Help to design a point to multipoint

Hi all, i live in Cozumel mexico a very small island, which is very plane i'll say (no mountains or hills), anyway i'm trying to design a wireless network for our company, basically i have a tower which is about 26 meters height and the remote points are average 2 km with 6 meters height, in the whole island on the side of town the tallest buidind that might create interferance is 4 stories high.

I sent an email to a manufacturer called Wifi link, but they only manufacture and no help on the technical side, the email is as follows:

What I can do is to place a sealed big box with regular AC electricity in the base of the tower and place the injectors and the AP’s inside, so it will make it easier and shorter for the cable from the amplifier to the antenna, one reel of cable should be enough, I will need connectors for it which I think I can manage to make if with the toolbox comes everything I need.



Main location:

3 panel antennas with amplifier, AP’s and injectors at the base of tower inside sealed box, from the injector to the amplifier about 15 to 20 meters (I can make the connections) , inside the box 3 dc injectors and 3 AP’s.

What I need is the right connectors to make all this work please recommend the minimum amount of connectors to buy then add 50% more of them and 100 meter reel of the recommended cable.



One panel antenna as AP without amplifier (the client is about 300 meters)



Clients: (average 1.5 miles from the main location and good line of sight)

6 client kits with preferably grid antennas let me know if it comes with everything I need to connect them. (Notice that I changed everything to 10 kits to get a better price)



I will need also the toolbox and everything necessary to make the connectors and if you thing of anything else I need to make the connections right let me know



Thanks



P.D. if there’s a better antenna you recommend let me know; also I will like to have the highest gain possible on the antennas

the reel of cable will be the llc400, and the kit's that are mentioned come with an AP which is this: Wireless antenna,WiFi Antenna,2.4Ghz 5Ghz Wlan Antenna,RF connector,RF pigtail cable,Lightning Protector,802.11 a/b/g, Omni ,panel ,yagi ,Grid antenna

i'm thinking of mixing the antennas, for the main AP 18 dbi panel and for the client 19 dbi grid.
is all this ok? should i do anything else???

Sounds like you are on the right track, and it is very easy to pull a solid 2km connection out of standard wireless gear even with 12dBi antennas so you should have no worries.

One piece of advice: don't use amplifiers. In your case they will only add additional expense, noise and complexity. For the distances you need to cover standard wireless gear is fine and amps will give you more trouble than they are worth.

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Jeremy

Marlborough WiFi Project

the gear is coming next week, will let you know how it goes...