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Is this overkill? Probably. Am I stopping? No.

(Quick note before the comments fill up: yes, those antennas are mounted indoors. Intentionally. Not every install allows outdoor placement, and honestly, I just wanted to see how far I could push it inside. This is my version of fun.)

Some locations just have terrible cell service. You know the ones. One bar, maybe. Pray for two.

I started with essentially zero signal inside the equipment closet and about 1-2 Mbps on my phone outside it. That's not a network. That's a suggestion.

First move: Peplink 82G. Four bars. 30-60 Mbps. Solid. Most people stop here.

I did not stop here.

Swapped in a pair of Maritime 40Gs and watched it climb to 150 Mbps. On cellular. From a closet that had nothing.
My goal is gigabit. I'm not there yet. But the antenna farm growing out of the wall is starting to look pretty serious.

Sometimes the best part of this job is turning a connectivity nightmare into a problem you're genuinely excited to keep solving.

Anyone else guilty of chasing the number long past "good enough?"

West Networks. We find a way.

- Peter

I was at a vendor fair in Tennessee, having great conversations all morning about Peplink hardware and SpeedFusion bonding.

Then reality hit. The building's internet was brutal. I'm talking can't-hold-a-cell-call brutal. My team needed to work, and the venue connectivity was a non-starter.

So I did what any reasonable person does: I threw on the SpeedFusion backpack. BR2 Pro 5G + added a 5G dongle = three independent 5G connections bonded together into one solid pipe.

Never needed it more than today. Three weak signals became one reliable connection, and my whole team worked comfortably all day.

This is exactly why we build these things. Not for the demos — for the moments when the demo *becomes* the job.

Thanks to everyone who stopped by to talk connectivity.

- Peter

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