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Re: [FL] 300' of run. Was qouted $1800. Can I do this run myself So today cox is going to come install my modem at 3. I am super excited  . My nano stations came in last night and there is one thing I don't really understand. I got the M5's upon your advice. There is a little black box that came with the stations. Now I can see that it is a power supply and that it has the two outs: PoE (power over Ethernet I believe) and Lan. I know that this is a newbie question, but I just want to make sure I am doing this right. Where does this go? Does is install out in my modem box? Then do I run an Ethernet from my modem to the Lan spot? Then I run an Ethernet from PoE to my nano up on the pole? Is that what I do? Thanks in advance for the info, and I will be taking pictures today when I get home. |
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join:2003-08-07
Richardson, TX
kudos:5 | It sounds like you have a Power over Ethernet (PoE) injector....pretty common stuff for powering APs
just place it inline between the Cable Modem and your Access Point to provide Power over Ethernet to the Access Point |
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Ok cool that's what it seemed like. Thanks for your info! Waiting for cox to show up now.... |
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Good luck, excited to see some pictures! |
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said by Harry Drake:So today cox is going to come install my modem at 3. I am super excited . My nano stations came in last night and there is one thing I don't really understand. I got the M5's upon your advice. There is a little black box that came with the stations. Now I can see that it is a power supply and that it has the two outs: PoE (power over Ethernet I believe) and Lan. I know that this is a newbie question, but I just want to make sure I am doing this right. Where does this go? Does is install out in my modem box? Then do I run an Ethernet from my modem to the Lan spot? Then I run an Ethernet from PoE to my nano up on the pole? Is that what I do? Thanks in advance for the info, and I will be taking pictures today when I get home.
I hope did your reading at Ubiquiti's forums. The POE adapter "injects" power into the CAT5 cable on one port. The POE port goes to the Loco M5. The LAN will go to the cable modem.
Also with the short distance you'll probably have to turn the transmit power down on both sides to prevent over saturation of the radios.
I've attached a picture of a bridge setup. This is one behind the router so yours is going to be different but you get the point.
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| Thanks for the diagram! I love pictures, I am a super visual learner. The modem was installed yesterday without a hitch and the guy from cox was a really cool dude. Today when I go home I get to install my Loco's and see how it all works. I am a little intimidated by the setup process but I have found if you never give up and find some nice people on the internet anything can work The nano stations came with no documents so I downloaded the manual from their website. It seems pretty technical, but I think I get the idea. I have taken a few pictures and I have also down a speed test on my slow dsl just to feel the joy when I see that new speed. BTW my speed tests were 600k dl, 270k upl. |
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Ok so I set everything up the way it shows on the diagram but still no Internet. I have the nanostations setup as 192.168.1.21 and 192.168.1.22 and I can see them no problem with my laptop. I know the modem is on the Internet and I tried resetting it. My laptop says its connected but isn't. I have tried with the laptop set to auto obtain ip and set with a static ip of 192.168.1.1, 192.168.1.3 and others. I know I am close, just missing something small. Do I have to set my modems ip address? I have the stations configured exactly as the picture shows. I'm not sure what else to try. |
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join:2003-12-24
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:3 | make sure your computer and router IP is set to auto or dynamic |
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said by Harry Drake:Ok so I set everything up the way it shows on the diagram but still no Internet. I have the nanostations setup as 192.168.1.21 and 192.168.1.22 and I can see them no problem with my laptop. I know the modem is on the Internet and I tried resetting it. My laptop says its connected but isn't. I have tried with the laptop set to auto obtain ip and set with a static ip of 192.168.1.1, 192.168.1.3 and others. I know I am close, just missing something small. Do I have to set my modems ip address? I have the stations configured exactly as the picture shows. I'm not sure what else to try.
You aren't going to have it just like the graphic. I said yours would be a bit different. That graphic is for bridge to another computer behind your router. Yours is different. You are bridging between your cable modem and router.
