Getting free internet with a dish antenna

We rented an apartment in Auckland CBD that overlooked the University of Auckland, Law School. I thought it’d b nice if we could save ourself $100 a month of broadband bills by borrowing the uni’s (we’re still students there), so I ordered a Ubiquiti PowerBeam for $195, about two month’s worth of internet.

After precariously attaching the dish to a tripod and aligning the disk, we got signal. Speeds were typically around 100 Mbps down, comparable to a VDSL connection.