XPost: sci.electronics.repair, alt.home.repair   
   From: _arlen.george@halder.edu   
      
   On Sat, 19 Oct 2019 02:28:15 -0000 (UTC), Dan Purgert wrote:   
      
   > Which is why I said "Nanobeam" and not "Powerbeam".  I also specified   
   > the higher end "AC" models.  The older NBE-M5 is quite a bit less.   
      
   Hi Dan,   
   Thanks for pointing that out, where I apologize if I misunderstood.   
   (it happens to the best of us on Usenet, from time to time).   
      
   I'm all for the cheapest best solution that does the job for pjp.   
      
   And, Lord knows, I have experience with those nanobeams, one of which is in   
   my photo below, where you see it at the far left on the shelf (it's the   
   dark tan steel dish to the left of the plastic dish powerbeam, and to the   
   right of the T-Mobile cellular repeater on the shelf):   
       
      
   I've even written a tutorial on Usenet (of many) to help people set it up:   
   o How to set up Ubiquiti Nanobeam M2 as an Access Point, wired to a wired   
   extender, on WISP?   
      
      
   That tutorial was written in 2017, but since then, as I already noted to   
   Johann, we've soured on the steel-dish nanobeams, in favor of the newer   
   plastic-dish PowerBeams (which, we replaced with much larger 2GHz rockets,   
   and then we replaced them with less-noise susceptible 5GHz rockets).   
      
   In fact, perfectly apropos for the topic of this thread, here is that same   
   nanobeam connected to my IBM Thinkpad laptop, to vastly extend the WiFi   
   range of that ThinkPad laptop so I could work outside by the pool.   
       
      
   Notice that you get hundreds of times the power of the laptop WiFi simply   
   by plugging that nanobeam into the Ethernet port on the Thinkpad!   
      
   Maybe even thousands.   
   o It's that simple to extend the WiFi range of a computer with Ethernet.   
      
   BTW, I have a few nanobeams myself in use, but I hate them, as we had to   
   replace ALL of them, over time, for the powerbeams and then the rockets.   
      
   They're just unreliable in our use model (which I said prior to Johann):   
   o Even so, how much cheaper are nanobeams than the newer $100 powerbeams?   
      
   If the NanoBeams are appreciable less expensive than the PowerBeams   
   o I'm all for it since a kilometer for any of these radios is child's play   
      
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