David, Compex aka r52(h) and xr5 are atheros 5413 for sure.
But the xr5 well outperforms like you said - more so to do with the "wireless stuff" in the card I am sure. On 6/19/09, David E. Smith <d...@mvn.net> wrote: > 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: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -- Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 "When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth." --- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
