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Thu Apr 9 14:57:39 PDT 2020

I use wireless access point in a house window nearest the shop and a wireless router in the shop window closest to the house set up for client bridging.  The two are close enough for this to work.

Between the shop and the barn which is more than 100 yards, I use a radio link. It’s cheap and easy.  The wireless router in barn that is connected to the radio link is again set up as a  client bridge

I have to have wireless in the barn because the alpacas like to binge watch Animal Planet. (-;  Seriously I have cameras all around the barn to keep an eye on the animals and this lets me just bring up a camera on my phone.

The radiolink product I use is discontinued, but I think the below is probably what it became.   Do your own research before buying:

EnGenius Technologies Long Range 11n 5GHz Wireless Bridge/Access Point (ENH500) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B006M1PM22/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_qI5JEbS17B75C

I’m done with wires.  Everything is wireless.

Spencer

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> On Apr 9, 2020, at 5:22 PM, Howard Fleming <hfleming at moosebird.net> wrote:
> 
>  If your home and shop are on different electrical services, it might be worth the effort to pull fiber to avoid the electrical issues mentioned by Henry.
> 
> I have been looking at monoprice.com for pre made optical cables to run between my house and garage (about 100').  Currently have 2 Cat 5e cables running between the buildings, but I am considering moving my "in house" servers from the basement to the garage to reduce the noise levels.
> 
> You might want to consider running at least 2 conduits when you do it, its not that much more effort.
> 
> I ran 1-2", 2-3/4" and 1-1/2" pvc conduits when I buried mine years ago (it is what I had on hand at the time), and wish I had at least another 2" in place now.  I hate digging ditches, but  will be digging another one at some point soon.
> 
> Howard
> 
>> On 4/9/20 3:25 PM, Henry Miller wrote:
>> If it wasn't such a pain to work with fiber optical cable would be better yet, it avoids ground loop problems and other electrical problems. Also completely immune to lightning. 
>> 
>> I was hoping to do a similar line to my shop in a year (this summer is booked just solving humidy problems so my tractors don't rust away), but I'm not sure if the virus will affect my bonus which was supposed to supply the cash to do this with. 
>> 
>> -- 
>>   Henry Miller
>>   hank at millerfarm.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Thu, Apr 9, 2020, at 14:00, Mark Johnson wrote:
>>> Farmer:
>>> 
>>> As long as your Ethernet cable is < 300 feet you should be fine...get the best cable you can buy, though. Cat7 shielded cable will cost more but will be much more resistant to electrical noise for a lengthy underground run.
>>> 
>>> I don't know how well insulated your farm shop might be, but it's entirely possible, if your "temperature controlled closet" is built correctly, that just letting the computer run all the time through the winter will provide enough heat to keep the distilled water and weed chemicals from freezing. Some experimentation might be needed to get insulation/venting balanced well enough for that. 9 months out of the year it won't be a problem anyway!
>>> 
>>> Best regards,
>>> Mark J, former Hoosier and lifelong Boilermaker...Purdue Ag Class of 1978
>>> Columbia, Missouri 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 4/9/2020 1:37 PM, Indiana Robinson wrote:
>>>> Another option I have often used in the past is dual booting... Windows / Linux and just keep everything on the hard drive. 
>>>> "Somewhere" here I have a fair sized laptop hard drive that I saved from a laptop that had part of the motherboard fried by lightning while in my lap (Yes, I did jump about 10') The hard drive was not harmed so I bought a $10 converter case (came with a USB cord hard-wired into it) for it so I could use it. I used to use it for booting Linux like you are doing with a flash-drive. I just keep some back-up files on it now.
>>>> The Linux I was using then was Mandriva but I just couldn't get "comfortable" with it... I think now it has been abandoned about 10 years.
>>>> One kind of amazing thing about Linux is how much complex software you can run on very simple distributions without all of the bells and whistles. Puppy Linux was a light one I used to play with a lot.
>>>> One good info source is:
>>>> https://distrowatch.com/
>>>> 
>>>> OLD TRACTOR NOTE: I'm still trying to pick out one of my old desktop machines to move to the farm shop in a small temperature controlled closet so I can keep tractor info on it and get online to look stuff up. The smart phone screen is just too small for more than something quick. Son Scott is going to run a 2 1/2" plastic commercial conduit for me that will hold a Ethernet cable, a new 1/2" PEX water line and an air line for the basement wood-shop.
>>>> A plastic tote in the bottom of that closet will hold some weed control chemicals to avoid freezing and a shelf will keep distilled water for winter use for batteries especially for the golf cart.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> 
>>>> -- 
>>>> 
>>>> Francis Robinson
>>>> aka "farmer"
>>>> Central Indiana USA
>>>> robinson46176 at gmail.com
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