Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
Murphy
Murphy’s Law
[I’m at Boomershoot Mecca and things have not gone well for me today. I spent about two hours trying to get a Nanostation 2 to act as a router and get it’s IP address from the ISP. I “bricked” the device mounted on a pole 20 feet in the air. I can probably still recover it by pushing the hardware reset button but that means bring the pole down. The pole has a solar panel and the ISP’s wireless flat panel as well as the Nanostation on it. That isn’t going to be fun. Then I tried using another Nanostation I have at ground level. I was unsuccessful so I finally drove to Moscow (1 hour each way) to get a conventional household router. That worked and I got the AT&T microcell working with one of my phones but not the other. Then just as it was getting dark I started to put up my tent. I didn’t have the poles or the stakes. I have to go back to Moscow again. I’ll return in the morning.
As Barb asks multiple times during Boomershoot, “Are you having fun yet?”—Joe]
Been there.
Ain’t working in the field fun..not. It all looks easy on paper.
I’ve felt like the guy that brings an entire repair truck to pull a nail. Then again, if I knew what would go wrong I’d have fixed it before it failed.
Good luck, Joe.
Rob