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[Weaver]

What kind of glass? - in the house, not sure, old fashioned (ie rubbish) double glazing; summerhouse is actually perspex not glass my wife reminds me, but it’s easy to make the summerhouse end outside.

[meritez]

What kind of glass? - in the house, not sure, old fashioned (ie rubbish) double glazing; summerhouse is actually perspex not glass my wife reminds me, but it’s easy to make the summerhouse end outside.

Should work fine then, there's a few reports of it working indoors behind glass, plastic.
I was worried they were tinted windows.

[Weaver]

Definitely not tinted windows.

[Alex Atkin UK]

I've read reports of 5Km using the 5ghz dishes

Problem is ALL the outdoor bands of 5Ghz require DFS so there can be disruption.

Its a little confusing actually as my Ubiquiti LiteBeam lets me use channels 36-48 which are supposedly indoor-only.  I avoid them anyway as they are the most commonly used channels (older 5Ghz WiFi equipment didn't support DFS) so more likely to be congested.

[aesmith]

I love the Wireless Wire kit, but cannot mount an external antenna easily: gale force winds every few months rip such things off

I'd be surprised if you couldn't mount something that small, around 8" high and 3" wide.  With proper fixing it would take hundreds of miles per hour winds to shift, by which time gutters, downpipes, ridge tiles and chimney pots would all be long gone.  What's the structure of the house at that point, what would you be fixing into?

[meritez]

Definitely not tinted windows.

currently watching this Wireless Wire video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4lZJrX5p10

[Weaver]

Would be fixing into either four-foot thick stone or poured concrete, mind-boggglingly hard. Which it is depends on the precise spot chosen. Had 132 mph gales in 2005 in the Western Isles, 120+ mph at the Skye Bridge, but that’s on the sheltered side of the island and at low level. I’m on the Atlantic-facing side and 400 ft up, so about the most exposed site there is, so would definitely get worse winds that the western isles report which would be from a spot down at sea level. The most exposed spot in Skye, for my money, is Cille Mhoire up at the north western end of the Trondairnis peninsula (Anglicised pronunciation spelling "Trotternish").

[aesmith]

Fixings into stone would be better.  Not really a problem drilling even into granite with a proper masonry drill. How are your gutters fixed?

[Alex Atkin UK]

I saw a video a while back myself on people using the wireless wire through windows and apparently it worked well for them.  Not sure if one of them didn't mount outdoors which seems risky as they aren't waterproof.