I have a 17Km p2p link using MAnt30 solid dishes and NetMetal5 units. The link has never performed satisfactorily in the 2 years it has been running : using nstreme we see decent throughput but the link disconnects completely and reconnects, every few hours (even though it works perfectly well in between). Using NV2 the link is rock solid but throughput is 1/2 what we achieve with nstreme (and below requirements which are at least 100Mbits 1/2 duplex). 802.11 seems to work but is slower than NV2.
We've been running MT gear for 10+ years and I'm very familiar with its configuration, RF engineering in general. It has come to the point where I am looking for suggestions for alternative products to try on this link. Ideally I would like to retain the existing dishes since they are aligned and in place, so I'm looking for radios without integrated antennas, and obviously 1/2 duplex. One end of the link is solar powered so I can't use gear that has very high power requirements.
Thanks.