I dont know how they can make that claim when their "flagship" 450 product will suffer from decreased capacity when SM's with weak signals connect to it and pass traffic. Same thing with LTE. Burns up more airtime so why would EPMP be better than all the expensive gear? Doesnt make sense.
Sent from my iPhone Kurt Fankhauser Wavelinc Communications P.O. Box 126 Bucyrus, OH 44820 http://www.wavelinc.com tel. 419-562-6405 fax. 419-617-0110 > On Nov 21, 2016, at 9:48 PM, CBB - Jay Fuller <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > It is my understanding a poor receive on one SM will not hurt performance of > the other SMs... > ( i could be wrong but am pretty sure i read this on the forums ) > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Timothy Steele > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, November 21, 2016 8:38 PM > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] ePMP 5ghz issues > > Sounds like major interference or you are installing right under the tower > without giving the SM installs uptilt > > >> On Mon, Nov 21, 2016, 9:03 PM Josh Corson <[email protected]> wrote: >> We are having some issues with a epmp 2000 AP. >> >> At first there was an install on a customers private tower to get >> service. I noticed the MCS downlink and uplink were sitting around MCS >> 1 with 80% or so of packets. So it affected all other customers on the >> AP and brought those other customers into 20% MCS 1 levels. Now his SM >> has been raised and signals are great, -60dBm, SNR of 37dB, MCS 13/15. >> The SM is also operating at mostly MCS 14-15 with only 1% in MCS 1. >> I changed the management to be MCS 0 to attempt to help with the >> minimal connection to MCS 1 so it will be allowed to pass traffic at >> that rate. >> >> However, this customer still has issues where the internet >> connectivity is random. Sometimes it just completely drops when you >> put traffic to it, but when it is on, speed tests of 37 Mbps down and >> 12 upload. >> >> All other customers are still on MCS 1 with levels ranging from 7% to >> 20%. I can assume they are having the same trouble as the customer >> listed above. >> >> All software is 3.1 >> >> My question is, what is the issue? This SM shows nothing but good >> results, yet connectivity is poor at best, and all other customers are >> still having issues. I even disconnected the SM that caused customers >> to have problems and they were still modulating at the 7-20% MCS 1 >> level. Tried changing channels, etc. but still no results. >> >> Any help would be appreciated. >> >> Josh
