Patent ID: 7123649

Claim:
Customer premise equipment for use in a wireless communication system having a base station and customer sites, the customer premise equipment comprising: an outdoor comprising: a transmit path having first tuneable sub-components; a receive path having second tuneable sub-components; a detector adapted to generate a detector signal; a controller adapted to receive said detector signal, to tune said first tuneable sub-components and said second tuneable sub-components in response to received commands, to transmit information representative of said detector signal in response to a command, and a memory adapted to store instructions to control the operation of the controller; and an indoor unit comprising a modem for modulating/demodulating data transmitted between the base station and customer sites, said indoor unit further comprising a processor adapted to transmit commands to said controller, to detect a failure in the outdoor unit, and if a failure is detected in the outdoor unit then to write new instructions to said memory.