Quote: @AGRforever said:
Wow the outdoor satellite was actually $70 less at costco. Jimmy, I'll let you know if this thing works. You can even use my costco membership # lol.
I ended up with a router, two indoor satellites and one outdoor satellite for $614. I should be able to put together a mesh that'll cover all my outbuildings, most of our yard and the in laws house and yard across the street.
We've got 32 acres so I'm not going to get coverage without a few more satellites
our 2 farms are 160 acres each and are 3 miles apart whats it going to cost me to make this work? :p
(they just dug fiber into the other farm this fall and we are still on copper that is fed by fiber, I am interested to see how much faster things will be at the other place when we get internet over there in the future.)
Quote: @JimmyinSD said:
@ AGRforever said:
@ JimmyinSD said:
@ AGRforever said:
@ JimmyinSD said:
@ AGRforever said:
Can someone with a costco membership tell me what the price on the orbi mesh system is? Thank you!!!!!
https://www.costco.com/NETGEAR-Orbi-AC30...18832.html
Trying to figure out if its cheaper at costco with the purchase of a membership or amazon and the costco website won't let me see the price without a membership #
what makes this one better than the less expensive ones like the google version?
I am honestly interested, I am contemplating buying a system like this to pair with a wireless (wifi based) surveilance camera system for our other farm to be able to watch cows that are getting close to calving from home.
I'm after the outdoor addon that google's system doesn't offer. (at least from what I've read)
I'm trying to get internet from my house to my in laws. We've got to cover a couple 100 yards and I've got an outbuilding and or telephone pole that would make an excellent midpoint.
my home router reaches about a 1/8-1/4 mile, i dont know the speed at that distance, but I know that my phone tells me when it connects and disconnects from it and its a damn good ways from the house down the road.
I don't have to get much more coverage to get it inside their house. I can sit on the porch facing our house and have coverage. If I go directly on the other side of the wall the coverage drops.
I'm hoping that this will give them reliable enough internet to not complain to me "their systems administrator" if netflix isn't working.
reading quickly on these gizmos they talk about the square footage of coverage, but not really the distance. let me know what you find out... hell maybe if you get one of these on the outside of your house and the ouside of the inlaws you wont need your mid point?
We'll find out. That is exactly my plan is to put one on their covered porch, my covered porch and one in between. I don't buy the SQ ft deal because it can vary so much for some reason. I can be right outside my house in a certain spot and get no coverage what so ever but if I walk 100 yards away for some reason I get coverage as good as if I was sitting next to the router.
I'm hoping that it'll end up being that with enough repeaters that it'll provide enough coverage to keep everyone happy.
Buy Ubiquiti instead. Better quality gear, excellent company, though much of their stuff is above consumer grade it is fairly inexpensive. My house runs on Ubiquity.
Also if you are running a combined modem, router, and wifi in one box you are running mediocre everything pretty much.
Quote: @Mike Olson said:
Buy Ubiquiti instead. Better quality gear, excellent company, though much of their stuff is above consumer grade it is fairly inexpensive. My house runs on Ubiquity.
Also if you are running a combined modem, router, and wifi in one box you are running mediocre everything pretty much.
I'm not as smart as I should be on most of this stuff. Hopefully it just works. Frankly I just have to get it to work good enough for netflix and I'll be good to go.
Ubiquiti looks cool. Wish I had heard of them before ordering. If netgears stuff doesn't do what we're after I'll look into them next.
Quote: @JimmyinSD said:
@ AGRforever said:
Wow the outdoor satellite was actually $70 less at costco. Jimmy, I'll let you know if this thing works. You can even use my costco membership # lol.
I ended up with a router, two indoor satellites and one outdoor satellite for $614. I should be able to put together a mesh that'll cover all my outbuildings, most of our yard and the in laws house and yard across the street.
We've got 32 acres so I'm not going to get coverage without a few more satellites
our 2 farms are 160 acres each and are 3 miles apart whats it going to cost me to make this work? :p
(they just dug fiber into the other farm this fall and we are still on copper that is fed by fiber, I am interested to see how much faster things will be at the other place when we get internet over there in the future.)
If you've got free sight lines you can do a wireless point to point system to get internet fed from one building site to the other. Past that you're on your own as far as how you distribute it.
My folk's farm is on a major highway and they still can't get anything past dial up. Obama's whole broadband to America bill was complete crap. They're still stuck using cell towers to do their internet.
3 miles. If you own the land it would be best to just drop a fiber line. Sight to sight antennas are going to be a pain in the ass to be honest with you. Rent a ditch witch and buy the fiber cable and put that shit in. You will spend a boat load trying to get a system up that is going to do 3 miles and it isn't likely going to work very well.
Quote: @Mike Olson said:
3 miles. If you own the land it would be best to just drop a fiber line. Sight to sight antennas are going to be a pain in the ass to be honest with you. Rent a ditch witch and buy the fiber cable and put that shit in. You will spend a boat load trying to get a system up that is going to do 3 miles and it isn't likely going to work very well.
I was joking, A ditch witch would make it about 1/4 mile where I live and then fall into an abyss....and no I dont own the land in between anyway. I would be a lifetime of monthly bills ahead of putting in my own fiber....but I like your problem solving attitude!
Quote: @Mike Olson said:
3 miles. If you own the land it would be best to just drop a fiber line. Sight to sight antennas are going to be a pain in the ass to be honest with you. Rent a ditch witch and buy the fiber cable and put that shit in. You will spend a boat load trying to get a system up that is going to do 3 miles and it isn't likely going to work very well.
any clue what fiber costs? never even thought of this as an option. wouldnt work for the in laws because we have to cross a road but for other uses im not opposed
Got the mesh wifi set up today. Its working better then expected frankly. Im getting full pass through in speec in my inlaws house which is about 750ish yards away.
Quote: @JimmyinSD said:
@ AGRforever said:
@ JimmyinSD said:
@ AGRforever said:
Can someone with a costco membership tell me what the price on the orbi mesh system is? Thank you!!!!!
https://www.costco.com/NETGEAR-Orbi-AC30...18832.html
Trying to figure out if its cheaper at costco with the purchase of a membership or amazon and the costco website won't let me see the price without a membership #
what makes this one better than the less expensive ones like the google version?
I am honestly interested, I am contemplating buying a system like this to pair with a wireless (wifi based) surveilance camera system for our other farm to be able to watch cows that are getting close to calving from home.
I'm after the outdoor addon that google's system doesn't offer. (at least from what I've read)
I'm trying to get internet from my house to my in laws. We've got to cover a couple 100 yards and I've got an outbuilding and or telephone pole that would make an excellent midpoint.
my home router reaches about a 1/8-1/4 mile, i dont know the speed at that distance, but I know that my phone tells me when it connects and disconnects from it and its a damn good ways from the house down the road.
usually mine drops off like that as well, but try to do anything anywhere near where it drops off. Impossible.
I have teh ASUS AiMesh system at work. I like it there, very good coverage.
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