Cheap Wireless Bridge 5.8Ghz 5KM 1000Mbps - 1260
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- I have a crazy projeckt at my house in Portugal. To get internet from the other side of my mountain and to my house. It involves this Wireless Bridge, to send the signal from a 4G modem, to the house, that I plan to places on the top of the mountain.
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Thanks for the shoutout Morten, I like to spend £10 per month on my favourite creators via Patreon, one of them dropped off the grid and I didn't have anyone else in mind, I always wished to give you more per month due to your content and now I can, always happy to help your creative side expand just that little bit more...
Much appreciated Tim. I am trying to promote my patreon a little bit,, as the number of people there has been dropping slowly. It´s weird times,, but it could also just be that patreon is not as new and interesting as it has been.
Looking forward to seeing you try this setup out in My Playhouse Portugal!
Me too,, here is bloody cold!
I'm looking forward seeing it operating in Portugal.. It will be an awesome video as usual
Me to,, I have packed it,, going there in 14 days :-)
This are the kind of video’s i like the most❤ can’t wait for the end solution in Portugal with an batterij and Solar panels.
I have just for fun and giggles an AP with an 15w Solar panel in my backyard
I am also looking forward to a trip to portugal,, mid February :-)
Great Video Once Again
Glad you enjoyed it
I used to run a 3 hop 5Ghz back to back setup in order to get internet at our cabin. A few things learned- get the antennas up in the air and away from anything within line lf sight. Google fresnel zone- you do not want anything within your fresnel zone in order to get a good high speed stable connection. This also apply to the ground. If you decide to make an offgrid solar setup- check to see what poe voltage the equipment can run of. I had my ubiquity 24V dishes running straight from a 12V battery bank👍
Both the 4G router and wireless bridge can run from 12V,, witch is great. So I can keep everything 12V
Morten, on our ships we use dual external 4G antennas to connect to the 4G modem. These are also relatively cheap and have considerable gain. We use Digi and Peplink equipment, but this will probably be out of your patreons budget 😉. Thank you for making these videos!
Yes,, this is budget friendly,, if it does not work,, we will try something else :-)
Yes, Absolutely, not debatable really, Digi is like the very TOP of the line when it comes to hardware. Some very talented folks over there.
I'm so mad the youtube algorithm didn't recommend me your channel in so long. It's still so awesome here.
I still love your videos!
Well welcome back,, I have quite a few new videos for you :-)
And now we have another PlayHouse in Portugal 🤯. I have missed so much. I can't wait to binge watch it all
Yes,, you are a bit behind and has some interesting updates to catch up to.
It’s time to bring a shovel and flatten that mountain or move the house up the mountain 😊
:-) It is quite a walk up there..
That's a nice setup. Years ago, I setup a Wifi Router in my Garage. To be a Wifi Repeater. Since my Wifi Signal was too weak to break through, out there. It worked pretty well. I didn't get the full 54mbps. But, it was good enough, to look things up out, there. When I was out there working on stuff. Also, I had Ethernet working on the Router too. So, I could plug in Computers, that didn't do Wifi. After a few years, of the TX summer Heat. The speed, became very slow. First, I used a Zonet Router. It had the Wifi Repeater, built in to the Firmware. Later I put DDWrt on a Linksys WRT54G Router. To give it Wifi Repeater Functions. But it didn't last very long in the heat. Now the Linksys, is below 1mbps. Not usable, any more. But, I don't go out there and work in the Garage, very much any more... Great Project:) Don
Was it to far to bring a long cable out there ? or just to much work :-)
@@MyPlayHouse Too much Work. I ran Ethernet Cables in the Attack, year ago. But, I can't really get up there and work any more. Also, it was cheaper. No 100ft or more foot Cable to buy. And I already had the Zonet Router, I wasn't using. If I rememberr right, it did 200mbps, which was a bonus:) Don
Cool unit ..that'll work better than what I did .. I had 700feet of cat6 ..it worked ..but forest critters constantly chewed the wire and I needed to splice it alot ..I ended up mixing cooking oil with cyan powder and spraying the wire weekly to stop the chewing. ..That worked for a few years ..Ive changed to sattelite net now so i dont need the cat6 wire anymore
Did you get 1Gbit through 700feet Cat6 ?
