Determine the Outdoor Range
Outdoor Antenna Installation Guide
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Figure 3-1 Cable Factor Diagram
Determine the Clearance Factor
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For optimal performance of your outdoor antenna link, it is
important that the signal path between the two WaveACCESS
Office Routers provides sufficient clearance.
NOTE:
A wireless outdoor antenna link that lacks sufficient
clearance will suffer from poor performance, which is
typically perceived as slow network response times.
Although your WaveACCESS Office Router equipment will
automatically retransmit every data frame that got lost due
to an out-of-range situation or frame collision, the larger
the number of retransmissions attempts, the lower the
throughput efficiency of your wireless link.
This section will explain how to determine the clearance that
applies in your environment, and (if applicable) the effect of
insufficient clearance on the range of your outdoor antenna link.
In Chapter 2 ”Preparing for Installation” we described the shape of
the radio beam being “bulged” in the middle, as pictured in Figure
3-2 on page 3-10 below.
