Thank you, that's the most (and the best) info I have gotten on the UBNT from anyone.
Could you explain what the "MCS is, and why one would use it? Robert Canary OCDirect Electrical-Datacomm (866) 594-0786 Fax (270) 955-0362 Voice ----- Original Message ----- > At 9/25/2011 02:23 PM, Robert Canary wrote: > >Keeping a link active versus maintaining throughput under divers > >conditions is two different things. For the money paid I would go > >with something like Alvarion. But then again, after 12 years, I > >would not invest big dollars in CPE or Access points. Only in the > >backhauls and infrastructures. > > > >The only reason I have not went UBNT, I have found much feed back on > >how they deal with interference, I like Frequency Hopper (FH) they > >keep a decent link through the most divers environments. But how > >does UBNT deal with interference? > > UBNT uses chips that are essentially software-defined radios. They > implement the 802.11 G, A and N modulation. G and A are a fairly > simple OFDM. -N is an OFDM with MIMO capability and some additional > features. FH and DS are both older spread spectrum techniques; OFDM > is wideband, but not really spread spectrum. > > The N specs in particular (which work on both 2.4 and 5 GHz bands) > include a lot of modulation options ("MCS"). So you can select the > modulation that works best on the link in question, and choose 5, 10, > 20 or 40 MHz channels. > > -- > Fred Goldstein k1io fgoldstein "at" ionary.com > ionary Consulting http://www.ionary.com/ > +1 617 795 2701 > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/