For at least three years I've been advising mesh network builders and mesh network equipment manufacturers to separate (isolate) the customer-access network from the backhaul network. This is done by using 5 GHz for backhaul (not necessarily 5.8 GHz; 5.3 GHz will work fine) while using 2.4 GHz for access.
Tropos has been the biggest violator of this 2-band principle and I've been critical of their "blindness" to this need. They have stubbornly insisted that their one-radio-per-node design was capable of meeting real-world throughput needs. It appears that maybe (just maybe) they have finally seen the light... http://www.unstrung.com/document.asp?doc_id=98716 jack -- Jack Unger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - President, Ask-Wi.Com, Inc. Serving the License-Free Wireless Industry Since 1993 Author of the WISP Handbook - "Deploying License-Free Wireless WANs" True Vendor-Neutral WISP Consulting-Training-Troubleshooting Phone (VoIP Over Broadband Wireless) 818-227-4220 www.ask-wi.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SOCALWUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SOCALWUG SOCALWUG website: http://www.socalwug.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
