Kavall

Well I DID SAY in my original post that a cable wasn't an option. We have hit -30c a few days last year but that's uncommon. Now just to be clear... Using a single nanostation would be mounted on the outside of my detached building and cabled to a network switch. I'd wirelessly connect the nanostation to the Netgear R7000. Correct? The issue is less about budget and more about sensible use of money. Also I had concerns too tight a beam and too strong a radio might end up causing me problems in its own right. You can flat overload a receiver with too strong a signal.

I've pondered using an aerial cable, however, my wife would likely kill me. It would be extra work to get it high enough that an elk might not catch it with his horns. And I'm not sure the load it would hold with ice. Going back to a wireless link still likely is the best idea. I'm currently doing it with the R7000 and WNCE4004. However as I commented in my first post it's obvious that I need to at least put the antenna for the workshop on the outside of the building. Which makes me wonder if I can take a M2 or M5 and use it as one end of the bridge while the R7000 being the other end. I have no problem buying two, it just seems like overkill. It's why I gave signal strength numbers in the beginning.

I live at 8700 feet on a solid granite mountain. Those 25 feet separating the two structures is solid granite with asphalt pavement over it. To cut a trench to run a CAT cable would cost me more than 10 of those nanobeam-ac's. After that the freeze thaw cycles would play hell with that cable. I completely understand hardwired is preferred, I've LOVE to hard wire the connection. That WILL NOT HAPPEN. That still leaves a number of questions unanswered. Two of those nanobeams seem like extreme overkill for a connection that would be 25 feet. I'd also be concerned at that point that the beam width would be so narrow that I would have stability issues in that manner. So the question comes back to could I use one nanobeam on the detached building and network it to the R7000? Would a different product make better sense than those nanobeams? Lastly, on the workshop side. I'll have a network cable coming out of the "nanobeam" can I run that into a small switch to service the two wired devices I have?

I JUST finished mounting a Noctua NH-D14 to an i5-6600K on an Asus Z170-A motherboard in a Fractal Design R5 case. That damn heat sink is massive! but it fit fine. Mounted to the processor and motherboard with absolutely ZERO deviation from the LGA-1150 instructions.

I'll try to keep this as short as possible. I've got a Netgear R7000 inside my home that's been terrific, stable, covers the whole house. Flat zero complaints on it. I have a detached workshop that is 25 feet from the house. There I have a Netgear WNCE 4004 bridge (or so they call it). The 4004 is connecting via 2.4 ghz and is physically about 100-150 feet from the R7000, however it's punching through TWO exterior walls at that point. The connection isn't terrible, however when a large file is being downloaded the 4004 will drop connection. I have a desktop and a Ooma VOIP phone that MUST have a stable connection in that shop. What do I need to do? I really would love to not replace everything, however stability is the number one priority. A hard line can not be run. My cell phone, Samsung S5, measures the wifi 5Ghz at -85dBm and -72dBm 2.4Ghz inside the shop. (Yeah I'm pretty sure that's the problem, lol) Outside the shop where I could mount an outside bridge I'm getting -72dBm at 5Ghz and -51dBm at 2.5Ghz. What I'd LIKE to do is mount an EnGenius ENS500 on the shop, run cat6 to a netgear switch and connect the Ooma and desktop to that. Would I be able to link the ENS500 to an R7000? Or do I need to buy two ENS500s. The distance is so short and the signal seems strong enough that with the added directional antenna of the ENS I didn't think two would be required. Extra holes in the house and extra electronics outside is less desirable. Oh and I've tried powerline adapters and the stability seemed there but there was a HUGE latency issue. So bad that the flaky network I have now is better.