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Introduction
Hello, i'm Renato, an italian WISP consultant. At the moment Right now, i work for Progetto8, a small WISP of ~1500 customers. The network is managed with OSPF by Mikrotik while the Wireless part is mostly Ubiquiti RocketM5 and some old Canopy 100.
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An expensive but efficient PMP450 or the low cost high performance Ubiquiti Airmax? Let's make a real life test of the Ubiquiti Airmax thenbefore making a choice...
Setup
We have created a cluster of 8x6 Nanostations/Nanostations Loco M5 connected to a new deployed AP (there were already 2 customers connected) The AP was a Rocket M5 with an Airmax Ubiquiti Antenna 90° and RF Armor.
Each cluster of 8 Nanostations were connected to a RB750UP to power them up and give a client peer for the Traffic Generator attached to the AP.
The Cluster was located at around 900m from the AP and the fresnel was pretty clear (Radiomobile simulates city obstructions but the LOS was clear)
The AP is at around 35m from the ground, in a standard installation with a cluster of 4 APs, one on each side of the site. Every AP has his RFArmor.
Below the APs, there's a Mikrotik that manages the routing and PPPoE of the site. Mikrotik Traffic generator has a limit of 16 streams (AFAIK) so i used 4 RB450G instead of the existing RB1100AH to generate the traffic for the tests.
Configuration
Ubiquiti
Mikrotik
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