THANKS to EVERYONE for their input. I'll let you know what I decide. Another question: Normally I do my path analysis with Delorme but I'm not feeling that is good enough considering the cost of the project and some trees I see in the distance. Is anyone out there offering path analysis for a fair rate? -RickG
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Mike <[email protected]> wrote: > Rick: > > You have been getting some good advice here. I am not a networking > guru and have never played one on TV, but do know a thing or two about RF. > > It seems with your physical layout you may have an opportunity for > some space diversity. A simple link will probably serve you with 3 > nines or so. If infrequent outages will sit OK with the user, then > engineer a link with single radios. > > If you use some of the more inexpensive radio solutions as proffered > here, you could put up two links with 20' to 30' of physical > separation. Or, one dish on the water tower, and two on the new > tower. The single one could be the AP and the other two remote ones > stations. You could use an MT router running OSPF with one having a > higher cost than the other. If one failed, the other would take over. > > My fear of a 20 mile link would be those atmospheric events we > sometimes see -- tropospheric ducting. > > I would be curious what you come up with. > > Mike > > At 09:22 PM 11/30/2009, you wrote: > >Planning my first 20 mile PTP link. Path analysis shows clear. Customer is > >building a 100' tower just for this therefore the equipment I choose must > >work. I'm free to use whatever I want. Suggestions? > >-RickG > > > > > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >WISPA Wants You! Join today! > >http://signup.wispa.org/ > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > >WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > > >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: [email protected] > > 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: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
