I have another town where we are on a hilltop right in the middle of
town, the hilltop is about 600-700 feet above the town. All four APs on
this are 5.8Ghz. I have one customer shooting straight through a tree,
he's about a quarter mile from the AP, and he's got a -58 signal on a
Nanostation M5. I can pump 40 Mbps to his radio no problem.
I know 2.4 usually has better tree penetration, but in the case of this
new town, we're potentially going up to a mile, probably twice as many
trees, and less elevation.
The other alternative is simply pick and choose our customers.
As far as doing a mesh, I thought about doing Nanostation Loco M2s with
OLSR. I prefer to do routed mesh. But that's a lot of 2.4 spewing
everywhere, my noise floor would be ridiculous.
Currently have 2.4 and 5.8 APs on the two distant towers. 5.8 seems way
more solid, but at 10+ miles, even tops of trees seemed to kill the signal.
On 9/13/2010 3:58 PM, Glenn Kelley wrote:
3.65 is limited in that you can only go as high as 99 feet I believe -
someone will correct me if I am wrong.
If you are using airmax - 2.4 should help
5ghz you may have some issues w/ trees however
My suggestion is a mix - I noticed that you have not mentioned 900mhz
900 and trees especially at that distance - sub 1 mile is awesome -
but doubt you will see the 10mbps speeds you wish.
5ghz is your best choice - if you can use it.
setting up both 2.4 and 5ghz sectors may help - double the cost - but
in the end - would allow you the most flexibility
On Sep 13, 2010, at 6:20 PM, Nick White wrote:
om 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.
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