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UK: We need wifi across our farm, how? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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We live on a farm. There is one residential house with a hub inside. This has two Ethernet cables running underground to an office building and a portacabin in separate locations, which then connects to little hubs which extend the WiFi into those buildings.

We now want more WiFi to reach another area even further away. This is so we can run CCTV cameras. If it’s not possible we will have to get SIM card cameras and pay monthly.

But, before we do, what else can we do? I don’t think we should really be running anymore Ethernet cables off the existing hub elsewhere as, could it overload it? It just seems a lot for one residential hub.

Could we get openreach to do something?

Any ideas PLEASE throw them my way!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Point to point WiFi is low cost and works great as long as you have line of sight.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Point to point WiFi is low cost and works great as long as you have line of sight.

Exactly. And if you don't have line of sight, you can raises masts and put them up higher. Tight beam patterns will go long distances.

Then on the same mast you can install a 'wide' powered emitter- basically a narrow beam formed that only covers the open area. You'll still have 'dead' spots out there, but it'll be a lot less.

Sticking with 2.4ghz will help a lot too- more bendy than 5.4ghz. Specialized gear can go lower but now you're looking at insane prices.

So long as you have juice at each location you can have coverage, albeit with increased lag/hops, but it's totally doable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ubiquity has some very useful devices that allow this to be managed easily. Otherwise I’d say run a duct for fibre

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

fiber is the long term best solution and not that expensive asside from the digging part. you need power there anyway too so i would put in the fibe along the electric lines is possible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

That. Weybred Lakes in Cornwall do that for their lodges. And a place we went to early in the year in Lake District. Its remote but can just see a farm house in the distance and they have point to point in the garden area of the lodge.