We have seen a lot of this actually. For small trailer parks or neighborhood blocks that can't see a tower. Basically, have a Moto SM go to a rooftop that can reach the AP and then put a NS2 behind it pointing in the direction of a group of houses that you normally can't see. Put the NS2 in AP mode and reach an addition 5-10 customers. The cost of a Moto AP may not justify adding a small 5-10 customers but the NS2 makes a little more sense.
I personally wouldn't recommend this because network management can become a huge PITA but for "smaller SPs" every dollar increase matters. -Jeff Convergence Technologies "There is a difference" -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Francois D. Menard Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 7:37 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ubnt vs Moto vs ... your brand Actually, both work together ... we extend our Canopy PPPoE bridged segments with Ubnt's for el-cheapo point-to-point extensions ... Sort of a Moto Canopy P2MP-to-UBnt(P)-to-UBnt(P) F. On 2010-04-13, at 8:29 PM, Josh Luthman wrote: > It's not so much what you're discussing there as much as the capabilities of > the ptmp products. > > You simply can not offer the latency guarantees using Ubiquiti/802.11 that > Canopy provides. > > Now if you've got 3 people to serve I think it's financially ridiculous to > get a Canopy system involved... > > Josh Luthman > Office: 937-552-2340 > Direct: 937-552-2343 > 1100 Wayne St > Suite 1337 > Troy, OH 45373 > > "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue > that counts." > --- Winston Churchill > > > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Glenn Kelley <gl...@hostmedic.com> wrote: > >> In trying to make the right buying decision - some simple answers may >> help. >> >> >> >> 1. What is the meantime failure rate for your ubiquity equipment >> >> 2. What is the avg amount of truck rolls per week you run to fix an >> issue vs the # of customers you have? >> ie- if you have say 1500 clients and do 8 troubleshooting calls a week >> then it would be 1500/8 = .0053% ) >> >> 3. how often does a tech call come in (w/o a truck roll) that is >> equipment related... For some reason I think some of the ubiquity >> radios just need a power cycle and voila - they behave much better... >> so - what is the average # of calls per total clients that come in >> that are fixed w/ simple methods vs a truck roll for the ubiquity >> users ... >> >> >> >> Moto Users - do you have this info as well: >> >> Reason I ask is because I am wondering - if the cost of Moto is >> actually worth it... as a smaller operator - this information would >> be most beneficial for sure. >> >> Buying a Moto radio - even if 2 or 3 times the $$ if - the service >> calls on the back side are much less - might be worth it. >> >> Perhaps the cost of Radio vs People (both in manpower as well as >> client satisfaction for uptime) make the buying decision much >> easier... but having some numbers to go along with this would be great. >> >> >> Thanks >> >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
