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tkerns
01-18-2007, 10:54 PM
I have a 6 hop BH /AP's that covers nearly 40 miles. There are AP's at 3 of the hops thus forming this approx 40 mile link. It did (keyword here is DID) consist of 3 routed segments, 2 VDS tunnels, and one V2 bridged segment. This link is now fully routed from one end to the other.

I have a 10 meg fiber connection at one end to the Internet. At the fiber end I could pull nearly the full 10 megs using Speakeasy.net tester. At the mid point I was seeing 5-6 megs, and at the end I was seeing 3-4 megs.

Now that the bridged link and the 2 VDS link are all routed, I am now seeing a steady 8 megs with as high as 9.5 megs at the end. These test were completed with activity from other customers online. Also, these links are still WRAP boards running V2. Using through put test in V2 I can Rx and Tx 2000 KB from end to end. The best I saw before was approx. 1200 to 1600 KB.

The most improvement came from removing the VDS links.

Tim