That’s kind of like saying my Android phone worked as a hammer so my iPhone should work even better as a hammer. When the right answer is, don’t use your phone as a hammer.
I figure in 5 GHz each tree is going to cost you 10-20 dB of signal. Unless it is midway and it doesn’t occupy the full Fresnel zone, and again the 5 GHz is working against you because Fresnel zone is narrower than it would at 2.4 GHz or 900 MHz. Finally, if you can’t see the other end (because of trees), you really don’t know what you are shooting at. You could be aimed off to the side, or there could actually be a hill in the way, unless you have walked left or right until the tree no longer blocks the path. From: Alan West via Af Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2014 4:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] EPMP with Force 110 - what am I doing wrong? Well, yes, I agree with you. But I have had very good luck with Ubiquiti 5.x gear with "near" line of site. So, I thought, Cambium should do it better, right? On Tuesday, December 23, 2014 4:30 PM, Kade Sullivan via Af <[email protected]> wrote: Trying to get nLOS from 5 gig is where you are doing it wrong. On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Alan West via Af <[email protected]> wrote: AP is set: Transmitter output power 23 antenna gain 13 This is the standard Cambium sector. On Tuesday, December 23, 2014 4:19 PM, Josh Luthman via Af <[email protected]> wrote: I don't think you want to do NLOS in 5 GHz at all. That's why I doubled up APs and have 2/5 on each sector. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Dec 23, 2014 5:16 PM, "Brian Sullivan via Af" <[email protected]> wrote: Is it realistic to expect good performance through trees using 5 GHz? I could see trying to get a nLOS situation to work at 1 mile, but certainly not 5+. Do you have other APs on the tower that you can compare to? On 12/23/2014 4:07 PM, Josh Luthman via Af wrote: Uhm my post detailed a 5.1 link at 7 miles? Got -67 and some very nice bandwidth bumps. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Dec 23, 2014 4:58 PM, "Alan West via Af" <[email protected]> wrote: Yah, my AP is not showing up there at all. But the refresh seems dreadfully slow on these. I have it set to 2 seconds. I only have the upper band from 5740-58xx checked. Are you successfully getting any kind of range with the 110s? On Tuesday, December 23, 2014 3:54 PM, Josh Luthman via Af <[email protected]> wrote: Go to monitor wireless. That's all the APs it can see with the frequencies/sizes you've enabled. I would suggest limiting the frequencies to the band you're deployed in. Saves time in scanning. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Dec 23, 2014 4:49 PM, "Alan West via Af" <[email protected]> wrote: Hello all. I am playing with a EPMP system to try to offload some customers over to it from my legacy 100 series network. I have a single 120 sector running 5.7 at about 180ft. Software is 2.3.3. Running on 20mhz channel. I have four EPMP Force 110s I am evaluating. I have one of them working at a customers home at 5.7 miles. Not perfect, but working. I cannot get a signal at all at another home very close to the other, at 5.9 miles. This is going over open farmland, however, it is not line of site (neither is the one above). There are a couple of small tree lines in the path. They are not very wide at all, perhaps only one or two trees deep. Each is along a creek. Is anyone else having issues with these? Maybe I have something configured wrong.
