I think you need ALFO Plus 2 to do 80mhz

On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 10:09 PM Jason McKemie <
j.mcke...@veloxinetbroadband.com> wrote:

> The ALFO Plus 11 can do 80MHz? That's news to me, SIAE has always told me
> they do 56MHz in a 80MHz channel. The pair that I have in the air is
> currently set up that way.
>
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> On Wednesday, January 8, 2020, 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:
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>> Mark is right, I was being nice.
>>
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>>
>> 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.
>>
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>>
>> 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.
>>
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>> On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 6:23 PM Mark Radabaugh <m...@amplex.net> wrote:
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>> On Jan 8, 2020, at 5:45 PM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
>>
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>> Ken is being nice with ‘unspectacular’.   I would go with awful.
>>
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>>
>> Mark
>>
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