I've been using a similar but much older WiFi bridge (from a different manufacturer) since 2015. It connects my apartment with my office over a distance of around 210m. It works surprisingly stable even in heavy rain or snowfall. I can achieve data rates of around 400 Mbit/s.
However, for better data rates it is necessary to mount the transceivers a few meters off the ground in order to use the full 'Fresnel zone' of the electromagnetic waves.
Uhh 400Mbit/s that would be a wet dream :-) Nice to hear you have had luck with it.
what model was it?
Hi Morten!
We have a similar system from MikroTik selling at DKK 2000 + VAT. And at least at shorter distances it actually deliver close to 1 Gbps Full Duplex. This system runs on 60 GHz with a backup on 5 GHz.
Hi Jan Holbo Rasmussen
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
Hi Morten! Nice video as always😊
You should consider to use 2 Ubiquiti Litebeams 5AC 23 or Ubiquiti airmax ac stuff in general, because it’s not as expensive as one might think, but delivers exceptional performance😉
If this does not work,, we might do something like those.
@@MyPlayHouse Can’t wait for the video🥰
Next month :-)
Isn't the the same thing Linus is using for the LAB warehouse?
Always watching what your up to 👁
Hi T Komoski
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
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Hi SKY NET CYBER SYSTEM 3 TECH
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This was helpful. I just setup a bridge between two houses about 85 yards apart. ISP was on the B side, wasn't getting internet on the A side. Needed to adjust LAN settings on the devices. Suggest confirming that folks are using CAT6 and not CAT5 cables, to ensure highest speeds. Switches should be gig capable.
Great,, I do not think this can go higher than 300Mbps,, but you need descent cables for that to :-)
Yeah Cat6 is the recommend cables for this product. ( And other like it)...thou it sometimes pay to upgrade to a Cat7 for the better shielding for outdoor use since it helps lower interference from bad weather/thunder. And in the vent you run a cable under ground.
I we seen 4G antena and Wifi bridge ap combined consume quite a bit of power could be 10 - 15w. From experience you need bigger solar panel and battery than you think in the begining. For bad weater you need oversize to maybe 150-250w panel and 1kwh of batteries to get 95% uptime over few cloudy days, it helps a lot if you turn off the units with smart relay at night when you dont need internet. That night power saving can save on system size and cost, but i guess the worst is to undersize it and have bad internet still. It may get expensive but should save labour to go solar on the hill. Hope it helps. Thanks for great videos😊.
I saw in the Bridge firmware that there was an option to turn off the radio,, the wifi in periods of time. That could save power.
But biggest saving it that both the 4G router and the bridge runs of 12volt, so no need to convert anything.
Do the bride-devices have all the needed test-labels (CE, FCC,...) for using it in europe?
I can recommend Unifi-bridges. Tried a 2.4 GHz Bride years ago. Has 45km reach. And a few years later the first gen of Wifi-AC briges, which worked great. I built some PtP-Connections between buildings with no line of sight and with huge trees and some warehouses between. Really stable in every weather-condition.
I have built many PtP-connections in all this years. Started with Dlink APs and yagi-antennas. Then TP-Link with patch-antennas. Then Unifi.
If this sucks,, we will try something else :-) I have to start somewhere.
Lowest Cost option - Direct burial/Outdoor Cat5 + 2x Mikrotik GPER (Ethernet POE repeaters) This would give you a full duplex connection to the top of the hill w/o any 5Ghz interference/loss. And can push passthough power the Mikrotik LTE router. Alternatively you could use something such as a Ubiquiti Gigabeam 60/5Ghz point to get a near 1.6-1.9gb connection (half duplex and 800mbps each direction instead of the 5Ghz solution.)
