Wireless Installations

[moonblinkshaun]

We are a wireless broadband company that can always help if you need to run a camera that you can't get a cable to. We are vendor agnostic for the most part but we are an Axis reseller. That being said we can hook up any IP camera with our list of wireless vendors. I am not just a box pusher and can help design any layout or project you are working on. I look forward to helping out the board the best I can.
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Shaun Birkett
shaun@moonblink.com
877-623-5223

[buellwinkle]

This is definately where I need help now. I see that you are a Ubiquiti dealer. I have a project in So Cal that is about a 55 acre community, so about less than a mile from one end to the other. There are 6 street gates that they want to have access control and video at. I want to feed each gate from a central location in the park where internet access is at. This way I can see each camera from the control center at the park. Streets and slopes between the streets are private, so no right of way issues. All sounds simple, a couple of Ubiquito Nanostation, but here's the catch, there's hills in between.

My first location is about 1,000' from the park but there's a about a 40' hill in between. Will the Nanostations be able to clear that hill, assuming I'm able to put 15' poles at each end or do I need some sort of repeater in the middle at the high point?

Also, once I'm at that end, can that Nanostation feed the same signal to others in the area or do I need to put 2 on a switch and have that feed another point?

[moonblinkshaun]

So Ubiquiti would not be my first choice however it would probably be the cheapest. I would reccomend Proxim for these type of deployments. You can possibly cover the 100 ft I would reccomend an external antenna on one of these points. 2.4Ghz would get it done better in a perfect world however you may find a lot of interference with rogue 2.4 homeowner wifi setups. You can set these units up as a client or AP. so if it's picking up a signal as a client than yes you would need another unit to act as an AP. - I hope that explains it-
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Shaun Birkett
shaun@moonblink.com
877-623-5223

[buellwinkle]

In the situation where there's the hill in the middle, would I get 3 Proxim QuickBridge or Ubiquiti Nanostations and setup the middle one on the hill as a repeater? If I do that, does it have the ability to have 2 external antennas, one pointed at the source bridge and one pointed at the target bridge?

Just checked the pricing on Proxim, ouch, they are more than the Avalan's I originally wanted to use. So what's so bad about the Nanostations?

[moonblinkshaun]

With the Proxim you would do a point to multipoint- Basestation and use the 5012 clients. Nanostations are not too dependable and have no support given by the manufacturer. They tend to drop out alot. Proxim has 5.x freq and allows you to change the freq through the software and comes with all bandwidth control out of the box to dedicate different bandwidth to diff cameras. Avalan is a great product too however the bandwitdh limitations are only about 1Mbps shared over the network. So I tend to only use those on single camera type of setups. Shoot me an email and I can quote you a full bill of materials with both the Proxim and Ubiquiti-
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Shaun Birkett
shaun@moonblink.com
877-623-5223