Scott Carullo wrote: > My first advice is ditch the amp, not necessary and most likely illegal > power. You can get what you need out of the minipci card.
This! In the past few months, we've replaced a couple towers with Mikrotik hardware and software. A few of our towers were amped - I'd turn down the power on the radio to stay legal, performance would be okay. I'd make the tower guys pull the amp (which involves a climb, so they hate me for it...), turn the radio power back up, and get better performance, better signal from the customers, better noise floor. Granted, most of the amps are several years old, and new stuff may work better, but "modern" radio cards can put out enough power that you likely won't need the amp, and it may even make things worse. We've been using Mikrotik's R52 and R52H cards (depending on how much power we need), though recently we tried a Ubiquiti XR2 for one of our 2.4GHz towers and have been thoroughly impressed. It's an expensive card, relatively speaking (more than double the cost of the R52H), and we have to turn the power down to stay legal, but it seems to have even better rx sensitivity than the R52H (which supposedly is the same chipset). If you're in the midwest US, www.jeffcosoho.com/catalog will have most of what you need, and they offer a discount to WISPA members. David Smith MVN.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
