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Forums › New Zealand Broadband › In a beach town can someone please describe how this antenna works to provide us with internet?
turtleattacks

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#318187 24-Dec-2024 08:30
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In a West Coast beach town and I notified that there is limited mobile coverage here.

However our cabin has decent enough internet and was wondering how this works.

The photo of the antenna is below.





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  #3324305 24-Dec-2024 23:39
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Those are nanostation ethernet bridge radios which used to be used to connect ethernet networks between buildings before 60ghz high speed radios came about. 

 

I am keen to know more about the installation quality.... 
Have a look for me on the back from the ground and see if you can spot the LED lights near the top rear of each radio. 
If the installer did their job properly, they would have squirted some transparent roofing silicone over the colored lights. 
They should have also used metal hose clamps instead of plastic cable ties.  
If not, tell the owner of the holiday park they can extend the life of those radios by an extra 5 years if they do those two things. 

Anyhow, they point at another radio of a similar model where the internet comes from. 
The upstream radio connects to the ethernet switch or router which in turn goes out to the internet via a DSL, Fiber, etc connection. 




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