Farms: HOLY $H!T - Long Distance Wi-Fi (Up to 25 KILOMETER range!?)

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1. I run some Ubiquiti antennas my self.
   Didn't expect much but i was really amazed.
   Perfect signal / speed / uptime.
2. what does he keep hiding with his finger?!
3. I only get 12 upload... 200 download tho
4. Fantastic video proving a LOT of points - thank you very much to LTT
   
   I had my wifi cut off because I changed bank accounts and Talk Talk didn't even give me the chance to set up a new standing order - so I asked a neighbour if I could use their wifi from their Vodaphone service and they said yeah sure. My little Atom struggled with 2 bars of green on the connection but I did at least get a connection of sorts if I stood at the back door with it open.
   
   I was pretty angry with Talk Talk and had already made my mind up that having been a customer of theirs for 10 years or more without missing a payment that I would never go back to them so I did a lot of ebay research for prices and internet research for products which might help me. Luckily my neighbour is much closer than 25 kms (just 5 houses away in fact)
   
   I got a generic 802.11n dongle with an aerial attached to it (non directional) and a 10 metre extension cable (way too long - I needed much less but I didn't know at the time) - the dongle has the Realtek chipset in it, the booster cable has a capacitor in it
   
   When I got it I taped it to my kitchen back-door window, plugged the usb cable in to it, put the other end of the USB cable into the Atom, ran the software and bingo - from one or two low signal networks available there were literally dozens of 5 bar solid connections available (mostly with pre-shared keys of course so no use to me of course but they were there and thats the point)
   
   I now (pay and) share my neighbours wifi and he has a couple of other friends on it - he has a 72mb/s fibre optic - he has it set up so we all get around 15 mb/s each for permanent but the box he has is smart and will give as much throughput as available until another user contests it - clever stuff I have no clue how that works but the point is it is never slow, videos don'e end up buffering (except on facebook, go figure ? ) and if he hadn't told me I would have had absolutely no idea at all I was sharing with anyone else
   
   One of the connections is another friend of mine who lives about 800 yards as the crow flies and he is connected to regular (twisted pair) broadband and asked if i could attach to him to check the connection out, so I entered his password and bingo another available strong connection tested at around 12mb/s or roughly the same as he gets from his router to his laptop which is about 5 yards away. He is up the hill and it is pretty much obstruction (and houses) free
   
   Right - so the longest most folk would ever need a cable is about 5 meters - get one with the capacitor in it they are only about £1 more - I suggest rigging up some sort of hook system and attaching it with Gorilla tape on the windows where you might want to use the computer so its there right away without having to faff about with tape every time - or maybe even a little stand for it ? It's movable and that's important to remember.
   
   The reason I think this video is so great is that I am really angry with the amount of money that has been spent cabling Wales - it runs into many many £billions and proves the point that money was a complete waste. This money was paid by the public coffers - not the service supplier - what a complete and utter con that was eh ? Unforgivable especially as I had thought good RF type wifi would be achievable and made mention of it many times before all those £billions were spent.
   
   I couldn't afford one of those dish things to do a test with so this was really really a great experiment to share.
   
   Thanks again
5. WHAT THE FU€K/!?!?!?!?!?!
   HOLY SHIT!!!
6. never mind people having 40kb upload. I have 1 bit download and 0.5 upload speed. very fast
7. 12:49 not censored
8. lol. he censores the shit when he says holy shit but when he messed up setting up the satellite he didn't freaking censore it, GJ Linus
9. long ange
10. could you pick up free Internet from say a Starbucks or a Mc Donald?
11. I need power beam ac 500 configuration in airos 8
12. i currently have a 94km Wifi link, this is kids stuff.
13. WHAT DID HE JUST SAY? I dont know any thing about wifi except I have it or I dont!!!! DUH.....
14. YOURE GOING TO GET CANCER FROM THAT THING LOL
15. you spend $17,000 for a huge battery but won't buy a measly 60 meter tower? everybody needs a 60 meter tower man
16. 1piar how mas
17. 2:32
    aint that a cute one
18. Wish you'd hop on a car and travel 25km away to test the connection.
19. Ubiquiti make great products, but limited on bandwidth (but you can go FAR). If you are within 1 mile you can do 5gig using Siklu... we use Siklu in city surveillance as you can get REALLY great bandwidths with ther gear. NOT cheap stuff and they DON'T go far NOR do they have a wide spread, but for point to point, awesome stuff.... btw I believe that is 450 TOTAL not each way