My issue is that at a customer site I'll see 5g at -75 and 2g at -85 :( Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mar 14, 2015 12:19 AM, "Paul McCall" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes, doing both. 2G definitely further than 5G at same signal > strength. 5Ghz generally works well in the low -70s and 2.4 needs about > -65 to work well… in our area > > > > *From:* Af [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Josh Luthman > *Sent:* Friday, March 13, 2015 9:17 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Any success with 2.4 ePMP? > > > > Remote is coming. > > Are you doing epmp on both bands on the dual band itelite? Have you > checked signal to make sure 2g carries farther than 5g? > > Josh Luthman > Office: 937-552-2340 > Direct: 937-552-2343 > 1100 Wayne St > Suite 1337 > Troy, OH 45373 > > On Mar 13, 2015 9:11 PM, "Paul McCall" <[email protected]> wrote: > > We have mostly been using the Cambium sectors, but just started using the > ITElite model that does both 2.4 and 5 Ghz on same sector. A/B comparison > was pretty much identical compared to Cambium on the 2.4 Ghz side and > slightly stronger on the 5 Ghz side. > > > > eDetect has its shortcomings. It only picks up 801.11 devices on same > frequency. ePMP doesn’t have remote spectrum analyzer which would be > helpful. (unless it was just added) > > > > > > *From:* Af [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Josh Luthman > *Sent:* Friday, March 13, 2015 9:04 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Any success with 2.4 ePMP? > > > > Are you using the suggested sectors, Paul? > > Should eDetect see TDD and wifi devices? > > Josh Luthman > Office: 937-552-2340 > Direct: 937-552-2343 > 1100 Wayne St > Suite 1337 > Troy, OH 45373 > > On Mar 13, 2015 8:45 PM, "Paul McCall" <[email protected]> wrote: > > We have about 250 2.4 SMs deployed with pretty good success. Where we > have had some issues are... > > 1) direct competitor interference in the band. It does "OK" but FSK > seemed to do much better at it, but probably because of the lesser SNR > requirements as much as the modulation. One tower out of 10 has this issue > for us. > 2) highly concentrated neighborhoods where the neighbors house with his > wiz-bang overkill home router causes gried. > > TIPS: > 1) Use Mikrotik routers EVERYWHERE, EVERY customer... to control the 2.4 > "local" environment as much as possible, scan for problems etc. > 2) Be conscious about what Frequency boxes are checked in the SMs. > Obviously avoid the frequency you have the router at. > If you don't have a second AP that has a good enough signal (-65 > or less) and the customer is NOT on the edge of a sector, you can keep the > second frequency checked > If you have a poor "second AP" signal OR you have a customer > installed on a sector edge, check ONLY the one frequency of the "good" > (proper angled) AP > > Doing this, your eDedects will be happy, and you give yourself the best > chance for success. We actually are writing some SNMP backend stuff to > help point out problems in all these areas, and proactively "fix" them > > Paul > > -----Original Message----- > From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of George Skorup (Cyber > Broadcasting) > Sent: Friday, March 13, 2015 8:29 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Any success with 2.4 ePMP? > > Haven't even bought any. We're thinking about not even buying any more > 2.4 450. It's just too noisy. All the wifi in neighborhoods, customer's > router interfering with the SM, etc. It's pretty much as horrible as 900 > these days. > > And if we don't get to keep 5.7 ISM.. things are gonna get shitty. 3GHz is > the only place to go, so we're gonna be doing a bunch more of it this year. > > On 3/13/2015 6:48 PM, Josh Luthman wrote: > > I've heard of several networks having problems with it for one reason > > or another, generally the inability to coexist with FSK. Does any one > > network have some success with them? > > > > Josh Luthman > > Office: 937-552-2340 > > Direct: 937-552-2343 > > 1100 Wayne St > > Suite 1337 > > Troy, OH 45373 >
