I will be deploying about a dozen hotspots within a 2000 acre (about 1 mile in diameter somewhat circular) property which is fairly heavily wooded (pine trees / oak trees).
I have equipment on a commercial tower on one end of this property at about 150 feet. I am going to use RB532’s on the tower and RB532’s for each hotspot AP out on the property. I can probably use something less powerful but I want to invest in this equipment for the time being.
With the avg distance for most of the APs to the tower is 1/3 to 2/3s of a mile. Can anyone share their experience with 2.4Ghz over this distance with similar factors? I plan on going with R52H radio cards.
Here is what I sort of plan on if anyone would like to chime in one way or the other…
RB532 on tower with an XR9 and a R52H installed. About a 12db 90deg sector for the 2.4 (5Ghz 10 Mhz) and probably about a 60deg 9db sector for the 900Mhz card - both at 150 feet.
I’ll use RB532 with 2 R52H on both on 2Ghz (one connected to tower with arc integrated 2.4 Ghz antenna w/compartment 19db and the other connected to about a 9-11db omni running hotspot on this interface with 2.4 B/G) I’ll be running the BH R52H on the opposite end of the freq range from the hotspot R52H… Will this cause problems running 2 R52H cards in a single RB532 if I separate the freq as much as possible?
When I can’t get a good enough connection with 2.4 back to the tower then I can use the exact same setup with a XR9 to feed from the tower. I should be able to get good enough speeds with the distances I’m dealing with.
I really don’t believe I’ll have a problem connecting two R52H cards at 2.4Ghz 10 Mhz channel at about a half mile - regardless of how many trees there are because of the 150 foot tower a half mile away. Can someone confirm this one way or another based on experience…
Thanks,
Scott