I have an office across the street from our building that I've just linked with two RBSXTG-5HPacD's. I want to make sure that I'm getting the best connection and speeds possible and, as point to point wireless is new territory for me, I was hoping to post some screen shots from Winbox and get some feedback and suggestions from you guys.
The two buildings I'm linking are about 550 feet apart with a direct LOS (the distance marker from Google maps actually starts and stops at the locations that the antennas are installed):
When I check Winbox my Tx/Rx signal strength is -37/-37 dBm with Transfer Rates of ≈300Mbps and Receive Rates of ≈400Mbps with an SNR of 64db:
I was under the impression that a signal strength dBm closer to zero was better (e.g. -37 would be better than -87) and that an SNR further from zero was better (e.g. 64db is better than 40db); based on this understanding my numbers looks pretty good. However, as you can see in the 2nd Winbox picture above my Tx/Rx CCQ is around 83/47 % - my understand of this is that those are pretty bad numbers.
I've seen some suggestions that lowering the transmitter power may help but when I tried that it seemed to kill my transfer rates. So my question is what can I do to improve connection quality and, ideally, what kind of Tx/Rx rates should I expect during a bandwidth test.
I've included the information that I've thought was necessary but if you need any other info to provide advice please let me know and I'll do my best to supply it. Thanks in advance.