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Broadband signal blocked by trees any solution

  • 03-02-2016 9:14pm
    #1
    bigpink
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    Trees cant be cut down


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  • #2
    ItHurtsWhenIP
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    bigpink wrote: »
    Trees cant be cut down

    Can you raise an antennae higher than the trees?


  • #3
    bigpink
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    MMFITWGDV wrote: »
    Can you raise an antennae higher than the trees?

    There very high at least 40 feet


  • #4
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    Yeah, bounce your signal off the moon.

    You can answer this yourself, you know the lay of the land. You can cut them down, go around or go over. If none of them then you're SOL.


  • #5
    long_b
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    Find the nearest spot to your place that you can get a signal and run network cabling from there?


  • #6
    ItHurtsWhenIP
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    ED E wrote: »
    Yeah, bounce your signal off the moon.

    You can answer this yourself, you know the lay of the land. You can cut them down, go around or go over. If none of them then you're SOL.

    What he said! :(


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  • #7
    bigpink
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭bigpink


    Simple solutions for elderly couple


  • #8
    sasta le
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    bigpink wrote: »
    Simple solutions for elderly couple

    Be interested in this too


  • #9
    long_b
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    Is it a fixed wireless connection or mobile broadband they're using?


  • #10
    Big Lar
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    long_b wrote: »
    Find the nearest spot to your place that you can get a signal and run network cabling from there?

    I will agree with long_b, you can run 100m of CAT5 so bury a cable to the trees and put the antenna on the tree's, just make sure that you allow for the voltage drop across the cable.


  • #11
    seamus
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    Big Lar wrote: »
    I will agree with long_b, you can run 100m of CAT5 so bury a cable to the trees and put the antenna on the tree's, just make sure that you allow for the voltage drop across the cable.
    Worth noting if you need to run it longer than 100m that can also be done, just needs a little bit more hardware.

    E.g. if the location was 150m out, but there was a shed or other block room you could go via, then you could stick a small gigabit switch in there to give you the extra length.

    I've no real experience with fixed wireless, but I would have thought that the antenna needs to be pretty stable - unless the tree has a stout trunk, bad weather may kill the connection. So attaching it to a Leylandii may not be a great idea.


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