experience here shows sub 50 as a max - for the price point - it cannot be beat however
On Sep 13, 2010, at 2:54 PM, Justin Wilson wrote: > Polling is what makes systems like Canopy and Nstreme shine. The polling > is different than the MIMO technology. Mimo is Antenna and TDMA is polling. > 802.11 was never designed for outdoor so the polling is flawed for such > purposes. I have seen 5ghz Mikrotik units with nstreme enabled that had 70 > clients at 3meg burstable speeds. I am interested to see how many clients an > airmax AP can handle. > -- > Justin Wilson <j...@mtin.net> > http://www.mtin.net/blog – xISP News > http://www.twitter.com/j2sw – Follow me on Twitter > Wisp Consulting – Tower Climbing – Network Support > > > > From: Steve Barnes <st...@pcswin.com> > Reply-To: WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org> > Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:30:04 -0400 > To: WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org> > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Taking the plunge > > 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 <http://www.pcswin.com/> > RC-WiFi Wireless Internet Service <http://www.rcwifi.com/> > > > 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 <http://www.rcwifi.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/ > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ _____________________________________________________________________________________ Glenn Kelley | Principle | HostMedic |www.HostMedic.com Email: gl...@hostmedic.com Pplease don't print this e-mail unless you really need to.
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