Thread: ping and tracert networking question
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Re: ping and tracert networking question
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Originally Posted by nuttle View Post
The short answer is that you are most likely not pinging the tower, but something more local.
The tower is local. The AirOS PowerStation2 radio/antenna on my roof (mentioned in an earlier post) is aimed directly at the top of the tower, 1.2 miles away, line-of-sight.

3 hops: PC -> router -> radio -> tower.

BTW, I have ruled out the router. If I bypass the router and connect the PC directly to the radio when the problem occurs, it does not fix the problem. I do not have access to the radio, other than to cold-boot it by cycling the power (PoE), which I have tried, to no avail.

When the problem occurs, I can successfully ping the tower, but tracert to it times out (or takes an inordinately long time to complete).

This setup had been working almost flawlessly for 3 years. Problems started occurring occasionally about a year ago, and have become more frequent and longer in duration.