I would not expect any PTP wireless bridge on 5Ghz to push over 650mbps on an 80mhz channel. And that will be subject to a ton of loss. There are options to bind multiple 5ghz channels but that would be more along the line of a multiple Ubiquiti Airfiber5xHD configured with NxN radio options...
Most of the off the shelf tplink or other paired wireless bridges will not reliably push that much data over that much distance w/o a better antenna pair.
If you do stick with the 5Ghz bridge system know that it is either using a 20mhz or 40mhz channel, and that any home use channels can be conflicting, be it your own or your neighbors. The retransmission on it can cause slowdowns on use, of your own home wifi, when trying to also send data across the bridge. Any channel spacing will help. You may also want to weather seal the dc/ethernet ports not in use to prevent corrosion over time from killing the unit. But a hard wired option of Fiber + DC over 250m and or Ethernet + with GPER repeaters would be far more reliable.
I agree, Cat6 + a couple of GPERs would be a good combo solution (data and power). Fiber can be thrown in there just in case (for future use).
We did chat about the Mikrotik GPER (Ethernet POE repeaters) solution on Discord,, and that could be what I will try next. But a fiber cable could also be it.
There is not many neighbors to conflict with,, most likely no tech sappy ones, at all. :-)
@@MyPlayHouse since it's close to the border of your area, you can use a conduit to push through both. That way, even if ethernet signal gets degraded, you'll still have PoE for power and fiber for data. And here's a side idea: put a powerful outdoor WiFi antenna there (facing yourhome) and cover all your area with network (for IoT ans automation stuff).
My land goes, all the way to the top of the mountain. I am not placing anything outside :-)
The point of that extra 100Mbit lan connector could be to hook the bridge up to existing PoE wiring for a camera, without losing connection for the camera. Thoughtful detail.
If you worst case get to need to dig a cable, you could also use a long network cable, and PoE.
That is not a bad sugestion,, would be cool to have a camera up there.
Morten,
The whole reason your laptop didn't have internet is because you statically set the IP to a network range that is not routeable at your house.
You didn't need to change those 2 radios IP's to test the network: just set as DHCP without even logging into the radios web UI.
🥳🤜🤛
I know,, I was not in the same IP segment. I was trying to not make to many changes.
Hi James, you are right. Just want so say the same :)
With the booster on the mast you could run it from a car battery which you could recharge in your home. What are you using for a reciever for the internet conenction as this is just the bridge hardware?Oh and what does it use to secure the connection?
I need solar on top of the mountain,, I am finished every time I go up there,, not dragging a 10kg car battery up and down every sec. day. I do not know how it encrypts the bridge,, yet.
If it works outs. I'm curious how it would work in ran. I assume they are rated for outdoor use?
You mentioned it's from the US. Not sure if it'll matter for this but some stuff seems to be sensitive to Hz difference. US is I think 60Hz for power. Might cause long term issues. Then again I don't know much about power...
Curious what it'll pull underload compared to 2 watts
It is made for outside. and the power it uses are DC,, and the little PoE thingys that came with it,, does 100-230V 50/60HZ,, it´s fine. (The Chinese are rather good at making stuff, that they can sell to everyone:-)
very interesting video, thanks, I would like to know the initial speed that goes to the transmission via speedtest, thanks
I do have a 1000/1000Mbit internet connection,,, and usually have like 8-900Mbit both ways.
@@MyPlayHouse thanks for the info, have a good use)
Does the POE inject 24 volt into the lan socket, but the dc input only requires 12 volt?
I believe it can take 12-24volt in, from the dc input. I got this one because it had this port. and it seemed to be active.
The LAN port is 1 Gbps, the radios however are 802.11ac dual radio dual antenna (this seems to be the typical configuration of hardware inside the radome tube). If you set them to a static frequency and set the bandwidth on both to 80 MHz they will max out at 867 Mbps in a perfect world. 10 - 650 Mbps is more realistic depending on terrain, below tree line obstructions, weather conditions, and distance. The ethernet cable can also play into this because gigabit needs all 8 conductors on the cat6 to work. this means if you have a power injector, router, network switch, that is not gigabit then everything from that device on will be throttled down to 10 / 100 Mbps. Likewise if your netword adapter in your PC is not gigabit, same throttle applies but only on your PC.
