Bart, David's test location is near where you and I tested last year. I recommended in another communication that David determine if connecting to Baldi is an option, as we received a surprisingly functional connection to it last summer. Could be an interim solution. Michael On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 1:59 PM, Bart Kus <me@bartk.us> wrote:
This answer lacks a resolution for David's problem. Let us come back to you with a better response.
--Bart
On 4/4/2016 1:53 PM, Tom Hayward wrote:
On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 1:01 PM, David Giuliani <David@giuliani.org> wrote:
Hi - I’m new to the PSDR, and could use some help getting my HamWAN connection going. I installed a Poynting + Mikrotik Router Board system on my roof, and configured using the Wiki, no problems. I’m getting strong signals between my QTH at north Mercer Island and the Capitol Park station:
Connected to ess, CapitolPark-S2/AE7SJ nv2 Signal: -68dBm SNR 51dB Tx: 16.2Mbps, 96% ccq, 16.2Mbps Rx: 16.2Mbps, 96% ccq, 16.2Mbps
However, I get sporadic Internet performance, measured using Speedtest.net <http://speedtest.net>. Here are a few readings this morning:
*ping down up* 21ms 3.9 2.8 35ms <0.1 stopped 77ms 0.27 0.46 42ms 2.0 0.1
I did check my cabling between the radio and the computer by substitution - no change.
Two things: 1. Anybody have any suggestions? What data rate are others of you getting? 2. Is there a place to go to get help on subjects like this?
Hi David,
Nice to see you have had some success with HamWAN! -68 dBm is a great signal strength and I'm sure many others here envy your clear line-of-sight to a HamWAN site.
I took a look at this and the slow hop between you and the Internet is between our Capitol Park and Queen Anne sites. That link is sub-optimal because it's connected off the sidelobe of a dish that is pointed at the SnoDEM site. It's enough to work, but as you've found it's not the fastest. There's nothing you can do about it.
The way I investigated this is by doing speed tests to each of the hops in your path. You can find the path like this (from your modem):
/tool traceroute use-dns=yes 8.8.8.8
(8.8.8.8 is Google public DNS servers. It's likely to always be up. Feel free to use any other target depending on the nature of your test.)
To run a speed test (this should work to all HamWAN routers--let me know if it doesn't):
/tool bandwidth-test protocol=tcp CapitolPark-S2.hamwan.net
This will test speed between your modem and CapitolPark-S2.hamwan.net. You can test the other direction by adding direction=transmit to the command.
This is a perfect forum to ask questions like this.
Tom KD7LXL
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