Doug Ratcliffe wrote:
I tried Canopy Adv. a few months back but was unhappy with the overall range & quality (2.5 miles LOS w/ a reflector, and 8 port ATA, the voice was choppy when I had all 8 calls going). I’m transmitting 1-3 miles over a salt water ¾ mile wide river.
On the canopy side: Two things:
1) The secret of making canopy work at extended ranges is buying cyclone AP's from last mile gear. http://www.lastmilegear.com. I regularly get 10+ miles LOS with a reflector at 5.7, and 20+ miles LOS with a reflector at 2.4. Without the cyclone APs you can get roughly half that. The one thing you may have missed is that canopy is multipath sensitive, so moving the SM even 6-8 inches could make the difference between a great link and no link - especially with a big RF mirror like the river you are talking about.
2) VoIP on canopy works really well when set correctly. Correctly means having the correct (not necessarily the latest) version in the AP and SM, and setting prioritization in both the AP and SM for voice traffic. In addition, you need to watch and make sure that you have bandwidth set correctly and are getting the speeds you expect. If you had a marginal link, there is every possibility that you simply did not have sufficient bandwidth available to you in the upstream
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