We are having a problem when we change the country code to "ireland", and thus enabling 98 channels (using 5ghz-10mhz). If we leave the default scan-list (blank) we can not connect to anything higher than 5705. Yet if we set the scan-list on the client to include 5830 for example, the radi...
We have found an inexpensive Cisco 2950 switch will do what you want. You can setup ports to be "port-protected" so they can't talk to other ports on the switch that are also port-protected. So, you put port 1 of the switch to your internet server. Then all the other links go on ports 2, 3...
Your antenna heights are incorrect. The measurement on Radio Mobile is in meters, not feet. Once you change those to the correct settings, you will see the link will not work at all.
Also, you "recommend" upgrading the clients, but it was not necessary. Is there a benefit to upgrading the clients? Some more info about the changes would be very helpful.
Hi, When using 3.15 with wireless-test package, we do not see any differences with jitter and latency (when also using Nstreme). What are the recommended settings when using 10mhz channel and Nstreme for the AP and client sides of the new settings? (hw-fragmentation-threshold, hw-protection-mode, hw...
Just to clarify: We are seeing this problem on all of our Mikrotik AP's (over 50 of them) and we are using 900mhz, 2.4ghz and 5ghz. We are also using Nstreme on all AP's and clients.
Mikrotik's support response to me was "Nstreme was never designed for what you are trying to use it for. It was designed for point to point or point to multi-point with few clients". MT's latest response is no more than 50 clients per AP (with or without Nstreme). All of our clients are ru...
Yes. And like I said, if I setup a test on the bench, it works perfectly. I can select ANY channel on the AP side (over 80 channel choices) and the CPE will connect without a problem.
Hi, We have a tower location with 4 other MT AP's running in the normal settings (Country=No_country_set and frequency mode=manual tx power). These all work great because the clients (also MT units) will scan all 49 channels and connect to whichever AP has the correct access-list. Now if I change th...
There is nothing magical about point to multipoint vs. point to point. It's all the same. Antenna gain + radio power - distance. Technically you could use a 30db dish on the AP side and have 100 clients at 80 miles with 24db grids... of course they would all have to be within 5 degrees beamwidth, bu...
The re-registration problem is a known issue with MT. I'm not sure if they are working on it or not. It seems they would rather spend their time adding new options and features than fixing existing problems and bugs.
Hi, We currently control the bandwidth of each customer using a simple queue on the AP with their IP address listed. We are currently using "sfq" types to do this control. Is that the best queue type for controlling speed in a multi-point configuration using Nstreme? Is there a benefit to ...
I'm looking for a script that will check our main ROS box for updates and install them if it finds any. None of the scripts in the Wiki work correctly.
Ok... it appears the problem is with the new color text when using Net::Telnet and doing remote telnet sessions. The Net::Telnet perl does not know how to interpret the colors, so it sends character strings (which messes up the Waitfor commands, etc.). Is there a way to disable the color in a telnet...
Hi, This perl script was working perfectly in 3.6 and is now broken in 3.11: $ipaddress = 69.20.2.2 $telnet = new Net::Telnet (Timeout => 3); $telnet->errmode("return"); $telnet->open(Host => $hostname, Timeout => 3); $errormsg{$hostname} = $telnet->errmsg; if (!($errormsg{$hostname})) { $...
I just tested this again. If I set the speed to 2M on the "AP to client" speed and 2M on the "Client TX limit", and then run a speed test I get 2M download to the client, but only 1.2M on the upload. I have tested this on two different AP's and two different clients. How is every...
I received a response from MT support regarding this issue. They are saying Nstreme was not designed for a lot of client connections and that should be turned off. We are going to try that and see if it helps. Also, they are considering a new protocol (not Nstreme) to allow more client connections p...
Hi, Our issue isn't the RB333's rebooting or anything like that. The issue is having 20-30 clients that all work fine and stay registered in the registration table for weeks at a time. Then when you get up to 30+ clients, those same clients will only stay registered for a day or two. When you get ov...
Hi, Could some people share the maximum number of clients they have running on a v3.x AP with a RB333 or faster board? We are running into problems when we reach about 40 clients. We are using Nstreme and disable CSMA and everything works perfectly until about 30 clients... then we start to see a lo...
We could never make the bandwidth settings in the access-list tables work correctly. Even with several posts and replies from MT support, they finally gave up as well. We switched to using Simple Queues (make sure the setting in the Bridge section is checked to "Use IP Firewall") or the qu...
I have asked MT for a better "survey" tool for the last 6 months. They always respond saying they are going to work on it, and it still has not happened. Every other radio on the market has a better survey tool than ROS does... it can't be that hard to implement something that is worth usi...
