Proper Wiring Ubiquiti NanoStation NSM5 - Help Please

redfive · Mar 25, 2021

I'd say, 600 feet, clear LoS, with 34 dBm of EIRP, ... something is wrong. Carefully check the alignment, use outdoor frequency and 10 MHz as channel-width. Can you post a screenshot of the tab Main, from the station as well ?

Captain_B · Mar 25, 2021

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redfive · Mar 25, 2021

This is from the Access Point, I 'd like to see that tab from the Station as well

Captain_B · Mar 25, 2021

Redfive: This is the access point above with the antenna mounted inside looking through a window. The station is 600 feet away and 40 feet lower in elevation. When I tried lowering my channel width at the access point to 10MHz it lost connection with the station. Any thoughts?

redfive · Mar 25, 2021

Yes, set before the channel-width to the station (most probably, currently, is set to auto 20/40 MHz), then on the AP. 10 MHz is a custom value.
But again, check the alignment, below, is one of my old link, pretty short, more or less like yours, and I'm using -4dBm as Tx power

Captain_B · Mar 25, 2021

Interesting, I plugged the Access Point back into the NVR after hooking the LAN connection from the PoE injector for the Nano into my router so I could get the screenshot above from the Nano and now the NVR has the camera offline. I'll go down and cycle the power to the PTZ and see if it comes back on. While I'm down there and before I cycle the PTZ power I'm going to hook up and see what the main page looks like on the station. I wonder if the elevation drop is the issue? I may try some "rigging while I'm down there on pointing the elevation up of the antenna. Thankfully my window mount at the access point can tilt down.

Flintstone61 · Mar 25, 2021

Just curious....What IP address did the NVR assign the PTZ when it finally worked?

catcamstar · Mar 26, 2021

Flintstone61 said:
Just curious....What IP address did the NVR assign the PTZ when it finally worked?

I am betting my easter eggs that it's something in the 10.0.0.x range

Captain_B · Mar 26, 2021

10.1.1.74

Captain_B · Mar 27, 2021

RedFive: Below is from the station using 10MHz width but I notice my TX/RX Rate has dropped from 162 Mbps at the 20/40MHz width (Access Point at 40MHz width setting) but signal strength is at the max. Also below is a picture of the Access Point, any help to get my Mbps up to 300 like yours would be great, thanks.

This is the Access Point at 10MHz width.

Flintstone61 · Mar 27, 2021

If I understand that picture, I don't think your throughput will be 300 Mbps. i think the Nano station is not gigabit. it's looks like its 100 Mbps. if it's just one camera your feeding, then it won't use much bandwidth. Probably like 3-8 Mbps.
I have a 375 foot run going with 2 camera's coming thru, and the 2 camera's = 6Mexapixels, so last time I looked, i was transmitting about 5-6 Mbps across the connection.
oh wait....your pushing 25 kbps on the graph.....hmmmmm......

Captain_B · Mar 27, 2021

Good point Flintstone61, I was thinking what I was looking at was max capacity not actual.

Flintstone61 · Mar 27, 2021

is the camera sending video? looking at your through put graph 25kbps seems too slow. thats only 0.025 Mbps.....

Captain_B · Mar 27, 2021

Yes sir, it's plugged into the Station and the Access Point is plugged into my router so I can connect to both of them.

redfive · Mar 27, 2021

Different things, the ethernet port, is 100 Mbps, but full duplex, the 300 Mbps of PHY rate is the maximum speed of the packet, but consider wifi overhead, retransmissions ... and moreover the wifi is half-duplex. For the old 802.11n, you may expect, in good conditions, an actual throughput as 60% of the PHY rate. Below, a speedtest, between two AirMax N devices, wifi only, one way

Then, another speedtest, same conditions, but tx-rx at the same time

173 Mbps of total throughput, which is less than you can achieve, on a 100 Mbps full-duplex link (around 190 Mbps)

redfive · Mar 27, 2021

@Captain_B You can also try with 20 Mhz, as channel-width, set again the station to 20/40 auto, and set 20 MHz on the AP. Wider spectrum, doesn't always means better performance, or better stability. And there is the Align Antenna tool, of course, you have to play on the AP, as well as on the station.

Captain_B · Apr 12, 2021

Thank you Redfive, I made the adjustments a couple of weeks ago and got it up to 72Mbps with 93% AirMax quality and everything is working perfectly until today. And today I needed to turn the NVR off and after a couple of hours and then I turned it back on and the PTZ using the Nano station does not give me the blue "e" in the WebGUI interface. I went down and unplugged the camera's PoE injector for 5 minutes, plugged it back in, and no joy. I turned the NVR off and back on, with no joy. I turned the NVR off and then went and unplugged the PTZ PoE injector, waited 5 minutes, plugged the PTZ back in, and then came back and turned on the NVR, no joy. I checked the Nano connection and even rebooted the one here at the NVR with the NVR off and waited for it to be running full tilt before turning the NVR on and still no joy. Does anyone have any suggestions?

TonyR · Apr 12, 2021

@Captain_B ,
I suggest next time you have a link issue is to FIRST to try to login to the AP/Bridge's webGUI from your PC at the house.
If that comes up then, from the SAME PC at the house, try to login to the Station/Bridge's webGUI at the remote location.

Captain_B · Apr 12, 2021

TonyR, How do I do that? I do know the camera's IP address through the WebGUI if that helps.

Flintstone61 · Apr 12, 2021

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