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Need help with what to buy for long range wifi

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    #32
    $ausage$
    Registered Users Posts: 691 ✭✭✭$ausage$


    Sorry only putting this up now as I am a bit hungover.

    anyway The Antenna is a dream! It is smaller than i thought which means its hand to transport and a USB cable comes is great length. The tripod is ok but not built to support somthing that is so front heavy. I ccan see me mounting it another way.

    Anyway I went to the field and stuck it out the door of my car a bang! I was getting networks from everywhere including myown.

    I got between 40-81 MBS speeds and found the best way to hold the antenna is with the USB to the top (On its side)

    I think this will do what i need now so I dont think I need anymore help. Thsi was a super cheap way of doing this and a great chance I took. I am super happy with this and would really recommend it so far.

    Thanks!


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    #33
    dublinmanman
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭dublinmanman


    Hi all.

    I install cameras for farmers in their sheds.
    Usually the setup is a 3G Dovado Tiny router with data sim card.
    These routers have 1 ethernet lan cable connection and 1 antenna.
    I usually connect a wireless IP camera to the router.
    I setup port forwarding in the router and get a dynamic ip address from no-ip.com.
    The farmer can then login to their camera from iphone, android etc.

    Now here's my problem.

    farmer wants 3 ip cameras in shed. Farmer also want's to access internet in the house. House to shed is 300m. Line of sight is good with no obstacles.
    3G reception is better in the house so dovado modem will be placed there.
    I was thinking of using a tp-link directional antenna to send the wifi up to the shed. The problem is that I will loose the antenna on the router if I screw the directional antenna wire into the back of the router. Farmer will then have no wifi in house ( I need a solution for this?????????)
    Also, I was going to place another tp-llink antenna on the shed to "receive" the wifi. What do I do from here????????

    The wireless ip cameras may not work wirelessly as there is galvanise sheeting in various places and I may need go bring cat 5 cable from each camera back to the central point.
    I would intend allowing the customer access to the cameras via a dynamic dns or no-ip so each camera will have to be accessed over the system
    e.g.
    camera1.no-ip.biz
    camera2.no-ip.biz etc.....

    I am new to this and thought my eureka moment was allowing someone to see their camera on their phone!
    I'm in over my head and I would greatly appreciate any suggestions that people could make regarding what's the best hardware to use and how to set it up.
    Thanks in advance

    Martin


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