I have also seen improvements during periods of rain and fog. Not sure why but it is noticable. Signal even seems to be stronger during rain.
I am in a very congested area and have 900 MHz delivering 1.5/1 to police cars working in a place that has scada and other noise in a very close proximity to my ap's. But doing this I learned a lot about what works and what doesn't. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 15, 2010, at 9:57 PM, "Robert West" <robert.w...@just- micro.com> wrote: > "Variable Success". I love it! > > Bob- > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] > On > Behalf Of MDK > Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 7:03 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Looking for 900 MHz pioneers > > Been using 900 with variable success for about 4 years now. > Started with > SR-9's and now have XR9 / STar-OS gear deployed. Love it. It's > almost as > > fast as 5 gig, for a given channel size, and is incredibly better at > tree > penetration than is 2.4 or 5 gig. > > It has limited application, due to noise being so prevalent, but > where it's > appropriate, it easily delivers 2x2meg to the customer @ 10 > customers / 5 > mhz AP with capacity to spare. It's freaky picky, with environment > changes like rain, humidity, snow, fog, etc. Rain, snow, fog, ice > all > IMPROVE forest penetration. > > Longest production use is customers @ 6 miles. > > Otherwise, it's normally deployed in dense forest and limited to > about 1 > mile or 2 if you have plenty of open space, not dense forest. > > Noise? There's oodles of noise generators out there, often making > up to > 1/2 the band unusable, even in rural areas. > > > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Neofast, Inc, Making internet easy > 541-969-8200 509-386-4589 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Jack Unger" <jun...@ask-wi.com> > Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2010 10:28 PM > To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>; <memb...@wispa.org> > Subject: [WISPA] Looking for 900 MHz pioneers > >> Please contact me offline if you >> >> a) If you have long-time 900 MHz deployment experience and consider >> yourself a 900 MHz pioneer, or >> >> b) If you have extensive experience tracking down and solving 900 MHz >> interference problems. >> >> Thanks, >> >> jack >> 818-227-4220 >> jun...@ask-wi.com >> >> >> >> -- >> Jack Unger - President, Ask-Wi.Com, Inc. >> Network Design - Technical Training - Technical Writing Serving the >> Broadband Wireless, Networking and Telecom Communities since >> 1993 >> www.ask-wi.com 818-227-4220 jun...@ask-wi.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/ > > > > --- > --- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > 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/
