this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2024
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What is this thing?

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They started installing poles along a main road near where we live and I’m not sure what the white antennas on them are for. Some of the poles have traffic cameras like the one in the picture but others don’t. They are spaced every half to one mile and have antennas on opposite sides, with what looks like a radio cabinet near the base. The antennas are all aligned along the road, pointing parallel to traffic. This is in southwest Pennsylvania.

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[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

big ol ubiquiti mesh network. many towns are covered in them. iirc ubiquiti made a name for themselves doing wireless in stadiums.. had some solid firewalls/routers

the new stuff is pretty at least

[–] borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Point to point and point to multipoint are not the same as a mesh network.

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

right, one is just a small piece of the others infrastructure.

[–] borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

No bro. A mesh network is a bunch of access points that repeat each others signals. This is like a single cable, but using RF. It is not an access point.