I’ve been following these forums for quite some time now and have been using routerboard’s for a few years.
I’ve been recently looking to start my first wireless point-point project.
Location “A” currently has a physical fiber connection which I’d like to share with another location that is less than 500 meters apart. I’m located in Montreal, Quebec so we do have the issue that it snows half of the year.
Keeping that in mind I’ve been trying to figure out which would be the best antena for me to use. So far I’ve been thinking of getting a SXT Sickpack using two at both location where one would act as a failover/redundancy.
I also plan on enabling routing between both Network’s from location A and location B.
All this being said I was hoping you guys with all the experience would have any pointers or tips for me before I begin.
Would it be beneficial for me to go with 4 x SXT Lite5 ac instead?
I look forward to hearing what you all have to say.
I’m trying to get the most bandwidth possible with this point to point.
If at the end of the day all I can get is 100mbit then I’m good with that however I’d like to be able to do 500mbit or more to allow for some inter network filesharing as well. for this reason I’m looking for a unit that has 802.11ac capabilities like the SXT 5 AC and the SXT Lite5 AC
You need to select antennas according the radio parameters in used devices. Use the link calculator to see what results it gives for different combinations. Then select something with some reserve that you utilise in the lowering tx power. As the time will go and conditions will be worsening, you will find it useful.