We've got about 10 450i 900 APs up now. We tried Baicells at most of
those sites. I'm talking stupid dense trees. Made it two blocks in a
small town and RSRP dropped off to -120. Plus that was back when you
couldn't turn down the Tx power on the eNB. It was the full 1W per port,
so we were still 4-5dB over the EIRP limit with a KP 14dBi sector and
cable loss.
We do have Baicells at other sites and we've seen roughly 85% success
rate getting customers off of 900. So it does work, just not everywhere.
Anyway.. a couple of those 900 450i sites have a dual H & V omni setup.
It mostly works, but I do not recommend it. The typical omni problem,
interference from everywhere.
But like Steve said, once our power co turns up their grid, I fully
expect 900 to be worthless. I guess we'll see.
On 11/30/2017 11:27 AM, Kurt Fankhauser wrote:
My worry is if I deploy it that 5-6 years down the road we will be in
the same boat now of trying to find another solution to get the
bandwidth to the customers because by then they will be all wanting
faster than what the 900mhz can do just like the same problem we have now.
On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 12:24 PM, Steve Jones
<thatoneguyst...@gmail.com <mailto:thatoneguyst...@gmail.com>> wrote:
if you are in the US, the "smart grid" is coming to help you by
answering your questions for you
On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 11:17 AM, Kurt Fankhauser
<lists.wavel...@gmail.com <mailto:lists.wavel...@gmail.com>> wrote:
So I have 2% of my customer base that is running 900mhz PMP100
using 11 different access points. I am trying to cost justify
weather it is feasible to upgrade them to PMP450i-900mhz. I am
using a lot of Omni's with the PMP100 so most likely I will
need twice as many AP's as I currently have because they won't
all be on the same side of the towers. So looking at costs I
see the following:
PMP450i AP's x 20 = $46,000
900mhz sectors x 20 = $6,320
PMP450 SM x 20 = $4,784
SM antenna x 20 = $1,424
equipment cost total = $58,528
plus my time of putting it all up
I am currently grossing $934.00/month from the 2% of customers
running on the PMP100-900mhz now.
At this rate it would take 5 years to break even on deploying
the 450i-900mhz and I really can't offer any better speeds
with it than what I was able to offer with the old FSK
2.4/5ghz stuff.
Is it just me or does this not make sense worth deploying?
