Currently we have one RB493G with 3 WiFi midules and 90-degree antennas covering the entire island with 2,4Ghz internet. There are abount 15 users (households) using this service.
Now if I would like to upgrade to 5Ghz and higher speeds what would be the right products for that? I can’t seem to find anything suitable for my needs from the routerboard family.
Horizonal coverage needed is about 180-200 degrees (two 120 degree antennas?). Elavation is about 30m (top of lighthouse)
We only have one ethernet cable to the top of the lighthouse where the device(s) need to be located
Also there is a small possibility for that ethernet cable to be replaced with a singlemode fiber in the future. Currently there is a media converter at the base of the lighthouse converting it to copper and causing and unnecessary SPOF
You can run the mANT in “AP mode” , not using the the “router” in it, and just keep the RB493G as a router only.
I would use CAPSMAN on main router to manage the AP’s.
one hEX PoE : you connect the ethernet (or fiber in the future, with the SFP) from the rest of the network, and it does the routing
and two or three mANT (15s or 19s) : “just” serving as AP (no routing), and powered by POE by the hEX
This means : 3 devices to configure and monitor. But no external antenna to add/plug.
Or another idea : more like your current setup (only one card for all antenna) :
one RB922UAGS-5HPacD : with a dual-chain AC controller integrated, SFP+eth
one R11e-5HacD additionnal (mini pci-e) wireless card
and 2 external antenna (TBD)
Or the same architecture, but with triple chain :
one RB953GS-5HnT-RP : with a triple-chain AC controller integrated, SFP+eth
one R11e-5HacT additionnal (mini pci-e) wireless card
and 2 external antenna (TBD)
NB: this config has another mini pci-e slot for a third card+antenna if needed, and a second SFP (not sure how it can be usefull for you).
