Small bit of backstory --- Back in Dec, 2019---- I went to visit a mates house.. who had just gotten fiber. While I was there... I looked towards where my house should be out on the horizon and I could see it...9km away. Jokingly, I said to my m8 ----you wouldn't mind beaming fiber over to my house would you? And he said ..sure why not?

So as test setup--- ran out and bought a couple of PowerBeam 5AC Gen 2's and we started putting them up. Ran the wire to his connection ---- It worked! OMG--- I had 300Mbps at my house in a spot that will never see anything faster than ADSL2+ through normal ways (well maybe if 5G cell becomes a thing in the area).

With the help of Troy, I setup my own account/connection at the ONT with Spark in my name..keep it legal and all.

I wasn't finished though...i'm paying for 900/400 plan. It kinda nagged at me knowing there was more speed waiting/sitting there... if I only had better equipment..eh? Well ya know... what's a guy to do? Spend a little and upgrade to the airFiber 5XHD's. Initially I had ordered and received the af-5g30-s45 dish is pretty big. So I ended up going with the af-5g23-s45 and they yielded around 700Mbps.

The af-5g30-s45's sat there waiting to be returned...well I figured..heck with it. I'll put one up here at my house (see if it makes a difference). If I was going to mount it, i'd have to upgrade the pole it would be mounted to --- I live in a pretty windy/gusty area.

Well today the with some final adjustments to dish alignment the connection is hitting a solid 849 Mbps connection - 640Mbps down and 209.9Mbps Upload. Eventually, I will put the other af-5g30-s45 at the other end.

I know to some this may not seem like a big deal...but to a guy not in a fiber zone...this is pretty exciting. I explained to the wife..this is much cheaper vs running a fiber cable to the house ;)

Here is a link to pics. Not sure why but Spark SpeedTest doesn't give the best results. Other do though.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/KMgrZNxfxCqnpx6y8

Cheers