I have two rooms which I need to connect with gigabit speeds. They are in the same building, but we are not allowed to run cables, and no LOS between them.
We also have a pole approx 100 meters away where we have the internet access.
I’m contemplating either
a PtMP setup with a CubeSA 60Pro on the pole and two Cube 60Pro in the windows or
two PtP links with two Cubes on the pole (Wireless Wire Cube Pro kits)
Main question is, do the two clients share the same radio bandwidth on the CubeSA as AP in the PtMP case? What is the total bandwidth on the CubeSA, and is it possible to achieve gigabit-like speed between two clients?
In the latter case the Cubes on the pole would need to essentially face in the same direction. Would the two links not interfere with eachother?
The cubes should be directional enough to not have interference issues, though the PtMP setup sounds (to me) a better idea, the real issue I can see in your proposed setup is the window pane.
It depends of course on the exact kind and thickness of the glass, but some (modern) windows could be used as RF shields and 60 GHz is affected a lot by obstacles.
I had thought about the loss thru the windows. We will test it once we bought the equipment and if necessary will mount them outside somehow and hope the building management not to have anything to say about it.
Indeed I also think the the PtMP setup is more elegant, but to be honest it’s not that much cheaper that way, and my concern is still that if we go that route, wouldnt that halve the possible throughput, given the data would have to go in and out through the same radio..
I think it depends a lot on the speed you have on the pole and the speed you can achieve in real world between the cubes.
In the best possible scenario a Cube 60 pro (on the building side) should go nearly or around 1 Gb, in case you use two devices on the pole. they would then need to have 2 Gb (fiber) internet to saturate both links.
The worst case should be the bridging of the two Cube Pros through the (single) SA on the pole, there surely speed will be halved, but still all the rest of the network should be capable of sustained more than 500 Mb to make them a bottleneck.
Having two Cubes on the pole, while of course doable, is more complex for cabling and powering.