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
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----- 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.
> 
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