I dunno. I've looked at Bridgewave a few times, and I always walked away
because of the price of entry. We always found a way to solve the problem
at a lower cost.
Maybe that's why Dan isn't there anymore?
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On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 7:33 AM <[email protected]> wrote:
> I really don't know anyone that I can recall singing the praises of
> Bridgewave except for Daniel - while he worked for them. I have had bad
> experiences myself and I know a handful of others in a similar boat.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Seth Mattinen
> Sent: Friday, February 8, 2019 8:05 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Bridgewave is being annoying
>
> On 2/8/19 12:51 AM, Jason McKemie wrote:
> > This is a bit unsettling. I'm looking some Navigator links. The
> > price/performance seems pretty good IMO, and the single radio sparing is
> a
> > big plus. I remember Nathan from Wisper swearing off Bridgewave because
> of
> > some random issues with links as well.
> >
>
>
> Yeah I really don't know what to think. I have microwave gear from SAF,
> Exalt, and Cambium/Ceragon and those have all been rock solid in all
> kinds of places. I thought these would be in the same category but it's
> been nothing but problems. The 10+ minute reboot times are beyond
> frustrating too.
>
> One thing that struck me as odd was that when I did back to back testing
> on the bench with waveguide that even in what I felt should be perfect
> RF conditions they wouldn't reach full modulation. Support said that was
> to be expected because of the attenuators being used and since these
> were new and I was new to Bridgewave I went ahead and deployed them.
>
> Down for 2 hours, so many reboots later, and it finally came up again.
> Why? Nobody knows. But now it won't modulate above QAM on one side.
> These Bridgewaves weren't cheap and even if I'm able to get to the
> bottom of why they are being crap I don't think I'll ever be able to
> trust them without a parallel link from another vendor.
>
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