Anybody managed to max out a 450m ? What's your max throughput ?

Hi Andy,

The diagnostics have been emailed to you.

Hi Rachel,

Nothing has turned up in my inbox, although I think office365 was having problems yesterday.

I'll send a private forum message to confirm the details.

best regards,

Andy.

re: QoS settings, entering zero is the way to get around the 310Mbps aggregate capacity limit.

Brady Joseph

Jun 18, 8:27 AM CDT

Chat started: 2018-06-18 12:59 PM UTC

(12:59:18 PM) Brady Joseph: QoS on AP questions..

(01:09:24 PM) *** Purnankh Dhankhar joined the chat ***
(01:09:34 PM) Purnankh Dhankhar: Hello Brady, thank you for contacting Cambium Networks Customer Support!
(01:14:56 PM) Purnankh Dhankhar: Are you there Brady?
(01:15:00 PM) Brady Joseph: yes i am
(01:15:05 PM) Brady Joseph: Quick question...
(01:15:15 PM) Brady Joseph: what is the QoS in the 450m AP used for?
(01:17:44 PM) Purnankh Dhankhar: You can configure/control the amount of data traffic between AP and SM.
(01:17:48 PM) Brady Joseph: I notice this QoS setting set Speed for the AP on the whole.
(01:18:50 PM) Purnankh Dhankhar: You can refer to page 536 for each setting and its function.
(01:18:53 PM) Purnankh Dhankhar: https://support.cambiumnetworks.com/file/10acace92cae761d2252601efca1edbf9f3b9a10
(01:19:13 PM) Purnankh Dhankhar: This is the user guide link.
(01:19:33 PM) Brady Joseph: I first noticed when the default speed setting was set to 150Mbps after changing it 250mbps the data climbed up to 250Mbps but we were told by a cambium engineer that the AP speed is open and that this QoS setting only relate to the amount of bandwidth a customer SM can push to the AP.
(01:20:43 PM) Purnankh Dhankhar: This is allowing the amount of throughput to be provided by the AP to the SMs. If you set 150 Mbps, you had restricted the throughput.
(01:21:54 PM) Brady Joseph: Let me give you a better idea of the AP in question... Its on a 40Mhz channel with 220 customers. where the qos setting in AP is set to 260 down and 40 up. at this setting my AP is still restricted even when my throughput multiple vc test reflects 520mbps.
(01:22:51 PM) Brady Joseph: It looks like the agregate QoS setting is 300Mbps... it does not allow QoS and greater than that. Why?
(01:24:23 PM) Brady Joseph: I need greater QoS setting in AP. to push 300 Mbps or more to connected customers.
(01:25:22 PM) Purnankh Dhankhar: I believe you are doing these configurations on Configuration -- QoS tab.
(01:25:30 PM) Brady Joseph: yes
(01:25:43 PM) Purnankh Dhankhar: If you set the values to 0, it will become unlimited or uncapped.
(01:25:45 PM) Brady Joseph: in the ap
(01:25:51 PM) Brady Joseph: ohh yea????
(01:25:51 PM) Purnankh Dhankhar: Thats correct
(01:25:54 PM) Brady Joseph: thank you!!!!
(01:26:03 PM) Brady Joseph: :-)
(01:26:18 PM) Purnankh Dhankhar: No problem.
(01:26:22 PM) Purnankh Dhankhar: Is there anything else I can help you with?
(01:26:57 PM) Brady Joseph: no
(01:26:59 PM) Brady Joseph: thank you
(01:27:06 PM) Purnankh Dhankhar: You are welcome.
(01:27:09 PM) Purnankh Dhankhar: I will go ahead and close this chat. Thank you for choosing Cambium Networks!
(01:27:15 PM) Purnankh Dhankhar: Have a good day.
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Thanks Michael,

re: QoS settings, entering zero is the way to get around the 310Mbps aggregate capacity limit.

Did you get a change in throughput after doing this ?

best regards,

Andy.

Hi Andy,

We changed each field under the AP Bandwidth Settings header in the QoS tab to 0.  However we have not seen any significant improvement this afternoon.

I ran a link test to an SM around 1PM and received our standard 12Mb down / 3 up.  Then this afternoon around 4PM the SM was capping out at around 3Mb down / 3Mb up.

I have emailed the newest diagnostic files to you from this afternoon.

Would it be possible to have an engineer look at this tomorrow?  This is becoming a  major issue for us.  We are having many, many complaints from customers off of the AP.

Hi Rachael,

I'm not in the office today to look at the files myself but I will forward them to several others who should be able to go through them.

best regards,

Andy.

Here is a link test from one of our sectors. Best results so far.

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Hi Jnolla,

That looks pretty good !

Could you let us know a few things for comparison like bandwidth, range and downlink percentage ?

Do you know why Rodriguez Jorge is only getting MIMO-A ?

Thanks for sharing this, great to see good results in the field.

best regards,

Andy.

Hi Andy,

We have 3 plans:

15/5

25/10

35/15

Range on the AP is set to 15 miles. All of the customers for this sector are within the 2 mile range. AP is set to 75% downlink.

I'm not entirely sure why Rodriguez Jorge is in MIMO-A on AP. The SM shows as below:

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Hi,

Thanks for the update, I agree SM end saying MIMO-B, but the Signal Strength ratio is 11dB V-H, so maybe there is an alignment issue causing the SM to switch between MIMO-A and MIMO-B. Worth keeping an eye on.

I was also interested in the bandwidth set on the radio, e.g. 20MHz, 30MHz or 40MHz ?

What group sizes were you getting in the linktest (the bit below your first screen shot) ?

Sorry for all the questions !

Nice to get feedback from the 'real world'.

best regards,

Andy.

Bandwidth is set to 40Mhz. Here is the group sizes.

Screen Shot 2018-08-13 at 8.10.58 PM.png

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Wow, that's pretty consistent group of 4 !

Thanks.

Andy.

Big shoutout to Cambium's Design services!! I've been working with Seth and we're delivering 100mbps packages....

This wasn't our best but I'm still winning :) 

I

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So just so no one thinks i'm cheating in a lab- these are legit customers just awesome engineering from Seth with Cambium's design team...

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Thanks Thomas,

Those are some great results !

best regards,

Andy.

Thomas,

Glad to see you are experiencing value add with our engineering services.  We are continuing to refine and add services to our portfolio.   We are happy to have partnered with you in your network buildout!

CCH

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Link to some of the installation pictures.

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Hi,this is Felix from Lagos Nigeria


@Felixmatex wrote:
Hi,this is Felix from Lagos Nigeria

Hi Felix,

How can we help you ?

best regards,

Andy.

Hi,

Now 16.0 is officially released it may be time to see if there are any improvements seen.

We can also do UL MUMIMO in this release, so aggregate throughput should see a boost if you are anywhere near the limits of the system.

I've got a few tests from our 'perfect' system that forms groups of 7 most of the time.

This is 20MHz, 2.5ms frame, 85% DL, 1 mile and 2 contention slots (AES-256 enabled).

The link test to multiple LUIDs now allows a choice of Bi-directional, downlink only or uplink only.

I'll attach a picture of each in turn.

best regards,

Andy.

16-0-setup.png

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