I have the following scenario
Base station RB532 with SuperRange5 802.11a 400mW powering a Pacific Wireless 5.8GHz 16dBi 120 Degree Sector.
Client station RB112 with SuperRange5 802.11a 400 mW powering a Pacific Wireless 29dBi parabolic grid.
The two are about 1.5 miles apart. My base reports the client link signal strength of -59dBm to -60dBm, with the Tx/Rx rates consistently above 24Mbps (usually 48Mbps/36Mbps). The client reports station signal strength of -75dBm, with the Tx/Rx rates bouncing all over. When I run a bandwidth test (send/receive), the client link Tx/Rx rates show 24Mbps/36Mbps or above, but the bandwidth test gets at best 5Mbps/5Mbps.
Why isn’t it higher than this? Because of the small distance, shouldn’t I be able to get this much higher than this? (I would like to get sustained 10Mbps/10Mbps if possible.)
Can you post your config? What is your TX/RX CCQ?
OK, it’s been forever for me to get back to this.
How do I post my config?
My Overall Tx CCQ bounces around between 16 to 68, usually hovers above 40.
In terminal make a export command of the part of the config you want to show. Copy and paste it in this forum.
Like: interface wireless export
command will give you the wireless interfaces configs.
But at first look of your post is that you have lots of interference. Any trees, building near your LOS? Other freq’s around interfering?
Shown rates in wireless register are connection rates between radios. This is sort of the best rate the radio’s can communicate with each other. When running a bandwidth test it only shows the data throughput between the test server and client. On the link all kinds of overhead is added and when lots of interference is around lots of packages get lost degreasing the data througput (and jumping air rates on the radio’s)
But to give more help much more info is needed on the configs and actual situation.
Are you sure about that? CCQ needs to be as close to 100% as possible. The numbers you are giving mean that you are dropping more than 50% of your packets. It could be a number of things like overloaded CPU, interference, no LOS, etc.
You can’t run bandwidth test on a RB112 and expect good results. The CPU and RAM are just to small for that. You might consider replacing the RB112 with something better like a RB411.
Tom