That's pretty good, I was expecting an average of more like 18-20ms. The
occasional spike to 250 for 1 or 2 seconds at a time is not unexpected at
900MHz with noise and retransmits.


On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 4:36 PM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote:

> SM is bridged and has an RFC1918 IP.  Test would have to be run on-net.
>
> I just tried a few ping tests from the (Cisco) tower router.  100 pings
> typically comes back around 4/10/35 for min/avg/max.  I ran 1000 pings
> though and got 4/11/48, ran another 1000 and got 4/12/248.  Zero packet
> loss, but apparently noise can cause an occasional latency spike, probably
> due to upstream.
>
>
> *From:* Eric Kuhnke <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Saturday, December 19, 2015 6:15 PM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] 900 MHz 450i update with better results :-)
>
> Any chance of running 'mtr' against the CPE IP of house #2 and leaving it
> for a few hours?  I'm curious what the min/max/average latency looks like.
>
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 9:23 AM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> So yesterday I did some tweaking on the sync parameters and was able to
>> get better results.  I'll put the details in a second post, but I wanted to
>> update the grim picture I painted the other day.
>>
>> As initially set up, I was only getting 1X MIMO-A, even on a 5 MHz
>> channel and after trying a bunch of frequencies, and the SMs would not
>> reliably stay registered.
>>
>> After tweaking the sync parameters and channel, I was able to get one sub
>> to 4X MIMO-B and the other to 2X MIMO-B, and increase the channel width to
>> 7 MHz.  They have stayed registered now for 18 hours and while the speed
>> varies a bit they hold 4X and 2X.  Here are linktest results I just ran:
>>
>> subscriber #1
>> 2 miles with a few bare trees and apparently some multipath issues
>> 2X MIMO-B
>> 8.6M down, 4.4M up, 13.0M aggregate
>>
>> subscriber #2
>> 8 miles with 2 lines of trees and a house in the path
>> 4X MIMO-B
>> 14.6M down, 4.6M up, 19.3M aggregate
>>
>> The AP and subscriber #1 have bad interference across the band,
>> interference is not as bad at subscriber #2.
>>
>> These numbers may not look great compared to 100M aggregate capacity, but
>> they are around a 6 times improvement over what we had with FSK.  I'm sure
>> we would see better results at another site with less interference, in fact
>> I have another tower where we can run 2X FSK but 4M aggregate just isn't
>> enough capacity.
>>
>>
>

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