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| Thread ID: 138497 | 2014-12-09 18:47:00 | Fibre to wireless WAN? | stuffed (1469) | PC World Chat |
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| 1389809 | 2014-12-09 18:47:00 | Ok who on here has some knowledge on setting up a high speed wireless network to cover say about 2km? We do not have fibre to properties in our area but there are fibre cables (2 different owners) and have a hill with power that gives excellent line of site. |
stuffed (1469) | ||
| 1389810 | 2014-12-09 20:51:00 | Ok who on here has some knowledge on setting up a high speed wireless network to cover say about 2km? We do not have fibre to properties in our area but there are fibre cables (2 different owners) and have a hill with power that gives excellent line of site. Vodafone or Telecom would. |
Webdevguy (17166) | ||
| 1389811 | 2014-12-09 22:49:00 | Ring GoWiFi tell them where about you live and I'm sure they will know of someone in the area that can help. | Alex B (15479) | ||
| 1389812 | 2014-12-09 22:50:00 | Vodafone or Telecom would. Was actually hoping to hear from someone that has some vision and knows what they are doing! |
stuffed (1469) | ||
| 1389813 | 2014-12-09 23:07:00 | Vodafone or Telecom would. Doubtful actually, they'd much prefer to have you all as customers than help you share a fibre. Also they don't tend to set up home wi-fi networks as part of their normal business. Someone who does wi-fi for businesses would be the best bet if you want a professional. I imagine you'd need a high gain external Aerial Ideally and possibly a repeater at your property. Also I understand there is a maximum latency for wi-fi which prevents it from working too far as it's intended as a short range network but it should be possible. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1389814 | 2014-12-09 23:50:00 | Ring GoWiFi tell them where about you live and I'm sure they will know of someone in the area that can help. Thanks for that heads up - have now contacted them |
stuffed (1469) | ||
| 1389815 | 2014-12-09 23:51:00 | i've done transmitter repeaters before (tho for tv). 2km is a long distance to go with the sort of signal level your legally allowed to use even with high gain aerials. also because you will have to stick to an open frequency range, you will more than likely cause interference for anyone else around. if anyone else is close by their signal may interfere with yours. this is why your better off using a licensed frequency that no one else can use. if there is a local wireless internet company, have a chat to them. they may be interesting in setting up a node point and you can run off that. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 1389816 | 2014-12-10 01:59:00 | Get yourself a *good* UFB router Get a couple of Ubiquiti NanoStation M5's (One for sending, the other for receiving) The M5s from GoWiFi should come with the 24v PoE injectors IIRC. Then, plan to write off a whole day setting it up and fiddling about. It's not difficult but if you've never done it before it'll take you a little bit. It's fun though and well worth the time involved! :) EDIT: And no, Telecom / Vodafone won't give a rats ass about that, unless you're trying to do something with like Gen-I managed WAN services (Spark Digital I think they're now called) and even then they don't normally do WiFi like that, it's all fixed-cable stuff. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1389817 | 2014-12-10 03:00:00 | Hey guys great input but this will be a community project so will get the pros to do it but it's good to build up some knowledge about it. The site we are looking at is about 250 meters from 2 different fibre cables so will need to see if they will run the cable. So some more questions! How many receiving sites could have? What constraints (if any) are there on the number receiving of sites? What would the maximum transmission distance be? Thanks |
stuffed (1469) | ||
| 1389818 | 2014-12-10 03:54:00 | this is when you need to go talk to the govt dept. sorry i'm not sure what name they are under these days. they control all the transmission frequencies in nz. you need to know what license you will be under which has restrictions on power level and transmission range. failure to do that can result in the setup being confiscated. i know of one which included solar panels, batteries etc, that was confiscated. only reason the people didn't get charged and taken to court was they couldn't prove who owned it despite knowing which house it pointed to. license at the time i think was under $200 a year for the one i worked on and that serviced 40 odd homes. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
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