Hi all,
i’m currently in the testing stage of developing a scalable mesh for use at work on temporary sites. I’ve currently got 3 rb411Ah’s running R52Hn cards running 5ghz N MIMO. All are in AP Bridge mode running Dynamic WDS. Each local Ethernet port is bridged to the wds instances with rstp as is the wireless interface. I’m not currently running an ideal MIMO setup as the antennas for testing are simply bog standard Omni’s for use with the Routerboard cases. At the moment i’m seeing at best about 21Mb between mesh nodes but a connection rate of 300mb/300mb.
In order to increase the total throughput of the mesh i was hoping to be able to replicate what some manufacturers are offering with their meshing solutions, that is dual radio mesh back-haul. I can’t for the life of me think how i should achieve this. Using two r52Hn cards and both chains on each card (4 chains in total) fed into two separate 2x2 MIMO antennas. the next part i’m not sure how to take. Should i set up one card to handle the rx chains and the other to handle the tx chains or setup both as AP Bridge running same ssid but different frequencies and bridge them together in the rstp bridge. I’m not sure however if that would work to increase my bandwidth in any way though.
If you guys had any thoughts, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Andy