Patent ID: 8248948

Claim:
A method of determining a location of a network condition within a wireless mesh network, comprising: a test device wirelessly connected directly to an access node of the wireless mesh network testing a first plurality of wireless hops of the wireless mesh network, the first plurality of hops including a wireless hop between the test device and the access node, comprising sending a probe packet from the test device to a first target device located the first plurality of wireless hops from the test device, and receiving a probe packet back from the first target device; the test device testing a second number of wireless hops of the wireless mesh network, comprising sending another probe packet from the test device to a second target device located the second number of wireless hops from the test device, and receiving a probe packet back from the second target device; wherein a number of the first plurality of wireless hops is different than the second number of wireless hops; the test device locating a latency network condition within the wireless mesh network by comparing a round trip travel time of the probe packet of the first device with a round trip travel time of the probe packet of the second device, wherein the testing the first plurality of wireless hops comprises testing at least one of a upstream latency, downstream latency, upstream throughput, downstream throughput, a number of packet retries, packet success probability, reverse packet success probability and antenna asymmetry of at least one of the first plurality of wireless hops.