Hi everybody ! greetings from Colombia, southamerica I work on my own isp company. After a few experience with d-link, linksys, planet (anyone else that me knows this brand ?), i'm thinking about entering the wisp market.
I've tested Linksys wap11 and d-link dwl-900ap+. I've also used Planet wap-1960. They're all 802.11b devices. All of them work in 4 or 5 modes (AP, ap client, bridge, multi-bridge and repeater). Some are better, some are worse. I would like to hear your recomendations for this radios or any other you know i can use. I live in Colombia. I don't plan to use wireless access for users as only a very small minority have laptops and even less people have wireless cards. I know that's kind of normal now in USA but not here and won't be that way in very, very long time. I plan to use wireless for "linking" my zones. I will deploy AP's in heavily densed areas and will run utp to the users (i'�ve been doing this for a long time now except for the wireless link). So, my radios will be mainly used in (AP-Ap client mode) in any link or (bridge-bridge) or (bridge-multi_bridge). It's not designed for users roaming around with their laptops. I plan on use 16 db VAGI antennas and one 12 db omni antennas. My links will be about 0.7 and 2 miles (the longest one). I don't plan on having all zones go to the omni antennas. Some zones must arrive to some "wireless hubs" which will have a "wireless uplink" to the main zone. Fortunately here there aren't 2.4 Ghz phones. They're too expensive for most of the people. Also, in this city there are plenty of places for setting up the antennas. Thanks for any recomendations you can give me. I can't afford Cisco 350 or something like that. I've tested d-link, planet and linksys here and they've worked fine but i just want to know your opinion about this. maybe other radios ? maybe other antennas ? maybe other zones' links structure ? maybe not putting the omni but lot's of VAGI's and radios ? Btw, i thinks 802.11g isn't a good options as it's designed for small links. Also, if having about 16 kbytes per user, a 11 mbps link is more than enough. I know for future it would be a good choice but now it's too expensive. -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
