Internet into Garden Office

[thebraketester]

UniFi nanostations would be perfect for this.

You should be able to get a couple of them for under £100.

Ours have worked flawlessly for years and even link a cctv camera back to the house and it’s all “just works”.... just like apple stuff used to do :-)

[ATG]

If he's running a cable to the cabin, then he just needs a wireless access point on the end of it and perfectly good ones can be bought for buttons. For a home office, I'd either get one with a switch or buy a little switch separately so I could have a wired connection to the computer and wireless to mobile phone.

[anonymous-user]

85Carrera said:

My garage is about 200m from the house and I use this to get a signal down there

https://www.tp-link.com/uk/home-networking/deco/de...

Works very well.

You get those to link over 200m ?!?!? Wirelessly?

You've got to be kidding me . They are linked with cables right? Did you mean 20m? 200m is a long !omg way away. I.e. your garage must be at the end of an adjacent field

I send WiFi to my shipping container storage which is 120m from the nearest point of my house, and a field, separated by a lane. It's a long old trot! I have to use outdoor CPE long range directional WiFi links to get usable WiFi that far, line of sight. Even with one CPE at the house end the WiFi at the other end is only barely usable on a laptop, and no use at all on a phone . I had to install a receiving CPE at the container end to get good fast WiFi.

[anonymous-user]

Op. A few choices.

1) run a cable and put either a router in wireless access point mode on the end, or a mesh unit on the end, using the cable as a backhaul (more expensive but good if you want to mesh the house too).

2) powerline and as above, but I wouldn't .

3) directional WiFi link. I use these

https://www.amazon.co.uk/KuWFi-Wireless-wireless-t...

You end up with the garage end broadcasting the same WiFi network, full speed, and you can plug a Lan cable into it and have cabled Lan in the garage/log cabin too.

Very easy to install. And under £60

I actually use a tplink equiv at one end and the Kuwifi at the other as the Kuwifi can be powered by 12v (car battery)

Edited by anonymous-user on Sunday 26th January 01:43

[85Carrera]

RogerDodger said:

You get those to link over 200m ?!?!? Wirelessly?

You've got to be kidding me . They are linked with cables right? Did you mean 20m? 200m is a long !omg way away. I.e. your garage must be at the end of an adjacent field

I send WiFi to my shipping container storage which is 120m from the nearest point of my house, and a field, separated by a lane. It's a long old trot! I have to use outdoor CPE long range directional WiFi links to get usable WiFi that far, line of sight. Even with one CPE at the house end the WiFi at the other end is only barely usable on a laptop, and no use at all on a phone . I had to install a receiving CPE at the container end to get good fast WiFi.

Yep, 200m and signal is strong enough for YouTube/to download documents from data rooms etc. Is also password protected so is not broadcasted to the neighbourhood as another poster has suggested.

I can get a weak signal from the home wifi down there so I guess have a strong signal/optimum conditions for this to work - which is just as well as the mobile signal is crap so is used for wifi calling too.

[anonymous-user]

85Carrera said:

Yep, 200m and signal is strong enough for YouTube/to download documents from data rooms etc. Is also password protected so is not broadcasted to the neighbourhood as another poster has suggested.

I can get a weak signal from the home wifi down there so I guess have a strong signal/optimum conditions for this to work - which is just as well as the mobile signal is crap so is used for wifi calling too.

That's very odd indeed. And it is presumably indoors as it's not waterproof.

They list the range as 70ft (20m)

I'd be amazed at 100m, let alone 200m.

You must indeed live in an ideal radio environment! :-)

[sgrimshaw]

Freakuk said:

Powerline stuff may work, but if like me the office has it's own consumer unit the noise pretty much kills the data TX.

I have a similar setup with Garden Building having it's own Consumer Unit.

I'm using TP Link AV1300s and they work flawlessly across the Consumer Unit.