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Both are easy to retrofit, but add their own problems like moisture condensation on the internals. If it does overheat, the solution is a intake fan with dust filter on the bottom and a exhaust vent. I’m hoping this will keep the box cool enough during the day but I’m pessimistic at the moment. To prevent this, I’ve added a layer of corrugated iron to shield the incoming light and add a path for air to channel through. Add some sunshine to that mix and you’ve got a hot box. The inverter inside the box will cut off at 60 degrees celcius and we often have days where the outside air temperature is above 40 degrees. Keeping the box cool is a worry of mine for summer time. I then designed and constructed a pole to mount all of this on. These were all mounted inside an IP67 electrical box. Most hills don’t have a power supplyīut they do get sunshine! The next part of the plan is to power these links and for that I used a 230AH AGM deep cycle battery, a 250W 12V solar panel from eBay and a charge regulator form ebay. NBN apparently has plans for 100mbit/s fixed wireless connections in the future so I was happy to know I could carry that speed all the way home. If you’re only aiming to get a 25mbit/s connection from the fixed wireless, then your link speed needs to only run a bit faster than 25mbit/s. At nearly 7km, point to point link gets a steady 100mbit/s over the wireless which is perfect for my use case but the speed will have to be set slower if the distance increases to increase the stability of the connection. Something to note with these products is that while they claim 300mbit/s and 50km range, it’s one or the other.
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I made the point to point link with two TP-LINK WBS510 with 30dbi gain dish antennas. Unfortunately, that location couldn’t be seen by our house so a second link was needed up on our tallest hill. I used their coverage maps and google earth to find a location on a hill somewhere in the district that our farm could see where the NBN could potentially be installed. I found out that NBN has a fixed wireless range of 14km before they stop servicing.
#Fiwi links install#
The first challenge was finding a suitable install location. Now that I knew links like this were possible, I started to wonder “could I get fixed wireless NBN installed remotely and send the connection back home?” The POE injector limits the Ethernet speed to 100mbit/s despite the max potential WiFi link speed being 300mbit/s From there the shed CPEs are connected to old routers which run as a switch and AP to clients in the area. They can pretty much only see the house one.
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The shed CPEs run in client mode where they just connect to a SSID they can see. The house roof CPE runs in AP mode where it broadcasts an SSID for other devices to connect to. The network switch in our house ran into a power over Ethernet (POE) injector that powered and gave data to the CPE on the roof of our house that looked towards the sheds. Considering I needed to make a 100m link, I thought it should work – and it did. These gave reasonably directional wifi access points and claimed ranges up to 13km. I started searching and found the TP-LINK Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) devices. They were about 50-100m from our house and too far for normal wifi (when considering the absorption of the shed walls) and I wasn’t keen on the idea of trenching cables to them. In 2016 I wanted to get a wireless network to a couple of our sheds on our farm. I had to find another way to get internet and last week I did it! The back story High latency (property of all satellite connections), low bandwidth, low monthly data allowance. “You can be serviced with sky muster” says NBN but sky muster is terrible. When the NBN fixed wireless was announced, I was excited because I thought our farm would finally get a decent internet connection but my excitement was quickly put to rest when I realised that our house would fall 7km short.