Is there any demand for this in the field?
Is MT planning anything in this direction?
2,4Ghz b/g/n duo polarized outdoor omni antenna’s are hard to find or basically don’t exist. And if they do they are very expensive…
The 5Ghz OmniTik are very good, cheap, reliable and come with PoE-out functionality. So to setup an AP with back haul antenna all you need it an Omnitik connected to an SXT.
To do the same with a 2,4Ghz AP (There is still use for that! Better, in rural but urbanized areas with many providers you’ll find 5Ghz is being exploited to its max. where you’ll find that a outdoor 2,4Ghz AP network is performing very well.
Special when the ‘rural’ means lots of hills and trees 2,4Ghz gives better performances than a 5Ghz OmniTik in the same situation could do…
Also for city wide hotspot deployment, cheap and reliable 2,4Ghz OmniTiks with PoE out would make it an ideal product.) you have to build your own box with antennas and power supply which makes a messy design and the cheapest duo polarized 2,4Ghz mimo antenna I could find already cost the same as an OmniTik costs…
If you think about it, there is still a very good market for a 2,4Ghz OmniTik.
Well, there were already some discussion about this topic. Mikrotik originally promised that but never delivered… I would say that it is too late now. It should be on the market at the same time as 5GHz version. These days we should be buying dual band ac versions with triple polarised mimo antennas.
As ETSI limits 2,4GHz to 100mW EIRP, only small channel available and no .ac chipset for 2,4 this is imho not the direction to go.
I would like to see an Omnitik UPA-AC with gigabit ports. We use a lot of UPAs to power SXT and Sectors. At this site we need only one cable run and one power supply at the base.
pfff, if MT sees a reason to make and sell a single chain 1300mW 2,4Ghz device I don’t see why EIRP limitation should be a matter in yes or no manufactoring a high power 2,4Ghz Omnitik. If you want to stay in limits you just use the ‘regulatory domain’ setting. Like you have to on most other a/b/g/n/c units. Most radio’s and antenna nowaday are so strong that there is a bigger change to use too much EIRP than not…
(It would probably give a nice outcome to ask the wifi world who is actually limiting his radio to stay within the law, and who is not. I know were to place my bet on… )
The 20Mhz is still wide enough to supply clients with a 10-15Mb internet connection. We were the day we could only dream of such speeds…? Some people in rural areas still think 1Mb is something to dream about…
Of Course do I fully support your Omnitik UPA-AC with gigaport wish. But with all that 5Ghz power use of the available spectrum I see renewed usage of 2,4Ghz in areas where a full 5Ghz AP-Client system is hammered by the competition’s radio waves. I have an eare where a scan on a roof on the 2,4Ghz band only shows me some weak signals of an occasional home router… while litterly every 5Ghz channel is been used, some even twice…
In this area I have a rural network still working in b/g single chain and the satisfaction of these clients are on average higher than the one using the so much higher bandwidth equipped 5Ghz clients…
True indeed, I also thought to remember somewhere in history 2,4Ghz OmniTik was promised…
Triple Pol. a/c would definitely put MikroTik in a position where she was once… ahead. But I am afraid these days are over. Now we can say that’s because MT wants to have new developments mature before they come with something new, but in reality I’ve got more the feeling they run behind the competition and when they come with something new its still not as matured like we all would like to see.
Triple pol b/g/n OmniTik would make it an ideal hotspot antenna. With the antenna diversity it would offer the usual single chain smartphone or tablet user would have better change to connect than to a single chain V-pol omni we usually see.
But at the same time they should come with 3x3 b/g/n SXT’s to connect to these 3x3 2,4Ghz OmniTiks to make NLOS or even ‘Not even close to LOS’ possible under the most difficult circumstances for Wifi. Like forest areas or congested urbanised hotspot usage.
With the 3 different polarized antennas a users would always have the best change to make a connection no matter if his phone is horizontal, vertical or in a roller coaster.
Go take a look at ruckus wifi and pick what is easy to implement without increasing the price too much…
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