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I doubt it is possible to get such a range without breaking the law.

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5 hours ago, Svinsparbriivu said:

'Only about $150' for 1 of the devices, judging by the NCIX link.

Also putting the bold 25km claim on the video thumbnail while testing it at 1-2% of the distance is ... eh... confident.

it's unfortunate he couldn't test this as with a good line of site this distance is a minimum. using the 300mm dishes that are rated at 20+ km we have got a link going at just over 25 km and it still has a good 20 dBm fade margin on top of it. i would guess that if you really wanted you could push these two dishes that Linus has out to a good 30-40 km under good conditions.

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1 hour ago, .spider. said:

I doubt it is possible to get such a range without breaking the law.

It's using 802.11AC, it's perfectly legal. 

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1 hour ago, .spider. said:

I doubt it is possible to get such a range without breaking the law.

I cant speak for all countries but here in New Zealand with the power constraints we are restricted to under the GURL the effective link length on a 5 GHz link is about 50 km with any decent sort of throughput. @ 40 km we had a link going at about 60 Mb/s on some fairly old kit, however due to network security reasons we have moved to a licensed band and with the same power levels we are able to get over 100 Mb/s at that distance, so I'm assuming that the lower speed was just down to the crappy gear.

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2 minutes ago, -Old-Tom- said:

I cant speak for all countries but here in New Zealand with the power constraints we are restricted to under the GURL the effective link length on a 5 GHz link is about 50 km with any decent sort of throughput. @ 40 km we had a link going at about 60 Mb/s on some fairly old kit, however due to network security reasons we have moved to a licensed band and with the same power levels we are able to get over 100 Mb/s at that distance, so I'm assuming that the lower speed was just down to the crappy gear.

I'm not sure about Canada.

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Could you use this between 2 locations to act as a failover for internet access?  For example your office has DSL service and your home has cable based could it be used to maintain internet connection when one of them goes down?

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Just now, vada123 said:

Could you use this between 2 locations to act as a failover for internet access?  For example your office has DSL service and your home has cable based could it be used to maintain internet connection when one of them goes down?

Theoretically yes

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That would be a a cool follow up video :) as I am not good enough at networking to know how to load balance over a bridge.

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24 minutes ago, Asterisk said:

It's using 802.11AC, it's perfectly legal. 

Nobody said that 802.11ac is illegal.

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Just now, .spider. said:

Nobody said that 802.11ac is illegal.

Exactly. 

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18 minutes ago, .spider. said:

Nobody said that 802.11ac is illegal.

 

17 minutes ago, Asterisk said:

Exactly. 

.spider. is talking about EIRP limits etc.

 

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9 hours ago, peej said:

crowd fund for the 60ft pole? i mean you guys have had a history of going big (whole room water cooling,8gmaer 1cpu ect.) do it for your fans linus 

 

8 hours ago, Windspeed36 said:

Issue is a poll that size will normally need approval from the local air safety board. For me to put one up, I have to get it CASA approved for anything beyond 6M

60 METER pole, that's 200 ft high, good luck getting approval for that.

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Just now, Jordaneer said:

 

60 METER pole, that's 200 ft high, good luck getting approval for that.

yeah i was just joking wasn't really expecting them to do it

I lurk a lot

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10 minutes ago, Jordaneer said:

 

60 METER pole, that's 200 ft high, good luck getting approval for that.

No one said anything about 60M - he mentions 6 ft, I said 6M for local approval here (18ft)

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well now i have a plan to get my barn connected ... 

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Ok so this could be used for like a 500 kb connection right it just wont laugh at me

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1 hour ago, Jordaneer said:

 

60 METER pole, that's 200 ft high, good luck getting approval for that.

also didnt realise untill windspeed pointed out its not 60 meters its 60ft theres a big difference 60ft is 18 meters so like the size of a small apartment building 

I lurk a lot

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2 hours ago, Windspeed36 said:

No one said anything about 60M - he mentions 6 ft, I said 6M for local approval here (18ft)

LINUS said 60m. In the video. At about 22 seconds in in the vessel vid

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25 minutes ago, JoeyDM said:

LINUS said 60m. In the video. At about 22 seconds in in the vessel vid

Ah - I thought we were talking about comments..

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3 hours ago, Jordaneer said:

 

60 METER pole, that's 200 ft high, good luck getting approval for that.

well he did say that the ground is not flat you you need something that is tall enough. 

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What is the part number for the Ubiquiti device? I found several similar devices from them.

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15 minutes ago, Windspeed36 said:

Ah - I thought we were talking about comments..

Nope :P 

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5 minutes ago, esbboston said:

What is the part number for the device?

PowerBeam AC - PBE-5AC-500

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5 minutes ago, esbboston said:

What is the part number for the device?

looks like the  PBE-5AC-500 or PBE-5AC-620

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