I need to make a 6km link being able to do around 50/50Mbit. I have LOS and 23DbI 5GHz panels (can do dual polarization) and 400mw SR5 cards. One site will be on the ground and therefore hardware will be easy to replace, however the other site will be 200 feet over ground and expensive to access. I need some suggestions on what hardware to use to run this link. I plan to run NSTREME/2 but its hard to find hardware appropriate for this. I want no active components (passive cooling) and i only have 48V PoE… Also it have to be small, fast, cheap and very stable
I’ll just put 2 panels next to each other in different polarization, works great when using the right freqs.
I was thinking of going another way with the link, doing the following:
2 seperate bridged links in 5G Turbo mode using 2 x RB532A@333MHz in Bridge mode in each end + one RB532A doing channel bonding in each end, so that each end has 3 x RB532A.. This should provice failover for the link + the bonding of 2 Turbo links. In theory i should be able to push 50-60Mbit without any probs through this link.. Anyone tested this? I will do a lab setup tomorrow to see how it behaves
2 seperate bridged links in 5G Turbo mode using 2 x RB532A@333MHz in Bridge mode in each end + one RB532A doing channel bonding in each end, so that each end has 3 x RB532A.. This should provice failover for the link + the bonding of 2 Turbo links. In theory i should be able to push 50-60Mbit without any probs through this link.. Anyone tested this?
In my opinion this sounds like it would probably not provide the throughput you need, and “bonding” without using nstream doesn’t really seems like it would work very well - though I have not personally implemented it.
If I was doing this project, I would use a good quality Intel brand motherboard with a ~1.0-1.5Ghz processor, and a compact flash drive for routeros. You can use a DC-DC ATX power supply to feed such a board, though it would require enough 12v current that I would not run it over ethernet, but rather dedicated power wires.
By using such a meaty processor you would have a much easier time getting REAL throughput around 50Mbps.
Hi ,
you need 2 machines / I advise you to buy some slims [DELL ,FS] with at least 2.0Ghz p4 processor and 256mb of RAM/ , motherboards including Power supplies fit perfectly in 40x30x15 plastic case/if intend to use PoE find out more about picoPSU/ else you need 4 cm9 cards configure 2 EoIP tunnels and apply bonding ..then you’ll see the result
Me myself managed to transmit ~80Mbit half-duplex at about 15 miles distance with 60sm offset dishes.
This should be possible with ROS and high speed hardware.
We demonstrated this: http://www.cablefreesolutions.com/pdf/PR%20200Mbps%20Radio%20Base%20Stations%20-%20Final.pdf
with standard shipping outdoor-grade passively-cooled 1GHz AMD ‘NX’ powered MT-based routers.
That was P2MP, but with Nstreme2, 50/50 Mbps is easily possible for a P2P link and has been tested with >60/60Mbps using 2 radio cards.
With some power behind it, RouterOS really shines - impressed -
I’m looking for a motherboard for external. What you suggest? I have read that cablefree use AMD 1GHz uP. My dubt are on the reliablity of the motherboard in external evironment (50°C - -20°C)
