Yes, the Cambium/Laird OEM 90 degree dual slant antenna has been
outstanding. It's a bit expensive. but gets you null fill. It's also
precisely -6dB at 90 degrees, but we haven't had any problems with that.
I have some bare SMs clear LOS at 1/2 to 1 mile getting -60's. I have
some NLOS shots at 2-5 miles on reflectors and 2' Laird dishes w/
connectorized radios. They're between -68 and -75, but still getting 6X
downlink.
We've mostly replaced UBNT 3.65 with 450 and the performance gain is
worth the money.
On 6/9/2015 5:04 PM, Sean Heskett wrote:
don't use the connectorized version. use a bare SM or SM with reflector.
use the cambium 90* sector antenna
as long as you are not trying to do nLOS or NLOS you should be fine.
you might get away with one tree in the way but not much else.
2 cents
sean
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Darin Steffl <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hey guys,
We have not yet tried any of the PMP 450 gear in 3.65 and
wondering if you have any advice and info on how we can
successfully try one sector. We have 8 customers on a 2.4 Ubiquiti
sector with heavy interference and we need them off that ASAP.
They're all within 1 mile of tower site with signals from -50 to
-65 on nanobeams and they all fall within a 90 degree coverage
pattern.
Would we be better off buying the bare SM's with a reflector dish
or getting the connectorized version and finding a panel or dish
antenna? Any recommendations for either kind of antenna?
We should be fine with the Lite-AP for now since we have under 10
customers we want to trial this with. For doing standalone, do we
need the CMM of Packetflux gear or can we just purchase standalone
power supply and GPS antennas?
Should we use the standard Cambium recommend 90 degree antenna or
would you recommend another brand like KP Performance or Ubiquiti?
Also, who would have best price on Cambium gear with our normal
discount? We purchase from Streakwave and Doubleradius and
wondering if other master distributors might have better pricing
than these two?
If I think of anything else, I'll fire it off to the list.
Thank you
--
Darin Steffl
Minnesota WiFi
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