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For an application I need to extend WiFi range where a raspberry pi which is mounted on a drone and is away from station can connect to this WiFi network and stream video.what options are there for me to implement this network? suppose that the maximum distance between drone(rpi which sends video) and station(router or some thing like that which is connected to a PC and receives video)is 1km.

Saeid Haghighipour
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first of all your project sounds amazing and I would like to see it working on my own eyes :)

And to answer your questions:

1km is quite a distance for all kinds of routers used at home or Access Points hidden inside buildings. Your only hope here is to setup multiple outdoor sector antennas (like THIS beauty from Mikrotik) and CAPsMAN or using Ubiquiti devices with seamless/fast roaming to cover space where drone will fly

With this setup you can easily transfer large streams over large area. Yet the maximal distance will also be affected by number of wireless networks in your vicinity.

Feel free to add more questions. We`ll try our best to help you out

And once done please share some videos, photos, etc with us :)

Facty
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  • Thanks for your reply.I want to build a PTP network between drone & router which is connected to PC via LAN.Does this kind of Antennas do the job? On the other hand in my country such Antenna is expensive & I am a student so I can not buy it :\ Is there a more cheaper option? – Saeid Haghighipour Jun 10 '21 at 11:21
  • NP. Cheapest solution will be buying one omnidirectional antenna (eg IH-G12-F5458-V) with some decent gain (10+ dBi) and connect it directly to some cheap 5GHz home router with detachable antenna – Facty Jun 10 '21 at 11:55
  • Howdy howdy? Any progress? :) – Facty Jun 23 '21 at 18:17