Dual Radio wireless Access point (outdoor)

[d3lt4]

I was looking at the AGN 1202 from SOHO because it has MIMO.
Are there any others that people would recommend?

This is for a business and we will be hooking it up to an antenna, and then hopefully add more a few miles away. We sell wireless internet.

so give some suggestions...

 

[nweaver]

I help my (small town) isp out sometimes. We use the smartbridges equipment, and get great signal as long as you have LOS. Our longest run is about 8 miles, with no problems. The smartbridges company is discontinuing old products, and kinda screwing the existing base of customers, so we are looking at switching to zanzio (think that's the name) as equipment fails.

for wireless internet, there is no need for MIMO, just LOS

 

[d3lt4]

I've changed my mind, thanks to nweaver and am looking to get an outdoor dual radio wireless access point w/ line of site.
I need it to send a signal right around where it is and I need it to send a signal to another antenna. from there I have to do the same thing, and maybe even fartehr from there. I already have some dishes and already have towers to put the equipment on.

I am pretty overwhelmed with all the information. so I have a few questions.

1) Do I want wireless lan/mesh network, or point to multipoint, or point to point, or anything else that I didn't mention.

2) I looked at smartbridges and they had airhauls, airports, and airclients. which one of these do I need.
Please help me. I'm a noob to networking outside of home networking with one router, and about 2 or 3 times I have configured a wireless router. (as in I plugged in numbers so that it was connected to the internet)
EDIT: clarified and fixed some things.

 

[d3lt4]

anyone?

 

[d3lt4]

Ok I have a new question. Do I need just any dual band dual radio access point or do I need a backhaul and then an access point and alsom another access point to send out signals?

 

[m1ldslide1]

We used a point to multipoint solution by a company called Aperto. I'm not sure how much the gear costs, but they were nice radios that only needed near-LOS (concrete OK, trees = bad). The multipoint transmitter would transmit to a 60 degree sector that you could configure with VLANs, multiple queuing/scheduling options for QOS, and so forth. Nice GUI, nice gear. We deployed this on a hilltop and then had a point-to-point radio from the same company for our backhaul. All of the radios do have ethernet ports though, so you don't have to have a wireless backhaul if you have a wired network to hook the transmitter into.

 

[nweaver]

I would look into the above company, Smartbidges, Zanzio, and see if they have a complete list of what's needed. I'm not sure what Smartbridges AP we have on the hill, it was deployed before me, and works, so no need to tweak/play/check it out.

 

[d3lt4]

I looked into smartbridges, and it was quite expensive and couldn't find zanzio, (tranzeo maybe?). My boss already has some proxim equipment so I think we will go with that. We just need like two wireless access points, at the moment. We alreadt have antennas, client antennas, T1, and some dishes (5ft I think).
Thanks for all the help. Especially thanks for recommending smartbridges. Their website is where I have learned like everything I know so far (not very much). I'll let you all know how it goes.

 

[d3lt4]

Update: I found out that we are in a hole and can only get the signal out about 1 mile towards the east where we want to get people and about 3 miles NW were we want to give people sservice, so we are going to use mesh network. We looked at the cisco aironet 1500 series. That was exactly what we wanted except cheaper, and turns out Alico Systems makes just that for about half the price and an amplified signal.

Unfortunately these operate in 5.8ghz when talking to each other, and all of our antennas are 2.4. How can I switch that w/out getting a hole new antenna? Things are looking pretty good at the moment as far as this goes.