I was on the roof today cleaning out gutters. At least, that was the official reason. I also wanted to adjust my weather instruments because I was afraid I’d mounted them too low. As I sat on top of my chimney and moved the wind vane a foot higher on my mast, I looked around and realized I could easily see about 30 houses around me. It got me thinking how easy it would be to mount an access point up on my mast and share the Wi-Fi love with my neighborhood.
I need to build a Power Over Ethernet cable, buy a plastic container to mount to the mast, and firewall the whole thing off of my home network before I can distribute the bits. By the time I actually want to do anything, though, we’ll probably be close to selling the house.
Maybe I should add ‘elevation’ to the list of things we need in our new house.
A lightning rod.
The mast and equipment is already nicely grounded with #8 AWG wire. Now, grounding the Ethernet cable presents a challenge.
Anyone found an RJ-45 grounding block?