£1400 sounds a bit high.

Surely a couple of 60GHz units at around £150 each plus some other infrastructure should com ein at under £500.

no foliage, just the potential for a house roof to just peek up into view and break the line of sight. I'd need to get right up onto the roof and shine a laser from one to the other at night or something.

The destination is a standalone house so there is scope there to put a mast of some sort up to peek into view if that's even possible.

even better! I have very limited experience with any kind of wireless ptp link, so Unifi probably just auto selected an expensive model.

Go on te UI forums and ask there for advice on what would suit you best. There will be plenty of help and some will even do your link budget calcs - approx.

I also have a very good price, legitimate, source, for UI in te UK so if you go that route, I can pass details on.

Any contact would be great, I'm already well into the UI ecosystem at this point

In reply to a post by thesimo:

no foliage, just the potential for a house roof to just peek up into view and break the line of sight. I'd need to get right up onto the roof and shine a laser from one to the other at night or something.

The destination is a standalone house so there is scope there to put a mast of some sort up to peek into view if that's even possible.

If there’s a chimney its a great place to get height and a stable mounting, that is if your relatives don’t mind a small 30cm dish on one side.

This is the MT kit I’ve used on a ~800m link:
https://www.broadbandbuyer.com/products/33239-mikrot...

I used a 6m length of alloy scaffold tube as the mount, as we were mounting in a field and secured it to some post and rail fencing. At the other end more scaff. tube, but arranged over an existing concrete pad, expansion bolted into brackets, arranged in a tripod arrangement. Terrain is undulating but the poles give enough height for a clear view.

Just need to run Cat5e or similar back from each dish, either to a PoE enabled switch port or via a PoE injector.

I can definitely get access to the chimney of both properties, and on the lower of the two, I could basically put up a tower as high as I want, as there are 3 trees along the boundary I could use to keep the pole out of sight, but still with a clear shot at reaching the other property.

This is great info, thank you.

I just need a clever way to determine if I have LOS, i wonder if binoculars on a roof in the middle of a housing development would look sus

Over 450m you should be able to simply eyeball it or use a pair of binoculars to check.

In reply to a post by jpm:

No, but I doubt it will be two years if you're already on the edge of FTTP commercial coverage. As others have said, FTTPoD could take over a year.

If you need more than ~30Mbps then you could load balance two FTTC services (just make sure at least one is on a short contract), or mix it with 4G if the signal is decent, to tide you over until FTTP arrives.

I think you replied to the wrong person

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I just need a clever way to determine if I have LOS,

Drone with camera.