Hi All, I've got a small town that is literally a 1 mile x 1 mile square. I have two towers, one is North, 10 miles from the town, the other is East, 11 miles from the town. This town is heavily covered by trees. Most customers thus far have no LOS to either tower, or are skimming the tops/sides of trees. Fortunately I'm still able to pull off signals in the -62 to -80 RX range, using a NBM2 or NSM2 for CPE and Rocket M2 for AP. My RX signals at the AP are -69 to -84.
I have the possibility to put repeater APs on a radio station tower that is about 2 blocks from the middle of town - approximately 50' off the ground. From this tower, no one in town would be more than .75 miles away. I'm thinking 10Mhz channels - 1, 6, 11. If we do this, I will likely use the UBNT shields that I've seen for sale with three 120deg sectors. Noise levels vary, but there is DSL in town, so a lot of people have wireless APs in-house. My worst noise level on a customer is -83, but they're using a NSM2 instead of NBM2. The customers with NBM2 are typically -100 to -104 noise. Right now I'm just looking for other's input on these kinds of repeater situations? Experience with trees? What signal levels through trees, under 1 mile distance? How about 5.8Ghz or 3.65Ghz? How about CCQ with trees? I would like to ultimately be able to provide 10+Mbps burstable service, as there is DSL in this town. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
