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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · Shooting Multiple Camera's & transfer images wirless | |
Hammy,
Ironically, was recently looking into more efficient briding for a home project and came across the Ubiquiti line. I had a question for you about your multi hop configuration.
Your description of the point to point bridge makes sense and provides the full bandwidth of the wireless bridge. As you likely also know, When there is a multi hop wireless bridge, and a single radio is used at the hopping point, effective bandwidth is cut in half for all communication back to the main server side wireless point. A second radio (any frequency) used solely at the hop point restores the full bandwidth to the extended wireless data connections. (this by the way is the unadvertised flaw with all the extenders on the market as they are singe radio.)
My question which I didn't find in my quick research was weather the UbiquitI units had a second radio for the bridge from the next hop? Your 100bps, assuming 600mbps 802.11n radios seems like a realistic halved data rate for hopping data, or full data rate for 300bps wireless N link for unhopped.
As an aside, most dual radio routers are dual band which somewhat defeats the flexibility to use as a wireless bridge remote AP. That is using the 2.4ghz longer range radio as the bridge, leaves only the 5ghz radio AP to receive hops or local wireless connections, yet 5ghz isn't prevalent enough to know all extended devices has it.
I concluded that buying two $19 Trendnet wireless N 2.4ghz router/AP was a better solution for the remote location for extended wireless area or hop (vs dual band single device). One would be dedicated bridge back to 'base', and directly wired to the other in the pair serving as the AP (using different channel) for the hop or other local devices. (Plugging it to the Lan side of the 2nd device keeps single dhcp and nat elimination easier to maintain and manage than Wan side imho.) All devices would share the same common full bandwidth of the wireless N link which would only improve with wired remote connectivity back to base or usage of additional radios.
Any suggestions to improving this would be welcome.
Guy
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