Zig zag your ap's back and forth across the valley. Use customer houses as transmit sites to those on the other side of the river.
That'll work much better than a mesh system. marlon ----- Original Message ----- From: "MDK" <[email protected]> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 10:41 AM Subject: [WISPA] Outdoor mesh, has anyone seen any work well? >I just got a call from a remote community, this is in "the mountains" so to > speak. It's actually a canyon with a river in the middle and houses on > both sides. It's not straight, and there's trees galore. In other > words, longest distance with 2.4 is going to be "not very far". > > But, there's a lot of people here, equivalent of a small town, and no > other > broadband, and only some of them could even use satellite, which they all > seem to hate. The populated area that's in this valley/canyon is spread > over about 6 miles, the first 3 of which is open enough to use more > conventional wireless setups. The last 3 miles, the canyon has bends and > narrow spots, and vastly more trees. > > So, I got to thinking that an outdoor mesh might work for part of this, > but > I have yet to read of any truly successful outdoor meshes -especially that > can deliver a large amount of bandwidth. > > Anyone? > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Neofast, Inc, Making internet easy > 541-969-8200 509-386-4589 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
