VM have given him £5/month discount. As for my contribution, originally I agreed I would match VM but now we have got to know each other pretty well, he isnt at all bothered. Just a neighbour doing a neighbour a favour. He has about 20 conifers he wants pulling out so my payment to him will be the use of the winch on my Land Rover for a couple of days and a big bonfire at my place afterwards!
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VM have given him £5/month discount. As for my contribution, originally I agreed I would match VM but now we have got to know each other pretty well, he isnt at all bothered. Just a neighbour doing a neighbour a favour. He has about 20 conifers he wants pulling out so my payment to him will be the use of the winch on my Land Rover for a couple of days and a big bonfire at my place afterwards!
Soldato
This has been both an inspirational & interesting thread . From start to finish. Infact I would rate this as the thread of the year so far. Congratulations Larry365. Certainly a venture well undertaken, conquered through both diplomacy & tact. Well done to all who constructivley contributed to the thread.
Well done
Well done
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Cheers. It's been very interesting and I've learnt a lot. I never knew this tech existed until now. I'll finish off the thread with a nice long post with lots of info and lots of pics describing the process from start to finish.
And yes, thank you to all that contributed. Very helpful. Nothing better than throwing ideas around and having some feedback to find the best solutions.
Soldato
Must admit, I wasn't sure this would be achieved but with this much effort being thrown at it, it's no surprise you pulled it off!
Grats and enjoy.
Grats and enjoy.
Soldato
Look forward to reading your completed works Log. Neither did I realise how much technology was involved. Hats off to all. Hats off to your neighbours and VMedia as well.
You should contact VM publicity department. Give them the low down. You could benefit even further as well as your community and others in a similar situation.
One of the best constructed threads I have seen for a long time.
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Soldato
Impressive. Good work!
Now you're probably going have to do the same for all your neighbours in the same situation
£500 labour + parts?
£500 labour + parts?
+ £5pm connection insurance
Soldato
Moar pics of the setup stat! 
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Congrats, Larry. Excellent job 
There has just been a quick break in the cloud so I went out and took a few pictures of the setup. Unfortunately I only have my camera phone so the quality isn't too great but you get the idea. The pictures are in order from the point of the Virgin Media connection right through to my provisional office.
So this is a pic we've seen before. It shows all the equipment inside a weatherproof box. Its a tight fit but I wanted to get the smallest possible box to reduce the visual impact on the neighbours wall. Equipment inside includes the superhub 2ac in modem mode, a power over ethernet converter and dual plug plug socket to provide power to both of these. The coax connection comes through the bottom of the box into the modem, from the modem a cat5e runs into the POE converter and finally another ethernet runs from the POE up to the Ubiquiti wireless transmitting hub.
This is a view of the whole setup on the neighbours house. As you can see, the coax comes out of the ground after running along the property boundary from the road. They actually ran a new cable from the cab for me, it doesn't split off the existing connection. The upper cable coming from the Sky dish is the power cable which connects in the neighbours loft through a fused box. The cable running up the middle is the ethernet running to the Ubiquiti transmitting hub.
This is a view from the neighbours house to the receiving hub. The dish is mounted on the telegraph pole which can be seen in the middle of the photo, just to the left of the woodland. The total distance between the two hubs is around 450m.
A picture from the halfway point between the two hubs showing both hubs.
And here is a picture from the receiving pole, back to the neighbours house.
This picture shows the connection between the receiving hub to the house itself. The total length of cat5e used was about 73m. The distance to the house from the pole is about 60m with a further 13m running around the house to the rear office. The cable is supported by a length of steel cable which is taught between the pole and the house. I then simply cable tied the ethernet to the steel cable. There is about 1m of excess at the pole end in case I need to make repairs.
Here you can see the cable running around the outside of the house and finally through the wall and into the office.
And finally the temp office where the connection is received.
As mentioned before, the superhub is in modem mode with the two Ubiquiti wireless hubs set into bridge; so they are essentially (and as far as any receiving equipment are concerned) a really long cable. After passing though another POE converter, the connection is received by a Asus RT-N66U router. The main desktop is connected via ethernet, with other devices making use of the wireless.
