Mama says... "Flow Control is the Devil " !! in all seriousness, Flow Control is a powerful setting, which can hurt or solve issues, depending on a lot of what if's.
With the netonix, they way to see if you need flow control or if it is on is to do BW tests on the link (i.e. force a large amount of traffic across) and look at the Port stats (counters).... you will be able to see if you need it and or what is the effect of it, being on or off.... :) Regards. Faisal Imtiaz Snappy Internet & Telecom 7266 SW 48 Street Miami, FL 33155 Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232 Help-desk: (305)663-5518 Option 2 or Email: [email protected] > From: "CBB - Jay Fuller" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, December 5, 2016 6:02:02 PM > Subject: [AFMUG] attn: mhoppes + netonix + flow control > Upgraded firmware, this was certainly hurting our system. Speed complaints > galmore. > Upon further investiation we discovered flow control was turned on > automatically > on a netonix upgrade. > Researched our backhauls, ran speed tests between mikrotiks, etc, etc, things > were certainly slower. > Enabled flow control on the mimosa backhauls we have ; no effect. > Rolled it all back over the weekend (but forgot where i'd read in the forum > netonix enabled flow control at some point) > found it tonight and immediately speeds are up by 33% (we were doing 90-100 > meg, > now doing 120-120, at peak > times should be doing 200+) > just sharing... > ALSO - noticed on the mimoas although we had flow control enabled, the switch > apparently never saw it. It has an icon > for flow control and the EPMP radios we have showed it was enabled but > although > it was enabled on the mimoas the > netonix never showed the flow control icon by the mimoas radios....
