Thoughts or experience with long range (350ft) wifi
Hello W-luggers — I have an out-building where I’d like to have wifi. The distance is about 350ft. There are some trees in the way, but not a thick forest. I’m curious to know if anyone here has recommendations on outdoor, long range wifi equipment. Perhaps something with a parabolic antenna or otherwise directional antenna. The following article (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/point-to-point-wi-fi-bridging-betwee...) recommends some TP-Link wifi routers, which is likely the route I’ll try. Any one willing to share thoughts or experiences would helpful. Thanks! — brad
I read the article and while I disagree on the advantage of 2.4 GHz vs 5 GHz (because of the absorption of 2.4GHz by the water in the leaves of the trees) I had a thought about where your outbuilding gets its power. Do the power lines run from your house, and if they do why not try Ethernet-over-power? I had originally used Powerline unites to bridge Ethernet from one end of my house to the other instead of running Cat. You just have to make sure that there are no transformers in the way, that it is a straight piece of copper wire from your circuit box to the outbuilding. You should get 1-2 Gbit/second out of it. https://www.amazon.com/Powerline-Computer-Network-Adapters/b?ie=UTF8&node=1194444 md On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 10:47 AM Bradley Noyes via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
Hello W-luggers — I have an out-building where I’d like to have wifi. The distance is about 350ft. There are some trees in the way, but not a thick forest. I’m curious to know if anyone here has recommendations on outdoor, long range wifi equipment. Perhaps something with a parabolic antenna or otherwise directional antenna.
The following article ( https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/point-to-point-wi-fi-bridging-betwee...) recommends some TP-Link wifi routers, which is likely the route I’ll try.
Any one willing to share thoughts or experiences would helpful.
Thanks! — brad _______________________________________________ WLUG mailing list -- wlug@lists.wlug.org To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave@lists.wlug.org Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ Change Settings: https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ Web Forum/Archive: https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/FZFIIY...
"Bradley" == Bradley Noyes via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> writes:
Hello W-luggers — I have an out-building where I’d like to have wifi. The distance is about 350ft. There are some trees in the way, but not a thick forest. I’m curious to know if anyone here has recommendations on outdoor, long range wifi equipment. Perhaps something with a parabolic antenna or otherwise directional antenna.
My wife's work in Worcester has two buildings on either side of Salisbury ave and at one point they used a point to point link between them since they couldn't get a cost effective solution using wires. Now I will say that using wires and running a trench would be a great solution if you can do it. It might also be part of the solution, maybe where you trench ffrom either end to a location with better line of sight.
The following article ( https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/point-to-point-wi-fi-bridging-betwee... ) recommends some TP-Link wifi routers, which is likely the route I’ll try.
Any one willing to share thoughts or experiences would helpful.
I would follow the Ars article, they do a good job (when they do them) on giving you various pros/cons of solutions. I use TP-Link EAP-225 wireless APs both at home and at my church and they do a good job. But the real key is to just get antennas which focus the signal where you want it. Most APs try for symetrical singal to cover an area, which isn't what you want. The next step is to do some judicious tree trimming to keep a good line of sight, and ideally putting it high enough so that people and objects don't get in the way and disrupt things. Good luck! John
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