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Good day Carb!

Need some advise. Basically I need to set-up a point-to-point wireless network between two buildings, approx 30m apart, direct LOS. Cable can be done, but with a lot of effort, hence the wireless route. Throughput ideally in excess of 200Mbps would be best, however a min of say so 150Mbps can suffice as well.

Now it is on a budget, let's say not really looking to spend more than R1,600 for all equipment and prefer Ubiquity products.

What is my options, also say if the budget is increased to R2k.

Also, the one building currently have a Cambium nanobeam, anyway to integrate with a Ubiquity nanobeam option?

Thank you in advance.
 
Good day Carb!

Need some advise. Basically I need to set-up a point-to-point wireless network between two buildings, approx 30m apart, direct LOS. Cable can be done, but with a lot of effort, hence the wireless route. Throughput ideally in excess of 200Mbps would be best, however a min of say so 150Mbps can suffice as well.

Now it is on a budget, let's say not really looking to spend more than R1,600 for all equipment and prefer Ubiquity products.

What is my options, also say if the budget is increased to R2k.

Also, the one building currently have a Cambium nanobeam, anyway to integrate with a Ubiquity nanobeam option?

Thank you in advance.


Hey bud,

I had a job similar to what you are saying and what I did was setup a "Star Topology". So basically all nodes connect t 1 hub and from there you can connect and manually configure the network and how it will connect the connected PC's to the internet and so forth. That's good practice to handle the traffic and you could add a load balancer and boom your min speeds will depend on the hub you're getting so roughly 300Mbps.

Do they have a central sever setup by any chance ?

Not really a fan of point-to-point wireless between buildings, if your client is running a large scale business someone could simply setup a dummy access point which is identical and there goes your private information (logins, passwords, accounts, file).

For you to correctly and securely set this up, you might need to reassign more funds to the "budget".

Why am I saying this?

Let's say you setup this p2p and now they get a leak 8 months down the line, guess who they turning to. Make sure your clients know the risks as well as cover you're a**, write up a contract etc.

-TechN3rd
 
Hi man

Thank you for the feedback.

Noted all the security concerns, however the setup would be personal of nature, hence I would manage everything myself and monitor on a daily basis. Also the connection is like 30 meters apart and would pick it up if someone tried to tapper with the devices. Also the budget is there as a cost effective quick implementation option, if I upped the budget, I might as well just lay down a cable. Point-to-Point is what I am looking at, as the connection would only be for WAN purposes and no lan activity would happen. Hope that makes sens.
 
Hey @LouisABC

I would go with this set at that distance.If you can get the extra capital though :)


With this there will be no interference from other devices and you will have a ton of headroom, since you will get near fiber throughput on this.
 
Grab two of these and you're sorted.

Ubiquiti 5GHz AirMax LiteBeam 23dBi CPE | LBE-M5-23

Make sure you use shielded cable and earth the shield
Those are great PtP devices. one drawback is the Fast Ethernet port. even though this is a SISO wireless device that has a theoretical max throughput of 150Mbps the lan port is still a bottleneck.

same with most other 802.11a/n WAP/cpe's.

because the OP said minimum 150Mbps, the best bet would be to go dual stream AC, seeing as the distance is negligible my recommendation is for Mikrotik sextant square AC.

Same price but with gigabit ethernet dual polarity AC. PtP you are looking at about 400Mbps real world TP.

even with level 3 license you can still setup point to point wireless bridge (effectively layer 2 interface over the link)

and because it is only needed as a bridge the setup is super simple
 
Those are great PtP devices. one drawback is the Fast Ethernet port. even though this is a SISO wireless device that has a theoretical max throughput of 150Mbps the lan port is still a bottleneck.

same with most other 802.11a/n WAP/cpe's.

because the OP said minimum 150Mbps, the best bet would be to go dual stream AC, seeing as the distance is negligible my recommendation is for Mikrotik sextant square AC.

Same price but with gigabit ethernet dual polarity AC. PtP you are looking at about 400Mbps real world TP.

even with level 3 license you can still setup point to point wireless bridge (effectively layer 2 interface over the link)

and because it is only needed as a bridge the setup is super simple
How, if I may ask, do you know the distance this would work?
 
How, if I may ask, do you know the distance this would work?
how do i know the distance?
Basically I need to set-up a point-to-point wireless network between two buildings, approx 30m apart, direct LOS
how do i know it would work
this is from a point to multi point over 300m on 20mhz bandwith DP
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sustained TP of 125+Mbps
that is the first link i found running sxt sq ac, not necessarily the best, but it justifies my comment.
 
30m isn't very far, a decent Ubiquiti / Mikrotik will do this distance. One with beam forming will handle it easily. What building structure are you working with? single story house to single story house? flat to flat? main house to granny flat?
 
30m isn't very far, a decent Ubiquiti / Mikrotik will do this distance. One with beam forming will handle it easily. What building structure are you working with? single story house to single story house? flat to flat? main house to granny flat?

Hi man

Found some ducting that connected both building, cat 5e cable did the trick nicely! :)

So sorted!

Thanx all
 
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