Today Kenny and I made a trip up to Buck Mountain for some improvements.
The primary two focus items were to re-purpose the former Buck to Gold PtP
dish from Gold to Camp Murray. The second RF item was to raise S2 a bit on
the structure to improve signal path.
Some additional signal path maintenance was done.
Even before arriving onsite, the Buck-CampMurray path was close enough to
the Buck-Gold and Gold-CampMurray paths to get the Buck-CampMurray path
"talking" with OSPF active at a measly 6.5Mbps. After peaking the dish,
that speed went up to 28.8Mbps. After the other maintenance and some time
to train the signal and settle out, the Buck-CampMurray link runs between
-68 and -72, with a speed of 78-86Mbps. This is without signal-peaking the
Camp Murray end. Both ends of that link are running RouterOS 7, and the
Camp Murray end is running a 912 instead of a 921 (for you hardware geeks).
There is still room for improvement at the Camp Murray end, but in truth we
appear to be in a pretty good spot even if we can't get to it for a while!
This now gives the Buck Mountain site two pretty equal link paths to Camp
Murray and Capital Park.
If you have a client that attaches to S2.Buck, check your connection and let
us know how it's going. We know that one client needed a restart before
reconnecting.
Traffic was UGLY coming back, but a good day's results nevertheless.
Thanks Kenny for putting together the time, site access, climbing, etc.
Cheers,
Rob Salsgiver - NR3O
