Ubiquiti Hardware

[RoadRunner]

Hi,

have a building with a radio mast that has a little building to the left and right that need a bridge and the front of the building needs to be covered as far out as possible. So I was thinking if I can just have a stick antenna that can be used for the buildings left/right to connect and another antenna to broadcast as much of 180Degree forward as possible to cover the area in front of the building. Otherwise I would need 3 antennas for a bridge left and right and one pointing to the front.
There are so many different routers/antennas its confusing.
We have Unifi poe switch and access points in the building already.

 

[Slaters Kustum Machines]

The Picostation is Omnidirectional. It depends on your bandwidth and distance needs. https://www.ubnt.com/airmax/picostationm/

 

[RoadRunner]

I need the bridges to connect to the main server in the office. Looks like this does only 100Mbps. This thing looks fancy but I need to run fibre and power to it:
https://www.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgepoint/
Can I use this and connect the Omni antenna to one side and a directional to the other ?
https://www.ubnt.com/airmax/rocket-ac/

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

For straight up bridges, we use Nanostations, like the little single port Loco M5, or the taller dual port NSM5.
For example, the little Locos can connect buildings or whatever on both ends, when you have them uplink to a switch.
Or, in the case of this weeks project...at a marina, I have the Loco M5's up on the roof of the office, shooting over to NSM5's to catch the signal..and from the 2nd port of the NSM5 (which is a bridged port)...I have an outdoor Unifi hanging off of it.

 

[BlackLabTechs]

@YeOldeStonecat - I've switched from using Loco's for bridges to NanoBeams for the increased speed. Same pricing but much better throughput. Works awesome! The only thing I don't like is the window mount for the NanoBeams look horrible. Fortunately I haven't had to use any yet and hope I don't need to.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

I was actually thinking of using those for this project I'm doing, cuz of the ball 'n socket mount, and aiming.
But we had a few Loco's leftover from another project, and a pair of the RFArmor cages to mount the Nano's in
(we use these kits)
https://www.rfarmor.com/index.php/nanostation-kits.html

 

[BlackLabTechs]

Keeps them better protected from weather too! Those are pretty nifty.

 

[RoadRunner]

Marina is what I have to setup as well. Mast on the office building and two little outbuildings to the left and right. In addition I have to cover as many boats in front of the building to give them free wifi.
NSM5 looks good as I could have an indoor unifi in the little office to give them wifi but it would be nice if they could do 300Mbps.