How to get WiFi to my workshop?

[CoolHands]

Come on there must be an easy way?

In the front room of my house we have our ordinary router.

My workshop is probably 50m away at the bottom of the back garden. Tell me there is an EASY and cheap way these days to ping the signal down there? For my iPad etc. I have a spare router somewhere but something tells me that’s no use.

[Doofus]

WiFi repeater or extender.

[Evanivitch]

WiFi repeater with a directional, panel, antenna will ensure a robust signal to a similar receiver.

[s1962a]

something like this?

https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing-accessorie...

[CoolHands]

Ah, well that was a bit easy

[RizzoTheRat]

Powerline might be a good option if the house and workshop are both through the same fusebox, Ethernet in to a unit near your router, and it turns it in to wifi the other end.

[s1962a]

CoolHands said:

Ah, well that was a bit easy

You do realise the proper answer is to use lasers? But getting hold of a flux capacitor might be an issue with all the lockdown restrictions.

[HootersGsy]

s1962a said:

You do realise the proper answer is to use lasers? But getting hold of a flux capacitor might be an issue with all the lockdown restrictions.

Lasers aren't a bad shout, got to do these things properly or not at all

https://www.blackbox.co.uk/gb-gb/page/22200/Soluti...

[Road2Ruin]

RizzoTheRat said:

Powerline might be a good option if the house and workshop are both through the same fusebox, Ethernet in to a unit near your router, and it turns it in to wifi the other end.

This by far the easiest way. They don't even, as suggested, share the same fuse box, my old garage didn't and still worked.
You can get dual pack units with one of them a Wi-Fi transmitter. Plug one in next to your existing router and attach it by Ethernet cable. Then plug the other with the Wi-Fi transmitter in the garage. It will certainly be good enough for web, YouTube, music etc.
Plenty of them available on line or at Argos.

[Who me ?]

Length of garden hose. Equal + a bit more length of CAT5. Place CAT 5 in hose- bury or fix to fence .

[CoolHands]

I ordered a netgear plug in one. Probably made in china