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obm1
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NLOS

Wed Mar 21, 2007 12:51 pm

hi all

i am an WISP and i have about 300 customer in area about 10 k.m squard

my big problem is the (LOS) and i am looking for (NLOS) Solution

i use now netgear product as main ap

and edimax 7206 as client

so any suggestion from you i will be happy to hear
 
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Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:31 pm

Build you're own, Router OS, WRAP or Routerboard and SR9.
 
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Sat Mar 24, 2007 8:07 pm

thank you for reply
wimax 3,5 ghz - vectastar 3500 - cambridgebroadband.com
i think wimax is so expencive

Build you're own, Router OS, WRAP or Routerboard and SR9.

but how to bluid this router

if you have any diagram or any more information

please post it
 
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Mon Apr 02, 2007 1:11 am

My experience with LOS and NLOS is don't expect NLOS to work too well in rural or suburban areas.

The marketing hype from major companies touting NLOS conveniently fail to mention all their testing is done in urban areas with lots of nice hard surfaces for the signals to reflect off.

In rural or suburban areas you usually have lots of trees and vegetation covered hills which tend to absorb microwave band signals rather than reflect them.

NLOS will only work if there is something to reflect the signal off to get around the obstruction.

I now only install connections where I can physically see the transmitter and the fresnel zone is clear. You just store up problems by installing in marginal conditions. It's better to have no customer at all than one who has a poor connection, they'll just tell everyone your service is rubbish and make it harder to get customers where the signal is good. I speak from bitter experience.

The only real answer is to install more APs so that you have clear LOS.


Regards

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Mon Apr 02, 2007 3:07 am

SR2 or XR2 in a rb133 or rb532 with a high gain antenna. then run it at 5mhz bandwidth. I think this is about as good as it gets.
 
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Mon Apr 02, 2007 3:20 am

While a sr2 or xr5 would be fine with the options posted above ... nothing tops the sr9 in terms of range and los; provided the spectrum is "clean".

.... But you should be able to run a sr9 in a "medium" noise enviroment with hori. pol. antennas with 5/10mhz bandwidth options.

Regards...
 
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Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:24 am

I have been playing with them from the day they came out and all I can say is that the sr2 works better for me. Maybe I'm in a high noise area
 
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Get the cavity filter- worth every penny

Thu Apr 05, 2007 6:03 am

I have a SR9 AP on a 260ft tower with a 9 dbi Yagi. The AP was registering a -72 Noise floor and my client links were linking but unusable.

Get the Ubiquiti Cavity filter. I put it on the AP and Voila! -95 to -97 Noise floor. The cavity filter works wonders.
 
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Nice post Chris

Fri Apr 06, 2007 11:29 am

All very true and well said.

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Re: Nice post Chris

Fri Apr 06, 2007 8:56 pm

All very true and well said.

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