Wireless performance in bad weather
I have wireless connection to a building. On top of the building i am running a mikrotik system. The antennas are 16dbi slotted wace guide, horizontaly polarized. I have a wireless router with a 12dbi horisontaly polarizes yagi. Now why does my signal drop from 90% coms tio 40-50% coms. There is no water in the connectors, we checked. Does this poor performance in the weather have anything to do with the fact that we are using Horizontaly polarized antenna.
Noir,
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Wave giude
They have some sort of plastic material covering the slots.
It's working for us,.Cheers...
Having been graphing signal strength for awhile now, we see small daily variations do to, I expect, the sun. We also see small variations do to fog. The one freezing rain storm we had last winter though, over the course of an hour, we could see AP's getting covered in ice and every customer slowly dropping in strength until they fell off, while other AP's stayed up and you could see individual customers ice up.
It's not common, but weather does effect these things.
It's not common, but weather does effect these things.
Our AP's are a mixture of stick omnis, grids, dishes and sectors, it was the grids and dishes that appeared to be effected by the ice because of the exposed feedhorn. The customers are pretty much all flat panels with that nice flat surface for the ice to build up on if it was facing the right direction I guess.