Marlon K. Schafer wrote: And you are totally against running purely 802.11? wi-fi? It would be pretty easy/cheap if that was an option. marlon----- Original Message ----- From: "Blair Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 11:57 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Looking fora new systemMarlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 wrote:If you are going to go that route and spend that much money (you'll need new cpe too it sounds like)The point of this is not to replace the antennas at the customer end. I do no use 'all in one' antenna and radio on my existing Turbocell system. All use a separate external antenna with the radio in a NEMA box. I wish to replace just the radio boxes, not the antennas/amps.I'd drop the 2.4 gig stuff and go with a new 5 gig system.Keep what you've got up on the tower and put the new gear up in addition to what you have.I wish I could, but to put up a new tower antenna, I will have to pull one of the old ones. Contract issues.Then move people off as devices fail. It'll save you a LOT of time and trouble to go that way. My 5 gig system is still Trango. I'll look at the new Airaya and SB gear as we get some more time on them. laters, Marlon (509) 982-2181 Equipment sales (408) 907-6910 (Vonage) Consulting services 42846865 (icq) And I run my own wisp! 64.146.146.12 (net meeting) www.odessaoffice.com/wireless www.odessaoffice.com/marlon/cam ----- Original Message ----- From: "Blair Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 11:35 AM Subject: [WISPA] Looking fora new systemHi all, Well, with YDI/Terrorbeam closing the Karlnet office in Ohio, I think I need to find a replacement for TurboCell systems.. My requirements for a replacement ..... 1) must use the same 2.4GHz antennas and amps I currently have installed. 2) compatible with many different boards for CPE and AP 3) polling or token based. No hidden node issues. 4) tolerant of a wide spread in snr levels between clients. 4) low cost.... (yeah, right!) I am not interested in 'all in one systems' where I have no ability to mix n' match antenna's and such. So far, I have heard a little about Netstream, (from MikroTik), and about StarOS. Netstream seems to offer polling and long range PtMP. However, having to get new licenses every year is annoying. StarOS offers up to 10 non over lapping channels in the 2.4GHz band. This could be useful in cleaning up interference issues at some towers. I lean toward Netstream because I have had good luck with my Mikrotik routers that are currently in service, but I am more interested in finding something that will last. I am also concerned about being left high and dry as ydi/terabeam just did to me and many others. Anyone out there using one or both of these systems? How about another system meeting these requirements that I don't know about? Thoughts? -- Blair Davis AOL IM Screen Name -- Theory240 West Michigan Wireless ISP 269-686-8648 A division of: Camp Communication Services, INC -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/-- Blair Davis AOL IM Screen Name -- Theory240 West Michigan Wireless ISP 269-686-8648 A division of: Camp Communication Services, INC -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- Blair Davis AOL IM Screen Name -- Theory240 West Michigan Wireless ISP 269-686-8648 A division of: Camp Communication Services, INC |
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