XPost: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, sci.electronics.repair   
   From: arlen_holder@newmachines.com   
      
   On Sat, 26 Sep 2020 13:59:43 -0400, gfretwell@aol.com wrote:   
      
   >  I have a good mount at the house, a DSS dish bracket that I am not   
   > using. In fact I was thinking the dish might work with a little   
   > hacking. I think the far end will end up on a 6" wood pole so that   
   > should be pretty stable. I guess I need to do more reading on this.   
   > Our plan B is to buy another WiFi connection from the cable company   
   > but the cost is prohibitive and it requires 120v that we don't have so   
   > that is even more money. I see plenty of solar WiFi cameras. They all   
   > seem to want to use the cloud and I would rather keep this whole thing   
   > in house if possible.  I have enough residents protesting the camera   
   > in the first place and if we are shipping it out to the internet that   
   > would bother more of them. Some are pissed at how many Ring cameras   
   > are in the neighborhood. A black helicopter has them hiding under the   
   > bed. ;-)   
      
   You must live in my neighborhood! :)   
      
   You bring up two important issues:   
   a. Power at the remote site 800 feet away, and,   
   b. The Fresnel zone of a pole only six feet tall   
      
   You can look up the Fresnel zone stuff separately, which, in my experience,   
   is more theoretical than practical since you just shove more directional   
   beam power to overcome the losses due to lack of height.   
      
   Power is an issue.   
      
   I'll ping "alt.internet.wireless" & "sci.electronics.repair" with this   
   post, who may be able to assist you more so than I can in how to set up the   
   power (be advised to ignore the three infants on s.e.r if they respond).   
      
   What we do here in the Santa Cruz mountains, where the zoning is 40 acres   
   per household, is "bucket routers" which are simply routers plugged into   
   anything we can plug them into, between homes when we need to clear   
   obstructions to our Line of Sight (LOS) WiFi transceivers.   
      
   But your suggestion of solar seems far better than bucket routers.   
   --   
   A "bucket router" is just a router under a bucket for weather protection.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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