3s-gtech Posted February 10, 2011 Posted February 10, 2011 Ebay Once got one for £0.99, with free postage, I was the only bidder! Every one has worked fine too.
plexer Posted February 10, 2011 Posted February 10, 2011 Ubiquiti NanoStation M5 AirMax Wireless PTP Kit 5Ghz - Ubiquiti NanoStation M5 Ben
sparker Posted February 10, 2011 Posted February 10, 2011 Cable isn't too expensive and lots of cheap SFP on ebay 62.5/125 Pre-Terminated Fibre Optic Cables
DAZZD88 Posted February 10, 2011 Posted February 10, 2011 I'd invest in STP. After all, it's called shielded twisted pair for a reason...just in case I need to, that means it's shielded against EM interference. BTW, just joking about the telling you what it does. I'm in a bit of a jokie mood today. Lol.
smurfomatic Posted February 10, 2011 Author Posted February 10, 2011 I will have to buy a new drum of cable soon anyway, so the next one will be STP. I just don't like the idea of running ANOTHER cat5 cable only to find that one's a problem as well! Think we may be better going for the wireless link as demonstrated by plexer, as I have this nightmare that we run fibre then the big oak tree next to the telgraph pole collapses onto the line...
CyberNerd Posted February 10, 2011 Posted February 10, 2011 Nooooo - forget wireless! Really? The 5GhZ nanostation (as plexer linked to) are the business if you have a line of sight
3s-gtech Posted February 10, 2011 Posted February 10, 2011 It has its place (^^how much do they cost?) - but personally I'll always go wired if possible. I'm old fashioned I guess. We have very limited wireless here, just for the one laptop bank.
smurfomatic Posted February 10, 2011 Author Posted February 10, 2011 The site linked to above has a whole kit for £250 inc VAT, which has two wireless units, mounting kits, cables, POE injectors, etc. We've already got 18(!) WAPs around the school, as the main site is a stone building so tends to eat wireless signal. All the staff have laptops so need to be able to connect anywhere.
PiqueABoo Posted February 10, 2011 Posted February 10, 2011 Just out of interest.. Sprogette's primary has and very NOT good wireless link between two buildings and the Head once briefly hummed and hawed to me about the cost of a trench with fibre, without saying what that would be. So very roughly, ignoring the kit at each end, how much has it cost anyone for say a 50 - 100m run?
sparker Posted February 10, 2011 Posted February 10, 2011 Have a look at CABLEMONKEY.co.uk , they offer preterminated stuff so if you have a shovel, lots of switches already have SFP ports and you can get the adapter from Ebay for a bout 30 - 50 . I am looking at a newbuild rewire with a fibre backbone and in OM3 have had quotes for 9K for about 18 pieces(500/wire) terminated and tested.OM1 is much cheaper but is only GbE (>200/wire) but as this stuff will be in the walls for 25years I'm hoping my successor will be thanking me for my foresight as opposed to cursing my predecessor who thought building 10 GB switches into walls was OK and that network maps were overkill
CyberNerd Posted February 11, 2011 Posted February 11, 2011 (edited) It has its place (^^how much do they cost?) - but personally I'll always go wired if possible. I'm old fashioned I guess. We have very limited wireless here, just for the one laptop bank. They're £209 for a pair - much cheaper than fibre and easier to install. It's not the same as a regular wireless AP - these are 5GHz point to point, they don't suffer so much from interference and won't drown a regular 2.4Ghz wireless. We get a constant 150Mbs over a relatively short distance. They are ace if you need a cheap connection to a remote building, obviously you wouldn't run them as a part of a backbone... Edited February 11, 2011 by CyberNerd n't
Bruce123 Posted February 18, 2011 Posted February 18, 2011 I would forget the wired option and use fibre or WiFi instead. We have a wireless bridge connecting our main site to a small office across the road (12 PCs, 10 VoIP phones, switch, printer and a 802.11g wireless access point for wireless laptops). The wireless link has been in since Summer 2008 and had only gone down twice; once when a thief snuck into the main building and stole a printer (unplugging the wifi bridge in the process) and again following a powercut where one of the bridges didn't come up properly. As long as the wireless link is 5Ghz, rather than 2.4Ghz you should not have many problems with wireless. We even have VoIP over the same link without any problems. The link consists of 2x ProSafe Netgear WNDAP330 802.11g/n setup in bridging mode (with encryption). However, I am very interested in the wireless bridging kit referred to earlier, and the potential speed benefits. Bruce.
m25man Posted February 18, 2011 Posted February 18, 2011 However, I am very interested in the wireless bridging kit referred to earlier, and the potential speed benefits. Bruce. Bruce, PM me, I get 100Mbps FD (200Mbps) between house and office more than happy to give you a Teamviewer demo on my own system.
AngryTechnician Posted February 18, 2011 Posted February 18, 2011 Have you tried UDP multicast video on your wireless bridge? We currently have a wireless bridge to our Nursery and while we have plenty of bandwidth the video performance is so bad it's practically unwatchable a lot of the time.
chrisbyrd Posted February 18, 2011 Posted February 18, 2011 You've definitely not got a network loop or some other broadcast storm? Have you got access to your packet counts on ports at either side of the link?
m25man Posted February 18, 2011 Posted February 18, 2011 Have you tried UDP multicast video on your wireless bridge? We currently have a wireless bridge to our Nursery and while we have plenty of bandwidth the video performance is so bad it's practically unwatchable a lot of the time. Never tested it for that but have been running iscsi across it recently have a 2008R2 server with an iscsi LUN mapped across it and been sending backups across it without a problem. I do have an Axis camera with audio and that seems to work fine whilst the backups are running too! I will set up a proper ITO with a packet reflector and measure with the etherscope and post the results...
smurfomatic Posted March 21, 2011 Author Posted March 21, 2011 Sorry I've not replied to this post, the Ubiquiti gear has been in for a couple of weeks and is working great - thanks for the advice! 1
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