BackFortyGear by Empire Oaks
Built on a Florida homestead · 900 MHz Wi-Fi HaLow

See the front gate from a quarter-mile out. No power. No trench.

Solar, long-range Wi-Fi that carries your network all the way to the back forty — past the barn, down to the gate, out to the fence line, where regular Wi-Fi quits.

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🌿 Off-grid & solar-ready 📡 Reaches a kilometer+ 🔒 US 902–928 MHz, by the book
~900 MHz HaLow link Solar Ranger + camera
Plain English

What is this, and why isn't it just Wi-Fi?

Regular Wi-Fi is fast but short. It dies a few hundred feet from the router, especially through walls, trees, and a couple of acres. Wi-Fi HaLow (the official name — 802.11ah) runs down at ~900 MHz instead of 2.4/5 GHz. It trades raw speed for reach.

Long range, low fuss

A single link reaches well past a kilometer with line of sight, and pushes through trees and outbuildings where 5 GHz can't. Plenty for cameras, gate openers, sensors, and a laptop at the barn.

Honest about speed

This is not a 4K-streaming pipe. Think a handful of megabits — perfect for security cameras, IoT, remote sensors, and basic browsing far from the house. We'd rather tell you that up front than have you find out.

Works the minute you plug it in

Here's the part we care about most: every unit ships pre-configured and pre-paired. No networking degree, no wrestling with radio settings. Power up Basecamp by the house and the Ranger out yonder — your far-off camera just lands on your home network like it was always there.

The line

Start with a kit. Grow as your property does.

Everything pairs back to a single Basecamp by the house. Begin with the Starter Kit, then add as many far ends as your land needs — the hub serves them all.

900 MHz
★ Start here · A complete far-gate camera link

The BackFortyGear Starter Kit

One Basecamp + one Ranger, paired and tested on our bench before it ships. Everything you need to put a solar camera on the far gate — bring your own USB Wi-Fi camera and you're watching. Add more Rangers or a Scout any time.

Starting around $299est. · Basecamp + Ranger · prototype Join the waitlist

Or build your own — pick your far ends

Home base · HaLow access point

Basecamp

The hub that lives by the house.

Wire it to your router, or — if your router's buried deep inside — set the Basecamp Link version on a windowsill and it hops onto your existing Wi-Fi. Either way, it casts the long-range signal out across the property.

  • Wired or window-mount, no electrician required
  • Serves every Ranger and Scout at once
  • True bridge mode when wired — devices look local
Around $149est. · the home hub Prototype
Far end · Solar Wi-Fi extender

Ranger

Off-grid. Solar. Bolt it to a fence post.

Our flagship: a tiny computer + HaLow radio in a 3D-printed, solar-powered, weather-tight enclosure. It backhauls to Basecamp and throws a little local Wi-Fi bubble for your own USB camera. No power run, no Ethernet, no trenching.

  • Solar + battery — runs day and night, no outlet
  • Bring your own USB Wi-Fi camera
  • UV-stable enclosure printed for the Florida sun
Around $169est. · bare solar node Prototype
Far end · Max distance

Ranger LR

For the back forty and beyond.

When you need to reach the edge of the property line, the LR is a sealed, IP-rated outdoor unit with a high-gain antenna built for pole mounting and long, point-to-point shots. The weatherproof workhorse.

  • IP-rated metal housing, hose-clamp mount
  • Highest-gain antenna in the line
  • Best for clear line-of-sight runs
Around $189est. · outdoor CPE Bench-proven
Far end · Portable USB dongle

Scout

Pocket-sized link for the detached barn.

Plug it into a laptop that's too far for normal Wi-Fi, and it joins the home network over the same long-range signal. No mount, no power brick — just USB. Throw it in the truck.

  • USB-powered, fully portable
  • Same hub, no extra gear to buy
  • Great for a laptop in an outbuilding
Around $79est. · per dongle In testing
Straight specs

The line at a glance

Prices are early estimates and will move. The "stage" column is the honest truth about where each one is today.

ProductRolePowerBest forStage
BasecampHome access pointWall outletThe one hub by the housePrototype
RangerSolar far nodeSolar + batteryOff-grid camera at the fence linePrototype
Ranger LROutdoor long-rangePassive PoEMax-distance point-to-pointBench-proven
ScoutPortable USBUSB (laptop)Laptop at a detached buildingIn testing
No marketing fog

The honest part

We'd rather earn your trust than oversell. Here's exactly what BackFortyGear is — and isn't.

  • We're a homestead-grown startup. Designed, built, and tested on a working farm in Orlando, Florida — not a faceless warehouse. Early days, real gear, real field testing.
  • We didn't invent the radio. The 900 MHz silicon comes from proven chipmakers. Our work is the part that's been missing: the configuration, the solar enclosure, and making it actually easy instead of a weekend of fiddling.
  • It's fast enough, not blazing. HaLow trades speed for distance. Brilliant for cameras, sensors, and reaching far buildings — not for streaming movies to the barn. If you need a fat pipe, this isn't it.
  • We stay inside the rules. Everything ships locked to the legal US 902–928 MHz band and power limits. Our "long range" comes from smart radio design, never from cranking past what's allowed.
  • Half of this is still a prototype. The stage labels above are real. You're getting in early — expect us to ask what you actually need, and to tell you when something's not ready.

Why we're building it

It started with a simple, stubborn problem: how do you get a camera to watch the front gate that's a quarter-mile from the house — with no power and no cable out there?

Every off-the-shelf answer was either an ugly hand-configured mess or a closed system that wanted a subscription. So we built the thing we wanted for our own land, and figured a lot of farms, ranches, and big back yards have the same gap.

Made on the homestead. Tested where the Wi-Fi runs out. 🌳