XPost: alt.home.repair, sci.electronics.repair   
   From: _arlen.george@halder.edu   
      
   On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 03:56:13 -0300, pjp wrote:   
      
   >> Just curious how far your nearest WiFi access point is from your desktop?   
   >   
   > My ISP is wireless internet. Attenna is approx 1Km down road. I can see   
   > and aim attenna directly at it by sight. I'm happy with speeds but we   
   > pay for faster package and I suspect there's very few others using   
   > attenna at same speed given it's very rural area, e.g. most would be   
   > basic package I suspect.   
      
   Hi pjp,   
   Thanks for that information where you have a transceiver, like I do,   
   instead of a cable or dsl modem, about a kilometer away, line of sight.   
      
   Our transceivers are essentially equivalent in function to the cable modems   
   that most people who live in suburbia or in cities have in their homes.   
      
   My setup, like yours, is also WISP, where, being rural, we don't have   
   access to cables or pipelines either - just like you. We have wells. We   
   have septic systems. We have thousand gallon propane tanks. We even have   
   our own electrical generators, since the power company is highly   
   unreliable. (For example, tonight, the power is scheduled to go off, as one   
   temporal example - for about a day or two - as far as we know.)   
      
      
   The only "utilities" that we have which are public are the electrical and   
   phone wires, but, like you, we're way too far from the station for DSL to   
   ever work.   
      
   Like you, I have to aim my antenna at the nearest access point by sight,   
   where there's also an "aimer application" in the radio which beeps ever   
   faster, and lights up various colors (red orange yellow green blue, etc.)   
   as our signal strength increases. Since we're in a windy area, we sometimes   
   need to manually re-align the antennas, where, as you've likely found out,   
   we can eyeball it pretty closely (within a few decibels anyway).   
      
   If you know what equipment you're using, that would be of interest. I'm   
   using a Rocket M5 from Ubituiti, on the 5GHz spectrum, transmitting at near   
   or about the legal limit for the USA (which, luckily, is higher than it   
   seems to be in most other countries for some reason).   
      
   The radios are set to never exceed the legal limit - but they need to be   
   set up pretty close, since the distance is miles (about 10 km) to the   
   nearest WiFi Internet access point.   
      
   Do you know your transmit power?   
      
   I was on the 2.4GHz Wi-Fi spectrum for the longest time, but when I ran   
   waterfall spectrum analysis, it was horrid how much noise there was from   
   all sorts of frequencies, not all of which were WiFi signals.   
      
   Even our cellular is a bit dicey where we are, as T-Mobile gave me BOTH a   
   cellular repeater and a femtocell, so I can either pick up cellular signal   
   from about 10 or 15 miles away (or so), or, I can pick up the cellular   
   antenna that is literally inside my house (both work but the femtocell   
   seems to connect more reliably, based on the software utility on my iOS and   
   Android cellular devices).   
      
   Here's a picture of just some of the access points in my house, where the   
   iPad shows the physical size of the access points. That black device on the   
   shelf to the left of the blue router is the cellular repeater from T-Mobile   
   (all the carriers provide repeaters & femtocells):   
      
      
   Where you are, what do you use for amplifying your cellular signal?   
      
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