I have a airBridge Outdoor at about 8 miles that's consistenly showing numbers of 82% RSSI (-25dbi) and 92% Link Quality, yet it often drops to 2 Mbit per second and stays there. It's connected with a 24 dB Andrews Grid on a 60 Foot tower over fairly open fields to the AP that's on a 180 foot building that's clearly (Visually) in line of site. There are some trees about a half a mile away, but at 60' up the tower, I'm way over them. Even up 40' I can see over them to the main AP, so there should not be any substantial fresnel zone issues I don't think.
I have tried setting the radio to 1 Mbit and 5.5 Mbit and it still seems to switch up and down from 1 to 11 at will, regardless of the settings I choose. Mostly though, it seems to have decided to stay at 2 Mbit. Like I say, my rates drop to 2 Mbit and I can't ping packets larger than about 128 bytes to the radio with any consistency. If I go to 256 byte packets, I loose 25% of them. If I ping with 384 byte packets, I'll lose 50% of them. This is my first SmartBridge, plus it's my longest link, so I'm not sure what to expect at that distance. Any suggestions / help would be appreciated. Thank you. Todd Chamberlain The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://198.63.203.6
