We purchased a pair of these for a p2p link with the understanding they would be 600MB connection rates with about 300MB of through put.
Testing on the bench could only get about 170MB using the configuration already on the radio cards.
How do we get the speeds we read about?

Thanks

The first step is to stop using internal btest.

The first step is to stop using internal btest.

Do you mean to not use Mikrotik Bandwidth Test?
The test results I gave was Mikrotik Bandwidth test TCP/IP from the SU side of the link to another Mikrotik located in our downtown NOC.

Yes. It is not a good way to test something, because the test runs on the device itself and loads the CPU.

Test using iperf or something else, like this:

Powerful PC --> Router1~~~~~~Router2 --> Powerful PC2

This will ensure you are testing the link, not the CPU of the CPE device.

also indoor test for outdoor radios are useless...best result in AC mode is ~250mbps in my case. There are more things that can affect a wireless link. You must first install it.

Band 5GHz-A/N/AC
Channel Width 20/40MHz Ce
5765 (Note cleanest channel -102 noise floor)


Distance 19km
Tx/Rx Signal Strength -49/-41
Signal to Noise 68dB
TX/RX CCQ 73/64
P Throughput 140098kbps

iperf3 results

AP receiving
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 5] 0.00-1.00 sec 9.53 MBytes 79.9 Mbits/sec
[ 5] 1.00-2.00 sec 9.49 MBytes 79.6 Mbits/sec
[ 5] 2.00-3.00 sec 9.98 MBytes 83.7 Mbits/sec
[ 5] 3.00-4.00 sec 12.1 MBytes 101 Mbits/sec
[ 5] 4.00-5.00 sec 11.6 MBytes 97.4 Mbits/sec
[ 5] 5.00-6.00 sec 10.9 MBytes 91.5 Mbits/sec
[ 5] 6.00-7.00 sec 12.0 MBytes 100 Mbits/sec
[ 5] 7.00-8.00 sec 0.00 Bytes 0.00 bits/sec
[ 5] 8.00-9.00 sec 0.00 Bytes 0.00 bits/sec
[ 5] 9.00-10.00 sec 0.00 Bytes 0.00 bits/sec
[ 5] 10.00-11.00 sec 0.00 Bytes 0.00 bits/sec
[ 5] 11.00-11.70 sec 0.00 Bytes 0.00 bits/sec
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 5] 0.00-11.70 sec 0.00 Bytes 0.00 bits/sec sender
[ 5] 0.00-11.70 sec 75.5 MBytes 54.2 Mbits/sec receiver

AP sending
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth Retr Cwnd
[ 4] 0.00-1.00 sec 6.02 MBytes 50.5 Mbits/sec 0 338 KBytes
[ 4] 1.00-2.00 sec 4.47 MBytes 37.5 Mbits/sec 6 346 KBytes
[ 4] 2.00-3.00 sec 4.60 MBytes 38.6 Mbits/sec 0 393 KBytes
[ 4] 3.00-4.00 sec 3.75 MBytes 31.5 Mbits/sec 3 303 KBytes
[ 4] 4.00-5.00 sec 7.07 MBytes 59.3 Mbits/sec 0 325 KBytes
[ 4] 5.00-6.00 sec 6.95 MBytes 58.3 Mbits/sec 0 338 KBytes
[ 4] 6.00-7.00 sec 7.12 MBytes 59.8 Mbits/sec 0 344 KBytes
[ 4] 7.00-8.00 sec 6.42 MBytes 53.9 Mbits/sec 0 344 KBytes
[ 4] 8.00-9.00 sec 6.26 MBytes 52.5 Mbits/sec 0 344 KBytes
[ 4] 9.00-10.00 sec 6.87 MBytes 57.6 Mbits/sec 0 346 KBytes
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth Retr
[ 4] 0.00-10.00 sec 59.5 MBytes 49.9 Mbits/sec 9 sender
[ 4] 0.00-10.00 sec 58.8 MBytes 49.3 Mbits/sec receiver

Try a lower channel like 5500-5600Mhz. Noise floor is not acurate. Anything above 5700Mhz won't work to good, antennas has lower gain.

Tried 5180 5260 5560 5680
None will get ccq above 70%
Speed test same as before