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<blockquote data-quote="rollestonpark" data-source="post: 6044658" data-attributes="member: 76444"><p>This can be done may ways, but a lot depends on the site conditions etc.</p><p>1st are there other properties near you running wifi? If so a 5ghz wifi network might be the best.</p><p>If noone near you, then I'd go for 2.4ghz wifi as it generally has twice the range of the 5ghz.</p><p></p><p>I wanted to broadcast wifi over the whole farmyard and beyond.</p><p>So I used a Ubiquiti bullet with a 1 metre antenna on(15dbi), placed as high as possible, think the bottom of the antenna is about 10m high.</p><p>(with antennas its the height to the bottom that counts)</p><p></p><p>This will reach wifi to mobile phones over the whole farmyard area. Obviously you need cat5e running to the bullet (the access point) with a Poe injector at the source.</p><p></p><p>Running a network cable from your router/homehub to the access point is the best bet.</p><p>You can use some of these access points in repeater mode to bounce the signal on from the hub, but I'm not a massive fan of doing it, as it a bit of a fudge and performance isn't great.</p><p></p><p>If you can get a network cable from your homehub to somewhere near the middle of the yard, that would be best.</p><p>Else run a cable to your chimney maybe and put an access point on the end of a cat5e cable with a big antenna on it.</p><p></p><p>Wifi works best with line of sight. Give all the access points the same SSID and password, but put them as far away from each other in terms of channel as you can.</p><p>eg in a 2.4ghz network, use channels 1 6 and 13 for your different access points, then they will perform at their best. But if you have people around you using the 2.4ghz network, then maybe a 5ghz network might be better, because congestion can be a problem on the 2.4ghz band.</p><p></p><p>Really need more info about the site to recommend something.</p><p></p><p>Chris</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rollestonpark, post: 6044658, member: 76444"] This can be done may ways, but a lot depends on the site conditions etc. 1st are there other properties near you running wifi? If so a 5ghz wifi network might be the best. If noone near you, then I'd go for 2.4ghz wifi as it generally has twice the range of the 5ghz. I wanted to broadcast wifi over the whole farmyard and beyond. So I used a Ubiquiti bullet with a 1 metre antenna on(15dbi), placed as high as possible, think the bottom of the antenna is about 10m high. (with antennas its the height to the bottom that counts) This will reach wifi to mobile phones over the whole farmyard area. Obviously you need cat5e running to the bullet (the access point) with a Poe injector at the source. Running a network cable from your router/homehub to the access point is the best bet. You can use some of these access points in repeater mode to bounce the signal on from the hub, but I'm not a massive fan of doing it, as it a bit of a fudge and performance isn't great. If you can get a network cable from your homehub to somewhere near the middle of the yard, that would be best. Else run a cable to your chimney maybe and put an access point on the end of a cat5e cable with a big antenna on it. Wifi works best with line of sight. Give all the access points the same SSID and password, but put them as far away from each other in terms of channel as you can. eg in a 2.4ghz network, use channels 1 6 and 13 for your different access points, then they will perform at their best. But if you have people around you using the 2.4ghz network, then maybe a 5ghz network might be better, because congestion can be a problem on the 2.4ghz band. Really need more info about the site to recommend something. Chris [/QUOTE]
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