Thought I'd report on something I brought up some months ago. I finally got a pair of Ubiquiti Networks' Nanostation Loco M5s up and running. One is acting as a master (access point), mounted on an antenna pole on one house, and the other end is here on my house also up on a pole. Clear line of site, about 500 feet between the two locations. They were easy to configure and set up. Essentially I'm getting pretty darn close to 90 Mbit/s across the link consistently. Pretty impressive seeing as the units only have 100 Mbit/s ethernet ports on them. I live in a very quiet area, so there's virtually no external interference and I can run the transmitters about 10 dB. Sure gigabit fiber would have been nice, but 100 Mbit makes a huge difference. I think I was getting maybe 2 to 10 Mbit/s on the old 802.11g link I had before.
My only concern is that the proximity of the Loco M5 on the pole near to the WiMaxx transceiver might cause some signal issues on the WiMaxx from RF leakage. There's about a foot separating them vertically, and they face in different directions, both being directional. Also WiMaxx is a different frequency (I think it's 3.5 GHz). So I'm monitoring things and it seems okay. Unfortunately the ISP won't let me have access to the WiMaxx box itself to monitor signal to noise ratio. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
