I have similar considerations on the great northern estate with our barn. What with everything (eventually) having metal roofs I'm thinking that I'll run fiber between the buildings when I run power to the barn. That way I need never worry about bandwidth between house and barn or interference from the roof or a barn full of tractors or whatever.
I don't keep anything particularly valuable or easily stealable in the barn but someday I might so I'll increase the security... -Curt On Thursday, October 6, 2022 at 09:12:57 PM EDT, dan penoff.com via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> 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
