Because concrete and pavers. I can do a point to point setup in an hour or two. To run a cable I would be jackhammering up parts of a concrete pad and ripping up professionally installed pavers. Nope.
-D > On Oct 6, 2022, at 9:53 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > For 40 feet why not just run a cable? > > > On Thu, Oct 6, 2022, at 20:12, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: >> True, but in this case it was more a matter of distance from the house >> and getting a WiFi signal out to the buildings (from the house). >> >> I haven’t done it yet, but at the Flagstaff house, even though it’s >> only about 40 feet or so between the structures, I’ll be doing point to >> point to get a signal out to the garage using a couple of Ubiquiti >> dishes in a bridge configuration. It’s maybe $400 for the hardware, >> easy to set up and configure, and gives me 1.7 Gbps bi-directional >> bandwidth to the building, with a 5GHz backup built in for redundancy. >> They’re good for 500 meters, I believe, so I don’t think I’ll have any >> issues with power or bandwidth. >> >> Main data frame in the house has a UPS that will support it for an >> hour, I’ll have a smaller but similar setup in the garage as well. As >> long as the ISP doesn’t go down, I’ll have connectivity. >> >> This would be the idea setup for Kaleb if he wanted reliable >> connectivity from the house to the shop/barn. >> >> -D >> >>> On Oct 6, 2022, at 8:20 PM, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>> >>> In this day and age there isn't much excuse for not having backup for your >>> wifi. It'd be far cheaper, long term, to put a UPS on the wifi router and >>> cable modem than to use cellular data for your cameras. >>> >>> Is everybody's local Facebook page full of halfwits? Ours sure is. We had a >>> power problem where the power blinked every day at 11am, it was out for >>> maybe 1 second, maybe a second and a half. People acted like it was the >>> worst thing in the world, "I need to be on Zoom." blah, blah, blah. I >>> should have gone to Staples and bought a bunch of UPSs to sell to the >>> dummies for double the price... >>> >>> -Curt >>> >>> >>> On Thursday, October 6, 2022 at 01:22:47 PM EDT, dan penoff.com via >>> Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Understood. However, he’s concerned about the security of his outbuildings, >>> and if he’s reliant on wifi and power goes out, he’s got nothing. It >>> records events and sends alerts. Unless you were streaming video from it >>> constantly the amount of data used would be relatively small. I just >>> checked the data on my wifi connected cameras and it’s less than >>> 500Mb/month, and that’s on ones that see activity all day long. >>> >>> Just trying to offer alternatives. >>> >>> -D >>> >>>> On Oct 6, 2022, at 1:18 PM, MG via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Don't know if I would go for that. It doesn't have wifi so you have to >>>> keep paying for Data all the time. >>>> >>>> MG >>>> >>>> dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: >>>>> Kaleb, >>>>> Here’s one of the security cameras I was talking about for your shop or >>>>> barn that uses 4G and solar for power. On sale with a $30 off coupon, too! >>>>> https://tinyurl.com/vw49s2sm >>>>> -D >>>>> _______________________________________ >>>>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>>>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>>>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>>>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________ >>>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>>> >>>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>>> >>>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
