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danletkeman
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802.11ac nv2 stability - working configuration?

Sat Nov 15, 2014 6:05 pm

Hello,

I have just replaced a couple of older Mikrotik links (RB411AH & R5H) with the new NetMetal 5 boards. The old links were working very well at 40MHZ 802.11A using NV2 on version 5.24. I was able to get about 60Mbps throughput.

After installing the new NetMetal links using the mANT30 antenna's, I am un able to get a stable link with any combination including the exact combination I had on the old links

As you can see in the image, the CCQ is very bad with the new link, unless I switch it to NStream, then it goes up to the 90% range. If I try and use Nstreame, I get disconnect messages like this:

"disconnected, too many poll timeouts"

So NV2 is my only option, but with NV2 the CCQ is very low with 5GHZA, or N or AC.

Does anyone have a working configuration that I can try?

Thanks,
Dan.
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Re: 802.11ac nv2 stability - working configuration?

Mon Nov 17, 2014 6:53 pm

See here a linktest that i made.
You can copy and paste this configuration if you will
http://www.wirelessinfo.be/index.php/li ... -500-eceee

I hope this helps you
 
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Re: 802.11ac nv2 stability - working configuration?

Mon Nov 17, 2014 7:06 pm

See here a linktest that i made.
You can copy and paste this configuration if you will
http://www.wirelessinfo.be/index.php/li ... -500-eceee

I hope this helps you
on this link there is no speed results ?
 
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Re: 802.11ac nv2 stability - working configuration?

Mon Nov 17, 2014 7:11 pm

I am using nstreme succesfully on 2x2 N links (did not test this config on AC hardware yet) so you can try the settings described in the thread below:

http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=83183

this should solve your too many poll timeouts problem. However dense modulation introduced with N cards (QAM) is more vulnerable to LOS problems and interference. I have also seen problems where A links were working fine and when replaced with N HW they were not running as good, but at least I could get a little more speed from the link after some fine tuning.
 
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Re: 802.11ac nv2 stability - working configuration?

Mon Nov 17, 2014 9:33 pm

@BAX See the bandwidth test printscreens this is the result.
See here a linktest that i made.
You can copy and paste this configuration if you will
http://www.wirelessinfo.be/index.php/li ... -500-eceee

I hope this helps you
on this link there is no speed results ?
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Re: 802.11ac nv2 stability - working configuration?

Tue Nov 18, 2014 5:58 am

I am using nstreme succesfully on 2x2 N links (did not test this config on AC hardware yet) so you can try the settings described in the thread below:

http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=83183

this should solve your too many poll timeouts problem. However dense modulation introduced with N cards (QAM) is more vulnerable to LOS problems and interference. I have also seen problems where A links were working fine and when replaced with N HW they were not running as good, but at least I could get a little more speed from the link after some fine tuning.
I was changing settings last night on the one link and I landed up changing the band from 40Mhz to 20Mhz, and as soon as I did that it seemed to stablize. The CCQ went up and the speeds went up. I had tried changing channels multiple times, but for some reason going down to 20Mhz made it a lot better. Maybe what you are saying here with it being more vulnerable to LOS and interferance is my problem.

I put up the link (-10c ) so it was cold and i didn't have much time to mess with alignment. We were getting -40 signal so I just left it. Maybe I need to go back and fine tune it as well.

I will try your config with nstream (as I like it better than NV2 still) and see what its like.

Dan.
 
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Re: 802.11ac nv2 stability - working configuration?

Tue Nov 18, 2014 9:04 am

Making band narrow rises the power density. Therefore the link is better.

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