XR7

RouterOS Wireless Networking
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Will MT be supporting Ubiquiti’s XR7 card?

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Hi

Some friends told me that Ubiquiti’s XR7 are excellent option for MK.

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But are they going to support it? And if so, when?

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I would assume it already works. It should work the same way as an XR9. You select a 2.4 ghz channel and use the frequency chart to convert to 700mhz. Has anyone ever used an XR7?

I have a public safety office that was asking me about wireless access to their emergency vehicles and they asked about 700mhz. I didn’t know what was available for antennas and if the XR7 would work for them.

Any ideas?

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Nope. I’ll run it by Ubiquiti as well.

Might just buy two cards and antenna’s and test. The cards are about $270 each.

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Has anyone actually tested these yet? I’m still interested in how they perform and what kind of antennas are available.

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I’ve got the card installed, but need to mount the antenna (bout 230’ up).

M2 Inc sells a 14Dbi yagi. We use quite a few of their m2-14’s and 17’s (900) with pretty good success.

Mike from UBNT says they work fine. Should start testing in a couple weeks.

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Dont you need a license to use the 700mhz Frequency? not just just checking. Also how far will it go? Is it really that much better than 900mhz.. I can see where you would get away from interference though… However costly expense to do so. -Jordan

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Not that I’m aware. Should go, based on terrain and elevation about 30-35 miles.

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http://www.dailywireless.org/2007/07/31/fcc-limited-open-access-no-wholesale-requirement-for-700-mhz/

http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/fcc-releases-700mhz-auction-details-verizon-atandt-big-winners/

It is licensed in the US.

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XR7 is not supported
i have 2 cards, the client doesnt registed with the AP, i tried all the frequencies on the chart, nothing worked.
i contract MT, they told me they need to test it, and they dont have cards.
i contacted Michael Ford from ubnt.com, he said he will test it and come back to me, since then i never heared from him!

let me know if anyone got this thing working.

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Haven’t got my antenna’s up yet, but that is gonna suck. Those cards were $270 each + antenna’s.

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any word from mt direct on supporting these?

what about under version 2.9 or version 3?

tks

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Any more results since the last post about this? I’m still curious.

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Curious here also.

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Very poor results. Quarter mile away and signal was -87. Connected but browsing was very slow. Removed antenna from tower and will test elsewhere.

Worked great in my test office, but once deployed I couldn’t get much signal. Antenna was about 85 foot up. Same SR9 can hit about 4-5 miles pretty good.

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Interesting, what type of antennas were you using? Noise floor? What was your exact configuration/setup?

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The antenna’s are M2 14dBi Yagi’s (Horiz Polarity). The noise floor was about 100. No other 700 stuff anywhere near my equipment. Can’t remember what channels we tried, but I know we tried several.

Has anybody else had any success with the SR7?

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are we talking about XR7 or SR7???
what is SR7 ???

thanks.

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