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 > > ----- 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
