Some good news - internet

Tom’s crew!
I’m pretty high tech for Harris community with my MR1100 in an outdoor enclosure and a $23 tablet plan. I can’t hang with your setup. Lol.

Back in the day (96-00) I used to run a TACSAT terminal in the Army. Our bandwidth was usually in the 128k-256k range. :D Split between SIPR/NIPR/AUTODIN/Voice and sometimes even VTC. Those were simpler times…

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JimB said:
I’m a wireless guy, but why didn’t you just run cable on your fence posts?

Oh, and if you’re putting up a tower, even just a pole, think about lightning.
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rg6 (coax) has a max run of 1000 ft for standard tv. CAT6 has max lenght of about 320 feet. Good point about lightning. Surge protectors are way way cheaper than new circuit boards.
 
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We're all spoiled these days, back in 1975 we had a phone line to a PDP10 timesharing system at 110 Baud, to a multiplexer for four Asr-33 teletypes. We were upgraded to 300 Baud in 1976. Using an acoustic coupler.
 
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Button Pusher said:
We're all spoiled these days, back in 1975 we had a phone line to a PDP10 timeshsring system at 110 Baud, to a multiplexer for four Asr-33 teletypes. We were upgraded to 300 Baud in 1976. Using an acoustic coupler.
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All I hear are caveman grunts about stone age stuff.
 
amnesia said:
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The above speed test begs the following question: why not sign up and switch to Starlink and avoid all the goofiness?

My speed (living in the boonies) on Starlink a few moments ago (amid a wind advisory and lots of clouds):
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Button Pusher said:
We're all spoiled these days, back in 1975 we had a phone line to a PDP10 timeshsring system at 110 Baud, to a multiplexer for four Asr-33 teletypes. We were upgraded to 300 Baud in 1976. Using an acoustic coupler.
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Somebody wanna do the number crunching and tell me how long it would take to fill up, say, 24 TB worth of external drives with porn at these rates?

Enquiring minds wanna know...
 
I almost think I understand this enough to try something like this at our cabin. I need to find someone that has sent it thru trees
 
Frank C Lyons said:
The boss on the ladder is making 3 points of contact with no hands.
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No power yet so he’s good.
MadMardigan said:
We used a point to point wireless system for a job awhile back for the CDC, it linked up at 1gig, though their service was 100x100, we had the 1 gig link.
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Ubiquiti has some that travel several miles for back haul. Mine is a little overkill for the distance but this way allows me to get full gig service.
surrealone said:
The above speed test begs the following question: why not sign up and switch to Starlink and avoid all the goofiness?

My speed (living in the boonies) on Starlink a few moments ago (amid a wind advisory and lots of clouds):
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Starlink is on order and will be my secondary connection. I need faster internet than Starlink can provide right now. Since I work from home in the information technology space I need dual connectivity and work pays for it :)
DangerRuss said:
@amsesia you have gained weight since the last time I saw you.
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This is true I have gained weight but the pics are of the electrical crew not me.
 
mj1angier said:
I almost think I understand this enough to try something like this at our cabin. I need to find someone that has sent it thru trees
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Mine is running through trees You can't see the road or the post when leaves are on the tree.

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nhusa said:
Can I rent you to get the kids trespassing? FYI. They continue to do it even after being warned.
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Augment your 'No Trespassing' signs with 'Firearms in Use' signs, secure your boundary with fencing plus gate, and target practice regularly. If they continue to trespass, well, bad things sometimes happen to people who do so in a place where firearms are in use.
 
Just get one if these...
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Carolinatlc said:
You’d think probably the techiest guy on the forum wouldn’t be the dude snapping pictures of his monitor to share content like my 82 year old mother in law shares political memes with me. 🤣
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hah I wasn't signed in to CFF on my iPad so the fastest way was to take a picture
 
amnesia said:
. It’s 6-10ft off the ground in both locations

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I worked on a new golf course when I was a teenager last century. They put all new boxes on 4' metal poles in boxes with the sprinkler controllers.

None of them were grounded (except thru the wiring of the controllers).

Thunderstorms in late summer in NM are spectacular! Grounding is your friend.

Your proposed solution is really good thinking...good work.
 
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JohnFreeman said:
I worked on a new golf course when I was a teenager last century. They put all new boxes on 4' metal poles in boxes with the sprinkler controllers.

None of them were grounded (except thru the wiring of the controllers).

Thunderstorms in late summer in NM are spectacular! Grounding is your friend.

Your proposed solution is really good thinking...good work.
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I even have the Ethernet with in-line surge protection.
 
tanstaafl72555 said:
rg6 (coax) has a max run of 1000 ft for standard tv. CAT6 has max lenght of about 320 feet. Good point about lightning. Surge protectors are way way cheaper than new circuit boards.
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GREAT point about lightning. I’ve killed two 52 Port POE Cisco switches as well as attached random devices from nearby lightning strikes. It’s now a bit more isolated on both ends (actually one end needs work…)
 
After some configuration headaches we're up and running. I also put cameras out at the road for our friendly neighborhood crackheads. I still want to put one directly on the driveway but for now I have it captured. The cameras have some pretty great zoom. The night quality is your typical IR but I plan on setting up IR emitters on the pole pointed at the driveway

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So the ubiquiti bridge works. I had to switch up my design a little bit because the other way was more complicated. This involved me moving the ubiquiti dream machine to the front of the property. Since the pole and box are inside my fence and able to be locked I figured why not. The link is holding up strong. I get around 500mb for hardwired devices and 200 mb for wifi. I am sure as I go along I will figure out the perfect settings to increase this. This is sending through trees at 182 meters. Link speed is how much bandwidth is on the line currently.

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Both speedtests running at the same time from house. One on wifi and the other hardwired.

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@mig1nc it doesn't like leaves for the 60ghz signal. Apparently, it wont link up on 60ghz with the trees fully leaved out. The good news is 5ghz works but it cuts the speed in half. Still a lot faster than the att wireless internet I was using. There is a spot on my balcony that I can put the AP that would give me direct line of sight if I cut down one tree branch. I haven't messed with it since the speed has been more than sufficient.

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Ben Jefferson said:
I'm happy for you, it sucks here and I am not willing to spend the $ for service like that.
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I hear ya but for me, I work from home and my line of work requires fast internet but also a backup internet. Work pays for both of those. The expensive part comes from the set up that I did myself.
 
amnesia said:
I hear ya but for me, I work from home and my line of work requires fast internet but also a backup internet. Work pays for both of those. The expensive part comes from the set up that I did myself.
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From previous conversations it was obvious that was an investment made by you of your business associates.

I was going to have a similar set up here at the house too but it required more Blue crayons than I had left at the time. With my slow assed Internet I won't be able to get enough Blue crayons until next week. I'm only allowed to use crayons with FSNs on them.
 
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