2009/6/19 Peter Boone <na...@aquillar.com> > > - Get off the 2.4 GHz range. Move up to 5. As for licensed vs. unlicensed, > I'm getting mixed input. I'm fairly certain that if the price is right and > the frequency is 5GHz+, it won't be a factor. Also, I'll be very glad to > separate the bridge from the client access points so that allows for more > options. Every solution at this range can easily do 20+ Mbps so throughput > is no longer a factor. >
It looks like your fresnel zone is 14ft (according to a previous poster) and you're currently using relatively low power radio waves. Have you considered using something like Free Space Optics? For under $100, you can build yourself a couple of RONJAs[1] and test out what the signal is going to be like - that runs at 10Mbit, and can stay in place as a backup once you then buy a FSO device from a proper manufacturer (MRV make some nice ones) and you're looking at 100Mbit for some money, 1000Mbit for quite a lot of money and 10000Mbit for "it would have been cheaper to lay fiber". I'd heartily recommend giving infra-red FSO a go, no Fresnel zone and it's essentially bridged ethernet - no funky routing required, though I would still set up OSPF or similar with it, to fail back to a slower link such as the RONJA. Matthew Walster [1] http://ronja.twibright.com/
