Point-to-point Wifi

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Anyone ever set up a wireless wifi link from one property to another?

I want to use some micro dishes to point wifi from my old house to my new house, according to google maps, it is 1.19km line of sight away. What I would do is mount a dish on the chimney stack of my old house and point it towards my new house with a pole mounted dish on the side of it.

Would this work? Also what would be the best dishes to use? :)
 
I know that Mikrotik makes point-to-point WiFi products so maybe their website will help you:

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I've gone off mikrotik, so some ubiquiti nanobeams or nanostations depending on range needed for me, if you want to go super fancy trying their 60ghz range (with 5ghz fallback).

I'd avoid the Tp-link Pharos ones, cheap but caused me problems in the past.
 
I've done it in the past using 2x linksys access points in bridging mode, i made my own pringles can antennas and it worked really well.

That was about 20 years ago now though and was only working a 54mbps link but it did work across a modern housing estate (300ish metres) from my friends house who had internet to mine for the month or so until i could get a phone line installed.

Surely nowadays with a proper dish antenna on each end it'd be no problem at all with line of sight
 
Why don't you just put Starlink on the new house.
I cant see any wireless system being faultless at over 1Km. Topography of the ground and what else is in the way will all have an effect on it.
 
964rs said:
Why don't you just put Starlink on the new house.
I cant see any wireless system being faultless at over 1Km. Topography of the ground and what else is in the way will all have an effect on it.
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Why not? I've had very very good performance over several miles across a major city with no issues, supporting live commercial broadcast activity. You need an extremely directional antenna and very precise alignment but it works and it works well. I used a pair of parabolic antennae designed for 2.4GHz.

1.2km with actual line of sight should be a piece of cake. You might need to mount a pole to get enough height to get an actual line of sight and minimise anything in the Fresnel zone. For 1.19km you'll need the centre of the beam to be about 3m above anything in between - especially trees. Wet leaves are incredible for blocking wifi signals. The more stuff you have in that Fresnel zone the worse it will be.
 
Sounds like you are using commercial equipment which is a completely different ball game.
I think you made my point with the second part of your answer and i fully agree with that.
I just think something like Starlink would be so much easier in a domestic setting.
 
No more or less commercial than anything discussed in this thread. A parabolic antenna can be picked up for less than £50 these days and a 6ft pole mounted to a chimney stack is hardly ridiculous either. Over a genuine LOS 1km p2p link I'd expect at least 100mbit/s minimum with 20% encroachment into the Fresnel zone but likely more. The entire setup will cost less than just buying the Starlink terminal and won't come encumbered with high monthly fees.

Also, my experience with Starlink is that it isn't particularly reliable unless you get lucky with your specific location or you really don't care about bandwidth and latency being even semi consistent. I used it to run some 'stuff' in a remote-ish UK location in absolutely ideal circumstances and it was awful to the point of being unusable. Tt wasn't bad at my home when doing initial testing but I wouldn't have wanted to replace my home connection with it at any point.
 
We've used ligowave to connect two farms together over a couple miles and its solid. We've prefer ubiquity but couldn't get it due to supply issues a few years ago. Even though the setup is super convoluted due to massive barns and positioning to get around them it performs very well. It goes from Rack in office > Wireless bridge > Another wireless bridge > Main wireless bridge over around 2 miles > Fibre > Other office. The biggest issues we have are not performance or instability its when they unexpectedly power down barns for other work and the intermediate bridges/kit loses power.
 
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