An unthrottled speed test to your NOC with something like this. www.kistech.com/speedtest/speedtest.zip
If things are working the way that 802.11b is supposed to, you should get around 3.5-4 megabit or more. Kevin Summers KISTech Internet Services Inc. www.kistech.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Wayland Sothcott > Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 5:11 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Local traffic swamping with hub (MRTG) > > > What would be a good test to see if my switch is working OK with the > airBridge? > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lars Gaarden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 1:51 AM > Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Local traffic swamping with hub (MRTG) > > > > Blazen Wireless wrote: > > > Waykand, > > > > > > Just my 2 cents your also going to see problems with a cheap switch > unless > > > you can for sure get in and force it to 10 meg 1/2 duplex! the > Airbridges > > > don't play nice with switches that auto sense. I had to go > out and buy a > 12 > > > port Cisco router that I could log into and set to the correct setting > and > > > if you go back there are many threads of people seeing problems with > packet > > > loss, slow throughput and many other problems all because an auto > sensing > > > D-link, Linkysys and many other cheap switches always sense > the AB as 10 > meg > > > FULL duplex. > > > > For whatever it is worth (2 cents?). > > > > It looks like any autoconfig ethernet device will config to 10Mbps > > full duplex > > if connected to an aP(P(O))/aB(O/T). > > > > In at least *some* configurations, this will give heavy (5-20%) packet > > loss > > in the upstream direction. Error counters on the ether and wireless side > > does not show this packet loss (lost/overrun/failed/aged/etc > > counters). If the > > device connected to the radio is set to 10Mbps half duplex, the problem > > disappears. Why? I have no idea. All I know is that I have to hard > > code the > > ethernet ports on my routers/firewalls (mainly rtl8139/a few intel > > 82558 eth > > chipset) to 10/hdx to avoid the problem. > > > > I asked my distributor to try to reproduce the problem in the lab, but > > they > > didn't find any problems with 10/fdx. So this is kind of a > skeleton in the > > closet - some times 10/fdx works fine, some times it gives heavy > > packet loss. > > > > It could be a link layer problem - i.e., some ethernet chips don't > > work very > > well with the chip in the radios but only in fdx mode, it could be an > > ethernet > > driver problem, it could be a timing problem with running the radio > > eth port > > fdx when the wireless side work load is too high (the dual core > atmel chip > > runs both the wireless and eth MACs). Pretty much impossible to debug > > unless > > you have debug/devel versions of the radio fw and eth driver on > the other > > end of the cable and equipment to monitor the ethernet phys/link level > > signals. > > > > -- > > LarsG > > > > ----------ANNOUNCEMENT---------- > > Don't forget to register for WISPCON IV > > http://www.wispcon.info/us/wispcon-iv/wispcon-iv.htm > > > > 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://archives.part-15.org > > > > ----------ANNOUNCEMENT---------- > Don't forget to register for WISPCON IV > http://www.wispcon.info/us/wispcon-iv/wispcon-iv.htm > > 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://archives.part-15.org ----------ANNOUNCEMENT---------- Don't forget to register for WISPCON IV http://www.wispcon.info/us/wispcon-iv/wispcon-iv.htm 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://archives.part-15.org
