Bad radio or interference etc. on one end of the link. Also the 4 port cards die under load. I've had to pull all of mine out and run indivudual ethernet cards. marlon
----- Original Message ----- From: <sa...@michianawireless.com> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 9:50 AM Subject: [WISPA] Mikrotik Weirdness!? > Ok, > > Im going bonkers. We are getting ping drops from our Mikrotik devices to > the other. Our main router is PC based with one of those 4 port RB cards > in it. Starting the other day out of the blue the net started acting funky > and we were getting large pauses. So I started pinging. Get ping loss from > the main router to everything. > > average pps going through the router 585 and transfers around 4m at the > moment. > > We switched out the pc and even used an integrated ethernet port on the > new pc to check connectivity to the other devices via means other than the > RB 4 port ethernet card to make sure that wasnt going bad. But no > improvement STILL getting pings loss. Switched cables. STILL. Latest OS. > Now here is the wierd part I do not get. > > We have our backhaul radio connected directly to the onboard ethernet port > on the pc router. Running a ping from the pc router to the radio port in > the ping specifying to use not ANY but the backhaul port as we labeled it > will get us around 10-15% packet loss. While at the same time running a > ping from the bachaul radio to the router gets 0% packet loss using the > same method. How is this possible? > > PC PORT (ethernet cable) RADIO ETH = Lost packets > > Radio ETH (ethernet cable) PC PORT = 0 Lost packets > > ? > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/