Hi !
Kindly, i want to ask your help for this matter i need in my company:
I need to setup the following configuration:
NODE <--> NODE <--> NODE
A B C
A and C have direcctional antenas pointing to B. B has an omni antenna.
All of the are AP (none are laptops or wireless cards).
Distance from B to A is about 550 mts (that's 1650 ft). Distance from B
to C is 120 mts (360 ft).
A and C doesn't have LOS. That's why i need to use B. It's something like
this:
B
|-|
| |
| | C
| | -
A | | | |
|-| | | | |GATEWAY
-----------------------------------------------------------
I plan to use B as AP, and having A and C clients of B. As long as i
remember this could create a problem known as the "hidden node" where A
and C can't speak directly each other and can minimize performance. The
problem is that what i need is connectivity between A and C mainly because
A is a network with about 50 LAN users and B has only 8, but the gateway
is located on C.
I read that by using CTS/RTS the hidden node problem could be cleared. Is
this rigth ? will it work? i read to that this add a big overhead and
possible delay. I only need about 1 mbps (but i would love to use 11
mbps). In a near future i plan to add another D node in a very similar
configuration to A (needing connectivity to C and no LOS to C, then
pointing to B). Think of B as the main antenna because of the heigth
(about 90 ft). A and C have about 21 ft and 30 ft each).
Finally, can someone tell me of having B as AP and all other as "AP
clients" has the same performance and reliability than having B as bridge
point to multipoint and all others as bridge point to point ? i would like
to use AP mode because this way in the future i could have some occasional
laptop users in the AP (B) area.
Thanks for any help you can give me.
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