Kudos to you guys who even get 900 MHz to work.
I think we walk away from about 50% of the 900 MHz installs we go to. If we cant find a spot where we get an actual peak while aligning the antenna, but rather just the same weak signal everywhere we point the antenna, we know that were just picking up scattered signal off the trees and its not going to be fast or reliable, even if it does actually register and pass data. We definitely have RTK and smartgrid interference in 900 MHz, but my theory is when we are just getting a scattered signal from our AP, we are also getting scattered signal from other 900 MHz WISPs in the area and cant aim the antenna to differentiate between the APs at different azimuths. And GPS timing does not help when an SM is seeing several APs. OK, just my theory. Maybe since we mostly do LOS we dont understand the NLOS magic tricks, like maybe we need to be sacrificing livestock at every install or chanting magic incantations. Or maybe like dousing for water, you need to be a true believer. From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of George Skorup Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2016 12:40 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] baicells The one eNB we have up is doing pretty good. It's our worst case test site. We have a LOT of customers on 900 FSK. Old abandoned 75 foot cable TV tower, so it's not even above the trees. But we're getting customers off of 900 which is the most important thing. Getting 30Mbps to a customer that could get only 1Mbps before is an improvement to say the least. I didn't think it'd be viable given the height limitation and tree density, but it's working rather well. We're going to swap out the MTI antenna for a KP and see what we get. On 10/20/2016 12:22 PM, ch...@wbmfg.com <mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: Heard from one of our customers today.� He has deployed baicells and it is doing great for NLOS up to 4 miles.� He is in pine tree country.�
