XPost: comp.mobile.android, misc.phone.mobile.iphone
From: rmblayrrroy@nlnet.nl
Jeff Liebermann actually wrote:
> I put radios (and weather stations) on mountain tops. We don't get
> much lightning in my area (US west coast near Monterey Bay) but enough
> that lightning protection is a good idea
We also have "bucket routers" (i.e., routers under buckets) scattered all
over these mountains, which seem to last longer than the cables do (the
animals chew them, for example, or trees fall, particularly Bay and
Monterey Pine, which are weak trees overall.
While nothing is simpler than running a cable from Rod Speed's router to
his neighbor's router, I think Rod said his neighbor doesn't have a router.
So you still need an approximately $100 USD investment in "something".
Given Internet in the USA is roughly between $50 and $100 USD a month, it's
one month's investment in a Ubuquiti radio (give or take), which seems
worth it. With that one investment, Rod can paint the neighbor's house with
adequate signal that all the Android devices will likely read as pretty
good.
Given the iDevices and computers may still have issues receiving signal,
it's "only" another month's investment in two radios, but, then you also
need another month's investment in a router at the end of that second
radio.
IMHO, Rod should plan on one radio with good antenna specs (which basically
necessitates a dish or sector, doesn't it Jeff?) and sensitivity (they're
all pretty good on the sensitivity spec, I think).
If that one radio doesn't work for all devices in the neighbor's home, then
Rod doesn't have to rip out the first radio - he just adds the second radio
on the side of the neighbor's house - and - a WiFi router, and the second
home is all set.
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