Introduction
Hello, i'm Renato, an italian WISP consultant. At the moment i work for Progetto8, a small WISP of ~1500 customers. The network is managed with OSPF by Mikrotik while the Wireless part is mostly Ubiquiti RocketM5 and some old Canopy 100.
Lately Cambium networks has released the new PMP450, with an aggregated throughput of ~90Mbit/s. That would be awesome in a crowded area where the frequencies are not free to deploy more than 1 or 2 APs.
But what's the aggregated throughput of Ubiquiti Rocket M5? I was looking on the web about real tests on field of the throughput of a standard config but i can't find any. We really needed those data to choose which AP install in a very crowded area.
An expensive but efficient PMP450 or the low cost high performance Ubiquiti Airmax? Let's make a real life test of the Ubiquiti Airmax then...
Setup
We have created a cluster of 8x6 Nanostations/Nanostations Loco M5 connected to a new deployed AP (there were already 2 customers connected) The AP was a Rocket M5 with an Airmax Ubiquiti Antenna 90° and RF Armor.
Each cluster of 8 Nanostations were connected to a RB750UP to power them up and give a client peer for the Traffic Generator attached to the AP.
Configuration
Ubiquiti
Mikrotik
Results
Test 48 client / 48 streams 2Mbit/s
Test 48 client / 10 streams 8Mbit/s
Test 24 client / 24 streams 2Mbit/s
Test 8 client / 8 streams 10Mbit/s
Conclusions