Re: Ubiquiti Titanium Bullet and Wilson Sleek 4G Reply #25 – January 09, 2014, 09:38:20 am Quote from: TheBrays – January 09, 2014, 08:58:37 amA re-flash to a different version of the OS??It came back (on its own) but it's gone again right now. I managed to get the "tools" working remotely while it was back and I was kinda hoping it had fixed itself. I have been reading the forum and noticed that entire production runs on some products have issues; I was hoping the Titanium Bullet had been out long enough to not have those. I'll have to check on the OS version and do an upgrade.At least it's not completely dead like some users have reported in the past. They mount them on towers and 2 days later they have to send a crew back up the tower to replace it.I'm happy with it as long as it is working. Thanks for the links. Craig Quote Selected
Re: Ubiquiti Titanium Bullet and Wilson Sleek 4G Reply #26 – January 09, 2014, 10:04:06 am Quote from: TheBrays – January 09, 2014, 08:58:37 am(an aside: look at Introducing the Intel® Galileo Development Board)hthThis looks like an interesting IO platform. I like the 3.3v or 5v ability. Not a lot of software "sketches" out for it yet, though. I'm a little wary of 3.3v devices in an RV since there isn't a lot of leeway if there are transients on the power bus. Years ago we went to CMOS discreet components on a ship (the Hughes Glomar Explorer, actually) because we wanted more protection from transients. Of course, not much difference between 3.3 and 5 so *shrug*.So much stuff.. Craig Quote Selected
Re: Ubiquiti Titanium Bullet and Wilson Sleek 4G Reply #27 – January 09, 2014, 10:58:23 am You don't happen to remember Art Trunzo from that time, do you? I met and worked with him at Airpac in San Diego. He did a lot of the electrical engineering on the Glomar.EMCM(SW) ret Quote Selected
Re: Ubiquiti Titanium Bullet and Wilson Sleek 4G Reply #28 – January 09, 2014, 11:26:05 am Quote from: Dave Head – January 09, 2014, 10:58:23 amYou don't happen to remember Art Trunzo from that time, do you? I met and worked with him at Airpac in San Diego. He did a lot of the electrical engineering on the Glomar.EMCM(SW) retDoesn't ring a bell. Lots of guys came and went on that project and most of them had no idea of the scope. I was an engineer for the company that built the heavy lifting yokes and associated control system. It was certainly an interesting job. Craig Quote Selected
Re: Ubiquiti Titanium Bullet and Wilson Sleek 4G Reply #29 – January 09, 2014, 11:27:28 am The Bullet is working again; I am beginning to suspect that it's temperature sensitive.Craig Quote Selected
Re: Ubiquiti Titanium Bullet and Wilson Sleek 4G Reply #30 – January 09, 2014, 11:46:05 am Could it be a moisture issue? I noticed this on the Q&A: " Many users have complained that the weather proofing is not sufficient for a long and durable life." Quote Selected
Re: Ubiquiti Titanium Bullet and Wilson Sleek 4G Reply #31 – January 09, 2014, 11:50:08 am Quote from: PatC – January 09, 2014, 11:46:05 amCould it be a moisture issue?It's possible... we had fog at 25F this morning and right now the sun is shining right on the Bullet. However it's well sealed up. If it were moisture I'd expect it to take longer to come back to life; but this morning as soon as the sun hit it we were back in business.Craig Quote Selected
Re: Ubiquiti Titanium Bullet and Wilson Sleek 4G Reply #32 – January 09, 2014, 12:10:41 pm I'm using the Wilson Sleek 815225 with my Motorola Droid X2. Using the optional 12.25 inches, Magnet-Mount Stainless Steel antenna. Does offer quite a gain signal strength. Quote Selected
Re: Ubiquiti Titanium Bullet and Wilson Sleek 4G Reply #33 – January 09, 2014, 12:23:41 pm I have the same thing but bought the "trucker" antenna. It won't mount on the mirrors but I put it at the back of the motor home on the railing that goes around the rear of the rooftop (about 24 inches from the Titanium Bullet). I routed the wiring down the ladder and through the rear radiator grill into the coach and keep the cradle on the bedside counter top. I'm going to wire up a power source that is closer and use my Bluetooth earpiece for phone calls. Since we will be using the cardle mostly for Internet tethering I don't think it's going to be an problem.Have not tested the trucker antenna over the stubby but other reports indicate that it is a LOT better. Craig Quote Selected
