- Location
- Ceredigion
I use my phone as a dongle
Best remote broadband
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farmerm
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- Location
- Shropshire
Its still in test phase I think?
Expensive too I believe, circa 80 quid/month I saw a bit back.
Yep that was me, just found best point for 4g which was about 200 m above the farm. Dug in armoured cable to power a router which sends it to the farm through line of site with a receiver on the house gable end. EE network and cost about 2k. We can have 3 Netflix/ Amazon movies running simultaneously no bother ( bloody kids)If you can get 4G reliably somewhere, could you run the antenna to that point?
iirc there was someone on here (in Cumbria?) that had done that, siting the antenna some way up the hill with cables buried. Can’t remember who it was though.
Previously with had nothing at all, couldn’t even get email on our land line.
Nearly
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- Location
- North of York
Quickline was getting wound down in speed and up in price.
Had our home on it and holiday cottage. Asked them to close cottage account and they pulled the plug on both, denying there was a problem.
Sod them!
Now on a 4g signal on EE sim card. 75 meg split between 3 cottages.
- Location
- East Sussex
Having lost fibre connection for the last couple of weeks, BT have send us a Mini hub on 4G.
I was very sceptical that it would work but while much slower than our full fibre it does 2.5 mbs if I put it in a certain place in the house. Sometimes the mobile signal drops out but this seems to keep working.
Not good enough for streaming but fine for general use for up to two people using internet at the same time.
I was very sceptical that it would work but while much slower than our full fibre it does 2.5 mbs if I put it in a certain place in the house. Sometimes the mobile signal drops out but this seems to keep working.
Not good enough for streaming but fine for general use for up to two people using internet at the same time.
https://www.boundlessnetworks.co.uk/ We have this line of sight comes 4 miles on the last "bounce" does 10-15 whatevers unlimited use £25 a month,can get faster if pay more,but we are from Yorkshire N times are hard!
- Location
- Near Beeston Castle
Why didn't you just do a cheapish solar panel and leisure battery? The routers don't run on 230V, more like 12V or less. Perfect application for solar and a tractor size battery.
Just the advice of the guy doing the job really. Anything technical and i am useless so rely on advice
- Location
- Northumberland
Sounds ideal to last through a Cumbrian winter
- Location
- South West
BT just upgraded round here and it's now worse!
Jd Everytime
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- Location
- lanarkshire scotland
Weather changes? That a problem with system or yiu being sarcastic? I was looking into it few weeks ago!.
- Location
- Derbyshire
BT upgraded our local network but wouldn't come the 300m up the fields to us as we are just one property. As the current service was next to useless and the 1/2 yearly damage from a neighbours tree to our line I finally gave up and went to a EE 4G router and got rid of the land line totally.
Previously got 2-3 download and 0.1-0.5 upload now getting 45-50 download and 4-5 download. Its a lot better than expected as phone coverage was around 1-2 bars on 4g.
Previously got 2-3 download and 0.1-0.5 upload now getting 45-50 download and 4-5 download. Its a lot better than expected as phone coverage was around 1-2 bars on 4g.
- Location
- Northumberland
@Kidds post made me think, is it possible
I looked at our panel output for Dec & Jan 120 panels about 12 kw day average , (with big range depending on cloud cover)
Worked out at about 0.1 kw per panel per day
A 4G router & a wireless bridge unit both seem to have a power requirement of about 1 amp @ 12v each
Not sure how to do the maths, anyone know ?
Exfarmer
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- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
1 amp at 12 volts is 12 watts. Per day what be 24x 12
1 unit is amps X 1 volts X hours/ 1,000
So your system would use 24 X 12 = 288 / 1000 = .288 units
An average 88 amp hour tractor battery holds 88 X 12 amp hours = 1.066 WAh or units so combined with a solar panel generating .25 units per day would easily run this with a large margin of capacity for those dull days
However I would be astonished if the draw was anything like 1 amp!
Just be aware that the unit may require a 12 volt AC feed which would need a rectifier ( I think as that is outside my area)
- Location
- Northumberland
- Location
- Near Beeston Castle
Never seen one with a AC input, usually an adaptor that runs off 240V and the device input is 12V or less DC
TheTallGuy
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- Location
- Cambridgeshire
Many 4G routers run on 12V dc & in my experience will average ~0.3-0.5A current draw (depending on usage), although will have higher current peaks, which is why they are usually supplied with 1A power supplies. Some units use an ac supply & whilst in some instances it may be possible to use dc there is no guarantee that it would work & the only practical option would be to utilise an inverter, which will tend to be inefficient at those power levels.
In terms of using solar, I have 2x 100W solar panels feeding a 100AH battery via a proper MPPT charge controller (i.e. not an ebay/amazon cheapy) - that mostly keeps up with running my commercial grade alarm system which consumes a similar amount power to a router. Orientation and angling of the panels is critical & should be optimised to obtain the best results at this time of year - performance in summer isn't critical as there is usually enough sun around to compensate.
In my set up I will generally swap the battery if there's a few days of poor daylight because the battery voltage will be dropping off.
In terms of using solar, I have 2x 100W solar panels feeding a 100AH battery via a proper MPPT charge controller (i.e. not an ebay/amazon cheapy) - that mostly keeps up with running my commercial grade alarm system which consumes a similar amount power to a router. Orientation and angling of the panels is critical & should be optimised to obtain the best results at this time of year - performance in summer isn't critical as there is usually enough sun around to compensate.
In my set up I will generally swap the battery if there's a few days of poor daylight because the battery voltage will be dropping off.
farmerm
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- Location
- Shropshire
Yes I think most adaptors provide 12V DC to the device, check this is the case then simply cut the adaptor off, connect the wires to a 12V battery...
Nearly
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- Location
- North of York
in line fuse too.Yes I think most adaptors provide 12V DC to the device, check this is the case then simply cut the adaptor off, connect the wires to a 12V battery...