Sharing internet with neighbour

However unifi products are phenomenal. Ubiquiti is the Apple of networking lol, simple, clean and effective... Just not overpriced
 
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Unifi products are aimed more towards your own house or business in 1 building. I wanted to go with an edgerouter but it didn't allow bandwidth control so I wanted to go with mikrotik routerboard. Also considered a nanostation loco m2 but its illegal without a license.
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Not illegal.

Unifi is capable.

Mikrotik is awesome, but not easy to setup unless your familiar with it.
 
Icasa regulates the wireless spectrum. Without an ecns and ecs license you will be chased after by icasa. But its ridiculous to pay R20k for licensing to only share it with like 2 neighbours. So i might as well just do it. But its still a risk. Definitely deciding still.... The thing is with unifi, i dont believe you can assign ppoe authentication i want my neighbour to be on a separate IP address than i am
 
ScottulusMaximus said:
Well ignoring the fact it's illegal to transmit a wireless signal across property boundaries your plan for a cottage industry ISP service is not going to work.
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Does CTWUG have special permission from ICASA for their network..?

It's user run and covers a vast majority of cape town.. You are free to connect to the network so long as you have line of sight to the closest user on the network and they allow you to connect to their network..
 
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Definitely not giving them the full 200meg gonna split it.. 50mb maybe whatever they need
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Tell us how you are going to split 400Mbps bandwith (actually 200+200=400Mbps) on the Mikrotik and which model?
 
WAslayer said:
Does CTWUG have special permission from ICASA for their network..?

It's user run and covers a vast majority of cape town.. You are free to connect to the network so long as you have line of sight to the closest user on the network and they allow you to connect to their network..
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Ah wow, definitely gonna look into that.
 
sajunky said:
Tell us how you are going to split 400Mbps bandwith (actually 200+200=400Mbps) on the Mikrotik and which model?
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Splitting 200 into 2 50s max for 2 neighbours. They might want 20 it depends but no more than 50.
I will be using the MikroTik 951UI-2HND
 
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Splitting 200 into 2 50s max for 2 neighbours. They might want 20 it depends but no more than 50.
I will be using the MikroTik 951UI-2HND
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Oh, yes. You are gonna look into that again, definitely.
 
i think theres something around cabling/wiring crossing residential properties? dno? not sure? questionmark?
 
Not sure, but its really stupid to not be able to cross a cable between 1m. If there aren't any safety concerns about it then there should be nothing against it. My other option is having 2 nanostation loco m2's but then ill be at risk with icasa requiring a license for operating a wireless connection. Icasa is my only problem right now. If it wasn't for them I'd be able to do so much more.
 
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Not sure, but its really stupid to not be able to cross a cable between 1m. If there aren't any safety concerns about it then there should be nothing against it. My other option is having 2 nanostation loco m2's but then ill be at risk with icasa requiring a license for operating a wireless connection. Icasa is my only problem right now. If it wasn't for them I'd be able to do so much more.
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If ICASA didn't enforce regulations, you'd have issues like this;

https://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showth...ing-overlapping-Neotel-s-LTE-freq-in-Fourways

You could be reported and face penalties if you transmit illegally.
 
How about setting up a standard wifi router on your premises for the neighbour to use? He could then easily pop a repeater at the point closest to your property and take things from there?

I loaded openwrt on an old tp-link router to convert it to a repeater.
 
And then you change the WiFi password at midnite on last day of the month ...only sms him new password when funds received ;-)
 
Hmmm... Smart... Ill be thinking through my options. Thanks for the tip :)
 
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