Capacity of a UBNT AP vs the number of clients
Almost all the time I get asked: “How many clients can an AP handle?” . My answer is always a very long and drawn out one.
Siklu 80GHZ alignment
Installer using the new alignment “scope” from Siklu. This is pointed up to the Soldiers and Sailors monument in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana.
WISPAPALOOZA 2019 News and tidbits
WISPAPALOOZA 2019 is rapidly approaching October 14th-18th 2019. I will be attending in several capacities. FD-IX will have a booth with Athereal, Ascilis Telecom (booth 135). Come by and say hi. We have some giveaways as well as a comfy …
Some photos of Mikrotik 60ghz
For those of you who may not have seen the Mikrotik 60ghz dishes. Here are some screenshots.
Interesting topic on discontinued gear
So an interesting topic came up on Facebook tonight that got me to thinking. As WISPs grow and evolve, what are your thoughts on hoarding gear you have been…
Water tower install with mounting frame
We recently headed up a job for a client of installing some RF elements horns, Cambium ePMP, and Baicells LTE for a client. One of the gems of this job was the frame the client designed for the job. We …
80GHZ microwave antenna alignment (and other mm-wave radios)
Recently we had a teaching moment for a couple of folks who had not had much experience with aligning higher frequency antennas with very tight beamwidths. This particular day we were aligning 2 foot Siklu 80GHZ antennas. One of the questions …
Wisps getting it done
Several times a year, Paul Conlin barrels up a steep, wooded hillside in his mud-green Rhino SUV to the top of Rattlesnake Mountain above Hume, to perform maintenance on his equipment, which puts homes scattered in the valley below on the internet superhighway.