Hi @adrielelfnet6318
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
Yeah, a setup like this would cap out around 480mbs. Only time it would hit the perfect 650mbs in cases where there's no trees, buildings, or windows in the way.
Edit: I bought a similar product for my Grandmother on account Xfinity was going to charge her $6,000 to run a internet line up her long drive way and into her home..so I got a Wifi Bridge so she can share my Internet. My plan is 1.5gbs up&down and she gets around 320mbs. Which is plenty fast for her, since all she have on it is her Phone, Streaming stick, and Tablet.
or distance.
For most applications that people buy these for is home to a garage/shop/mancave lISP ink for a smart TV and maybe a couple IP cameras) the 100 mbps on the LAN will suffice to handle that load and should still have some overhead, though it may not be much depending on the setups of the devices using the link.
ho are you powering the 4g router and the ap at top of hill solar power
I am planning to do something like this : th-cam.com/video/QcviHWswTBY/w-d-xo.html
Just ordered a set to test my sister lives like half a mile from me and brother is about a mile so it's going to be fun..
Maybe some internet bills can be saved :-)
Just had to return mine one of the poe plug does not work and also one of the access points will not power up even using the good plug.,
You should check the power consumption under heavy load of traffic. Looks to me that it tries to conserve energy so maybe that's why you got that very very low download speed.
You Might be right,, I am going to wait with that,, it was bloody coldt to work on it in the garden.
dig a hole and bury the battery inside a plastic container with insulation. should protect it from the heat / cold.
Exactly,, I was looking at plastic containers yesterday :-)
I have one of these myself. For anyone interested in getting one just take note because there a similar models with different specs.
This is my first one,, hope it will do the trick.
Hi there, I am new to these long range wifi extenders. I want to have a Eufy camera at a farm gate that is 600 metres from the house. From my findings so far, it looks like one of these units at the farm gate with a Eufy home base connected to it. I can link one or several cameras to the Eufy Homebase. A solar panel and battery setup would be required for the homebase and wifi extender. The cameras have their own battery and solar panels. Back at the house would be the mating extender connected to the router. I understand you may not be familiar with Eufy cameras, but does this sound correct in what I hope will work?
I believe it can be used that way,, It does need a rather large power setup,, for periods of time there there is very little sun,,"vinter" I have made some videos on my setup,, there is even a playlist "internet mountain" and I struggled with power.
@@MyPlayHouse thank you for your reply. I will look for your other videos.....cheers.
was using Ubiquiti Loco AC's but found they were unstable in some weather conditions, have since upgraded to Nano Beams AC's which have been good... only thing I do not quite like about either of the 2 models is that they're all Passive POE(24v); got one of the Nano Beam's for free and one was a amazon return(on discount), had been tempted to buy generic but found that most did not have gigabit ports, limiting things to 10/100, definitely will be tempted again when 802.11ax becomes more standard
Hi plasmar1
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@@MyPlayHouse for info sake, I'm using them at about 100meters~; Canadian/North American city, line of site but houses everywhere/etc..... when I was looking I asked enGenius support about their 802.11ax AP's(pretty solid looking units, don't look like toys:P; would be expensive but researching) and their support suggested that for my use case(distance) the Loco's should be better as they have beam forming(I guess like Tesla Skylink)...I mention this cause if those ap's don't cut it, definitely consider still looking at something ubiquiti or similar that has beam forming as that may improve your odds; my issue with the loco's was more about hardware stability, the nano beams definitely solved that.... speeds is about the same as when loco's were running well
in the uk we call those long round thingys Jubilee clips
I have heard that before :-)
how to use
[router mode]
Wired connect to ADSL JCable Modem via WAN port and share Internet to local wireless and wired network
power adapter is connected to WAN so cannot connect to modem
Sorry,, I have no idea what you have going on there..
