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

submitted 2 years ago by pinkpeechesl@alien.top to c/homenetworking@selfhosted.forum

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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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[-] LaredoTechsAdmin@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

I got myself a nice project a while back for a camera on a pole where there was no power. Got a 100w solar panel, two 12v/20wh batteries for marine vehicles, a solar controller, a 24v stepup for a POE switch to power camera the camera and shared the controllers output between the stepup and the mikrotik sxt 5. I then mounted everything, setup another sxt5 on the building, and voila!

Edit: i eventually added an additional cam

Second edit: heres a pic of the final product

this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2023

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