Location: Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania
My brother recently built a new house that was far enough from the main road that the “only option” cable internet provider was going to charge him $1000s to run a connection from the road to his home. Enter the B5-lite. For $299 he is now beaming internet originating at our parents home across a valley 900 meters to his house. Aside from an extra 12ms of latency (which will get knocked down to 2ms with a pending new firmware release), the speed he now gets from his home is identical to the speed at our parents home–roughly 37Mbps down / 6Mbps up.
Out of the box we got the link up with 180Mbps throughput. After minimal tuning we are now up to 750Mbps and can go higher by adjusting the dish to the target SNR and dBm at 900m. The best part about this story is that I (the other brother) configured this B5-lite setup remotely via phone calls and remote laptop connections–neither my brother or parents are remotely technical.
Long story short, this product rocks!
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