Just installed a Ligowave 24ghz unlicensed backhaul radio to take the place of a 100meg fiber loop.
We are going 2.97 miles with the 2' dishes. -65 signal on both sides and it has tested out at 85meg of capacity in both directions. Very happy with it so far. The software and management interface is very comprehensive and has some interesting features in it, including a "constellation" feature that gives an approximation of what the OFDM signals look like. This unit has the ability to use a voltmeter for the signal strength peaking, and my climber highly recommends using that instead of trying to call out signal strengths. That made it a lot easier to peak in. Climber also says that the mounting hardware looks great, but is actually pretty crappy when it is on the tower. It is not very fine-grained in its adjustment capabilities - at least that is the politically correct way to put it. The complete link was in the $8000 neighborhood. The fiber link was costing $500/month, so it won't take very long for this to pay for itself. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
