Re: [WISPA] Bullet M5 HP

2009-08-18 Thread Matt
Ubiquity has introduced their new product lines, at www.ubnt.com. Looking to take Canopy on. Anything like GPS sync for frequency reuse? Matt WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/

Re: [WISPA] Bullet M5 HP

2009-08-18 Thread can...@believewireless.net
Nope. In the forums they say they have no plans for the existing and announced products. On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Mattlm7...@gmail.com wrote: Ubiquity has introduced their new product lines, at www.ubnt.com. Looking to take Canopy on. Anything like GPS sync for frequency reuse?

Re: [WISPA] Bullet M5 HP

2009-08-18 Thread Randy Cosby
No GPS sync, and TDMA is done in software, not hardware / fpga: http://www.ubnt.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13327start=30 Matt wrote: Ubiquity has introduced their new product lines, at www.ubnt.com. Looking to take Canopy on. Anything like GPS sync for frequency reuse? Matt

Re: [WISPA] Bullet M5 HP

2009-08-18 Thread Robert West
I was hoping for that myself. Would be seriously nice to have GPS integrated in the thing. I've only worked with the Bullets so far and no mention of that. I have some Rockets on order but since they all use AirOS, I doubt that's a doable thing. But even without GPS, it all looks to be a game

[WISPA] Ap that can connect to wireless ap and then rebroadcast

2009-08-18 Thread Alan Long
I am looking for a solution to extend the range of our current ap(Tropos,Colubris.) setup without having to get high dollar equipment. I have several apartment complexes where users are not getting enough signal, and wondering if anyone has a cost effective solution for a wireless repeater. I have

[WISPA] Google Earth Census Tract

2009-08-18 Thread Steve Barnes
Is there a Google Earth Overlay with Census Tracts out there. Form 477 setup. Steve Barnes Manager PCS-WIN RC-WiFi Wireless Internet Service Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition

Re: [WISPA] Bullet M5 HP

2009-08-18 Thread Randy Cosby
Maybe this is better for the Mikrotik list, but any vendor can pick up on this if they want :) In researching the UBNT new stuff, I came across something quite interesting / promising. It appeared some newer atheros chipsets had TDMA built into the hardware, but I believe I was mistaken.

Re: [WISPA] Ap that can connect to wireless ap and then rebroadcast

2009-08-18 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
That's what wds does. It's slow and doesn't work very well for more than a couple of people at a time though. We build out with tranzeo cpe then broadcast with MT ap's. I like the physical separation between the actual radios, not just the antennas. marlon - Original Message - From:

Re: [WISPA] On-line back-up

2009-08-18 Thread RickG
I can identify. I get people that offer their 2 cents on how where we should market - but I already have more work than I can handle. What a catch 22! -RickG On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Marlon K. Schafero...@odessaoffice.com wrote: No.  We're rotten at marketing. Actually, we're just

Re: [WISPA] Bullet M5 HP

2009-08-18 Thread Paul Hendry
Anyone had a chance to fully test any of Ubiquiti's claims like 150+mbps real throughput and 300+ subscribers per AP? Much more impressive numbers than Canopy. Matt wrote: Ubiquity has introduced their new product lines, at www.ubnt.com. Looking to take Canopy on. Anything like GPS

Re: [WISPA] Ap that can connect to wireless ap and then rebroadcast

2009-08-18 Thread Josh Luthman
Engenius does this. I don't like doing it at all but as a last possible solution it works. On 8/18/09, Jason Hensley ja...@jaggartech.com wrote: Grab a Deliberant AP Duo, have one side connect as client and other as AP. Works beautifully. -Original Message- From:

Re: [WISPA] On-line back-up

2009-08-18 Thread Bob Elliott - RCS
Yes Marlon, that counts! We are in the exact same boat, for now. Hopefully the marketing will be put together by end of next week and we can go to market. Bob Elliott Information Systems RCS Communications 502.587.7384 -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org

Re: [WISPA] Ap that can connect to wireless ap and then rebroadcast

2009-08-18 Thread Jason Hensley
This is not the same as WDS. The duo will give you a true repeater type setup where both sides get full possible bandwidth. Have to carefully plan your channels though if both sides are in the same band. -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org

