apostolakisl Posted May 9, 2020 Posted May 9, 2020 On 5/3/2020 at 8:56 AM, Teken said: That’s funny as the distance and topography is very close to what was seen here. We did in fact use Ubiquiti hardware in various flavours to connect several buildings and has worked great. No problems with rain but ice, snow, and freezing rain can be an issue. So you really need to have a long term maintenance plan for access when needed. The site which had the tree mounts I wasn’t going to scale it every month during winter just to get rid of snow / sleet. So went very much ghetto McGyver and wired up heat tape around the base. This offered enough heat to dissipate any snow / ice. Since this site is literally in the bush there isn’t very much interference to worry about. You’ll need to take that into consideration for your metropolitan install as all manner of conflicting signals will be present. If there are any cell, microwave towers, be prepared to tinker. The other site which is in the city goes to several homes to create a sort of pirate ISP. The original goal was to share and stream content back in the day - securely. Did that for a few years and it just expanded to being used for more back up / fail over purposes. It was my first backup WAN I had before dual cell units and costs were available / reasonable. On a related tangent this sort of technology has been used forever in schools and other business settings where I worked. It’s only because of great companies like Ubiquiti which has made the tech so small and affordable that I even did this. No way could I have installed a massive dish from the 80’s on any of the properties we have! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk I got the Ubiquiti LIte-Beam 5AC Gen 2 devices installed and they actually work. I am getting 100Mbits down running internet speed tests and 25 up. The 25 up is as fast as my home upload is so that is the cap there. The 100 down is out of a possible 400 that my home gets. Their admin console says I am getting 250Mbits throughput, don't know why the difference, except I see that some places state it is a 100Mb device but elsewhere I see faster. I'm trying to figure out how to understand all the information on the console. Anyway, the connection is now better than the Spectrum direct cable connection the church has. It gets 100 down and 10 up on a good day. That 10 up is a serious bottleneck. I still need to permanently mount the dishes. And then there is the matter of creating a vlan on my home network which will be their network. I already went through and switched the entire network to a subnet that won't conflict with my home or office. I was thinking of double natting and just plugging the dish into their router, but then I would have to figure out how to route vpn connections through my network into their network. Pretty sure that is impossible or at least really hard to figure out. The photo shows the dish from 3km. It's the white spot to the left of the blue water tank on top of the sliver of red roof.
Teken Posted May 12, 2020 Posted May 12, 2020 On 5/9/2020 at 5:09 PM, apostolakisl said: I got the Ubiquiti LIte-Beam 5AC Gen 2 devices installed and they actually work. I am getting 100Mbits down running internet speed tests and 25 up. The 25 up is as fast as my home upload is so that is the cap there. The 100 down is out of a possible 400 that my home gets. Their admin console says I am getting 250Mbits throughput, don't know why the difference, except I see that some places state it is a 100Mb device but elsewhere I see faster. I'm trying to figure out how to understand all the information on the console. Anyway, the connection is now better than the Spectrum direct cable connection the church has. It gets 100 down and 10 up on a good day. That 10 up is a serious bottleneck. I still need to permanently mount the dishes. And then there is the matter of creating a vlan on my home network which will be their network. I already went through and switched the entire network to a subnet that won't conflict with my home or office. I was thinking of double natting and just plugging the dish into their router, but then I would have to figure out how to route vpn connections through my network into their network. Pretty sure that is impossible or at least really hard to figure out. The photo shows the dish from 3km. It's the white spot to the left of the blue water tank on top of the sliver of red roof. Well done - Now the million dollar question is will you and the church see value in upgrading to the much higher power system? BTW: That is an impressive view so thanks for sharing that! I honestly can't say we have anything that big in terms large structures like that giant white storage tank?!? The biggest thing around here are the giant grain storage bins . . .
larryllix Posted May 12, 2020 Posted May 12, 2020 How was the aiming the dishes? Was it critical and did you have any software or signal tools to assist with that?
apostolakisl Posted May 16, 2020 Posted May 16, 2020 On 5/12/2020 at 2:50 PM, larryllix said: How was the aiming the dishes? Was it critical and did you have any software or signal tools to assist with that? Did the permanent mount today. I did not do any special aiming. Mostly I eyeballed it and bam, it connected. The church end is not easy to tweak and I did none. My home end is easy to tweak, but I'm getting 200Mb throughput so really, what is the point. The attached photo shows the dish at the top. It is 50 feet up, so again, good enough!
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