We had a tower knocked down by a straight line wind last Monday. We got the new tower up Saturday, temporary equipment online Sunday and the final install Monday afternoon.
I replaced 2 5GHz feeds, 3 120* 17dBi 802.11g/10MHz sectors and one 15dBi 802.11g/5MHz omni. Had about 16 customers on it, expected a lot more when we started. The area grew from a few to 20+ really quickly, then just stopped. The tower is only 75ft with a 20ft pole atop and sits on a rather tall ridge that is easily 200ft higher than the surrounding ground. I've had a few customers 14 miles out with a 19dBi panel and near perfect signal. We replaced the 802.11g equipment with an ARC 13dBi dual pol omni and RB711UA 2HnD since I had the RB on hand. Took a couple of days to find a clear channel and get 802.11n working properly, but we're now getting around 15Mbps over a 5MHz channel. I need to stress it more and see what it is really capable of. I had a few customers that signal was less than ideal, -77 to -85 depending on the time of day, humidity and temp. Now the few that were a bit unreliable are now working beautifully with the new dual polarity set up. We also replaced the 5GHz feeds that were installed in 2008 to Nanobridge M5 25dBi, nearly 100Mbps now in place of the 20Mbps I had previously. I do love the new UNII 1 channels. I'm going to sleep for a damn week.
