Super wireless test

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Eugene Butan demonstrates ~360Mbps wireless link, more info on this page will be coming up soon. The traffic is being generated by a P4 machine, which then divides it into four links (4 routerboards) with per-packet load balancing, the routerboards are wirelessly connected to other four routerboards on the other end.

Note, that I am manually reducing power output of the cards to avoid overdriving the receiver on short range.

The setup comprises four individual wireless links (Nstreme2 in turbo mode) running between each pair of RouterBoards and two SuperMicro boxes which perform actual load-balancing. This configuration is optimised for full-duplex load, you might use bonded Nstreme1 on links between RouterBoards for better one-way performance.

A snippet from configuration of one of the SM boxes:

/ip firewall mangle add chain=prerouting action=mark-routing new-routing-mark=gw1 nth=3,1,0
/ip firewall mangle add chain=prerouting action=mark-routing new-routing-mark=gw2 nth=3,1,1
/ip firewall mangle add chain=prerouting action=mark-routing new-routing-mark=gw3 nth=3,1,2
/ip firewall mangle add chain=prerouting action=mark-routing new-routing-mark=gw4 nth=3,1,3

/ip route add gateway=10.0.0.1 routing-mark=gw1
/ip route add gateway=10.0.0.2 routing-mark=gw2
/ip route add gateway=10.0.0.3 routing-mark=gw3
/ip route add gateway=10.0.0.4 routing-mark=gw4

Setup layout

The approach above provides reliable fail-over only for infrequent link failures or speed drops of wireless links. To achieve reliability under more unfavorable conditions, use scripting to perform availability checking on individual wireless links.

CLI screen capture

This is how the test work

Winbox screen Capture

Nobody believes it, but it's true

310 Mbps, still