who is they On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 11:50 PM, Mathew Howard <[email protected]> wrote:
> The website does not handle FCC stuff... you still have to go through a > coordinator, same as any other 11ghz link. > > They work, and they get a ton of throughput for cheap, but don't expect > them to work like a SAF. Between the two, I think I actually prefer the > AF11... they can't quite match the speed of the B11, but they behave more > like a normal licensed radio than the B11... they just lack an SFP port and > 80mhz channels. > > On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 10:41 PM, Steve Jones <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> we are looking to drop some dough on these guys if the sales pitch is true >> >> does the website handle the FCC stuff? I personally find that hard to >> believe, considering the FCC itself has a fee, unless the reseller >> (unnamed) is building it into the price. Still less than SAF >> Im not looking to move away from SAF, my only complaint with SAF is that >> it works too well, so much that I altered routing the other day before I >> realized the winds a while back turned the 800 plus pound ballast NPM and >> the signal drop wasnt weather fade and that up until essentially nothing >> the beast runs at full modulation >> >> Literally, the only reason for looking at mimosa is the low cost, and >> comparing the low cost of mimosa to SAF, its alot, considering SAF is >> relatively cheap. >> >> from what Ive seen, mimosa is like running mikrotik routers, you pay a >> shit ton less in exchange for a little more poking, not constant diddling, >> just occasional poking. >> >> I have no interest in looking at ubnt noisy crickets on our licensed >> gear, but mimosa seems promising >> >> I need a good teeth kick now before we commit to at least 3 links locked >> into this gear >> >> SAF presales engineering is on the cautious side, a good example is our >> first licensed link, our partner told us could be done with cambium at 2 >> foot antennas on each side >> >> the reseller told use with SAF it required a 3 and a 4, and that (without >> saying it) our partner was smoking crack cocain after they took bath salts. >> I have no doubt at 2 foot the link would have come up, but not to a degree >> that a 30 db drop caused by a turned NPM would still result in full >> modulation until failure, >> >> I dont want to have an "It will link" solution at the end of the day >> >> >> >
