Help needed, Extending wifi range into shop and guest house

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William_White

William_White

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I need to get wifi out into a guest house and a metal shop, I have an old satellite dish that I could use for the shop but I only get about a bar outside the shop so I'm not sure if that would help much, and I still need something for the guest house. How close to the Router does an external antennae need to be? Could a cable be run from a directional antennae on the side of the main house 30 feet to where the routers at? Also any recommendations for a router and directional antennae that would work well for that?
 
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If the two places are on the same power circuit as the main router you can use a powerline network adapter and then hook up a wireless access point in the area you want to extend to. If not, you can use a directional antenna and a wifi repeater to extend the wifi signal, point the antenna at the repeater.

For a 30 foot run, you can easily also run an eithernet cable that far, if outside, use a buried pipe to run it along for protection. I'd use a powerline connection if you can, it's pretty cheap and less of a hassle.
 
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The practical home user methods of extending a network to outbuildings are, powerline networking, buried Ethernet, or better wireless. The better wireless could be a high quality directional access point on the outside of the house and a line of sight to the outbuilding. Or the same directional access point with a matching client bridge on the outbuilding. The bridge could then be wired to an access point inside the building. Home brew systems are OK for a tinkerer but rarely a good idea for average users.

The method you choose will depend on the circumstances, such as distance, obstructions, wiring and the actual network speed needed. Powerline networking will be the easiest while wired Ethernet will be the highest capacity and lowest maintenance alternative. Wifi with line of sight will be somewhere in between.




Using an external access point is preferred to an external antenna. So 100 meters of ethernet cable
 
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William_White

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It's not on the same power circuit so a powerline adapter won't work, and it's 30ft to the main house but it's another 100ft to the guest house and shop
 
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130 feet is fine for a cable, although that is not quite as easy to bury and run LOL
 
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