Wires Communication on Land Rig

What is your location?

I am from Saudi Arabia. We are somewhere close to Riyadh

Try looking into WiFi; I think it can do a lot of what you want.

Try using a microwave link. Google "microwave link" and you will find everything you need from design to manufacturers.

Thank you all, that was very helpful. Infect, we have 6EA computers and 5ea telephone lines we have to run every rig move. That is costing us time and money. I am looking for something that I can install close to the main controller of V-sat satellite and the signal will be good enough to cover 200 feet witch will give Wi-Fi for computers and wireless communication for phones.

Using any sort of wireless system may be a problem when handling explosives. While this will be a relatively rare occurance you should still consider this before choosing your system.

Which (make and model) Vsat terminal are you using?

How many telephone and internet wires actually come out of the terminal?

What (exactly) is currently on the remote end of these wires?

Which (make and model) Vsat terminal are you using?

We have Tracstar system

How many telephone and internet wires actually come out of the terminal?

We have 5EA telephone and 12EA internet wires coming out of the terminal.

What (exactly) is currently on the remote end of these wires?

PCs (computers) and land phones

That sounds like their TracVoice product. You want to confirm that...

This is an integrated IP router and PBX solution and is supposed to be easy to deploy out of the box. Your concerns about cables heated in the sun are on the paranoid side but I hear you as far not wanting to run cables all the time.

The simplest way to go wireless:

Cordless phone on each telephone line, with the base at the terminal and the remote end wherever, will maintain the PBX functionality and look just like a wired system to the terminal. Suggest you look for cordless phone sets that have remote charging cradles as well.

Setup your own WiFi hotspot for the internet connectivity. Connect a wifi router to one ethernet port at the terminal. (you could install 12 of them if you like but that's pointless) Equip the remote PCs with wifi cards/dongles. Setup as any other wireless LAN. Depending on distances you may need to install a high gain antenna at the router and point it towards where you want to have wifi connectivity. Your schmuttfone in your pocket could also access this through its built in wifi functionality and allow you to do all your internet tasks in the field or on the rig. (eg CR4 blogging, accessing tech info as required, Skype calls...)

You will eliminate the cross site cabling requirements but introduce additional points of failure. Failures that aren't field repairable without replacements. (cables rule. KIS principal). The terminal end will be busier with the additional power supplies for the add on kit.

Easy to do if you really want to. The time you save not spreading a few cables around may be consumed troubleshooting the new elements.

How hard could it be to direct some bodies to run the cables? Or are you doing this all by yourself?

From a reliability perspective, I would stick with the cabled solution. An additional hotspot for untethered internet comms on site would be a nice add on.

Let us know how you get on.