For so little throughput a 5GHz setup would be the cheapest and probably best setup.
What keeps you from being a believer of the 60GHz? I can show you the history of some of my Ignitenet links that may just change your mind. Thank you, Brett A Mansfield > On May 22, 2017, at 12:38 PM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote: > > Not a believer yet. And we only need 100-250 Mbps max to the homes. > Actually probably more like 50 or 100 Mbps. > Want it to be simple too. ONT has multiple ethernet ports on it. Just > extend those physical layer 0/1 connections. > > From: Cameron Crum > Sent: Monday, May 22, 2017 1:34 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] extending fiber with RF > > What about a couple of 60GHz links with a single 5GHz AP as a backup? We did > this for a bank that needed to connect two buildings temporarily. Put a MT on > either side that ran IPSEC tunnel over the link with a failover script to > route traffic over the 5 GHz link if the 60 lost more than 50% of it's > packets. The 5 GHz was slower, but they still had connectivity in the even of > a heavy rain. > >> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 2:28 PM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote: >> Still puzzling over how to get ethernet the last 3000 feet. I have fiber to >> a point along a rural road. The end is about 2000 feet from one home and >> 3000 feet from another. >> >> Was looking at using the existing copper with VDSL line extenders. That was >> what that week of math problems was all about. I am starting to lean away >> from that solution because it is old copper. I really want to stop using it. >> >> I don’t have a ROW that is legal. The old copper technically is in trespass >> and the owner of the property is known to be a major PITA. So not sure if I >> can get permission. Even then, we are talking about 5000 feet of fiber to >> place. There will be some money involved. >> >> Using wireless could be much cheaper. Will have to do a solar install with >> the ONT and RF gear on a stub pole at the handhole. >> >> Not sure what kid of RF. Don’t want to use an AP because I need two layer 2 >> connections from the ONT. Be more expensive to use an AP anyhow. So two >> PTP systems. Rock solid, never fail type of system. Noise floor down >> there is probably pretty low. >> I could use a pair of rockets etc. Not wanting to lo-ball this, want it to >> be very solid. >> >> What would you use? > >
