I plan on doing a few PTP's with the dishes for those. On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 1:56 AM, Robert West <[email protected]>wrote:
> You be right! I have one hub with multiple backhauls on it. My problem > was > always the sectors being 15 to 19dbi gain but the grids being a good 29. > My > furthest out is 20 miles, not good for a 15dbi sector, but most other AP's > can see the hub's sectors at at least a -74. In fact, I've USED them in a > pinch to work around outages, though not within FCC guide lines.......... > (So what) but I never thought about just using it as part of the big > vision. > > Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm................ > > > Me- > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Fred Goldstein > Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 11:51 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Taking the plunge > > 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/ > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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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