What is the maximum speed I can expect

RouterOS Wireless Networking
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Hey all,

What is the maximum speed I can expect with a connection between my tower and my end. The tower is running a RB600 with SR card in a 120 Degree Sector, the client is a RB133 with an SR5 card connected to a 23db Grid and I am getting about a 65db on both sides. The most I have ever gotten on any of my connections is roughly 10 to 12 meg. Is that normal? Is that the most I could expect? Also, what can I expect if I upgrade to N Cards and Antenna’s? My internet connection is 50 meg so that is not the bottleneck.

Thanks
Mark Spencer

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All depends on what you mean.

Mb/s download (UDP or TCP)
Mb/s Upload (UDP or TCP)
Mb/s Up+Download (UDP or TCP) at the same time … etc etc.

I get 106Mb/s UDP one-way-only thru one of my ‘N’ links.
I expect that will be drastically less for TCP, but haven’t bothered finding out, cos it’s faster than the requirement.

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Yes, tell us how you tested and what kind of traffic are those 12Mbit? Http download speed, speedtest, RouterOS bandwidth test, which mode?

Also, RB133 is not very powerful, it would probably not use all potential of 802.11n

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Do yourself a favour and bin the 133. It is a serious bottleneck. A 411 should cost less than €40 and will go way faster than a 133. A 411AH at about €75 will go even faster.

133s are very underpowered.

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Thanks I will look into replacing the client hardware as well.
When checking my speeds, basically, from the main tower/internet circuit I run a speed test to somewhere like http://www.speedtest.net. Then go to the client location and do the same. From the tower I will get 50 to 60 Meg up and down, from the client side get 10 to 12. This appears to be the best I can get from any of my links.