WAP11 v1.1 it SmartBridge :)

-Ivan



> 
> 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
> 
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> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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