RE: Campus size Wireless LAN

["Douglas S. Peeples" <dpeeples () talabs com>]

I have used Airya (found easily using google).  Fast, cheap, has DES, an
overall good experience.

Cheers,

Doug

Douglas S. Peeples
Technology Assurance Labs
Co-Founder
dpeeples () talabs com
www.TALabs.com
 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On Behalf Of
William Petrisko
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 9:08 PM
To: nanog () merit edu
Subject: Re: Campus size Wireless LAN


On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 04:03:18PM -0400, Brandon Pinsky wrote:
>   I just installed a Quickbridge 60 recently.  It's pretty nice.  The 
> throughput is good over a .75 mile link.  I was able to successfully 
> push ~20Mbps with an iperf test.  Installation was easy relative to 
> some of the other equipment we have installed.  The feed line is UTP 
> and the radio gets power over the UTP cable.  The uplink interface is 
> 100BaseT which is easy.  My only complaint is that it is not remotely 
> manageable.  You have to have direct console to make any config changes 
> which means taking the link down.  We have another .11a system in 

I believe that this is fixed in the latest release of code...

bill

> production made by RadioLan and it is plagued by the same design flaw.  
> Stupid... I'd like to compare it to the Cisco one.  I bet it is more 
> manageable.
>
> BJ
>
> On Jul 21, 2004, at 2:01 PM, Eric Brown wrote:
>
> > Anyone have experience with Proxim's tsunami quickbridge for wireless
> > connectivity between buildings at line of site distances under 1 mile?
> > It's cheaper than Cisco and looks good on paper.  Looking for the good
> > bad and ugly.  Thanks in advance!
> >
> > -Eric

-- 
Bill Petrisko