Hi Dave, so to clarify, the M5 network I built over 50 miles didn’t provide 50
miles worth of coverage, it provided a point to point link that covered 50
miles end to end. So I linked other access points providing local coverage
back to the backbone which was a main wireless node 50 miles away. I had
points on towers all over Florida and built a mesh between them.
Tri Band is exactly that, 3 bands and this is accomplished by splitting
the 5.0 GHz band. You’d see the first range at 5.0 GHz channel 36 and I
believe the second band starts at channel 131. The third band is the standard
2.4 GHz band starting at channel 1. You can split the load up between these
and the mesh pushes the clients to the best channel for the conditions.
You’ll need at least one Eero for the main unit and then beacons or more error
for the access points. This would replace your router although can be used as
an access point only configuration with your existing if you want, for all the
advanced features you want the Eero as your main router. The number you need
depends on the area you want to cover. Sounds like you’ll need a couple Eeros
and some beacons to cover what you want to do.
On May 21, 2019, at 4:07 PM, David Mehler <dave.mehler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello Scott,
Thank you for your reply.
This is for my home use, but did I understand that right ubiquiti M5
access points two of them gets you 50 miles coverage? You can pick up
a wireless signal that far away!
Do you have a link for the Eero Tri band that you recommend? I'm new
to mesh, by that I mean I have an idea what it is and I've done a lot
of reading up on it, so here comes a beginner/newbie question, what is
tri band? I thought there were only 2 ranges 2.4 and 5Ghz? Can you
explain more about beacons and eeros? It sounds like I need to get
both? What am I looking at cost wise? The downstairs is hooked
directly in to the router, would the RT AC88U be a good choice? So
that leaves the main floor, there's the kitchen, the main living room
area, and two bedrooms. On the second floor there's a kitchenette
area, one bedroom, and a living room area. The area where I'm going to
want the video surveillance camera is approximately 30 to 40 yards
just a guess, and we're going to need signal so that they can send the
videos pictures to the device with the storage attached.
I don't like cloud storage so figuring a Raspberry Pi with a USB
external multi-terrabyte drive, going to want 3, 5, or 7 days before
automatic rotation.
Thanks for all the help. Please keep the suggestions coming.
Thanks.
Dave.
On 5/21/19, Scott Granados <scott.granados@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The Unifi aren’t bad, they do have some interoperability issues at time with
some chipsets and also they don’t have the highest number of parallel
channels but they are very affordable and I’ve used them in enterprise
environments and they do very well. With two ubiquiti M5 access points on
towers I was able to over more than 50 miles and still negotiate out to over
100 megabits. Perfectly flat geography though in Florida made it easy.
For home use my most favorite are the Eero latest generation tri band. They
come in two models, beacons and Eeros. Eero are full three band radios with
2 wired ports, Beacons are 2 band and no wired ports, they just occupy an AC
outlet like a night light would. They actually have night light
functionality built in. The beacons are good at the edges and in less
congested areas and the full Eero are placed in high traffic areas or areas
where several points mesh. Set the whole thing up with an easy to use,
accessible app on your phone and your whole network is managed from the
cloud and frequencies / traffic are managed dynamically across the whole
mesh.
Good luck
On May 21, 2019, at 11:35 AM, David Sexton <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I love these wireless access points for mesh networking:
https://www.ui.com/unifi/unifi-ap-ac-lr/
On 5/21/2019 7:43 AM, David Mehler wrote:
Hello,===========================================================
If anyone has any suggestions on mesh network products and setup,
Raspberry Pi IP camera for surveillance setup, and integration please
let me know. I'm needing some advice.
My situation is this, I've got an area of my backyard that is needing
to have an IP-based surveillance camera pointed at it to capture
videos of any intruders. I've got several Raspberry Pis, and am
wanting to use them in a video surveillance setup. My place has the
cable modem and a router in the basement, then the main floor, then an
upstairs area. I'm already thinking to support this setup of video
surveillance I'm going to need to go mesh, put a wireless setup in
each room I've got occational drops that I'm going to need to correct
and thinking mesh might be the way.
Once I get the mesh then going to get a Raspberry Pi camera and hook
that to a pi then to an external drive for file storage. I'm thinking
a 3 to 5 day rotation time, is this feasible?
I'm also going to need a way to examine the files see if there's
something other than blankness in them.
Lastly, and this is a big one, i'd prefer not to break the bank on this.
If anyone has any suggestions please let me know.
Thanks.
Dave.
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