I think you hit this on the head Travis. "there is no real "magic" number... is all relative."
I wish I had a magic method of telling when things were going well on a link. I just have to be a geek about it and have a general "feel" for what is good/bad. Maybe some of these vendors could get together and figure out a standard of performance. (like a MPG rating for cars, flawed but a decent guideline) But then that would make it easier to compare brands. ryan _____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Travis Johnson Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 6:08 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] MT tools Yes... but RSSI only shows so much. We have links with good RSSI that have a high error rates. Even the CCQ in MT doesn't tell you everything, because there is no real "magic" number... is all relative. Travis George Rogato wrote: Don't you see real time active rissi etc when you look into the ap's interface listing all the clients? Travis Johnson wrote: What I really want is a way to right-click on an entry in the Registration table and have an option that says "Linktest". It would test sending 100 packets each direction, 10 times. It would then report: distance of the link (based on time calculations) error rate going from AP to CPE (%) error rate going from CPE to AP (%) Calculated throughput based on those results This simple tool has proven invaluable with our Trango system. Our 1st level techs can login to the AP and do a "linktest" on a customer's radio and know in 10 seconds if there is an RF problem or something else. Having to look at CCQ numbers, packet frames vs. hardware frames, etc. is way too complicated for a 1st level tech. Yes, we monitor and graph signal levels, bytes, packets, errors, etc. on every customer we have now... but that simple 10 second test makes life much, much easier. Travis Microserv Butch Evans wrote: On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Travis Johnson wrote: With a product like Trango, they have a utility called "linktest" that shows packet loss after sending ten sets of 100 packets and measuring on both sides the loss: With Mikrotik, you have stats for the wireless link as well. You can double-click an entry under WIRELESS->Registration-Table and you have a stats tab that will show you tx and rx packets, bytes, frames, frame bytes, hardware frame bytes and frames. The difference between packets and frames is loss on the link. I agree that it would be nice to have a calculated value displayed, but the information is available. The packet data is available via snmp as well, though the hardware frame data is not. You can get (from snmp) the OID that includes errors (in and out) on the wireless link as well as other interfaces. The OID is found with: "/interface print oid". Is this what you are wanting? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
