The ROR units are a great choice as they have the Karlnet software which is diff to hack and is far more robust than any regular solution like the SmartBridges 802.11b stuff. The ROR units work at 2.4ghz but are not 802.11b compliant.
Best regards Peter Bellew, CEO Visitor Based Networks Kerry Technology Park, Tralee. Co. Kerry. Ireland Tel: +353-66-7190089 http://www.vbnets.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 12:53 PM Subject: Re: [BAWUG] Wap11 range problem (LOS obstructions & fresnel zone) > This is just my personal experience, and pretty limited experience at that. > > I have attempted 2 wireless bridge connections with 2 sets of WAP11's, one > link was 10 miles and the other was 3 blocks. Neither link worked at all > with the 2.6 WAP11's. In my personal opinion they are garbage. Both links > "worked" with the 2.2's. but they were slow, as in about 20KB/s slow. > > I did get both links to work. On the 10 mile link I used a SmartBridges > AirPoint PRO Outdoor and an AirBridge Outdoor. The combo works perfectly at > a cost of about $650 for equipment. The speed is also excellent and varies > between 450-550KB/s. The only problem is the SmartBridge equipment appears > to be in very high demand because it is hard to find anyone with them in > stock. > > The 3 block link I used Hyperlink Technologies H-ROR's and they also work > very very well and support a ton of excellent routing options. The speed > wasn't as good as the SmartBridge stuff, but it was still decent (350KB/s). > Hyperlink has these in stock pretty much all the time, but they run about > $900 for the pair. > > Again, this is just my personal experience. I have seen the stories with > WAP11's going 20 miles, but in my experience with both the 2.2's and the > 2.6's it just doesn't work very well and all it did was add $180 to the cost > of both my projects. At least the WAP11's stack nicely on top of each other > so they don't take up that much room in my office. > > Brian Taylor > Technology Coordinator > Waconda USD #272 785-781-4328 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 4:05 PM > Subject: [BAWUG] Wap11 range problem (LOS obstructions & fresnel zone) > > > > Hi. I just entered working in a new company and they have asked me to set > > up a wireless link between two points, 800 mts away from each other (about > > 2400 fts). > > > > We have 2 wap11 version 2.6, 1 VAGI 16 dbi antenna and 1 12 dbi > > pacwireless omni antenna with pigtails. They're all from www.fab-corp.com. > > > > I'm new in this wlan world. All this equipment was bougth by the last > > engineer who left the company a few days ago. I've made some tests but > > they haven't worked at all..They work perfect indoors and even > > interoperate with other Planet wap1960 AP we have. We tried to make them > > work in a 500 mts (1500 fts) link from the window of a 4 stories building > > and the roof of a 13 stories building. The antenna says it has "3 dg > > electrical down tilt". > > > > My questions are: > > > > I'm not sure why it does not work. i live in Cali, Colombia and we don't > > have too many 2.4 ghz, microwave devices or simmilar in this area.I see > > some trees a about 40 mts from one point. I read that about 60% of the > > first Fresnel zone should be without obstructions to have a link. Is there > > a way to easily calculate the width of this fresnel zone ? I'm about to > > perform other tests in other environment so i would like to know how to > > know the maximum distance an obstruction could be from the LOS. > > > > I 've read almost all the posts in this lists about wap11. Many people say > > they're very bad in long ranges. But why there are some guys with 8000 mts > > and even 26 miles (in maui) with wap11 and no big problems ? I see that > > the most of the "bad" posts are from 2001 and 2002 when there wasn't > > version 2.2 nor 2.6 yet. I tried only ap and ap-client modes. What's the > > exact difference between a link this way and a bridge link ? (besides > > having the ap<->ap-client mode with cappablity for accepting other > > wireless clients). > > > > Unfortunately we can't return them. It's southamerica and the shipping is > > about twice the price. I need to make them work. > > > > I'm really new in this. I would appreciate any help, suggestion, and > > comments about this problem. > > > > P.S.: The VAGI antennas (from pacwireless) say they have vertical and > > horizontal polarization depending on the way you grab it. The omni antenna > > say something like that. What is it ? thanks for any info. > > > > Julian > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > > > -- > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
