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robert  
#1 Posted : Tuesday, July 08, 2014 3:22:19 PM(UTC)
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Hi. I'm a rural wireless ISP user who is currently getting poor service because of trees surrounding my house. I recently had my service provide out to my property, and he identified a spot in my pasture about 400 feet from my house where the wifi reception would be much better. So I have decided to set up a point to point relay from this location to get signal to my house. There is no electrical service near the location in the pasture, so I'm looking into doing a solar/battery system to power the hardware. My problem is that I cannot figure out how much power to budget for. I've asked my service provider for the specs on his WISP radio-so I hope that an average wattage rating for that is forthcoming. But I cannot get a good power consumption estimate for the point to point transceiver. What I'm planning to use is this: RB/SXT5nDr2 - MikroTik SXT Lite5 - 5GHz CPE with 16dBi Dual-Polarity Antenna. Anybody got an average current or wattage rating for it? All I can find is a max wattage, which is 7 or 8 watts depending on what source you use, but not average power consumption. Also, if anyone knows of a website that documents a similar solar-powered point-to-point relay station, I'd be interested in knowing about it.
james  
#2 Posted : Wednesday, July 09, 2014 12:13:47 PM(UTC)
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At 400' there is not reason why you need to go wireless. Just trench cat5 and lock the port speed to 10megs/half duplex. It will work fine.
robert  
#3 Posted : Wednesday, July 09, 2014 12:14:03 PM(UTC)
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I'm not 100% sure on this, but I'm told that you cannot power the 24VDC radio through 400ft of cat5 cable. If so, then I have to have a solar/battery power station. And if I have to build this, then it seems easier to use the point-to-point equipment than to bury 400 feet of cable.
james  
#4 Posted : Wednesday, July 09, 2014 12:14:18 PM(UTC)
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Sure you can. What type of radio is the WISP using?
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#5 Posted : Friday, June 16, 2017 8:15:46 AM(UTC)
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