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Do the microwave networks suffer any problems (disconnections, etc.) under rain or other weather conditions?
by zzleeper 12y ago
Do the microwave networks suffer any problems (disconnections, etc.) under rain or other weather conditions?
- throwaway283719 12y agoYes. You can get significant signal attenuation (particularly at high frequencies, i.e. above 10 GHz) when it is raining.
- freeasinfree 12y agoNot with a properly designed link budget.
- davidvaughan 12y agoSleet, snow, rain and even clouds of insects can reduce or confuse the signal.
- ramLlama 12y agoYes, they do. Microwave works on line-of-sight and weather patterns easily mess it up and drop the link. That's why you usually also run your microwave data over a fiber link as backup. Of course, when microwave works, it gives you a decent improvement in latency, at the cost of bandwidth.