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Catadj78

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First of all this is a great forum and I have learned tons on PCs from here so far.

My situation is as follows.

Where we live our internet options consist of satellite internet or use my Verizon cell hotspot. Luckily I have the old unlimited data plan with tethering. There is no problem for me having internet because I usually have my phone with me and I use the hotspot. If I am inside with the wife there is no problem. Problems start when I go hang out in the shop and I leave here with no internet.

My house is roughly 200' from my shop/man cave. I have 60" 4K smart tv in the man cave, 55" smart tv in the shop area. I have my PS3 and the desktop pc that I am building will be in the man cave room. If I leave my cell in the man cave I have Internet throughout the entire shop that is 40x40.

My plan so far is to connect the cell to the linksys ea6900 router thst I ordered. I also ordered a TP Link AC1900 range extender that I was going to send the router signal to. The extender would be in the same room as the router but I was going to change the extender antennas out to directional panel antennas to aim directly at the house. This is where I am having questions.

Do I need a access point or another extender/repeater here? I have researched enough to know that I can't use another router here. I figured the Omni directional antennas may would be better on this end but I was going to have that piece of equipment placed as close to the window I would be aiming at with the other antennas.

I also have a smart tv in the living room that is connected to the main satellite box that if it has internet I have more options on the satellite box that I have in the man cave so I'd like for it to have internet connection as well. Other than my wife's cell and her tablet nothing else would be using data. I would like to have the printer and a future storage drive that will be in the man cave to be connected to the network so the wife would have access (we have a 10 month old, tons of pictures)

I have not ordered the needed access point or extender/repeater for the house because I'm not sure of the next steps or even if what I have planned will work.

Any help is appreciated.
 
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Instead of a bunch of kludgey network gear, I would recommend you get a new cell phone for your personal communication and dedicate your old one for internet duty. Yes you have to give everyone the NEW number but having an internet source that moves around makes it difficult to design a network.

Then I would bury an ethernet cable between the house and shop. Put a router, acting as and access point in the shop. You would have wired and wireless connectivity.
 
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The hard line buried is planned. I was trying to have something know. I have a surgery later this week and will be confined to in or around the house on light duty for the next few weeks. The network and the pc I am building is the projects I have planned for this down time. I have 2 cells and can forward the number if need be, so no biggie there.
 
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If you HAVE to do a wireless link, then I recommend a pair of dedicated outdoor wireless bridge units like these -- https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833168115 You put one on the house and one on the garage pointing at each other.

Assuming you leave the phone in the house... Leave the router you just purchased in the house. Run an ethernet cable to the outside of the house and put one of the engenius units pointing at the garage. That MIGHT be enough to provide WIFI. If not, then add the second unit on the outside of the garage pointing at the first one. Bring that ethernet cable into the garage for wired connectivity. If you have to have WIFI in the garage, the second unit can be setup to create a local WIFI signal also.
 
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I've decided that if the equipment I have already which is the router and the extender I'll wait to bury an Ethernet and add a second router in the house. Is there a certain Ethernet cable I need to bury?

I had surgery yesterday so I'm hoping the next two weeks while recovering to have all I want done. I'm hiring someone to do the digging though
 
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How about this for now? I'll eventually go the buried route.

In my office I have my cell with wifi. I use a small router (linksys ac1750) to catch this wifi signal turning it into Ethernet cable. Using it as a wireless Ethernet adapter essentially.

I then come out of the smaller router w the Ethernet into a larger router. I got the linksys ac2400. Setting it up as a router. (I setup a linksys ac1900 on the opposite wall of my shop. Not near a window. There was no internet at the router though. I then went to the house roughly 200' after aiming the antennas and caught all but one bar with my cell)

I then install the linksys ac1900 at the house using it as a wireless Ethernet adapter going into another router and sending that signal out in the house.

Doing it this way would make it two different networks that would not communicate with one another right?

If I set up a wireless bridge between the 2 locations i can't find determine by research if I'm able to set up a wireless ap after the bridge. Everything shows wired connections after a bridge. Trying it would require to buy yet another router.

I currently or on order the following.

Linksys ac2400 (ordered)
Linksys ac1900 (ordered)
Linksys ac1900 (in hand)
Linksys ac1750 (in hand)
TPI ac1900 wifi extender (in hand) (I tried using this to extend the cell wifi. Got good signal in the kitchen but the speed was HORRIBLE)
 
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