Here is a couple of printscreens of the Ubiquiti hub interface. There is a bit of tweaking to do hear and there but ultimately it is working as it should. Not bad considering I only lined up the dishes by eye. The channel width 40mhz. The extremely low noise levels in the rural area are probably helping things. I am not all too clued up on a lot of this sort of stuff so any tweaks will be carried out with the help of a mate who is a network engineer.
As you can see there is a <1ms ping between the two devices with a total throughput of ~300mbit.
If there is any more information anyone would like, just ask. Thanks again to all that helped. It has been a lot of fun. The connection has been live for nearly 6 days now and I've not had a single blip. I am a happy man
Cheers
Harry
So this is a pic we've seen before. It shows all the equipment inside a weatherproof box. Its a tight fit but I wanted to get the smallest possible box to reduce the visual impact on the neighbours wall. Equipment inside includes the superhub 2ac in modem mode, a power over ethernet converter and dual plug plug socket to provide power to both of these. The coax connection comes through the bottom of the box into the modem, from the modem a cat5e runs into the POE converter and finally another ethernet runs from the POE up to the Ubiquiti wireless transmitting hub.
This is a view of the whole setup on the neighbours house. As you can see, the coax comes out of the ground after running along the property boundary from the road. They actually ran a new cable from the cab for me, it doesn't split off the existing connection. The upper cable coming from the Sky dish is the power cable which connects in the neighbours loft through a fused box. The cable running up the middle is the ethernet running to the Ubiquiti transmitting hub.
This is a view from the neighbours house to the receiving hub. The dish is mounted on the telegraph pole which can be seen in the middle of the photo, just to the left of the woodland. The total distance between the two hubs is around 450m.
A picture from the halfway point between the two hubs showing both hubs.
And here is a picture from the receiving pole, back to the neighbours house.
This picture shows the connection between the receiving hub to the house itself. The total length of cat5e used was about 73m. The distance to the house from the pole is about 60m with a further 13m running around the house to the rear office. The cable is supported by a length of steel cable which is taught between the pole and the house. I then simply cable tied the ethernet to the steel cable. There is about 1m of excess at the pole end in case I need to make repairs.
Here you can see the cable running around the outside of the house and finally through the wall and into the office.
And finally the temp office where the connection is received.
As mentioned before, the superhub is in modem mode with the two Ubiquiti wireless hubs set into bridge; so they are essentially (and as far as any receiving equipment are concerned) a really long cable. After passing though another POE converter, the connection is received by a Asus RT-N66U router. The main desktop is connected via ethernet, with other devices making use of the wireless.
Here is a couple of printscreens of the Ubiquiti hub interface. There is a bit of tweaking to do hear and there but ultimately it is working as it should. Not bad considering I only lined up the dishes by eye. The channel width 40mhz. The extremely low noise levels in the rural area are probably helping things. I am not all too clued up on a lot of this sort of stuff so any tweaks will be carried out with the help of a mate who is a network engineer.
As you can see there is a <1ms ping between the two devices with a total throughput of ~300mbit.
If there is any more information anyone would like, just ask. Thanks again to all that helped. It has been a lot of fun. The connection has been live for nearly 6 days now and I've not had a single blip. I am a happy man
Cheers
Harry
Soldato
Wow, OP delivers! Fantastic work and not exactly expensive for what you wanted to do. A tip of the hat to you.
Soldato
I'm sure it's further back in the thread but who's is the pole?
Is it a disused BT one that was just there or have you put it in?
Is it a disused BT one that was just there or have you put it in?
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Fair play, I read the first page thinking "good luck with that" "even if he does get it done, latency/packet loss is going to hurt"
But you delivered, so 10/10
But you delivered, so 10/10
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Nice to see something go from start to finish! Even better with pleasing end results - I still don't get the story of the pole though, there seems to be two chains of events that don't tie up, but I won't tell if you wont
Nice to see something go from start to finish! Even better with pleasing end results - I still don't get the story of the pole though, there seems to be two chains of events that don't tie up, but I won't tell if you wont
Just don't give it too much thought