Fwd: anybody have experience with this outfit?

[Dirk Moolman]

Yes, thanks for the info !


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Sent: 31 January 2005 04:22 PM
To: David Bandel; Linux tips and tricks
Subject: Re: Fwd: anybody have experience with this outfit?

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Thanks David.

David Bandel wrote:
|
| In the particular frequency spectrum reserved for 802.x operations,
| weather is not a contributing factor (unlike your DirectTV and
| DirectWay satellite links which are affected), unless they've added a
| frequency I don't know about.
|
| I haven't looked too closely at the specifics of 802.16.  Supposed to
| be faster (good).  What I look at are radio specifics.  Range (I'm now
| using Wi-Lan radios in the UNII band -- 5.8GHz -- and they guarantee
| connections using the correct antennas and good line of sight,
| including a clear fresnel zone, of up to 47mi/75km), throughput, and
| number of clients that can connect (approx 200).  Note that this is
| almost certainly overkill for residential use (and incredibly
| expensive, APs run over $3500.00 without the antenna, and clients over
| $750 without the antenna).  I still use Proxim 2.4GHz equipment
| (802.11b/g) for hotspots and at home.
|
| Called:  right tool for the job.  So I care little about 802.x specs
| (theory), but I do care about radio specs (implementation).
|
| Ciao,
|
| David A. Bandel

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