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Hi, it’s me again. The pest from the West.
Today, in the beautiful sunshine (a rare occurrence in
West Ireland) I tried to do a link between
one of the islands and the mainland.
I positioned a 20.5dbi dish on the harbour wall, and on the island we had a similar dish mounted on
the wall of a house which was about 70-80’ above sea level. The distance between the two was about 3
miles. Cable lengths were about 5’
from AirNic (on the Harbour)
and the AirPoint (on the island) and only two connectors (one at the antenna
and the other on the AirNic (or AirPoint)). The SB Airmonitor
program at the AirNic end showed a signal strength of
20% but it jumped intermittently to 40%.
It also showed a link quality of 75%. When trying to download pages from the web,
it was very bad. Also, the Windows
status window showed only one bar, and reported poor signal quality.
While I could go up to a 24dbi antenna, I am not
inclined to go that route since I THINK that we should have got better
results. Any ideas, feedback …..
Oliver Leamy
Ogenek Teoranta,
Ballingeary, Macroom County Cork
+353 (26) 47808
; +353 (86) 8337664
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