We have a building that is 300ft tall with an office at the bottom off to the corner.Initially we ran Cat5E to see if we could get a basic link, use it to determine the length of the run and then order fiber.
So, we plug one end into a Mikrotik RB1000 and the other end into a Dell desktop gigabit switch and run a btest from the laptop. To our surprise, we are seeing 500Mbps down! How is this possible? I thought we'd be lucky to get 100Mbps at that range, how are we getting gigabit speed? Nothing special about the cable, just outdoor-rated, non-shielded outdoor cable run in plastic flex-conduit most of the way and then in metal conduit through the parking garage. Did we just get lucky? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
