<div dir="ltr">Or a wifi hotspot from a cell phone.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 8:09 PM Jon "maddog" Hall via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Are you sure you need mesh, or would regular WiFi do? If outside and nothing blocking the signal you should be able to do 250 feet, particularly with a directional antenna.<br>
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Perhaps a "wifi extender" at the Tent.<br>
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md<br>
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> On 06/24/2021 4:29 PM Neal Rhodes via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> So considering the following Physical layout:<br>
> <br>
> Business Comcast<br>
> |<br>
> regular untinted Window in Building we can get Cat6 to<br>
> |<br>
> 100 feet of parking lot<br>
> |<br>
> Storage Building with power and overhang to protect from rain<br>
> |<br>
> 150 feet of grass/trees - could run Cat6 wire easily<br>
> |<br>
> Tent selling German beer with credit card readers needing Wifi (do I <br>
> have your attention now?)<br>
> <br>
> And assuming we'd like for people to be able to buy beer, and we have a <br>
> modest budget for networking, are there reasonable mesh networking <br>
> products that would work?<br>
> <br>
> I have never put in a mesh network; if you read the fine print, they <br>
> seem to assume all the nodes are clustered around a central node, not <br>
> strung out in a line. (i.e. no backhaul)<br>
> <br>
> regards,<br>
> <br>
> Neal<br>
> <br>
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