Steve,
All of our 2.4 are Mikrotik and we're pretty happy with that but as you
say past 50 it starts to get pretty ugly. We added an M2 and put some
dual polarity CPE out there, they worked great with it. We turned
Airmax off because we had a non-M2 UBNT radio that we wanted to connect,
it took some work but by mounting it vertically but selecting horizontal
it worked, on vertical it would connect but not pass traffic. We
haven't tried non-ubnt equipment like Engeinus yet but our assumption is
we would actually mount the antenna horizontal and have the same result.
The optimal answer is to mount it right above your Mikrotik, pick a good
separation frequency then move all your M2/M5 stuff over to it first for
Airmax then make all your new installs with Airmax to it. We've done
this in transitioning towers over, now our UBNT M5 has more people on it
than the original Mikrotik which has a comfortable 35 non-M
subscribers. Again, remember to turn on Firewall rules, consider
bandwidth shaping and put in rules for icmp and block 255.255.255.255
then it will give much of the same protections that you are used to on
Mikrotik.
Forbes Mercy
Washington Broadband, Inc.
On 9/13/2010 11:30 AM, Steve Barnes 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 <http://www.pcswin.com/>
RC-WiFi Wireless Internet Service <http://www.rcwifi.com/>
*From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
*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/>
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