The shop is 140 metres from the house, and trenching fibre through frozen clay is a July problem at best. The interim answer is a two-hop mesh with one antenna hose-clamped to a spruce that has become, functionally, network infrastructure.

Throughput is honest-fifty megabits in rain and about double that in clear air. Enough for camera feeds and the shop dashboard, which is all the shop has ever asked for.