Extending internet from one house to another

[gibbo37]

Apologies for what might be a duplicate thread but I've searched through the forum and elsewhere and can't find a definitive answer to our issue.

The problem is we live in a small estate with what is these days considered to be very slow internet, we're lucky if we get 12mbs and with the whole family working from home this speed just isn't enough.

My in-laws who live at the start of our estate that was built a few years before ours, are fortunate enough to be able to get 170mbs via Virgin, unfortunately this doesn't extend to us and there are no plans at the moment for our little area to be updated.....

My in-laws live no more than 150 metres from us in a direct line but of course there are one or two houses between us and we can't actually see their house, we could if were to climb up on the roof though.

Can anyone recommend a system that would allow us to share their internet via an outdoor wireless AP that isn't too complicated for us to set up and that offers stable internet?

Thanks in advance for any help.

[thebraketester]

If you can get line of sight on your roofs then a pair of ubiquiti nanostations in bridge mode will work.

[robbieduncan]

The above solution is the only sensible solution. Your question sounds like you want to attach an outdoor AP to one house and hope to receive good signal at other house 150m away with houses in between. Pretty sure that won’t happen. Might just about work through clear air but even then that’s pretty close to the limits. Point-to-Point like as above is the best answer. If the neighbouring houses are happy to help a chain of Unifi outdoor mesh access points acting in mesh mode would work but the latency at the end of the chain would not be great!

[gibbo37]

That's great, thanks both for the information.

I'm happy to buy two, I just wasn't sure what was needed but this certainly gives me a great start.

[BigTZ4M]

Consider Mikrotik wireless wire as an alternative. I've no personal experience but people I trust rate it as a product. 1Gbps should be easily achievable over 150m. Put them up on swan neck masts on the roof and run ethernet cables down into the houses and you'll have a connected network between the properties with the ability to share internet as you see fit.

[gibbo37]

Thanks for the recommendation, I'll have a look at those too.

[gizard]

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=14...

See my thread from almost 6 years ago - it is still running fine now - the only thing that has changed is the direction of the internet connection - the other property now has reasonable broadband so switched it around.

[Bikerjon]

What about a 4G connection? Have you looked into that?

[gibbo37]

Thanks gizard, that's just what I was after, some real world use and experience.

I've thought about the 4g route but I don't think the speeds are that great??

[thebraketester]

gibbo37 said:

Thanks gizard, that's just what I was after, some real world use and experience.

I've thought about the 4g route but I don't think the speeds are that great??

Depends.... I've seen over 100Mbps over 4G but thats very very very (very) uncommon.

[Slackline]

thebraketester said:

If you can get line of sight on your roofs then a pair of ubiquiti nanostations in bridge mode will work.

^^ These work well. Need setting up to start with, but not too difficult. There's plenty of tutorials on YouTube. I used this one when setting mine up -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZxJPBukjbY

[gibbo37]

Thanks all, much appreciated!

[Teddy Lop]

Ethernet comes in 305m boxes - how friendly are you with the intervening neighbours?

[robbieduncan]

Teddy Lop said:

Ethernet comes in 305m boxes - how friendly are you with the intervening neighbours?

But the maximum length of a segment without repeaters (by the spec) is 100m. It might work over longer distances but I’d not bet on it

[Dodsy]

gibbo37 said:

Thanks gizard, that's just what I was after, some real world use and experience.

I've thought about the 4g route but I don't think the speeds are that great??

I use standard 4G , 24meg down 6meg up which is pretty much as good as it gets for standard 4G . I think the majority of cells now have 4G+ which i understand could provide double that. Unfortunately my router doesnt support it but then i dont need the higher speed.

4G+ router is around £120 on amazon and im using a Smarty sim (on 3 network) for £20 a month unlimited data with no contract

ETA when my ex wifes broadband went down i lent it to her and they said it was fine running netflix and online gaming on 2 pcs plus 3 mobiles doing messaging all at the same time

[VEX]

I did this 4 years ago or so.

Country house 3km away from the village, no service at the house, but 70mbs at a friends house in the village.

Set up a ubiquiti Point to Point Link and the house got 30-50mbs and VOIP services.

V.

[gibbo37]

Thanks again for all your replies.

It looks like I will go down the point to point option which looks to be fairly straight forward, one question though do I need to just run power to the receiving end or will I also need to plug it in to some kind of router to enable us to connect our devices to the network?

[thebraketester]

The ubiquiti stuff is powered with poe injectors which are supplied.

At the receiving end you’ll need a router or access point if you want Wi-Fi etc.

[sparkyhx]

can u wait for 5g to be available?