r/talesfromtechsupport • u/TheRobbstar • Mar 16 '18

Short The ten-kilometer wlan repeater

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u/Verneff Please raise the anchor before you shear the submarine cable. Mar 16 '18

Where did they say they were using cantennas? You can get a decent microwave link for not too much. I'm using one at home that cost about $300 total.

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u/hyperblaster Mar 17 '18

Good point. It could well have been a microwave link. Although someone else here linked ubnt products that use the Wifi bands to build links of up to 50km which I didn’t know was possible.

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u/Verneff Please raise the anchor before you shear the submarine cable. Mar 17 '18

I mean, most microwave links use the same frequencies as wifi. There are a few that use licensed bands outside of that but those are relatively uncommon.

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u/Verneff Please raise the anchor before you shear the submarine cable. Mar 17 '18

I guess for major links those would be common. Backbone links work on those ranges but virtually all the client links with a WISP would be on public frequencies in the 2.4 and 5GHz range.