Some things to know about LTE sectors. 1. LTE doesn’t like sector overlap. 2. Use 65 degree sectors on 90 degree azimuth separation in an ABAB frequency reuse pattern for best performance. 20 MHz channels 3. If you must use 3 sectors, use 90 degree sectors on a 120 degree azimuth separation. You will need to use ABC 10 MHz channel configuration, which will cut the capacity in half. 4. Make sure your sectors are pointed on a very accurate azimuth 5. Make sure you set your downtilt accurately and then test. 6. Use Low-PIM RF jumper cables.
Read about these and more at <http://community.na.baicells.com/c/welcome/baitips> http://community.na.baicells.com/c/welcome/baitips and join the Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/groups/baicellsoperatorsupportgroup/> Baicells Operators Support Group. Respectfully, ------------------ Rick Harnish Director of WISP Markets <https://na.baicells.com/> Baicells Technologies North America, Inc. Mobile: (972) 922-1443 <mailto:rick.harn...@baicells.com> rick.harn...@baicells.com <http://www.facebook.com/baicells> www.facebook.com/baicells From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Jason McKemie Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2017 7:09 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Baicells 3.65 So, I bit the bullet and bought a starter kit. I haven't picked up a sector antenna as of yet though. The base station appears to have 4 N connectors, but the antennas are all standard dual-pol. Are there just two unused connectors, or am I looking at the wrong antennas? On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 7:01 PM, David <m...@davidkunat.com <mailto:m...@davidkunat.com> > wrote: "Bridge Mode" is not actual layer 2 mode. It tunnels DHCP traffic and perhaps other traffic between the CPE and the Base stating data interface so that you can use Powercode or something similar to hand out addresses. I set it up, and it works for DHCP just fine. The device you plug into the CPE still gets an EPC ip address (the EPC is the cloud management server or it can also run on your own server, it is required and tunnels to the base station). They are making lots of progress, and if they follow through with new LTE revisions, this may very well may be the next new thing. Right now, its a work in progress, but works to sell internet for residential customers and we are happy with it for our needs. We power them with a Netonix, off of a POE port. Works great. Just set the port to 48VH (only the first port on a WS-8-150, or only the first 4 ports on a WS-12-250 up to Revision F, and only the first 2 ports on WS-12-250 after revision F) and connect orange and blue pairs to POSITIVE and green and brown pairs to NEGATIVE. You eat up one port on your Netonix if you have a small one, since you still have to connect the data cable of course (data port is labeled "WAN" port on the outside). Hope that helps someone experimenting. There are quite a few tweaks we had to do to make them work. Plan on 2 to 4 days of messing with it. Support is responsive. David On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 1:12 PM, Joe Novak <jno...@lrcomm.com <mailto:jno...@lrcomm.com> > wrote: Eventually there will be a 1/dollar per month fee per user for the Cloud EPC. They are working on a local EPC option but it's not ironed out yet. The monthly user fee is not being charged yet as far as I know. Joe On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 3:58 PM, Mitch Koep <af...@abwisp.com <mailto:af...@abwisp.com> > wrote: Are there any hidden fees like monthly, cpe based, AP based, number of users? Core controller? Thanks On 04/28/2017 02:59 PM, Jerry Head wrote: True. On 4/28/2017 2:43 PM, Mathew Howard wrote: Yeah, but the thing I didn't realize before I ordered, was that there's actually no reason you need to use the Baicells power cable - the eNB does come with the power connector, which can easily be put on cable of the appropriate type. You do need an antenna though... I used a KPP sector. On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 2:35 PM, Jerry Head <li...@blountbroadband.com <mailto:li...@blountbroadband.com> > wrote: You also need a power cable as the base station is not POE. On 4/28/2017 2:30 PM, Tim Alexander wrote: Hi Jason, Just to be clear, you probably know this, you do need an antenna for the AP itself. The firmware is very much in beta. Rate limiting, proper l3 routing, l2 bridging (or what passes for it in LTE world), snmp, and comprehensive management are still very much works in progress. The cloud EPC also tends to have issues and goes down randomly. They are bringing up more instances in Microsoft's azure cloud and altering some of the ways the tunnel works they said recently. Timothy Alexander Amplex Internet E-mail: t...@amplex.net <mailto:t...@amplex.net> Office: 419-837-5015 <tel:%28419%29%20837-5015> Mailing Address: 22690 Pemberville Rd Luckey, OH 43443 On 4/28/2017 3:23 PM, Josh Luthman wrote: -- Mitch Koep A Better Wireless 218-851-8689 <tel:(218)%20851-8689> cell -- David Kunat
