I have a wireless router connected in my house but can not get the connection in our shop that is 75-100 ft away (I'm assuming due to the metal siding of the shop building since I can stand in the open doorway with a line of site and get a connection) I basically know nothing about IT anything so my apologies but can someone give me suggestions on how I could get a connection inside the shop building....I was looking at extenders but wasn't sure that would work; I also saw suggestions of running a buried ethernet cable between the two building but am unsure how to make that work for running wireless devices in the shop building. Any thoughts would be wonderful!
Need internet connection in detached shop 75-100 ft from wireless router.
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Do not even think about using wireless if there is any way that you can run an Ethernet cable. Extenders are worthless, they have to be placed where there is a good signal and then they cut the bandwidth by half.
The ideal solution, IMO, would be to run an Ethernet cable out to the building and then attach it to an access point. The most rational solution is to just buy a good but inexpensive router and configure it as an AP out in the shed (it is very simple to do and will give you a great wireless signal out there).
To setup a wireless router as an access point, you simply turn off its DHCP (routing function), give it a static address that is in the network range but outside of the main router DHCP assignment range (so that the router does not assign that static address to a dynamic device), attach the AP router with an LAN to LAN port Ethernet cable connection to the main router. Its up to you, but I would give the shop a different SSID so that you can specifically select it for devices that you want to use on it.
This will give you an excellent signal, millisecond latency (due to the cable connection), and your full Internet bandwidth out in the shed, pretty much what I would want.
The ideal solution, IMO, would be to run an Ethernet cable out to the building and then attach it to an access point. The most rational solution is to just buy a good but inexpensive router and configure it as an AP out in the shed (it is very simple to do and will give you a great wireless signal out there).
To setup a wireless router as an access point, you simply turn off its DHCP (routing function), give it a static address that is in the network range but outside of the main router DHCP assignment range (so that the router does not assign that static address to a dynamic device), attach the AP router with an LAN to LAN port Ethernet cable connection to the main router. Its up to you, but I would give the shop a different SSID so that you can specifically select it for devices that you want to use on it.
This will give you an excellent signal, millisecond latency (due to the cable connection), and your full Internet bandwidth out in the shed, pretty much what I would want.
I'm wondering about a powerline adapter and an AP (or my old router modified to use as an AP)...
RealBeast :
Do not even think about using wireless if there is any way that you can run an Ethernet cable. Extenders are worthless, they have to be placed where there is a good signal and then they cut the bandwidth by half.
The ideal solution, IMO, would be to run an Ethernet cable out to the building and then attach it to an access point. The most rational solution is to just buy a good but inexpensive router and configure it as an AP out in the shed (it is very simple to do and will give you a great wireless signal out there).
To setup a wireless router as an access point, you simply turn off its DHCP (routing function), give it a static address that is in the network range but outside of the main router DHCP assignment range (so that the router does not assign that static address to a dynamic device), attach the AP router with an LAN to LAN port Ethernet cable connection to the main router. Its up to you, but I would give the shop a different SSID so that you can specifically select it for devices that you want to use on it.
This will give you an excellent signal, millisecond latency (due to the cable connection), and your full Internet bandwidth out in the shed, pretty much what I would want.
The ideal solution, IMO, would be to run an Ethernet cable out to the building and then attach it to an access point. The most rational solution is to just buy a good but inexpensive router and configure it as an AP out in the shed (it is very simple to do and will give you a great wireless signal out there).
To setup a wireless router as an access point, you simply turn off its DHCP (routing function), give it a static address that is in the network range but outside of the main router DHCP assignment range (so that the router does not assign that static address to a dynamic device), attach the AP router with an LAN to LAN port Ethernet cable connection to the main router. Its up to you, but I would give the shop a different SSID so that you can specifically select it for devices that you want to use on it.
This will give you an excellent signal, millisecond latency (due to the cable connection), and your full Internet bandwidth out in the shed, pretty much what I would want.
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I use a lot of powerline adapters, but that would not be nearly as good as an Ethernet cable, and that assumes that the shop is on the same breaker box as the circuit near the router.
One issue would be that any motors on the circuit that includes the powerline adapter in the shed would cause interference.
One issue would be that any motors on the circuit that includes the powerline adapter in the shed would cause interference.
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