Seems strange to me that they dropped the 5GHz backup radio from the GBE
Plus and the AF60LR.  All the other 60GHz radios have a 5GHz backup of some
sort.
We have installed a number of the little 60GHz GBE radios and they seem
solid for short links with easy aim.

On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 3:31 PM Mathew Howard <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think they claim their "Wave AI" feature is supposed to somehow
> magically make long links work better... but yeah, being able to use
> 66-70ghz behaves more like 70/80ghz than the lower 60ghz band, so you can
> do much longer distances... you still have the same problem with rain fade,
> but even on something like a 1 mile link that will work at 64-65ghz, it
> works a lot better, since you have more signal to work with.
>
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 3:11 PM Carl Peterson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Is that the only extra magic in the LR?  They claim 12KM vs 2KM.  I would
>> never try 12 but I'm tempted to go for up to 3.
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 3:02 PM Mathew Howard <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> At 1km it won't drop much, but it will still drop occasionally. Ubiquiti
>>> AF60LR will do a bit better than the other options, because it can use the
>>> higher channels.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 19, 2021, 2:16 PM Dev <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 700 meter Ignitenet MetroLinq PTP60-35 running around -48dbm during
>>>> clear day says it will do >2.5Gbps with this RSSI, these things do a ton of
>>>> bandwidth. It hangs in there surprisingly well during rain unless it’s
>>>> really DUMPING rain. I think during normal or heavy rain it’s still in the
>>>> mid to high 50’s. Doesn’t seem to use the 5GHz backup much, but traffic
>>>> drops off fast when you do. I have another link doing 1.3km, much worse in
>>>> heavy rain, but very impressive throughput when it’s not raining,
>>>> surprisingly.
>>>>
>>>> > On Feb 19, 2021, at 11:51 AM, Steve Jones <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > We havent dealt with 60ghz other than as an outside contractor so ive
>>>> never looked at performance directly. At 1 km what kind of fade are we
>>>> talking in a normal rain shower, and in a downpour?
>>>> > We have had pretty good luck with af24 over the years but need more
>>>> capacity, the fade in 60ghz concerns me, and I never understood the 60 ghz
>>>> ones with 5ghz backup. its like a cruise ship having a backup canoe
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