i searched the forum about this topic but i didnt find something to help me ,
i want to make a WDS connection at many areas with RB532 and SR2 using RouterOS, and i want to connect the radio with 2 Antennas , one is high directional antenna to connect directly to the Other WDS radio far a way , and can make long distance connection (24 dbi dish) .
and also connecting the other MMCX connector with 12 dbi omni 360 degree , and this one for the client around this WDS radio , to connect with .
i want the 2 antennas to perform diversity for sending and receiving this means the radio will choose the better antenna for its current receiving or sending status ,
the result SHOULD be that i can connect all the roaming users around this WDS radio , and also the WDS radio can connect to the Base station or other WDS station far away to act as a backbone , with only one radio on the RB532 board .
i think this senario could not be performed with NetStream offcourse (be aware i want roaming laptop users with their internal wireless card (not an MT based router) to connect directly to the WDS ) .
Does the diversity in RouterOS can perform this senario ?
ok that means it should be 2 cards at least to perform that ? or just depend on the omni to do the backhaul connection and also make the connection available for users ?
I’ve done this type of connection as a test with a Linksys WRT54GL and results were not good. Enabling diversity in this situation will increase latency, cause network drops, etc.
i will use 2 radios , SR2 and (R52 or cm9) , one of them i will use to act as a client to WDS or a WDS or a client ot base station ,
and the other radio i will use to radiate the signal 360 degrees for the users around to connect ,
i will use RB112 to reduce the cost , and i know that the maximum power for RB112 is about 12v , 5 for the board and there is 7 left for the radios ,cm9 i think needs only 2v and SR2 needs 4v ,
my question , which is the best to perform , SR2 to act as backhaul and cm9 for 360 degree , or the reverse cm9 as backhaul and SR2 as 360 degree for the users to connect with ?
do you recommend one of the 6th generation radios from Senao instead of cm9 or R52 ?
I suggest going with the R52 over the CM9. I have replaced a couple CM9’s that failed for environmental reasons with R52’s, signal levels improved quite a bit and performance was much better. I had a link that was operating at 24/36mbps in 802.11a and it’s now 54mbps pretty steady with an occasional drop to 48mbps.