Re: B5-Lite

[Hal Ponton <hal () buzcom net>]

Hi Mike,

We had the target signal as per the B5's GUI indicated we should have, 
there is a fair bit of noise in the area, however, the UBNT PowerBridge 
that was doing the link at 30MHz channel bandwidth was passing 70-80Mbps.

Our engineers spent as much time possible aligning the link, we had a 
team at each end assisting in this.

We reviewed with Mimosa and our Distributor, but there's only so much 
time we could spend on this link. Once the newer firmware was released 
(I think v1.2.0) we tested again and got better performance so this may 
have been an early problem that has been ironed out now, but for me I 
would only use them on smaller distance links. YMMV
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Regards,

Hal Ponton
Senior Network Engineer

Buzcom / FibreWiFi




> Mike Hammett <mailto:nanog () ics-il net>
> 17 May 2016 at 16:06
> I think there is some information missing on your longer link. Did you 
> still have appropriate signal? Was there noise?
>
> I have a B5 link that's about 2 miles that's rocking full data rate 
> and a B5c one that's going about 4 miles at full data rate. My 8 mile 
> B5c link is less than full data rate due to interference.
>
>
>
>
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> Mike Hammett
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> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: "Hal Ponton" <hal () buzcom net>
> To: "Matt Hoppes" <mattlists () rivervalleyinternet net>
> Cc: "North American Network Operators' Group" <nanog () nanog org>
> Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2016 7:31:10 AM
> Subject: Re: B5-Lite
>
> We've deployed 2 B5 links into production, the newer firmware seems to 
> have fixed the issues we saw in the links when we first tested them.
>
> We have a very rural customer where two hops are needed around the 
> site. We're lucky in that we had two 80MHz channels free. We see 
> around 350Mbps both ways actual throughput on both links.
>
> However, these links are short est. 200mtrs when we had tested these 
> on longer links their performance was awful, on a 40MHz channel we saw 
> 20Mbps.
>
> For our longer links that need a bit more throughput than a Rocket M5 
> we either use Licensed radios or the AF5X which works very well.
>
> Regards,
>
> Hal Ponton
>
> Senior Network Engineer
>
> Buzcom / FibreWiFi
>
>
>
> Hal Ponton <mailto:hal () buzcom net>
> 14 May 2016 at 13:31
> We've deployed 2 B5 links into production, the newer firmware seems to 
> have fixed the issues we saw in the links when we first tested them.
>
> We have a very rural customer where two hops are needed around the 
> site. We're lucky in that we had two 80MHz channels free. We see 
> around 350Mbps both ways actual throughput on both links.
>
> However, these links are short est. 200mtrs when we had tested these 
> on longer links their performance was awful, on a 40MHz channel we saw 
> 20Mbps.
>
> For our longer links that need a bit more throughput than a Rocket M5 
> we either use Licensed radios or the AF5X which works very well.
>
> Regards,
>
> Hal Ponton
>
> Senior Network Engineer
>
> Buzcom / FibreWiFi