I am wondering if anyone can shed some light on this.
I have a ptp dynadish pair in a noisy urban environment.
Almost every day I have some other entity making noise on my frequency, which causes packet loss, poor throughput, subscriber complaints, and makes me look bad as a WISP.
So I have to continually scan and find a new space. Often during peak hours, which causes outages while subscribers are streaming etc.
I have tried the auto frequency option but it is terrible. It selects frequencies that are clearly bad, and it often results in the station bridge being in a state of limbo for minutes at a time.
- Am I doing something wrong?
- What is the algorithm for auto frequency select? Maybe that would help me understand it’s strengths and weaknesses.
- I heard that Cambium Networks has a smart auto frequency scan feature that is extremely efficient and doesn’t even drop a packet when it changes frequencies. And suspect it is these cambium devices continually jumping around which is probably why I am having more problems recently. Can’t Mikrotik improve the algorithm for the auto frequency selection?
I have 50 devices in production so this has become a very serious issues for me. Very stressful. Very time consuming. Undermines my faith in Mikrotik. I still do not want to entertain my techies telling me that that might have made a bad product choice for my backhaul equipment and that I should have used Cambium.
I would appreciate any input on this. Thanks.