But we are curious souls who would like to Know some details!In simple words, you can get ~900Mbits not only at 100 meters, but now even at 200 meters.
Calibration data for beamforming patterns.I installed rc49 on a few of our >100m links (PtP and PtMP) and neither MCS or Signal Quality have changed. Throughput seems better, though, as running a traffic generator over our longest link (160m?) nets a solid 500Mbps full-duplex with little fluctuation. Used to be all over the place. Seeing a lot more link downs, too, but that might be due to rain we've been having. Should we be seeing better MCS and/or Quality readings? What exactly is being improved?
Confirmed. The interface hangs if I set the mode to ap-bridge.Just a heads up, I had an issue with 6.42rc56 on a multipoint (ap-bridge) AP. Interfaces weren't showing up and the station wasn't connecting. I switched to bridge mode and everything worked again. Really digging the rssi and tx-sector-info, but I don't think it's ready for ap-bridge mode yet.
Totally agreed.The perfect product for the 60Ghz, would be a point-to-multipoint solution, clearly with high gain CPE antennas for distances up to max 1km.
Possibility to connect up to 50/60 customers on a single cell
Channels smaller than the 2000Mhz (1000Mhz or 500Mhz)
TxPower increased to 20dB
A integrated failover 5ghz radio could be failover when primary 60Ghz fail due to rain
With this solution provider wisp can delivery 100/200/500 Mbps to customers and fight vdsl fttc/ftth of cable isp
We are currently working on fixing this, fixes will be included in upcoming versions.Just a heads up, I had an issue with 6.42rc56 on a multipoint (ap-bridge) AP. Interfaces weren't showing up and the station wasn't connecting. I switched to bridge mode and everything worked again. Really digging the rssi and tx-sector-info, but I don't think it's ready for ap-bridge mode yet.
I hoped to see something like that at mum, but nothingThe perfect product for the 60Ghz, would be a point-to-multipoint solution, clearly with high gain CPE antennas for distances up to max 1km.
Possibility to connect up to 50/60 customers on a single cell
Channels smaller than the 2000Mhz (1000Mhz or 500Mhz)
TxPower increased to 20dB
A integrated failover 5ghz radio could be failover when primary 60Ghz fail due to rain
With this solution provider wisp can delivery 100/200/500 Mbps to customers and fight vdsl fttc/ftth of cable isp
The coding scheme is available through : MCSI'm kinda keen to see some more helpful SNMP OIDs soon - as it would be really useful to see how the link behaves in bad weather. e.g. coding scheme, and RX and Tx sig strength?
@strods: does this apply to all units, since the beginning of product distributions or is it limited only to some HW version? I know it has been reached by SW modification and phase array patterns, just want to be sure it is not HW dependent.increased supported distance for wAP 60G to 200+ meters.
Topic is clearly about software improvements@strods: does this apply to all units, since the beginning of product distributions or is it limited only to some HW version? I know it has been reached by SW modification and phase array patterns, just want to be sure it is not HW dependent.
Thank you.
It is OK, that it is about SW improvements, but this SW improvements improves HW specifications. Maybe I was not clear enough, so once again (hope you will not consider it as spamming...)Topic is clearly about software improvements
Remember that a phased array is the antenna rough equivalent of a FPGA chip. So, just reconfiguring it can be equivalent to installing a new antenna.Improvements in SW many times improve overall functionality. Therefore one can not say what's HW specification... better to refer to it as "system" specification.
(...)
So yes, SW improvements can considerably improve performance and capacity without any HW change.
Explanation is already available in monitor:For all WAP60g users please Mikrotik to explain the TX-sector numbers. For use of PtMP or colocation, it would be very useful to know the angles and directions of radiation. Please also add the option to modify the RX sector or turn off the beamforming routine. Thanks
tx-sector: 29
tx-sector-info:
right 0.6 degrees, down 0.2 degrees
As said a few times in other topics, this will not work well. The devices are precisely calibrated so that the beamforming antenna array knows exactly how to adjust itself. If you put that into a reflector, it gets really confused. It may work sometimes, but most likely it will not work.I have a pair of WAP-60G and have modified some reflectors to increase range up to 1-mile, is there still any distance LIMIT in the software that would prevent them from even registering if they could see each other at 1600 meters? Do I need the latest RC firmware?
currently other vendors are not supported, as well as CAPsMAN.As I just read about new chipsets for Smartphones with 802.11ad Support.
Think about a new room with 200 students.
- In the ceiling there will 9 double sockets with RJ45
- I'll add 9x cAP AC to those with lowered sending power...
- I will also have some RJ45 sockets.
Ist WAP 60G meant to work like cAP AC with CAPSMAN enabled, multiple concurrent SSIDs enabled and support for 20/30 smartphones connected?
How did you reduce power?Remember that a phased array is the antenna rough equivalent of a FPGA chip. So, just reconfiguring it can be equivalent to installing a new antenna.Improvements in SW many times improve overall functionality. Therefore one can not say what's HW specification... better to refer to it as "system" specification.
(...)
So yes, SW improvements can considerably improve performance and capacity without any HW change.
In my case (units purchased in February) the change was so dramatic that it caused overload problems (my link is short, 20 - 30 m across a street). I had to reduce power, go figure!
How did you reduce power?
The correct answer should sound, Mikrotik does not want it, unfortunately. There is no technical reason why the WAP60g does not work well in the focus of the parabola. When receiving (RX) everything is OK, unfortunately the transmission angle (TX) is set to a much smaller angle, so the parabols are not very bright. If it was possible to set the beam angle (TX) fixed or much larger, it would be after the problem. Well, maybe we'll get a special version of FW, WAP60g in the focus of the parabola ...As said a few times in other topics, this will not work well. The devices are precisely calibrated so that the beamforming antenna array knows exactly how to adjust itself. If you put that into a reflector, it gets really confused. It may work sometimes, but most likely it will not work.I have a pair of WAP-60G and have modified some reflectors to increase range up to 1-mile, is there still any distance LIMIT in the software that would prevent them from even registering if they could see each other at 1600 meters? Do I need the latest RC firmware?
Test with external tool or Traffic-generator and You will get full Wire speedresults
I don't. 6.43rc64.Test with external tool or Traffic-generator and You will get full Wire speedresults
For now I´m planing with 802.11ad for that mentioned room. Do you plan this feature to be released in 2019? Would this be realistic?currently other vendors are not supported, as well as CAPsMAN.As I just read about new chipsets for Smartphones with 802.11ad Support.
Think about a new room with 200 students.
- In the ceiling there will 9 double sockets with RJ45
- I'll add 9x cAP AC to those with lowered sending power...
- I will also have some RJ45 sockets.
Ist WAP 60G meant to work like cAP AC with CAPSMAN enabled, multiple concurrent SSIDs enabled and support for 20/30 smartphones connected?
This will be added in future releases of RouterOS
please show us exactly how are you testing this. We get full speed on much higher distances by using same testing tools.
Hi Normis and friends,In simple words, you can get ~900Mbits not only at 100 meters, but now even at 200 meters.