New equipment
After much evaluation, some new equipment has been ordered and is due soon. Included in the order is a Mikrotik RouterBOARD 512 and a Ubiquiti SR2 IEEE 802.11b/g mini-PCI card. A new 180degree 18dBi waveguide has just been built and is ready for testing.
What this means is better reception due to the SR2’s impressive receive sensitivity of up to -98dBm, plus support for the well established 802.11g standard allowing clients to connect at up to 54Mbps with compatible equipment.
RouterOS also includes excellent tools for managing bandwidth, quality of service and various other advanced networking features to help further improve performance of the network. Current users have found that low bandwidth applications depending on very low latency (i.e. games and VoIP) perform very badly when other more demanding applications such as FTP are running at the same time. With these new features these problems can hopefully be reduced to make the network perform better for all types of use. Stay tuned!
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