Yes, we have forklifted 5 or 6 towers now from a Canopy 100 series 2.4. In general, we have been happy. There is a lot to learn on ePMP planning and best practices vs. the Canopy 100 series "set it and forget it". The Frequency reuse and GPS does seem to work pretty well on ePMP.
We have one POP that has UBNT and Mikrotik interference and that site is giving us some challenges. Since going 802.11 2.4, we are abandoning the "FSK C/I throne" to become one of the common folk. I find Cambium's implementation to be better than the other guys, but interference is interference, so to speak. But, I am not sure I would not be having the same exact "considerations" using ANY radio with higher modulation requirements, including the 450 series. /shrug ? Overall, I give ePMP a 7.5 out of 10 with slow, regular advancements from the software team. Paul -----Original Message----- From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Matt via Af Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 4:56 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Kudus to Chuck and Beehive ePMP dishes Was this a Canopy 2.4 FSK pop you upgraded? How are you liking the ePMP as a replacement? On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Paul McCall via Af <af@afmug.com> wrote: > We did a 50+ ePMP customer swapout the past two days and had some > customers that were borderline. We were using “Brand X” dishes for > most of the swapouts with pretty good results. We have a few links > that were not about > -76 to -78 and decided to try Beehive Manufacturing’s bigger dish with > the specific 2.4 Ghz holder. I recall Chuck telling me at > Wispapalooza last year that he had discovered something about how to > tweak 2.4 over 5 Ghz on ePMP and that’s why he has two different holders. > > > > Well, his design rocks! The first site is about 5 miles away in heavy > trees and we couldn’t get a steady link (-78ish) with a standard dish. > It now is rock solid at a -62/63 with 78Mbit/4Mbit TCP throughput on > the link tests. The second site is 8.5 miles away with LOS and we > also went from -78 to -62 and it is even better on the throughput. > > > > Whew! Saved our butt on about 5 similar links today. Also, thanks for > Chuck and Traci for getting the 2.4 Ghz holders to us so quickly when > screamed “help” yesterday. > > > > Paul McCall, Pres. > > PDMNet / Florida Broadband > > 658 Old Dixie Highway > > Vero Beach, FL 32962 > > 772-564-6800 office > > 772-473-0352 cell > > www.pdmnet.com > > pa...@pdmnet.net > >
