Cox → [FL] 300' of run. Was qouted $1800. Can I do this run myself?

I have to agree with AnonGuy and CoxTech 1, plus the installers that laughed at it - this is a BAD setup - completely amateur. You're looking at ALOT of problems down the road - not only with that free-dangling cable birds or squirrels, etc. can peck at and eat, and espicially with humidity and heat, not to mention water - none of that stuff is meant to run hotter than 100 or so degrees - it is not industrial equipment meant to be installed in cabinets - it's consumer equipment for the home environment of 65-80 degrees - normal humidity.

Sorry, but I'm sure others will agree.

Actually Cox refused to run a drop to his home without him paying $1800 for a feeder extension. He had them out more than once but they refused. He finally gave in and tried the approach you are seeing in the photos. Please read the entire thread before judging.
Been there, done that (modems in cabinets), a surprisingly many times (just maybe as an employee of the company in question) without failure. It will take a bunch of $40 modems and routers to add up to $1800 (minus the wireless equipment cost of course). I personally like it, he had to try something that they would accept.

I plan on doing one similar to this as soon as his contract with satellite ends. We have a little farther to shoot though. So I fully agree that this is an awesome job.

Thanks for the love guys If you read thru the post you will see that the blue cord running to the tree is a temp cord as I was waiting for the shielded outdoor cord to arrive. It is now run in conduit and mounted on the pole. I haven't had one disconnect and haven't seen and speed issues yet. The total cost of the job was right under 300 bucks, so I saved $1500 doing it this way. Not to mention, they were willing to do it for 1800 if I signed a 5 year contract! Also they wanted me to add phone which I would never use. So I saved the $1500 and didn't have to sign any contract. I am slowing working on making my outdoor modem box a more suitable long term place. I am installing two computer fans in the side, but I am working on figuring out how to not compromise the seal too much while doing so. It took owning my house for almost 2 years to get rid of the DSL that had a 80kbs download. I had bellsouth techs out more than 5 times. They knew it was the cord run to my house, they just didn't want to dig so they kept saying it was in my house. I got a new modem, wall jack, and eventually I replaced all the lines in the house. Even with all new hardware on my end, they still said the slow speeds were from something in my house. I tried from the first day I moved in to coax cox into running me a line and letting me pay them. They had no intrest in helping me, so I tried to do something myself and it worked pretty well. I would highly recommend this application to anyone in a similar situation.

Ya the signal was too strong. Had to bring down the attenuation. I also wanted to personally thank you digiblur. You were the one most responsible for developing this plan and making me feel like it was something I could do. Thanks again

I have to say this thread is awesome. Rather then get upset on what Cox was going to charge you, you rolled up your sleeves and did it yourself. That is some American spirit right there! You rock Harry. And if he has problems with it, so what? Since he built it himself whom better to troubleshoot it? Its all about the consumer taking some responsibility for the quality of their digital life. I wonder if BBR has a DIY section?

Not a problem. Glad you were able to get it working.

I'm curious to see the screenshots of the signal pages on the radios with that link. Did you have to back off the signal power to prevent it from being too "hot" as well? If I remember right from the Ubiquiti guys you don't want more than -45 or so with like -55 or so being a sweet spot. -80...ehh....not so much.

Not sure if you mentioned this but how did you get AC power to the box? Did you have to run it all the way back from the house?

I will hit the screenshots when I get home. I don't know much about signal strenghs, but my speed tests have been right where I want them. We even had a huge storm the other day, rain coming from every direction, and the signal didn't skip once. As for the power, I got really lucky that. My water well is out by the power pole. The well has its own power pole that you can't see in the pictures. I just threw another breaker on the wells breaker box, and ran a line to my modem box. This did make the job way more fees-able. Without having power out there, I would have to had to run a line from the house and that wouldn't have been cost effective.

Ahh...now the power makes sense! I was thinking you had to run the power from the house. The wireless solution fit perfect then.