I would like to add a few comments, for whatever they are worth... Reselling someone else's service is never a good idea (like using the cable company and delivering it over your wireless). Once the cable company DOES get service to that area, you have just lost that customer forever. Do things that...
I have about 50 ptp backhaul links with RB532's and RB333's all with SR5 cards. The upgrades from 2.9 to 3.x have all been flawless with no changes in signal levels at all.
Having all your AP's on the same channel is not going to work. When AP #1 is transmitting, AP #2 and AP #3 will not be able "hear" their customers transmitting.
So, although it is probably working, it will not scale to hundreds of users... you will be stepping on yourself.
I don't believe the RB1000 is as powerful as Mikrotik would have you believe. We tried replacing some P4/2.8ghz Intel based dual ethernet boxes running ROS with the RB600 (only moving 30Mbps of traffic, no firewall, no conntrack) and they fell on their faces. Granted, the RB1000 is more than the RB6...
Canopy requires a $1,500 AP and $220 SM's to get 7Mbps (total aggregate). With Mikrotik I am using $400 AP's (including antenna) and $175 CPE and I am getting 20Mbps. I don't have to play Motorola's licensing games, buy a "management" system, use GPS sync (more cost) or anything else. I've...
We have about 50 AP's running 3.10. They have several different boards (411, 532, 333) and different wireless cards (SR2, WLM54, SR5). We are running Nstreme, disable CSMA and have them just bridging the ethernet and wireless card. Any AP with more than 30 clients, we see the "uptime" maxe...
Does this need to be enabled on the AP and client side to be effective? If we are running station-psuedobridge on the client side, I assume we would have to use the "AP and client mode" setting, correct?
My understanding is the Trango is actually de-tuning the radio itself... thus eliminating all "noise" above the level, not just ignoring it. I could be wrong, but I know it works well.
Trango is able to do this with all of their radios (which are based on an 802.11 chipset). They call it a "receive threshold" and you set the RSSI level. Anything higher than your setting is totally ignored by the radio. This helps a great deal in noisy environments.
Even the best sector antennas in the world only have about 30db front to back ratio.... so if you put everything on the same channel, you are going to kill yourself once the sectors become loaded.
The best option is 3 x 120 degree sectors on channels 1, 6 and 11.
I did not see where he posted that he had tested just from RB to RB.
Also, it appears you are running a RC of the software. Please upgrade to the latest version and test again. MANY changes have been made over the last few months since the version you have now.
The 411 board is designed as a client CPE board. You can't upgrade the license to perform as an AP. But, they do have a great deal of power for the price. In a p2p link setup, I would think you could get 20MBps through two of them.
Have you tried testing from RB333 to RB333 using the bandwidth test utility? This will provide full speed, but it may be that you have ethernet problems on one side or the other. This test will help track that down. You should be able to get 20Mbps UDP transfer from one to the other. If so, then you...
I was asking because using the plastic standoffs with adhesive backing is MUCH faster than using metal standoffs that have to be screwed in. We are currently building 120 units per month, so whatever we can do to save time is worth it for us. BUT, if we need to be grounding the boards for static dis...
I'm curious about the difference when comparing the plastic vs. metal standoffs. If the Rootenna (or DCE or whatever) is being mounted to a J-mount on a roof, does have the routerboard grounded to the case really matter at all? We normally don't run a seperate ground cable, so in our case it won't m...
I originally posted the message about getting 11 out of 15 R52H cards DOA about 4 weeks ago. We stopped using them right then. All of our settings were left default (and always have been for the last 6 years using MT). Mikrotik has a QA problem with these cards right now. We even had 1 fail on a tow...
I need help writing a script that upon startup, will set the antenna to "antenna a" and then wait 30 seconds for a connection. If it gets a connection, then the script is done. If no wireless connection, then it switches to "antenna b" and then is done.
We found this same problem. We even sent support files to Mikrotik. They continued to claim "it works here", yet I tried on 3 different AP's with different clients (all running RB's with ROS). We could never get it to work, so we had to go back to using simple queues to limit traffic. Travis
We do routing on the point to point links and each AP acts as a transparent bridge. Makes things much easier and cleaner. Some of our point to point links have 5 other point to point links after so it makes more sense to not have complete failure if a board or PoE dies.
We currently provide service after 7 wireless hops (going more than 60 miles). Latency to the last WiPOP is less than 20ms and speeds are over 6Mbps (tcp) using only 10mhz channel sizes. We mainly use RB532 for each link. Make sure each link is a point to point and then the AP is a seperate routerbo...
It would be a more accurate test if you used the same channel size for each frequency. I would love to see results from both 5mhz and 10mhz channels on both frequencies.
