Matt, you forgot to mention one other feature on the X-4000 : "FCC
Certified"
I'm a relative newbie at WISP equipment, but I'm just blown away by
the price/performance of the Lucaya gear. I was just looking at the
store and the M1208 client units are on special for $99 (each, in a
10 pack). Wow!
-John
On January 4, at 4:17 AM January 4, Matt Larsen - Lists wrote:
I did some performance testing yesterday with the new X-4000 radio
units from Lucaya and wanted to share the results. These are the
new four radio access point/client/backhaul units from Valemount
Networks (the authors of StarOS). The latest versions of the
firmware now support full duplex operation. I took two units and
configured them for full duplex and started running ftp downloads
and the starutil speedtest utility to see what the performance
looks like.
General results were that the boards will handle 30meg in both
directions at the same time. If one end is not pushing at full
speed, the other end will do more traffic, and that split seemed to
max out at 50meg in one direction and 15-20meg in the other. I
didn't get any speeds faster than 50 meg. This was using standard
20mhz channels. 40mhz channels didn't seem to do much better as
the CPU was maxed out. I'm curious to see what kind of results
could be obtained with 2ghz CPU units on both sides using the 40mhz
channels.
For a $400 unit, I think this is outstanding performance and they
are very versatile. I have several up as backhaul links (in
regular HDX mode) pulling 25-30 meg at distances of up to 30
miles. I even have one set running on a 62 mile shot that will
pull 10-12 meg consistently. They are also great as 5ghz or
2.4ghz access points. We have one that has three 2.4ghz sectors
on it and 120 clients between the three sectors. The board is
doing an outstanding job and very clearly outperforms the three
RB532/SR2 access points that were on the same three sectors before.
Here is a link to the Lucaya store: http://www.station-server.com/
store/
I have also heard that Streakwave will be carrying this product as
well.
To me, this is one of the most exciting items to hit the WISP
business since I've been doing wireless. I thought it made sense
to share it with everyone.
Matt Larsen
vistabeam.com
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