<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Bart,<br><br></div>David's test location is near where you and I tested last year. I recommended in another communication that David determine if connecting to Baldi is an option, as we received a surprisingly functional connection to it last summer. Could be an interim solution.<br><br></div>Michael<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 1:59 PM, Bart Kus <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:me@bartk.us" target="_blank">me@bartk.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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This answer lacks a resolution for David's problem. Let us come
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 1:01 PM, David
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<div style="word-wrap:break-word">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:
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<div>Connected to ess, CapitolPark-S2/AE7SJ</div>
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<div>Signal: -68dBm</div>
<div>SNR 51dB</div>
<div>Tx: 16.2Mbps, 96% ccq, 16.2Mbps</div>
<div>Rx: 16.2Mbps, 96% ccq, 16.2Mbps</div>
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<div>However, I get sporadic Internet performance,
measured using <a href="http://speedtest.net" target="_blank">Speedtest.net</a>.
Here are a few readings this morning:</div>
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<div><b>ping down up</b> </div>
<div>21ms 3.9 2.8</div>
<div>35ms <0.1 stopped</div>
<div>77ms 0.27 0.46</div>
<div>42ms 2.0 0.1 </div>
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<div>I did check my cabling between the radio and the
computer by substitution - no change. </div>
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<div>Two things:</div>
<div>1. Anybody have any suggestions? What data rate
are others of you getting?</div>
<div>2. Is there a place to go to get help on subjects
like this?</div>
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<div>Hi David,</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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):</div>
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<div>/tool traceroute use-dns=yes 8.8.8.8</div>
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<div>(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.)</div>
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<div>To run a speed test (this should work to all HamWAN
routers--let me know if it doesn't):</div>
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<div>/tool bandwidth-test protocol=tcp <a href="http://CapitolPark-S2.hamwan.net" target="_blank">CapitolPark-S2.hamwan.net</a></div>
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<div>This will test speed between your modem and <a href="http://CapitolPark-S2.hamwan.net" target="_blank">CapitolPark-S2.hamwan.net</a>.
You can test the other direction by adding
direction=transmit to the command.</div>
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<div>This is a perfect forum to ask questions like this.</div>
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<div>Tom KD7LXL</div>
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