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? š 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 donāt 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. Donāt 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
