Has it run through heavy rain yet, wonder how much rain affectst the attenuation.
On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 12:01 -0700, Matt Larsen - Lists wrote: > Just installed a Ligowave 24ghz unlicensed backhaul radio to take the > place of a 100meg fiber loop. > > We are going 2.97 miles with the 2' dishes. -65 signal on both sides > and it has tested out at 85meg of capacity in both directions. > > Very happy with it so far. The software and management interface is > very comprehensive and has some interesting features in it, including a > "constellation" feature that gives an approximation of what the OFDM > signals look like. This unit has the ability to use a voltmeter for > the signal strength peaking, and my climber highly recommends using that > instead of trying to call out signal strengths. That made it a lot > easier to peak in. > > Climber also says that the mounting hardware looks great, but is > actually pretty crappy when it is on the tower. It is not very > fine-grained in its adjustment capabilities - at least that is the > politically correct way to put it. > > The complete link was in the $8000 neighborhood. The fiber link was > costing $500/month, so it won't take very long for this to pay for itself. > > Matt Larsen > vistabeam.com > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
