I am using two mikrotik both with athos a/b/g cards. Both are set to 802.11a as a back bone link.
The singal quality is -72 and 12 meg connection over a 1 mile clear line of site. Small omni on one side and directional dish on the other.
Ack is 33 (no idea what this means)
tx/rx ccq is 4/5, 13/5, 7/7 (jumps around not sure what this is)
pinging from mikrotik to mikrotik I get pings 9ms to 12ms that jump back and forth.
I have loawered the 12 meg connection down to 6m as well with no change.
Now my question is should I be able to get a solid 9ms ping without it bouncing?
What I have noticed when combined with my hotspot clients is that they too ping spikes but much higher. I can be sitting right beside the relay and it will be like 15ms then jump up to 100ms (and higher sometimes) then back down and it corrsponds to the same time the 802.11a link goes to 12ms. (granted 12ms isn’t a real problem, but what i find interesting is the same time that it goes from 9 to 12 i get larger spikes ont he end links)
Thanks,
Michael
I had a problem with inconsistant ping times and data rates, and I found out that it is because of a problem with Atheros cards constantly changing data rates while communicating. Once I locked the data rates to one constant rate, the ping times became perfect. This problem has been known for a while, and I am still hoping that Mikrotik will fix it, as there is no way to completely lock the data rates(If I set 6mbps ONLY, it will still drop to 1mbps), so the problem still exists to some extent…
Hitek
BTW, Not sure what CQQ is either, but as near as I can tell, it is a type of efficiency reading for your connection. This means that it only goes up when you are transferring data, and will be higher the more efficiently your data is able to transverse the wireless link.
Thanks for the reply. I just tried a few differnt settings and nailed the connection up at 12mb on 802.11a and then backed it down to 6mb. And there was no change.
I just don’t know if I have an antini problem or if it’s a radio problem. I don’t even know if ping is a good tool for testing for a stable connection.
Both units have only a few clients attacked. I can ping from one unit to the other and get 9ms but then it will jump to 20/30ms then return to 9ms. I really don’t care what the ms is but i’d like to see it steady. If it was steady at 9ms or 20ms just as long as it’s steady. Reason plan to run voip across the line and when it spikes you can hear it. I am not running voip when i’m doing these ping tests.
-Michael