Nice job. I had a similar affair the week before WISPAPALOOZA. Regards, Chuck
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Glen Waldrop via Af <[email protected]> wrote: > We had a tower knocked down by a straight line wind last Monday. We got > the new tower up Saturday, temporary equipment online Sunday and the final > install Monday afternoon. > > I replaced 2 5GHz feeds, 3 120* 17dBi 802.11g/10MHz sectors and one 15dBi > 802.11g/5MHz omni. Had about 16 customers on it, expected a lot more when > we started. The area grew from a few to 20+ really quickly, then just > stopped. > > The tower is only 75ft with a 20ft pole atop and sits on a rather tall > ridge that is easily 200ft higher than the surrounding ground. I've had a > few customers 14 miles out with a 19dBi panel and near perfect signal. > > We replaced the 802.11g equipment with an ARC 13dBi dual pol omni and > RB711UA 2HnD since I had the RB on hand. Took a couple of days to find a > clear channel and get 802.11n working properly, but we're now getting > around 15Mbps over a 5MHz channel. I need to stress it more and see what it > is really capable of. I had a few customers that signal was less than > ideal, -77 to -85 depending on the time of day, humidity and temp. Now the > few that were a bit unreliable are now working beautifully with the new > dual polarity set up. > We also replaced the 5GHz feeds that were installed in 2008 to Nanobridge > M5 25dBi, nearly 100Mbps now in place of the 20Mbps I had previously. > > I do love the new UNII 1 channels. > > I'm going to sleep for a damn week. >
