[BC] STL recommendations in the year 2012

[Alex Hartman]

Mike,

Persistence is key when doing coordination with ISM links. If they
tell you to take a flying leap, fine, call them every day for a few
weeks and see if they keep the same tune. Eventually they'll get sick
of you and either work with you, or ignore you. If they ignore you,
well, i can aim right at their uplink just as easily as a tower,
they'll start talking when their entire network goes to poo. :)  You
*can* make people pay attention, especially in ISM.

T1's have the SLA and yes, they cannot be avoided in some instances. I
have a few stations like that as well where the *only* method is T1
for some reason or another that takes out more robust links. God help
you however if that T1 has to cross a LATA line though and trouble
comes to be. They start pointing fingers and nothing gets done. It's a
devilish game. And it still happens, SLA or not.

People also suggest traditional 950 links with something like a
starlink and a LANLink, well, the LANLink boxes are on the 900Mhz ISM
muxed into the same antenna, they don't ride the same licensed band
that the audio would for instance. (When using the Starlink Radio that
is, obviously not when using another method)

As for 6Ghz links, they're spendy, they're just as susceptible to the
ISM dorks because the radios aren't terribly tight (use the high
freqency of the 5.8 (5890Mhz) and set the channel width to 40Mhz). But
they can be reliable, however limited in bandwidth because the radio
manufacturers are careless and stupid. (10Mhz of spectrum but only
8Mbit of data? Doesn't add up...)

As for your 3.65Ghz link, here's what the radios i've been using as
have several others on this list. They are a carrier grade radio, so
don't let the price fool you. I've seen 3.65Ghz links go 40 miles in
point-to-point mode with no problem. I've also seen 5.8Ghz ISM links
go from mountain to mountain in Colorado, well over 80 miles, all of
which were 40Mbit links or better with only using 10Mhz of spectrum.

http://www.invictuswireless.com/RocketM365_3_65GHz_BaseStation_by_Ubiquiti_p/rocketm365.htm

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Alex Hartman