Over 50 and you get latency issues ? ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Forbes Mercy <forbes.me...@wabroadband.com> Reply-To: WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:45:32 -0700
> Really Josh, you want me to rehash this? To be simple I'm not a true >geek, I barely speak linux and Router OS not at all. Our network of 700 >over 12 towers is bridged, a big no-no but I can't keep radios up long >enough to make us routed along with the growth sprut we've had this year >(we 're averaging 3 installs a day with one installer/field tech). >We've found that if you get over 50 on Mikrotik you start getting >latency issues, four of our towers have over that. When I was all >Mikrotik (well 90% that 10% Moto) it worked great for about a year and a >half, then the packet storms started, then radios started doing weird >intermittent things like turning off. Sure we did the obvious, change >passwords, isolate the radios from the rest of the network but it just >started to get worse, probably traffic driven from our ongoing growth >that the greater demand for more bandwidth (we are 90% residential so >Netflix type stuff). > >To solve this we started replacing backhauls with Ubiquiti radios. >Ubiquiti allows more traffic so the added pressure really started to >take down the Mikrotik AP's, ports and bridges now drop with >undiagnoisable (new word) regularity. Then the bandwidth manager >failed, Butch rebuilt it but for some reason the upgrade to 4.11 made >failures happen more often that were like the AP's, dropped ports and >bridges. We compensated by making a path on the Ethernet side and >in-network side so we could maybe ... (fix the disabled port/bridge) >from either end. We are spending all of our time building redundant >this and redundant that until we realized one thing, on every outage >Mikrotik's had cascading failures shutting down ports or turning off >radios (disabling) meanwhile Ubiquiti never went down, ever. So we >started pulling all Mikrotik backhauls, now we only lose AP's and the >bandwidth manager. Since the bandwidth manager takes the entire network >down we want replace it. Now you're up to speed on where we are, I call >Mikrotik my 'backwards momentum' mover, we have to stop our forward >motion on building and installing so we can restore service, it takes >the fun out of this business thats for sure. > >Forbes > >On 10/14/2010 3:17 PM, Josh Luthman wrote: >> >> Hrm why doesn't Mikrotik work? >> >> On Oct 14, 2010 6:15 PM, "Forbes Mercy" <forbes.me...@wabroadband.com >> <mailto:forbes.me...@wabroadband.com>> wrote: >> > In my mission to rid our network of Mikrotik I need to shop for a new >> > bandwidth manager since mine likes to randomly drop one of the ports or >> > bridge, and reset the route gateway (twice already this week). I'm >> > looking for a more friendly windows type based unit, any suggestions. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Forbes >> > >> > >> > >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> > http://signup.wispa.org/ >> > >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > >> > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org <mailto: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/ > > > > ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at avolve.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
