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UK: We need wifi across our farm, how?

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We live on a farm. There is one residential house with a hub inside. This has two Ethernet cables running underground to an office building and a portacabin in separate locations, which then connects to little hubs which extend the WiFi into those buildings.

We now want more WiFi to reach another area even further away. This is so we can run CCTV cameras. If it’s not possible we will have to get SIM card cameras and pay monthly.

But, before we do, what else can we do? I don’t think we should really be running anymore Ethernet cables off the existing hub elsewhere as, could it overload it? It just seems a lot for one residential hub.

Could we get openreach to do something?

Any ideas PLEASE throw them my way!

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Get wifi antennas. My buddy was beaming internet to his parents place 5km away with 300mbps speed. As long as there is straight shot sight line you can beam fast wifi across your property easily.

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iterationseven@alien.topB
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A former customer of ours had directional antennae. They were flaky and tended to get hit by lightning.

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TFABAnon09@alien.topB
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We get almost no lightning in the UK compared to the US - it’s very rarely a serious consideration for things like ptp antennas.

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