complete_phreak

not to be confused with stone!

Refilling is cheap and dirty work. We use U Refill http://www.refilltoner.com Some carts need a chip which they supply. Thats when it starts to feel like hard work. Work brill with OKI 7300 tho as drums are separate items to toner and no waste toner collection issue.

OooooO Nice! Like the look of USBDLM. How well does it work?

Configured them using the Quick Wizard in the Web GUI. Then went back and edited a few thing manually again in the GUI. @ctbjs: when you say do you mean documentation and manuals. Any links would be appreciated. :-)

Pandion Jabber Client any better?

11a has a poorer range but more available channels

The problems i am experiening in more detail are Network Dropouts (lose connectivity momentarally) Very Poor Range (less than 5 metres in same classroom, no barriers) Not Great throughput (though I need to test this more methodically) one or two crashes of the AP's The 2 AP's are connected to the network outlet via a cheap netgear hub (the type built into Lapsafe's) which seems to play up in strange ways. For example the activity led is still lit untill a different port of the 4 port hub is used. [/list:o] Config: 2x Cisco AIR-AP1232AG-E-K9 One 2.5 Ghz (11g) Antenna (there is a connector for a second "diversity" antenna) Built in 5GHz (11a) Antenna (no external Antenna fitted) 802.11a and 802.11b enabled on same SSID Channels are assigned automatically to the least congested frequency WEP 128bit TKIP On the Laptops Toshiba A120's with integrated Intel 3945ABG wireless using Windows Wireless Zero Config Questions? Is it possible that the downtime is caused by clients switching from 11a to 11g and vice-versa? Is 11a really less susseptable to interference? Has anyone had any problems with setting channels automatically? Will the extra diversity Antenna make much difference? Is there any problems with running 20 clients from 2 identically configured AP's (apart from IP address or course). Will they load balence automatically? Is there much mileage in reducing the encryption from TKIP to WEP?

had some luck with the IOS command "show interfaces stats" and "show interface dot11radio 0". Cacti and Nagios look ok for thruput monitoring but seem over complicated Will try Netgear NMS100 software. Was hoping there was something specifically designed for Cisco IOS or even cisco aironet kit.

Thanks all for the help. Will let you know how I get on!

Any News on Censornet? :?: Their site seems to have gone semi-dormant. Forum had been down for months now read-only awaiting new Forum:twisted: Are they keeping a low profile untill they work out a new business model. Can't find any new info.

Hi, We've recently forked out for 4x Cisco Aironet 1234 AG band access points. We had 2 sets of 20 laptops running from Orinocco Acces Points which were slow. 20 machines to two card AP. So throwing money at the problem we now have a 10:1 ratio (20 laptops 2 Cisco AP's on trolley) and we are having some speed,drop out and range problems. I thought the web interface would have some sort of throughput monitor. Is there a recommended method of monitoring traffic throughput etc? I know it must use some sort of (preferably free)SNMP monitor. Any suggestions? Cisco site not that easy to navigate.

Any more recent feedback from peeps about success/failure stories with MLNM?

We have similar problems. It seems to be worse if we redirect to a DFS share using a FQDN unc path. We would preferably like to use a DFS share for fallover resiliance. Any advice? I know this is slightly off topic but we do have some wierd DNS AD issues here too. Some clients assigned by DHCP are resolved to incorrect IP's.

We're having issue with their sh!tty support. Constanly enguaged don't answer email even though i get delivery receipts. Their instuctions are wrong (miss out "verify stage" for demo test.) The instuctions say we're supposed to get a username and password for the "administrator" program when we request a demo test (manually done by them). ARGH i though QCA was rubbish. At least this is simple to underastand and doesnt take weeks to get you're head around just. Is exact opposite to RM QCA in that way. Were one of the lucky schools who have decided to keep running the QCA tests this year!!!