[Olsr-users] low signal and dropping default route

[Outback Dingo]

if you need a decent radio to deal with "near-line-of-sight issues",
ubiquiti nanostations deal with it quite well ive got a 10k link near line
of site thru trees and over beyond a 300 meter hill top and link quality is
good.

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Derek C <(spam-protected)> wrote:

> Hi Aaron,
>
> Yes - I think you are right.  I've been playing around with the nodes this
> evening (I've asked people not to unplug them) and signal is the problem
> (its a non-line-of-sight problem really).  I'm going to fix it early next
> week.
>
> But this [default route dropping due to poor connection] has got me
> looking at olsrd.conf settings again.  Do you know if there is good
> documentation on the OLSR "TcRedundancy", "MprCoverage" and "LinkQuality"
> directives?
>
> I was reading up the man pages but some things confuse me (like it says in
> the olsrd.conf man page that, for MprCoverage, it "Defaults to 1 , and any
> other setting will severly reduce the optimization introduced by the MPR
> secheme".  Whats funny/strange is that I had this set to 2 without having
> any idea why!
>
> thanks,
>
> Derek
>
>
> On Wed, January 21, 2009 10:42 pm, L. Aaron Kaplan wrote:
> >
>
> > short answer from my experience/ my perspective: you will want to get a
> > better antenna in that case :) (more directional -> better signal to
> noise
> > ratio).
> >
> > IMHO layer 2 should be improved before any other routing layer 3 stuff
> > is attempted.
> >
> > a.
> >
> >
> > On Jan 21, 2009, at 4:56 PM, Derek C wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >>
> >> I'm adding nodes to a test OLSRd network based in a high density
> >> housing estate.
> >>
> >> I have some nodes that are not working very well.  Its because the
> >> signal is not great (some pings dropping and association signal in the
> >> '80s).
> >>
> >>
> >> On these nodes the default route, via OLSRd, keeps coming and going
> >> and not staying up.
> >>
> >> Is there any way to make OLSRd more keen to keep the default route
> >> up even when the signal is not great?  It's not a perfect solution I
> know
> >>  but I was able to get around 2Mbps through on a speed test when the
> >> default route was up and working.
> >
> > you probably could tweak the interval timers.
> >>
> >>
> >> thanks,
> >>
> >> Derek
> >>
> >>
> >>
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