Charles Wu wrote: > Now, it seems to me that the Nanostation, although cheaper in price, due to > being limited to running CSMA/CA, does not do a good job in competing with > the Motorola Canopy / Trango / Alvarions of the world...people who buy those > products are paying for the extra R&D effort put into developing a more > "WISP-focused" solution than just "plain-ol" Wi-Fi > Well, you might be surprised how many Canopy/Trango/Alvarion wisps are deploying Nanostations where the RoI on a normal AP isn't in line. We're actually deploying Nanostations to cover those situations where you have 2-3 subs you can't see from any of your AP's, but a neighbor's house can see both one of your AP's and the subs.
Basically we're adding a Nanostation to a standard Canopy Install... so for the cost of the Nanostation, we gain the ability to cover those subscribers. -forrest -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
