First, apologies if I should post this somewhere else. I wasn’t sure, and since I’m definitely a beginner when it comes to RouterOS, here I am.
Hi, I work for a very small WISP in a remote area. Mostly I’m a monkeywrench guy although I can follow directions for software pretty well and have already poked around a bit in the WinBox interface for a couple of our RouterBOARDs.
My question is what the source might be/how to fix an issue I have with my Ping time in a certain well known MMO I play. When I first log in, my ping is great, between 100-200ms, however almost always it will rapidly degenerate to between 300-600, and frequently from there go up to the multi-thousands (although it will usually come back down if I don’t time out of the game…). The only time this doesn’t happen is at 2-3 am when (almost) no one else is on the network. We have a total of around 300-350 clients, spread out over a gawdawful web of radios spanning ~20 miles of mountainous, tree-covered terrain.
As far as I’ve been told (and can tell- I’ve done some poking around), I’m not on any sort of capping in any of the Routerboards, nor in the NetEQ, so I’m wondering what causes the ping degeneration- is it simply a function of having such a mess of a network (and being pretty overloaded as well?) It just seems odd to me since it CAN function quite well, at first login and also when no one else is on. If there is some way to prioritize my traffic and keep it a constant, decent, ping, how do I go about doing this? Me hogging bandwidth isn’t an issue since it’s only 2-7kbs from the game’s traffic, and since I work for the company I have damn good incentive not to do anything to encourage more customers to call and complain about slow speeds.
Most of the infrastructure radios are Tranzeos, if there’s anything I can do with them (I’m slightly more familiar with the tranzeo’s software, since I do the basic programming on them for new customer installs). The worst part is I’m about 5 radio hops from the landlines (so my traffic goes through about 10 radios and at least 2, I think 3 or 4 routerboards, a neteq and sometimes a cachebox before it hits the cisco router and goes into AT&T’s lines)
Any help appreciated!