On Aug 25, 10:57 pm, Jeff Liebermann <je...@cruzio.com> wrote:
> nevtxjus...@gmail.com hath wroth:
>
> >On Aug 20, 9:35 pm, Jeff Liebermann <je...@cruzio.com> wrote:
> >> You can have speed, or long range, but not both. They're inversely
> >> proportional, all other things being equal.
> >> If you're getting 20Mbits/sec thruput, then you must have a 48Mbit/sec
> >> connection. You're not going to go much faster with 802.11g or
> >> whatever you have for hardware. You can possibly go faster with Pre-N
> >> hardware, but that might be at the expense of range.
> >I'm running almost ten miles with 802.11g with 100 Mbps equipment and
> >get about 70% throughput which is plenty for my 30 Mbps internet
> >connection (50 Mbps by winter)...but I have 70 ft. towers at both ends
> >and a 1.2 Fresnel clearance and better than 20 dB fade margin.
>
> What 2.4GHz 802.11g product are you using that yields 70Mbits/sec
> thruput at 16Km? I'm familiar with 100Mbit/sec and faster links, but
> they either use either 5.2/5.8GHz or proprietary modulation schemes,
> not 802.11g.

Sorry, I meant 5.8 GHz, not 802.11g...I wasn't paying attention to
what I was saying.

They aren't cheap. $10,000 per pair.