My links from site 3 to site 4 are seeing about 230Kbytes for an http download from one of my local web-servers at site 3 so if my math is right that would be about 2megabits the link is only about 2.5 miles and the RSSI/Link qual are about 55-60%/80% does that not seem a bit slow. Strangely enough most of my links seem to be getting almost exactly the same kind of throughput point to point . I was expecting more than that, the longest link is only 3 miles.Assuming good RSSI and LQ, you should be seeing in excess of 2.5 - 3 megabit on the wireless network. We had a link a while back that was 6 miles away getting 3.9 megabit.
That is pretty much what I thought but it's always nice to get a sanity check now and again.
The only real advantage to putting a backhaul node into AP mode is so it can serve clients within it's range. The downside is that now the clients and that backhaul leg are sharing that AP.
This raises an interesting question about PPPoE for bandwidth management? I am pretty new to PPPoE and have set it up fine in testing on a single network segment. The question would be how does it work in routed segments? I have been setting the clients to use dhcp on the ethernet interface as there is no DHCP server the ethernet adapter has no valid ip and cannot route any traffic the PPPoE client then connects gets its ip from the server via PPPoE. So do the PPPoE packets that initiate the connection travel ok between routed segments or would each segment need its own PPPoE server? I would like to use one PPPoE server for bandwidth management if I can to reduce the Administration of clients to one server.It doesn't take very many hops to start needing a routed as opposed to a bridged network. I have a tower now that is 2 hops away and it's already slowing the entire network down whenever this one guy starts his VPN session for telecommuting. We'll be working towards routed segments over the next few months. :-)
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