Unifi Point to Point
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What is the current hardware recommendation for trying to extend a wireless signal to a remote location over a point to point?
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Depends on the needs. Unifi makes all kinds of P2P gear, just get whatever is right for the speed and range that you are trying to cover.
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@scottalanmiller said in Unifi Point to Point:
Depends on the needs. Unifi makes all kinds of P2P gear, just get whatever is right for the speed and range that you are trying to cover.
The need being to get standard wireless to an out building or grounds. My estimate at the moment is lower usage numbers (maybe 50 devices at the most at any given time).
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I'd use a NanoBeam from Ubiquiti to get the network to outbuilding. The ones I've used before seem to give a solid 300mbps connection. If you need better performance, you'd need to look at their AirFiber offerings.
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@DustinB3403 said in Unifi Point to Point:
@scottalanmiller said in Unifi Point to Point:
Depends on the needs. Unifi makes all kinds of P2P gear, just get whatever is right for the speed and range that you are trying to cover.
The need being to get standard wireless to an out building or grounds. My estimate at the moment is lower usage numbers (maybe 50 devices at the most at any given time).
Device count doesn't matter, only bandwidth and distance.
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@scottalanmiller said in Unifi Point to Point:
@DustinB3403 said in Unifi Point to Point:
@scottalanmiller said in Unifi Point to Point:
Depends on the needs. Unifi makes all kinds of P2P gear, just get whatever is right for the speed and range that you are trying to cover.
The need being to get standard wireless to an out building or grounds. My estimate at the moment is lower usage numbers (maybe 50 devices at the most at any given time).
Device count doesn't matter, only bandwidth and distance.
1/4 mile or less (literally) just trying to get wireless to a barn/out building.
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@DustinB3403 said in Unifi Point to Point:
@scottalanmiller said in Unifi Point to Point:
@DustinB3403 said in Unifi Point to Point:
@scottalanmiller said in Unifi Point to Point:
Depends on the needs. Unifi makes all kinds of P2P gear, just get whatever is right for the speed and range that you are trying to cover.
The need being to get standard wireless to an out building or grounds. My estimate at the moment is lower usage numbers (maybe 50 devices at the most at any given time).
Device count doesn't matter, only bandwidth and distance.
1/4 mile or less (literally) just trying to get wireless to a barn/out building.
Probably far enough to need NanoBeam. A well tuned regular radio can go pretty far, but that's too far for reliability without special gear.
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So 2 Nanobeam AC's one for each side and then an AP for the outbuilding itself.
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If you wan to go a bit "outside the box" the President of our company uses this to go about 1/4 mile to a barn:
https://mikrotik.com/product/wireless_wire
House end is in a second story window, I don't know how the barn side is connected. -
@jt1001001 Yeah that isn't much of an option as it's just making things more complex.
Thank you for the recommendation though.
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@jt1001001 said in Unifi Point to Point:
If you wan to go a bit "outside the box" the President of our company uses this to go about 1/4 mile to a barn:
https://mikrotik.com/product/wireless_wire
House end is in a second story window, I don't know how the barn side is connected.Looks like a competitor to nanobeam... or at least a competitor to two UAPs bridging a gap... Nanobeam more likely is very directional....
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@Dashrender said in Unifi Point to Point:
@jt1001001 said in Unifi Point to Point:
If you wan to go a bit "outside the box" the President of our company uses this to go about 1/4 mile to a barn:
https://mikrotik.com/product/wireless_wire
House end is in a second story window, I don't know how the barn side is connected.Looks like a competitor to nanobeam... or at least a competitor to two UAPs bridging a gap... Nanobeam more likely is very directional....
They are both very directional, and the Microtik will be very prone to having the signal blocked by any objects in between them. They operate on the public 60ghz frequency, so very fast and very line of site.
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I use the NanoStations and they work well
https://www.ui.com/airmax/nanostation-ac/ -
We use Nanobeams at 6 sites and never looked back.
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https://link.ui.com is pretty cool. You select the locations you're trying to link and it estimates the performance you'll get from whatever products it recommends.
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UBNT has also recently released a Unifi based option. Haven't tried those though.
I've also use the Cambium PTP550 on a few installs and they have been rock solid. Less than 7ms latency. Clients consistently get their max 500Mbps speeds over the PtP and price was really competitive. My largest deployment using the Cambium is for a shopping mall which handles all guest wifi as well as the main office and security services onsite. Max concurrent users (pre-pandemic) was ~500 to 1,000 on busy days and no problems handling load.
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@NashBrydges said in Unifi Point to Point:
UBNT has also recently released a Unifi based option. Haven't tried those though.
https://store.ui.com/collections/unifi-network-routing-switching/products/unifi-building-to-building-bridgeYes, These are a great solution that fill a very comman gap IMO.
So many building to building links are done with products that were designed for much longer ranges, simply because there was never a solution designed for the smaller ranges.
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@JaredBusch said in Unifi Point to Point:
@NashBrydges said in Unifi Point to Point:
UBNT has also recently released a Unifi based option. Haven't tried those though.
https://store.ui.com/collections/unifi-network-routing-switching/products/unifi-building-to-building-bridgeYes, These are a great solution that fill a very comman gap IMO.
So many building to building links are done with products that were designed for much longer ranges, simply because there was never a solution designed for the smaller ranges.
So those look interesting for sure and could be an option.
I got to see the site and there are quite a few trees between the buildings so this may not work.
It might be better fore to just blanket the area from a single focal point.
