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Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz
Scott,
The tree with a dish is not a solution. Trees grow...
I would move to a yagi at the tree location. It has a bit wider aperture and doesn't need to stay pointed in exactly the right direction.
In reading your original specs, you have one dish mounted 80' feet up on a 60' tower? There is also some panel antennas that have pretty decent gain and a great front to back ratio. We are using those to link to the university next door (they rent space here). Approx path is a few hundred meters. They are powered over ethernet. I have to ask why you are mounting one at 80 feet. Do you have some obstacles?
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Yes, my obstacles are trees. The theoretical throughput is ~400mbps. When tuned the best can at the moment, I usually get 90-160mbps, which I'm fine with, but I have trees entering the fresnel zone, and link drops to unusable in rain with the leaves on the trees.