Is anyone here installing long range (30KM+) MikroTik wifi based links? If you are, share your setup, pictures are very welcome. Tower height, distance, which equipment you used. The longer, the better, let’s see the most impressive setups.
To make it more fun, everyone with photos will get MikroTik merch coupons (verification will be needed that this is actually link run or installed by yourself).
I have run a link for 2km+500m for quite a few years now, consisting of 2+2 dynadish.
The goal was to provide internet to a public hut in the forest.
Both “isp” and the hut have clear line of sight to a big radio mast I got access to. So the link is going to that mast, with a netpower to provide connectivity and POE to the dishes.
It has been rock stable, except for a PSU failure (probably lightning) destroying both dishes AND the switch. Now I have backup equipment.
What is the maximum throughput?
height: 3M
distance:4km
Antenna: LGH5
He said 30km or longer, guys.
I had a pair of dual-band LHG XL’s at 32km, from the valley floor to a mountain top, but both the 5GHz and 2.4GHz links were pretty weak and we only got about 10-20Mbps out of it after maxing everything that we could (for US region). I don’t think the noise floor helped (lots of WiFi around the valley).
41 Km here!
RB912UAG-5HPnD on one side, NetMetal 5 on the other side. mANT30 with radome, NV2. ~ 100megabit link. One side is on a church at 340m asl, other side is on a 30m tower at 0m asl.
Mauro
This brings back some good memories !
I am excited to see what people are able to do with the new WiFi 6 outdoor equipment.
Well.. I don’t know how to prove that we installed these guys..but ok no problem.
and here is all the Mikrotik Gold devices that conected to this column -( from other sites also)-..sorry but really I can’t provide more info.
What about the distance of the longest links?
For me the Longest Distnace is 26.6 Km.
Please, for all of you, if someone wonders about this 26.6 km distance, I want to inform you that the speed is less than 40 Mbps. But it’s okay for us -at least- for this specific location, so don’t take this info as a standard to install LHG-5nD and expected a 500 Mbps at this distance.
Can you share more technical stats? Like rx signal on both sides, modulations and how well are they holding etc.
Hi!
Not long range, ~ 4km link Netmetal-5 both 450 Mbps@5Ghz at peak,
planning to replace to 60Ghz Radio (no Mikrotik), but We keep CCR for routing.
The 5Ghz range is too noisy, usable spectrum is small, time to move to 60Ghz.
Hi,
a pair of “LHG XL 52 ac” in Austria in the 5GHz band and compliant unlicensed automatic power levels.
Distance is 45 km
RouterOS 7.12
Between a 50m high building and the remote on a hill.
Signal strength is roughly -87 dBmW
And the phy rate is variable between 12Mbits up to 28.8Mbps-20Mhz/2S/SGI
Mostly it is in between.
Using a different protocol than nv2 produced problems,
and some older firmware did too.
But in this current configuration the link is very stable even with bad weather.
Let me know if you have questions!
HAMNET in Germany 160km on 5 GHz
Link: https://hamnetdb.net/map.cgi
So according to your experience, It means that Mikrotik can’t afford or does not have hardware that can establish the 30Km link as like the Capacity of Ubnt Airfiber or other products
Regards
miankamran7100 what are you talking about? see above posts
miankamran7100 probably means that while 30km+ is possible, it comes with very poor throughput compared to the competition.
He mentioned a 60GHz device, which is a different category. If you have poor performance on long range links, make a separate topic about it and we can help fine tune it.