You don't even need LOS to move more than 1.5 megabit/s over wireless. I think the best bet is to consult people that actually know wireless. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Hollis" <goemon@sasami.anime.net> To: "Nick Bogle" <nick@bogle.se> Cc: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2018 7:00:23 PM Subject: Re: Extending network over a dry pair On Wed, 12 Dec 2018, Nick Bogle wrote:
A quick question for you guys;
If you had a single dry pair (pair of copper wires originally for phones) to a remote site that was around 6 miles away, what would you use? We currently are just extending a T1 line to this site, but 1.5Mbps isn't cutting it anymore. Unfortunately it's a research site on a federally protected wildlife preserve so we can't run any new infrastructure (fiber etc) and it isn't in a geographical place where point to point wireless is practical. We were thinking there is some sort of network extender that uses some form of DSL for higher bandwidth capacity.
Any suggestions?
If this is telco provided dry pair then the distance is probably longer than 6 miles as the endpoints are probably tied together through a telco CO. I have not heard of any equipment which will work over a 6 mile pair any faster than you're getting with T1. You might consider setting up wireless repeaters to bridge where there is no direct LOS. Look at what the hamwan guys have done. http://hamwan.org/ -Dan