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1371986 2014-04-05 02:39:00 Hi all,

Wondering if there's somebody somewhere in the Auckland region who has any long-range wifi kit who would be willing to meet up with me and "show me the ropes" a little bit?

I have a project coming up where I need a long-range wifi setup for a few hours to provide internet access to somewhere that can't normally get 3G data.

Does anybody have any experience with this ?

Cheers


Chill.
Chilling_Silence (9)
1371987 2014-04-05 06:03:00 Can't help much other than to say www.pbtech.co.nz
Point it at the access point, hook a coax to it, run it to a wi-fi receiver, and setup as normal. For even more distance use one at each end and point at each other.

But as for specialised long range gear, nope not a clue. Those are just high gain directional aerials I linked.
dugimodo (138)
1371988 2014-04-05 06:59:00 Ubiquity long range gear is plenty easy to set up. Ring gowifi, they will be able to answer any questions/ supply gear. Alex B (15479)
1371989 2014-04-07 03:21:00 Have already been in touch with Go WiFi, but because our setup is rather "unique", we'd have to travel for around 6 hours to get to deploy it. We'd rather experiment first locally to ensure it'll work before having to invest a grand worth into it. Chilling_Silence (9)
1371990 2014-04-07 09:57:00 For what its worth dugis link looks almost identical to the Wimax aerial used by Netsmart. That works over pretty well over long distances, in my case over 7-8km, Not exactly the same as WiFi but close, and of course my aerial is picking up a wide area signal. Just an observation, very few clues on the tech side of it. PPp (9511)
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