WISP SmartBridges access point (Airpoint Pro Outdoor) speed questions

My name is Josh and I

work for Communications

Advantage, a high speed

Wireless internet service

provider serving

Calafornia's Amador

county and some

surrounding areas.

To serve our 400+ clients

we primarily use

SmartBridges

equipment(AirBridge

Total, AirBrige Outdoor,

AirPoint Pro Outdoor and

AirPoint Nexus), a few

Tranzeo radios(2.4 units

and 5.8 for backhaul when

NEXUSes are not

available) and Mikrotiks

for bandwidth management.

We are currently having

an issue that we have

been unsuccessfull in

solving. The Willow Creek

area has been plagued

with slow speeds and

massive flooding on the

wireless side.

Two Bonded T1 lines in

Ione link wirelessly to

the Cammanche area that

in turn links to Willow

Creek without any

problems. When connected

to the switch, in Willow

Creek we get beautiful

speeds(1-2mbps) but when

connected wirelessly to

the AP we get very very

terrible

speeds(40-200kbps) even

when the ethernet port

usage is 500kbps with

peaks at 1mbps.

The Willow Creek location

itself consists of a

switch that connects the

Tranzeo uplink(TR6), an

AirPoint Pro Outdoor and

a NEXUS ap that we hoped

would replace the APPO.

The Willow Creek AP

(AirPoint Pro outdoor)

has about 20 clients, two

of them are uplinks to

other APs(Also APPOs)

that have less then 10

clients on each of them,

so no more then 40

clients are passing

traffic through the AP at

once.

We have made sure that

all equipment upstream of

Willow Creek is indeed

functioning correctly and

that no equipment or

wires are faulty. We

tried connecting clients

to the NEXUS and they saw

300kbps - 700kbps(very

nice).
Though for some reason we

couldn't get some

airbridges to connect to

it, and later the nexus

booted almost every

client off at the same

time for some unknown

reason and we were unable

to get them reconnected.

Our two main questions

are:

Has anyone noticed any

Issues with ABOs and ABTs

connecting to NEXUSes?

Why is our AP so slow and

how can we fix it?

Any ideas or questions

are very welcome.

 

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Worse, those that are here may well be put off by the bad formatting of that
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