I'm not sure he knows what he wants, at this point. He knows that I do stuff with wifi mesh using BelAir products and wanted to know what that would cost. I told him BelAir might be good up to only a certain Mbps (fairly steady ~30Mbps on 802.11a radios, which I've tested many times), and after that, he'd after to think about frequencies not offered in any of the radios modules that you can put in a BelAir. He also only needs a simple PtP bridge, and a lot of the extra stuff he'd be paying for with BelAir would be too much if he didn't plan on ever exceeding that.
Thanks for the advice on the Motorola Orthagon line. I have heard a lot of crap about their product line (mostly from people I work with who used to work with their products or at Motorola), but I'm not sure if it was this particular line or not. Their 500/600 series look good bandwidth wise. Some of the others (100/200/300/400 series), however, look fairly so-so at best (and sucky at worst). If he's willing to pay, I'll definitely tell him to consider Bridgewave or Dragonwave. Thanks for the input! 3-dB Networks wrote: > And does he want 100Mb full duplex or aggregate? Motorola Orthogon radios > (specifically the PtP 500 Full) hits 105Mbps aggregate... that could be a > real winner. > > 100Mb full duplex would be Dragonwave... 24Ghz could be a nice solution so > they don't have to worry about the license. > > If he wants 1Gbps he could look at Bridgwave... but those links are not > cheap. > > Daniel White > 3-dB Networks > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Rogelio >> Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 2:16 PM >> To: WISPA General List >> Subject: [WISPA] affordable solution for bridging two buildings >> >> A friend in my Linux user group is in charge of setting up the IT in a >> building that's about about a mile or so away, and he wants to bridge >> them via wireless rather than pay a monthly dedicated circuit between >> them. The number of end users there will be about 50 or so. >> >> He asked me what I would recommend, but I was only familiar with >> 802.11a/b/n gear that ran about $5K on each side and only got, on >> average, 30-35 Mbps. I told him that there might be better solutions out >> there that used a different frequency or more channels, as bandwidth is >> more important to him at this point rather than any particular frequency >> or brand. I'm hoping to find him something in the 50-100 Mbps range for >> something reasonable. >> >> Any ideas? He wants to make sure that his solution is fairly rugged. >> It's southern CA (a little inland), so it's not too bad there, but I'm >> sure he wants to make sure that he gets a good 5-10 years on his >> investment. >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ------ >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ------ >> >> WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
