Well I'll mention this as I have a 1242ag with a cisco 9dbi omni antenna http://www.cablesandkits.com/cisco-compatible-9dbi-aironet-4941-24ghz-dipole-antenna-p-6883.html   the higher gain antenna also is more sensitive to picking up signal from the client not just broadcasting louder, with my home 1242ag the range extends over 2/3rds of my neighborhood and a smartphone is capable of getting on within that range   but ya for a business I'd say more AP's because with a WLC you'd get finer grain tracking, I just enjoy knowing that I can walk down the street and still be on my home network ... View more

Well I had gotten the NM-1GE back when I upgraded to a docsis3 modem I also had 3x NME-16ES-1G-P's in it when I used it (I've since moved the etherswitches to my 3845)   really wish cisco had a Docsis3 Hwic, even if only to have some SNMP monitoring of the RF stats (currently I have a web page that scrapes the RF stats off the modem so that PRTG can fetch the data in a format it likes)   so the NM-1GE gave the 3745 a gig link to the modem and the NME-16ES-1G-P did intervlan routing and a gig link to my 2960G ... View more

Thanks for the help (I think I'm going to toss the T1 card, it came with my 3845 but I never had a use for it just though I'd toss it with the 3745 as a little extra) btw heres the sh ver Cisco IOS Software, 3700 Software (C3745-ADVENTERPRISEK9-M), Version 12.4(25d), RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1) Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport Copyright (c) 1986-2010 by Cisco Systems, Inc. Compiled Wed 18-Aug-10 08:18 by prod_rel_team ROM: System Bootstrap, Version 12.2(8r)T2, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1) Router uptime is 1 minute System returned to ROM by power-on System image file is "flash:c3745-adventerprisek9-mz.124-25d.bin" This product contains cryptographic features and is subject to United States and local country laws governing import, export, transfer and use. Delivery of Cisco cryptographic products does not imply third-party authority to import, export, distribute or use encryption. Importers, exporters, distributors and users are responsible for compliance with U.S. and local country laws. By using this product you agree to comply with applicable laws and regulations. If you are unable to comply with U.S. and local laws, return this product immediately. A summary of U.S. laws governing Cisco cryptographic products may be found at: Http://www.cisco.com/wwl/export/crypto/tool/stqrg.html If you require further assistance please contact us by sending email to export@cisco.com. Cisco 3745 (R7000) processor (revision 2.0) with 499712K/18432K bytes of memory. Processor board ID JMX0809L3LB R7000 CPU at 350MHz, Implementation 39, Rev 3.3, 256KB L2, 2048KB L3 Cache 2 FastEthernet interfaces 1 Virtual Private Network (VPN) Module DRAM configuration is 64 bits wide with parity disabled. 151K bytes of NVRAM. 125440K bytes of ATA System CompactFlash (Read/Write) 125952K bytes of ATA Slot0 CompactFlash (Read/Write) Configuration register is 0x101 Router# ... View more

Ok re inserted the NM-1GE and its still working guess maybe it was a little loose or something. ... View more

well pulled the NM-1GE and it booted thought deleting the config from the CF cards has erased the config but still had to do write erase Going to try putting the NM-1GE back in ... View more

Well I do have a spare MB, though that might hurt the intended sale (was planning to sale the following 1x Fully loaded 3745 (as mentioned above) 1x Powersupplyless 3745 (spare parts) 1x 2651 and 2x 2924M-XL   ok heres another crash dump I think its a diff one but a little unsure as with the clock not set the time stamps all match, so I've now cleared the dumps from teh CF cards and will give it another try in a min ... View more

Well thats an odd thing then. on the first boot I has a T1 wic but I pulled it out and there was no change I'll go pull the other flash card and see if it has a hopefully more useful crash dump only other module is a NM-1GE I'll pull that out. (though I hope that's not the cause) ... View more

It looks to have been a layer 2 issue the arp table would only ever show incomplete for 18.3 so I think the "ON" mode isn't as flexable I thought maybe if there had been a 2nd cable if/when the ship gets back up here I'll see about applying an ether channel again ... View more

I ended up just removing the port-channel and doing a normal trunk ... View more

There is no entry on SW0 for 18.3 in the arp table but if I try to ping 18.3 an entry shows up for a few seconds (but is listed as incomplete) ... View more

The installer only put in one cable (goes sw0/47-to-sw1/48) as I'm quite far away from the switches I can't easily connect another cable yes sh int trunk looks ok would "channel-group1 mode desirable" be a more robust config we would like to use etherchannel but can get by without ... View more

After pinging (unsuccessfully of course) 18.3 from SW0 then quickly doing a SH arp it shows incomplete as the mac address for 18.3 ... View more

I don't know off hand a mac address for SW1(18.3) and till tommorow I can't connect to the Command line as for IP addresses We've used the same ones that the former switches used (which were swaped out) so there shouldn't be an IP conflict users on sw1 can't reach users on sw0 ... View more