I have a friend with a wireless bridge from central Portsmouth to
Southampton using ubiquity kit... Not cheap, but really robust.
On Wed, 5 Feb 2025, 18:24 Roger Munford via Hampshire, <
hampshire@???> wrote:
> Thanks everybody for your kind and useful responses.
>
> The project involves two solar installations which are close to each
> other and as generators they are separate. However it appears that for
> monitoring purposes, (equipment manufactures advice) it would be better
> to have the two systems integrated hence the last minute call for a
> wireless link. It could have been incorporated into the system whilst it
> was being built but that didn't happen. I have passed on the excellent
> suggestion of a fibre link.
>
> In the distant past I did install a couple of wireless bridges across
> farmyards using normal domestic equipment costing in the order of £50
> plus antennae and they seemed to be OK. However for this job, I thought
> that I would try and find something industrial standard . It seems that
> the sort of equipment found on Amazon although cheap appears to be
> adequate although I think a well made, rugged system is required here.
>
> A few years a go was lucky enough to be involved in a project in Africa
> and we were advised to use "Teltonika" equipment for comms and it looked
> the part, aluminium case, rail mounted. What I meant by robust. It has
> been working for 3 years without failing.
>
> My friend has ordered something Chinese from Amazon just to get going
> but chances are he will come back to it later.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Roger
>
> On 04/02/2025 23:14, James Dutton via Hampshire wrote:
> > On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 at 12:09, Roger Munford via Hampshire
> > <hampshire@???> wrote:
> >> A friend of mine has asked for advice on an industrial network and I
> >> think the solution is a 180m wireless link across a field.
> >>
> >> This has to be very robust.
> >>
> > Hi,
> >
> > When you say "This has to be very robust.", what do you mean?
> > Also, how future proof do you need it? Bandwidth?
> > What is it linking? Two buildings the person owns? Is the field owned
> > by them, or someone else.
> > Why not get broadband to each building, and then VPN across the
> > internet between them?
> >
> > I would be tempted to dig a trench and put some single mode fibre down
> > it. It is a bit of effort, but 180M is not far to dig.
> > It will also be future proof as you can put any bandwidth you please
> > down the fibre cable.
> >
> > If you need robust, do you need dual links? In case one fails?
> >
> > Kind Regards
> >
> > James
> >
>
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