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Internet 600' away ubiquiti test
Posted on 6/10/18 at 10:15 pm
Posted on 6/10/18 at 10:15 pm
My father built a house on the back side of the property about 600 feet away. Comcast wanted $2500 to install cable that far. Unfortunately, cell service is spotty so they have been living with 3g cell internet hotspots. Ubiquiti devices were brought up here last week and there was a lot of talk about what they could and couldn't do. I purchased a set of Nanostation Loco M5's. Link here
I was worried this wouldn't work because I have quite a bit of trees and buildings between my house and theirs and really I can't install a huge pole.
Here is a view from my house taken beside the nano station.
Link in case it doesn't work
Here is from google maps with a red line between where the stations are.
Link in case it doesn't work
Results were very good IMO. I run around 110 M on my speed tests at the router. I got 70 down at my father's house. I wanted to post my first results to give others hope that they can get internet to their buildings even through trees and not so optimal setups. I'm so impressed by Ubiquiti that I'm going to use their access points for my parent's house when I get it all set up right.
I was worried this wouldn't work because I have quite a bit of trees and buildings between my house and theirs and really I can't install a huge pole.
Here is a view from my house taken beside the nano station.
Link in case it doesn't work
Here is from google maps with a red line between where the stations are.
Link in case it doesn't work
Results were very good IMO. I run around 110 M on my speed tests at the router. I got 70 down at my father's house. I wanted to post my first results to give others hope that they can get internet to their buildings even through trees and not so optimal setups. I'm so impressed by Ubiquiti that I'm going to use their access points for my parent's house when I get it all set up right.
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Posted on 6/11/18 at 8:14 am to drdoct
This post was edited on 6/11/18 at 8:15 am
Posted on 6/11/18 at 9:03 am to drdoct
Awesome...glad it worked out. Good results too with that much throughout. Only downfall with the M5s is that they don't have a gigabit port...doesn't sound like you needed it though.
This post was edited on 6/11/18 at 9:08 am
Posted on 6/11/18 at 9:18 am to drdoct
thats really cool. thanks for sharing.
Posted on 6/11/18 at 9:25 am to drdoct
Cool deal. I hope to have this issue when i get a house with a big shop on the back of the property.
Posted on 6/11/18 at 11:55 am to drdoct
Can you tell me how you set these up? I have two loco m2's and a router
I'm working on setting them up now. Do you have both of them setup as bridges or what? I want to be able to get the signal over there and then use the router as the access point for a wider range at a barn. How should I set these nanostations up?
I'm working on setting them up now. Do you have both of them setup as bridges or what? I want to be able to get the signal over there and then use the router as the access point for a wider range at a barn. How should I set these nanostations up?
Posted on 6/11/18 at 4:07 pm to chalupa
You need to set up in bridge mode for one and access point for the other.
I did everything pretty much by this video
Nano M5 setup
I had a problem when just hooking this up to my computer and putting in the local ip. Chrome freaked out on me and thought I was trying to tap into the Russians or something unsafe. So I had to continue to tell it to doing it. Then after logging in the first time, it wouldn't log back in for anything.
Turns out I had to change my ip4 setting temporarily to do this. Here is the link to how to do that. Be sure to do it again and assign ip automatically after you're done so you can get back on the web.
ps- Thanks skraper for putting the pics up. No idea why I couldn't figure it out.
I did everything pretty much by this video
Nano M5 setup
I had a problem when just hooking this up to my computer and putting in the local ip. Chrome freaked out on me and thought I was trying to tap into the Russians or something unsafe. So I had to continue to tell it to doing it. Then after logging in the first time, it wouldn't log back in for anything.
Turns out I had to change my ip4 setting temporarily to do this. Here is the link to how to do that. Be sure to do it again and assign ip automatically after you're done so you can get back on the web.
ps- Thanks skraper for putting the pics up. No idea why I couldn't figure it out.
This post was edited on 6/11/18 at 4:08 pm
Posted on 6/11/18 at 8:08 pm to drdoct
We use Ubiquiti APs at work and they are great. Cheap as hell but we have great coverage and no issues. When we first got them there were some issues with Macs and domain authentication but overall I've always been impressed with Ubiquiti, and we have some 20+ AP deployments.
This post was edited on 6/11/18 at 8:08 pm
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