I don't buy the LTE NLOS pitch. It's too goddamn expensive to get good
performance (3 or 4 4x4 sectors instead of a dual omni or split 2x2
sectors) to put 30, 40 or even 50 customers on a site which is all we
have in rural areas. We'll never make any money buying Telrad. I can put
up 4 sectors of 450 for ONE Telrad.
I get it though. Standardized stuff is nice. But if you don't have the
customers for it to make sense financially, all that goes out the window.
We never deployed any 320. And we're ripping out UBNT 3.65 as fast as
possible.
On 6/3/2015 4:08 PM, That One Guy /sarcasm wrote:
Im stuck with it. We bought an overstock load of APs and SMs. We have
a dream of Telrad working out to save the day with their firmware
load. Some creative Telrad AP deployments gradually replacing the 320
APs, utilizing the 320 CPEs until we migrate the site to LTE with
telrad CPEs, giving us 320 CPEs to redeploy.
The dream is somebody will write some magic code to sit on an
intermediary server to communicate with the FCC database thing so we
can redeploy the 320 APs to small sites.
We had two test sites for the 450. One site landlord hasnt allowed us
up there to swap equipment, we have to deal with that on the lease
side and our other 450 test site has only 3 users on it with good
links so we havent been able to test the 1x magic out.
I would have preferred to more aggressively pursue the 450 and be able
to sell higher throughput higher dollar connections, to offset the
potential nlos customers we would lose. something about being able to
sync with competitors down the road seemed like a good idea to me,
especially with an AP with 3x the throughput and the whole not using
gear thats end of life, but i am but a lowly sysadmin with no access
to the purse strings.
On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 3:26 PM, Paul McCall <pa...@pdmnet.net
<mailto:pa...@pdmnet.net>> wrote:
I am just curious how many of you have decided to keep using the
320 series because it goes through trees a lot better than the 450
series 3.65 product?
Are you expanding with it as far as towers go? Or, are you just
adding SMs to what you already have?
Paul
Paul McCall, Pres.
PDMNet / Florida Broadband
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Vero Beach, FL 32962
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