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Caged · 12 Mar 2018 at 20:36

Two Ubiquiti NanoStation AC loco - one on each building pointing at each other. Turn the power all the way down.

https://www.ubnt.com/airmax/nanostation-ac/

I imagine you'd get 300Mbps+ of real world performance.

bledd · 12 Mar 2018 at 22:40

Yup.

We use Nanostation M5 loco units in a couple of pieces where a fibre install isn't required/viable. Always gets maximum speed of 100Mbps.

Craigius · 18 Sep 2018 at 11:18

I am looking at linking two external outbuildings to a main house assume i would need 4 of these one on the main house, one on the first building then another on the first building pointing to the final building and one on the last building, if that makes sense, the i assume the two on the first building can be linked together via a network switch?

neil_g · 18 Sep 2018 at 12:39

As above nanostation or we've just used the tplink version with great result.

MonsterMoshi · 18 Sep 2018 at 16:45

Another vote for the nanostations
We have two AC Locos connecting two buildings just 15m or so away which reports a capacity of 610Mbs
I haven’t looked to optimise it yet as they aren’t in their final mounting positions but as you can see they are capable of even over the 450Mbs they report on the Ubiquiti site at small distances

They can do point to multipoint so it depends on the geography when linking three buildings
The antenna is optimised for the clients to be within a certain angle so if your outbuilding are on opposite sides of the main building you will need 4 nanostations

Scream · 18 Sep 2018 at 23:49

NanoBeams seem to be popular now and I’ve seen quite a few installs using them. Not sure what the main differences are for choosing one over the other, only than the beams having a narrower beam reducing the potential for interference.

Caged · 19 Sep 2018 at 00:25

The NanoStation Loco ACs are about half the price of the NanoBeam ACs. You lose the passthrough port and the antenna gain/beam is different. If you're doing a short hop there's no reason to spend the extra.

Glanza · 19 Sep 2018 at 08:53

+1 for Ubiquiti, the other option but sounds like it's unlikely you'd be able to do it would be to run a fibre cable underground.

Craigius · 19 Sep 2018 at 16:04

Think I'll go for the Ubiquiti kit it mainly for CCTV in the buildings and outside the buildings.