> The point of my comment was that we replaced the all-in-one Total which > is supposed to have a 13db antenna with an ABOutdoor and a seperate 13db > antenna and it worked like a champ.
I don't doubt that the ABO worked, but I'm pretty sure you've got something else going on. You should have NO problems picking up a signal from your tower ..even with a rubber-ducky antenna, I'd say. The other item I haven't factored in is the output of your tower, but anything reasonable should serve you well. For example: Our tower has several radios/antennas. Most radios are airPointPros plugged into 14dB sectored antennas. We've got one customer 5.3 miles away from our tower using an airTOTAL. He's got perfect LOS (Heck! He's 100' higher than our tower according to my installer's GPS) and even with his airTOTAL, he has an RSSI of about 55% and a LinkQuality of about 90%. He's doing over 1mB of download. All of the airTOTALs we're using are at least a mile away from our tower. Anything beyond 5 miles, and I start reaching for a 19dB panel. But if they've got good LOS (like the guy above), then we go with the airTOTAL. All this talk of antennas has got me interested in upgrading antennas. I'm not so concerned about range since LOS is only good for about 5 miles, but if it provides cleaner, stronger signal, it could be worth it. Tim Foster www.AledoBroadBand.com Aledo's only high-speed ISP The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://archives.part-15.org
