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Review on πŸ“‘ Unleash High-Speed Connectivity with MikroTik Wireless Wire Dish by John Souza

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Gigabit for Real!: Networking Products

Do your research and find out the physical limitations of 60G. If you agree to these restrictions, this is an exception. I have a connection that goes 2300 meters, which is more than advertised, and speedtest.net shows 860 Mbps (which is probably my laptop's max performance). MCS7 and radio show 90% signal quality. Aiming took a long time and required a lot of patience. I only used them for a few days and during the first rainstorm I lost connection, which is to be expected at 60G. There must be full visibility. A sheet in transit will take it from 90% to disabled. I plan to test it with IPERF3, but I haven't finished building that part of the network to have the hardware to do it. Intervention. I plan on using my previous low speed solution as a backup and leaving it 99+% weather permitting. They advertise it as plug and play, which is true, but you'll need to update the firmware. Minimum. They have made many improvements to these radios. I doubt I would have succeeded if I hadn't updated the firmware first. You also really need to access the device's CLI to help with aiming. What's cool is that once you dial it, it says "up to 1.6 degrees" or so so you can dial it just right. This is nothing for a beginner. You need to be pretty knowledgeable about networking, putty, and radio in general to get good results. I've read that there are better mounts for these radios. I've ordered a few and plan on trying them out, but for now I've only used what came in the box and that seems to do the trick.

Pros
  • Useful Beyond Intended Purpose
Cons
  • There Are Drawbacks