I'm using R52N's on a link that is 28 Miles. Using the same Dish. I have -60's on the signal, and we can do ~50MBit+ across the link. My first guess is alignment. We had XR5's on the link, and it was -50. At that distance with those cards/antennas, your signal should be a little better. Also could be a bad jumper. Also, we had a few clients on the distribution side of our business complain that those dishes are not performing for them, but we have not seen any direct issue. With MikroTik you can run NStreme and really optimize the link or use the new N cards and get even better performance.
Regards, Chuck Hogg Shelby Broadband 502-722-9292 ch...@shelbybb.com http://www.shelbybb.com -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Steve Barnes Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 8:08 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Dual Pol FDX Link Issue We did not try that this time in the past we have had them down as low as 12 but the signal got worse and no real improvement in speed. They are currently at 14. Steve Barnes RC-WiFi Wireless Internet Service -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Paul Hendry Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 6:50 AM To: wireless Subject: Re: [WISPA] Dual Pol FDX Link Issue Are you running the XR5's at full power? Have you tried dialing down the tx power? We had a similar issue with some dual-pol antennas and had to turn the tx power down to less than 14db. -----Original Message----- From: Steve Barnes [mailto:st...@pcswin.com] Sent: 24 September 2009 12:46 To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] Dual Pol FDX Link Issue I have a 18 mile 5GHz Link to 50MB fiber connection. Original config was a HDDA5W-29-DP, 26 Inch 29 dBi dual pol Pacwireless dish at each end, StarOS War2 boards with 2 XR5 using the StarOS FDX. The link has never performed well. 10meg x 5 was the best I could get running ½ duplex. The Horizontal had never worked right or so I thought. Recently we added another DCE and 2nd WAR board at each end to reduce self interference and realigned the Antennas. We setup a MTIK at each end and did Pseudo FDX through them. No better. If we run FDX the Horizontal all but crashes so we set it back to 1/2 . Yesterday we tried something new. We set our routing so that our inbound come up the Vertical of FDX link and outbound goes out a second link. I then got 20 Meg across the Vertical link. I switched to the horizontal link for inbound, 20 meg. I switched direction outbound through the FDX link 20MB. This was making no sense. We bonded the Vert and Hor together still going just one direction and the speed fell to <6MB. Put it back to FDX reset route tables and with a heavy speed test and lots of customer traffic all we could get was 3MB down 1MB up. We have tried all types of Channels Hor is on 5825 and Vert is on 5240 so there is plenty of separation. Signal is -57 with a -96 floor. Currently I am running Inbound through the Vertical side and Outbound through the other path I have which all returns back to the same NOC getting me 20Mb x 15Mb, but I don't like that setup for failover and tracert issues. Not sure all my VPN clients will like it either. So any one have any Ideas? There has to be an issue with the Antennas I think but the installer has these same antennas being used else ware on spectra link radios and getting 100MB FDX. I cant just change antennas, One end is on a CrowneCastle tower and I have to do a full new engineer fee to change anything. What can I try next? Steve RC-WiFi -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
