Wireless is Sleeping 1

[WirelessMonkey]

Hi All,

I’m currently having a problem with my redundant wireless network, it seems to go to sleep when it is inactive but when you try and access an intranet page or remotely connect to the server it hangs. You have to ping the desired network device on the other side of the wireless network, it "times out" a couple of times and then responds and all is well, but as soon as the network is inactive for a while it happens again!

The configuration at present is:

2 x HP Procurve 2524 switches (Manageable) at each location with spanning tree enabled. 1 At one building, and another 2 Kilometers away.

2 x 26Dbi grid antennae’s
4 x Senao SL3054CB3+ Access Points/Bridge/repeater
Connection strength for all Bridges are +80%

The 4 Senao's are in bridge mode (point-to-point), I’ve done this so that I can force a loop with the switches (with aid of spanning tree protocol) and thus create a redundant loop (if one link fails the other takes over).

Maybe I have to increase my TTL settings or a last resort would be creating an application that constantly pings the access points, switches and servers!

It seems that the bridges or the switches go to sleep when they are inactive, I’ve looked at the settings for both the switches and bridges and there isn’t a setting to turn of power saving mode or something to that effect!

Regards


Paul

 

[WirelessMonkey]

I've solved the problem! so if any of you encounter this problem then let me know & ill post the solution. (quite simple but frustrating)

WirelessMonkey

 

[vivim]

Hi WirelessMonkey,
I´m definitely interested in your solution !!
Right now, I´m not sure if it´s either the router or just my side which keeps dropping the connection. As a workaround I was thinking of writing a stupid ping to the gateway batched every 5 minutes for example (to keep the connection alive), but there should be a cleaner way, right ?
Thx a lot in advance,

Vivim

 

[RussellMcL]

I'd be interested to learn why this happened? Was your internet conenction on demand or nailed?

 

[pablolara]

WirelessMonkey, Can you please tell me what you did to fix your problem

 

[WirelessMonkey]

Hi all,

After many hours of reconfiguring the Access Points and reviewing my settings! I discovered that out of my four AP's one had a different firmware version to that of the others!! YES... feel the frustration! I don’t know the finer details to why it was going to sleep, I can just speculate!

Hope this helps