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by LargoLasskhyfv 1577 days ago
I wonder why the use 'radio' at all, since they need a cable anyway. Too cheap to have tossed a fiber along it?
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I feel stupid for not even thinking about it but you're absolutely correct.
I've meanwhile read that they are networked very well, with fibre even, but only between each other when built in a park/farm. And often very remote, far from other inftastructure. The problem arises at the transfer/injection point from the utitility one level up. Not always, but sometimes, and in different ways. It can happen that there is no 3/4g at all there. It can happen that the other utility isn't networked(in a usable way). It can happen that the other utility doesn't want to network for whichever reasons, security, etc. And it can happen that you get 1Gb/s symmetrical there.

Apparently Enercon choose to offer its clients this solution as 'carefree package', to spare them the regulatory/bureaurocratic hassle of having to deal with this.

They didn't consult IT before deploying the project.