RooTenna with dual radio WRAP.2.A

[olebno]

Hi!

This assembly uses the RooTenna for distribution to a small group of customers, and has a second radiocard connecting to an backhaul antenna running back to the NOC. It will be put into test transfer from mid of next week, and hopefully start hook up the customers next weekend.

A Similar configuration is under construction for putting up in my local tower also, and i guess the results will be avaiable after mid of next week for that one. :-)

Best Regards

Oleb

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[olebno]

Hi!

Some link status for this baby!!

Distance is 4300 meter. And antenna on each side is a 26dBi parabolic disch for the 5.4 - 5,7 GHz spectrum

Both units are running build 4056

ACK at both ends is 240

At channel 140 (5700 MHz)
The AP reports:
20/22 and -76/-72 and can pull around 1420 Kbytes/sec and push around 1300 Kbytes/sec

The clients reports:
Qual 26 -69db and are able to pull 1720 Kbytes/sec and push around 1100 Kbytes/sec.

At channel 136 (5680 MHz)
The AP reports:
20/22 and -76/-72 and can pull around 1400 Kbytes/sec and push around 1300 Kbytes/sec

The clients reports:
Qual 28 -67db and are able to pull 1700 Kbytes/sec and push around 1100 Kbytes/sec.

At channel 132 (5660 MHz)
The AP reports:
17/20 and -80/-76 and can pull around 1410 Kbytes/sec and push around 1330 Kbytes/sec

The clients reports:
Qual 28 -67db and are able to pull 1680 Kbytes/sec and push around 1140 Kbytes/sec.
At this channel the Qual fluctuates a bit from 15 - 19


At channel 128 (5640 MHz)
The AP reports:
16/23 and -77/-72 and can pull around 1580 Kbytes/sec and push around 1300 Kbytes/sec

The clients reports:
Qual 29 -66db and are able to pull 1820 Kbytes/sec and push around 1230 Kbytes/sec.

At channel 124 (5620 MHz)
The AP reports:
21/26 and -73/-69 and can pull around 1590 Kbytes/sec and push around 1200 Kbytes/sec

The clients reports:
Qual 29 -66db and are able to pull 1860 Kbytes/sec and push around 1200 Kbytes/sec.

At channel 120 (5600 MHz)
The AP reports:
22/27 and -73/-68 and can pull around 1580 Kbytes/sec and push around 1220 Kbytes/sec

The clients reports:
Qual 29 -66db and are able to pull 1520 Kbytes/sec and push around 1230 Kbytes/sec.

At channel 116 (5580 MHz)
The AP reports:
23/28 and -72/-67 and can pull around 1500 Kbytes/sec and push around 1200 Kbytes/sec

The clients reports:
Qual 29 -66db and are able to pull 1640 Kbytes/sec and push around 1360 Kbytes/sec.

At channel 112 (5560 MHz)
The AP reports:
17/25 and -78/-70 and can pull around 1590 Kbytes/sec and push around 1080 Kbytes/sec

The clients reports:
Qual 29 -66db and are able to pull 1330 Kbytes/sec and push around 1220 Kbytes/sec.



More to come (I'll update this message during today)

Best Regards
Oleb

[staroslanf]

what kind of wireless mode you used?


what about your MAX FTP download speed? can get 20M bytes/s ?


:?:

[olebno]

Hi

The PtP link runs on 802.11 a mode.


After switching directions of the AP and client, the download speed got
a lot better. I now have had an TX test running from the NOC to the remote "client" side of the PtP link for 8 hours with passing 2200 KBytes / sec and ping times of 3 - 33 ms while the transfer is running.

I then ping the customer on the other side of the PtP link.

NOC - > PtP -> Sector -> Customer

Ping to the other side of the PtP link is from 1 - 24 ms while the transfer is running.

Best Regards
Oleb

[bobbyc]

What antenna? Isn't the rootenna 2.4ghz?
Nice results,
Bob C

[olebno]

Hi!

The RooTenna is a 2.4 GHz but as the pictures show, I have a dual radio WRAP inside it and an external connector for the 5GHz antenna.

The 5 GHz antennas are 28dBi parabolic dishes.

The 2.4 GHz antenna element in the RooTenna is only used as a "small sector" to provide service to a few customers in that direction.

Best Regards
Oleb

[staroslanf]

what do you mean
"switching directions of the AP and client"?

[olebno]

Hi!

I had the radio on the mountain as an AP and the one at the NOC set up as a client. I have now turned them around, so the AP is at the NOC and the client is up in the mountain.

Best Regards
Oleb

[staroslanf]

you mean:

on client side download speed can reach 2200kbytes/s?

But the AP side download is lower. is it? :?:

[olebno]

Hi!

It looks like it, but it can be a fluke. I'll have to swap directions of the radios again to confirm it, but as i can recall the only thing changed was the direction of the link.

I'll try change it back this night and see if it makes a difference. If it does'nt it could have been som interference or other thing caused the difference?

I'll get down to test it later.

Best Regards
Oleb

[staroslanf]

hi
how about the result? :oops:

[olebno]

Hi!

Current results from the link

At channel 100 (5500 MHz)
The AP reports:
21/32 and -74/-63 and can pull around 1830 Kbytes/sec and push around 1220 Kbytes/sec

The clients reports:
Qual 23 -72db and are able to pull 1820 Kbytes/sec and push around 1420 Kbytes/sec.

And running the speed test in UtiliStar from the NOC to the remote radio gives me around 2200KBytes / sec TX speed and 1900KBytes /sec RX speed.

Best Regards
Oleb

[CWireless]

Nice setup.What type of outdoor box is that ? Looks really good.Where did you get it?

[georgew]

The box is called a "rootenna". It is a 14db 2.4ghz antenna with a compartment for a radio. www.wisp-radio.com has them for $50 each.

[olebno]

And the good news about the RooTenna product! :-)

From approx. one week from now, they are avaiable with U.FL pigtail.

About one - two months from now, they also come in dual version with both 2.4 GHz and 5.GHz element.

And a verison with 18dBi is also under construction.

Those babies are just fantastic......

Best Regards
Oleb

[georgew]

The biggest problem I see with them is cooling... they need to be white, rather than grey. I know pacwireless has grey as a corporate trademark color, but the roo really should have been white. But that is just the opinion of a man living in a hot state..

[bobbyc]

Yup, I've been thinking the same thing... they should also be made of metal... plastic tends to act like a greenhouse, and heat dissapates off of metal better.
Still, I think I will be switching over to these antennas, especially when the 18dB model shows up. I'll just be painting the case white in the shop and the installers will always try to mount in shade (under eve) if possible.
Bob C