Exactly my point - there had to be some talk before they made it available. I'd be depressed if the US government operated faster than Ubnt.
The new af5x does 5150 to 5850. I would imagine it would make sense to simply do a v2 AF5-US or something. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Mathew Howard <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't remember exactly how the timing worked out, but the AF5 hasn't > been out that long... it seems like there must have been at least some talk > of 5.1 being opened up before it was released. > Even if there is a good technical reason why the filters needed to be that > way, it can't be that hard to make another one that only covers the lower > bands. > > On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Josh Luthman <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Surely Ubnt and Cambium, among many others, saw that as a possible usable >> band before it was actually legal to operate in. They have two AF5 units >> already - an upper band for other countries I assume and a mid range one >> that doesn't seem to be any different in the US (unless your DFS shots are >> super close). >> >> >> Josh Luthman >> Office: 937-552-2340 >> Direct: 937-552-2343 >> 1100 Wayne St >> Suite 1337 >> Troy, OH 45373 >> >> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Josh Reynolds <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> It was in development before that was opened up... required a hardware >>> change. >>> >>> I would suspect we would see something soon. There's also been talk of >>> getting 4.9 cert on the AF5 and an AFX type product, but I don't know >>> what's come of that yet. >>> >>> Josh Reynolds >>> CIO, [email protected] >>> >>> On 2/9/2015 10:54 AM, Josh Luthman wrote: >>> >>> Why not try the 5.1 band? Oh wait...this brand new $2k product can't do >>> the best part of the 5 GHz band... >>> >>> >>> Josh Luthman >>> Office: 937-552-2340 >>> Direct: 937-552-2343 >>> 1100 Wayne St >>> Suite 1337 >>> Troy, OH 45373 >>> >>> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Ty Featherling <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Yeah our 14 mile link was almost too crowded in 5.7 and DFS was way >>>> under power. We eeked by though with 200FDX. I'm thinking of swapping that >>>> link out for an Airfiber X5 link. I need to run the numbers to see what I >>>> could get there first though. >>>> >>>> -Ty >>>> >>>> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Jerry Richardson <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> 11.2 miles >>>>> >>>>> 160ASL – 3450ASL >>>>> >>>>> 5.7 too crowded >>>>> >>>>> DFS under power >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Not usable for this application. Looking forward to testing it for a >>>>> shorter link in a less congested area. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> We should have been on a licensed link a long time ago… At least we >>>>> are going that way now. >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >
