Long range directional wifi base station
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Anyone got any specific recommendations for a wifi base station that is good for long range - or do I just grab any old wifi unit and unscrew the 2.4Ghz antenna and screw in one of the flat directional antennas you can buy?
I need to go 90 metres, all outdoors, from a 3rd floor window (inside) down to an antenna mounted at around 6ft up. The signal will have to go through around 3 trees. It needs te be reliable, and keep enough badwidth for an IPCam.
I need to go 90 metres, all outdoors, from a 3rd floor window (inside) down to an antenna mounted at around 6ft up. The signal will have to go through around 3 trees. It needs te be reliable, and keep enough badwidth for an IPCam.
Cheers. Has to be indoors. Listed building. I could of course always mount that one indoors. I'm assuming I'd have to use a PoE injector of some sort.
I've read that the "client" end doesn't need boosting as high gain antennas focus their energy in a tighter cone, which means they are also more sensitive to receiving....
At the client end will be an iPcam, and a burglar alarm system. The IpCam will be outdoors. The alarm inside a container, with an external antenna. Both antennas can be swapped out if need be.
2.4 is fine. Greater range and plenty of bandwidth for the above.
I've read that the "client" end doesn't need boosting as high gain antennas focus their energy in a tighter cone, which means they are also more sensitive to receiving....
At the client end will be an iPcam, and a burglar alarm system. The IpCam will be outdoors. The alarm inside a container, with an external antenna. Both antennas can be swapped out if need be.
2.4 is fine. Greater range and plenty of bandwidth for the above.
I can do PoE outdoors. I'll just have to be subtle. Defo want 2.4 not 5ghz. Read reviews by plenty of folk using 2.4ghz with a panel antenna going 200m with no issues. I'll be beaming down from above so the tree foliage should not be a huge problem. I'll update when I have done it. Might not be for a couple of months.
Cheers. I reckon I'll try one on its own first, then if it's not enough then I'll get a second. The reason I want to try one first, is that the receiving end will be battery powered, with the help of solar, so I want to add as little kit as possible at that end that will be a drain. Currently (boom boom!) I'm looking at an alarm system (a few 100ma) and one IPcam. Adding another access point will add around 8w on the above model. Which is a lot.
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