Setting up a microwave Internet link?

stockhausen

stockhausen

stockhausen

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Last week I got talking (in a pub) to someone who lives in a fairly remote location in Scotland to which BT is unable or unwilling provide an Internet connection at a reasonable figure. He said that he had arranged a microwave link from a nearby village. His link also acts as a hub for some nearby houses.

The conversation moved on to other things and I never thought to ask either how he had done this or how much it had cost - I should have done so!

Has anyone here done this or knows anything about how to do it?
 
Hotwired said:
I'm thinking you would need a licence to transmit like that . . .
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Uhmm, good point. I remember many years ago I wanted to string an Ethernet cable between rooftops on a warehouse and an office block over a public road and discovered that I wasn't actually allowed to do so.

I will have to check out the 5GHz license free and 60GHz mostly license free solutions although it may not apply in the UK?
 
Caged said:
Is it purely academic, do you want to be an ISP, do you just want a point-to-point between too sites etc. It’s a potentially massive topic so an idea of your intentions would help.
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I do understand that it is a "potentially massive topic". I definitely don't want to be an ISP. It is academic in the sense that I have no immediate, current application.

Someone asked me (informally) some time ago whether this was possible. I said "No" at the time and wonder now if I was incorrect and can perhaps suggest a realistic means of supplying an Internet connection to a remote location - specifically a farmhouse. I would not be doing any of the actual work, just suggesting an approach.

Hyburnate said:
I've got a few deployed. What's the actual question because every scenario is different?
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Please see above :)
 
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