MikroTik

I purchased MT RouterOs level5 license and in the test environment I have created it is working pretty good. The question I have is, I will like to purchase MT PTP equipment to use for my PTP setup from my ISP about 20miles with a bandwidth of 512kbps at a very hot climate in Africa. LOS is very clear. Please can anyone or MT guys comment or recomend on which of their products will work with minimal disruption in my service. I have about $2000 to spend on the PTP equipment.

Thanks in advance for your support and help

Just an addition I will be using the PTP only for backhaul and operating in 5.8 frequency.

THX

Best advice is to put the CPU/radio equipment in a cool place (out of the sun!) and the antenna very close by - at 5.8 you get high losses on long cables.
It is possible to provide "tropical spec" CPU/radio with uprated cooling systems but there is a cost penalty, probably outside your budget. In the ideal case, find a room with air conditioning near the roof/antenna mounting point.

If you are forced to tower mount, you need more expensive solutions with cooling.

Best of luck -

Thanks Stephen for your advice, please what type of MT products will you recommend for the PTP. Both places where I will have the AP mounted have A/C but I will need a mast to mount it on. Any advice will help.

THX

Hi

If you want lowest cost solutions, look at Routerboards on the Mikrotik site. IMHO you would have to mount these indoors and run cables up to the tower - not a good idea at 5.8GHz.

We have products with active cooling, designed for hot countries - I'm not going to be popular if I do a "sales pitch" on this forum, so suggest you send me an e-mail off-line -
stephen.patrick@cablefree.co.uk

Regards

Ok stephen I will do that. THX

I purchased MT RouterOs level5 license and in the test environment I have created it is working pretty good. The question I have is, I will like to purchase MT PTP equipment to use for my PTP setup from my ISP about 20miles with a bandwidth of 512kbps at a very hot climate in Africa. LOS is very clear. Please can anyone or MT guys comment or recomend on which of their products will work with minimal disruption in my service. I have about $2000 to spend on the PTP equipment.

Thanks in advance for your support and help

LOS may be very clear, but fresnel at 20 miles is huge. You need towers at 90 feet high on both sides.

Outdoor box should be ok if you keep the sun off of it. A large metal enclosure with ventilation painted bright white with highly reflective (and UV proof) paint will keep a smaller sealed unit inside at a reasonable temperature. (Too bad there are no operating parameters on the routerboard site)

If you use big dishes (1.2M) then your link will be fine with low power cards. If there is a Trango or Motorola Canopy system in between then you will have some problems.

Thank you Jon, The mast for one end is about 100ft and the other end is about 150ft. Hope this works.

THX