That's why Ruckus blows away anything else. Beamforming on a packet by packet basis. Put the noise in the nulls :-D Easy to do with 4000+ antenna patterns in one AP.
Price wise... the G units are $300ish... so compared to any other commercial grade wi-fi solution (by that I mean controller based... which I think would be a must... easy to manage if you have hundreds of AP's)... Ruckus comes out on top in my book (but admittedly I am blinded by the cool geek factor :-D Also, Flexmaster allows you to manage multiple controllers... so you could literally manage everything from one place. Daniel White 3-dB Networks http://www.3dbnetworks.com >-----Original Message----- >From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On >Behalf Of Robert West >Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 2:00 PM >To: 'WISPA General List' >Subject: Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings > >I agree to that. For what you are doing, the Mikrotik would be a no >brainer >to decide on. But that that, he's looking to install indoors with many >apartments. All the cordless phones, microwave ovens, baby monitors, >wireless routers, PlayStations, Wii consoles and the like all about as >close >as one could stand. Oh, and dunno the location but I've seen way too >many >of these apartment complexes where each and every balcony has a DirecTV >dish >hung off it. A huge wall of DirecTV bouncing all over. With all this >RF >concentrated in such a small place, what band should they be looking at >as >well as antenna choice. I think THAT would be hard part to see what >would >work reliably before sinking cash into the accessories for that MT >board. > >Bob- > > >-----Original Message----- >From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On >Behalf Of David E. Smith >Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 3:08 PM >To: WISPA General List >Subject: Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings > >Jeff Yette wrote: >> To clarify, we are not looking for a hosted application, but more of a >> home-grown solution. We have all of the components for billing, which >> will automatically create a radius account and e-mail, we have online >> billing and web-mail - the only part is the is missing is the web >> authentication piece. > >If you're willing to roll your own, Mikrotik RouterOS has built-in >hotspot functionality that can easily be configured to talk to your >RADIUS server of choice. The ugly-but-functional version can probably be >going in an hour; you'll want to make your own pretty login page and do >some other cosmetic tweaks, but those aren't too difficult either. > >David Smith >MVN.net > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >---- >---- >WISPA Wants You! Join today! >http://signup.wispa.org/ >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >---- >---- > >WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > >Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > >Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >-------- >WISPA Wants You! Join today! >http://signup.wispa.org/ >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >-------- > >WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > >Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > >Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
