Mike, Are this SIAE links 1.4gbps full duplex or aggregate?
On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 7:14 PM Mike Meluskey <m...@broadband.vi> wrote: > We are very impressed with SIAE Alfo Plus 11 and 18Ghz links with 80Mhz > dual-pol channels. > Getting 1.4Gbps of throughput. > > On 8 Jan 2020, at 19:52, Ken Hohhof wrote: > > Mark is right, I was being nice. > > > > As far as advance replacement, I believe there is an additional warranty > you can purchase to get that. Haven’t done it, so can’t comment. > > > > There is some period of time after shipment, I think 30 or 45 days or > something, where they will treat it as a DOA and just replace it. If you > buy a bunch of radios and then a bunch of dishes and then have tower > climbers put them up on towers when weather permits, it’s easy to have a > couple months pass before you realize you got a bad radio. Then you can be > looking at 2-3 months turnaround because they treat it as an in-warranty > repair. And honestly, if it was DOA, I really don’t want it repaired, I > want a radio that was good out of the box. > > > > I was lazy about bench testing the radios because the first couple years I > never got a bad one. Then in 2019 I had two bad ones, and even though I > had purchased a spare link, the bad ones were either both High or both Low. > > > > Once they work, I haven’t had any die so far. I have 6 PTP820S links and > 2 PTP820C links in service. All 11 GHz except one 6 GHz. Not a huge > number of them, but we’re small. We also have some older Trango and Exalt > links. > > > > *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Josh Baird > *Sent:* Wednesday, January 8, 2020 5:25 PM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti AF-11x licensed links > > > > Do they not have an advanced replacement? This seems to be pretty common > with other vendors these days. > > > > On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 6:23 PM Mark Radabaugh <m...@amplex.net> wrote: > > > > > > On Jan 8, 2020, at 5:45 PM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: > > > > > > A couple other comments about Cambium licensed radios. Make sure you > account for the price of all the keys you may need. Ask your Cambium rep > if you can get a discount, especially if you intend to buy multiple links. > They may have promos or be able to give you special pricing on the HW, the > keys, or both. Does no good to badger your distributor for special > pricing, it has to come from your Cambium regional sales rep. If you don’t > know that person, make their acquaintance. One final thing – test all > radios on the bench as soon as you receive them, even if they won’t be > deployed for a few weeks or maybe are spares. At least run the internal RF > loopback test. Better yet, bench test them as High/Low pairs, with several > reams of paper in between or bouncing off the ceiling. It will be a lot > easier to get any DOA or early failure radios replaced if you can just > return them as DOA, rather than sending them in for repair under warranty > later. Repair turnaround time is unspectacular. > > > > > > Ken is being nice with ‘unspectacular’. I would go with awful. > > > > Mark > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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