It really depends on what type of project this is... if it's a well funded and needs to work well, then Canopy makes a lot of sense to me, but if we're talking about the type of thing where you want to connect as many people as possible on a limited budget, you want to look at the lower priced gear, in my opinion.
An ePMP system could certainly provide more than 3Mbps more than 60% of the time to a pretty large number of customers without much difficulty... and it'd be way cheaper Canopy. And you could probably cut equipment costs in half again by using Ubiquiti (even using AC gear). On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 2:42 PM, Chris Wright <ch...@velociter.net> wrote: > Having just returned from a week in Port-Au-Prince, 15mbps is at least one > order of magnitude faster than typical speeds out there. The church we were > at saw 3mbps when it was online, which was about 60% of the time, and that > was FTTH if you can believe it. Outages are expected, they happen multiple > times each day and last anywhere from 5 minutes to 5 hours. We gave > wireless solutions some thought and for a country where the average income > is less than $30/month, even bottom-of-the-barrel hardware is too expensive > to deploy, let alone premium stuff like Cambium. > > > > Chris Wright > > Network Administrator > > > > *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *ch...@wbmfg.com > *Sent:* Sunday, March 12, 2017 11:44 AM > *To:* af@afmug.com > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] 450i medusa > > > > I will know more after my meeting in a couple weeks in Miami. I am > currently under the impression that it is giving the largest number of > people a decent level of service. I don’t know what they consider decent. > To me anything over 15 Mbps is gravy. > > > > *From:* Gino Villarini > > *Sent:* Sunday, March 12, 2017 12:41 PM > > *To:* af@afmug.com > > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] 450i medusa > > > > Whats the end game? Top throughput on 1 customer or top throughput on max > clients? > > > > *From: *Af <af-boun...@afmug.com> on behalf of Chuck McCown < > ch...@wbmfg.com> > *Reply-To: *"af@afmug.com" <af@afmug.com> > *Date: *Sunday, March 12, 2017 at 2:22 PM > *To: *"af@afmug.com" <af@afmug.com> > *Subject: *[AFMUG] 450i medusa > > > > I am still working on a system for Haiti. Will be visiting with them > later in the month. I believe the 450 medusa system is the best > recommendation as to number of higher bandwidth customers per AP. But I > have never operated one. And I know there are other vendors attempting to > take prize for highest speeds and throughput on a PMP system. > > > > Is there a better system? > > How heavy can you load this system? > > > > *Gino Villarini* > > President > > Metro Office Park #18 Suite 304 Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00968 > >
