The antenna beamwidth was jsut one of the many palces where they were able
to cut costs. And everylittle penny is what alowed them to reach the $150
point. I wish that hadn't been their goal, and they had included a higher
DB antenna.
If you open them up you will see how low cost the 5580 antenna is, about the
size of a large postage stamp, compared to the fox antenna that is much
larger.
What I don't understand is why they have not released a higher gain antenna
version. Maybe it is just a marketing ploy, meaning, its also cheap to make
the Fox5800, so gain interest by promotiing $150 and upsell everyone to the
$370 CPE for higher profit.
But I really wish Trango would release a higher gain M5580 sooner than
later. Because in reality, I'm in no better position than I was in 3 years
ago using Trango 5.8G, because I'm still stuck buying Fox5800s.
Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc
IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sam Tetherow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 12:59 AM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] $100 CPE?
I never understood the 60*x60* beamwidth when the same form factor for the
fox5800 has a 32x18 beamwidth. Seems like a very poor design which makes
it harder to keep noise floor and interference at a minimum. Surely the
narrowing of the beamwidth cannot account for more than doubling the
cost...
Sam Tetherow
Sandhills Wireless
Travis Johnson wrote:
That they are working on "developing" a new product that will have bugs,
hardware issues, etc. for the first 6-12 months. Trying to get to $100
(without antenna, BTW).
Trango has a $149 unit that is from a company that is established, it has
a built in antenna, PoE, etc. and is ready to go today. For $30 more, the
range goes from 3 miles to 13 miles. ;)
Travis
Microserv
Brian Rohrbacher wrote:
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15749577
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16364972
What does everyone think?
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