Seems reliable enough to me, have not had a problem with one yet. Kurt Fankhauser WAVELINC P.O. Box 126 Bucyrus, OH 44820 419-562-6405 www.wavelinc.com
-----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Patrick Cole Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 9:05 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] UBNT PowerBridgeM5 Kurt, Are they reliable? They seem to be much lower cost compared to what we've used previously (Snaptec). Pat Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 08:54:03AM -0400, Kurt Fankhauser wrote: > This should fix your 12v site problem. > > http://www.zahninc.com/ > > > Kurt Fankhauser > WAVELINC > P.O. Box 126 > Bucyrus, OH 44820 > 419-562-6405 > www.wavelinc.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On > Behalf Of Patrick Cole > Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 12:31 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] UBNT PowerBridgeM5 > > Phil, > > The units we had would not boot unless they were powered using 48V. > This also caused us some dramas since our sites had 12V supplies > predominantly. The spec sheet of the radio lists a wide input > voltage but acording to support our hardware required the 48. > > The radios were definitely branded Mikrotik from my memory. > > Pat > > Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 09:37:55AM -0500, Philip Dorr wrote: > > > > Actually it is a Ubiquti radio and the power supply does not need to > > be 48 volts, 9-48 works fine for the Gateworks board (Avila GW2348-2). > > We had moisture get in the ethernet jack and burn the pins when it > > was using 48 volts, so we switched to a Ubiquti 15 volt adapter and > > have not had any problems yet. > > > > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Patrick Cole <z...@amused.net> wrote: > > > I would steer well clear of that UBNT bridge for something as critical > > > as you describe. At the price point it just screams disaster. > > > > > > I've not used the Ligowave MIMO radios however I have used the LigoPTP > 5-N > > > and I was a little disappointed. The lack of QoS is a definite > negative. > > > > > > We had one of the endpoints on the link burn out and die within 2 > months. > > > > > > I also had major problems with the encryption on them, which support > > > never seemed to be able to resolve. When they try to link up, > > > it could take like a minute and other times it might take 20 minutes > > > before the link establishes with encryption on. Unacceptable in > > > a carrier network. > > > > > > They do however perform at the advertised 70Mbps real world throughput > > > in a 40MHz channel and the PPS performance is good. > > > > > > If you crack open the 5-N you actually see it has a Mikrotik badged > > > radio in it. > > > > > > I have a pair of Proxim Tsunami QB-8100 bridges on the way for > > > testing. I didn't get much feedback from the list about how these > > > go, but having looked through the manual, they seem extremely > > > configurable and excellent QoS features; they even have the ability > > > to inspect the contents of PPPoE frames and match on the IP packet > > > inside. I will let you know how they turn out. > > > > > > Pat > > > > > > Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 09:45:23AM -0400, Steve Barnes wrote: > > > > > > > > >> OK I just got off the phone with a salesman that was discouraging me > away from UBNT rockets for this link. I will be running 4 towers through > this link with 270 clients. His concern was that they had learned of a > 20,000 packet per sec limit compared to Ligowave @ 75,000 packets. Now I am > looking at going to VOIP and the Packet count is going to be huge. Is this > a legit concern. 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