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Wireless access point issues

  • 16-03-2018 01:45PM
    #1
    xabi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,028 ✭✭✭


    I installed a wireless access point using a power injector, I first connected it directly to a switch and configured it, all was good. I then mounted it, connected all the cables back, AP lit up but I couldn't see it nor was there a link light on the switch. I tested the cable and everything seems fine using a cable tester.

    Is it still possible that its a bad cable? Is there a distance issue maybe with power injectors? The cable length shouldn't be more than 10 meters.


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  • #2
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,095 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    Not sure if it would matter but were both patch?


  • #3
    axer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,518 ✭✭✭axer


    xabi wrote: »
    I installed a wireless access point using a power injector, I first connected it directly to a switch and configured it, all was good. I then mounted it, connected all the cables back, AP lit up but I couldn't see it nor was there a link light on the switch. I tested the cable and everything seems fine using a cable tester.

    Is it still possible that its a bad cable? Is there a distance issue maybe with power injectors? The cable length shouldn't be more than 10 meters.
    Bad cable. You receiving power on some wires but there is a dis on others. Cable test from the end that goes into the switch all the way to what goes in the AP.


  • #4
    xabi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,028 ✭✭✭xabi


    Turns out the rj45 was cabled in the A pattern, and the patch panel in B, so effectively I had a crossover cable, all sorted now.


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