Outdoor wireless - has anyone used Ubiquiti power stations?

[Gary Gatten]

Is it not possible to get xDSL/Cable/BRI/WiMAX/3G/4G/whatever at the "office".  Depending on your wireless gear, antenna, topology, fresnel zone, spectrum pollution, blah blah blah - this COULD work, but not likely very well.  Too many variables to know for sure.  Many WISP's offer "reasonable" packages as well.

If they have a money back deal, or demo gear - it might be worth a shot.  If they comply with the 802.11 standards for xmit power, frequencies, etc. - IMHO you'll be lucky to get this working across 15 miles, even with really sweet antenna's.

G

PS: Why do you have DSL with no office?  Is it just hanging off the utility pole? :)


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Modulok
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 3:03 PM
To: FreeBSD Questions
Subject: Outdoor wireless - has anyone used Ubiquiti power stations?

List,

This might be a little off topic, but it still involves FreeBSD. I
figured this list has many a smart folk, so I'd ask here.

If I buy two of these Ubiquiti power station 2's, I can set them up to
provide a long distance ethernet link to my BSD box right? Has anyone
used these?

Basically, I have an remote office with a FreeBSD box acting as a
router, but no Internet connection. At the other side of the valley
(15 miles) I have a DSL based Internet connection, but no office. In
theory, I should be able to link them via a wireless bridge, right?
That way I'd have local connection at the office on one interface, and
a long distance link which hooks up to an ISP through their DSL router
on the other. If I treat the link between the office and the DSL
router as if it were the public Internet, I shouldn't need any
encryption between me and it, right? Does this all sound like a
reasonable approach?

I just thought I'd get a vote of confidence in my methods before I
finally tackle this project and buy the equipment.
-Modulok-
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