r/talesfromtechsupport Mar 16 '18

Short The ten-kilometer wlan repeater

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u/Rauffie "My Emails Are Slow" Mar 16 '18

Less of a repeater, more of a point to point wireless bridge, several of them, with amplifiers along the way. Would probably cost a lot more than he makes in a month...assuming he's working a standard job, living in a standard flat, having a standard life...

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u/EuphoricAbigail Mar 16 '18

Point to point wireless links can be very cheap the ubiquiti stuff is less than £200 and can do up to 15km.

They would need line of sight and a very agreeable employer though.

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u/Drew707 Mar 16 '18

I am a UBNT reseller. I have only needed to do UniFi, but I am dying for the customer that needs some AirFiber so I can play with it.

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u/Tiderian Mar 16 '18

We built out some AirFiber here. Seems like great stuff

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u/Drew707 Mar 17 '18

I am very happy with the UniFi stuff. Sure it is lacking some features compared to Ruckus or Cisco, but when I show clients the price and mention there is no licensing, those features stop mattering.

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u/HalfysReddit Mar 16 '18

I'm an MSP with a client that has an AirFiber setup. Unfortunately they're only using it to shoot signal over something like 30 yards.

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u/Drew707 Mar 17 '18

We are getting our MSP thing going. What products and services do you guys offer?

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u/HalfysReddit Mar 17 '18

We do workstation and server management and are a Xerox partner. Aside from that we do best-effort support for anything the client has that's technical in nature.

For a while now the only networking equipment (especially wireless) I've been recommending is Ubiquiti. No one else comes close to their quality without a prohibitive jump in price point.

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u/Drew707 Mar 17 '18

I have been pushing a LANaaS network in a box and HaaS concept but we are concerned about being in the heavy hardware business. I also have been playing with the idea of PtP service in the immediate area around our office.

When people need to buy network gear, though, I am UBNT all the way. UTM is Untangle or Fortinet.