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Harvestore WISP Install

  • Post author j2sw
  • Post date September 3, 2021

Over the years many MidWestern WISPS have fashioned ways to use Harvestore silos for broadcast locations. With the help of one of our good clients, who did most of the work designing this, we were able to install a very …

  • Categories Tower Wireless

Photo Sunday

  • Post author j2sw
  • Post date July 27, 2020

Follow me on Instagram for technology, and sometimes not technology, related photos. @j2sw

  • Categories Cambium equipment Equipment Gear Wireless Wireless

PTP Backhaul Complete link kit #1

  • Post author j2sw
  • Post date May 18, 2020

I have been asked a few times on what I would pick for a PTP link. here is what I would recommend as option #1.  You can use the RF Elements link planner to judge how far you can go. …

  • Categories IPV6 Networking

IPV6 Point-to-point addressing

  • Post author j2sw
  • Post date January 20, 2020

Over the years I have seen providers use a wide variety of subnets across a point-to-point link.  Anything from a /64, to /122,124, and the 127

  • Categories equipment Gear Reviews Wireless xISP

ALG 5GHZ backhaul before and after

  • Post author j2sw
  • Post date January 15, 2020

The following are results from a series of tests of AGLcom’s parabolic dish antennas on an existing link that is 5.7 miles long.

  • Categories equipment Wireless Wireless WISP xISP

Thresholds for Microwave backhauls in Librenms

  • Post author j2sw
  • Post date December 27, 2019

this video will help you learn how to adjust the thresholds for signal strength when it comes to microwave/licensed backhauls

  • Categories equipment Mikrotik Technology Wireless WISP xISP

Some photos of Mikrotik 60ghz

  • Post author j2sw
  • Post date September 18, 2019

For those of you who may not have seen the Mikrotik 60ghz dishes. Here are some screenshots.

  • Categories Networking Tower Wireless Wireless xISP

80GHZ microwave antenna alignment (and other mm-wave radios)

  • Post author j2sw
  • Post date August 20, 2019

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 …

  • Categories Cambium equipment Tower Wireless Wireless WISP xISP

Some Friday photos

  • Post author j2sw
  • Post date July 26, 2019

Some tower photos and wireless equipment installs. Cambium 450 gear, jirous dish, mimosa 11ghz backhaul.

  • Categories Wireless Wireless xISP

Siklu 80ghz equipmentphotos

  • Post author j2sw
  • Post date June 16, 2019

A gallery of Sikly 80 GHZ point-to-point installs in a WISP environment

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