Avaya IP DECT Indoor Base Station - not working!

[afrogley]

We had a little power cut over the weekend - enough to knock out my PC, but not enough to down the servers or the phone system - both on UPS's ..

The Dect unit isn't on a UPS - so I assume was knocked out by the outage ... now it won't connect up ...

It has a connection to the network (the switch lights up and shows broadcast activity - tried 3 different points and 2 different CAT5 cables now)
No sign of requesting IP address from the DHCP server (Win2k3 - checked the log file and refreshed other clients successfully)
No sign of requesting a boot file from the TFTP server (hardly surprising given it hasn't got an IP Address!)


All I've got is a red flashing LED - 15 long 5 short ....
What Now Skipper?!

 

[tlpeter]

It is the same everywhere.
There is a budget for nice trips to far destinations for the direction but an extra basestation for better coverage is not possible


BAZINGA!

I'm not insane, my mother had me tested!

 

[afrogley]

how did you know? I've got one D out in the far east at the moment ... trying to save a bit on his mobile phone bill by putting AdoreSIP on his iPad with a login to our SIP provider ...
Apparently during his call back home his wife sounded like clanger (his words not mine!) - but a second call to my vm - he heard my vm ok and I could hear his msg - I'll try and be at my desk for the next test (obviously - if I had a second base station I could've had a dect phone and not missed the call!!)

 

[DavidCT]

Is your switch gigabit? I didn't see if you said r3 or r4, but I had the oddest problems with r4 antennas on gigabit ports. As soon as I hard coded the port to 100mb, the antenna worked flawless.

Has anyone else experienced problems with the r4 indoor on a gigabit port?

 

[tlpeter]

David, yes i did.
I blamed the switch
So it is related to gigabit?
What switch did you use?


BAZINGA!

I'm not insane, my mother had me tested!

 

[tlpeter]

It is not a gigabit switch by the way.
It does have the same problems so it must be the base station.
It happened when there where around 10 base stations connected.


BAZINGA!

I'm not insane, my mother had me tested!