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Slow internet speeds with point to point air bridge
I have 2 netgear routers with 2 M5 dish created a point to point air bridge from my house to a shop thru trees. My speeds have always been 50 mbps until recently they have dropped to 9Mbps. I can see both dish and its winter so leaves are not blocking the single. Even when they are I still have 30-50 mbps. My router has good speed just with the router but the internet is slow. Speed at the source router and dish is 150mbps. I seem to have a loose wire on the internet cable coming into the router as when I move the router or the Cat 5 connection it loses the signal and has to pick it back up. Could a loose wire in the connector on the Cat 5 be an issue or is the Cat 5 coming into the router either an all or nothing connection? If the router is showing flow could a bad connection slow down the internet speed or is the router all or nothing?
Final update. I'm good!!. After updating the firmware on both dish and tweaking the dish alignment my speeds are back to 40-50 mbps. Not sure why it was good one day and slow the next. But is all good for now.
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1. yes a loose wire could cause issues
2. not sure what the M5 point to point system is. Do you have a better model number?
3. did you test the speeds at the point to point system prior to the router connecting? If the first router has full speed and you don't at the end of the point to point system, its likely to be the point to point system. Either its connection between them, the wires connecting devices, or the devices themselves.
Thank you for your reply. The dish's I am using are Ubiquiti Networks Litebeam M5. Ubiquiti Networks Litebeam M5 Wireless Bridge 10Mb/100Mb LAN, AirMax 802.11 N (LBE-M5-23-US)
I tested the routers connection to devices using the Nitehawk app which I presume test only the router connection to the device. I am getting 144 Mbps near the router and 86 at the farthest point in my house( basement bedroom) My internet speed is 8-9 both channels.( 2.4 & 5) I have not tested the dish signal before the router as I don't have the means to do so or more appropriately the knowledge. I also don't know how to access the dashboard for the dish's
Both dish can see each other. I am broadcasting thru the woods but no limbs or leaves are in the way. I can see each dish by standing behind them and looking through a scope at the other. They are bridging approx. 300 feet
Also I have hard wired the router at the end of the bridge directly to my pc and the speeds are no different.
So are you saying the point to point system can connect with a slow connection due to an equipment fault. Its not an all or nothing connection?
Could my router at the receiving end have an issue/corrupt setting that it is throttling the internet?
I am getting a white light on my router indicating a connection from the internet. The wire connecting my receiving dish is the loose one that goes out when I move it, but comes back on when I position it back.
Is it possible that the wire is making good enough connection to connect and thus show a white light, but not enough for the max speeds ?
Update, I figured out how to get to my dish dashboard. I updated the firmware and here are my results
Looking at the TX/RX rate on my receiving unit I should be getting good speeds if I am reading that correctly. I don't get why the graphical is in Kbps rather than Mbps. Still have slow speeds , down to 3Mbps at my devices now.
