Re: Engenius/Senao AP/Bridge - any comments?

Jim

On May 14, 2004, at 6:32 PM, Donald Day wrote:

> I have 2 CB3-Plus's.
>
> I too feel that the lack of any type of usable interface makes this 
> piece of
> hardware the most ugly prom queen ever.  Nothing to look at and 
> frustrating
> to deal with but she does "put out".  That's the only thing going for 
> it and
> going forward that won't be enough to keep me a customer.  Good for a 
> few
> cheap dates and that's about it.

Believe it or not, I feel the same way, (and my wife sells a ton of 
'em.)

> I wanted to use them for a long distance shot (5.5miles with minor 
> foliage)
> with a couple of 24db grid antennas (probably illegal output values).

You're close to legal (probably are for a 24dBi (dBi, not dB) antenna 
on a 23dBm radio in terms of EIRP
for a PTP link. You'll need 1dB of loss somewhere between the two to 
stay 'in-bounds'.  If its a PTP link
then you're allowed 30 - (antenna gain - 6) / 3, so  30 - ((24 - 6) / 
3) or  24dBm!  By the time you account for
coax losses, you're probably more than fine.

You may *not* be legal in terms of out of band emissions when operating 
close to the edges of the band (say, on channels 1 or 11.)

> However the lack of software features keeps them relegated to a close
> proximity solution.
>
> Engenius is such an oxymoron in this context.  I'd name this line of
> hardware "The knuckle dragger".
> If they could ever spend a few bucks on SNMP and useful interface John
> Chambers would have to take notice.

And how

Jim

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