I’m having terrible luck with these things. 25km link with -60 on both polarities using 5ghz netboxes. According to the built in freq scanner very clean on both sides, noisefloor -100. I’ve tried a combo of everything from 802.11, nv2, nstream. Various channel sizes from 20 to 80 and the best I can do is about 160megs on a udp test which equals about 50 megs of real world tcp traffic and the link doesn’t stay up for more than a few hours before dropping off and coming back a few times. We have a dual backhaul setup between these 2 towers and both backhaul pairs are acting the same way. I never once get past a datarate of 300 and most of the time its more like 243 or lower. ccq is 50-60 percent.
I also have a 5km link using netmetal which does a bit better, I can run 400+ udp tests and about 180 real world tcp traffic through it, but I’m no where near what I am seeing reported. This link is a -44 with about 80% ccq using 802.11 and ac only, 80 meg channel. And don’t tell to turn down the receiver that never helps with any of my mikrotiks. So whats the deal? What am I doing wrong here?
try a speedtest between endpoints with all other radios on the tower disabled.
Post results here please.
If you see a big difference a few seconds after you disable your last radio … you need to somehow move your antennas far away.
I had the same issues on a tower with multiple links (also full duplex links). In the end i grouped the rx antennas together and far apart from the tx antennas. But i’m not sure you can do that in your setup.
However, at least you can test to see if that is your problem or not.
No change at all. Is anyone else using these at decent distances? Maybe I am trying to push them to hard. Mikrotik wireless is really getting on my nerves. Today we are swapping out another set of Mikrotiks because one of the 2 polarities has lost 10 db. This must be the 12 time we’ve swapped out radios in various places for the exact same scenario. I’m not having these problems with other brands, cambium, Ubuiquiti.
I’ve got the original radios working with some stability, but still low on bandwidth, around 60 megs per pair. There is enough for what I currently need so I’ll deal with it for the time being, but I will quickly outgrow them. We’ve started to use some Ubiquiti gear as access point/subscriber combos and I gotta say I am extremely impressed. And Airfiber is the best thing since sliced bread! I may have to try putting some 5gig UBNT gear on these dishes and compare the difference. We’ve also been using their 3.65 models for about year now with zero problems, so it may be time to stop jacking with these little MT’s. I will never give up Mikrotik as routers because I love them to death, but lets face it in the wireless world Mikrotik really sucks. Although I will say the new cambium gear is actually worse.