Boosting reach of wifi....

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joe-cz4n7

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17 posts

94 months

Sunday 26th March 2017
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Hi all,

I have built a caring at the end of my garden which i want get wifi to. Its about 20mtrs away from my house, and the current BT fibre broadband signal just reaches out there so I'm able to use my phone/tablet.
I want it to be stronger, so i can use sky\xbox/smart tv etc. I have found bt do a booster but it apparently plugs in to the mains and uses that for signal. I can't see that that would work all the way to the garden?

Any suggestions?

ps - there is no phone line out in the cabin.

Magic919

14,126 posts

200 months

Murph7355

37,651 posts

255 months

Sunday 26th March 2017
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The booster will likely be a Powerline type gadget. Worth trying, but don't work in all circumstances depending on the set up of your wiring.

The APs linked to may work. If not, you can get more directional kit from Ubiqiti which may work.

Powerline will be cheaper if it works for you.

Perik Omo

1,883 posts

147 months

Monday 27th March 2017
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I used the TP-Link version of the Ubiquiti sender/receiver set up when I needed to get internet to a building 30 metres away and where it wasn't possible to bury/string a LAN cable.

It's been in 2 years now and works very well, I can't find the paperwork at the moment but I recall I discussed options with and bought from Broadbandbuyer in MK (I'm based in France by the way and have no connection with them apart from being a customer).