So I represent a small WISP working on two small deployments: one is a 17 Pole pipeline, and the other just about 10 Poles. Both deployments are using the PowerBox Pro to bridge the ethernet ports of the radios to form our data pipeline, as well as power them up.
Now, just yesterday we managed to finish setting everything up and we ran several speed tests using Fast.com - the results were horrifying:
- At the ingress point (10Gbps circuit from ISP), speed test results = ~980Mbps to 1.1Gbps (using a 1Gbps link)
- At the first pole (i.e., the first PowerBox Pro - which has the first Slave antenna plugged into it), speed test results = ~950 to 990Mbps
- At the second pole(i.e., the second PowerBox Pro - which has the second Slave antenna plugged into it), speed test results = ~400 to 450Mbps
- At the last pole (i.e., 17th PowerBox Pro), speed test results = ~110 to 130 Mbps
Fortunately, we're seeing these results at both sites and is leading us to conclude that, somehow, throughput gets cut in half after the second pole, then settles around ~110 Mbps (which is almost like the throughput lose one would experience with a WiFi Repeater).
Has anybody run into this before?
Is this normal with the LHG 60G Wireless Wire Dish antennas?
Are we doing something wrong by serializing these antennas using the PowerBox Pro as a bridge?
Any comments of assistance is greatly appreciated, thank you.