I have a friend with a wireless bridge from central Portsmouth to Southampton using ubiquity kit... Not cheap, but really robust.
On Wed, 5 Feb 2025, 18:24 Roger Munford via Hampshire, < hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote: > Thanks everybody for your kind and useful responses. > > The project involves two solar installations which are close to each > other and as generators they are separate. However it appears that for > monitoring purposes, (equipment manufactures advice) it would be better > to have the two systems integrated hence the last minute call for a > wireless link. It could have been incorporated into the system whilst it > was being built but that didn't happen. I have passed on the excellent > suggestion of a fibre link. > > In the distant past I did install a couple of wireless bridges across > farmyards using normal domestic equipment costing in the order of £50 > plus antennae and they seemed to be OK. However for this job, I thought > that I would try and find something industrial standard . It seems that > the sort of equipment found on Amazon although cheap appears to be > adequate although I think a well made, rugged system is required here. > > A few years a go was lucky enough to be involved in a project in Africa > and we were advised to use "Teltonika" equipment for comms and it looked > the part, aluminium case, rail mounted. What I meant by robust. It has > been working for 3 years without failing. > > My friend has ordered something Chinese from Amazon just to get going > but chances are he will come back to it later. > > Thanks for your help. > > Roger > > On 04/02/2025 23:14, James Dutton via Hampshire wrote: > > On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 at 12:09, Roger Munford via Hampshire > > <hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote: > >> A friend of mine has asked for advice on an industrial network and I > >> think the solution is a 180m wireless link across a field. > >> > >> This has to be very robust. > >> > > Hi, > > > > When you say "This has to be very robust.", what do you mean? > > Also, how future proof do you need it? Bandwidth? > > What is it linking? Two buildings the person owns? Is the field owned > > by them, or someone else. > > Why not get broadband to each building, and then VPN across the > > internet between them? > > > > I would be tempted to dig a trench and put some single mode fibre down > > it. It is a bit of effort, but 180M is not far to dig. > > It will also be future proof as you can put any bandwidth you please > > down the fibre cable. > > > > If you need robust, do you need dual links? In case one fails? > > > > Kind Regards > > > > James > > > > -- > Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk > Manage subscription: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire > LUG website: http://www.hantslug.org.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------- >
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