Re: [WISPA] Ap that can connect to wireless ap and then rebroadcast

2009-08-18 Thread Jason Hensley
Grab a Deliberant AP Duo, have one side connect as client and other as AP. Works beautifully. -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Alan Long Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 9:56 AM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: [WISPA] Ap

Re: [WISPA] Ap that can connect to wireless ap and then rebroadcast

2009-08-18 Thread Tom Sharples
We've used Openmesh and Meraki products to extend the coverage of our Qnodes inside concrete buildings, basements, etc. These are single-radio devices, so the bandwidth is only adequate for surfing and email. But they work great and are dirt cheap, we just hook up one of them to the ethernet

Re: [WISPA] Bullet M5 HP

2009-08-18 Thread Robert West
I was playing around with the Bullets last night and my connect was 150 but I'd have to have some really understanding customers to try to test more than a few with the Bullet. That can be saved for an emergency situation! We're throwing them up later this week for some new outlying backhauls.

[WISPA] source of install materials?

2009-08-18 Thread Gino Villarini
Any source for the following: Concrete cable clips Korn Clamps Hose clamps Gino A. Villarini g...@aeronetpr.com Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. tel 787.273.4143 fax 787.273.4145 WISPA

Re: [WISPA] source of install materials?

2009-08-18 Thread Plexicomm Admin
https://dthstore.com/ Dan English Plexicomm - Internet Solutions d...@plexicomm.net | 1.866.759.4678 x103 Fax: 1.866.852.4688 | Emergency Support: 1.866.759.9713 - Original Message - From: Gino Villarini g...@aeronetpr.com To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Tuesday, August

Re: [WISPA] source of install materials?

2009-08-18 Thread Josh Luthman
For hose clamps I go to Lowe's. Few bucks and no shipping. I am sure there is an online resource that would be cheaper, however I doubt it would offset the cost of shipping. Do you have a local hardware store for the other things? In small quantities the hardware store will no doubt be best.

Re: [WISPA] source of install materials?

2009-08-18 Thread AJ
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Re: [WISPA] Google Earth Census Tract

2009-08-18 Thread ccrum
Well, you can make them yourself by downloading the tiger data you need for your county/state and then using tgr2kml from http://freegeographytools.com/2007/convert-tiger-polygons-to-kml-files. Tiger files can be downloaded from census bureau at

Re: [WISPA] Google Earth Census Tract

2009-08-18 Thread ccrum
I just tried it tiwh the Tiger2006 2nd edition and the program errors out when creating the kml for the Tract 2000 feature. I went back and got the original 2000 data (tracts are the same) and it worked fine. That data is availble at http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tigerua/ua_tgr2k.html.

Re: [WISPA] Ap that can connect to wireless ap and then rebroadcast

2009-08-18 Thread Phil Curnutt
Tom, I've been looking at OpenMesh to do the same thing outside, but can't wrap my head around the Dashboard being outside the network. Hit me off list if you wish to share. Phil Curnutt, LCWireless, Santa Fe, NM On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Tom Sharples tsharp...@qorvus.com wrote:

Re: [WISPA] Ap that can connect to wireless ap and then rebroadcast

2009-08-18 Thread ralph
Go on Ebay and look for the Pepwave Peplink Surf or the Surf AP They are surplus Earthlink and are exactly for that purpose. I have used hundreds of them to extend Tropos Ralph -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Alan

Re: [WISPA] Bullet M5 HP

2009-08-18 Thread Tom DeReggi
Yeah, but its misleading garbage specs. Mimo adds very little in noisy environments, where double size channels and both polarities can't be both used based on spectrum availabilty, not to mention specifying gross speed instead of actual speeds. I'm not saying the Ubiquiti isn't a really nice

Re: [WISPA] Bullet M5 HP

2009-08-18 Thread Paul Hendry
Low cost, dual pol and high gain. 19db 120' sector @ 5GHz ;) Interesting design too. -Original Message- From: Tom DeReggi [mailto:wirelessn...@rapiddsl.net] Sent: 19 August 2009 00:08 To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Bullet M5 HP Yeah, but its misleading garbage specs. Mimo

