Outdoor Wireless Point to Point Question

Does anyone have recommendations for outdoor wireless point to point equipment?

Also, how does inclement weather impact this type of technology?

Thanks in advance.

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Scott Thompson <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
oes anyone have recommendations for outdoor wireless point to point equipment?

:Also, how does inclement weather impact this type of technology?

Yes, it does. The impact depends in part on which frequency bands
you are using: 2.4 GHz is worse than 900 MHz.

When you are setting up an outdoor link, you usually account
for this by using a "fade margin" -- making sure the received power
under good conditions is strong enough that you would still have
a signal after some fading due to weather. I have seen 6 dBi
listed as a typical fade margin, but I think that was for California:
you would expect to need less in the dessert, and more in a foggy area.


A few years ago, when we had a link a few hundred feet diagonally
across the road, the *only* time I ever saw the link go down due
to weather was during a bad blizzard (strong winds, fresh snow, lots
of blowing snow): I was barely able to see to the close edge of the
street from my window on that side: we essentially lost line-of-site
for that time. But the link did not drop during any of the rainstorms
or other snow storms or blizzards we had. I wouldn't want to promise
that an outdoor link would stay up during a tornado or hurricane!
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Walter Roberson wrote:

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> Scott Thompson <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> oes anyone have recommendations for outdoor wireless point to point
> :equipment?
>

Take a look at www.star-os.com
lots of good advice on equipment on their forums.

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