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I used a pair of these Access points for a 300Meter line of site link and could not be happier with their performance.
Using four chinese craptastic yagi antennas (two at each end one vertical polarised one horizontal) and just pointed by eye, we immediately got wall to wall signal and immediate connections at both ends as soon as I turned the Ultrawap on.
The Yagi\'s are rated for 16dBi, but by my best estimates the Yagi\'s gain is more like 10 to 12dBi, not great, but they were only cheap antennas.
However we wasted nearly 3 hours at first trying to work out why we couldn\'t get transfer speeds above 170 KBytes a second (~1.7 Mbps). I was getting disappointed thinking it was the wireless link at fault, and couldn\'t work out why it was so slow given the strong signal strength readings.
However in the end it turned out to be a faulty ethernet switch at one end of the link. I replaced the switch and immediately we were transferring 4Gig DVD ISO\'s at a solid 10 Megabytes a second (~100 Mbps) with encryption off and 8.5Megabytes a second (~85 Mbps) with WPA2 on.
We were even able to drop the transmitter power down to 50% at both ends with absolutley no loss of speed or reported signal strength, so we certainly have more than enough signal strength for the link. Not that 300Meters is an especially long wireless link. Still nice to know we have plenty of signal strength to spare though.
All in all I am very impressed with the Ultrawap-N300, and I am likely to be buying more of them in the future to expand the network.
Rating:  [5 of 5 Stars!] |
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