Friday, August 31, 2018

My Town is fed by a Single Microwave Link Tower. I have questions about the Upgrades their doing and how their doing it if anyone knows larger scale network infrastructures. (Pictures Included)

Lets begin with the basics.

Our Internet is by Shaw (Cable Internet through the Town) But brought in via Microwave Link or I like to call a Drum on a tiny tower. Shaw has been over saturated for almost 3 years now. We are talking about 500ms+ Ping with 1/1mbps and less at peak hours. But it's not just the saturation but the random packet loss that really kills things. Like stops images from fully downloading make downloads go from 1mbps to 10kbps and not climb up or even error and stall. Pretty much our entire town is broken Internet wise.

So Shaw is going to resolve this finally this year was suppose to be done in the spring, summer now it's fall and their actually outside doing something.

The Plan is to bring a line almost 1km down the road to another tower owned by Bell Canada. Bell use to provide DSL they still do for like 5/0.5 but only to existing customers no one can get this DSL now and works flawless assuming there is next to no saturation. Shaw is planning on using the Shaw tower and here at first I thought it was going be Shaw putting their own microwave link up but I'm not sure now honestly...

The Map: https://i.imgur.com/E3GpRiV.png

(Bell is the left side red marker shaw is the right side white marker)

This is the Shaw Tower Site (Right of Map):

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/443593135659024394/477998114041495572/unknown.png

Bell Tower Site (Left of Map):

https://i.imgur.com/3o6DtFh.png

You can see does not seem that the tower has room for another Microwave Link?

Today they added some massive I assume transformer on Shaw's Tower Site... Remember show is not adding a new Tower or adding a new Microwave Link from what we understand nor does their current tower look like it can support say a bigger Microwave Link. But this Transformer looks like a beast I assume large Microwave Links do require higher power but what the heck would they need this for if they don't plan on Powering a new Microwave Link on the site?

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/443593135659024394/485123092499136513/P_20180831_101854_vHDR_Auto.jpg

You can't see it from the picture but I saw them pour concrete months ago there. There was PCB pipes coming from the ground for a while in the concrete. Honestly they had cut out 4 groves on the corners I had assumed at first they were building a new tower even though it seems most towers are 3 grooved cut...

Here is a older picture without the transformer:

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/443593135659024394/477998457433358336/unknown.png

So on the way from Shaw to Bell workers were putting in Junctions? The Plastic sort of containers in the ground. Here some PCB? sticking out the ground:

https://i.imgur.com/wxVf5Wq.png

Example of the Plastic Junctions? they are installing between the towers:

https://i.imgur.com/MkOMUGU.png - Workers with one exposed half way between the towers:

https://i.imgur.com/Jp8nwbv.png - At the bell Tower

https://i.imgur.com/jDhIvGh.png - At the end of the road of the bell tower with sticking out PCB

So I'm trying to figure out what is their plan they refuse to tell people haha so I have come to ask the Internet on educated guesses. Honestly even with 1 more Microwave Link up and running it's not going just fix it that easily. Can these Microwave Links be upgraded via just more Power? That could make a bit of sense what their doing at the Shaw site but besides that what the massive transformer looking thing?



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