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  • 28-03-2017 3:37pm
    #1
    KOR101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,898 ✭✭✭


    I'm posting this is broadband, but I've no idea what it's for.

    I can see this from the back door of my house. It faces away from the house. Is it for TV or what?

    IMG_20170326_161756.png


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


    A directional and an omni like that suggests a repeating station but I'm too noob to know what. Id expect a telco to use a microwave panel where as the directional appears more like traditional TV so that seems like a good guess. Cush/Paknet/Plodder etc will know for sure.


  • #3
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,852 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    Could it be a Wireless ISP mast, the omni for coverage and the MMDS-like antenna for a point to point link?


  • #4
    KOR101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,898 ✭✭✭KOR101


    The Cush wrote: »
    Could it be a Wireless ISP mast, the omni for coverage and the MMDS-like antenna for a point to point link?
    This is the house in Kerry and I get very very poor mobile signal. Surely if it was wireless, I'd get better. It is clearly visible from the back door, or is it very directional?


  • #5
    The Cush
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    KOR101 wrote: »
    This is the house in Kerry and I get very very poor mobile signal. Surely if it was wireless, I'd get better. It is clearly visible from the back door, or is it very directional?

    If it is a WISP mast it has nothing to do with your mobile signal, WISP's operate in unlicensed 2.4 and 5.8 GHz spectrum to provide wireless broadband in rural areas by independent operators under a Comreg general authorisation.

    http://irelandoffline.org/map/#/home, check the box in the top LH corner to display WISPs on the map

    Your mobile signal comes from lower band licenced spectrum 700/800/900 MHz, 1800/2100 MHz, correction, the 700 MHz band hasn't been made available for mobile yet.


  • #6
    degsie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,755 ✭✭✭degsie


    It's called a 'pole'.


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  • #7
    The Cush
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    degsie wrote: »
    It's called a 'pole'.

    It's carrying 2 antennas and associated hardware, I'd refer to it as a radio mast.


  • #8
    KOR101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,898 ✭✭✭KOR101


    The Cush wrote: »
    If it is a WISP mast it has nothing to do with your mobile signal.
    Sorry, speed reading......


  • #9
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,852 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    Another possibility, an eir Rurtel mast? Providing wireless telephone service in remote areas where it wasn't economic to provide a landline phone in the west of the country. Operates in the 2300-2400 band.

    3672610387_518aae3527_o.jpg


  • #10
    9726_9726
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 440 ✭✭9726_9726


    It's a WISP access point, quite old school too. The grid is a backhaul link to another site upstream in the network.

    The omni is connected to an access point.

    Neither of them are MIMO, they only have one chain. They both have what looks like LMR400 coax going down into the cabinet. I'd guess probably Mikrotik radios in there. The fact that they are not MIMO means it's old and slow.

    The size of the omni suggests 5GHz.

    If you have an Android with 5GHz wifi, run WiFi Analyzer and you might see an SSID from the omni, if they are using a certain mode.


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