Dear All,
It has been awhile since I have actually had my hands on some Canopy gear. We are just starting a project that calls for (2) BH links, one being 5.2 GHz and the other being 5.4 GHz.
We ordered the BHs from Tessco, and I believe they have arrived. They are both 20 Mbps Extended Range units.
My question is, what is the latest, most stable, professionally recommende firmware to be running in BHs that will most likely ship with the latest chip set and board type, i.e. if recently purchased from Tessco? I know that sometimes these large vendors such as Tessco will have units sitting on their shelves for months, therefore I may be getting some old units, but I have heard a lot of talk about buggy versions of 8.x.x code out there, and just wanted to see what your recommendations would be regarding firmware to run in these.
Thanks in advance,
Matt
8.1.7 is the latest and greatest.
Thank for the reply, Jerry.
Is it safe to assume that “greatest” == “stable”?
Thanks,
Matt
Yes
Can we all assume that you meant 8.2.7, Jerry?
Sorry, yes 8.2.7
msmith wrote: Dear All,
It has been awhile since I have actually had my hands on some Canopy gear. We are just starting a project that calls for (2) BH links, one being 5.2 GHz and the other being 5.4 GHz.
Matt, what are the link lengths on those BH's you are planning to deploy?
Sorry to hijack the thread... I posted a thread earlier today on link lengths.
Literally "across the street"
One link is about .32 miles
The other link is shorter.
I am connecting traffic lights to a central location.
I chose to use two different bands (5.2 and 5.4) since there was no $$$ for a CMM. I ordered the gear from Tessco. Unfortunately the only way I could get a 20 Mbps unit in the 5.2 GHz band was if I ordered a part number that came with a reflector kit, which I clearly do not need.
The strange thing is that I was able to order a part number from Tessco, in the 5.4 band, 20 Mbps, WITHOUT a reflector kit. Other strange thing is that both the 5.2 and the 5.4 gear cost the same amount of money.
Oh well.
Matt
Tessco is a bizzare company to deal with.
That is where I used to purchase all of my Moto gear, then switched to electro-comm (now Hutton). As an ACSP you can only switch distro’s once per year.
This year Moto decided that all ACSP’s would need to get trained and certified on their moto-mesh and duo products (which we have no interest in selling or deploying) so we are going to lose our ACSP status at the end of the year.
It was either that or spend thousands on air travel, hotel, training and testing on a product we don’t sell or service.
I just purchased 100 900SMC radios to hold me over for a while.
You could try doubleradius.com. I work with Joe and Jason there and they have great prices and great service.
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By work with, I mean order from. I’m not affiliated in any way except as a happy customer.
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Why is it that the specification sheet for the 5.4 GHz backhaul has a typical distance rating of 1 mile, yet the 5.2 GHz backhaul has a typical distance rating of 2 miles, and their transmitter output values and internall antenna gains are the same?
The free space loss at 5.4 GHz compared to the free space loss at 5.2 GHz is not drastic by any means.
How far have you guys gone with 5.4 GHz backhaul links?
msmith wrote: Why is it that the specification sheet for the 5.4 GHz backhaul has a typical distance rating of 1 mile, yet the 5.2 GHz backhaul has a typical distance rating of 2 miles, and their transmitter output values and internall antenna gains are the same?
The free space loss at 5.4 GHz compared to the free space loss at 5.2 GHz is not drastic by any means.
How far have you guys gone with 5.4 GHz backhaul links?
We have a 5.4 PTP400 link that is 16.27 miles long.
nucoles wrote:
We have a 5.4 PTP400 link that is 16.27 miles long.
The 400/600 and I believe the 300 series is ODFM, whereas the 100 series is FSK. Quite a bit different in abilities.
Do you have a link budget calculator? If not you can Google for one.
Plug in the values and it will show you what you can expect.
I think with reflectors and the power set to the FCC limit you can get 8-10 miles but that assuming a noise floor lower than the Rx sensitivity of the radios, and a perfect LOS.