[MLB-WIRELESS] links

[mw at freenet.net.au]

Is that right?  Well there you go - I didn't know that :-}

Though it's still no good if you want WPA (I suppose) - not that I care much about that tho! ;)

Cheers!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Vale [mailto:masked at internode.on.net]
> Sent: Friday, 10 September 2010 9:10 PM
> To: mike at viewbankrise.net.au
> Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] links
> 
> You don't lose bandwidth in a wds ptp bridge, only when your using it to
> bridge aps / act as repeater.
> 
> mw at freenet.net.au wrote:
> 
> >Hi Andrew, all...
> >
> >Let me know directly when you want to come by.  I'll need the scaffolding
> to
> >do some roofing in a couple of weeks, so sometime this month would be
> good!
> >
> >Regarding nanobridge mode - it's running in AP/station modes with both
> ends
> >set to 'bridge' type.  WDS is no good because you lose half the bandwidth,
> >but it's the typical method to get an end to end bridge happening.  What I
> >ended up having to do is still use it in that weird pseudobridge mode, but
> >only connect it to a single router interface at each end.  Those
> rudimentary
> >bridge mechanisms work just fine in that context, and then making a
> mikrotik
> >eoip tunnel between the routers allows a nice bridge between the two lans
> at
> >each end.
> >
> >Good result, who cares how it is implemented ;-)
> >
> >Cheers!
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: melbwireless-bounces at wireless.org.au [mailto:melbwireless-
> >> bounces at wireless.org.au] On Behalf Of Andrew van Slageren
> >> Sent: Friday, 10 September 2010 6:44 PM
> >> To: melbwireless at wireless.org.au
> >> Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] links
> >>
> >>   I'll definitely organise a time to drop by at some stage and get some
> >> more gear up to link up to Lara/Deakin, scaffolding is always a welcome
> >> help :)
> >>
> >> Just out of interest, what mode are you running the nanobridges to KBQ
> >> in? We didn't have any trouble running ours in plain AP/Client mode, but
> >> from what I've read, most people on the Ubiquiti forums run in WDS mode
> >> when bridging.
> >>
> >> I guess that means that the ESX box (which still has plenty of room if
> >> people want a VM on it) will have better connectivity into the MW
> >> network as well.
> >>
> >> Also I'm not around this weekend, so won't be able to make the meeting
> >> tonight either unfortunately :<
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Andrew.
> >>
> >> On 10/09/2010 4:30 PM, mw at freenet.net.au wrote:
> >> > Hi All,
> >> >
> >> > <dang>  completely forgot about a meeting coming up this week, so I'll
> >be
> >> > missing out this month.
> >> >
> >> > But wanted to announce a few comments that may be of interest to other
> >> > Geelong members...
> >> >
> >> > I replaced a point to point link between KBN and KBQ with a ubiquiti
> >> > nanobridge M5 pair.  Results are great, but I did discover one small
> >> > downside of nanobridge systems: they are crap bridges! ;-)
> >> >
> >> > Funny about that, youd think that something with 'bridge' in the name
> >> would
> >> > be good for that kind of purpose, but it turns out that although it is
> >> > excellent to connect to routers together, when they are used to bridge
> >> two
> >> > LANs, the results are disasterous.  I suppose their forwarding tables
> >get
> >> > mixed up and suddenly everything goes to pot.
> >> >
> >> > Nonetheless, by connecting them to a mikrotik router at each end then
> >> using
> >> > routerOS ethernet-over-ip tunnels, a very effective transparent bridge
> >> can
> >> > be implemented over the very good air performance of the nanobridge
> >> systems.
> >> >
> >> > The results I get over the 7.5 Km link using routerOS Bandwidth test
> >> between
> >> > the routers at each end is 84 megabits of udp and around 60 megabits
> of
> >> TCP
> >> > traffic - not bad at all! :-)
> >> >
> >> > Having said all that, I also wanted to mention that I set up some
> >> scaffold
> >> > at this end (KBN) and will leave it there for a couple of weekends
> while
> >> I
> >> > fix up some other jobs I've been meaning to do for ages, including
> >> upgrade
> >> > of the 2.4GHz AP and link to JEE, so those guys who have been wanting
> to
> >> try
> >> > some links into Geelong and to Lara - about now is a good time to be
> >> > thinking more about that! ;-)
> >> >
> >> > Cheers,  Mike.
> >> >
> >> >
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