Jejeje the 60x60 cpe trango antenna! Canopy anyone? Now on a serious note, the real problem I forecast with this is on 5.3 ghz and OFDM where you cant use a dish....
Gino A. Villarini, Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.aeronetpr.com 787.273.4143 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom DeReggi Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 3:15 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] M5580 feedback and Dish mounting help The Trango M5580 is a great product and been working well from a stability perspective and price point, and glqd to have it as an option. However, there are several challenges to deal with. There are two negatives that creates a third. 1) 8 db int antenna, so 7 db less than Fox5800. 2) No longer supports RF Threshhold command. The range drops down to two miles, giving you a -74 signal, more easilly able to survive the noise using DSSS. However when upgraded to OFDM, I'm concerned about the low gain of the radio being able to survive the noise with adequate singal to noise threshold. I'm guessing the range will be more like 1 mile to have high enough signal to support the high modulations. Unless of course the dish install is used. This is where we make a savings. Using a inexpensive M5580 w/ dish apposed to Fox-D. The foxes without the dish was convenient because we could mount lower, on the side of the wall or under eves. Now we are in most cases goingto be required to mount on the roof or on the side of the house at the peak. I hate drilling down into the roof, for water proof liability reasons, but its likely that may have to start happening. What we are finding is that most of the houses we are targeting, we are finding that the peaks are taller than our 30 ft ladders can reach, and often taller than our 40 foot ladders can reach. We are also finding our underserved area, are larger homes with very steep peaked roofs, causing safety issues. We often will carry a 20 ft section of ladder with hooks, and lift it onto the peak as our method to climb. But when the edge of the roof is up 30 feeet, its scary pulling the ladder up, to lift onto the roof. Clearly a two man job, that takes care. What we are finding that we are doing instead, is we are finding a way up to the peak of the roof, and then we straddle the peak so we can safely manuver to the side edge where we mount a Pole (with M-mount and contilever mount), and have DSS dish extend over the roof line. Its can be difficult hangling down over the edge to mount the bottom cross bar to stablize the pole. So my question is, how are people optimizing this process? I know some one makes a pre-made kit in steel, for this type of mount, without needing to cut 2x4s. Whats the best place to find these mounts, and what thickness do they need to be to adequately support the Fox Dishes? I need to make the determination if we can cost effectively still mount to the side of the house easilly for these installations, or if we have to lower ourselves to Cable TV standard, and screw through the roof :-( And at what point we are better off staying with Fox5800 SUs, apposed to the timely and more costly install requirements. Any suggestions to speed this mounting process is helpful. ( at heights higher than 40 feet, for DISH mounting ) One of the guys at The Trango show had some suggestions on this, but I misplaced the info I got from him on part numbers. I was consodering upgrading to a bucket truck, but most cost effective bucket trucks wont get us up to the 45 feet peak height requirement in most cases. (walk out basements, with Step peaked roof, and multiple stories are common here and killers of the quick install) Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/