Yeah I think there's truth to both statements. You'll lose something
like 15db per 100 meters of foliage you're passing through. No
technological miracle is going to make that attenuation go away. The
difference in my reckoning is that most products would deliver crappy
service when there's crappy signal, whereas Wimax stepped that up to
/mediocre/ service on a crappy signal. LTE is another incremental
improvement over that.
After several years of firmware upgrades our Telrad stuff is more or
less working//ok, you just need to temper your expectations on
capacity....claims of 200mbps with carrier aggregation and MU-MIMO have
a lot of caveats. Our problems with Telrad basically boil down to over
complexity, stability, reliability, and our expectations being set too
high by some overzealous marketing claims. As far as NLOS, it does work
better than most of the other options out there.....it's basically a one
trick pony in that regard. It works nLOS, but you must carefully define
"works".
-Adam
On 8/20/2019 8:57 AM, Josh Baird wrote:
Quite the opposite for us. PMP320 could burn through trees!
On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 8:30 AM Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com
<mailto:af...@kwisp.com>> wrote:
WiMAX had little to no magical power against trees when we
deployed it. Trees apparently are hype resistant. YMMV.
*From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com
<mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com>> *On Behalf Of *Paul McCall
*Sent:* Tuesday, August 20, 2019 4:22 AM
*To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com
<mailto:af@af.afmug.com>>
*Subject:* [AFMUG] Cambium Medusa in 3.65
We were told recently by Cambium that their Medusa product in 3.65
competes favorable with LTE competitors. We ONLY need it for tree
penetration challenged customers.
I have a healthy skepticism on 3.65 Medusa being able to magically
work better that standard 2.4 Ghz penetration, seeing the regular
450SM in 3.65 performed as expected compared to a 2.4 Ghz 450SM,
meaning not as well. Seeing that LTE or Wimax far exceeds normal
2.4 Ghz gear, expecting 3.65 in 450 series (even Medusa) is a
strong leap of faith.
We are open minded but skeptical of these recent claims. We are
not happy with the LTE options available ATM, having field tested
Baicells and Bliniq for a while now.
Paul
*Paul McCall, President *
*Florida Broadband / PDMNet*
*658 Old Dixie Highway*
*Vero Beach, FL 32962*
*772-564-6800*
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