The numbers for the AU look decent. The SU numbers are not as
good. I might consider moving the SU to mod 5 and leave the AU at
6. 10Mhz channels gives you more flexability to work around noise
and can help. The perfect world real thruput of an AU is 35MB on ver
4.0 firmware at 20Mhz, and 1/2 that at 10Mhz. It may be worthwhile
to change channels and watch for resutls, ignoring the spectrum
analyzer recommendations. You might get lucky that way especially
when using 10mhz channels.
Mike
At 09:16 AM 10/11/2006, you wrote:
Hello Mike,
Certainly the SNR is better than LEDs, but not as important or useful as a
RSSI reading. As others here have pointed out it is very possible the SNR
could improve by misaligning the link. A misaligned link will only cause
you more trouble down the road. I'm hoping Patrick follows through and
pushes the Alvarion engineers to provide it.
During one of the many calls into Alvarion Support we did look into the
modulation counters and we settled on forcing the AU and SU to 6. The AU
counters look like this:
Modulation Level:| 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 |
SUCCESS :| 1 1 1 1 1 2760796 0 0 |
FAILED :| 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 |
The SU looks like this:
Modulation Level:| 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 |
SUCCESS :| 25 1 1 110 3604 2139679 0 0 |
FAILED :| 0 0 0 7 27 85 0 0 |
Average Modulation Level : 6
The SU counters were reset last night and as such do not reflect usage
during business hours. I'm sure the interference increases during the day
as neighboring radios at the AU side become more active. Are these
acceptable results?
Alvarion never suggested trying a 10MHz channel and at this point we are
willing to try anything before we are forced to remove the VL gear all
together.
I appreciate your input.
Best,
Brad
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Hi Brad,
A lot of what Dave has said is good info and my reply is a bit
redundant. The lights on the bottom of the radio should really only
be used for a rough indication of signal level. This is true for
most radio products that offer lights for RSL. Once you have
achieved association via lights on the bottom it is best to Telnet as
Dave suggested and then tune for highest SNR. The lights can help
here, but only roughly. If you are looking at continuous link
quality display that will give you the fine indications to help you
aim and achieve the best connection possible. You may also see the
effects of heavy multipath while watcing this in the form of bouncing
SNR. This can also be seen in the lights as little light
movement. OFDM does a much better job with multipath than a
traditional radio, but it does not eliminate MP type problems.
Best SNR is only part of the equation. The counters also need to be
reviewed and I find the Breezeconfig site survey page the easiest to
read. You need to look at retrans vs total as a percentage and also
look at drops which are frames rxtx that never successfully made
it. You also need to look at the per rate counters, particularly if
the area is noisy. The radio will auto modulate from level 8 to
level 1 based on noise. The automodulation scheme is pretty decent
in the radio but I klike to hard set the max mod rate when noise is
present. The radio will always try to mod at the highest level and
sometime that level might be close to the SNR threshold and
performance may be acceptable to the algorithm but not acceptable to
you. If I see the radio counters showing many fails at mod8, fewer
at mod 7, and clean at mod 6 I would lock the radio to 6. No sense
in allowing it to try to do better than 6 if conditions mostly won't allow
it.
Channel size (10 or 20Mhz) is another tool available to help find
open spectrum to run on.
Hope this helps,
Mike
Mike Cowan
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