Recently my Verizon DSL went out and even though its back its far slower than before and I'm pretty sick of it. I have come up with a hair brained scheme to get broadband without DSL.
[The plan]
Put a cell modem on the top of a nearby hill and create a point to point link to my house.
[Background]
This morning I hiked to the top of the hill that is 1212ft elevation. With my iPhone I have confirmed that I can get 35/10MB bandwidth over LTE. Distance from this location to my house is roughly 1800ft. My house is at 1003ft elevation. The top of the hill has been recently logged but still has quite a lot of tree cover. Since the hill drops 200ft the tree cover is not solid for the entire 1800ft. There will be some trees on the way then open air and then trees on my property. I can play with the location of the receiving radio to bypass some tree cover.
[A possible solution]
Cell modem connected to a Ubiquiti NanoBeam with a second NanoBeam at the house. These come in 2.4 and 5ghz (2.4 most likely due to trees). Power required would be less than 20 watts. I can run 1800ft of low voltage landscape lighting "over the river and thru the woods". If I pump 36v down the wire and filter it with a buck/boost DC/DC converter I should be able to make a clean 12vdc.
This is a "stealth" installation so PV panels are out.
Any thoughts, ideas on cheaper equipment, etc etc?
[The plan]
Put a cell modem on the top of a nearby hill and create a point to point link to my house.
[Background]
This morning I hiked to the top of the hill that is 1212ft elevation. With my iPhone I have confirmed that I can get 35/10MB bandwidth over LTE. Distance from this location to my house is roughly 1800ft. My house is at 1003ft elevation. The top of the hill has been recently logged but still has quite a lot of tree cover. Since the hill drops 200ft the tree cover is not solid for the entire 1800ft. There will be some trees on the way then open air and then trees on my property. I can play with the location of the receiving radio to bypass some tree cover.
[A possible solution]
Cell modem connected to a Ubiquiti NanoBeam with a second NanoBeam at the house. These come in 2.4 and 5ghz (2.4 most likely due to trees). Power required would be less than 20 watts. I can run 1800ft of low voltage landscape lighting "over the river and thru the woods". If I pump 36v down the wire and filter it with a buck/boost DC/DC converter I should be able to make a clean 12vdc.
This is a "stealth" installation so PV panels are out.
Any thoughts, ideas on cheaper equipment, etc etc?