upgrade your WAPs to DD-WRT and run the radios at 84 mW. possibly
upgrade to buffalo whr-hp-G54 units if you like the broadcom based
units.
On Mar 12, 2007, at 5:17 AM, Devin Mudd wrote:
Good Morning,
I have followed and been a member of your site for over two years
now since I used information gathered here in order to help me
design and build my new WiFi network in our rural town of Bedford,
Kentucky. We have now grown to 7 farms connected to our small WiFi
deployment and now once again I need your help.
We have been granted a huge speed increase by our ISP Insight
Communications as they have come to view our project and because
they cannot provide internet and cable television in the lower
valley to where we beam our internet access they have increased our
speed and lowered our bill to help us provide support to the
community.
This is all great but the issue is that we have only single
WAp54g's connected to 15 and 24DB Parabolic Grid antennas for our
point to point backhaul (please see http://www.detroitnetworks.com/
farm-net ). We now have 10Megabits/1Megabit of internet bandwidth
and I want to capture as much of that as possible down at the far
end. I purchased a pair of high output radios 500mw 802.11B /200mw
802.11G (AP530) from our vendor ValuePoint as I have seen your
organization use them. We installed them on Saturday and tested for
about 5-6 hours trying to aim the antenna's but in 802.11G mode we
had terrible performance and our maximum bandwidth was only
400-500K in both directions with huge spikes in ping times between
the radios with laptops at both ends. When we set both radios to
802.11B we were able to eeek out about 2.4Megabits/1Megabit and 1ms
ping times which is good but not what we were expecting. With our
very low power Linksys WAP54G's we were able to get that much
bandwidth albeit not as reliable but much less expensive than those
Super AP530s. We thought right away that the high power G radios
would give us all 10Megabits to then redistribute to all the
neighbors. Our Antenna's are mounted on the side of a chimney and
the side of a barn pointed down to the valley and the other back up
to the barn. Could someone look at our website and let us know your
thoughts on a possible solution? I have tried to put up as much
helpful information as possible.
Thank You,
Devin Mudd
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