Ligowave is also a new-to-me brand, recommended by a wireless company in London I crossed paths with. Like Ubiquity, priced on the lower end- but quite nice. FYI.
Lee H. Badman Network Architect/Wireless TME ITS, Syracuse University 315.443.3003 ________________________________ From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [[email protected]] on behalf of Jacob M. Dawson [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 12:56 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Ubiquiti Air Fiber- any first hand experience? That's true, but I managed to slap a pair up in the lab across about 2 meters. Turned the RX gain to 'low' and they linked up. For whatever reason, I couldn't get the firmware to let me turn down the transmit power (running a beta version that's supposed to resolve a few issues). Threw a couple of chairs in between just to give them a little extra attenuation. They were negotiation between 100Mbps and 500Mbps, highly variable. Still, it was solid enough that I could generally use in-band management to manage the 'far' end of the link. I'm sure you can make the 50m link work. I'll be installing it over a 1km link tomorrow. I was quite pleased with how pain-free they were to set up. Far cry from our LMDS gear, both in ease of configuration and cost. I expect it to be significantly less work to install, too, though I'll have to confirm that on the rooftops tomorrow. - Jacob On Apr 2, 2013, at 16:05 , Luke Jenkins <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >From page 26 of the User Guide: "Note: Minimum link distance is approximately >100 m." It looks like you need to turn the TX power and RX gain down for short links. -Luke On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 6:56 AM, Chuck Anderson <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: What is the link length people have been installing? We have a lot of just-off-campus locations that are only about 50m to 300m away, and I've read that AirFiber (and others) don't like such short links. On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 12:21:04PM +0000, Lee H Badman wrote: > Thanks, Jacob. Very helpful. > > From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv > [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] > On Behalf Of Jacob M. Dawson > Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 7:57 AM > To: > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Ubiquiti Air Fiber- any first hand experience? > > Our local WISP, NRV Unwired, has three links up, and can't say enough good > things about them. He has them set up in a chain and has reported he's been > able to push over 500Mbps through them. I suspect he can probably go higher, > but is equipment limited. At least one of those links has been up for about > six months, and I haven't heard of any problems. We thought they were pretty > interesting, so we have a link's worth and one for a spare, which we'll be > putting up soon. > > Jacob M. Dawson > Network Research Engineer > Virginia Tech > On Apr 1, 2013, at 16:16 , Keith Jeremy Noah > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>> > wrote: > > > I've put out many feelers, hopefully they will pan out. > At minimum, I'll share what we learn. > > Keith Noah > University Information Technology Services > University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee > Network Operations Center > Cell:414-810-6789 > Office:414-229-4972 > > ________________________________ > From: "Lee H Badman" > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>> > To: > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > Sent: Monday, April 1, 2013 2:50:28 PM > Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Ubiquiti Air Fiber- any first hand experience? > I see some happy reports overseas, via Twitter, but little on the domestic > front. > > From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv > [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] > On Behalf OfKeith Jeremy Noah > Sent: Monday, April 01, 2013 2:55 PM > To: > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Ubiquiti Air Fiber- any first hand experience? > > Same here. > We are looking into installing one or two of these now, but we have no > experience with this yet. > > Keith Noah > University Information Technology Services > University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee > Network Operations Center > Cell:414-810-6789 > Office:414-229-4972 > > ________________________________ > From: "Lee H Badman" > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>> > To: > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > Sent: Monday, April 1, 2013 1:45:26 PM > Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Ubiquiti Air Fiber- any first hand experience? > Hi All, > > Has anyone actually installed a Ubiquiti AirFiber bridge link? 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