I know a guy in Florida who put up a PTP link for every customer! Of course, that was from the rooftop of a high rise.
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Fred Goldstein <[email protected]>wrote: > At 9/13/2010 10:43 PM, Robert West wrote: > > >Yo, dude! Sectors acting as backhaul? Now I LIKE that idea! > > > >I shall steal it from you and make it my own. > > > >Nuff said. > > Why not? I'm working on a design now that has 15-20 access points > fed from a sector antenna on a tower. (I couldn't put that many > separate links up if I tried, not between 5.725 and 5.85.) They'll > need TDMA (Airmax or an Nstreme) to keep things sorted out, of > course. There's a string of nodes that can barely see each other for > the trees, but can all see one tower over water... since water paths > tend to be flakey, I'm thinking of putting two antennas on the tower, > one above the other, hoping that the vertical spacing may have the > two sectors (overlapping coverage, different 5.8 channels) flake out > at different times. > > The real question is whether or not I can make a case that the "Sky > Pilot Rule" applies, and thus the whole sector counts as PtP for > regulatory power limit purposes. With TDMA it's only transmitting to > one at a time, after all... > > -- > Fred Goldstein k1io fgoldstein "at" ionary.com > ionary Consulting http://www.ionary.com/ > +1 617 795 2701 > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ >
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