Since yesterday afternoon (UTC+01:00) many of our rural Internet customers started complaining about the quality of our service. Low transfer speeds, loss of connection. No fun for anyone in Eastern Poland who wasn't lucky enough to get fibre (surprisingly, fibre coverage in rural areas is pretty good compared to the US or UK – most of it was built with money from the European Union). But fibre can't reach everywhere, and this is where we come in. But the last 24 hours were hell, and we don't know when this will end, although we know the cause. Let's start the story with those two Russian saints from the 11th century, Boris and Gleb. 1/n
@szescstopni do you have a spectrum analyser? To see what could be the source of the interference? You use 2.4 GHz or 5GHz? Mikrotik has built in soectrum analyser, but I think you need to have The Dude installed to be able to use it. It's been ages the last time I did it (~2007)
@rox_lukas No. I leave this to our infrastructure operator. But maybe I should. I have to replace one router anyway, so I can put a Mikrotik in its place.
@rox_lukas I guess I should be learning new things. I have a few spare Mikrotik routers so this won't be a problem. BTW, do you also play around with LoRaWAN?
@szescstopni sadly not, I was working with wlan only
@szescstopni I'll play around with it in my home lab and give you more details later, how to enable the spectrum analyser and how to use it - if you are interested 🙂
PS when spectrum analyser is enabled on interface, that interface cannot carry traffic