Speaking of cheap-ish licensed radios, does anyone have any experience with
Alcoma? The pricing I got appeared to only be slightly higher than a B11,
and they'll support full 80mhz channels... they also aren't limited to just
11ghz.
On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 12:42 PM, Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Regardless of what BS Mimosa gives you or obfuscates around, their B11
> does not do FDX. Period. It chews up a gob of spectrum, and none of the
> links we've tried were capable of full throughput.
>
> The AF11 is similar, but different, and DOES do FDX, and that is something
> significant. So even on links that "look" like they are providing less
> throughput than the B11, the AF11 will perform better.
>
> If you want (or need) full spectrum efficiency, you're best going to SAF,
> or Trango, or Dragonwave, or Ceragon, etc.
>
>
> bp
> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>
>
> On 4/12/2017 8:41 PM, Steve Jones wrote:
>
>> we are looking to drop some dough on these guys if the sales pitch is true
>>
>> does the website handle the FCC stuff? I personally find that hard to
>> believe, considering the FCC itself has a fee, unless the reseller
>> (unnamed) is building it into the price. Still less than SAF
>> Im not looking to move away from SAF, my only complaint with SAF is that
>> it works too well, so much that I altered routing the other day before I
>> realized the winds a while back turned the 800 plus pound ballast NPM and
>> the signal drop wasnt weather fade and that up until essentially nothing
>> the beast runs at full modulation
>>
>> Literally, the only reason for looking at mimosa is the low cost, and
>> comparing the low cost of mimosa to SAF, its alot, considering SAF is
>> relatively cheap.
>>
>> from what Ive seen, mimosa is like running mikrotik routers, you pay a
>> shit ton less in exchange for a little more poking, not constant diddling,
>> just occasional poking.
>>
>> I have no interest in looking at ubnt noisy crickets on our licensed
>> gear, but mimosa seems promising
>>
>> I need a good teeth kick now before we commit to at least 3 links locked
>> into this gear
>>
>> SAF presales engineering is on the cautious side, a good example is our
>> first licensed link, our partner told us could be done with cambium at 2
>> foot antennas on each side
>>
>> the reseller told use with SAF it required a 3 and a 4, and that (without
>> saying it) our partner was smoking crack cocain after they took bath salts.
>> I have no doubt at 2 foot the link would have come up, but not to a degree
>> that a 30 db drop caused by a turned NPM would still result in full
>> modulation until failure,
>>
>> I dont want to have an "It will link" solution at the end of the day
>>
>>
>>
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