Agreed in most circumstances they are a pain in less your are in an area by yourself with a low noise floor, which is hard to fine. Then omnis serve a purpose until you build your client base up enough to support sectors and separate APs.
On 16-Jun-10, at 9:27 AM, Jeremie Chism wrote: > All sectors. Omni in 900 is a nightmare. An omninin almost any band > is a nightmare. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jun 16, 2010, at 9:52 AM, KP Performance <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Jeremie C. >> >> Are you running an omni or sectors at your towers sites? >> >> >> On 15-Jun-10, at 9:35 PM, Jeremie Chism wrote: >> >>> I have also seen improvements during periods of rain and fog. Not >>> sure >>> why but it is noticable. Signal even seems to be stronger during >>> rain. >>> >>> I am in a very congested area and have 900 MHz delivering 1.5/1 to >>> police cars working in a place that has scada and other noise in a >>> very close proximity to my ap's. But doing this I learned a lot >>> about >>> what works and what doesn't. >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> On Jun 15, 2010, at 9:57 PM, "Robert West" <robert.w...@just- >>> micro.com> wrote: >>> >>>> "Variable Success". I love it! >>>> >>>> Bob- >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: [email protected] [mailto:wireless- >>>> [email protected]] >>>> On >>>> Behalf Of MDK >>>> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 7:03 PM >>>> To: WISPA General List >>>> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Looking for 900 MHz pioneers >>>> >>>> Been using 900 with variable success for about 4 years now. >>>> Started with >>>> SR-9's and now have XR9 / STar-OS gear deployed. Love it. It's >>>> almost as >>>> >>>> fast as 5 gig, for a given channel size, and is incredibly better >>>> at >>>> tree >>>> penetration than is 2.4 or 5 gig. >>>> >>>> It has limited application, due to noise being so prevalent, but >>>> where it's >>>> appropriate, it easily delivers 2x2meg to the customer @ 10 >>>> customers / 5 >>>> mhz AP with capacity to spare. It's freaky picky, with >>>> environment >>>> changes like rain, humidity, snow, fog, etc. Rain, snow, fog, >>>> ice >>>> all >>>> IMPROVE forest penetration. >>>> >>>> Longest production use is customers @ 6 miles. >>>> >>>> Otherwise, it's normally deployed in dense forest and limited to >>>> about 1 >>>> mile or 2 if you have plenty of open space, not dense forest. >>>> >>>> Noise? 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