Looking for anybody that has run the M5's at short distances, I have 2 buildings that are about 100' apart. If I go this route it will be bridged. I have set up several of these at longer distances with ZERO issues, they are rock solid. I have researched this a bit and had a answer of 80' Minimum Distance. Any input or experience would be great.
Ubiquiti Nano M5 Mininum Distance
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If you lower the output power to minimum they will be fine at short distances.
Nice PnP solution for the non-techy, but almost twice the cost of 2 each UBNT Loco' M5's which I have run 100-500 ft.
I use a pair of Ubiquiti NanoStation 5AC's to bridge from the house to the garage, 30 feet at most. They are not pointing at each other, in fact they are 90 degrees out but I still get the following results. Not bad at £50 each (or $50 in the US).
Nice speed there. If you're only pushing 20 Mbps normally though, you could get away with something like a 10 MHz channel instead of that 80 MHz channel you are using needlessly. Although it could be worse. You're using a DFS channel which isn't normally available to most wifi devices so there will be less to interfere with.
Yes complete overkill but I will be adding 2 more Dahua IPC-HDW5231R-ZE and will also have a Ubiquiti AC Mesh Pro for the front drive added.
Used the DFS channel to keep it clear but it takes ages to startup because of it!, luckily Ubiquiti does not need rebooting unless it updates the firmware.
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So I need 2? One to send and one to receive or can i use just one and receive its signal with a small wifi extender i already have?
You can do it either way however If you like your life easy as I do, I usually have got a pre configured set and boom boom boom..no issues. I think I got my last set at Nelly's.
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Do these need to be lined up as a beam? Or does it send a degree angle of a signal?
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Its E-bay used, worth a shot but you will have to configure em, not very hard at all to do however you do not know how old those radios are and there condition. Like buying a used router, hopefully the radios don't break down.What you think of this?
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