Minimum distance for RBLHGG-60adkit

[MonkeyDan]

I recommend using the original Wireless Wire kit at that distance: https://mikrotik.com/product/wireless_wire

Thanks MonkeyDan. By the way I see you only have 41 posts (39 more than me). Do you work for MikroTik? Or what experience do you have with these units to base your recommendation on? As the forum is calling you a “newbie”, I’d like to have the confidence to tell my customer I made my decision based on the recommendation from someone who is not really a “newbie”

Also, can you explain the reason for using the Wireless Wire kit you recommended instead of the RBLHGG-60adkit? I’d just like to have some degree of understanding.

Thanks so much!!

Sincerely,

Doug

I don’t work for Mikrotik, but do work for a WISP who has deployed over 400 Wireless Wire radios, 50 of which are dishes.
The original Wireless Wire product was designed for distances up to 100 meters and later 200m with software updates. The furthest wAP link we have is solid at about 175m. This is perfect for your distances.
The dishes were designed for up to 1.5 km and in our experience the quality of the link suffers if they’re too close. You used to be able to turn down the TX power which helped, but this has been removed from newer firmwares: http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/w60g-tx-power-setting-gone-in-latest-firmware/123819/1 If you tried to deploy dishes at that range your connection would probably suffer too.