I have a SXT LTE mounted on my roof which enables me to get a reasonable internet connection at my remote location.
I have a dead WiFi spot at the end of my garden 150meters or so with line of sight view to the SXT.
The question is is there a product that I can piggy back off the extra port in the SXT to gives me WiFi connectivity at this spot. I’m assuming some kind of wired antenna?
If the SXT had built in WiFi I guess that would have done the job so perhaps even a similar product with WiFi even.
Thank you that’s very helpful. So the LTE version will power the WiFi SXT through the other port on the LTE version? No need to increase the ampage of the existing PSU? Any idea if it’ll cover 200mtrs?
Thanks.
There is only a single ethernet port on each so you will need to make a special cable for powering both units via a single cable and interconnect the two ethernet at the same time.
You can also run 2 UTP cables down and use the two power inserters and power supplies (from each device) and connect the two network connections with a barrel connector.
200m is no problem for such a device but of course you need to point it and you will also have to make the suitable configuration depending on what you exactly want.
(configure it as a station when you want to connect to an access point, or vice-versa)
Are we talking about the same device?
Checked all versions starting from SXT R and up to SXT LTE6 kit.
And all state the same, the only difference is a modem card installed.
I am looking at this device: https://mikrotik.com/product/RBSXTLTE3-7
It looks the same, it has the same name, but it appears to quack differently.
Of course such a device can still be used in the proposed setup, only it would require 2 cables.
On my sxt LTE I have two ports one is Poe in. Are you saying I can use a patch cable out of the other port to the SXT wifi version (which I will purchase) that presumably has Poe in, patch to that and effectively power two units from one Poe injector?
SXT LTE kit supports up to 600mA PoE out on eth2 if 24V power adapter is used, that’s around 14W.
Or 400mA in case of 48V - that’s around 19W.
Different SXT versions need from 5W up to 12W, and have different voltage requirements: some of them accept only 10-28/10-30V, some 12-57V.
If the cable is long enough then depending on exact SXT version you might need to use 48V.
If not, 24V should be ok, but don’t use the power adapter that came with SXT LTE - it is 0.38A only. You will need something like 24V/1A.
I spoke to supplier today and they say that SXT’s mentioned are only for point to point and no good to simply further distribute a network connection to an area such as a garden. They say there are no truly reliable ways of doing this as the max distance they would recommend id 60 metres and for that they suggest a RBwAPG-5HacT2HnD. Which is a outdoor Routerboard WAP AC.
Is this correct? Surely there must be a way of squirting out long distance/coverage Wifi outdoors?
Of course I never meant to distribute the signal from the SXT…
The intention was that the SXT would be a client on your existing WiFi AP and it would send the data to that AP, and the AP would forward it to its users around it.
When that is not what you intend to do, you should have explained it more clearly I guess.
Yes reading back it’s unclear, I’m not an IT professional so perhaps not using the correct terminology. Is there a way I could get it working perhaps by bouncing to another unconnected point in a garden shed in the middle?
Yes when you have an AP you can let the SXT connect to it as a client and send the data to other clients of that AP.
So it has to be powered but it does not have to be network-wired.