I agree, the 7Mb/s is not what I consider out of line for the configuration. We've had this site for nearly 8 years now. So in 8 years you can imagine some of the issues site has - ie customers with poor signal rates, customers on the edge of sectors, ancient CPE (just took out one of my original installs - an Orinoco silver USB, with a 24db grid on the roof and LMR400 ran to the computer; So that we could roll the sector to 10Mhz), etc.
I've chosen to add a PMP320 system to the tower and try and move some of the more problematic customers to that system and hopefully alleviate the congestion on the 2.4Ghz AP's. We currently have 6 2.4ghz ap's, 1 700Mhz ap, 6 900Mhz ap's, 4 5.8ghz backhauls, an 11Ghz backhaul and now adding 2 pmp320 sectors.. I've thought about deploying a rocket m5 down in the DFS channels but there is a small municipal airport within about 3 miles of this site. I'm really trying hard to not have to forklift the 2.4 equipment at this point, but with the calls coming in with requests of higher bandwidth connections I'm not sure where to go from where I am at.. I need to beat my installer with a stick for letting some of these customers on to the system though. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Troy Settle Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 10:55 AM To: 'Mikrotik discussions' Subject: Re: [Mikrotik] 2.4Ghz AP upgrade recomendations Robert, On your 7Mbit/s throughput... this is actually pretty reasonable. At 10Mhz, you have a max interface rate of 27mbit. With a coding rate of 1/2, you're down to 13.5. Assuming that client association rate are all over the map, 7mbit/s is not unexpected. BTW, this is not a limit on the RB... this is a limit of the wireless technology. I'm looking at something very similar with a system built as 12 APs total in 5.8Ghz, all horizontal, with lots of duplicate channels being used. It's a mess. The ISP who bought the system deployed 3 2.4Ghz sectors and has moved some clients over, but this hasn't really helped much, as they left all 3 units in 802.11b, and have some really weak association rates. They're lucky to get 2Mbit/s aggregate. My thoughts on this, would be to deploy up to 5 5.8Ghz sectors and 3 2.4Ghz sectors. All radios 802.11n running 2x2 MIMO. CPE would stay as-is, except that crews would be deployed to address problem installations, such as adjusting the alignment, rotating polarity, or even replacing the CPE to change the band, installing stronger radios, or higher gain antennas. There are a LOT of variables to take into account. Hopefully, in the end, we'll have nobody connected at less than -70db. For the AP, I'm leaning strongly towards the RocketM, which would seem to offer the best price/performance out there. The only thing I'm not clear on, is what use GPS is if UBNT still recommends not using the same channel. I'd love to be able to use a full 2x2/40mhz in the middle of the 2.4Ghz band on 3 (or more) sectors. -Troy > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:mikrotik- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert Haas > Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 9:22 AM > To: 'Mikrotik discussions' > Subject: Re: [Mikrotik] 2.4Ghz AP upgrade recomendations > > Total through the AP. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Reed > Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 5:39 AM > To: Mikrotik discussions > Subject: Re: [Mikrotik] 2.4Ghz AP upgrade recomendations > > Is that 7Mbps per customer or total through the AP? > > On 2/4/2013 4:30 PM, Robert Haas wrote: > > We've been using Routerboards (433AH's as of late) with UBNT XR2's > > for our AP's for years. It's time to start migrating these AP's to > > something with more capacity. > > > > With 10Mhz channels we find we are hitting a bottleneck of about > > 7Mb/s before customers start complaining about slow speeds & high > > pings times > etc. > > > > > > > > What is the next logical step? > > > > > > > > I think the 433AH's have enough oomp as I just bridge them down to > > the core switch. Should I change to a MIMO setup with an R52Hn? > > > > If we do change, will our existing CPE still function (Mostly > > RB411's and a few UBNT clients)? > > > > > > > > One particular tower has 140 2.4Ghz customers spread across 6 AP's > > (3 > horiz. > > & 3 vertical). 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