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# Mesh networking the acreage
- URL: https://matteson.ca/notes/mesh-networking-the-acreage/
- Published: 2026-03-25T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-10T03:34:16.000Z
- Description: Getting usable signal to the shop without trenching fibre through frozen clay: hops, haywire, and one very load-bearing tree.
- Author: Matteson Machielse
- Tags: Home Lab & Self-Hosting, #Import 2026-07-11 07:11, #Import 2026-07-15 05:50

The shop is 140 metres from the house, and trenching fibre through frozen clay is a July problem at best. The interim answer is a two-hop mesh with one antenna hose-clamped to a spruce that has become, functionally, network infrastructure.

Throughput is honest-fifty megabits in rain and about double that in clear air. Enough for camera feeds and the shop dashboard, which is all the shop has ever asked for.