[ale] Slightly OT: Mesh Network Strategy?

[neal at mnopltd.com]

Note the pavement all around.  Plays hell on Cat5 cables.

I'm starting to like directional Wifi, if it can be made to work.   We 
could leave that up year round.   Makes streaming services easier.

On 2021-06-25 20:32, Jim Kinney wrote:
> Run that cat6 all the way then literally any wap will be fine. Lock it
> down to only the pos systems.
> 
> On June 25, 2021 9:12:28 PM EDT, Neal Rhodes via Ale <ale at ale.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> ok, point me in the right general direction. I wasn't the person
>> doing
>> this in the past, when it definitely DIDN'T go 250 feet reliably. It
>> 
>> was going THROUGH a commercial tinted window - don't they
>> attentuate?
>> And it was a Linksys router with internal antenna.
>> 
>> So, maybe the right access point sitting outside with the right
>> directional antenna would work. Specifics?
>> 
>> On 2021-06-25 19:09, jonhall80 at comcast.net wrote:
>> Are you sure you need mesh, or would regular WiFi do? If outside and
>> nothing blocking the signal you should be able to do 250 feet,
>> particularly with a directional antenna.
>> 
>> Perhaps a "wifi extender" at the Tent.
>> 
>> md
>> 
>> On 06/24/2021 4:29 PM Neal Rhodes via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>> 
>> So considering the following Physical layout:
>> 
>> Business Comcast
>> |
>> regular untinted Window in Building we can get Cat6 to
>> |
>> 100 feet of parking lot
>> |
>> Storage Building with power and overhang to protect from rain
>> |
>> 150 feet of grass/trees - could run Cat6 wire easily
>> |
>> Tent selling German beer with credit card readers needing Wifi (do I
>> have your attention now?)
>> 
>> And assuming we'd like for people to be able to buy beer, and we
>> have
>> a
>> modest budget for networking, are there reasonable mesh networking
>> products that would work?
>> 
>> I have never put in a mesh network; if you read the fine print, they
>> seem to assume all the nodes are clustered around a central node,
>> not
>> strung out in a line. (i.e. no backhaul)
>> 
>> regards,
>> 
>> Neal
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