Switching to Belden 1300A, shielded with drain wire and shielded
connectors has reduced static damage and the need to reboot/power cycle
equipment by more than 50%.
Mike Hammett wrote:
People are using patch cords from Walmart in their WISP installs? Jeez...
I use regular outdoor cable, no flooding, no shielding, just UV protected
cable. It's all I normally need and I've been doing this for a few years.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
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From: "Robert West" <robert.w...@just-micro.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 11:00 AM
To: "'WISPA General List'" <wireless@wispa.org>
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Vendors eating their dogfood (was Re: Which WiMAX
AreYou?)
Those marketing photos sure look pretty though. They might also explain
why
I keep seeing installs done just like the pictures. I had a bit of an
argument a few weeks ago on the UBNT forums with some folks defending
using
indoor patch cable outside and not wrapping connectors. It started with
someone complaining to UBNT that the patch cable boots wouldn't fit inside
the bullet caps. (The answer from UBNT was that it was a tradeoff in the
design...???) Silly me, I said they were supposed to be used with outdoor
shielded cable, not patch with the boots. You wouldn't believe how many
negative comments came from that. Pictures of nice pretty blue PVC patch
cables and bright shiny connectors............. And now there is an army
of
installers following these lies.
We use outdoor, flooded cable with the static drain wire to an outdoor
shielded connector. All connections wrapped. It's not as pretty but I
don't work for Apple so I just care about it being functional and trouble
free. I would be more attracted to a photo of equipment with a correct
install. They are marketing to professionals, after all, and when I see
one
of these photos, I'm like you and are too busy being distracted by the
things that are wrong.
On Sep 10, 2009, at 11:42 AM, jp wrote:
Sidepoint.... Some of the wireless equipment vendors would likely
create
a superior product faster if they ran a modest sustainable WISP just
big
enough for real world product testing. Too often we see marketing
photos
of gear installed outdoors with shiny bare N connectors, indoor
unshielded cat5 on the pole, etc...
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