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Cake day: November 16th, 2023

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  • I have a somewhat similar situation, and presently I use a pair of Ubiquiti Nanobeam 2AC dishes (2.4GHz) acting as a point-to-point wireless bridge for a slightly longer distance, about 450 feet. They support 300Mbps up or down, or 150Mbps duplex (up and down simultaneously). My fiber connection is 300/300 and speedtest.net shows that’s what I’m getting (just tested again - 273 down, 288 up).

    The 5GHz nanobeam dishes (5AC) support faster speeds, advertised as 450Mbps, and I believe the one-way speed is over 850Mbps.

    Nanobeams are about $100 each or $200 for a pair (whether 2.4GHz or 5GHz). Assuming you are in the US: B&H is a good place to buy - they are an authorized dealer - and Amazon is not. I bought mine directly from Ubiquiti, but their return window is only 14 days.

    A very clear line of sight is important. I first had one small tree in between, and the connection dropped frequently, taking 30 seconds to renegotiate. This is long enough to drop off a work call. I ended up mounting one dish to a branch of that very tree and now they don’t ever lose connection. The dashboard has a “connection time” statistic which now measures in days rather than minutes.

    The 2.4GHz wavelength might be slightly more tolerant to weather and stuff. Whereas 5GHz often has fewer other devices to compete with or disrupt.

    Ubiquiti no longer makes the nice flush mounts, but I got a couple from a dude on Etsy who is 3d printing them.