Sort of up in Lakewood.

[Matt Z (KC4YLV)]

Found my Nanostation M2 and flashed it up. Can't see any other nodes but I expected to be in a dark area and it's just sitting in my living room window, so no disappointment. 

Any info on linking up tunnel style to provide coverage fill? I was hoping that it might encourage other Lakewooders to link up and maybe we can fill the gap enough that I can drop the tunnel later. I'll do a little survey and if it looks good I will throw a bullet m2 hp and omni at it for a while.

[Matt Z (KC4YLV)]

Update: I was able to get up to 81% link quality to the Green Mountain node with just 14 feet from the paint pole. Shamefully, i am limited by the fact that I don't have any CAT5 longer than five feet, so I have the laptop on a ladder as high as I can get it!

This is very encouraging though - with a 200 mW nanosation loco m2 i got great results experimenting. So, seriously, are these cheap 2.4 yagis on Amazon any good? I'll slap a Bullet on one and aim at Green Mountain if so.

Are we talking 5ghz at all yet? Was thinking of doing a PtP link on 2.4 and then putting a 5ghz node on an omni for local coverage. Worth it, or hold off? I like 5g for my home wifi so I am impressed by its performance.  If I could get a 5g backhaul I would put up an omni 2.4 access node, but not sure we have that in place yet.

[CARBBN]

Hello Matt,

Thank you for the information on the results setting up.  On the 5ghz we are using that for primarily a backbone frequency. Go ahead an call me at 530-774-7772 and we will be able to talk more about the node placement and what we can get to you.

73,

Jeremiah N0KMO