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A few years back, I had a condo on Lake Washington (east of Seattle) and a buddy of mine is a microwave engineer and we were hanging out one day out on my deck
by zw123456 3y ago
A few years back, I had a condo on Lake Washington (east of Seattle) and a buddy of mine is a microwave engineer and we were hanging out one day out on my deck with our laptops and he mentioned how amazing it was that there were so many WiFi signals and he said he had a 4 foot dish from a 2ghz MW link in the junk pile at work that they had replaced with a newer 11Ghz link. He went and got it and we put a USB WiFi dongle on the feed horn on a tripod and it was amazing, we could point it across the lake and get all these WiFi hot spots some were open. It just shows, a big antenna on one end really helps with the link budget, of course, the beam width is super narrow so it's pretty finiky on the positioning. I am not sure the distance exactly there but it had to be a mile or two.
- 7373737373 3y agoI liked this video for showcasing (directional) long range wifi: https://youtu.be/lYJFwXw1ZIc https://youtu.be/lYJFwXw1ZIc There is hardware advertised for 1Gbps for 100+km links!
- greggsy 3y agoIn Australia, people are ripping out those old 11ghz tv dishes (when they remember they have them on thier roof still) now that the DVB-T free to air is somewhat decent in cities, and online streaming has taken off. It’s not entirely unrealistic to get several and replace the LNB’s with Wifi adaptors, and set up multi diferectional internet spongeing setup. Of could it would look ridiculous.
- TeMPOraL 3y ago> Of could it would look ridiculous. Put it on a camper, and it'll look like yet another old hippie tinfoiler from movies/TV shows.
- TeMPOraL 3y agoMeanwhile I just installed three Ubiquiti APs in a ~64sqm (~700 sqft) apartment because fuck if reinforced concrete walls and thick doors are going to stand in the way of us having good WiFi coverage at home.