IIRC, the 430 SMs don't play with the 450i APs either.
Jeff Broadwick
ConVergence Technologies, Inc.
312-205-2519 Office
574-220-7826 Cell
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> On Jan 30, 2017, at 3:42 PM, Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> What you'd really want to do with the 450, is go from the 430->450M.
> Unfortunately, you will have to go to the vanilla 450 first because the 450M
> won't play with 430 SMs.
>
>
> bp
> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>
>> On 1/30/2017 12:19 PM, Mathew Howard wrote:
>> One advantage of going to 450 is that it should be an easier upgrade path
>> from 430, since you can run those SMs for awhile even if you don't plan on
>> keeping any of the 430 running permanently... but that's only really a big
>> deal if there's a lot of 430 SMs already deployed.
>>
>> I think a lot of it depends on how heavily loaded the APs are... if there's
>> a ton of customers on the sectors, then 450 might make the most sense... but
>> if they're relatively lightly loaded, then I'd personally just go for ePMP.
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 1:51 PM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote:
>>> 430 SMs will keep you from going past 450i at the AP end, starting with
>>> 450m. The path up to 450i is pretty solid, obviously single pol though.
>>> If you are OK upgrading the higher plan subs to 450 SMs and keeping the
>>> lower plan subs on 430, this might be OK.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 100 FSK gear, wow, that’s like an anchor around your neck these days.
>>> You’d be buying customers, but unless you can charge for the network
>>> upgrade, they are going to be expensive customers. With customers thinking
>>> 10M is their birthright, how many subs can you put on a 100 series AP?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Broadwick - Lists
>>> Sent: Monday, January 30, 2017 1:38 PM
>>> To: af@afmug.com
>>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] e pmp 1000
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> All in 5GHz?
>>>
>>> Jeff Broadwick
>>>
>>> ConVergence Technologies, Inc.
>>>
>>> 312-205-2519 Office
>>>
>>> 574-220-7826 Cell
>>>
>>> jbroadw...@converge-tech.com
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jan 30, 2017, at 2:34 PM, Chuck McCown <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> A wisp wants me to buy them out but the gear is old.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Lots of 100 fsk gear and some 430.
>>>
>>> 430 gear is getting cheap and will pretty much do the job.
>>>
>>> A move to 450 can reuse the 430 sm radios.
>>>
>>> But the price on the epmp1000 is not too bad.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thinking about it. Probably will not do anything.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Would I be better off just diving into the epmp?
>>>
>>> It is a bit of a noisy environment and it seems like the 430 stuff does OK.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I think you cannot go wrong with 450, but for the money is the 1000
>>> better?
>>>
>>> Is buying 430s a waste of money on a 450 system?
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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