I'll have to look at them again, but I think the mounts are basically the
same as the solid mounts for the old wireless wire dishes. I haven't had
any problems with the alignment adjuster screws seizing on any of those,
and I've used quite a few of them, but the u-bolts can certainly be a
problem... But that's easily fixed by just replacing the nuts with
something other than stainless. I've gotten into the habit of just
automatically replacing the nuts any time I see stainless hardware, or
greasing it, if I have to.

On Sat, Feb 20, 2021, 7:34 PM Steve Jones <[email protected]> wrote:

> Did you use 320? Are they as bad as those at seizing?
> If it's like that I dont care how good the gear is I wont buy another. I
> dont like staff having to use angle grinders in field.
>
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2021, 3:45 PM Craig Baird <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Guessing when you say the new Mikrotik variant, you're talking about the
>> nRay. I just picked up a pair of those for a link of about 250 ft. One
>> issue I had with them is that the mount is all stainless steel hardware,
>> and about 10 minutes after slightly tightening everything up, I found all
>> the nuts were seized and I could no longer loosen it without breaking
>> bolts. Even the alignment adjuster screws have this issue. I noticed
>> everything was stainless before I started installing and should have just
>> waited until I could get some non-stainless nuts to replace the stainless
>> ones. But being the impatient idiot that I am, I decided I just wouldn't
>> tighten them down too much, and then I'd pick up new hardware the next time
>> I came back. Now, I'm looking at having to buy new mounts for both ends.
>> Why do manufacturers use all stainless hardware? When I owned my WISP, we
>> had this issue way back in the SmartBridge days (early 2000s). Seems like
>> manufacturers should know better.
>>
>> Craig
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 5:43 PM Mathew Howard <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> The Mikrotiks are by far the easiest to align of any of the 60ghz stuff
>>> I've tried, and I think they're probably the most reliable too. I have a
>>> set of the new variant sitting here, and they look to be an improvement,
>>> but I haven't tried them yet. They would be my first choice for super short
>>> links.
>>>
>>> I had high hopes for the Cambium 60ghz, but unfortunately it looks like
>>> they only support up to channel 4 (64.8ghz), which means they won't have
>>> significantly different range than the Mikrotiks, but if you need more than
>>> 1 gig, they're likely the best thing out there at the moment.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 19, 2021, 6:07 PM Steve Jones <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> We ordered the newer variant of the wireless wire today, we will see
>>>> how it goes. We are waiting to see how the cambium product does and plan on
>>>> using the extensively for short short stuff, we have an odd number of banks
>>>> with remote drivethroughs very nearby.
>>>>
>>>> I'm jaded on ignitnet. One of those incidental ones we dealt with had
>>>> killed one of our POPs off and on, the operator had the apparent default
>>>> 5ghz backup enabled and it was misaligned so it would sporadically trash
>>>> 5ghz, noisy useless bastards that they are
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Feb 19, 2021, 4:31 PM Mathew Howard <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The 5ghz backup would have been pretty useless on longer links. The
>>>>> problem is that it has tiny antennas (8dbi, if I remember right)... so it
>>>>> really only worked for really short links anyway, and even then, it seemed
>>>>> kind of buggy.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 3:55 PM Sterling Jacobson <
>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> It’s wise of them to have dropped 5GHz because it never really worked
>>>>>> all that well.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The radios/antennas didn’t seem to be made for it and it ends up
>>>>>> causing more issues than it solves IMO.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *From:* AF <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of * Carl Peterson
>>>>>> *Sent:* Friday, February 19, 2021 2:50 PM
>>>>>> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]>
>>>>>> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Wireless Wire Dish @ 1km
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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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