I’m testing out a profile based on standard LiMe 1607 with no customizations on some TL-1043NDv3s, Ubiquiti Rocket M2s, and Bullet M2s [all 2.4 devices for quick reference for those of you who might not know them] , and I can’t seem to figure out why latency is so high and speed is so low.

I have a 1043ND with LiMe hooked up to a 200/30 fiber connection. If I connect to its wifi network with my computer I get 150/30 speed every time with 1ms ping to the ISP router. If I connect via ethernet to any other device meshing with it I only get between 7 and 20 down and up and ping to ISP router ranging from 3 to 200ms with an average of about 40. What am I doing wrong here?

All devices are brand new and working perfectly. They all have the profile based on standard LiMe 1607. Two 1043NDs establish 130mbps up/down between each other in adhoc wireless as seen from the wifi panel on luci, but I can’t seem to get any more than 7 to 20 mbps of actual internet speed on speedtest.net.

What’s even stranger is that the first time with the two 1043NDs I got 60 down and 30 up, and immediately thought this was a very big level up from olsr, which only gave me 25/25 [although every single time and very consistently]. But just a few minutes later, speeds started dropping, that very first time. They went slightly up after reboot, but down again just a few minutes later. I’ve refreshed every device since then with the same firmware, I can’t seem to figure this out. Speeds go down to 3mbps sometimes.

My computer is running nothing, and continuous side by side tests with the wifi network created by the TL1043 hooked up to wan confirm the problem is happening somewhere in the meshing. Ubiquiti devices seem to establish 60mbps wireless links between each other in the adhoc wireless network, but then only deliver actual internet speeds around 15 down and 10 up.

I’ve seen a maxrate of 54000bps in the bmx interface settings, but I doubt that has anything to do with this, right? What’s the bottleneck here? Is it the processing power of these devices? A configuration issue? It can’t be interference here in my area as, once again, I’m getting perfect speeds on those same channels connecting directly to the 1043ND hooked up to wan. The ethernet cable is known to work to full speed if connected to the ISP router. Even using another 1043ND as the “wanned” router doesn’t help.