Hi,
I was able to setup a Hirelink v1.1 Air & Ground Unit using the Ethernet port on the AU, but the downlink speeds don’t cross 2-4 Mbits/s even when they are just 1 metre apart. Uplink speeds are slower, which I believe is expected.
Can you please suggest strategies to achieve closer to 16 Mbits/s?
I’ve used the following setup for the first speed test.
Custom ethernet Cable made according to wiring diagram.
I ran the speed test using the iperf3 tool where the Laptop on the ground-side is the server (receiving end) and the client is sending from the air-unit side. I ran most speed tests over TCP, but UDP also had similar speeds.
Before the test, I had updated the firmware of the air-unit from the ground-unit as well. The following settings were set on the controller.
- Frequency Hopping ON
- DL BW 20M
- UL BW 20M
- Ant AUTO
Results of full chain test.
As a second test, I eliminated any potential overhead from the WiFi hotspot and ran Iperf3 directly on a GND unit shell. For this second test, the WiFi, Bluetooth, and Hotspot Tethering functions were switched off on the ground unit. Therefore the laptop connected to ground-unit is out of the equation.
To install iperf3, I installed termux on the GND unit and did pkg install iperf3. I ran it using the platform tools adb shell. I’d also tested a different iperf implementation using the “PingTools” .apk, but it had similar results to running iperf directly in the shell.
Test 2 Results
Additional Info:
Output of ifconfig on the GND unit shell.
Apart from iperf3, I tested one-way file transfer speeds using scp, but they were similarly slow as well.
Also, is there a way to do such a speed test between only the air-unit and ground-unit? This way I remove a potentially-faulty ethernet cable from skewing the test results as well. For example, is there any way to stream data from the SD card on the air-unit to the ground-unit?
