What sort of ubiquiti APs? You'll have serious loss on anything but a bullet, and I wouldn't put one of them 145' up a tower.
Also see that the firmware is up to date. They've had some issues misreporting signal in various versions. On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 04:09:40PM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > We've just installed a 3 sector 2.4 setup, at 145' with maxrad 120's. > I'm noticing the receive sensitivity on the AP's are about 15-20 db's > different then what I see on the CPE's, tried a Tranzeo/Ubiquity > radio. I'm using Ubiquity AP's, and they work fine on another 3 sector > setup I have, however this tower is an A-Frame. The tower owner won't > allow outside climbers so his guy did it, and he put one on each leg > at 145' back to back. If the radios were too close together even on > different channels, would the RX performance on the AP exhibit this > behavior? Only other change on this tower was RFLinx Quarter-wave > arrestors in line. > > If I'm 3-5 miles away I can see on the CPE a RSSI of -65 to -75 for > example, on the AP the reading would be in the -90 to not even below > the noise floor. > > Any thoughts would be appreciated as always. > > Regards > Michael Baird > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ -- /* Jason Philbrook | Midcoast Internet Solutions - Wireless and DSL KB1IOJ | Broadband Internet Access, Dialup, and Hosting http://f64.nu/ | for Midcoast Maine http://www.midcoast.com/ */ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
