower side for lighting issue with min costing.
As 1000 series has built in surge protector, do i need for 600SSB? If so why?