We have cable internet here at the house. Have the cable hooked up to a modem... modem hooked up to a wireless router. That part I understand. :D What I want to do, is get a wireless signal in my garage/polebarn. Which is about 100 ft from my router and modem. How do I do that? Is it possible?? The polebarn is metal, the house walls are plaster and lathe. If I step outside my house, I pretty much lose the signal. Is it as simple as a more powerful router?
Would the cable need to come off the main box separately at the house or can I split it before the modem?? Like with a coaxial cable splitter thingy? Do I put another modem out in the garage?
I think you can find a different router that is stronger. My girlfirends family has one that they share on the farm and their neighbors up the road use the same wireless router. I can look at the brand and let you know maybe it could help you out.
There are "line of sight" routers/switches you could use. The router plugs into the wifi router in your house. It has a signal that is pointed towards the out building, on top of the out building is a receiver that receives the singal. The receiver is conntected to a wifi router, bingo you now have wifi in the out building.
Thanks oly44. I've read a little about routers and it was confusing and geeky. Seemed like more powerful (or at least expensive) routers didn't have a better range, they were just faster. ????
Ethernet would be cheapest to run, just not sure on how much you lose with that stretch of run as far as speed. You could run the Ethernet from the indoor router to a second wireless router in the barn. Other option would be second cable wire, modem and router. Other than that I'm clueless with signal boosting and longer range routers
You could try and relocate the router inside your house so that it's sitting by a window that's facing your polebarn. Much easier for the wireless signal to go through glass than plaster walls with chicken wire, etc.... Bad thing is that it may still not get through the steel sides of your pole barn at that range - and could even be temperamental based on things like weather (like if its raining etc). The cheapest option may be to just buy a 150 ft ethernet cable and bury it underground to your barn. Plug it into the back of your existing router, then just buy a cheap wireless access point to install in your pole barn.... Whole solution for around/under $50 150ft CAT5 Cable: http://www.amazon.com/RiteAV-Cat5e-Network-Ethernet-Cable/dp/B00139XJ5A Pick a cheap AP: http://www.buy.com/prod/tp-link-tl-wa5110g-54mbps-high-power-wireless-access-point/213928071.html http://www.buy.com/prod/trendnet-tew-650ap-150mbps-wireless-n-access-point/217395315.html
JZ would laugh at my ignorance and then and then kick my dog. He's like that. Thanks for the advice ya'll. I'll try the ethernet deal first. Seems straight forward enough.
You can buy wifi extenders or booster. Depending on the quality you buy you can extend the range from 300 to 500 feet and they cost about $50 for the 300 ft extender up to around $250 for better ones. Sent from my DROID X2 using Tapatalk 2
I'm a Sr. Network Engineer in fiber optics. I work on routers and so on all day long. Not on the resident level but I know I ton about wireless signal as I was an RF engineer in the past. The only sure way to put service in you barn is through cable. 100 ft cat5e cable should be fin at that distance. You can buy q box of 500 ft for around $65 to $75. I'd suggest inserting it in some sort of conduit for protection against nature. You can spend a little more if you buy insulated cable. If you know the exact length it will save you $ but you'll want a service loop (extra). I'll be up near Decatur some time in the next few months and would be happy to help you out. I have all the connectors and crimping tools.
