Setting up internet aerials between house and cottage

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Having had the ethernet cable down to the cottage melt in the heat of the noonday sun, and having talked to a Duplantier technician who came to fix our optical fibre in the house (we’d been unplugged at the “armoire”) I am finally coming to the view that internet aerials between house and cottage would be the best solution.

The only challenge is no easy sight line because of the height of our trees and bushes.

I suspect it will need a mast on the chimney of the house and possibly one on the roof of the cottage (no chimney).

I’ve been trying to get hold of a professional installer, but I’m wondering if I need one?

I need someone to get up on the 2 roofs and install the equipment and I’ve got someone who can do that for me.

For those of you who have done it - how easy is it to get the two aerials to talk to each other and to make the link? I’m thinking of my New Best Friend ChatGPT here.

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I’ve not done it as I’m going to use a wired connection to my home office in my little outbuilding, but when I looked into using a wifi bridge I saw this YouTube video… As usual for YouTube, it could’ve been condensed into about half the time, but it does show how easy this Tplink kit is to configure once the hardware is installed.

I’m pretty sure @Mat_Davies uses this actual kit so should be able to say if it’s genuinely this easy.

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How far is the cottage from the house ? May it be easier to hire a mini trencher and just create a small narrow trench for a burried cable in gaine ?

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80 meters
We have separate lawns, flower borders, banks, fences, a concrete terrace round the cottage, a swimming pool between the two properties, so no, a narrow trench is not easier - hence my stringing the cable down to the cottage over winter for us, which included wrapping it round a metal pillar for a rose, which got hot and melted the cable.

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If was pretty straightforward to do - you do need to be able to see directly between the aerials. Ours are about 80m apart.

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Wondering if I could just cut a gap through the trees? Does it need to be a wide angle?

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With a good trim it should be fine but you generally point them in the direction of each other it is not as precise as you would hope.

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Only challenge is how fast your plants grow. Though my builders would say the solution is to rip all my greenery out (no, for many reasons) you will just have to ensure you can get at the aerials in case they get overgrown.

I have a semi regular job to go up a ladder and clear our freesat dish .. and also remove the clematis…when the signal goes.

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