Hi, I have many of the RB411's that came with v4 of the license key. Now the new ones ship with v3. However, I would like to be able to "ugprade" the license from v3 to v4 without having to buy a brand new license. Why can't I upgrade the RB411 license, yet I can "upgrade" other ...
Ok... this was a very basic, simple test. We have a 100ft tower with two Trango 900mhz on channels 1 and 4 with external 120 degree sectors at about 70ft. We installed the MT with an 8db vertical omni and XR9 on channel 3 (917mhz) and then used a 12db Rootenna with XR9. We were able to get good cove...
I had planned to use 5mhz channels, as that is what Trango uses as well. This way I have 4 available channels to try and keep away from noise, and allow co-location of more than 1 radio per tower. I will be doing some "head to head" testing with MT vs. Trango today (tower has both 900's on...
We have a large number of Trango 900mhz equipment already deployed. We are considering deploying some XR9 cards in RB333's and RB411's for smaller areas (very rural). Please share your experiences (good or bad) along with configs, examples, etc.
Yes, we are probably in one of the most extreme temperature regions on the planet. We saw -35F this winter (without the wind chill) and last summer we hit 110F. Nothing like getting to deal with problems year round... from snow/ice on towers with 50mph winds to 110F and equipment failing (along with...
I'm in Idaho... it's just barely breaking 40F during the warmest days right now... so heat isn't an issue for us yet... wait until July/August when we usually break 100F (hit 110F last year).
Your signal level is low for that distance. You should be closer to -56 on both sides. Try different channels. If that doesn't help, your antennas are not aligned properly.
Also, check the CCQ values. They should be 100/100 on both sides.
I have a link with -60 RSSI on both sides, running 40mhz channel, using Celeron 1.5ghz processors in a X86 rack mount that will do 57Mbps in one direction with a single wireless card on each side. CPU maxed at 35%.
MT has recommended that you run all clients and base stations that connect on the same version. This means everything on 2.9 or 3.x, but not to mix and match.
It doesn't seem to work on 3.3 either... I had 3.1 on it before, and I think it was working then. There has to be an easy fix... all I need is the /ip firewall nat find src-address=1.2.3.4 to actually return the value of the entry it is associated with. I know for a fact it was working in 2.9. All I...
I think there is a post from MT about this... and that they will not be supporting it for a while... they are waiting for something. (I just can't remember what it was).
It was a Celeron 1.5ghz based rack mount system with SR5 cards and LMR cable to the antennas. My point was more that with 20mhz of spectrum, you are going to run out of spectrum before you run out of CPU with the RB600 units. I don't believe there is any difference between the RB333 and RB600 for do...
Getting 30mbps one-way on that link is normal, assuming only a 20mhz channel. What if you change to a 40mhz (turbo) channel size? I have an x86 link that has a -60 signal on each side, and if I go to 40mhz channels, I can get 50Mbps one direction. If he uses two cards, with RB600's, I would think 40...
I upgraded one of our tower locations today from 2.9 to 3.4 and the OSPF session that has been working perfectly (talking to some old Portmasters) for almost 3 years, suddenly stopped working. We were unable to fix the problem and finally just had to create some static routes to get it going again. ...
I would suggest getting back to a simple config: Nstreme on Polling on no framer policy leave the data rates set to default leave the tx power rates set to default are you bridging or routing? bring up just 1 link and test the speed (make sure the other cards are disabled). I have a 30 mile link wit...
Normis, The linktest feature could be for only MT to MT wireless links, if this would make it easier? The problem with CCQ is it does not give you any real information. We have links that have 80/80 CCQ readings that are working fine and we also have links with 25/25 CCQ readings that are working fi...
Hi, In another post, Uldis says: "In your case if you want to limit the speeds for the wireless clients I recommend you to use Wireless trasmit/receive limits that are configurable in the Access list of the AP, because then the clients will not flood up the network with lot of traffic which the...
I have been running ROS for almost 5 years now... started with point to point links for our backhaul links and just recently (two weeks ago) have started installing point to multipoint for our subscribers. We are running RB532 for the AP with SR5 cards, running v3.x of ROS. We are using Nstreme (wit...
Hi, I currently have a 73 mile link, using 10mhz channel size, running 5.8ghz that will do 12Mbps of actual tcp throughput. (1) Change to outdoor mounting using PoE (2) Change to 5.8ghz. The Fresnel zone clearance on 5.8ghz at that distance is 90ft, compared with 140ft at 2.4ghz. More signal will ge...
