We run something similar, 3 APPOs into 3 PacWireless Horiz sectors. Not so much as a glitch out of those APPOs since March. Had one problem with one aBO, but EC took care of that RMA right away. No sweat...
We run 11mbps on the thought that signalling at a slower rate eats available air time. I want those that can go fast to get their traffic into the tower and get off the air as fast as they can to leave more air time for the slower signal links to use. We do all throttling in the NOC with a Mikrotik box. What speed of data thruput do you get with that 2Mps lock? 256K? Dave -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Derek Breiland Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 10:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [smartBridges] smartbridges or not I myself have found them to work very well up to this point, 35 customers on after 4 weeks split between 3 AP's using Maxrad MSP23013 s120 degree sectors on a 160' tower (2 customers on one AP and the other 33 split between the other 2). I have all of my AP's and clients forced to connect at 2Mps. I have found this provides for better stability from what I have seen. An AP continually attempting to change rates affects everyone, not just that individual customer. 11Mps is not worth anything if you continually have to re-associate and are changing the rate at which the connection runs. 64 bit encryption is ample - 128 bit is way overkill (processor intensive for any AP at any price and reduces throughput). Any data needing to be that secure needs to be done through https or vpn. Any gear is only as good as the configuration of it. I think for the price it is the best bang for the buck - my opinion. A lot of the "buggy" things that other WISP's refer to I do not see at this point so... It could be they have more users on and I have yet to see it, I don't know. I at this point have no regrets of going with the SmartBridges products and I am pretty confident that I will not have a change of heart on that. VERY IMPORTANT - if you have other WISP's in the area using 802.11b I would be very careful in choosing what you are going to use and 802.11b problably is not the best choice if that is indeed the case. Call it buggy software or whatever, what I do hear right now is the rate of absolute hardware failure is low. That is extremely important. There is a lot of info in this group to take advantage of, resources from real life WISP's is a huge benefit. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 9:56 PM Subject: [smartBridges] smartbridges or not > Hi > > I am going to setup a WISP in Australia, i need some advice about wether or > not to use smartbridges equipment?? > > ----------ANNOUNCEMENT---------- > Don't forget to register for WISPCON IV > http://www.wispcon.info/us/wispcon-iv/wispcon-iv.htm > > 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 > ----------ANNOUNCEMENT---------- Don't forget to register for WISPCON IV http://www.wispcon.info/us/wispcon-iv/wispcon-iv.htm 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 ----------ANNOUNCEMENT---------- Don't forget to register for WISPCON IV http://www.wispcon.info/us/wispcon-iv/wispcon-iv.htm 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
