said by raytaylor:I like the rooftop radio being the router because it means we have better monitoring capability for providing customer support.
Moving the router/management functions inside the PoE module gives you even more monitoring capability.
The radio-only outdoor unit sends a compact status packet to the indoor router at regular intervals. If the radio was facing too much interference, or got damaged in a storm, the router could show a diagnostic webpage to the customer PC with previous N status packets.
When they call you, you just ask them for the details on that page.