Hi, How large of a channel are you using? 20mhz? 10mhz? A rough breakdown with your hardware: 10mhz channel is going to provide about 15Mbps maximum (one direction at a time) 20mhz channel is going to provide about 28Mbps maximum (one direction at a time) Also, are you using Nstreme? On point to poi...
I have a suggestion for a feature that would be very helpful with wireless networks. I would like to see a "linktest" option available when you right-click on a wireless entry in the registration table. This option would send 100 packets (1600 byte size) to and from the connected radio, 10...
I have a script called "beep" that works perfectly when I start it manually. However, when I create a scheduler item to start at "startup", it shows it runs but it doesn't work. /system scheduler add comment="" disabled=no interval=0s name="beeper" on-event=be...
I've tried a queue with no IP address and it doesn't catch anything either. Here are the exports: # /interface wireless security-profiles set default authentication-types="" eap-methods=passthrough group-ciphers="" group-key-update=5m \ interim-update=0s mode=none name="defa...
Ok... Ether1 and Wlan1 are both in bridge1 on AP. AP is 10.0.50.22 in "AP bridge" mode Client is 10.0.50.23 with "pseudobridge" IP of client PC is 69.20.162.xx. Everything works perfectly. Create a simple queue on AP with 69.20.162.xx as the IP with 512k upload and 512k download....
I am trying to do some basic bandwidth limiting using simple queues. All of the clients are connected with pseudobridge. No matter what I set the speed to, it doesn't affect it at all.
I am trying to do some basic bandwidth limiting using simple queues. All of the clients are connected with pseudobridge. No matter what I set the speed to, it doesn't affect it at all.
I am looking for a simple way to get an email with the source address of any IP address that goes over 100 packets per second on the ether2 interface. This is easy to see using Torch, but we need an automatic way to get notification.
This needs to be for icmp packets going thru the router... but when I change to a "forward" rule, anytime total ICMP traffic goes over 100, it lists every single IP that has ICMP, not just the ones that are over.
I need a script that will watch for ICMP packets per second on an interface and if it exceeds 100pps, it will send an email listing the source and destination IP's for the offending connection.
The XR5 spec sheet says it has a 10db offset in Mikrotik. It is currently running at 18db, which that sheet shows as the maximum. Why would I have to throttle it back?
Hi, We have a point to point link currently using RB532 with SR5 cards. The link will sync up within 10 seconds after the radios are rebooted. However, when we try and use an XR5 card it takes over 2 minutes before the signal actually becomes stable. The first two minutes the signal comes up, and th...
I have two Celeron 1.5ghz systems running 2.9.41 with SR5 cards shooting 3 miles. I have a -58 signal on each side. I am running with Nstreme and polling enabled. The issue is the low CCQ and dropping pings with slow response times. If I reboot both sides at the same time, the CCQ numbers bounce all...
Hi, We have a MT AP currently serving 6 clients. Here is a sample ping I just performed to a client 9 miles away with a -62 signal and currently less than 1Mbps of traffic on the AP: 69.20.169.246 64 byte ping: ttl=63 time=7 ms 69.20.169.246 64 byte ping: ttl=63 time=6 ms 69.20.169.246 64 byte ping:...
Hi, We have several free hotspots that we use Linksys firewall/access points. The Linksys also serves the DHCP address and lease time, etc. Is there a way with MT to have a simple splash screen appear with each new MAC address that comes from the same IP address? Each real IP on the Linksys has a de...
Hi, We currently have a P4/3.0ghz with dual GigE ports (one onboard, one PCI-X Intel server card) acting as our edge router. We are starting to see CPU spikes up to 50% during our peak times (150Mbps of total traffic passing thru the box). We have 6-7 queues and static routing. What are the recommen...
Many other radio providers (Trango, Motorola, Redline, etc.) are able to calculate the distance from the signal timing. It should be a simple addition and would just make things easier by having everything on a single screen... rather than having to bring up a network map because you can't remember ...
Running v2.9.23 with OSPF. Several times on many different routers, if one of the routers gets power cycled without a reboot command, the OSPF routes will not communicate with other routers until we remove the network and then re-add it on that router. This was a problem a year ago, and obviously is...
I found the problem... one of our customers had transposed the numbers on their IP address (we use static IP's) and was trying to use an IP that was in the blackhole list.
I have setup some "blackhole" rules on one of my Mikrotik routers. However, it doesn't seem to be working correctly. I have it setup so it adds the src-address to an address list called "blackhole" if there is any traffic to a specific dst-address (i.e. 192.168.1.45). Then I have...
Hi, Is there a way to setup a RouterOS with two ethernet network cards that are bridged together, and have the box provide DNS caching services for clients without pointing them at the RouterOS IP address? We have a POP that is connected directly to the backbone rather than to our main POP, but we d...