I am upgrading my main tower for capacity and I’d love some feedback.
I have a 2.4GHz, 5GHz and 900MHz omni, 2.4GHz is at capacity, the rest are fine for now.
I’m trying to decide the best way to go. I’m looking at ITElite’s 14dBi sectors and RB711 2HnD, Hana Wireless 10 or 13dBi omni + 711 and KP Performance 13dBi omni + 711.
I’d gain more bandwidth for my current single polarity CPE if I use sectors, but if I go with a 5GHz DP omni and a 711 as well as a 2.4GHz DP omni with a 711 then I should have plenty of capacity. I will be adding another 10-20ft to the tower to enable more clients to use the 5GHz AP as well.
With sectors I wouldn’t have to upgrade the CPE right now and would have far more total capacity, however if I go with dual DP omni then I’d be able to swap out several customers to 5GHz equipment.
I’d also love some feedback from anyone that has used KP Performance, ITElite or Hana Wireless antennas.
This is a fairly rural area. I doubt I’d ever get 100 clients on this tower.
I’ve used the ITE Lite 5GHz DP panels.
I really didn’t care for them. They’re inexpensive but also cheap.
Too much plastic. Entire case is plastic, no sheilding at all on the ones I used.
Plastic mounting studs for the RB suck. Easily stripped.
When compared with ARC IES, ARC wins hands down, even with the cost difference.
Just my opinion of course
Yes correct all plastic and I had to apply RF screen to the panels but it was worth the effort and now the pro-sectors version which is metal with radio compartment and testing on site it has a high co-location signal attenuation, http://www.itelite.net/en/Katalog/Custom-Antennas/
To be honest I’m thinking about shielding them further depending on results on the ground.
Aug, I’m with you on the shielding, but I don’t have as much trouble at the customer’s location as I do on the tower. One out of 50 customers might have an interference problem.
Most of my CPE are Airgrids and Rootenna with a Jirious and Nanostation thrown in here and there.
