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  • I have a somewhat similar situation, and presently I use a pair of Ubiquiti Nanobeam 2AC dishes (2.4GHz) acting as a point-to-point wireless bridge for a slightly longer distance, about 450 feet. They support 300Mbps up or down, or 150Mbps duplex (up and down simultaneously). My fiber connection is 300/300 and speedtest.net shows that’s what I’m getting (just tested again - 273 down, 288 up).

    The 5GHz nanobeam dishes (5AC) support faster speeds, advertised as 450Mbps, and I believe the one-way speed is over 850Mbps.

    Nanobeams are about $100 each or $200 for a pair (whether 2.4GHz or 5GHz). Assuming you are in the US: B&H is a good place to buy - they are an authorized dealer - and Amazon is not. I bought mine directly from Ubiquiti, but their return window is only 14 days.

    A very clear line of sight is important. I first had one small tree in between, and the connection dropped frequently, taking 30 seconds to renegotiate. This is long enough to drop off a work call. I ended up mounting one dish to a branch of that very tree and now they don’t ever lose connection. The dashboard has a “connection time” statistic which now measures in days rather than minutes.

    The 2.4GHz wavelength might be slightly more tolerant to weather and stuff. Whereas 5GHz often has fewer other devices to compete with or disrupt.

    Ubiquiti no longer makes the nice flush mounts, but I got a couple from a dude on Etsy who is 3d printing them.



  • If I’m reading that image correctly, it looks like the ISP may be in Egypt? Telecom Egypt - We Space - Gaming Bundles.

    That doesn’t change your question or the answer, but it’s interesting to note that Sony and Microsoft likely have formed agreements with TelecomEgypt to offer these plans. We could speculate about the details of what those private corp-to-corp agreements might look like, or whether we think it’s morally acceptable to do it; but regardless of all that it’s probably legal and it is part of the reality we live in.

    As others have pointed out, when you are using a router provided by your ISP, the ISP can identify the devices on your network. If you choose to use your own router, the ISP still may be able to identify traffic that is directed towards particular gaming servers, although the ISP might choose to only honor the gaming bundle pricing if you use their router. I don’t know anything about the details, but it may be that Sony and Microsoft provide a list of destination addresses that identify which games are being played, making it easy for the ISP to identify those particular games when the ISP-owned router routes a request either to those servers or to other servers that aren’t covered by the gaming bundle. It’s also possible that the ISP may not even bother to try to understand which devices are using the network, and instead simply assume that requests routed to the listed destinations are covered by the bundle.