Hi All,
We've set a PtMP environment with two sector panel antennas. CPEs are all sxt devices.
For clients having a significant distance from central ap, we used same technique with dish reflector.
What we noticed while experimenting is that sxt needs to be quite distant from reflector.
In the attached photo you may see what I mean.
After applying lots of testing this was the most optimum position in our case.
@InoX. Have you tested that?
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Signal strength is highly improved with this technique and actually it the most cost effective solution for long distance clients.
Furthermore, this setup in being used fo
r the last 4 months without any problem at all.
In the below picture you may find signal strength values for respective sxt CPEs.
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sxt1 is 19km far from sector and signal is -76db. I think it is great.
We used a second reflector for sxt3 to perform some additional testing.
We received 125mbps with nv2 of course.
Now, sxt4 is close to sxt3 but without reflector signal is -72db. sxt3 at the same distance and position with reflector reaches -62db on 5km distance!
With larger reflector we have also reached -56db from the same sxt.
From my perspective it is the most cost effective solution because takes advantage of sxt dual polarization.
For a dual polarization dish you need 200$ at least while for for a dish reflector about 20$...
Since I'm not a radio technology expert and guru I really concerned with WirelessRudy comments and had some second thoughts.
First thing I did was to disconnect SXTs having reflectors from network. I then checked noice levels but haven't been affected at all.
I'm not sure what will happen if I increase the number of clients in the future and environment becomes more complex...
@Mikrotik support team. I saw your interest in a previous post on this threat. Thus the question is: Is this a recommended techique for sxt installation? Will this produce potential noice problems?
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