On Sep 19, 2010, at 2:59 PM, John Gammons wrote:
Ubiquiti Networks - www.ubnt.com
I have deployed numerous rural wireless provider nets with a variety of technologies and vendors and this is by far, the most cost effective and reliable last mile solution.
IMHO, based on testing and real life lessons learned, unlicensed is the only way to go in rural. The benefits of licensed frequencies are "typically" lost in rural environments as there aren't many contending devices. The above N based equipment performs roughly at the same level as fixed wimax, without the expense of the wimax chipsets. Of course I am generalizing a bit and each deployment has it's own requirements and challenges to be considered.
+1 UBNT. Can not beat the price/performance of the equipment. ($160 for a pair of dual-pol 802.11n equipment). - Jared