16:17 Priceless
Thank you for getting my joke! :-)
Its always difficult to get a stable wireless connection, obviously never as good a Ethernet but that's impractical in your case lol ..guess you could run a 8wt booster they cheep enough on ebay
There are a ton of good options,, I will start here,, and move on if it is needed. :-)
It looked like they support POE, so that may be an option for powering them.
It is too far for an ethernet cable... Solar is the plan.
Getting microwaves to go through trees can be a problem. Personally in your situation I would use a network-over-power system like TP-link TL-PA4010, and combine the data and power requirement into a single wire. I have a 200m run like this from my cabin to the main house delivering internet and power in opposite directions. There are multiways at both ends of the wire, and an outdoor inline plug-socket in the middle and it works fine. In my experience, laying a wire across the ground is easy and quick, and will last until soome small creature decides to chew it, which is usually about 5 years. I lay it over the bushes and everything and within the next 6 months the plant growth overtakes it and it dissapears. I would advise using bright blue wire if possible, siince everything else becomes impossible to find if you need to. (I also followed kreosan's DIY 4G antenna video that gets me solid 4G signal at a distance of over 30km but thats another story)
Another thought, if you really want no wires, your 4G-wifi router that you plan to put up the hill will probably have enough signal without the fancy antenna to the tower 1.5km away, so the fancy antenna could be used to cast the wifi signal from the router down the hill to the house, and you can connect to it directly. ... only if the router has antenna connections for both 4G and wifi... mine only has 4G antenna connections on the back.
That is not a bad sugestion,, I did not think of that solution. I will have it in mind i this one is a no go :-) Thank you.
10BASE-T1L would easily do power and data over that distance, but would naturally be 10/10. I have grown to dislike wifi bridges.
Maybe sweet-talk someone at FS into providing you with their 'tactical' OM4 cable, and run that to the top? With the way we've been mistreating them, you could probably just stake it down with lawnmower robot 'guide wire nails' and let the vegetation grow over it.
If this does not work out,, I might go that way,, the fiber way :-)
mikrotik would have been better and built for outside use, plus there routerOS is pretty cool and would make for some good content
Hi stuart flitter
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Hi morgan
Lan1= with poe (2 wire use for power)
Lan2= without poe, 1Gbps use full 8 wire in lan cable.
100Mbps use 4 wire , because of that you cant use both 1G and poe at same cable.
That was also what I thought!
But reading the "manual" Lan1 is just 10/100M and no PoE, and Lan2 is 10/100/1000M with PoE.
My best guess is that Lan1 is an extra port,, to connect a cam or a wifi AP..
@@MyPlayHouse hii
At your video at 8:43
In 300m 5.8Ghz the same text at both lan port ( mistake)
In 1km 5.8Ghz lan1=100Mhz with poe ( power over etrrnet)
lan2=1000Mhz without poe
This AP worthless for internet via cell network system.
Take high stand pipe , place dish on top with lab cable ( 4 wire data and 2 wire power).
It stupid use 2 state wireless internet and cell.
Twisted pair Ethernet drivers use transformer isolation. Real PoE (as opposed to poor man's PoE) center taps the wire-facing windings of those transformers so they can pass power without losing data pairs.
@@tactileslut you right, but it need complex hardware .
You can send data over DC power , then you need good filter and may make indection in data line
230 meters... should be possible with a CAT6 ? running along a nylon wire trough some trees or poles to your house, stable connection.
90 meters is normally max, with network cables,,, but amplifiers are available.
@@MyPlayHouse Hmm, with a 1 gig link it should be ok if you use shielded cable.
There are about 230 meter,, and Cat6 can do about 100 meter. : www.comms-express.com/infozone/article/cable-distance/
@@MyPlayHouse That's not real world Morten, but up to you.
Is your property inPortugal +200 meters long ? Because if you’re planning to put a pole or whatever on unknown land I’ll give it two days for someone to take it down.
Yes,, my land is 250M long. and I will be putting the pole on my own land. I do not plan to make it very big or stick out.. might even have it look like a tree/bush-ish.
