[189283] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: B5-Lite
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Sat May 14 09:28:14 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <CEE870B1-BE25-44DC-A491-36D9E7F8E92F@buzcom.net>
Date: Sat, 14 May 2016 09:28:07 -0400
To: Hal Ponton <hal@buzcom.net>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Ouch. Was also looking at b5 but $1400 for a pair is a bit steep if your eff=
ective range won't support a "short" 3-4km link.=20
Trying to bridge the gap, and UBNT has their pluses and minuses. Maybe AF5X i=
nstead I guess.=20
Thanks!
Jared Mauch
> On May 14, 2016, at 8:31 AM, Hal Ponton <hal@buzcom.net> wrote:
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> We've deployed 2 B5 links into production, the newer firmware seems to hav=
e fixed the issues we saw in the links when we first tested them.
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> We have a very rural customer where two hops are needed around the site. W=
e're lucky in that we had two 80MHz channels free. We see around 350Mbps bot=
h ways actual throughput on both links.
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> However, these links are short est. 200mtrs when we had tested these on lo=
nger links their performance was awful, on a 40MHz channel we saw 20Mbps.
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> For our longer links that need a bit more throughput than a Rocket M5 we e=
ither use Licensed radios or the AF5X which works very well.=20
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> Regards,
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> Hal Ponton
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> Senior Network Engineer
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> Buzcom / FibreWiFi
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>> On 14 May 2016, at 11:07, Matt Hoppes <mattlists@rivervalleyinternet.net>=
wrote:
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>> Jared - why not go to Ubiquiti AC gear if you need some more speed and so=
mething more modern?
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>>> On May 14, 2016, at 01:43, Eric C. Miller <eric@ericheather.com> wrote:
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>>> B5c is the only product that I've had much success with from Mimosa.
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>>> The B5Lite is a cheap plastic shell and, and it performs like it too.
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>>> If you have UBNT gear now, Mimosa is a good next step, but I'd strongly r=
ecommend that you stear away from the lite and go with the B5c. We use them w=
ith rocket dishes. You just need the RP-SMA to N cables.
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>>> Eric Miller, CCNP
>>> Network Engineering Consultant
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>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Jared Mauch
>>> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2016 7:06 PM
>>> To: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
>>> Subject: B5-Lite
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>>> Anyone deployed this radio in production in the US? I=E2=80=99m curious=
to hear from people who are using it, looking at replacing some UBNT hardwa=
re with it on some PTP links, going from the M-series class devices to somet=
hing more modern.
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>>> Thanks,
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>>> - Jared
