I put in a customer's CPE just as the snow season started at my customer's house in the mountains. They had around 2 inches of snow on the ground, and of course, some clung to the trees.
They were gone for Thanksgiving weekend, and when they got back, it was a few days before I could get back to finish up inside. When I left, we had a nice solid link, though it went through quite a few trees right by the client end, at a total distance of about three miles, but the sky visible through the trees we had to run through. When I got back yesterday, we can't even see the AP on a site survey. The only difference is that now there's maybe a food of snow and of course, somewhat more stuck to the trees. Client and AP are both WAR boards with SR9's and 9 db yagi's. Does snow block 900 that effectively? Our testing showed earlier that in town, you can get a weak signal with a site survey even standing on the ground, through a mile or more of houses, trees, etc. We tried re-aiming, but nothing. Did I have something else go wrong, or does snow clinging to a few branches totally wipe out an additional 15 or more db of RSSI? +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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 -- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