Your house mast was pointing down to floor slightly I think
Yes,, it was not optimal. I will do it better.
What about a HUAWEI B331 3G/4G Home Hub+HUAWEI B331 3G/4G Antenna add on
This is more fun,, lets see if I can do it... I might need a backup router,, like that.
I had to rewind twice at 16:20 to check I'd heard correctly..... :P
:-) advanced dirty joke...
I wondoer how much more the power consumption would be while it is transmitting constant data and not just some small packages and heartbeats.
Maybe a little more,, I would be happy if to can run like two days on a car battery,, days without good sun.
4g is very unstable here, we get fiber soon, if ur house is in sight we van setup a mesh to your house direct air line
I am on the other side of CB :-) I saw OKPortugal got fiber... I will have to also look in to it.
Should have thanked Larry Jones and Tim Bucks too(Timbuktu if you need help)
Hi burtobm
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
Put a fibre up the mountain🤣
A lot of digging,, but maybe..! :-)
@@MyPlayHouse just leave armoured fibre on the ground.
The hard Portugal sun is very destruktiv ,, with UW rays.. :-)
How much?
Ahh my links are dead,,dang it,, they start at $65 ish. mine was around $90 and some shipping.
They look like PtMP devices. I don't think that in ideal conditions they will reach more than 300mbps.
Ubiquiti has the LBE-5AC-GEN2, they are cheap and they should reach 300mbps easily if the freznel zone is free and there are no other antennas close, they don't use a lot of power so you can use batteries to keep them running during the night.
I have a couple for a 5 Km link, it manages to get a real speed of 120mbps.... inside a city full of consumer modems using 5GHz band and there are 2 trees on the way.
Also, don't test them so close to each other, some claim they can get damaged that way.
It was bloody cold,, not testing weather at all.
I will be extremely happy with 300/300Mbit/s if I can get that from the 4G
Was happy to see the bridge working.
That is similar to a video by Linus Sebastian
I wish I got some of his views :-)
You know if you buy old tech pre 2007 WiFi..
It has a stronger signal as they didn't consider the congestion issue back then.
Don't go for a LFP battery winter will kill it. Lead would work.
I also think you'll see around 18-20w draw peaks.
Around 432w per day. So you would need a 860w of storage for the dull days.
12v la 70ah should work fine.
* If you're going to use fibre, look now for the router as you may find powering it an issue.
Now you need Solar, charge controller, poles, battery box, postmix concrete,
Wedges (antenna angle).
You have limited yourself and maybe a dipole on the other port would have given you better area home/ garden/community WiFi to use. But that can be another video.
I designed WISP's back in 2004-6 and I still have some of the kit. 8db antenna, 30db parabolic, 6db flat, even some home made that was tested for 2.4miles range but we could get up to 30miles with the bigger toys.
When putting anything up a hill, don't forget wind is a issue.. or a turbine? Solar is cheap where you are as well. So should be easy to find.
Back in the day you could get dual stream routers, it is how we boasted speeds at a single point. Not sure if it's worth a content of trying to max the speed of the connection.
Also check in town for a link. Ireland went WiFi over the cables that got broken more so. So they have a good network based on wireless tech.(rural internet/ last mile WiFi)
I think the 18-20W drain is set to high,, as the 4G router says 6W MAX, and this bridge was like 2-4W. So I think 8-10W is more likely (and it just happens to be so lucky that both the 4G router and the Bridge can use 12V - less loses)
I think it will be like 240Wh a day. And I hope to manage that with a 30W solar panel,, like what I did here : th-cam.com/video/QcviHWswTBY/w-d-xo.html
a good car battery should then be able to do a good 3 days.
I imagine that when the internet is not being used,, it would use less power,, so maybe even like 4-6W at night.
@@MyPlayHouse your test showed more stand by power, did you take a look when it was sending and receiving?
If you have a small panel, you may get issues, winter time when the panel performance is a lot less. I don't have a clue how bad, perhaps about 50-65% less power??
It would be ideal if you could have some form of on off timer or trigger so you can save power.
