We did a 50+ ePMP customer swapout the past two days and had some customers that were borderline. We were using "Brand X" dishes for most of the swapouts with pretty good results. We have a few links that were not about -76 to -78 and decided to try Beehive Manufacturing's bigger dish with the specific 2.4 Ghz holder. I recall Chuck telling me at Wispapalooza last year that he had discovered something about how to tweak 2.4 over 5 Ghz on ePMP and that's why he has two different holders.
Well, his design rocks! The first site is about 5 miles away in heavy trees and we couldn't get a steady link (-78ish) with a standard dish. It now is rock solid at a -62/63 with 78Mbit/4Mbit TCP throughput on the link tests. The second site is 8.5 miles away with LOS and we also went from -78 to -62 and it is even better on the throughput. Whew! Saved our butt on about 5 similar links today. Also, thanks for Chuck and Traci for getting the 2.4 Ghz holders to us so quickly when screamed "help" yesterday. Paul McCall, Pres. PDMNet / Florida Broadband 658 Old Dixie Highway Vero Beach, FL 32962 772-564-6800 office 772-473-0352 cell www.pdmnet.com<http://www.pdmnet.com/> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
