[Novalug] Long range wireless communications with the Raspberry Pi

John Franklin franklin@elfie.org
Thu Sep 19 13:53:53 EDT 2013


I've got some friends in Christiansburg, VA with WiSP.  In general they like it, but they have noted that bandwidth at prime time is saturated. It's hard to stream video during family TV hours.

jf

On Sep 19, 2013, at 12:00 , "Stuart D. Gathman" <stuart@gathman.org> wrote:

>> A 2.4Ghz wireless connection if you can get it is a much better service but
>> is 'direct line of sight' and you must have zero obstructions to point to
>> point.
>> I'm now, thanks to constant badgering for over a year to my WISP to
>> re-evaluate my location, now with a 10ft pole on my roof I now have a 2.4Ghz
>> service that is about 4Mbps down and can almost handle Streaming HD.  
>> I'd advise against any 900Mhz wireless service, if you can avoid it, it'll
>> drive you nutz.. 
> 
> My Dad is in the mountains near San Diego, and there is no line of sight
> because there is always a mountain in the way!  However, there is a WISP
> in the area, and they install routers running linux with wireless mesh
> routing!  There is a base station, which connects via 2.4Ghz Wifi to a few subscribers in line of sight, who in turn each connect to a few
> more subscribers in line of sight to them.  In a few cases, the WISP
> leases a spot on a pole on a mountain ridge for a mesh router when there
> are no subscribers to relay.  The system works very well, except when it
> rains, which doesn't happen very often there (but when it rains, it
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John Franklin
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