I think Airmax is a transport protocol, like 802.11a/b/g/n. The way I understand it, to do 802.11n (or Airmax MIMO) you need two streams. If it catches only one stream, it falls back to a/g.
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Steve Barnes <st...@pcswin.com> wrote: > Forbes, so are you saying: if I change and go to a Rocket with Airmax dual > pol antenna and I have a client with a UBNT Bullet M2 HP Connected to a > Laird 24Dbi Grid Vertical only dish, that even though the Bullet has Airmax > as part of it, it wont connect. Or are you saying that all your clients > need to be new with Airmax ability? > > > > Steve Barnes > > General Manager > > PCS-WIN > > RC-WiFi Wireless Internet Service > > > > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On > Behalf Of Forbes Mercy > Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 2:11 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Taking the plunge > > > > >From personal experience I can tell you that you will be very happy when > you make the switch. I just replaced three Mikrotik BH/AP units, pings went > from their rather wild 30-120ms swings to a steady 15ms no matter what > time. Just be ready for three things, you can't put usernames in the ACL > like Mikrotik, there is less routing because UBNT expects filtering to be > done in your router before their equipment, and it will never go down > because it's just a transparent bridge so traffic that would have > overwhelmed Mikrotik equipment and crashed the LAN port won't happen on > Ubiquity. Oh and you're right, I've found that if you use dual-polarity you > can't mix that with non-dual and connections with non-, its far better to > have all Airmax running rather than a mix, this means replacing CPE so that > all customers on that tower are the same equipment, spendy (relative to > UBNT's low cost) but worth it. > > Forbes Mercy > Washington Broadband > > On 9/13/2010 10:31 AM, Steve Barnes wrote: > > All my APs are Mikrotik. My CPE’s are a mix of Tranzeo and UBNT. I have a > AP with 58 Clients on it and starting to get complaints about slowdowns. > They are all setup 10 MHz channel 802.11g. This is a tower that due to > contractual issues I cannot add anymore equipment. So I am considering > taking down the Mikrotik and 120 degree sector and putting up a UBNT Rocket > and Airmax 120 sector. It will take time to physically switch all my > clients to new UBNT Airmax equipment but would like to get it done before > the snow flies. > > > > Has anyone down this? Success? I know I cannot turn on Airmax till > everyone is on the UBNT with that capability but does it work fine till you > get it on? > > > > Steve Barnes > > RC-WiFi Wireless Internet Service > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
