140m wifi range required in a less than ideal environment.

[benftl]

Interesting thread, I look forward to your updates.

 

[craig_t]

No not having a laugh. I regularly install connections 5Km+ on 5ghz. Longest to date is 16.5Km. You just need the right kit at either end.


@OP A Bullet2 with a yagi antenna will get you a connection, they're legacy kit at my place and we actively swap them for newer 5G kit now but it pains me to take them off as I know they are the "old reliable" and will get a connection.

I was amazed to read the start of the thread, that he wanted 140m I thought that was quite a distance until I read this!

 

[Avalon]

I was amazed to read the start of the thread, that he wanted 140m I thought that was quite a distance until I read this!

What i'm doing is really small compared to others on here, see here.

Even that's short compared to the 125 miles that was done in 2005, now we're lucky enough to have off the shelf kit that's rated for 200km like the Ubiquiti airFibre X. The kit i've got is rated to 5km with clear Fresnel and LOS and it's not much more than you'd pay for a decent wifi dongle.

250m in this case is a better signal than the 140m run, clearer LOS and less Fresnel obstruction helps a lot. The issue is the CCQ, it's great about 50ft closer to the complex, but where I can install it drops off massively. The extra row of large aluminium clad structures either side of where I am (they're called neighbors apparently?) seems to be a step too far for the NS2 LOCO. I figured a directional solution over an omni would work best, but I seemingly didn't go directional enough, a tighter rf beam should work better for my end, but the site end is still going to be a problem, as it's on the border of usability i'm taking the chance as higher gain and more focused beam should buy me

Today i'll bite the bullet (unintentional irony) and just order a PBE M2-400. I had thought about re-purposing the 65cm satellite dish I have and building a bi-quad as the US WISP users seem to love them, but considering a replacement dish/LNB cost and i've already spent out on a Inverto Black Ultra LNB that is designed for a round dish along with the issue of physically mounting a large solid 65cm dish on a aluminium skinned caravan in an exposed coastal location thats prone to high winds probably isn't going to end that well. I'm not on site again till the end of the month but hopefully by then I should be sorted