Re: [WISPA] Bullet M5 HP

2009-08-18 Thread Jayson Baker
MIMO (especially dual-pol) gets you much better performance. Cell phone companies have been doing this for years and years. You're 3dB vs 25dB comment is misleading. UBNT may need a received level of -70dBm to achieve higher speeds... but, so does a Canopy. You can't expect to achieve anything

[WISPA] WISPA Elects New Officers

2009-08-18 Thread Rick Harnish
http://www.wispa.org/2009/08/18/wispa-elects-new-officers/ WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wireless

Re: [WISPA] Bullet M5 HP

2009-08-18 Thread Gino Villarini
Jason Im sorry but i find some stated facts very difficult to believe. the 25db vs 3db snr ratio is based on the fact that canopy can perform as expected with just 3db over noise. MIMO based gear needs about 25 db snr ratio on both polarities in order to achieve good performence on 64qam

Re: [WISPA] Bullet M5 HP

2009-08-18 Thread Gino Villarini
bit more info on the airmax protocol fro ubiquiti: Yes AirMax is the TDMA/Polling aspect of the software/hardware. This can be shut off. The backoff rules of the 802.11 protocol still apply to a certain extent (only from outside sources - inside the Ap/Client network they all have different

Re: [WISPA] Bullet M5 HP

2009-08-18 Thread Jayson Baker
I never said you had to believe me. I know what we do, what our environment is like, and what works for us. I know our customers always get 12Mbps, and we never get support calls. On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Gino Villarini g...@aeronetpr.com wrote: Jason Im sorry but i find some stated

Re: [WISPA] Bullet M5 HP

2009-08-18 Thread Chuck Hogg
They actually get 12MBps throughput or they are connected at the 12MBps rate? Regards, Chuck Hogg Shelby Broadband 502-722-9292 ch...@shelbybb.com http://www.shelbybb.com -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Jayson Baker

Re: [WISPA] Bullet M5 HP

2009-08-18 Thread Jayson Baker
12Mbps download, 6Mbps upload to speedtest.net On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Chuck Hogg ch...@shelbybb.com wrote: They actually get 12MBps throughput or they are connected at the 12MBps rate? Regards, Chuck Hogg Shelby Broadband 502-722-9292 ch...@shelbybb.com http://www.shelbybb.com

Re: [WISPA] Bullet M5 HP

2009-08-18 Thread Michael Baird
Sorry dude, I love Ubiquity, but 100 subs on a atheros system on a chip at 12/6 - Impossible. 130 Mbps throughput on a 100 mb ethernet port - Impossible. 130 Mbps at 15 miles when full modulation at 40 mhz w/2 antennas is 130 Mbps is -Impossible. YOU haven't tested any of the new UBNT gear, so

Re: [WISPA] Bullet M5 HP

2009-08-18 Thread Travis Johnson
So it's not even going to work as well as a Mikrotik system with "Disable CSMA" turned on... Travis Microserv Gino Villarini wrote: bit more info on the airmax protocol fro ubiquiti: Yes AirMax is the TDMA/Polling aspect of the software/hardware. This can be shut off. The backoff rules

Re: [WISPA] Bullet M5 HP

2009-08-18 Thread Travis Johnson
I'm going to call BS here... (1) You don't really have a "noisy" environment if you are able to run a basic Powerstation AP with 100 subs and have it work at all. We are on towers on hilltops that have over 120 antennas (dishes, sectors, omnis) within a 500ft radius from our tower. (2) You

Re: [WISPA] Bullet M5 HP

2009-08-18 Thread Tom DeReggi
Jayson, First off, I'm primarilly a Trango shop not a Moto shop, so I have not BIAS to Moto. We have evaluated Moto Advantage, along with other manufacturer OFDM gear in our attempts to find solutions for faster speeds, for next generation needs. To date, we have found PtP to be the answer

Re: [WISPA] Bullet M5 HP

2009-08-18 Thread Scottie Arnett
I am the the devil's advocateThey are one step closer. Put us some gps timing in and they got it whooped (although I doubt it will ever happen under the MAC consideration's). But for me in the middle of BFE, it will work great for a 1/3 or more of the price. Scottie -- Original

