If it's a pre-wired unit like the DynaDish 5, you can't change polarities. Will just need to live with the confusion. That is pretty bad upload performance. It could use some spectral analysis on the HamWAN side, and perhaps testing with another client on the same sector to find the cause. I hope it wasn't caused by the 10MHz bandwidth change! I don't have time to address this right now, so hopefully someone else can step in. The download numbers look fine though. --Bart On 11/1/2019 8:22 PM, Scott Currie wrote:
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 <mailto: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 <http://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 -- Sent from my mobile device...
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