Tell me more about your setup in your home and let's see if we can get this going.
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| Ok so this weekend I got the whole setup going! I have my 25 Mbs connection into my house! I would have never gotten it working without your guys help, thanks so much. I will post the promised pictures when I get home tonight so you guys can see what I wired up. The problem I was having was I didn't have a router between the modem and the Loco M5. Anyhow thanks again and check back tomorrow for some pictures |
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| said by Harry Drake:Ok so this weekend I got the whole setup going! I have my 25 Mbs connection into my house! I would have never gotten it working without your guys help, thanks so much. I will post the promised pictures when I get home tonight so you guys can see what I wired up. The problem I was having was I didn't have a router between the modem and the Loco M5. Anyhow thanks again and check back tomorrow for some pictures
You really didn't need a router there. There are several different ways to do it. You could have used the router built into the M5.. or you could have just done the WDS thing and used the router in your house. But whatever way works for you.
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join:2006-05-30
Baton Rouge,
kudos:1 | reply to Harry Drake
I must commend you on a job well done as well as keeping this thread updated.
One question, How was the shed fed power? How long of a run?
etc etc...
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Poke poke
Excited for these pictures! |
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| You can tell I am ADHD can't you. Once I finally got my internet working I had to do the other house repairs I had promised to my girlfriend. :P Anyhow, today I will take the newest pictures and post them so you guys can see my setup. |
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join:2004-11-12 | Im waiting for this too!
I scanned through the thread and am interested to find out how the Modem is powered and what cabinet was installed. Unless its an owned Sub Pole I didnt think it was allowed to install anything on them if you are not a Leaser.
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Good job! Would like to the pics promissed. You did great at this project! |
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With only 300 feet to span you could buy some media converters and bury a fibre optic Ethernet link between the cable modem and your house. It would only cost a few hundred bucks. That's how I run Ethernet to outbuildings on my property. Or you could even use unshielded twisted pair CAT6 with the addition of a switch somewhere in the line to extend it beyond 300 feet. But at that distance I think fibre optic is the way to go. The most hassle and expense is digging the ditch, not the cost of the media converters, switches and fibre or CAT6. A hard wired link would also be more reliable than wireless. Please report back after a few months to let us know how well the wireless has worked out. |
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| said by Kilgore :With only 300 feet to span you could buy some media converters and bury a fibre optic Ethernet link between the cable modem and your house. It would only cost a few hundred bucks. That's how I run Ethernet to outbuildings on my property. Or you could even use unshielded twisted pair CAT6 with the addition of a switch somewhere in the line to extend it beyond 300 feet. But at that distance I think fibre optic is the way to go. The most hassle and expense is digging the ditch, not the cost of the media converters, switches and fibre or CAT6. A hard wired link would also be more reliable than wireless. Please report back after a few months to let us know how well the wireless has worked out.
I mentioned that in one of my firsts posts but it looks like the OP went with wireless instead.
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Wow impressive, heh. Yeah after reading through all this, 300 feet is probably doable with plain old ethernet if you do end up having any latency or reliability issues with the wireless. Run 2 sets of conduit, one for your ethernet and one for "future" use With good Cat6 I doubt you would have problems at exactly 300 feet. Then you can always hock the wireless equipment to recoup some money. Sounds like you've got it going nicely though! Can't believe the trouble it is to get a coax line to your house.
"When used for 10/100/1000BASE-T, the maximum allowed length of a Cat 6 cable is 100 meters (330 ft). This consists of 90 meters (300 ft) of solid "horizontal" cabling between the patch panel and the wall jack, plus 10 meters (33 ft) of stranded patch cable between each jack and the attached device. Since stranded cable has higher attenuation than solid cable, exceeding 10 metres of patch cabling will reduce the permissible length of horizontal cable." |
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join:2004-11-12 | said by ependergrass:Wow impressive, heh. Yeah after reading through all this, 300 feet is probably doable with plain old ethernet ....
For that matter 300' is doable with cable.
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