I am aware of the horror stories about trying to get a RP-16 to work over Wi-Fi, but am curious if anyone has gotten really serious about exploring doing so.

My skimmer is remotely located and not hardwired for Ethernet. It is about 150’ from the shack and it would be ugly (tearing up concrete, etc.) to bury a cable to it. Overhead is also messy, so some sort of wireless bridge, if fast enuf, is ideal. It’s line-of-sight.

For sure 802.11a/b/g/n is way too slow. My RP-16, when skimming 16 segments, cranks out a steady 150 Mbits/second. 802.11ac claims 1200Mbps thruput, but users report more like 200Mbps, once all of the advertising hype has been stripped from the standard. That would cover, with a bit of headroom, me putting just the RP in my unheated pole shed, and the computer back in the shack, a much nicer place. I live on a farm in an area that just recently got universal inside plumbing, so 5GHz local QRM is very unlikely.

Outdoor rated 802.11ac point-to-point bridges are reasonably priced, these days, and it seems like they might work. Has anyone explored using 802.11ac to hook up the RP-16 to their computer?

73,

Ted

K9IMM