I myself have found them to work very well up to this point, 35
customers on after 4 weeks split between 3 AP's using Maxrad MSP23013 s120
degree sectors on a 160' tower (2 customers on one AP and the other 33 split
between the other 2).
I have all of my AP's and clients forced to connect at 2Mps. I have
found this provides for better stability from what I have seen. An AP
continually attempting to change rates affects everyone, not just that
individual customer. 11Mps is not worth anything if you continually have to
re-associate and are changing the rate at which the connection runs.
64 bit encryption is ample - 128 bit is way overkill (processor intensive
for any AP at any price and reduces throughput). Any data needing to be
that secure needs to be done through https or vpn.
Any gear is only as good as the configuration of it. I think for the
price it is the best bang for the buck - my opinion. A lot of the "buggy"
things that other WISP's refer to I do not see at this point so... It could
be they have more users on and I have yet to see it, I don't know.
I at this point have no regrets of going with the SmartBridges products and
I am pretty confident that I will not have a change of heart on that.
VERY IMPORTANT - if you have other WISP's in the area using 802.11b I would
be very careful in choosing what you are going to use and 802.11b problably
is not the best choice if that is indeed the case.
Call it buggy software or whatever, what I do hear right now is the rate
of absolute hardware failure is low. That is extremely important.
There is a lot of info in this group to take advantage of, resources
from real life WISP's is a huge benefit.
----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 9:56 PM
Subject: [smartBridges] smartbridges or not
> Hi
>
> I am going to setup a WISP in Australia, i need some advice about wether
or
> not to use smartbridges equipment??
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