----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, August
16, 2003 08:29 PM
Subject: RE:
[smartBridges] Wireless repeater rig
Dave,
To my knowledge I
don’t think anybody has tried the type of setup you are describing. It
kinds of sounds exotic. Most people would do either one aP or 2 aP setup as
Billy is describing.
Regardless, just a few
days ago we have decided to discontinue the airPoint PRO Indoor model (sB2500).
So you should look at different alternatives.
Another model being
discontinued is airNIC (sB2000). The decision has already been communicated to
our distribution partners.
Nish
-----Original Message-----
From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Covert
Sent: Sunday, August
17, 2003 11:14 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [smartBridges]
Wireless repeater rig
Sounds like you have
tried this? (two antennas) Has anyone tried it and have any experience to
share?
The smartBridges site
says 'airPoint-PRO™
automatically selects the best signal'. What
I am proposing is two use the two antennas in a cross polarized fashion so that
the backhaul antenna can't hear the local traffic and the omni can't hear the
backhaul traffic. It seems that the diversity feature would have no
trouble picking the correct antenna since the 'off' antenna would be
almost completely devoid of signal.
Can I get sB's thoughts
on this?
-----Original
Message-----
From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Billy Huddleston
Sent: Thursday,
August 14, 2003 8:28 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [smartBridges]
Wireless repeater rig
Bad idea.. Using the diversity feature of the
aPPI won't buy you anything and, in fact, would hurt you in allot of
ways. 1) The antennas need to be "balanced", using different
antennas on each port would cause wonky things to happen. 2) Your
throughput would be cut in half. 3) Your going to get sporadic
connectivity and even worse throughput using unbalanced directional antennas...
and a good possibility that it wouldn't work at all!
I would suggest using to aPPI's back to back wired
with a crossover. OR use two aPPO units...
Or if you simply have to use a single aPPI, use the a
single antenna.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, August
13, 2003 10:59 PM
Subject:
[smartBridges] Wireless repeater rig
I need to make a
POE-powered sB repeater box to 'light up' an area. Since the speedTrap-2 isn't
out yet (want a beta tester? <g>) I need to make one. What I envision is
an aPPi running repeater mode in a NEMA box. Each SMA antenna port on the
aPPi would have a pigtail to a bulkhead mounted N-type connector. To
one connector I attach an 18dBi panel pointed back to the tower and to the
other connector I attach a 6-9dBi omni cross-polarized to the big panel.
Customers within a couple-hundred feet use an aBi thru walls to talk to
the omni. Clients a little further away use aBOs with little panels pointed at
the omni.
I am guessing someone has
done this before... would you mind divulging the part number and supplier of
the parts you used? Specifically...
NEMA box to house the aPP
and pigtails?
SMA to bulkhead N-type
pigtails?
I am guessing the aPPi
will work on POE outside in a NEMA box? Do you have to take the aPPi board out
of the factory box when you put it in the NEMA box to keep it from getting too
hot? (double insulation).
