Pharos Speed issue
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My internet provider gives me 80Mbps Down and about 40Mbps Up. When I use the Pharos, I get only 10Mbps down and about 30 up.
I have done hard reset. Tried with 4 different clients. and I do get close to my the full Speed for my ISP with another AP.
Looks like the problem comes from the Pharos.
15 meters (50 feet) away I get less than 1Mbps!
Is my unit not working properly?
Anyone experiencing the same kind of low speed?
Thank you
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@Jojo42, CPEs are designed for directional links over long ranges, thus they are always used pair-wise in PtP or with a base station WBS210 in PtMP sceanrios. CPEs don't perform well with standard clients due to their directional antenna which concentrates RF energy in a very small beam with just 65° (H) / 35° (E) angle.
If you want to serve standard clients using a Pharos device, try WBS210 (or WBS220 in your country?) with either omnidirectional antenna TL-ANT24010MO or sector antenna TL-ANT2415MS. The sector antenna needs exact alignment for its antenna beam width which is 120° at 6dB) / 90° at 3dB. This means that for ~30m horizontal coverage the sector antenna must be mounted ~10m apart from the clients. Clients leaving this small zone will disconnect from the sector antenna.
If the WLAN area to cover is small, I would use an EAP225-Outdoor wired to the router rather than a Pharos Wireless Broadband CPE.
EAP225-Outdoor even gives you AC1250 capabilities. An N300 device such as a CPE2x0 will be more sensitive to interferences.
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Thank you for your answer and explaination.
I get your point, but I still have a doubt in my mind about the results I get. Why would I get such a difference in my download speed Vs. Upload speed? I get 10Mpbs Download Vs. 30Mpbs Upload with Pharos CPE220. If it perfomed badly as a standalone AP, why not both ways?
Any guess? Thank you again for your time
Kinda regards
Geoffroy
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@Jojo42, could be that the local CPE sees more foreign APs.
APs and clients always listen to WiFi traffic so they can decide when to acquire AirTime. If the local CPE sees more traffic then the remote CPE does, it will acquire much lesser AirTime and thus the throughut decreases asymmetrically.
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Solved.
Actually, my modem router gigabit ethernet port did not bieng interfaced with a 100BaseT.. so i put a gigabit switch between my router and the CPE220, and now I am getting almost full speed from the cpe220.
So the Pharos was not the problem. But the Huawei B618 was. I can't beleive that the gigabit port was not accepting a lower speed interface from the Pharos CPE220 ... I replicated the problem an older router 100 Base-T (an old linksys) and I got the same slow speed.
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Geoffroy
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