Putting some new life in this topic.
We have for about 2 months running a Mimosa A5-14 in 'interop' mode (802.11 standard csma) and 60 clients assigned.
Clients are a mix of Mikrotik SXT 'n' and 'ac' units.
Clients are on either 50/10 or 25/5 or 15/1 plan. We have no QoS in place (yet) on the network (plenty of capacity at hand).
We know several clients watch IPTV streams apart from all the other usual stuff a modern day family uses (multimedia - social media) and we have our self one Mimosa (5C) for test on our house running off same A5-14.
During the day I can easily download 20-25Mbps of traffic with aggregated throughput on the A5 running up to 60-70Mbps.
A couple of weeks ago we ran with 3 SXT ac's simultaneous tcp bandwidth tests and each unit sustained an almost 30Mbps throughput where the rest of the network was just functioning as well. Total aggregated I saw up to 120Mbps flying over the AP.
We are in a heavy spectral congested area and I used 40Mhz bandwidth. All stations in some 25 to 300 meters range.
One important remark, in follow up on what sirhc already stated months ago is that you have to set your network to work 'at all times' in RTS/CTS mode. For Mikrotik I sort of wrote a whitepaper on that field in those 'greenfield' days where everybody was struggling with hidden nodes and 'n' or tdma was still something for the future or for those with unlimited resources.
Now this is NOT tdma (yet), so also NO GPS sync, NO beamforming and NO MU-MIMO. Plain csma in a overcrowede tdma world and it works fine!
Mimosa just introduced their latest firmware that should now open all this tdma/gps/mu-mimo stuff to the A5's but you need to have a full Mimosa network to use it, which we don't have. Offcourse it then comes with spectaculair frequency re-use, on their blogs a sampe of a guy in the US running of such a network is shown as example. Impressive to say the least...
But we have to stay a bit longer with 'interop' mode. The scale of economy is still that for one C5 you can buy two or more MT or ubnt CPE's and since we think an offering up to 50Mbps for our clients with 60 subscribers on a single AP is more than 300% of what we have been able to do with 2 Netmetals we can't really justify (yet) the extra 200% investment to squeeze the extra gain out of the spectrum to offer speeds nobody wants anyway....
Although Mimosa still need lots of improvements on their GUI and cloud their AP radio's (going to try some A5c with long range clients within a month or so) are blasting everything away I have seen so far. (Although I use Mikrotik, all my competitors work with ubnt and I regularly get their unsatisfied clients or just get to hear the many problems in the field on workshops and exhibitions.)
eCambium is hangin still in the age of 'n' and what I read around some have good experiences, some absolutely burn it down.
I think Mimosa is doing a smart job for the WISP future but they do need to hurry up a bit on GUI improvement and other management issues. And if they really want us 3rd party users to swap they need to do something on the price of the C5. 100+$ for a CPE plus power adapter (go for the embedded G2 wifi, very good!) is not a big incentive to massively throw your existing subs aside.....
If they are not rapid enough in picking the fruits of their achievements it could well be those 'others' are gaining on them .......
The good part of the story for Netonix is; Mimosa needs 48VH power so if you need remote control, Netonix is the brand to deliver the you the power switch!
