Re: [WISPA] RE: Solectek Skyway 7000 -- Follow Up

[Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181]

Thanks for the list.  I've passed it on to Mike at Airaya for comment.   One of MY big selling points on the Airaya gear is that it's NOT 802.11a like the others (Tranzeo, MT, StarOS, etc.) that you're likely thinking of.    It uses the 802.11a CHIP to keep costs down but they've put their own firmware on the radio.  I'm running these units in a rotten environment and they work better than my Trango distribution system at the same tower sites.  Fewer ping losses, higher speeds etc.   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: Matt Glaves To: WISPA General List Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 2:10 PM Subject: RE: [WISPA] RE: Solectek Skyway 7000 -- Follow Up I’m not stuck in the 1950s.  I’m not looking for vacuum tubes and 100lb power supplies to justify my purchases.  I could go to a number of other vendors and get the same 802.11a setup for $700 or less.  The pictures speak volumes and it seems a fair number of the subscribers on this list got a lot of information on the product from the pictures alone.  Others asked for my list and I sent it.  I don’t need Airaya suing me, so I’ll let their hardware do the talking.  I know for a fact I have cost them a number of future sales based the responses I’m receiving from other members who were considering their product for future deployments.   I sent you the same list of 15 or so items so you can make your own call.  Here is one that I really love:   https://secure.airaya.com/proddetail.asp?prod=AI108-4958-O-050 http://www.connectronics.com/airaya/index.html http://shop.wirelessguys.com/s.nl/sc.2/category.346/it.A/id.2395/.f   Notice where it says AES encryption?  It’s listed on every PDF and vendor page I have seen for the unit.  It was a deciding factor in my selection of this unit.  It will be a really great feature when it is actually implemented.  You get WEP for now.  Would have been nice if there was an asterisk there telling you “AES Support Coming in Quarter 3 2006”.   Matt       From: Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 11:38 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] RE: Solectek Skyway 7000 -- Follow Up   Times are changing.  If you want devices with lots of chips and blinky lights you'll have to pay extra.  Everything it done at the board level these days.  And everyone is using the same basic chip set these days.  Airaya writes their own mac level firmware for them.   I have 4 links.  2 of the original version (prior to what you've got there) give me a little bit of trouble on a tough link (fresnel zone).  The new radios haven't skipped a beat though.   I love my Airaya radios.  They've been a great value.   I'm curious, you've not said why you don't like them.  Is there something about the performance?  Software?  Setup?  Gotta be something other than what's in those pics.   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: Matt Glaves To: wireless@wispa.org Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 7:46 PM Subject: [WISPA] RE: Solectek Skyway 7000 -- Follow Up   Hey Folks,   Last month I posted to the list asking about low cost 5Ghz bridges and a few folks responded that I should check out Airaya.  I decided to give them a try based on some really excellent discounts from one of our vendors.  In short, I hate them J  If you’re interested in why, feel free to hit me off list..   We bought two complete links and before installing the first one I cracked it open and took a picture of its high tech innards to share with this list.  I hope this helps those looking at sub $3k PTP bridges.    http://www.pinn.net/~glaves/DSCN0714.JPG http://www.pinn.net/~glaves/DSCN0712.JPG   thanks, matt         From: Matt Glaves Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 9:50 PM To: 'wireless@wispa.org' Subject: Solectek Skyway 7000   I have never used the Solectek equipment and am looking at either trying their Skyway 7101 or the Trango Atlas for some short building to building links.  I have seen enough favorable posts about the Atlas to know plenty of you are using it successfully – although I sure wish I could get one of their sales folks to return a phone call.  Leave a message about buying 250 CPEs and no one calls back....  Anyway J   I would like to get opinions on the Skyway 7000.  This would be for very short <.5 mile links between buildings.  We would normally use Terabeam/Proxim systems but are looking for alternatives with similar capabilities and 20-40% lower cost.  Any info/opinions on reliability and real world throughput would be great.   Thanks, Matt   -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/

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