"-- oh, wait, this is not the Canopy list....." LOL! :) How many users per AP?
ryan On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Jayson Baker <jay...@spectrasurf.com> wrote: > I'll tell you what we do, but won't get into defending it for the next month > -- oh, wait, this is not the Canopy list....... > > Our 2.4GHz spectrum is completely filled with vertical Canopy. > > We run UBNT AP's. Fixed at 2mi ACK. No RTS. Fixed G-only. Horizontal > polarity. Max data rate of 54Mbps. Sectors. > > Customers are all within 2 miles, use Loco2's. Customers are Auto ACK. No > RTS. Fixed G-Only. Horizontal. Max 54Mbps. > > On almost every single install we get at least 12Mbps down, 6Mbps up (our > rate limit). Without limit, we usually see up to 18. > > Funny... those lusers on the other guys Canopy pay like $40/mo for 1.5Mbps. > We give 12Mbps for $24.95/mo. > > Don't use B. It's DSSS. G is OFDM. Performs much better. > > On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Jason Hensley <ja...@jaggartech.com> wrote: > >> In 2.4 land, if you have a lot of noise, which protocol is better - B or G? >> Is it better to run an AP as locked into one mode or is it OK to do a mix? >> >> Max I want off of 2.4 customers is 3meg so not that worried about the extra >> speed that G will provide, but, I would like to know which is more stable? >> I've always thought that B was more stable overall but just provided less >> bandwidth. I've gotten some info that may counter that. What's the >> real-world experience with folks in a high-noise environment, combined with >> a higher useage AP? >> >> I've got an AP that we've run in B mode only for a while. We've started >> having problems with it - speeds go from 3meg at the customer to 200k and >> fluctuate constantly. We've worked with RTS, ACK timeouts, etc etc and >> nothing seems to have improved the stability. For testing purposes we put >> up another AP right next to the one we're having trouble with. Switched >> two >> of our gaming clients to that one (setup as G mode only) and they seem to >> be >> doing better, but not quite as good as we feel they could be. This is on >> Deliberant AP's (Duos). The backhaul part of it is not the issue - we can >> pull close to 15meg back to our office when cabled into the AP. We have >> other Deliberant APs that are running MANY more clients than this one so we >> know it's not limitations of the equipment. AP is on top of a water tower. >> Have taken all clients off and brought them back on one by one and it did >> not reveal anything significant. With just one customer on the AP started >> acting up again. Swapped radios in the AP thinking we could have one going >> bad and still no luck. >> >> 2.4 antennas are H-pol. We have a ton of noise in the area, but we've been >> through basically every channel and it did not help either. Other AP's in >> the vicinity are performing fine. Thought of the multipath issue so we >> raised our test AP up a little higher than the other one. As I said, the >> test AP seems to be better, but next to it on top of the tower we can get >> around 8 or 9 meg down (locked into G mode), but at the CPE's we're still >> barely getting 2.5-2.8meg. >> >> Any thoughts? We changed everything we can. The new "test" AP has a 9db >> antenna compared to the 13db on the "production" AP. Other than that, they >> are identical as far as equipment goes. >> >> So, back to the subject question though, what's real-world experience with >> G-only mode in the field? >> >> >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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/
