<div class="gmail_quote">Hi Greg et al,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">2011/10/31 Greg McLennan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mclennan@internode.on.net" target="_blank">mclennan@internode.on.net</a>></span><br>
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Hi David.<br>
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I'v had good experience using <a href="http://www.ubnt.com/airlink/" target="_blank">http://www.ubnt.com/airlink/<br>
</a>for height calculations(try IE and or Firefox, is a bit buggy
sometimes). <br>
I'm running a 6Km link @ 2.4GHz with a small hill around the 3km
mark that I needed to get over, and comparing heights from the
program to actual physical install was well with a meter for my
experience.<br>
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I did note for the install however that 2.4GHz worked well, yet @
5.8GHz for the same link and height antenna I could not establish a
link.(I physically could not go higher). I could see stations at
5.8GHz that were further away than my intended sites from both
points!. 2.4GHz (-69dBm), yet 5.8(same gain antenna 25dBm &
tx-power) could not even site the remote ap(weird!!)...<br></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div></div>Be careful with the Ubiquiti settings - if you leave AirMax enabled on AirMax capable devices (the first settings tab in the web interface, no tab name just the Ubiquiti logo) then only other devices with AirMax enabled will be able to see your AP. Disable AirMax and try again. ;-)<div class="im">
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So I'm new to this game,
and I'm looking to setup a link between two houses that are just
shy of 2km LOS from each other.</div>
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<div style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">I know I can find
equipment that'll span this sort of distance without any
problems at all, but my main concern now how high I'll have to
mount everything in order to get a decent signal?!?</div>
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<div style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">The terrain is close
enough to dead flat, but given that both houses are only single
story, I'm not really sure exactly where I stand on this front?</div>
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<div style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Does anybody have
any practical <span style="background-color:transparent">experience
/ advice / rules of thumb for this sort of scenario?</span></div></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><div>Suck it and see. </div><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<span style="background-color:transparent">Is there any
particular equipment that I should be looking for [or looking
to avoid] with this setup?</span></div></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><div>I prefer the Ubiquiti equipment too: weatherproof AP + integrated antenna + power over ethernet = zero cable loss, better radio signal management (especially with multi-polarity integrated antenna systems), significantly less things that can go wrong, and significantly cheaper than buying all the components (antenna, coax, pigtail, mounting box) separately.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The software seems half decent as well, though the stock firmware doesn't run OSPF (eg: quagga). Not that I need it, instead I plug the other end of the Cat-5 from my Ubiquiti devices into something like the Asus WL500GP with it's built in 5 port VLAN tagging switch running OSPF on OpenWRT/DD-WRT/Tomato firmware. Everything is low power, there's only one place to configure/break/fix the OSPF configs, and I can add links to multiple nodes with decent performance.</div>
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<div style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color:transparent">I'd really appreciate
any help / advice / suggestions you might be able to give me
...</span></div></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><div>Be good to your mother? :-P</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Tyson.</div></div><font color="#888888"><br>
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