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. 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