Re: Ubiquiti Titanium Bullet and Wilson Sleek 4G Reply #34 – January 09, 2014, 12:24:42 pm @Craig You might try moving the Bullet to inside the coach. You'll lose a few db but it will at least tell you if it's temperature related. I use my Bullet2 inside the coach going on 2 years now. I was thinking of upgrading to the Titanium on your recommendation. Thanks for posting and letting us know of a possible issue. Keep us posted.see yaken Quote Selected
Re: Ubiquiti Titanium Bullet and Wilson Sleek 4G Reply #35 – January 10, 2014, 09:06:53 pm Quote from: wa_desert_rat – January 09, 2014, 12:23:41 pmHave not tested the trucker antenna over the stubby but other reports indicate that it is a LOT better. CraigHere is a 9db antenna for the 'stubby'.I spent a winter in Wilmington, NC with this rigReally works. Here are plans. I'm sitting here in my office looking at two of them.Ez-12Of course, just sitting here on a soda straw doesn't bring in much. Quote Selected
Re: Ubiquiti Titanium Bullet and Wilson Sleek 4G Reply #36 – January 26, 2014, 02:49:40 pm I figure I'll post my notes on this subject. I achieved a similar result utilizing the TP-Link TL-WA5210G (I think). It is an outdoor access point with an integrated 12dbi panel antenna. It is connected via a single long ethernet cable and power is injected into the cable using a power injector at the other end indoors. The indoor end also has our standard household wifi router. The cable can be very very long and ours is. We used a piece of metal electrical conduit that I mounted to the ladder to mount the access point. Generally the higher it is, the better it works. The 5210 is the same hardware as the Ubiquiti Nano or maybe nano 2. If I had to do it all over again, I would definitely get the Ubiquiti over the TPLink. For the most part it works and I can typically get wifi in any part of an rv park IF the rv park intends for access to cover much of the park. Many parks provide wifi only in the office and that is more touch and go. If the area doesn't have a lot of permanent residents and not a lot of wifi interference you can go pretty far. I've gotten good signal as far as the width of about 20-30 rv sites pointing at the office. Maybe 1/4 mile. This requires line of sight and if a car drives in front of the access point the connection drops. This is why it's always better if they mount a big antenna outsite. You can get a much more reliable connection from distances close to a mile or more. One time in Indiana I connected to a wireless isp with an antenna on a grain elevator that was around 6 miles away.When you do this, make sure your RV wifi network uses a very different channel than the long distance connection to the rv park wifi. Otherwise your wifi will interfere and you will get vastly reduced speeds. So if their network is 1 use 6 or 11 and vice versa. The channel changes automatically so you may have to go in and adjust your channel now and again.Also make sure you set the distance setting in the wifi settings and you can also do a much more reliable connection if you reduce the bandwidth. 802.11b instead of g and make sure your channel width is 20mhz or less if you can set it. I've wasted a lot of time on this stuff Recently we had a marginal connection so I tried to do better. I bought the *enormous* tp-link TL-ANT2424 parabolic grid antenna, a low loss cable from AIR802 via amazon and a good 27db router. The resulting signal was a whopping 2db higher so the panel antenna wiht integrated access point (which is quite small) is the way to go. When I went to return everything AIR802 apparently had a tiny line buried in their return policy that cables are "custom" and not returnable. (It's so custom but it has an amazon sku?) I'm still miffed about that. Either their cable or the antenna didn't work as advertised and there are other cables from other vendors that allow returns and if I realized that I wouldn't have given them my business. That's the last time I buy from amazon and it's not amazon.com itself sending you the product. I eventually figured out that they have a busted router which caused all the issues. Since we are staying a while we just got cable internet. Nice, fast and reliable.We also had the Millenicom verizon hotspot while we were moving often. That worked awesome everywhere we went. We never needed a wilson sleek 4g because we never ventured outside of the listed coverage area on the map. It was really fast, often faster than rv park wifi even with the big outdoor antenna we have. The 20GB monthly limit is a bummer though. Quote Selected
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