New Building Party!!

[doug9940]

What movie is that from?

DUDE! That is Jeff Spicolli from Fast Times at Ridgemont High:alcoholic:

 

[RKTMech]

10 years and you just got it the way you wanted it....... you taking the A/C units you put in and the worlds best ghetto repeater ever?

 

[McRat]

I'll leave the A/C, but I will take the DeathRay2000 system with us.

Problem is, that the new location has a hill 30' high between my house and the new building. That mean I would have to raise the unit on my garage up at least 20', and have a 30' boom on the new building. Not practical at this point. Would need a "real" antenna tower at both ends, not just stick with a dish on it.

 

[Mike L.]

Ever tried soup cans and string? Worked when I was a kid.

 

[McRat]

Ever tried soup cans and string? Worked when I was a kid.

Soup cans and a string is also known as AT&T DSL.

Our problem was that the string was broken and they wouldn't fix it.

 

[SmokeShow]

You come up with some of the funniest parables ever. :rofl:

 

[RKTMech]

You have good speed at the new building.... correct?

 

[Kat]

You have good speed at the new building.... correct?

From what we have been told. Won't know until we get it installed

 

[Mike]

Our current shop location can not get high speed internet for under $489 a month, which is for 1.5mbps. DSL wouldn't work reliably (768k max), and satellite was a bad joke with 256k speeds.

So Robert and I set up a wireless bridge to use the cable internet from my house. If you saw the terrain, you'd swear it was impossible.

I used my iPhone compass to am the dishes, and it picked up 7mbps immediately, then with some tweaking we hit 25-40 mbps, with a solid 3mbps upload speed. It's hooked into our work network, so I can actually look at all the work computers from home.

If someone wants to try this, I will probably put these up for sale when we move. They are cheap though, about $80 a side.

Very nice building.

Regarding your wireless setup, what is the range for these?

 

[McRat]

Up to 20 miles if you include wishful thinking. Realistically, about 12 miles (or so I've read). They are legal for sale, unlicensed, using consumer frequencies per FCC guidelines. 5.8ghz is the freq of many wireless devices. It's "line of sight" and won't go through objects.

I have another 5.8ghz dish that can probably go over 50 miles that I didn't bother testing since the "little" ones did the trick. It's for communicating between towers for a wide-area-network. Not sure how legal it is without a license.

 

[jlawles2]

Sweet looking new location. $50K off!!!! WOW!!!!

Ever think about bouncing the Death Ray around the hill.