So, it's not clear to me how to change the polarity on the channels. I'll do some reading. It's a DynaDish 5.

These numbers look low, I may not be doing this right:

/tool bandwidth-test 44.24.240.197 duration=30s direction=transmit
                status: running
              duration: 29s
            tx-current: 11.9kbps
  tx-10-second-average: 11.9kbps
      tx-total-average: 25.7kbps
           random-data: no
             direction: transmit
               tx-size: 1500
      connection-count: 20
        local-cpu-load: 4%

 /tool bandwidth-test 44.24.240.197 duration=30s direction=receive
                status: running
              duration: 29s
            rx-current: 12.8Mbps
  rx-10-second-average: 12.2Mbps
      rx-total-average: 12.0Mbps
          lost-packets: 1192
           random-data: no
             direction: receive
               rx-size: 1500
      connection-count: 20
        local-cpu-load: 16%

-Scott

On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 8:06 PM Bart Kus <me@bartk.us> wrote:
It appears you're connected to the Baldi site.  That's probably the only site remaining that still doesn't have MIMO (2-chainz) modems.  It only provides service with horizontally polarized signals.

It looks like your modem's setup to receive HPol on ch1.  HamWAN typically suggests HPol be wired to ch0, and all our network gear follows that standard:

http://hamwan.org/Standards/Component%20Engineering/Client%20Hardware.html

It makes troubleshooting easier when there's a clear polarity-to-chain mapping.

I'm also not sure why we're still running that sector at 5MHz bandwidth, it should be 10MHz.  I've gone ahead and updated the sector's config to be 10MHz.  This should provide you with a bit more speed, at the cost of 3dB of signal power, which you can afford given your -66dBm link.

Feel free to run some bandwidth-tests to Baldi-S3.hamwan.net (44.24.240.197) to confirm performance.

PS: The "tx-signal-strength-ch0" is reported back to you from Baldi-S3 (how well it hears you), since Baldi-S3 only has a ch0, even though that's not your tx-ch0, but rather your tx-ch1 that it's measuring.  You see how confusing things get when polarities are flipped?  :)

--Bart


On 11/1/2019 7:46 PM, Scott Currie wrote:
So, should I be concerned about my ch0 numbers?

-Scott

[ns7c@WA7AUB-Baldi] > /interface wireless monitor 0
                  status: connected-to-ess
                 channel: 5880/5/an
       wireless-protocol: nv2
                 tx-rate: 6.5Mbps-5MHz/1S
                 rx-rate: 13Mbps-5MHz/1S
                    ssid: HamWAN
                   bssid: D4:CA:6D:7A:A3:EF
              radio-name: N7FSP/Baldi-S3
         signal-strength: -66dBm
     signal-strength-ch0: -90dBm
     signal-strength-ch1: -66dBm
      tx-signal-strength: -67dBm
  tx-signal-strength-ch0: -67dBm
             noise-floor: -101dBm
         signal-to-noise: 35dB
                  tx-ccq: 47%
                  rx-ccq: 79%
   authenticated-clients: 1
        current-distance: 31
                wds-link: no
                  bridge: no
        routeros-version: 6.41.3
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