Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2022 16:47 Post subject: [ANSWERED] Extending WIFI to Garage
I have a detached garage that has difficulty picking up my wifi signal.
The garage is about 30' from the back of house and the router is in the front
of the house and that would be another 30'
You likely could increase Sensitivity Range / ACK Timing to 1350 and choose better wifi settings, in the end, if your environmental scenario like how many walls, what they are built of etc between the router and the garage, you may need to add an extender.
3) Simple solution is to add a range extender. _________________ "The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
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Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2022 0:48 Post subject: Re: Extending WIFI to Garage
wrenchmaster wrote:
I have a detached garage that has difficulty picking up my wifi signal.
I'm in a similar situation, although the distances are less. An all steel clad shed reduces the WiFi signal inside to pretty much zero.
My solution has been to mount a bridged TPlink CPE710 outside the shed and a old router running DD-WRT as an access point inside. Works great with a solid 250Mbps each way despite three layers of bricks & zero LOS between the source AP and the CPE710.|
edit: of course a hard line is the best option when you have the ability/funds/permissions to pull/trench but when this is simply not an option there's a few options for pressing WISP gear into service.
If you do pull a cable, electrically non-conductive fibre is the least likely to cause problems with grounding differentials between buildings or nearby lightning strikes frying things.
edit: speeds are more like 250Mbps. Windows copies hover right around the 20Mbyte/sec mark in either direction
Last edited by egosumumbravir on Wed Sep 21, 2022 4:14; edited 2 times in total
I have recently moved into a new place with a detached garage. Not unlike my old place, but further separation. In both instances, I ran a cable to the garage dd-wrt router. Previously a Netgear R6250 but now a R7800.
However, with that said, my new place is my mom's house, as I bought it after she died. But long before I moved in, I managed to get them access to the garage via a Linksys wifi extender, connecting to an ancient Linksys WRT54G v1.1 (Linux version). While that worked well for them, it did not have the desired bandwidth for me. I opted to replace all that with dual cables using TPLink managed switches which support LAG. I was lucky, as I discovered that conduit had already been ran underground between the house and garage, with a pull string already in place. Dang, that was some serious good luck there! Outdoor ethernet cable is not that expensive, but digging the ditch to get it there might be more than your budget allows, but honestly, that is your best choice. _________________ Linksys EA8500 (Internet Gateway, AP/VAP) - DD-WRT r53562
Features in use: WDS-AP, Multiple VLANs, Samba, WireGuard, Entware: mqtt, mlocate
Wireless 5ghz only
Netgear R7800 (WDS-AP, WAP, VAP) - DD-WRT r53562
Features in use: multiple VLANs over single trunk port
Linksys EA8500 WDS Station x2 - DD-WRT r55779
Netgear R6400v2 WAP, VAP 2.4ghz only w/VLANs over single trunk port. DD-WRT r55779
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Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2022 5:35 Post subject: Re: Extending WIFI to Garage
If you don't want to dig and lay a cable in the ground; or run an overhead Ethernet wire b/w the house and the garage, here is a neat option to consider: MikroTik Wireless Wire Kit.
Simply plug an Ethernet wire to each unit, point them at each other in a line of sight and turn them on. You will have an instant 1Gbit connection between the two boxes.
The main thing in order for this to work is that the Wall outlet inside the house the 1st powerline adapter isplugged into and the 2nd powerline adapter in the Garage nas to be on the same "Leg" Of your AC power ( typical home in the USA has 2 incoming legs from power company each 120 volts).
I am utilizing 4 powerline adapters (3 remote and 1 main) they work very good with little loss. 1 remote is in my RV (My Man cave) and I stream Music & Movies etc from my NAS plus watch IPTV.
