we have the same Problem with the epmp Stuff..only problems and bugs from the beginning!
2016-03-07 17:00 GMT+01:00 Darren Shea <darr...@ecpi.com>: > We had seen some issues with ePMP customers on high-speed plans getting poor > speedtest results - we found that changing the customer's router's MTU from > Auto to 1480 helped immensely. Another factor was to make sure that all > backhauls in the path were running at full connection speed (in other words, > a backhaul whose Ethernet port can run at 1000M should be running at 1000M, > even if the traffic never approaches 100M) all the way out to the internet. > > -- Darren > > -----Original Message----- > From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Justin Wilson > Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2016 10:27 AM > To: af@afmug.com > Subject: [AFMUG] Poor throughput on ePMP AP > > Sp I have an issue. Tower is a 4 sector ePMP setup and two backhauls. We are > seeing poor throughput when connected to the APs (all of them). Signals are > great. Quality and capacity are great. When going through the AP we are > consistently seeing 4-5 megs of download out to a known speedtest server. If > we plug into the same wired port on which the AP, which gave us the poor > throughput, we can max out the 100 meg uplink. Issue only happens when going > through the wireless. Here is what I know: > > > 1.APs are set to 75/25. SM can do a link test and get 50meg x 12meg on the > link test. So RF is good. Isolated AP to where only one client was on. > Same great results. > > 2.Firmware does not seem to be a factor. Can reproduce this on 2.6.1, 2.5.1, > and 2.4.3. > > 3.Have replaced POE injectors 3 times with different manufactures. > > 4.Does not matter if it is DHCP or PPPoE. Hard wired is fine. Wireless > stinks. > > > The AP is plugged into a POE which then plugs into a Mikrotik 2011. If I > plug into the same exact port the aps plug into speeds are great. The only > thing that is left is patch cable to POE, Cable to AP, or AP. I refuse to > think 6 cables on the tower do the exact same thing. The odds for that are > Powerball winning crazy. Speediest from a laptop hooked to an SM to the 2011 > are poor. 4-5 megs consistent with spikes up to 10-13, but all over the > place. Acts like negotiation. Have set Mikrotik to Auto, to 100 meg full, > only accepted 100 meg on auto. > > Customers who have 5 meg packages or below don’t see this. Those with 10 meg > packages are the ones seeing 4-5 meg speeds. 10 meg packages did work. > > Clients are mainly at 2.6.1, but we can reproduce this with a 2.5 and 2.4.x > SMs. Nothign has changed in the network, which tests out just fine up to the > point it gets handed off to the ePMP. > > Anyone ran into this? Any thoughts? > > Justin > >
