Murfreesboro | Nashville LOS Ethernet Bridges
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The engineers at New Millennium Network Services LOVE Wireless broadband technologies, in-fact they enjoy it so much its more of a hobby for them than a job.
Let us talk about a recent project we did for a client where the manufactures' claim was not only inaccurate but I believe they told us things just to make the sale! After dealing with the "manufacture" (over 3 months of issues), I believe I have found out their dirty little secret, they are using a white label product. A white label product or service is a product or service produced by one company (the producer) that other companies (the marketers) rebrand to make it appear as if they made it. Although I have not been able to fully support this claim what I do know is this:
- They have a very limited support staff (many only one tech, 3 months of calling the support line and I only get one tech and the number that I call gets forwarded to his cell phone)
- The tech told me numerous times that we could use 75-ohm coax cable for an antenna that requires 50ohms
- The tech claims their 900mhz radio will penetrate 8' of reinforced concrete and will travel 10 miles Line of Site LOS, but we can not get it to go 600' and through 1/2" slate roof and 2 residential wood walls.
Let me go into a little more detail as to how misinforming this company was. They specs on the radios were 1000' Near Line of Site NLOS and 10 Miles LOS and a lousy 1.54mb uplink. Our link would drop from time to time for no reason at all so the tech suggested that we may be overloading the radios with too much data from the video server, he claims the link is only good for 900k (I had the server set at 700k at the time), so I decided what the heck I will play their game I drop the server down to 350k and still the same problems as before.
The biggest problem with this whole install was that the client did not want a visible antenna affixed to the outside of his home causing a eyesore, the whole reason we went with the 900mhz to begin with.
Did I fail to inform you that this wireless link is at a full 2watts? Yeah 2watts and it wont even come close to what the manufacture claims it will do, how sad is that?
I guess the next step is to replace the 6dbi antenna that is in the inside of the home to a 12.5dbi leaving the current 10dbi outside in place. This should take us up to about 3+ watts pushing the FCC limit of 4watts of unregistered power.
Stay tuned for the results of this manufacture disaster!!!