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Beam fibre connection from neighbours to my house, then redistributing via mesh in my home?

Advice needed for absolute beginner, beaming Fibre connection from neighbour to my home and then redistributing through mesh​


Hi there.
Hopefully you can make sense of my ramblings below. Full fibre finally came to my area under a government scheme (Northern Ireland). However, owing to a mistake on their side, several houses were left out, but now are deemed applicable for support - however this may be up to 2 years away, in spite of houses beside me acheiving gigabit speeds.

In spite of my pressuring the telecoms co, they're not budging and are restrained by the order they have been given.

I'm trying to think outside of the box here. My uncle lives around 300m away from me across a field and a few straggly trees. He has minimal interest in the faster speeds that this product offers. However, I was considering the following:
  1. Paying for a 300mb or 1gb connection for his home (which he will barely use)
  2. Finding some way to beam it back up the hill towards my house
  3. Then redistributing it within my home via mesh and/or ethernet
Could anyone recommend any products or kit within the ubiquiti or similar range? And is there any difference in terms of speed, or what might be more forgivable in terms of trees/branches? If needed, I can definitely get a clear line of sight with a bit of work, this would be between a gap in the trees, but wouldn't be affected by branches. If this were work, what extension would there be in terms of latency/time of response?

The big thing then might be my thinking of what I can then do when I receive the signal at my end. What could I then do with it in terms of sending it back around the house here? If there was a hiccup at his end (say his router needed reset), is there any way I could sort from my home?
As I said, complete beginner here. Would appreciate any help anyone could offer, or even pointing me in the right direction of a similar post, I genuinely don't have an idea of what to search for!
Hopefully the 2years is all the wait is. I'm trying to get another solution as my wife has started a new remote job that requires better speeds, and 4G broadband ain't cutting it!
Thanks
 
Point to point WIFI will work, my outside wifi is usable 400m away where my phone connects at 70mps to a 2.4htz antenna. You will need line of sight for a reliable connection.

Something like this, 2 off, but I would be going with a Ubiquiti kit, its just that this came up first.

 
Point to point WIFI will work, my outside wifi is usable 400m away where my phone connects at 70mps to a 2.4htz antenna. You will need line of sight for a reliable connection.

Something like this, 2 off, but I would be going with a Ubiquiti kit, its just that this came up first.

Great. How does the 70mb speed compare to what is in the initial connection at your home?
 
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The 70mbs is on a phone and the reported connection speed, not via a test. This is much lower than you would expect point to point with 2 antenna pointing directly at each other and with an exclusive link between the pair.
 
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This video might be of some interest

I am guessing the equipment they used is pretty expensive but its still the same idea more or less.
 
Over that sort of distance I’d plump for a ready-paired 60 GHz dish kit. Either of these two would be fine…

MikroTik 60 GHz product range

Ubiquiti GigaBeam 60 GHz GBE-LR
Unifi AirFiber if you can afford it, although overkill for such a short link.

If you're prepared to experiment you may get acceptable performance with 2.4GHz or 5GHz consumer kit (one AP, one bridge client) and directional antennas.

Having "line of sight" is the key thing. Can you see the building clearly? If they shine a laser pointer or a narrow-beam torch at your house at night, can you see it, or is it blocked by trees?
 
And is there any difference in terms of speed, or what might be more forgivable in terms of trees/branches? If needed, I can definitely get a clear line of sight with a bit of work, this would be between a gap in the trees, but wouldn't be affected by branches. If this were work, what extension would there be in terms of latency/time of response?
As said definitely worth your while getting clear line of sight. Trees and foliage, especially when it’s wet and rainy are a right nightmare for wireless data links and unfortunately as the frequency increases so does the susceptibility.

However higher frequencies have two distinct advantages:
1. you keep out of 2.4 and 5 GHz where possible (unless for fallback) which is quite a crowded bit of spectrum with all sorts going on, especially 2.4 GHz and can cause random interference
2. allow you to push higher data rates, hence the gigabit symmetric speeds in the Mikrotik gear.

The Mikrotik ‘wire’ dishes I’ve used in the past have been great and the latency is quite minimal. About 2-3ms added to the link.
 
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