I have customers beyond 20 miles... Last night I installed someone, and couldn't get thier CPE to associate until I called someone and had the distance limit upped to 28 miles on the AP. Anyway, I plotted it in RadioMobile and it's 22.7 miles according to RM.
The customer is here behind the trees. http://neofast.net/users/mark/pics/wp/apviews/cafferkey.jpg And ap is ... I THINK... in the mountains near where this is marked. It's kinda hard to tell from this view, and I couldn't find a better picture. But, those sites are visible to each other. http://neofast.net/users/mark/pics/wp/apviews/lewispeak.jpg These pictures are taken from one of my AP's. I have picked up a useable signal level at 29.5 miles from one of my AP's while I was doing a site survey. No, I have no amps, and all but one AP is a CM9, with the last holdout being an old Sapphire card, which is going to changed out real soon. All my CPE has 18 db grids. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ neofast.net - fast internet for North East Oregon and South East Washington email me at mark at neofast dot net 541-969-8200 Direct commercial inquiries to purchasing at neofast dot net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barry at Mutual Data" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 12:16 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] A little help with Mikrotik > Hello Mark, > > 15 miles!!!!!! HAHAHAHA I wish I was so lucky. We are ecstatic if we > get 2 miles with 2.4Ghz. > > We can hardly do 3 miles at times with 900mhz. > > IIRC, 802.11 timed out at about 11 miles and StarOS had adjusted those > settings. Not sure what Mikrotik has done, although nstreme may > address that. > > Barry > > Wednesday, September 20, 2006, 2:22:32 PM, you wrote: > > MK> I use 11b mode for most of my clients. I have 3 routerboard 112's in long > MK> distance shots, and I'm sorely disappointed at the performance. Compared > MK> to Star-OS, the throughput is down about 40%. Two clients just one house > MK> apart, and about 15 miles from the AP show dramatic performance differences. > MK> The RSSI is the same for both, btw. One, with compression and other > MK> atheros features enabled will pass 1200KB of compressible data, around > MK> 520-540KB of non-compressible data. Right next door, the best I can > MK> achieve through the RB112 is around 350KB. I see this dramatic deficit in > MK> ALL my MT installs, in that none of them which are over 15 miles will come > MK> anywhere near the throughput of the WRAP / Star-OS client. All are CM9 > MK> radios. > > MK> I've looked through everything I can find, and checked the "compression" box > MK> in the appropriate place (using winbox) but the performance is about the > MK> same as my compex boards's original firmware, which i judged to be > MK> "inadequate". > > MK> Am I missing something? Is this just a setting problem or ??? > > MK> Any help appreciated. > > > MK> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > MK> neofast.net - fast internet for North East Oregon and South East Washington > MK> email me at mark at neofast dot net > MK> 541-969-8200 > MK> Direct commercial inquiries to purchasing at neofast dot net > > > > > -- > Best regards, > Barry mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
