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[MarAzul]

And my post wasn't ment to undercut your ideas- I like yours, and it's by far the easiest. Mine would be more for future possible uses. That, and I'm a cheap ass. The cable and switch ran me like 50 bucks. Lol

Like I said, the easy way.

Also like I said, here at my place, I use an AP with a good big omni directional antenna outside to get signal to my shop. The shop is about 400 feet away from the house.
Then an outside client at the shop. It has a 10db directional antenna aimed at the house. That way the whole place operates off of Frontier's DSL service, way less cost than
Verizon data. Speed is not as good but the bottle neck is the DSL line. But it is good enough and not measured by the GIG on data.

400 feet is too far Cat5 or 6 cable without an intermediate box, so I chose to go wireless. It works so well, I would do it for 60 feet as well, rather than bury cable. Made that same choice on the boat for the Radar net. Wireless rather than string wire via some convoluted routes out of the way of people and operations.

Oh btw, my outside AP is and old Linksys below ser # xxxx which has about twice the broadcast power of later models, so it covers the distance well. A Buffalo box will do the same but none of these are available retail today. Used only. I didn't want to muddy the water with this level of detail for OB.

 

[Dougnsalem]

Like I said, the easy way.

Also like I said, here at my place, I use an AP with a good big omni directional antenna outside to get signal to my shop. The shop is about 400 feet away from the house.
Then an outside client at the shop. It has a 10db directional antenna aimed at the house. That way the whole place operates off of Frontier's DSL service, way less cost than
Verizon data. Speed is not as good but the bottle neck is the DSL line. But it is good enough and not measured by the GIG on data.

400 feet is too far Cat5 or 6 cable without an intermediate box, so I chose to go wireless. It works so well, I would do it for 60 feet as well, rather than bury cable. Made that same choice on the boat for the Radar net. Wireless rather than string wire via some convoluted routes out of the way of people and operations.

Oh btw, my outside AP is and old Linksys below ser # xxxx which has about twice the broadcast power of later models, so it covers the distance well. A Buffalo box will do the same but none of these are available retail today. Used only. I didn't want to muddy the water with this level of detail for OB.

Sounds like that's a great setup you have. Especially on the boat. Some of the stuff you've talked about in the past has gone flying WAY over my head. At least you don't have to pay for a house call, if you're 20 miles out at sea, and have problems. I do think that since neither one of us have to dig the ditch, Orion should go with the cable. Lol. (Just kidding).

I love the old Linksys routers. I flashed this one with DD-WRT and hardwired it for a 3A power supply. I had an ex get pissed, and pour a beer in it(while it was powered up). As you can see, I left it in the oven to dry out, just a hair too long. It still works!!! I did retire it to get an AC with 5G. I still see them at Goodwill for 10 bucks though. GREAT routers!

 

[MarAzul]

Sounds like that's a great setup you have. Especially on the boat. Some of the stuff you've talked about in the past has gone flying WAY over my head. At least you don't have to pay for a house call, if you're 20 miles out at sea, and have problems. I do think that since neither one of us have to dig the ditch, Orion should go with the cable. Lol. (Just kidding).

I love the old Linksys routers. I flashed this one with DD-WRT and hardwired it for a 3A power supply. I had an ex get pissed, and pour a beer in it(while it was powered up). As you can see, I left it in the oven to dry out, just a hair too long. It still works!!! I did retire it to get an AC with 5G. I still see them at Goodwill for 10 bucks though. GREAT routers!
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I have an old Apple router, that will handle 3 or 5 clients, that I am going to use to route the Radar net with. It was given to me, so this seems right. it looks like an over sized
biscuit. Perhaps 5 inches in diameter.