To Rod Speed and anyone who wants to set up a ubiquiti radio as a receiver far from the house.
Mechanically the setup is this: a. House is normal with SOHO WiFi router b. Barn is about 200 feet away and has electricity c. House to barn has driveway plus creek so no Ethernet cable
We had a half dozen spare Ubiquiti Rocket M2 radios on hand, because we swapped them all out for Rocket M5 radios instead (for the lower noise).
So a bunch of us grabbed a few and set them up outside, a few hundred feet from the house, pointing over the air back at the normal home SOHO routers.
The radio is powered by the POE that comes with it, with one end connected to the 120VAC mains and the other end powers the radio. The POE has another Ethernet RJ45 port which right now just goes into a laptop but which could easily feed into a router and/or a camera or whatever.
The problem is that the home SOHO router won't cast a good signal to the barn at about 200 feet but with this radio (whose dish alone is 30 decibels!) we can pick up the home SOHO router at 200 feet without trouble.
At about 200 feet line of sight from the barn to the house, we got signal strength of over minus 65 decibels, which is pretty good, and when we tested speeds, they were asymmetric (even though all our feeds are symmetric) at 43 Mbps down and 17 Mbps up, which is fine for what we're doing (since we get our Internet over the air via WISP).
The key to set up the Ubiquiti radio as a receiver is "station" and "bridge" for the two tabs, "wireless" and "network".
The configuration file has the radio set up with the following cfg file which can be loaded into any Ubiquiti Rocket M2 (and probably other Ubiquiti AirOS radios).
I realize this is the opposite of what Rod Speed is trying to do, but I point it out in case he wants to just set up a radio & router at his neighbor's house 150 feet away.
I'm going to set up a 1 Watt spare bullet M2 with a 16dB planar antenna so I hope my next post can be a configuration cfg file of the bullet set up to paint his naighbor's house.
But until then, this is how to set up a Ubiquiti 2.4GHz radio to pick up the SOHO router from 200 feet away from the house.
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