How about 60ghz to the first house and 5ghz to the second house and run
Trill to create a ring?

Does using multiple new technologies instead of just one make it seem less
risky? 😁

Hal

On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 3:47 PM Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote:

> Scared of new technology.
> Seems a bit too long range for that freq.
> Worried about not enough time has elapsed to prove them out.
> They sound expensive.
> Everybody knows 60 GHz is all absorbed by the oxygen anyhow...
> Not sure God would approve...
>
> You all the same normal reasons...
>
> *From:* Brett A Mansfield
> *Sent:* Monday, May 22, 2017 1:44 PM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] extending fiber with RF
> 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?
>>
>
>
> --

Harold Bledsoe

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