RB532 with MaxRAD individual fed

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Recently im planning to buy RB532 with RB502 expansion card to be used with Maxrad 360 degree sector antenna (3x120deg). I want to have an individual fed set up. the mini pci s that will be used are Xtremerange2 600mW.

so the set up is

RB532 + RB502
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3 x 600mW Xtremerange2
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3 x 120 deg Sector

Questions:
1- I want enable a hotspot on my sector but since I have 3 wireless interfaces it seems that i have to enable 3 hotspot system. I dont want to do that since it will give me a headache in registration of customers.(local user DB will be used) So i want to use a single hotspot server which applies for all of my wireless interfaces. What should i use to do that? is it interface bonding ?

2- Can I use 3 xtremerange2 minipci cards on a single board ?

thanks..

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  1. Create a bridge and add all three wireless interfaces to that bridge. Then enable hotspot on the bridge.

  2. If your RB532 is revision 5 (RB532R5), you can use 3 high powered cards (xtremerange2 minipci cards).

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As a matter of interest are you planning to have all 3 wireless cards on the same channel?

If so does the bridging deal with possible interference problems?

I’m looking at a similar arrangement to boost the power of my hotspots. I know adjacent cells should be properly channel separated … so all information most welcome.