Getting Wifi to detached shop 120 feet from house?

[RalphVa]

My buddy has Comcast internet and wifi at his ex wife's house, he still pays. The parcel is split and his 40x60 shop is back and to the left of the house as your looking from the road.

The front of the shop is about 100 feet behind the back wall of the house and the shop is about 40 feet to the closest back corner of the house.

The internet wifi is not at all available from the Comcast thing, and he wants to put up Ring or similar wifi cameras that would alert him if someone broke in.

What can we do to supercharge the wifi and cover that building? It's not that far, so I'm thinking that there is some way to buy a better wifi box than the included Comcast one and magically cover that shop in internet.

Have any of you tried to get your internet to cover out over an added garage?

I've attached a picture showing the 2 parcels, the wife's house and his shop parcel. View attachment 683404

My neighbor to the right has a carriage house like ours but with an office on top. He said he uses the mesh wifi that another responder suggested to you.

Ralph

 

[ustmd]

Mesh should work, but you may have an issue with signal quality--especially for live streaming video for a Ring type doorbell.

The guaranteed solution is either to do one of these as an outdoor access point or use two to do a point to point bridge:

Amazon.com: TP-Link 2.4GHz N3 Long Range Outdoor CPE for PtP and PtMP Transmission | Point to Point Wireless Bridge | 9dBi, 5km+ | Passive PoE Powered w/ Free PoE Injector | Pharos Control (CPE21): Computers & Accessories

They are $40 each, but very simple to install. I just used them to redo the wireless connection to my shop which is ~350 ft from the house

 

[Frankenkubota]

It doesn't have to be high-tech.

How To Make a Wi-Fi Antenna Out Of a Pringles Can

When I was in grad school years ago, a buddy of mine did this so he could beam his wifi connection to his friend that lived a couple apartment buildings away (with line of sight) so they could split the cable bill.

When we were in school in the 70s beaming tv over microwave bands was the thing.

Made the antenna out of a coffee can, had to be the right size.

The local mom and pop electronics store had all the parts kitted up and ready to go.

Never really worked that well.

1 year ago i made at tv antenna out of an thin aluminum pie plate. It worked but a new store bought antenna was only $10 and it worked better.

 

[ray66v]

There are all kinds of ways you can do this.

By far the best way, would be to just run a cat 6 cable out there. And, set up a secondary hot spot.

 

[Maxify55]

Here's what we used:
Amazon.com: Ubiquiti UniFi AP AC Mesh UAP-AC-M-US 2 Units Pre-Configured Indoor/Outdoor Dual-Band Access Point: Electronics

First Unit: POE from the main router to it's station on the roof.
Second Unit: Line of Sight (200'+) in the barn for wi-fi calling under the steel roof.

Barn now measures:
150+ mbs down
40+ mbs up

Life is good!

 

[JethroB]

There are all kinds of ways you can do this.

By far the best way, would be to just run a cat 6 cable out there. And, set up a secondary hot spot.

^^^ This. Wireless is great but can be flaky. Direct burial CAT6 is pretty cheap and reliable at $.50/ft or less. Whenever I run new power or water lines to outbuildings I throw some in the ditch along with some tracer tape.

Amazon.com: 2ft Cat6 Outdoor Waterproof Ethernet Cable Direct Burial (6MHz) Shielded (Pure Copper): Computers & Accessories

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[Oaktree]

There are all kinds of ways you can do this.

By far the best way, would be to just run a cat 6 cable out there. And, set up a secondary hot spot.

That would be my suggestion too.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

There are lots of videos on this on YouTube. I did the simple thing and buried direct burial Cat5E out to the shop. Fate gifted me with FIOS in October, and I didn't want to waste the bandwidth. The design run of ethernet is 100 meters, or 328 feet before the signal starts to drop off.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

There are all kinds of ways you can do this.

By far the best way, would be to just run a cat 6 cable out there. And, set up a secondary hot spot.

Cat 5E is also good for gigabit service, and is way cheaper than cat 6.

 

[joecoin]

Here's what we used:
Amazon.com: Ubiquiti UniFi AP AC Mesh UAP-AC-M-US 2 Units Pre-Configured Indoor/Outdoor Dual-Band Access Point: Electronics

First Unit: POE from the main router to it's station on the roof.
Second Unit: Line of Sight (200'+) in the barn for wi-fi calling under the steel roof.

Barn now measures:
150+ mbs down
40+ mbs up

Life is good!

I installed many Ubiquiti products during my tech days. Cant go wrong with it.