A pretty basic question, but one hard to define for a Google.
I have two wireless network sub-nets each connecting to its own interface at a site which then connects wirelessly over a 15km backhaul to our gateway.
As it's a pretty inaccessible mountain-top site I'm considering adding a second interface and antenna to connect to the gateway, as a backup in case a card blows and I can't get up to the site immediately.
What I can't work out is whether I would get better throughput with a single point-to-point link (maybe running nv2) with the other link disabled unless needed, or routing each sub-net through its own link connected to the single gateway with a routing rule that will automatically switch everything onto one link if the other fails. Or even if there's some kind of pseudo-MIMO trick you can do with a setup like this.
Is there any relevance in the fact that in my neck of the woods you can pump up to 200w into a point-to-point link but are limited to 4w on a point-to-multipoint? Is it really a point-to-multipoint when you're pumping a 3' beam at just two antennas only a couple of metres apart?