I’m trying to engineer a multi-building solution and I don’t know what the vertical beamwidth and falloff spec are (i.e. like “-2db at ±15deg vertical, -1.5db at ±30deg horizontal”).
Separate but related: I’d REALLY appreciate it if Mikrotik would start releasing horizontal and vertical antenna plots like Ubiquiti, as Mikrotik’s product range is still better for most of what I do and I like the flexibility of RouterOS way better, but this is making it very hit-or-miss when I’m engineering a system. Sometimes I just have to buy the devices, find out they won’t work (wastes time/money), and either return them or eat the cost. I’ve had several colleagues/engineers ask me why I don’t know these specs and I can only say that “the manufacturer” only releases the bare-minimum information in this regard, which is embarrassing for me when I tell them what a good deal these devices are up front as they’re already skeptical of small manufacturers for the usual reasons. It’s just making it harder for evangelists like me to sell these to others as high-end devices that can be properly engineered into solutions when I can’t even give them firm answers on things like radiation patterns.
Please consider this suggestion strongly… it’s really important and, while most of the time I can fudge it and try to work around it by keeping spare gear around, the times when I can least afford to do so are in big installations with tight timetables and limited access so we can’t always have several opportunities to test before we have to go live, hence the need for more knowledge to let us engineer in advance.