Don't forget losses in any conversion, a LA battery loses a lot in charge and discharge.
I saw power usage of 2-4W directly from 12volt. and 5W when using the 230AC to 12V DC power brick in the other end.
I will only get issues in the winter time. All summer I can power near by city's with a 30W panel :-)
There are about 271 Average sunny days a year (where my house is) and even in the lowest month of January Average sunshine a day is 5h and 6min.
There are 94 not sunny days left. That is 26%. I would estimate that 50% of them would still produces enough power to run the 4G & Bridge, but not put anything on the battery for night or next day.
That leaves roughly 50days (in most likely Nov, Dec, Jan) where it will have to run off battery with some or almost non help from the solar panel. (it does have to be really gray for it not to make 1-2W) But yes, if too many of those come in a roll (as they probably will) I do run in to power issues.
The firmware of the bridge can turn on/off the radio on a schedule,, that probably saves power.
You can use ubiquiti because they are a lot more reliable
If this turns out to be unreliable,, I might have to do that :-)
You are going to need a power connection of some kind you are going to need some form of power line.
I am going to build something like this : th-cam.com/video/QcviHWswTBY/w-d-xo.html again on the top.
Don't you have line of sight already from your house? I mean have you looked at a link calculator ? Because Cell towers are usually pretty tall. Maybe a little pole with the dish at the roof of your house will get you a stable connection as well. That would be much easier and cheaper then putting a solar powered battery with 4G router and those plasticky wifi bridge up there, i can hardly believe these are real weather proof. And even if you have a good 4G connection, you are still sharing bandwidth, maybe the connection wasn't the problem. I would definately do some more tests if i was you before putting up that entire setup.
There is a 50 meter mountain between me and the cell tower. And the mountain is right next to me. The tower would need to be probably the world's highest, for me to have line of sight from the house.
@@MyPlayHouse Let's call it a hill not a mountain and you said there was about 230 meters between your house and the top of that hill. Just make sure you test 4G on top of the hill first before you go out and buy all the stuff. You might be disappointed if the speed is not much higher. It all depends on the used frequencies, how much capacity the tower has, often the more cheaper the carrier, the less speed you get. (capped) So there is alot of things to keep in mind.
"investigate the internal workings"
Care to elaborate? 🤣😉
It is ongoing work :-)
:)
Hi Ole Morten Njærheim
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
If you want a REALLY REALLY good P2P setup that works and no issues. Look at the Mikrotik Wireless Wire setup, you take it out of the box plug it in point it, DONE!
Hi Jason's Lab
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
Buy a fresh battery for your car , and use the old battery on the mountain ..itll probably be good enough and your car will be renewed at the same time
I rent a car in Portugal,, I might run into problems nicing there battery :-)
Antennas are expensive, 5 km range repeaters are 0€ jok
I am not going to use a repeater,, it´s a 4G modem on top, and a wireless bridge to the house.
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Hi Ahmed
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
30 feet is not 5km. Talk about bait and switch clickbait
This was to test if it works at all,, it did,, I am still using it ,, but only at 250 meters, I do get full signal on that distances.
The subject is interesting but I'm writing for something else: you probably think that putting a few notes of music in the background is nicer but it's just annoying to have to put up with this continuous repetitive background noise.
Noted.
@@MyPlayHouse Thank you.
Agree to disagree, I rather like the music Morten and it’s unique to your channel. Keep up the good work and remember you can’t make everyone happy all the time.
hello, I bought similar equipment, and I ran into a problem that it only works in repeater mode (when you just press the reset button, they connect, but when I go to the advanced settings-wireless operation mode setting, I see that (A) Slave works in AP mode (bridge is disabled), when I turn on the WDS Bridge mode (AP is disabled), I encounter the fact that both points lose the signal between themselves (in AP mode, the points work as a repeater and I get a range of 10-15 meters) please help me, I I don’t know what to do, maybe I’m doing something wrong, I have the same channels at two points.
th-cam.com/video/Dd3ZuFUdzZ4/w-d-xo.html
Okay,, I will have to try that out.