Well, put my first sector on the tower today. Working very well so far.
Background: I currently have 3 120 sectors of unbt 2.4 with shields. Also have a 120 sector of ubnt 900.(which was replaced with 450i 900 today) on a water tower at about 150 ft'
Ubnt 900 could barely push 4 megs to 8 clients on the ap running 8 mhz channels, I had to use 8mhz becausse 10mhz was even worse. The noise floor on channel 919 of the ubnt gear showed up as -93 I have been very disappointed in this gear from day one which is why I only had 8 clients on it.
The new gear: 450i 900, one 65 degree sector currently has 7 clients on it for now, more to come tomorrow. Running 10mhz channels on channel 907 with a -76 noise floor.
I have it on 907 right now to see how it would run and man does it run. All some clients have a increased signal strenght of about 8 to 10 db but the speeds are fantastic. I will move to a better channel a different date, I need to be sure I am familiar with all the new settings and items in pmp 450 as I am very new to the gear.
All clients hae tested out great. for instance, client signal -72 speedtest.net results 21 mb down 3 up.
Here is a client I have had all kinds of trouble with on ubnt gear. The old signal was a -68 noise floor showed -96 could barely get 3 mbs through it.
Here is the same location on 450i.
Similar results on everyone but most are close to 30mbs and one at 43mbs which had a -59 signal
You might find this one funny. I put the sector up this morning, then immediate went to my garage to begin to test. Here is the speed test and pics of the sm inside my garge laying sideways on a chair. The ap/ watertower is about 2 miles away no line of sight .
Water Tower: 150'
Location looking toward tower about 2 miles away.
Radio on chair:
Pic from chair:
Speedtest from radio laying on a chair:
More to come.