Re: [WISPA] Bullet M5 HP

2009-08-18 Thread Scott Carullo
Sometimes people find that the impossible actually is possible. The world used to be flat too :) ... until their understanding increased. I have two radios on my desk that cost less than $500 for the pair including antennas that will do 100MB using MIMO technology. I also find that given

Re: [WISPA] Bullet M5 HP

2009-08-18 Thread Scott Carullo
Hey Travis, your feedback is always valued. Thanks for sharing your testing with us. I look forward to hearing about it... Have you had a chance to test some MT MIMO gear out there yet? Scott Carullo Brevard Wireless 321-205-1100 x102 Original Message From: Travis Johnson

Re: [WISPA] Bullet M5 HP

2009-08-18 Thread Scott Carullo
Tom, I believe there is a huge advantage to being able to use HPOL and VPOL at the same time with the same 20Mhz channel and get twice the bandwidth. Its sort of like your personal gps sync within the device. Realistically (for me anyway) I find that if there is strong noise on a give

[WISPA] Need Media converters

2009-08-18 Thread Scott Carullo
I need 4 media converters asap. Looking for non-hardened 100MB SC Multimode simple plain jane stuff. I've purchase some from Versatek in CA for about $50 I can get them from Fiberdyne for about the same but they are out of stock. I can get Trendnet for about the same too but I don't use them

Re: [WISPA] Need Media converters

2009-08-18 Thread Jeremy Parr
Patton or Allied Telysis On 8/18/09, Scott Carullo sc...@brevardwireless.com wrote: I need 4 media converters asap. Looking for non-hardened 100MB SC Multimode simple plain jane stuff. I've purchase some from Versatek in CA for about $50 I can get them from Fiberdyne for about the same but

Re: [WISPA] Bullet M5 HP

2009-08-18 Thread Travis Johnson
Yes, I have a "test" set of the MT with the R52n card. I was able to do 55Mbps of actual TCP throughput with a single antenna using RB411 boards. So, for about $200 for a complete link (plus antennas), you can have a 50Mbps ptp link using a single 20mhz channel (and single polarity). I also

Re: [WISPA] source of install materials?

2009-08-18 Thread RickG
A few years ago I took a tip from all the satellite installers around here. They use skywalker.com. I've been very happy with their prices and selection. -RickG BTW: I also use Lowes for hose clamps! On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Gino Villarinig...@aeronetpr.com wrote: Any source for the

Re: [WISPA] Bullet M5 HP

2009-08-18 Thread Chuck Hogg
We do have the gear, both MikroTik and Ubiquiti. In the test lab situation with Ubiquiti we are only seeing 25-30MBit/s. In real world my customers are seeing the same thing. I'm hoping to get another test going tomorrow to check to see if we can do anything better than 25-30MBit/s. I wish I

[WISPA] NS-LOCO2 on Dish

2009-08-18 Thread Jerry Richardson
Could not get a connection through a couple of trees with the bare LOCO - signal was ~ -90. Put it on a Securalign dish for grins and now have -71dB. I don't think I got the antenna in the exact focal point but it's pretty close. __ Jerry Richardson airCloud

Re: [WISPA] Bullet M5 HP

2009-08-18 Thread Andrew Jones
Chuck Hogg wrote: ... I'm not trying to bash Jayson's email. I don't see how you can get 130Mbit when the port is 100Mbit. The way Ubiquiti justified this in a forum post was that the 130Mbps is total throughput (up and down). 100Mbps ethernet at full duplex is 100Mbps in each direction.

Re: [WISPA] Need Media converters

2009-08-18 Thread jp
I've used Versa and Trendnet with 100% success. We must have probably a dozen trendnet receivers in operation and 8-10 versanet tranceivers in operation. That's the cheap stuff. It's cheap lightning protection and a reliable link. We also have some Transition Networks and Canary gear that has also

Re: [WISPA] Bullet M5 HP

2009-08-18 Thread jp
I concur with Scott's idea that you get more efficient spectrum use. We have just installed a Solectek excel link which uses 2x2 mimo. We have a dual polarity 3' dish at one and and 2' dual polarity at the other end of the 14 mile link. We upgraded an Alvarion VL ptp link which maxed out at