Hello, just wondering what wireless cards you guys use. Well more importantly which cards have worked best with this system and give you the best range. I live in an area with lots of trees I have read atheros based cards are really good but would like some input from you guys. We been using Tranzeo 4500’s but would like to start using mikrotik and routerboards for our APs’ instead. Mainly because of all the features and bandwidth management built into the system. Anyway any hints or suggestions on cards would be greatly appreciated.
I use the (R52) 802.11a+b+g 65 mW Wireless miniPCI Card
and it work like a charm i have it today on 150 customers CPE units.
I have tested the SENAO 100 mv card called ARIES2 and i working well but its more sensitive to noise compared to the R52 card.
This is from the Mikrotik site :
MikroTik presents our new wireless 802.11a+b+g miniPCI card for multibandhigh speed applications! It can work either on 2.312 - 2.497 or 4.920 - 6.100GHz range.
The main diffrent that im found is that the R52 is sensitive compared to the CM9 . And its handeling the Noise verry good.
We are running on 5.4 Ghz with 26 Dbi Grid antenna and the distance is 10 Km with signal -54/-58. and real trafic is ~ 25 mbits.
Yes it will be perfect solution. and when i get my own designed antenna that can handel Both 2.4 ghz 19 dbi and 5.4-5-5.8 ghz 24 dbi in the same antenna , its in development state right now. Then i only have to change the a or b setting on the R52 card.
I heard that the actual performance of the R52 wasn’t as good as the CM9. Maybe this has been rectified in recent releases but confirmation from Mikrotik on this would be handy.
the R52 is at least as good as the CM9, in many cases - it is better. Plus it’s cheaper. It uses a newer and more advanced chipset, and when we did the 300Mbit wireless combo link at the MUM-Prague - we came to conclusion that R52 will be better for this kind of test.
I have read atheros based cards are really good but would like some input from you guys. We been using Tranzeo 4500’s but would like to start using mikrotik and routerboards for our APs’ instead. Mainly because of all the features and bandwidth management built into the system. Anyway any hints or suggestions on cards would be greatly appreciated.