Exactly what we need also. That’s also why I’m hoping for the highest gain antenna possible – or for a connectorized version so that we can add giant honking antennas. On one hand, it’d be great to have a F200 form factor feedhorn (that’d be great!) but on the other hand, most of the places we’d want more than 17dBi gain.
Speaking of Ubiquiti, didn’t they have some 2AC product? It was 802.11ac working on 2.4GHz freq. I think we had couple of their PowerBeam 2AC dishes that got through some light foliage with >150 Mbps throughput and quite good stability. They even have/had PrismAP version which is connectorized and you can hook up any antenna on it. But it didn’t catch up somehow?
The 802.11 AC standard did not support the 2.4Ghz band. Ubiquiti did their own home cooked version, for which I give them props, but the end result was less than spectacular. In certain situations you could get decent throughput, We found in most instances, it did not penetrate as well as the old Cambium 1000 2.4, especially at distance or with interference. It also did not penetrate foliage as well and it was very difficult to get decent modulation levels. That was just our experience, others may have different feedback.
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Yes, it’s not a killer product, but at least it’s something. When no 5GHz solutions worked, this was the only one that worked for us. And not that expensive tbh. I think hooking it up to some 24+ dBi antenas would work even better. Places where we need 2.4 usually are free of interference, so NLOS is the only limitation.
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Agree. It’s a scramble for a NLOS solution for sure. The ePMP 2.4 connectorized radios have basically become unobtanium, The PMP450 2.4 works okay but we have to send the radios to be connectorized by a 3rd party to use high gain antennas. Wish they would have release a 450i version of the 2.4, but such is life. The old 900 450i is great for penetration and distance but can’t deliver the speeds needed. It’s all EOL though. The Tarana 3Ghz is waaaaay outside our price range and is far from a silver bullet for NLOS, as a local tribe learned the hard way. We may have to dust off the Ubiquiti stuff as well unless something comes down the pipe from Cambium soon.
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We experimented with Ubiquitis 2.4 AC offering, but it was very buggy. Then Cambium came out with Elevate and we were getting better speeds and stability by elevating our M products. Thankfully we are still finding used 2.4 Forces, or we would’ve lost even more customers.
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Is the ePMP 4200 2.4 GHz AX equipment going to materialize? We could really use a good NLOS solution.
I have no idea if this product will materialize. I’m not sure if you’ve noticed but Cambium isn’t in the best of health lately. I doubt we’ll see this product if current condition persist or get worse.
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Fair point, I’ve posted about the stock a few times and I can only assume that can’t make for happy times at the corporate office. Maybe something like this could boost sales?