Ignore noise floor/CCQ on Atheros cards. In every place I have tested, the Atheros card will say -105 to -95 noise floor but the Canopy unit will say -95 to -83. Never seen a higher noise floor then -95 on an Atheros card.
Is this 2.4 or 5.8? Are you seeing -71 both ways? Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 "When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth." --- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Randy Cosby <[email protected]> wrote: > Are you passing traffic over the link yet? CCQ numbers are very > inaccurate until traffic is going through. They usually improve. > > > Mike wrote: > > I just put up a new repeater site today. I am using MT for the > > P2P. I aligned the dishes by eyeball and a compass bearing, and > > think I'm close. The signal at both ends is -71 dBm, but am > > expecting better. I am going to "wag" one or the other (or both) > > dishes, but wondered where to start. This list has many answers, so > > I thought I'd start here. > > > > The master side, 165' feet up shows Tx/Rx CCQ (%) at 88 78 and varies > > from 86/78 to 91/86 > > > > The slave end, about 65' on top of a power pole shows Tx/Rx CCQ (%) > > at 84/90 and the Tx varies from 76 to 86 but usually stays in the mid > 80s. > > > > Signal to noise is about 47 on both ends. > > > > Which dish would you wag first based on these readings? > > > > Mike > > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > -- > Randy Cosby > Vice President > InfoWest, Inc > > 435-674-0165 x 2010 > > http://www.infowest.com/ > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
