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I am planning a Point to Point wireless link using two Tp link cpe210. Distance is 500m. There is one house in the middle blocking line of sight. Will it interfere or stop the 2.4 Ghz signal?

This is a project I picked up for my family over the holidays. We will be connecting the networks of three houses from a central omni-directional antenna in the middle of a field. I have opted to use Ubiquiti products for this build due to my experience working with them in the past. It ain't much but it's honest work. - The age old story of US Internet providers. The only Internet provider available in this rural location offers only one speed, molasses. It is horribly inconsistent, and service has only degraded over the years. There are three houses, two with independent connections, and one using a hotspot with the only mobile carrier with reception in the area. On a good day, the best connection averages 1.4Mbps download, 0.15 Mbps upload, and 80ms latency. The second house's connection is somehow noticeably and consistently worse than the first. The ISP refuses to add service to the third house despite having it previously due to their over-provisioned lines. Calls to the ISP for the degraded service are a waste of time, any service at all is enough for them to call acceptable. For this premium broadband experience, they are paying $50/mo for two homes, and even more for the hotspot in the third. While researching this project over the best of these connections, I stumbled upon a great example of the current situation. When a PDF failed to open in-browser after a few minutes, I resorted to downloading a copy through terminal. The result was 6 minutes 11 seconds to download a 16.4MB file. If you build it, they will come. A pre-order has been in with Starlink for a year now. The latest update suggests service may be available starting in March. Since the pre-order, another service provider has started offering tower based point to point Internet service some 50 miles away. There is rumor of them expanding the service area, but for now, it is a race to see which service will be available first. We have yet to see if either provider will provide a reliable connection with acceptable speeds. The plan is to build a suitable intranet so that when better service is available, the existing services can be cancelled and all buildings can run off of the same uplink. The Plan - Part 1: Location Points A, B, and C represent the houses, point M represents the bridge between the houses, and P represents our source of power for the bridge (more on this later). Every point to point connection is in line of sight. This is a heavily wooded area, and there is little room for modification due to the treeline. Conveniently, the connections to B and C run parallel with power lines, which keeps the chainsaw out of my hands, and leaves future tree trimming to the power company. The Plan - Part 2: Equipment Point M represents the point to multi-point omni-directional device to serve as the backbone. For this I chose the R5AC-LITE-US ($135 USD) with AMO-5G10 ($125 USD) antenna to operate in bridge mode. Each house will be equipped with a Loco5AC-US ($49 USD each). I believe this is an economical option which should allow speeds of up to 450Mbps between the locations. I had originally planned on using three more Loco5AC-US as a bridge before exploring omni-directional options. I would have used a NanoSwitch to provide pass-through PoE and power all of the devices. Having found the N-SW, it looks like an awesome product and I was looking forward to using it. Maybe another time! The Plan - Part 3: Power A road running between points A and M prevents burying cable between them. A water well house, marked as point P, is the only way of getting power to our equipment at M. The well house sits just shy of 100m/330ft from our equipment, and while a CAT6 cable has a maximum distance of 100m/327ft, passive PoE (24v) is only good for 45m/150ft at best. Finding a way to use PoE for this would be a money saver, but burying 110v electric is also an option. The downside to this is the cost of electrical cable, outlet, and waterproofing needed at the bridge. Review My idea is to bring the family's Internet out of the 00's and plan for it stable enough to last the next decade. Reducing the overhead of the three Internet connections should cover the cost of equipment within the first year, even with a higher service fee. TL;DR: Using wireless point to point to cut three Internet connections down to one. Burying 110v electrical across a field because PoE will probably not work. Estimated cost: less than $500 USD. Equipment price list: Model Cost Qty Total Price R5AC-LITE-US 89 1 135 AMO-5G10 125 1 125 Loco5AC-US 49 3 147 Pre-tax $407 Let me know if you have any thoughts or suggestions. I am also open to other brands of point to point equipment if anyone has had good experiences.

I'm looking to extend my WIFI about 200ft from my cabin to my friend's cabin who is just across a small pond with a clear line of sight. My internet is not great as I could only get Hughesnet, which gives me only 25mb/3mb. We don't really care about streaming movies or TV, etc., but we do like the ability to use WIFI Calling since we have no phone service here. Any recommendations for an outdoor directional AP that would be a good and reasonable fit for such a setup? Considering the receiving devices from my friend's cabin such as his phone will have weak transmitting power to send back, would we need to mount two directional APs? (I assume this would be a point to point connection) I really don't want to put a lot of money into it since the speeds provided by Hughesnet are so slow, especially the upload. I wish StarLink was available here.

Hi. So I need to run internet to a building at the back of my property, which is about an acre away. The cheapest and easiest solution, obviously, is point-to-point. So what point-to-point system should I get? My internet is garbage, so I don't need a gigachad system. I originally was going to buy this system, but sadly it went out of stock. I need an alternative. Any ideas?

my parents have two houses about 750m apart and we want to share a internet connection between them, I was thinking using a point to point wifi link. problem is there are suburban properties between the two houses and the two links will not be line of sight, there are no hills in the way (one house is about 20m higher than the other) I am thinking about using two to these (Ubiquiti LiteBeam ac LBE-5AC-23) on each end, since they are 30+ km range I hope that will overcome any problems not being line of sight. will this work? and are there better ways? also could it be possible to mount them inside the roof space?

Very simple question, I will be getting a mini home on my farm about.... 500 feet from my parents house also on the farm. In my parents house where I live now we have fiber internet which is great for all of us but I do not want to buy it yet again for a mini home that close especially when I am the main user of this high speed internet. So I need a point to point system that is not horribly ugly and will do like.....800MBS at low latency over that small distance, clean line of sight. I could live with 500 plus but I want 800 so I can mostly fully use this connection and if something weakens the connection I would be slowed to like...400-500 not 200-300. The original connection is 1000 down and 900 up so as close to that as possible but I also do not want a 4000 dollar antenna for this. ant idea??

First time poster! I think. LOL I have my internet through a rural electric co-op since that's all I can get right now. Currently, my wireless bridge is on my roof which points to another house's bridge on their garage roof. That person's house is at least a half mile away on a hill. Lately, I have been having issues with packet loss and it's really hurting me since I work-at-home on occasion. After having the electric company come out a couple times, they have been unable to do anything and they suggest I pay someone else to have this fixed. :angry: I want to just do this myself and save some money. After observing things, I have come to the conclusion that the tree line is causing the frequently issues. Luckily, the person's house has a taller roof than his garage, so I could just move the bridge to the roof of the house and be perfectly fine. I have already talked to the person on the hill and they are OK with it being moved as long as it doesn't affect his connection and I don't cause his roof to leak. My question is this... If I disconnect my internet and his, then move his bridge from the garage roof to the house roof, reconnect everything and put power back to it, will I have to do anything else to make sure it works? I don't know what brand or model these bridges are. I do know that they have an ethernet cable that runs from the bridge to an adapter. The adapter then has another cable running to my router, and then an AC adapter that runs to an outlet. I have looked at some Cisco docs but I don't think any of that would apply to this. Any assistance to this would be awesome!