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Entries for December, 2010

Ubiquiti AirOs v5.3-Beta Xmas

v5.3-Beta Xmas Change log: – AirMax: Voice quality issues in PtMP network – Fix: Turkey regulatory domain update for 5GHz – Fix: Throughput slowdown for 2.4 GHz Station when to the same AP is connected at least one AP-WDS peer – Fix: MAC changing doesn’t work in AP (router/SOHO router) mode – Fix: In SOHO [...]

Netriplex Saga Continues.

Update 4 Dear Netriplex Customer, Here is an additional update for Monday, December 20th. Maintenance this past weekend completed successfully. Network engineers were able to upgrade all of our Cisco routers to the latest IOS and everything appears to be functioning normally now some 36 hours later. However, 5 AM came quickly and the team [...]

Netriplex Outage *Update* 12/16/2010

Here is a copy of another E-mail I received from Netriplex with an explanation as to what happen to bring down their entire network. Dear Netriplex Customer, Here is an additional update as of 12:45 AM Eastern on Thursday, December 16th.  Our Sr. network engineers continue to comb through log files and configurations while working with Cisco TAC in [...]

Netriplex Outage 12/15/2010

Sorry everyone for the massive outage that occured due to our upstream provider having an outage. Everything should be back up to near 100% Here is a copy of the email I have received from them. Dear Customer, As you are aware, we experienced a major network issue this afternoon that started at around 15:45 Eastern with [...]

Ubiquiti AirOS 5.3-Beta5

v5.3-Beta5 Change log: – Double Auth/Assoc using WPA/WPA2 security when connecting to the AP – WPA/WPA2 EAP-TTLS improvements – AutoACK miscalculation, when connected to legacy devices operating in HT5/HT10 channel width – Sometimes devices behind STA-WDS are not reachable from AP-WDS LAN side – Auto IP aliasing doesn’t set IP address if DHCP client is [...]

How does Ubiquiti AirSync work?

1) How does Airsync protocol work ?’ The airsync protocol requires Layer-2 connectivity between the participating APs. In each sync-cluster: one of the APs is designated as the Master and the others as the slave. A L2 bridged network can have as many sync-clusters as desired. The Master and the slaves exchange synchronization information over [...]